Wednesday, April 5 | Astrology Secrets WEDNESDAY is usually the day I write Astrology Secrets Revealed for Jonathan Cainer's web site, which updates late Thursday. After a break of running the column every two weeks, we're back to a weekly cycle, and I'm sifting through the questions people have sent in for something that will work, and work for now. As for the past, an organizing project has been underway for some time, and just about everything I've written for the Q and A feature has been organized into a web page, organized by individual question, comment or introduction. We still have to put the questions in order, but except for the past week or two, they're all there. One of the next steps is choosing about 20 for a Frequently Asked Questions section. We'll have that soon and it will be fun. The whole thing is fun...try to print the question list, it's 17 pages all by itself. http://planetwaves.net/cainer/archive/ As for the Mars-Pluto opposition still reaching its peak (see yesterday's blog), I must concur with one reader wrote in and said: that the world is curiously quiet and that it's not quite over. The thing with a big eclipse is that it can portend something in the future (understatement of the century). An unfortunate example from recent history was the June 21, 2001 total solar eclipse, which everyone missed and which occurred about four hours into the summer (i.e., on the summer solstice and thus exactly square the Aries Point). Now, just because history played itself out one way with one eclipse does not mean it's going to do the same thing with this one -- despite the similarities (falling close to the change of seasons, in particular). There are other times when the Aries Point has fast repercussions, such as the Full Moon square the Aries Point that led to the tsunamis in Asia in late 2004. There are times when it's kind of medium speed -- such as the Capricorn Full Moon on the first day of summer last year, which pointed directly to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. A second Cap Full Moon 28 days later emphasized the point. Then there are times when the effects are subtle. A New Moon exactly on spring equinox of 2004 came with the first publication of casualties arriving home from Iraq and that 'secret' being exposed -- but seemed to have relatively little impact. It's true that a slide in public opinion against the war occurred then, but we may wonder if history will remember. Still, that was a tipping point, and if I recall correctly, the asteroid Photographica was involved in a rather blatant way. So -- we can speculate what this time will bring, or we can watch. This week, Tom DeLay, arguably the single most corrupt politician in Washington, said he would not seek re-election as he faces felony charges for his politically-related crimes. Jack Abramoff and Adam Kidan were sentenced to jail in the same scandal. A Department of Homeland Security official was just busted for soliciting sex with a cop posing online as a 14-year-old girl. But even to those who are observing, these things are like a movie going by in the background of our lives, if that. Is something gathering momentum here? Could we have imagined this two years ago? However -- I think we're more deeply touched by stories of extreme weather conditions, such as floods and tornados, and of elderly couples sleeping in their car outside their locked FEMA trailer outside their destroyed home. They're closer to personal reality and have more potential to touch our lives, and I think we can empathize with the people involved. Still, when we wake up from this dream of the early 21st century, I think a lot of people are going to be shocked at what they let go by 'in the background' and wonder where they were, and what they were doing.