Signs of The Times:
October 2024 - March 2025
'Into The Mid-2020s'
by Theodore White, mundane Astrolog.sci
‘They saw the stars their constant round mountains,
Perform their course, and then return again. They, on their aspects saw the Fates attend.
Their change on their variety depend,
And thence they fixed unalterable laws,
Settling the same effect on the same cause.”
~ mundane astrologer Marcus Manilius
by Theodore White, mundane Astrolog.sci
The times we currently experience in 2024 have been full of presages and celestial events all year.
From major planetary conjunctions to a season of solar and lunar eclipses, what we have witnessed so far to date in 2024 call for strict attention going into next year of 2025.
On October 16-17, there is a perigee 'supermoon' on tap.
On Wednesday night, Oct. 16th, the Moon, in tropical Aries, will be very close to, or already at perigee, but it will also be closer to the time when it actually turns full on Thursday morning, October 17th.
So, if you want to get a full "supermoon effect," then Wednesday evening is your night.
I also continue to warn on flurries of earthquakes under the current planetary era we are now and caution to have emergency preparedness plans updated ad supplies refreshed through the remainder of 2024.
All of this year, from geophysical, geopolitical and metaphysical events, from war, to famine, to powerful storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, torrential rains and floods, the events of 2024 that have changed and altered the lives of tens of thousands of people, yea, even millions globally – speak to the significance of the signs of the times.
One commenter on 2024's events writes:
"This is an exceptionally turbulent and dangerous period we’re living in these days.
Hurricanes Helene and Milton come and go, leaving terror, death and calamitous destruction in their wake.
A one-year-old war continues to rage on the two of Israel’s three land borders, threatening to expand into a regional conflict pitting Israel against Iran with Syria, Iraq and the Gulf States potentially getting pulled in also.
In Eastern Europe, a now 30-month-old war continues as neither Russia nor Ukraine sees its objectives achieved with any current ceasefire proposals.
The United States is at the center of all of it. Places like Asheville, North Carolina and Tampa Bay, Florida, comparatively unscathed by hurricanes for a century, have been clobbered just in the last month.
Were it not for the consistent and largely unconditional support of the US for the past 76 years since its post-World War II creation as the world’s Jewish state, Israel, might well have disappeared decades ago. And American military support continues to prop up the beleaguered Kyiv regime of Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky."
Indeed, as we near the change of the North Lunar Node in January 2025, and the coming conjunction of Saturn and Neptune near the Vernal Equinox point all through next year it also appears that the global economy is entering a "dangerous time" like never before as Middle East tensions remain elevated, according to S&P Global's vice chairman Daniel Yergin:
"Since the Israel-Hamas conflict began on 7 October 2023, the oil market has experienced minimal disruptions, with prices remaining under pressure as a result of increased U.S. production and weak demand from China.
However, this sentiment has been shifting.
Oil prices spiked the first week of October 2024 on fears that Israel could target Iran's oil industry in retaliation for Tehran's ballistic missile attack, with industry analysts raising concerns about a genuine threat to supply.
The Israelis have not concluded what they're going to do in terms of a strike - that's under discussion," said U.S. President Joe Biden, who told reporters at a White House press briefing last week that he discouraged Israel from striking Iranian oil facilities.
Last week, both oil benchmarks saw their biggest weekly gain since March 2023.
During Asia trading on Tuesday, global benchmark Brent slipped 1.77% to $79.50 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate traded 1.83% lower at $75.77 per barrel.
Yergin told CNBC that he expects Israeli retaliation will not just be a replay of last April, but something "much stronger."
In April, Iran and Israel came to blows but ultimately avoided a full-scale war. Iran fired hundreds of ballistic missiles and drones at Israel in retaliation for an attack on an Iranian diplomatic facility in Syria.
When asked if the global economy is on the precipice of another supply shock resulting from Middle East tensions, Yergin said it's a precarious time for markets.
"I think it's a very dangerous time, one that we haven't seen," he said.
Additionally, while Yergin maintained that it is not certain whether Iranians have operational nuclear weapons, that is still "certainly in the backdrop," particularly through the lens of the Israelis.
"The betting is that the Israelis would not attack, try to attack, the nuclear facilities at this time.
But a few months from now, a few weeks from now, whatever it is, Iran would have the capacity - it's thought - to deliver a nuclear weapon, and that raises the stakes," he said, likening the moment to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
That said, Israel is a lot more concerned about Iran's nuclear facilities than the Iranian oil industry, said Pavel Molchanov, managing director of investment services firm Raymond James.
