Astro Blog
by Adrian Duncan | May 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
There’s a theory going around – formed a couple of millennia ago – that at one point the Earth was a dark, formless void from which light sprang forth. This was good. There was night and day, and there was water and dry land, and that was good too. For light, the Sun was created for daytime and the Moon for night. That was by Day Four and by Day Six, God had created all living beings, especially us. On the seventh day He rested. That must have been Sunday. (Note 1) According to some Christian creationists, this took place less than 10,000 years ago, but they may be wrong. …Read More
by Adrian Duncan | Mar 15, 2021 | Adrian's Articles 2000
History may not exactly repeat, but it certainly rhymes. A transiting planet may return to its original position, but all the other planets have moved in the meantime. So there are echoes, but not repeats. In the bombshell interview Meghan Markle gave to Oprah Winfrey together with Prince Harry on March 7th 2021, Meghan revealed how close to suicide she had been whilst pregnant with her first child. Princess Diana, of course, struggled with bulimia through her early years of marriage with an unsympathetic royal household, so the echoes are clear. Even more surprising perhaps, is the fact that Meghan Markle was born just five days after Diana married Charles, so that this marriage chart and her birth chart are very similar. Both charts straddle the solar eclipse at 8 degrees Leo which took place in the summer of 1981. Both channel the difficult Mars in fall in Cancer square the monumental Jupiter-Saturn conjunction exact at 5 degrees Libra. (Note 1) …Read More
by Adrian Duncan | Feb 19, 2021 | Adrian's Articles 2000
Has the recent future ever been as uncertain as it is now? How could things have come so far, that every country in the world has gone through its own experience of pandemic lockdown, which has affected the lives of almost every individual on the planet? Governments have been put in the unenviable position of closing down the very engines of growth that they so depend on. Leaders have chosen to prioritize health over profit, even with a virus which is only mildly deadly – just deadly enough to overload hospital capacity. Those leaders who hesitated – Boris Johnson, Trump, Bolsonaro – not only saw dreadful spikes in mortality amongst the population, they also contracted the virus themselves.
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by Adrian Duncan | Dec 18, 2020 | Adrian's Articles 2000
The world is now going through a huge transition presaged by the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn at zero Aquarius on the winter solstice in December 2020. A few years ago, it seemed impossible to know what this would mean, and how such a transition could take place. But then the 2020 pandemic arrived. It shook every country in the world, not just through fatalities, but by changing the habits and rhythms of everyone’s daily lives. Those in privileged positions worked from home and still enjoyed a healthy economy. Others risked much more as essential workers and had to expose themselves to the corona virus daily. Many simply lost their jobs. Many went hungry and are still hungry. The pandemic precipitated the biggest economic crisis in modern history. …Read More
by Adrian Duncan | Nov 4, 2020 | Adrian's Articles 2000
Lytter man til nyhederne på en hvilken som helst dag i Storbritannien, er der kun et emne, der dominerer alle andre. Selv nyhedsoplæserne virker trætte, og mens den skæbnesvangre dag – den 29. marts 2019 – nærmere sig, er stemningen mere og mere desperat. Uden en aftale med EU fremkalder truslen om et hårdt brud med Europe frygt for enorme køer af lastvogne ved Dover, fordærvede madvarer, mangel på medicin, kaos i flytrafik, en genopblussen af problemer mellem Nord- og Sydirland samt en masse andre mulige katastrofer. …Read More
by Adrian Duncan | Nov 4, 2020 | Adrian's Articles 2000
Når man kigger tilbage på 1930’erne, kan man godt undre sig over, at de demokratiske lande ikke kunne læse skriften på væggen. Men, når man lever i sin hverdag, kan man ikke overskue fremtidsperspektiver. Mange eksperter denne gang var overbeviste om, at man kunne undgå krig. De engelske og franske regeringer under Chamberlain og Daladier regnede med, at appeasement i relation til Franco, Mussolini og Hitler var den kloge politik, og der var kun få – Winston Churchill iblandt – som talte for et mere muskuløst modspil. Hitler og Mussolini foragtede deres svaghed. Astrologi organisationer i England forudsagde, at der ikke vil være krig, mens der var en enkelt astronom, som kiggede på de usædvanlige planetkonstellationer i 1939 og sagde, at hvis der var noget om astrologi, så var en krig på horisonten. …Read More
by Adrian Duncan | Oct 27, 2020 | Articles 2019
Fire dage efter 2016-valget i USA, som Donald Trump vandt, kom Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwells dystre fremtidsroman – på toppladsen i bestsellerlisten i USA. (Note 1.) Det vakt angst hos mange, at en demagog havde kunnet mobilisere så mange almindelige amerikanere, som var forført af hans populisme. Men interessen for romanen var sikkert også stimuleret af den måde, fakta straks blev fordrejet. Der var for eksempel den ekstraordinære påstand, som pressesekretæren Sean Spicer kom med, at folkemængden ved indsættelsen var ”den største publikum nogensinde, uden diskussion, både i Washington og verden over”. Fotografier viste, at det var en lodret løgn – publikummet var relativt lavt – men løgnen blev stadfæstet senere, da Trumps rådgiver Kellyanne Conway sagde, at det helt sikker var sandt – det var bare ”alternative fakta”. (Note 2) …Read More
by Adrian Duncan | Oct 27, 2020 | Articles 2019
Det virker som om, formørkelser bliver endnu mørkere i disse dage. I skrivende stund har den sydlige måneknude været i konjunktion med Pluto (den 5. april 2019) og, mens den bevæger sig baglæns i sin retrograde cyklus, kommer den i konjunktion med Saturn den 2. maj. Det er måske derfor, at astronomer ved at benytte sig af et netværk af stjernekikkerter forskellige steder på jorden kunne endeligt fotografere et sort hul. …Read More
by Adrian Duncan | Oct 27, 2020 | Articles 2019
For 30 år siden, kunne man høre små hammere banke på en af de mest deprimerende konstruktioner i det 20. århundrede – Berlinmuren. Berlin var en by, som havde lidt meget. Efter Første Verdenskrigen måtte den stærkt reducerede befolkning døje med inflation, optøjer mellem kommunisterne (som vil gentage den store ”succes” i Sovjetunionen) og fascister, som var inspireret af Hitlers enkle og brutale ideer. Og endelig, efter den totale ødelæggelse af byen ved slutningen af Anden Verdenskrigen, kom de sovjetiske soldater. Der var der ikke mange tyske mænd tilbage, men en del tyske kvinder. Berlin havde stadigvæk meget at komme igennem. …Read More
by Adrian Duncan | Oct 27, 2020 | Articles 2019, Articles 2020
På nuværende tidspunkt, hvor USA ledes af en ”stabil geni”, som Trump gentagende gange beskriver sig selv, fæstnes Demokraternes forhåbninger på en hvilken som helst kandidat, som kan befri landet fra det frygtindgydende greb af en mand, som vandt sin popularitet via reality TV. Trump vakte genklang hos sit publikum ved at love en mur mod immigration, at beskytte kulindustrien og få jobs tilbage til USA fra udlandet, skrotte Obamacare (eller bare skrotte Obama) og rense ud i Washingtons sump. …Read More
