It’s been six months since that earthquake devastated Haiti, and all manner of social, political, and environmental upheaval has transpired since then. Eric generally shies away from predictions, but this past winter he inadvertently predicted that one (though he did not specify Haiti or the exact date).

Here is his follow-up blog post on the quake’s astrology from Jan 13, 2010, which includes a chart for the event. Eric notes the importance of eclipses (one of which we just experienced Sunday) in natural disasters on Earth in this excerpt:

When I said in yesterday’s subscriber edition that the eclipse this week was a setup for earthquakes, it was based on one scientific fact and three observations about the chart. A few weeks ago I read an article, which I’ll need to find, that confirmed what astrologers have known for a long time: earthquakes follow planetary alignments.

Astrologers are pretty much the only people who are watching what’s happening with other planets when something happens on Earth. Astrologers know that major quakes are likelier to happen close to New Moons and Full Moons. The Banda Aceh quake on the island of Sumatra on Dec. 26, 2004 happened during the last approach to a Full Moon, for example (and there are other similarities to the Haiti quake chart).

The astrological facts included the alignment of 11 planets across Capricorn and Aquarius, some of which (such as Jupiter and the Sun) are putting enormous gravitational stress on the Earth. [This link includes the minor planets from Serennu.com.] Second fact was the eclipse itself. Eclipses are precise alignments with direct effects. The third fact was that this eclipse was in Capricorn, which I consider the sign for the Earth itself; that is, for the physical structures that make up the planet, such as the tectonic plates, mountains, caves and so on.

Hello Cosmic Confidential Visitor.

This is the daily blog associated with Cosmic Confidential, the 2010 annual edition of Planet Waves. There’s lots of info about Cosmic Confidential along the margin to the right. We are back to updating daily, and looking for interesting features to keep the content fresh and interesting. One of the things we’re going to do is select horoscopes from the past and let them see the sunshine. Unlike on the Planet Waves Oracle, where the horoscopes are selected at random, these will be selected by an editor — usually Amanda Painter. Here’s one from Jan 16, 2004 highlighting the power of a total solar eclipse, one of which we just experienced yesterday.

March 1, 2006 – Cancer – Monthly

The shortest distance between you and your highest goals is a total solar eclipse. The thing is, your goals are on the level of a public resource. We may ask why in the human experience some people emerge as leaders and some as followers (with plenty who need to get out of the way). It may be that there’s a cycle; it may be that some keep reincarnating in positions where the strength of their character and the clarity of their visions are what is emphasized. Or, in your case, there is a sense of feeling compelled and in a way destined to guide a certain dimension of existence on the physical plane in a particular direction, at this time in your life. There may be a big change involved for you — or you just may rise gracefully to what you know you need to do. In any event, the time is at hand.

Just when I thought I had nothing left to say about Sunday’s eclipse (I’ve been writing about it since Cosmic Confidential), I found the chart for Friday’s weekly horoscope and noticed that I have not mentioned Varuna anywhere. And I haven’t mentioned Eris, either.

The eclipse Sunday is conjunct Varuna. It is a two-degree conjunction — pretty close. It’s all the more significant in that Varuna is currently square Eris; that’s to say Eris is square the eclipse. Said another way, the eclipse alignment is Juno, Moon, Sun, Varuna (in a conjunction in Cancer) — square Eris (in Aries).

Varuna is a planet worth knowing about. Here is the Small World Stories writeup. Just reading the lead of that article, methinks, hmmmmmm gee whiz. I forgot about that. Here is a sample:

My keywords for Varuna include the great equalizer. Though it may not seem reassuring, he is often depicted carrying a noose. He warns us that life and death are under the purview of God, and we need to respect that and act ethically while we are on Earth. One of Varuna’s themes, both astrological and mythological, is the punishment of liars and those who do not honor contracts.

This being said, Varuna does not seem to be patriarchal or even domineering, but rather something that works on our own level and responds in a direct way to real human needs. I think of Varuna as a force that we invoke personally; we ask for the help of this seemingly invisible energy, and it responds.

So this eclipse is conjunct Varuna. As for a moment of backstory, Varuna was discovered in 2000 and was considered so significant that it was given minor planet number 20,000. It is named after the pre-Vedic god of law, order and justice. Properly it is referred to as (20000) Varuna. In case you like to get wonky about planets, its original designation was 2000 WR 106 discovered by a R. McMillan of Spacewatch Team (the guys who try to protect the Earth from asteroid impacts, so they spend a lot of time gazing into space). It is a classical Kuiper Belt Object, with an orbit of just over 282 years. That’s to say, it’s just outside of Pluto’s orbit.

Given the extent to which the eclipse is about shakeups and rearrangements in relationships, this involvement of both Varuna and Eris is pretty interesting. I could say a lot about this — I’m a little too fatigued to get too deep here but I want to point it out. My theory here is that we can do two things, in harmony with this astrology. One is that we can suspend and go beyond the power drama that characterizes so many relationships. This is the Varuna factor. The power drama often includes jealousy, as I elaborated in today’s edition. And jealousy, beyond being a ‘natural enough’ response, is often abused as a cudgel to pound one another into submission in relationships. Reading the signs and symbols I am here to tell you that there is an alternative.

Next: the square to Eris is about reintegrating a cast-off part of ourselves. I will leave you with an archive pick, called Calling Home the Castaway Woman. Note, this is premium content from 2008. This will give you a hint about Eris. The relationship to Varuna and the eclipse is: I think that jealousy is based on casting off part of ourselves, that then finds a home in a projection into someone else; and when that is threatened, we tend to go bonkers from jealousy.

Here is a little something more about that: an article from earlier in the year called The One and The Many. At the bottom of this article are links to many other resources, if you catch the wind of this theme over our total solar eclipse weekend.

Catch you soon.

love and lovingly –

e

Hello Cosmic Confidential Visitor.

This is the daily blog associated with Cosmic Confidential, the 2010 annual edition of Planet Waves. There’s lots of info about Cosmic Confidential along the margin to the right. We are back to updating daily, and looking for interesting features to keep the content fresh and interesting. One of the things we’re going to do is select horoscopes from the past and let them see the sunshine. Unlike on the Planet Waves Oracle, where the horoscopes are selected at random, these will be selected by an editor — usually Amanda Painter. Here’s one from Jan 16, 2004 with an intriguing take on connections.

Jan. 16, 2004 – Aries – Weekly

This week’s aspects offer some unusual opportunities to work out the man-woman, woman-man thing in its many manifestations. What you have in common and what you don’t take on new and subtle shapes and forms, and you really can get past personal inhibitions and creative blocks if you make the effort. The chemistry may not be torrential heat, and neither will the discord be like the philharmonic on crank. Rough spots promise to point the way to intriguing connections that may, over the year, develop into something much more interesting. There is no rush, but this is some fun astrology warming up to the Sun’s ingress to Aquarius, when the night time becomes the right time.