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April 2009
April 1st : Applying Moon Opposite Pluto @ 3:06 PM
Strong emotions play a role in events now. Basic instincts are motivating forces. Some may try to dominate others in subtle ways; others will share their power. It’s a time for cleanups.
April 2nd : Applying Moon Square Sun @ 7:34 AM
Tensions, imbalances, and incompatibilities must be handled now. Decisions and judgments may be made under pressure. Turning points may be reached due to crisis situations.
April 3rd:Applying Venus Square Pluto @ 3:27 AM
Stressful events may occur during this challenging transit. Cooperation and participation is forced and demanded. It’s a difficult time for open talks, trust, and sharing.
April 4th: Applying Mercury Sextile Jupiter @ 7:59 AM
School, travel and transportation, and legal matters are themes now. A time for exploration and learning.
April 4th: Applying Moon Trine Sun @ 2:38 PM
This is a time of balance and harmony. Changes in awareness and in relationships occur naturally and quickly. It’s a good time for making agreements and decisions.
April 4th: Applying Mars Opposite Saturn @ 5:55 PM
Tensions are rising. Forceful urges collide with legal structures. This abrasive transit often coincides with cooperation problems, serious conflicts, and accidents. At worst, fighting or warfare erupts or spreads, errors are made, natural and man-made disasters occur, and controversy flares. Patience and restraint are very much needed now.
April 5th: Applying Moon Trine Pluto @ 9:43 PM
Strong emotions and urges move people now. It’s a time to let go of inhibitions and move with the energy of the moment. Be open to changes and rearrangements.
April 7th: Applying Moon Opposite Uranus @ 9:52 AM
Disruptions in the flow of events may occur suddenly now. A time for experimentation and novelty. People's moods are subject to rapid changes. Expect the unexpected.
April 8th: Applying Moon Square Pluto @ 2:12 PM
Strong emotions and basic instincts like jealousy and territoriality may be aroused now. A time for changes and cleanups. Sexuality and power are used strategically.
April 9th: Applying Moon Opposite Sun @ 7:56 AM
Under this transit (which is the full moon), conscious decisions or judgments are often reached, in many cases under pressure. Turning points in awareness are reached as a result of crisis situations that actually force responses.
April 10th: Applying Sun Sextile Jupiter @ 6:43 AM
This is a time for proposals, launchings, generosity, increases, travel, helpful actions, legalities, and educational matters.
April 10th: Applying Moon Sextile Pluto @ 8:27 AM
Be open to changes and rearrangements. It’s a time to let go of inhibitions and move with the energy of the moment.
April 10th: Applying Mercury Trine Pluto @ 10:51 PM
Challenging words are spoken and agendas for change are announced. It’s a good time for intelligence- gathering operations and other secret matters.
April 11th: Venus ingress into Pisces (retrograde) @ 5:48 AM
A more sensitive and softening for relationships but emphasis on reliving things.
April 11th: Applying Moon Square Jupiter @ 5:51 PM
Situations tend to be over-rated now; don’t forget reality. Evaluate critically, feelings may be misleading. Problems have to do with overgrowth, overindulgence, overconfidence, and excesses. Pleasant and comfortable conditions, however, will probably be present in some form now.
April 13th: Applying Moon Square Saturn @6:01 PM
There is a conservative and serious mood in the air now and some may feel isolated. Fear reactions are driving events. Delays are possible. This is a time for work, organization, and restraint.
April 14th: Applying Moon Sextile Jupiter @ 5:21 AM
Generosity, good attitudes, and positive thinking make for successful collaborations and social situations now.
April 14th: Applying Moon Square Mars @ 10:01 AM
This transit often coincides with stressful conditions, upsets, quick responses, and competitive reactions. Males may raise challenges to cooperation. Impulse control may be an issue. Constructive projects will channel negative energies.
April 14th: Applying Moon Square Venus @ 9:07 PM
Social interactions tend to have more emotional charge now. Decisions and choices are feeling-based. Women and feminine issues predominate. Public events generate strong responses.
April 15th: Applying Mars Conjunct Uranus @ 3:01 AM
This is a time for bold initiatives and breakthroughs. Engineering and technological issues move center stage. Strong-willed persons dominate events, new leaders are chosen, and campaigns reach full swing. Plans for the future are formulated and some technological firsts may be implemented.