Iran's nuclear program has progressed to a stage where, in approximately one week, the country could potentially enrich enough uranium for five fission weapons, according to estimates by Iran Watch, a website published by the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control.
"The worst-case scenario would be something that Iran can do on its own, which is a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. So this is not directly related to Israeli airstrikes or missiles.
The strait, between Oman and Iran, is a vital channel where about one-fifth of global oil production flows daily, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
It is a strategically important waterway linking crude producers in the Middle East with key markets across the world.
The inability of oil to traverse through the strait, even temporarily, can increase shipping costs, lead to considerable supply delays and ratchet up global energy prices, with some surmising that a worst-case scenario could prompt oil prices to surge above $100 a barrel."
Going into 2025 it will be necessary for the good reader to have a good outline of how to meet your goals and obligations enough to minimize the continued onslaught of international and global events into your lifestyle.
Judicial, or Mundane Astrology relates to forecasts on general events globally, regional, internationally and locally.
It concerns itself with the rise and fall of empires, revolutions, conflicts, wars; as well as kings, queens, nations and their leaders and with astrometeorology, the weather and climate, droughts, floods, famine, the atmosphere, as well as pestilence and famine.
A.J. Pearce writes that, “There is no question that mundane astrology was based upon the results of a centuries’ long series of observations, as Manilius avers, the inductive method being followed in reducing it to a science.”
This present era, October 2024, call for prudence, patience, and planning into the 2025 that is just ahead.
Refresh & Get Ready For 2025
Into The Mid-2020s
The Millennial Generation, those born 1981-1995, are now in their 30s and early 40s going into the new solar year of 2025 - a major year worldwide.
Into the common year of 2025, the last remaining significant of this 2024 are those that bring to end the issues that have been ongoing since July 2023.
*Red color indicates strong global influence*
· October 12, 2024 – PLUTO DIRECT AT 29-CAPRICORN
· November 15, 2024 – SATURN DIRECT AT 12-PISCES
· November 26, 2024 – MERCURY RETROGRADE AT 22-SAGITTARIUS
· December 6, 2024 – MARS RETROGRADE AT 6-LEO (until February 23-24, 2025)
· December 7, 2024 – NEPTUNE DIRECT AT 27-PISCES
· December 13, 2024 – JUPITER SESQUI QUADRATE PLUTO
· December 15, 2024 – MERCURY DIRECT AT 6-SAGITTARIUS
· December 24, 2024 – JUPITER SQUARE SATURN (2nd of 3 world squares)
The transits of October, November and December 2024 are calling for attention to the future as the Lunar Nodes are winding down their presence on the Aries-Libra axis where they have been since July 2023.Those reaching the ages of 28-30, 34-36, 43-45, 53-57, 75-77, will want to know what 2025 holds for them in changes as the world enters the mid-2020s.
According to my calculations, 2025 will be a major year of events, and also include bright futures for those who us the planetary transits well in their lives so as to successfully meet their aspirations, goals and plans.
*Red color indicates strong global influence*
April 4, 2025 – SATURN SEXTILE URANUS - 1st of three sextile aspects)
· April 7, 2025 – MERCURY STATIONS DIRECT AT 26-PISCES
· April 13, 2025 – VENUS STATIONS DIRECT AT 24-PISCES
· 30 APRIL 2025 - VENUS RE-ENTERS O-ARIES
· April 17, 2025 – JUPITER SESQUI QUADRATE PLUTO
· April 23, 2025 – MERCURY TURNS NORTH IN DECLINATION
· May 4, 2025 – PLUTO STATIONS RETROGRADE AT 3-AQUARIUS
25 MAY 2025 - SATURN ENTERS TROPICAL ARIES
· June 4, 2025 – JUPITER SEMI-SEXTILE URANUS
· 9 JUNE 2025 - JUPITER ENTERS TROPICAL CANCER
· June 15, 2025 – JUPITER SQUARE SATURN (3rd and final world square)
· June 19, 2025 – JUPITER SQUARE NEPTUNE
· June 24, 2025 – JUPITER QUINCUNX PLUTO
4 July 2025 - NEPTUNE STATIONS RETROGRADE at 2-ARIES
It will also determine how you will be able to successfully navigate into the early-to-mid 2030s.
