With Mercury forming a T-square with Jupiter and Uranus I have also been thinking about religious freedom. I cop having taken it for granted all my life but I don’t feel this way anymore.

These days I am acutely aware what a privilege it is be able to write (Mercury) and freely (Uranus) publish my beliefs (Jupiter). I understand if I were living somewhere else I could get my head cut off for this.

Speaking of beheading, did you read John Townley’s comments re: this month’s new Moon?

Townley writes:

“The heads-up message for this merry month of May may be heads-off! That’s because in the midst of this spring season of grand fire trines mixed with T-crosses, spinning off the remaining trine of Jupiter and Saturn and the opposition of Saturn and Neptune, the new Moon of May 16 (25° 33′ Taurus) falls within under a degree of the direst of fixed stars, Caput Algol (the Gorgon’s Head), an eclipsing double star in the process of celestial suicide, long-associated with beheadings and hangings, or losing your head in general.”

I realize this is gross but you can see is this is in the air, what with Angelina Jolie’s movie about Daniel Pearl. So when the words came out of my fingers I let them.

Besides that, it’s true. I have the great good fortune to write this blog and I can only hope it continues. What about the Taliban rounding up the women and the girls in Afghanistan? No education for you! ::sighs::

All the books will tell you Uranus signifies unexpected change and reversals. If you happen to be the one with the rights and freedoms, I would say it’s unnerving. What would you say?

Here is a first rate article by astrologer, Lynn Hayes on Brad Pitt and Katie Holmes as the events in their lives relate to Pluto hitting the galactic center in December. People with planets around 26 Sagittarius, should especially get over there and read. People with planets at 26 degrees of the other mutable signs (Gemini, Virgo and Pisces) - you too!