April 15th: Applying Moon Conjunct Pluto @ 5:03 AM
Biological urges and basic emotions are often aroused by this transit. Passions and primal instincts stir people to hunt, dig, and investigate. It’s a time for cleanups and changes.
April 15th: Applying Sun Sextile Neptune @ 12:55 PM
This a time for spiritual reflection, voluntary actions, artistic creativity, and creative leadership with vision.
April 16th: Applying Moon Trine Mercury @ 12:13 AM
Communications flow smoothly now. Feelings and emotions are expressed naturally. It’s a good time for meetings with females.
April 17th: Applying Moon Sextile Uranus @ 12:15 AM
People tend to be more easily excited and thrilled now. Conditions favor novelty and experimentation.
April 17th: Applying Moon Sextile Venus @ 9:42 AM
This is a time of good feelings and intentions, a time favorable for meetings and social interactions, especially with females.
April 17th: Venus stations direct in Pisces @ 12:24 PM
April 17th: Applying Mercury Trine Saturn @ 5:52 PM
This is a good time for careful negotiations and patience in bringing matters to completion. Authority figures may need to make decisions and engage in serious communications.
April 18th: Applying Moon Square Mercury @ 10:25 PM
Strong emotions may trigger misunderstandings. Communicate sensitively. Schedule disturbances and transportation complications are possible now. Meetings with females require focus.
April 19th: Applying Moon Conjunct Jupiter @ 7:53 AM
Generosity, benevolence, successful actions, and even luck are associated with this transit. Good attitudes make for successful collaborations where all benefit. Excesses are the only problem.
April 19th: Applying Moon Conjunct Neptune @ 3:16 PM
Conditions are more delicate now. People may show more sensitivity as they express their beliefs. Thoughts and conversation are on the future. Feelings, imagination, and intuition are strong.
April 19th: Sun ingress into earthy, fixed Taurus adds more practical solutions to the mix.
April 21st: Applying Moon Opposite Saturn @ 4:23 AM
There may be a serious mood in the air right now and some people may find themselves isolated. Traditions and formalities are appropriate; this is not a time for novelty. Emotional detachment and heightened self- consciousness also describe this period.
April 21st: Applying Moon Sextile Mercury @ 3:25 PM
Feelings and emotions are expressed easily now. A good time for meetings with females.
April 21st: Applying Mars Conjunct Venus @ 4:19 PM
Passions and strong urges need to be expressed now. People are motivated by feelings of attraction or devotion. It’s a time for action in money matters, love, and romance. Leaders will tend to make efforts to cooperate with each other.
April 22nd: Applying Moon Conjunct Venus @ 6:29 AM
Relations with others, particularly women, are emotionally enhanced now. People are attracted to each other and feelings are shared. Public events move along more or less smoothly.
April 22nd: Mars enters his dignified place in Aries @ 6:44 AM as things get more aggressive and a little edgier
April 22nd: Applying Moon Square Pluto @ 12:56 PM
Strong emotions and basic instincts like jealousy and territoriality may be aroused now. It’s a time for changes and cleanups. Sexuality and power are used strategically.
April 22nd: Applying Mercury Square Jupiter @ 5:53 PM
Important communications on matters of concern for many are at issue now. Moral, philosophical, or religious issues may be raised and debated. International meetings make news.
April 22nd: Applying Sun Trine Pluto @ 10:42 PM
This is a time when strategic proposals are likely to be met with success. A good time for investigations, cleanups, purifications, renewals and renovations, and the sharing of power.
April 23nd: Applying Moon Sextile Jupiter @ 10:45 PM
Generosity, good attitudes, and positive thinking make for successful collaborations and social situations now.
April 24th: Applying Mercury Sextile Uranus @ 12:39 PM
Under this transit, progressive or controversial decisions and agreements are reached. Innovations make news.
April 26th: Applying Mars Square Pluto @ 9:11 AM
Power plays and territory takeovers make news. Intense discussions, strategy sessions, investigations, and intelligence gathering are responses. Military actions and industrial or natural disasters may also occur under this unstable and dangerous alignment. It’s a time for cleanups and for fostering decisive change.
Transits for May 2009
May 5th: Applying Sun Trine Saturn @ 2:45 AM
This transit favors making practical judgments and locating responsibility. It is a transit of stable transitions and beneficial delays. Patience and organization are a plus now.
