Astrologically speaking, Dubya brings horror in his wake.

[JohnyCanuck]

OK, if astrology is just a bunch of hocus pocus,how do the skeptics explain this startingly accurate astrological prediction? :evilgrin:

Fatal Sky' Charts Astrology's Impact on Columbus, Reagan, Bush

By A. Craig Copetas

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The astrological trail to the Tigris and Euphrates runs even further back, we learn. The world's first known birth chart was cast in 410 B.C., a few miles south of what is today the capital of Iraq. Bobrick doesn't say who wrote that horoscope or what it says, an odd omission. He does flip forward in time to the U.S.- led invasion of Iraq.

Bush Brings `Horror'

``Unfortunately, the horoscope of President George W. Bush would seem allied to dread events,'' Bobrick writes.

Horoscope readers will be interested to know that Bush's ``ascendant'' falls on the ``powerful fixed star'' of Praesaepe, ``one of the most malevolent clusters in the sky.''

``It does mean, astrologically, that he tends to bring horror in his wake,'' Bobrick writes of Bush, born under the sign of Cancer, the crab. ``Or so an astrologer might say. I am not one; and these are not my own, willful judgments, but Ptolemaic lore.''

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000088&sid=aj6Bx4pFqfLQ&refer=culture

[seabeyond]

1. they also say he shouldnt finish his term. we shall see n/t

[helderheid]

7. well, Kerry DID win...

[seabeyond]

9. ssshhhhh

dont tell anyone, but i also am on a spiritual board. they were saying kerry wouldnt win. i was saying ya huh, people want him. especially this one guy was saying he is going ot look like he won, but he ownt win. so they called that one too. but, way back then they were also saying, in different ways that he wouldnt finish term. both astrologically and in other ways

[helderheid]

12. I have always felt he'd go 6 years...

[roguevalley]

2. I love this. Even the planets hate him. :)

[JohnyCanuck]

4. It's Ptolemaic lore

Who'd have thunk it. Ptolemy had Dubya pegged 2 thousand years ago, and the dumb-ass freepers still haven't figured him out.

[Renew Deal]

3. How does that possibly make Bloomberg news?

I didn't think they did astrologer stories.

[JohnyCanuck]

5. It's a book review of a history book on astrology's influence on mankind

Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- It's usually a good omen when a distinguished historian casts a gimlet eye on what 19th-century essayist Charles Mackay called the ``extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds.''

All the better if the fata morgana in question turns out to be that age-old scam, astrology.

Benson Bobrick takes up the task in ``The Fated Sky: Astrology in History'' (Simon & Schuster, 384 pages, $26), which chronicles how planet worship has influenced mankind from ancient Baghdad to modern America, where 10 million people a year pay to have their horoscopes read.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000088&sid=aj6Bx4pFqfLQ&refer=culture

[SpiralHawk]

8. You'd be surprised at the number of people who are literate in the various

languages of the soul and its rhythyms, as outpictured by the planets and stars.

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. The moral of this article: Never vote for a president who was born

under a star that has a name which has more vowels than consonants:

"Praesaepe"

[SpiralHawk]

10. Exhalation of Piled-Up Corpses

According to the original article at the top of the thread, Bush has Praesaepe right on his Ascendant, or Rising Sign -- the point where all that he is meets the world.

A note on Praesaepe:

http://www.societasviaromana.org/Collegium_Artium/cancer.php


The Crab contains a bright, open cluster of stars known as the "Praesaepe", (the Manger, or Crib), which is easily seen with the naked eye. It is a rather loose grouping of about 50-100 stars, best observed with binoculars. Praesaepe is one of the closest, most brilliant, and largest of the galactic clusters. According to legend, it was used as a weather indicator. The invisibility of this nebula in an otherwise clear sky forecasted violent storms.

The Beehive, another name for Praesaepe, was the only widely known nebula before the invention of the telescope. Chinese astrologers/astronomers were quite familiar with it, but believed it contained many malefic characteristics and named it Tseih She Ke, or the "Exhalation of Piled-Up Corpses".

[The Backlash Cometh]

11. Wouldn't a defined cluster of stars be referred to as a constellation?

Where is Nancy Reagan when you need her?

[loudsue]

13. "Exhalation of Piled-Up Corpses". No shit.

That's dubya in a nutshell.

:kick::kick::kick:

[JohnyCanuck]

15. Uncanny isn't it? n/t

[SpiralHawk]

16. GIGADITTOES

ON exhalation of piled up corpses

[RazzleDazzle]

17. Isn't one's last breath

an inhale only? Makes the Chinese name for it all the creepier, IMO.

[BushOut06]

14. "...brings horror in his wake" - good one! I'll have to remember that

[UTUSN]

18. The Greek concept: He's a plague upon the land n/t