Dappled Air

It seems that in our family most birthdays happen in the first 3 months of the year. With my own birthday just round the corner I had a lot fun exploring this birthday calculator. In the Native American Zodiac I am an Otter my plant is a Fern my birth tree is a Cypress I am an Aquarius I was born in the Chinese year of the Dragon. That took me some time to get straight, as my birthday is in early February and the Chinese year is a lunar year that can start before or after my birthday. January 26/2009 starts the Chinese year of the Ox My Numerology Life Path Number or Birth Number is 5 I don't believe that information gathered by astrology or numerology is written in stone, but it is rather a road map that helps us navigate. The better the road map the faster we can get where we want to go without getting lost.

I have always been interested in Astrology, Numerology and other so called 'New Age' means to help us understand our world. I don't see the information as written in stone, that it has to happen a certain, predicted way, but more as a road map pointing out the obstacles and the different routes. This morning I came across an interesting article by Barbara Hand Clow , scroll down to the Virgo New Moon: August 30, 2008 section. Here one part of the article that really caught my attention: "I realize that it might look like I am biased about these events, yet I am simply tracking things that show significant diminishment of global respect for America. I am watching this building anti-Americanism (like in the 1960s) because we are moving closer to the first Saturn/ Uranus opposition since 1965-67, when the US was in turmoil over the Vietnam War and racism. Back in the mid-1960s, Saturn was in Pisces opposing Neptune in Virgo, and now Saturn is in Virgo moving to an oppo...