May 24th: New Moon in Gemini @ 3 degrees 28 minutes at 5:11 AM PDT
May 27th: Applying Jupiter Conjunct Neptune @ 1:12 PM
This transit marks a time of spiritual optimism, idealism, high hopes, and, more negatively, inflated expectations. Ideologies and beliefs are seen to motivate people toward the exploration of new territories. Some may research difficult moral or legal problems. In the arts and in music there is growth and new heights.
May 28th: Neptune stations retrograde @ 9:31 PM PDT or 12:31 AM EDT for May 29th.
Here are Ray Merriman's MMA Comments for the Week Begining April 20th , 2009 " There are two ingresses occurring this week of great importance. First, Mars will enter Aries on Wednesday, April 22. Two days later, Venus does the same in its new direct motion. Aries is a cardinal sign. In fact, it is the most cardinal sign because it begins the zodiac cycle. It is also midway between the Sun and Pluto in the Federal Reserve Board chart (December 23, 1913). That is, the Sun is at 1 degree of the cardinal sign of Capricorn, and Pluto is at 0 degrees of the cardinal sign of Cancer. With Venus direct now, and with both Venus and Mars in conjunction to one another, and forming a T-square to the FRB Sun-Pluto opposition, we can anticipate changes in policy from the central banks and the Federal Treasury department. This usually affects all interest-rate sensitive markets, like Treasuries and currencies, and indirectly, equities and previous metals. With Venus also in a month-long square to Pluto (April 3-May 2), we can start to speculate on the next private company (financial institution or auto company) taken over by the U.S. government, and financed by the Federal Reserve Bank. ”
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Recent earthquake and volcanic events listed here
Earthquake, Weather and Volcano Alert for Pacific Ring of Fire, Western Hemisphere and US
Quake, Volcano and Weather News:
April 23rd: As Mars moves closer to exact square with Pluto (exact April 26th) volcanic activity increases worldwide.
Activity of three Indonesian volcanos increases
The volcanic activity of three mounts - in West Sumatra, Central Java and East Nusa Tenggara - is on the rise, leading authorities to remind residents living in the surrounding areas to be on the alert.
The activity of Mt. Kerinci, the highest in Sumatra, has increased since Sunday, exploding loudly and spewing ash up to 400 meters high.
April 23rd: As Mars moves closer to exact square with Pluto (exact April 26th) volcanic activity increases worldwide.
Volcanic activity continues on island in Galapagos
Reports suggest lava flows from a volcano which erupted over the weekend in the Galapagos islands for the first time in four years have subsided.
"Apparently the volcano activity has increased in comparison to what it was during the weekend, when the lava had almost disappeared," said Washingtong Tapia, Director of Projects of the Galapagos National Park on Monday.
April 22, 2009:Balsamic Moon Phase begins with ingress of Mars/Moon into Aries will the Sun start to perk up or will the solar minimum continue?
'Quiet Sun' baffling astronomers
The Sun is the dimmest it has been for nearly a century.
There are no sunspots, very few solar flares - and our nearest star is the quietest it has been for a very long time.
The observations are baffling astronomers, who are due to study new pictures of the Sun, taken from space, at the UK National Astronomy Meeting.
April 21, 2009: Pluto moving into close square with both Mars-Venus as they changes signs from Pisces to Aries
Alert - Multiple Strong Quakes - OWEN FRACTURE ZONE REGION
FYI: The Owen Fracture Zone is a transform fault which runs along the eastern boundary of the Arabian Plate, separating it from the Indo-Australian Plate for most of its length, and from the African Plate for a much shorter distance.
April 21, 2009: Pluto moving into close square with both Mars-Venus
Sumatran volcano shows intensified volcanic activity
Volcanic activity in Mount Kerinci, the highest mountain in Sumatra, has been intensifying with discharges of dust and repeated tremors recorded by local volcano observation post threatening the populated area below.
April 21, 2009: Mars-Venus-Uranus in Pisces for unexpected quakes along with Pluto square Mars-Venus (will move into cardinal Aries soon)
Unexpected and unusual quake with Magnitude 3.8 - ALABAMA
April 21, 2009: Mars-Venus-Uranus in Pisces for unexpected quakes
Magnitude 6.2 - KURIL ISLANDS (upgraded twice by USGS)
April 20, 2009: Mars-Venus-Uranus in Pisces
Team explores subsea volcano near Guam
NW Rota-1 is located in the Marianas Volanic Arc, one of the most active volcanic chains on the planet.
A team of scientists and engineers have been gathering data on NW Rota-1 for the past two weeks.