If you want to know what your personalized transits, progressions and returns hold for you in 2025, you can contact me at astro730@gmail.com
When you write, please include your birthday, time and place of birth. Also include your current geographic region if different from your city/town of birthday.
Meanwhile, the third of four 'Supermoons' is about to get underway in mid-October and it will be the biggest supermoon of 2024 just as a comet races across Earth's skies.
Giant Perigee October 2024 SuperMoon To Be Seen Worldwide
by Theodore White, mundane Astrolog.sci
On Thursday (Oct. 17) at 7:26 a.m. EDT (1126 GMT), the Aries Moon will officially turn full.
But less than 11 hours earlier, at 8:48 p.m. EDT on Wednesday night, Oct. 16th, the Moon will have arrived at perigee, its closest point to Earth at a distance of 221,938 miles (357,174 km) away.
Even in Nigeria, the tremors being felt are cause for alarm there.
In doing so, I have found that major earthquakes happen more in number when a perigee occurs with a Full Moon and a New Moon than when the Moon is at apogee with similar planetary and solar configurations.
The reason is because at the perigee-New Moon the Sun is behind Moon and so the combined force doubly acts in the same direction.
Effects on humans by the Moon are well known
"In February 1954, biologist Frank Brown discovered something that made no sense.
While investigating whether oysters can keep time, he had found that they open their shells to feed at high tide, roughly twice a day.
Brown had a hunch they weren’t simply responding to changes in their environment but would continue the rhythm even if moved far from the sea.
To find out, he shipped a batch of oysters from the ocean off New Haven, Connecticut, hundreds of kilometres inland to Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
At first, the oysters kept their rhythm, feeding each day in time with the New Haven tides.
Then, something strange happened – their feeding times gradually shifted until they lagged 3 hours behind.
Brown was mystified, until he realized that they had adapted to the local state of the Moon: they were feeding at times when Evanston, if it were by the sea, would experience high tide.
Despite having no obvious environmental cues, it seemed these shellfish were somehow tracking lunar cycles."
But his ideas seemed outlandish to his peers.
Brown’s results were forgotten, and the notion of lunar influences was dismissed as pseudoscience which is a term that those who are uneducated use when they do not understand something that they themselves never studied or applied themselves to understand.
Anyhow, growing evidence from a range of scientific fields suggested that Brown might have been correct.
Though unusual to those calling it a 'pseudoscience' of the many dramatic influences that the Moon might have on animal biology and human biology - science has proven it to be true.
For instance, a seabird known as Barau's Petrel synchronizes its breeding schedule so that it will arrive to mate on a Full Moon.
Dung beetles have been repeatedly observed in using the Moon to make sure they move their meals in a straight line.
Crustaceans known as sand hoppers have a Moon compass in their antennae so they'll know when to stay buried.
The coral polyps in the Great Barrier Reef start their mass spawning according to the Moon's cycles.
Perhaps, hidden beneath our more obvious earthly rhythms, we are also creatures of the Moon.
Now, the word 'spring' comes from the German word 'springen' that is, to 'spring up,' and is not a reference to the spring season.
Anyhow, during these times of 'spring tides' the Moon and Sun form a line with the Earth, and their tidal effects combine together. The Sun produces a little less than half of the tidal force of the Moon.
In Astrometeorology, what are called 'neap" tides', are when the Moon is at first and last quarter phase. At these phases the tides are weak.
The Moon's tidal force can vary as the inverse cube of an object's distance. In October 2024, the Moon is 12.2% closer at perigee than at apogee.
So, the Moon will have and push 42% more tidal force at this particular full moon compared to the spring tides for the "micro" full moon that will come with lunar apogee in April 2025.
The most noticeable are the rising and falling of tides, but there are other effects that are less understood.
When the perigee moon is close to the horizon it can appear huge.
That is when the famous 'lunar illusion' combines with reality to produce a truly stunning view.
For reasons that are not fully understood by astronomers or psychologists, a low-hanging moon looks incredibly large when hovering near to trees, buildings and other foreground objects.
Image by: Gary Hershorn/Getty Images
The result would be far greater differences between the seasons and much greater variation in climate with latitude over evolutionary timescales.
Other than the usual upticks in violence and emotional reactions, it appears that the Moon indeed affects both man and beast.
A 2015 study of 205 people found that the full moon may affect sleep differently in males and females.
Researchers found that many females slept less and have less REM sleep when the full moon phase is near, whereas males have more REM sleep closer and during a full moon.
