Archive for October 2011
The End of an Era: Steve Jobs 2-24-1955 to 10-5-2011
Steve Jobs, one of the greatest Pisces visionaries since Albert Einstein, one of the first pioneers in first personal computing then mobile-computing, a genius, a historical figure of the likes of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford. Mr Jobs died today Wednesday, October 5, 2011. He was 56.
The hard-driving executive pioneered the concept of the personal computer and of navigating them by clicking onscreen images with a mouse. In more recent years, he introduced the iPod portable music player, the iPhone and the iPad tablet — all of which changed how we consume content in the digital age.
With the risk of trivializing a human life into a mere atrological data point, Mr Jobs was one Pisces who stood above the rest. As we as a world and as a species move closer to the Age of Aquarius. An age where men and women of all races are predicted to be on a much more equal footing with each other, Steve Jobs shouldered a lot of that effort over the last 30 years.
2011: Year of the Rabbit according to Suzanne White
In Rabbit years, life slows down. After the tumultuous and difficult Tiger year we lived through (or didn’t) in 2010, we all need to decelerate. Nature must have planned it. Give people a horrible Tiger year, full of war and pestilence, struggle, strife and illness. Then tender them a whole year to recover.
So let’s think of the Metal Rabbit Year as a 12 month long convalescent home for us troubled soldiers and hopeless cases. A recovery sanatorium for the unemployed and the over extended. Enter this Rabbit year on crutches and you will be comforted and cajoled, fed and clothed and perhaps even given a smashing new job.
Rabbits, you may remember, are sometimes called Cats. It depends on the culture. Vietnamese and some other small Asian countries use the Cat symbol. China uses Rabbit.
Whichever name you give to this peculiarly refined and prosperous sign, people born in Rabbit years are : discreet, virtuous, sociable, tactful, sensitive, companionable, solicitous, ambitious, prudent, tradition-bound and hospitable.
The bad news is that Rabbit people are also quite old-fashioned, a bit pedantic, thin-skinned, devious, aloof, secretive, squeamish and ever so hypochondriacal.
For more of Suzanne White’s article check out: http://astrology.about.com/od/suzannewhite/a/2011-Year-Of-The-Rabbit.htm
Cats, Rabbits, or Hares: Oh My!
Occupying the 4th position in the Chinese Zodiac, the Rabbit symbolizes such character traits as creativity, compassion, and sensitivity. Rabbits are friendly, outgoing and prefer the company of others. They also prefer to avoid conflict. In confrontational situations, Rabbits approach calmly and with consideration for the other party. Rabbits believe strongly in friends and family and lacking such bonds can lead to emotional issues.
Their serene nature keeps Rabbits from becoming visibly upset. Because they’re serene animals, Rabbits are easily taken advantage of. Their sensitive nature makes them shy away from aggressive or competitive situations. They’re overall conservative and not interested in taking risks.
Classy, sophisticated, expressive, well-mannered and stylish, those born under the Sign of the Rabbit enjoy leaning about cultural issues and learning about people from other countries. Rabbits are most comfortable being home, and their homes are always neat and organized. Home is also where Rabbits prefer to entertain. Rabbits are conservative in their decorating tastes.
For more check out chinesezodiac.com: http://www.chinesezodiac.com/rabbit.php
E Wurtzel on B Springsteen: Bruce Almighty
When I was 12 years old, for my birthday my dad gave me an Ibanez six-string acoustic guitar, and my mom bought me guitar lessons at the local YMCA. In a short time, I knew a G7 from a C minor chord, I could pluck out an arpeggio and strum a syncopated rhythm. But it was plain enough: this was not where my talent lay. I would never grow up and be a rock star like my idol, Bruce Springsteen. But soon enough I had another plan: in Blinded By the Light, the whiplash of a lyrical Möbius strip that opened Bruce’s debut album he makes mention of “some hazard from Harvard”. This meant the Boss had heard of that university, which gave me a new goal: I would get good grades in high school and go to Harvard, so at least I would be at a college that Springsteen was aware of. That’s how much I loved Bruce Springsteen. Anything I did was good enough, so long as I could at least peripherally link it to him.
That is the personal history of this particular fan, and somewhere else there is someone labouring for the Johnstown Company because it was mentioned in The River, there is someone with a daughter named Wendy because she is the heroine of Born to Run, there is someone who works down at the carwash (where all it ever does is rain) because that’s what the protagonist does in Downbound Train. There is also a girl who comes back whose name is Kitty, a girl who comes out tonight whose name is Rosalita, a girl whose dress waves whose name is Mary. And, hopefully, at the end of every hard-earned day, somewhere someone has found a reason to believe, like all the people do in, yes, Reason to Believe.