April 20, 2009: As perfect storm for quakes arrives with Sun in Taurus to SQ Jupiter/Neptune and Pluto in TSQ to Mars-Venus
Big earthquake coming sooner than we thought, Oregon geologist says
The good news: New research is giving scientists a better handle on when the big one might strike the Pacific Coast.
The bad news: It probably will be sooner than we thought.
"The amount of devastation is going to be unbelievable," says Rob Witter, coastal geologist with the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries. "People aren't going to be ready for this. Even if they are prepared, they are going to be surprised by the level of devastation."
April 19, 2009: Aquarian Moon and Taurus Sun
Magnitude 6.4 - in KEPULAUAN TALAUD, INDONESIA to Strong Quakes in the ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
April 18, 2009: Aquarian Moon now square Mercury as ruler Uranus still in orb of Mars
Larger quakes continue including a Magnitude 6.6 - KURIL ISLANDS leading a slew of strong quakes today.
April 18, 2009: Unusual weather in parts of the US with Mercury both square Aquarian Moon and Mercury in Taurus to square Jupiter in Uranian ruled Aquarius
After dumping almost 3ft of snow: Snowstorm weakens after closing stretch of I-70
DENVER (Map, News) - A spring storm was weakening after dumping up to 3 feet of snow on the foothills west of Denver - stranding hundreds of people in shelters and forcing the closure of an 80-mile stretch of Interstate 70.
April 17, 2009: Moon enters Aquarius with ruler Uranus still in orb of Mars along with coming Pluto TSQ Mars-Venus (Aries)
Italy’s earthquake reverberates on America’s fault-lined coast
EASELS holding seismic maps of Italy are standing all around the western headquarters of the United States Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California. Given that Californians live in permanent fear of “the big one”, they feel “lots of scientific and emotional connections” to Italy’s recent earthquake, which killed 294 people and destroyed ancient towns, says Ross Stein, a scientist there.
April 17, 2009: Sun square Moon in cardinal signs triggers more seismic activity
Earthquakes hit eastern Afghanistan with dozens feared dead
KABUL, Afghanistan, April 17 (UPI) -- Officials say they fear dozens of people could be dead after two earthquakes collapsed hundreds of houses in eastern Afghanistan Friday.
April 17, 2009: Capricorn Moon Square Sun in Aries for more seismic activity around the world.
Magnitude 6.1 - OFFSHORE TARAPACA, CHILE
April 16, 2009: Capricorn Moon TSQ Venus-Pallas as the Cardinal Climax is coming on April 26th
Strong Quake with Magnitude 6.6 - hits SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS REGION
April 15, 2009: Mars ruler of Aries is direct in Pisces and moving to a fatal, exact square with Pluto {after ingress into Aries} on April 26th @ 9:11 AM PDT
HAWAIIAN VOLCANO OBSERVATORY DAILY UPDATE
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 08:00 AM (Wednesday, April 15, 2009 18:00 UTC)
KILAUEA VOLCANO (CAVW #1302-01-)
19°25'16" N 155°17'13" W, Summit Elevation 4091 ft (1247 m)
Current Aviation Color Code: ORANGE
Current Volcano Alert Level: WATCH
April 15, 2009: Capricorn Moon conjunct Pluto in Cardinal Signs and Mars{lower octave of Pluto} in Pisces separating from conjunction with Uranus to Meet Venus on April 21st.
More tremors in New Guinea Region: Magnitude 6.0 - BOUGAINVILLE REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
April 15, 2009: Capricorn Moon conjunct Pluto and in out of sign square to Venus in Pisces
Multiple Quakes including a Magnitude 6.1 - in KEPULAUAN MENTAWAI REGION, INDONESIA
April 15, 2009: Capricorn Moon conjunct Pluto bringing more quakes in key places
Magnitude 5.7 - OWEN FRACTURE ZONE REGION
April 14, 2009: As Moon continues to trigger quakes with squares to Mars-Uranus-Venus we get ready for tomorrow's exact Mars-Uranus
conjunction
Sharp Quake with Magnitude 5.0 - rocks the ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
Possible precursor to larger events from quakes to volcanoes in the next 24 hours.
April 13, 2009: As Mars-Uranus conjunction approaches a square to Sagittarius Moon as fiery Sun in Aries trines Moon
Volcano erupts in the Galapagos Islands
QUITO, Ecuador -- Ecuador officials say a volcano is erupting in the Galapagos Islands and could harm unique wildlife.
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