Specifically, a 2018 study examined 17 people whose bipolar disorder tended to switch rapidly from depression to mania.
It caused changes in their sleep that then triggered a shift from depression symptoms to mania symptoms.
Those who want to know more and see other scientific studies, please see The Lunar Cycle: effects on human and animal behavior and physiology.
That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge
In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair
Shakes pestilence and war."
~ Milton
by Theodore White, mundane Astrolog.sci
I have forecast many events over the course of my forecasting life as an astromet and mundane astrologer, however, this science and art has been with us since the dawn of humanity.
Image by: Petr Horálek
Like Earth, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) crossed the orbital plane of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS on Oct. 14, 2024.
This captured image from the spacecraft's coronagraph shows what happened:
The diagonal band of light is comet dust scattering sunlight into the coronagraph's camera.
When SOHO crosses the orbital plane, the band shrinks into an exquisitely thin line.
It is like piloting a spacecraft through the rings of Saturn and seeing them edge-on. Something similar occured to SOHO.
It was temporarily designated as A10SVYR.
The comet was also independently captured by a telescope at Purple Mountain Observatory (Zijinshan Astronomical Observatory) on January 9, 2023.
It was added to the list of objects awaiting confirmation, but after no follow-up observations were reported, it was removed on January 30, 2023, and was considered lost.
Based on the comet naming system, the comet received the names of both observatories and was officially named C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS).
The lower the magnitude, the brighter the comet appears. The brightest objects have negative magnitude values.
The comet will be visible with the naked eye in the evening about an hour after sunset.
You can also see the comet's 'anti-tail' which is a bright streak that appears to be pointing toward the Sun, opposite the other tails.
By October 15th, the comet will pass 1.4° from the M5 globular cluster, providing a good photo opportunity as it passes through the constellation of Serpens Caput.
You can use with binoculars and telescopes. During those days (Oct. 20-31st) the tail of the comet will be seen to rapidly grow.
See for yourself. The comet comes out of the twilight about 45 minutes after your local sunset.
It is easy to find using binoculars and, then, once you find it, is easy to see with the unaided eye.
The comet's long tail stretches more than 10 degrees above the western horizon, remaining visible in the moonlight for as much as an hour after the head of the comet sets.
There is an 'anti-tail' of the comet emerging from the comet's head.
While the comet is still close to the Sun, it will gradually move farther away throughout the week, making it easier to spot.
Although it will lose brightness, your chances of seeing the comet will improve. It’s visible to the naked eye, but a pair of 10x50 binoculars will give you an even better view.
Around October 16-17, 2024, observers in southern latitudes should be able to see Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS as its apparent distance from the Sun will increase.
See it in this amazing capture of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS from Lorenzo Comolli of Sicily, Italy, that was taken on 14 October 2024.
Image by: Lorenzo Comolli
Image by: Arash Sefidgaran
click on image to enlarge
Image by: Getty Images
The Bible itself refers to changes or new appearances in the heavens that were the harbingers of either calamities and/or a new order of things.
For instance, in a catalog of pestilences since the Christian era began, it was shown in the Atmospherical Origin of Epidemical Diseases by medical doctor T. Foster (1809) that it was discovered that on 262 occasions the appearance of comets coincided very closely.
In Mundane Astrology, comets are associated with the births and deaths of important individuals; and also presages on geopolitical and geophysical events.
By the time of the perigee 'Supermoon' on Thursday, October 17, 2024, Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will be at the foot of the constellation Virgo.
The quarter of the heavens among the constellations where the comet appears can show the part of the world on which the comet's effects will primarily fall, that is the Sign of the Zodiac and the particular nation, government and/or kingdom governed by that Sign.
In Mundane Astrology, the countries, cities and towns ruled by Virgo are:
Syria, Brazil, Crete, Turkey, Thessaly, Croatia, Greece, Mesopotamia, from the Tigris to Euphrates, also Silesia, Switzerland, the state of Virginia and also the West Indies.
Cities and towns also ruled by Virgo are:
Jerusalem, Bury, Cheltenham, Maidstone, Norwich, Reading, Todmorden, Boston, Massachusetts, Brindisi, Corinth, Heidelberg, Lyons, Paris, Padua, Strasburg, Toulouse and Los Angeles, California.
By mundane empirical law, when a great comet appears in the skies, we may deduct that outstanding events will sure enough soon follow.
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