Weather Forecasting/Lunar Gardening

We think lunar planting is a vast improvement over just guessing, especially for organic farmers. Almanacs were originally intended to guide farmers to the proper lunar cycles for planting. City folks don't think much about it, but at the end of a long winter, rural people take the best of their remaining foodstocks and plant it in the ground. The earlier they get their crops in, the earlier the harvest (often just in time - food can be scarce by autumn), but if they plant too early they risk a late frost that kills the crops outright. Plant too late and they miss the spring rains and the crops starve for water. In either case, everyone starves. So April is not only an important month to farmers, it can also be, as the poet said, the cruelest of all.

Special note: In September, 2005, I read that Bernie Kerik, one-time New York City police commissioner, had said that everyone knew hurricane Katrina was going to be bad a week before it struck. This was noted by a blogger I read, who made the sarcastic remark,

Kerik must have an astrologer who hooks him up with the really sweet info since the National Hurricane Center said that Katrina was a Cat 2 moving toward a Cat 3 storm only two days before it made landfall on the Gulf Coast.

Which made me think, an astrological forecast of a big storm slamming into the Gulf coast the last week in August, 2005, should have been easy to make. So I phoned The Old Farmer's Almanac & spoke to the person in charge of the weather pages. She swore to me they never predict hurricanes & that they did not employ astrologers! Only "real meteorologists". (And any worth his salt would find weather astrology a goldmine, but I digress.) Needless to say, I did not believe a word of it. Astrology can save lives! Dammit!!!

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	WEATHER PREDICTING The Hermetic System of Astrological Weather Analysis - C.C. Zain, $22.95 Contents: Table of contents; List of charts; About this book; Forward; Serial lesson key; Astrological weather predicting; Reading astrological weather charts; Astrological temperature charts; Astrological air movement charts; Astrological moisture charts; Unusual weather; Tornadoes & hurricanes. Comment: How do old farmers predict the weather? With astrology! If the Weather Channel never gets it right in your part of the woods, get this book & learn why astrology will always beat satellites. Weather forecasting was one of a working astrologer's primary jobs not so many centuries ago. This is one of C.C. Zain's best. The various charts for astrological weather forecasting are as follows: The Temperature Chart is set for when the Sun enters each of the cardinal signs, eg, Aries, Cancer, Libra & Capricorn, timed for your locale. This is also the master weather chart for the season. The Air Movement Chart is erected whenever the planet Mercury changes signs, both direct & retrograde. Moisture Charts are drawn for the phases of the Moon: New, first quarter, full & last quarter. Aspects of the planets in these charts to the exact degree of the various ascendants denote weather in general. As they transit the ascendants, they denote changes in the weather. When the various planets gang up in one place at the same time, the weather gets nasty. The planets: The Sun is dry, but will produce lightning. The Moon tends to chill & be wet. Mercury is cold, dry & windy. Venus is moderate. She makes colder weather warmer, hot weather cooler, storms milder. Mars is hot, but when afflicted, can be very cold. Jupiter is warm & breezy. Saturn is stormy & causes weather extremes: the hottest, the coldest, the wettest, the driest, etc. Uranus is cold, favoring sudden temperature changes, also squalls & wind gusts. Neptune produces freak weather, fog, dust, smoke, etc. Pluto is cool, breezy & wet. Afflicted, it can be nasty. Additionally, there are weather-related delineations for houses, signs & aspects, but this should give you the idea. If you live in an area of severe weather, you need astro-meteorology. Church of Light, oversize paper, newly reset, 129 pages.

	ASTROMETEOROLOGY, Planetary Power in Weather Forecasting - Kris Brandt Riske, $22.00 Contents: Preface; Astrometeorology; Weather charts; Planets & aspects; National & local forecasting; Wind; Thunderstorms & hail; Tornados; Hurricanes; Floods; Heat & cold; Drought; Snow, sleet & freezing rain. Comment: Get this book, predict your own weather. Here is Kris on hurricanes: Astrometeorologically, the key factors in forecasting a hurricane are Mercury-Uranus and Mars-Neptune aspects. In the Mercury-Uranus combination, Mercury provides the wind & Uranus the upper atmosphere high pressure necessary to keep the wind/water hurricane engine running. Mars provides heat & more wind, and Neptune is water, counterclockwise winds, and low pressure. Because a hurricane is composed of thunderstorms, those planetry configurations can be expected, along with strong Saturn aspects to furnish the extremely low pressure in the eye. Note that the key ingredients of a hurricane are the same as those for a tornado. (pgs. 91-90) On page 89, she says, The evolution of hurricanes from tropical depression to tropical storm to hurricane as they gather strength while traveling from the African coast to the US coast can take a week or more - ample time to build a mass of destruction and to warn coastal residents if meteorologists correctly predict when and where they will make landfall. Determining these three factors - if, when & where - is an area in which astrometeorology can be of enormous assistance. Even if meteorology is used to forecast a hurricane, the astrometeologist can determine exactly when & where the eye will cross land, thereby saving lives & property. (boldface emphasis mine) This is an excellent addition to the astrological weather forecasting library. AFA, 190 pages.

	ASTROLOGY IN PREDICTING WEATHER & EARTHQUAKES - B.V. Raman, $8.00 Contents: Forward; Preface; 1. Astrology in Weather Prediction: Heavy rainfall & sunspot maxima; Effect of slow moving planets; The sun's influence; When Mercury conjuncts sun; Mars & dry weather; How the winds are influenced; Planetary clues to cyclones; Prediction of rain; Rainbows in different seasons; Weather changes & vagaries. 2. Astrology in Earthquakes Prediction: Role of solar spots; Eleven-year cycle theory; Parasara on earthquakes; Site of earthquake; Ground glows; Planets in trikonas; Saturn-Mars in kendras; Eclipse degrees & Mars; New moon & mutual kendras; Jupiter-Saturn opposition; Jupiter-Saturn conjunction; Historic fact. Appendix: A great physicist becomes an astrologer. Comment: This book was developed from numerous articles Raman wrote for The Astrological Magazine, & was compiled at the urging of his daughter, Gayatri Devi Vasudev. While weather predicting has long been a staple of western astrology, Raman's work in successfully predicting earthquakes is unique as far as I know. During his lifetime B.V. Raman was clearly the world's best forecaster of catastrophic weather & earthquakes. He derived much of his inspiration from a close study of old Vedic texts, in particular, Varhamira's Brihat Samita, coupled with a brilliant use of lunar mansions/nakshatras. In addition to revealing his techniques, he ridicules "scientific" earthquake forecasting, supplying many of his own accurate forecasts for comparison. For western readers there are only two problems with the book: All charts are given in the square Indian format, and the author makes liberal use of many technical Vedic terms, which should only encourage us to learn this ancient & complex science. This book more than earns a yellow star, which, so far, I haven't bestowed on Vedic books - most of which are excellent. UBSPD, 87 pages.

One final note on astrological weather forecasting:

Meteorological phenomena (eg, weather) are not only acutely sensitive to astrological factors, they are also sensitive to human emotions taken as a mass. This will be new to many of you. You may think that anger & rage (etc.) are merely transient, ephemeral emotions, but they are energies like anything else. These energies build in the air over a given locale & are ultimately unleashed as inclement weather. This is the reason why rain frequently follows armies in battle. It's also why, as emotions have polarized in many areas of the world, strange and severe weather has become the norm in many areas. This is not strictly to do with astro-meteorology, but if we didn't give you this caution you would likely forecast better weather than what may actually result.

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