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Me and Chicken Little; We Got Issues.
By Lasha Seniuk
August 20, 2009

'Trust in God, but tie up your camels'

---Arabic Proverb

It's not often that I make catastrophic predictions. However, this week after comparing star charts, calculating the cosmos with my trusted Ephemerides and studying the movement of the heavens, I'm afraid I have no choice.

Between the dates of August 20th and September 4th the planets are aligned for an unusual series of world events. Astrologically, it's unmistakable: Uranus, Mars, Jupiter, Neptune and the Sun will, before mid-September, orbit in precise aspects to one another. Squares, trines, oppositions and conjunctions: all will be in operation as these heavenly bodies orbit in their exotic cosmic dance. The result? Solar flares, seismic activity along coastal areas, disrupted communication systems and devastating technological failures in both air travel and sea equipment may all be on the agenda. The most likely days for these events are August 21, 22, 26, 29, September 2, 4 and 5.

I know, I know…all of this sound so, well…so 'Color-Coded Advisory', so 'Steve Quayle'. But, you know, the heavens never lie: it has always been my experience that when these kinds of star alignments take place strange things happen. Similar alignments were in operation during the Thailand Tsunami of 2004, the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 and again in the 1989 earthquake, as well as the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster of 2003; to name but a few.

So then, what are we to do?

It has also always been my experience that the universe provides it's own answer. Where there is disaster, there is a reason for it and, in the aftermath, always there is a healing process that creates a stronger whole.

As a child, I once became terribly frightened by a thunderstorm. On a rainy afternoon, while walking home across the old soccer field, there was a sudden and menacing thunderclap. All at once the sky felt huge to me; absolutely towering and, at the same time, suffocating. I immediately began running, certain that the sky would crush me. The experience left me afraid of loud noises and, to some degree, open spaces. Over the years no amount of rational thought could lessen my fear, no amount of scientific understanding of natures elements would cure me.

Strangely enough, years later it was this same fear that kept me safe. While driving through the Rocky Mountains one rainy, summer evening I found myself in a nasty thunderstorm. Up ahead along the road was a choice: either drive through a long and narrow tunnel and continue down a route that would extend my trip by many hours or, alternately, opt for the open road through a cavernous valley.

My childhood fears won and I chose the less open route.

And as luck, or perhaps the universe, would have it I avoided a deadly natural event. I would have been on that exact stretch of road at precisely the moment that a thundering wall of mud and rock descended into the valley in a terrible landslide. Many people died that day but I was not one of them. Even more strangely, my fear of loud noises and open spaces left me that day and has never returned.

There is an old expression 'wherever God closes a door, he opens a window'; a sentiment which I believe is absolutely and unequivocally true. However, what the expression fails to tell you is that 'it's hell in the hallway'.

Hold your fear close to you but be prepared. That is what I have learned. Astrologically, in August and early September be ready for dramatic air traffic incidents and menacing sea or solar events. Trust, however, that the universe knows what it is doing; trust. Be prepared, but keep looking up.