ASTROLOGY PHILIPPINES

By Angela Stuart-Santiago Excerpts from “Deconstructing EDSA,” the closing chapter of  the book  EDSA Uno, A Narrative and Analysis with Notes on Dos & Tres (2013)   by Angela Stuart-Santiago .  [ http://stuartsantiago.com/edsa-uno-the-book-in-solidaridad /] February 1986 was a rare time for the Philippines and the planet. From February 3 to 7, six solar flares were observed that gave rise, February 7 through 9, to a very intense magnetic storm, said to be the largest observed in 26 years. [i]   Also on the 9 th , Halley’s Comet, hurtling through our solar system on its 76-year orbit, reached its closest point to the Sun, this as Moon and Sun, seen from planet Earth, exactly aligned. [ii]   A rare confluence of cosmic events that wreaked havoc on Earth’ magnetic fields, instruments rendering off-scale variations said to set off weather and atmospheric disturbances, affecting even electric power grids, [iii] and, no doubt, our b...