Full Snow Moon - Part One : AstroWeathercasting Example

As record breaking storms bury the Northeastern US, it appears that this lunation is living up to the name given by native tribes of the north and eastern US; the Full Snow Moon. According to the national weather service 26.9 inches of snow fell in Central Park, the most for a single storm since record-keeping started in 1869. Besides the weather story even upstaging the continual Iran-Nuclear and Cartoon Riots stories, the weather is beginning to share a place with snarled air transportation. In the lunation ingress chart that I set for Universal Time 2-13-2006 at 4:45AM for New York City, not only is the Aquarian Sun @ 24º20' placed in the 4th house but so his the planet of unexpected change, the record breaker Uranus @ 9º47'Pisces the conjunct Mercury. Mercury is the higher octave of Uranus the ruler of Aquarius and the new age bringing swift surprising changes. Three of the major New York-area airports were closed for much of Sunday the 12th. A Turkish Airways flight skidded off a runway at Kennedy in the evening. Not only will transportation be effected, all things mercurial are a higher than normal priority at this time period.

Mercury's Effect Continues into March
If you remember it was January 24th when Mercury met Chiron in Aquarius, this was when Google's fight with the Government trying to obtain private internet data came to light along with Google's censorship in China. A cosmic marker pointed out by Astrologer Richard Nolle called the Mercury intersolar period begins on 2-23 when Mercury attains its greatest elongation east of the Sun commensing a segment of its orbit which lies between Earth and the Sun. Kicking off the second phase of this cycle is a retrograde period on March 2nd for the messenger @ 26º52'Pisces. We are in a time period when we need to preparde for an incredible breakdown by planning, study, research, gathering information and documentation in advance. We have already seen some 70,000 homes were without power in the Washington area and another 70,000 were without power in the Baltimore area. Hopefully we will not see the Full Hunger Moon per the Algonquin tribes of New England.

Cheney Caught in the Confusion
Vice President Cheney who has Mercury @ 24º Aquarius opposing this Full Moon in Leo -thus an inner disharmony is then reflected through projection onto the external world. In Dick's case he was involved in an accidental shooting yesterday. Actually at a South Texas ranch, he "accidentally" shot and wounded a fellow hunter, 78-year-old Harry Whittington while wielding a 28-gauge shotgun to shoot quail. Now Cheney whose Moon is at 22 Pisces has been under the spell of a Pluto transit which is now moving close to his natal Neptune at 27 Virgo creating multiple confusions and deception.

The Mercurial Pisces is not only reflecting mental breakdown and foggy thinking but as a recent articles says about sleeping pills and anti-depressants. Americans are taking sleeping pills like never before, fueled by frenetic workdays that do not go gently into a great night's sleep. Some researchers have reported what is called the "next day" effect, a continued sleepiness hours after awakening from a drug-induced slumber. Insomia and the unexpected effects of artificially combating this frightening trend.

Plans for Self-Suffiency in MidEast
The secondary story of this Full Moon involves the Sabian Symbol for Leo @ 25º "Standing next to his camel, an Arab merchant looks out over the desert and considers which oases he will visit to secure food and water." This spells plans for self-reliance and economic security on a long range basis. With Mars taking the third leg of a TSQ in the 7th (house of open enemies, contracts and negotiations) we are seeing the influence that Iraq/Iran is having. The Iraqi Grain Board, has suspended its business relationship with AWB Ltd (Australian wheat grower) and now is considering who should win a tender for 1 million tons of wheat. Related financial news has Moscow hosting finance ministers from the Group of Eight nations on 2-11-06. Yes Russia is taking it's position as the world's second-biggest oil exporter after Saudi Arabia seriously especially in light of the Iranian Oil Bourse slated to open in March 2006. This This new Bourse which will rival the New York's NYMEX and the London's International Petroleum Exchange (IPE), based on a euro-oil-trading mechanism that naturally implies payment for oil in Euro. It is apparent that the Russians, Chinese and Japanes have inherent economic interest in adopting the Euro.

Antares and Menkar Set the Tone for Nation
If we use Fixed Stars and Starlight software for the lunation set in Washington, DC at 11:44PM 2-12 we have the Royal star Antares culminating with the Sun means an intensity, obsession a sucess that can backfire. Menkar the brightest star in the constellation Cetus linked to both the whale in Jonah's tale and the sea monster and Andromeda is culminating as the Sun is setting: Great success or great loss; to be a pawn in the winds of change. Also Menkar, one of the most difficult stars to have linked, is culminating as Jupiter is on the Nadir, symbolically feast or famine, the fickleness of life. Note that Menkar has been compared to the collective unconcious which can have a huge, stormlike effect either positive achievment or negative victimization.