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Neptune Conjunct Moon: What Has Aldub Got To Do With Your Lovelife?

By Edel Vita "The universe is made up of stories, not atoms.”  – M. Rukeyser Advertisements and the marketing world are now using Aldub to entice you to buy that milk, that fried chicken, and that can of sardines, but do you know that you can put this monster of a phenomenon to use to enrich your love life?  The place and time: October 24, 2015 at 1pm, the Philippine Arena, Bulacan, Philippines. The main aspects: Moon, conjunct Chiron, conjunct Neptune in Pisces, first house, sextile Pluto in Capricorn. Moon opposition Venus (which is conjunct Jupiter and Mars). The phenomenon: A fifty-five thousand-seater stadium gets packed to the ceiling (Moon=masses) for a Cinderella-meets-prince (Venus-Mars) noontime television (Uranus) show (Neptune). Again, the chart shows the masses (Moon) numbering up to forty million hypnotized and obsessed (Neptune) with a Cinderella-esque love story (Venus) expanded/broadcasted (Jupiter) on television (Uranus) and the inter...

Balatik, Filipino hunting trap inspired by Orion: On reading about Philippine pre-colonial astronomy

By Col. Romeo Solina, PA, retired Col. Romy Solina and his BALATIK diorama A few weeks ago, “Resti” Santiago, an astrologer friend, sent me a book entitled “BALATIK.” It is a book written by a University of the Philippines professor Dante L. Ambrosio, and subtitled “Etnoastronomiya, Kalangitan sa Kabihasnang Pilipino” and obviously in the Tagalog (Filipino) language. Although I was born in Manila and an a Tagalog, I found it rather a problem reading the contents of the book. Still, I must go over it since I must be knowledgeable in my own native language. On the other hand, the author must have a doctorate, having gone through the baccalaureate and master degrees to be able to write this treatise in the university as I also have gone through. The Balatik book concerns the methods used by the natives of the Philippines using the signs in the skies in order to determine certain seasons for their activities, such as fishing, sailing, hunting, planting, harvesting, and so on. ...