My first encounter with Bruce Springsteen, at age 11, was at the 1978 No Nukes concert at Madison Square Garden, when Bruce debuted The River. He introduced this sombre song simply by saying: “This is new.” The room got real quiet, and in it he told a terribly sad story of a young couple in love for whom everything just goes wrong: unwed pregnancy, shotgun marriage at 19, unemployment, a collapse in the economy, poverty, until finally both are just dead inside. But no matter how bad things are, the song’s narrator and his girl can always take a break and go swimming in the river, the sweet sea of love, the refreshing well of life – throughout this misery, the chorus offers continual consolation in an otherwise continuously dismal dirge. But by the end of the song, even that’s gone: the river has dried up. But the singer doesn’t care: “Now those memories come back to haunt me / they haunt me like a curse / Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true / Or is it something worse / that sends me down to the river / though I know the river is dry / That sends me down to the river tonight.”
For more the rest of Elizabeth’s article in the The Guardian, go to:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/jun/22/popandrock.culture4
E Wurtzel on B Springsteen: Married in the USA
BY NOW, no doubt, all of the five million or so people who wanted to buy Bruce Springsteen’s new album, Tunnel of Love, have already done so and formulated their own opinions about it. I don’t need to add mine, especially since anything I could say about this lush, polished and beautiful album would only add to the mania. I don’t want to encourage a new plucking of parvenus to roll onto the Springsteen juggernaut, a movement that in the last few years has already picked up every eight-year-old and his grandmother.
But, to be fair, I will say that this album is good–real good. Even great. Great in a peaceful, easy way. Not in the blockbuster, gangbuster, rootin’-tootin’, anthemic terms of Born In The U.S.A, terms that defy even the terms that I’ve just used. That album was larger than life, larger than Springsteen, and therefore it made Springsteen larger than himself.
If anyone doubted that the Bruce icon had become more puffed up than the well-muscled man behind it, they need only have recalled the comic-relief point of the 1984 presidential campaign when Walter Mondale and Ronald Reagan quibbled over which side of the ballot the Boss was on. (Springsteen, to his credit, refused to comment). And when the message of the title song got jumbled from vehement Vietnam-vet outrage to raucous jingoism, it was clear that enough was enough.
And it was clear that Bruce had to tone down the hysteria with his next step. He needed to release an album that was more absurdly anti-commercial than Nebraska to alienate some of the excess audience.
But that’s not what happened. What happened was Live 1975-85, last year’s most given Christmas album. I don’t own a copy of the collection because it makes me sick to think that Columbia has the audacity to release a five-record set of live material that any true fan already owned on bootleg. But clearly, good taste was not the point. The project was so profitable that it merited an article in Time Magazine’s Economy and Business section.
For More of the article check Wurtzel in Full at The Harvard Crimson:
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1987/10/13/married-in-the-usa-pbbby-now/
314 March 14 Albert Einstein
The German-American physicist Albert Einstein, born in Ulm, Germany, March 14, 1879, and died in Princeton, New Jersey USA, April 18, 1955, contributed more to the 20th-century vision of physical reality than any other scientist. In the wake of World War I, Einstein’s theories – especially his theory of relativity – seemed to many people a strain of human thought so far removed from how most people saw the physical world. Eistein received tremendous public attention for cultivating a methodology of thinking like no one before him. pure learning.
With the rise of nazism in Germany, Einstein moved to the United States in 1933 and abandoned his pacifism. He reluctantly agreed that the new menace had to be arrested with whatever means necessary. In this context, Einstein sent a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt that urged that the United States proceed to develop an atomic bomb before Germany did. The letter, composed by Einstein’s friend Leo Szilard, was one of many exchanged between the White House and Einstein, and it contributed to Roosevelt’s decision to fund what became the ‘Manhattan Project.’
Albert Einstein had four planets in Pisces: Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn; which may explain his great need to need to discover a spiritual connection between science and spirituality.
Einstein was also dyslexic. Pisces in Mercury can cause problems with communication. He only began to speak at the age of three and had issues with speech all through school. Saturn placed with this mix gives him a general distaste for speaking out loud. I want to know Gods thoughts. All the rest are details.
The combination of both Saturn and mercury in Pisces may have contributed to his ofthen dishevelved and unkempt appearance.
The fact that JUPITER was in AQUARIUS when he was born may have contributed to his unconventional way of thinking.
Einstein was aware of astrology and it is reported that he supported it.
”Astrology is a science in itself and contains an illuminating body of knowledge. It taught me many things, and I am greatly indebted to it. Geophysical evidence reveals the power of the stars and the planets in relation to the terrestrial. In turn, astrology reinforces the power to some extent. This is why astrology is a life-giving elixir to mankind.” A. Enistein
EINSTEIN on religion and science:
Science without religion is lame, religion, without science is blind. A Eisntein.
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