Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2005 WATCHING the tsunami memorial specials last night on BBC World, I was remembering what an intense year it's been. True, not as intense as for the many hundreds of thousands of people who had their homes washed away in Asia and the Americas, but for everyone who has been paying attention, it's been an emotional rollercoaster to some degree. Implicit is the message that the world is changing and we are all going to have to deal with that fact. There are plenty of other external stresses involved in our lives, be it other aspects of the world situation or the details of our lives. Besides which, the astrology that influences the world is the same thing we pick up in our personal charts. All of this has led me to proceed with care on the 2006 annual horoscopes. Gradually, the picture is coming into focus. I feel that as an astrology writer, my job is specifically not to predict, but rather to create an interpretation of the astrology that allows us to adapt to the psychic climate of the world. We are certainly entering a year where the big forces come into the spotlight in a new way; in a way we have not seen in a while, really. And there is another plane of reality opening up, a new level of perception and experience available, suggested by the movement of three Centaur planets into new signs. The Parallel Worlds theme is about choosing which level of reality you want to establish yourself on. At the moment, the project is continuing on many tracks. The webspace itself is being assembled by Anatoly in the Ukraine. Lise, the articles editor (based in Vermont), has completed her work, which was to coordinate the efforts of about eight other writers, whose work will be presented. Deirdre Tanton, an American artist now based in Germany, has been working on the sign art today (she also did the cover) -- illustrations for each of the 12 signs. Paloma, an artist and photographer in Paris, has been doing graphic research for the articles. Mandy is putting the final touches on the Sept. 11 resource page, and the avian influenza resource page. Today (besides playing air traffic coordinator), I've been working on the Virgo annual interpretation, the first one to come through after doing considerable research on the 12 signs over the past month or two. Through the weekend, I've been working on my own article contributions, including Chiron in Aquarius and an article yesterday on the Saturn-Neptune opposition. Then, I go out for meals and take my notebook and Esoteric Astrology with me and scribble notes about the sign interpretations. A nearly complete phase of the project, accomplished with the help of three other astrologers, is the chart resource area, where we post the horoscopes of the main planetary events. It took more than a month of solid work and is available to everyone at the link below. Please have a look. Thanks to Sonya, Kirsti, Tracy and Anatoly for their contributions to that. Catch you tonight or tomorrow. http://planetwaves.net/charts/parallel_worlds_charts/