'Natural disasters happen all the time. They are an expression of nature just like rain, hail and snow. But when the natural weather stirs itself to extremes and we are caught in a devastating wave of successive natural disasters, people die and it leaves us both reflective and compassionate. In the modern world, informed by the internet, these disasters seem to occur with vivid regularity. The recent 9.0 magnitude earthquake rocked the world and moved Japan's coast eight feet and shifted the Earth's axis by four inches!

'During the June – July 2011 period , Jupiter will play an important role in the sky. First of all it will be the only planet on a Fixed sign on the 21st of June and 2nd of July. With Mars moving to Gemini, there will no other planet – except Moon – that will be placed on Taurus, Leo, Scorpio or Aquarius signs.

The aspect will take place in July-August 2013 and then from December 2013 to May 2014. In August 2013 Mars conjoins Jupiter in Cancer forming an opposition to Pluto. The feature of Mars is to activate and to accelerate. This planet transits through Libra from 7.12.2013 to 25.7.2014 and turns retrograde from March to May 2014. The Jupiter-Pluto opposition is not exclusively correlated with financial matters.

On the outskirts of the European Union, Iceland was the first country to plunge into depression. Its financial crisis involved the collapse of all three of the country's major banks following their difficulties in refinancing their short-term debt. As a result, Iceland is currently undergoing a severe economic situation. Ireland followed entering into an economic recession in 2009. The Irish economy had expanded rapidly during the years up to 2007 due to low ECB interest rates among other causes.

The correlation of full moon with mental insanity is an ancient belief dating back to the formation of the word "lunacy" derived from the Latin word Luna who was the goddess of the Moon, the counterpart of Greek Selene. Nowadays, one of the oldest beliefs in folklore worldwide is that the full moon can turn a sane person into a madman. Perhaps because of the enormous amount of anecdotal evidence from people working in the emergency services, some scientific research has been conducted in this field - but the conclusions were mixed.

'Unlike Progressions, which compare a set of patterns in the sky during one's lifetime with the situations and issues present during a different period in the life, Directions produce patterns which never exist in the sky during one's life. But, they do provide useful information about the situations and issues during specific periods in the life. The technique of Directions turns the whole chart like a wheel, maintaining the natal angular distances between all the chart factors but adding the same set amount to each of the factors: planets, angles, etc.

I would like to add here a small story which goes like this: • A sculptor carved out a very beautiful and a lively sculpture. The King made a visit to the place and came across that sculpture. Impressed by the beauty and liveliness thereof, the King praised the sculptor and said, “ You have made a lively sculpture out of a dead stone”. The sculptor said, “I did not make anything, Sir. This beautiful and lively picture was already there in the stone.

'The essential thesis of this work is in three parts which are correlated in the following three paragraphs and in a concluding statement.

Becoming more of a risk taker in everything you do. Approaching life as an adventure. Approaching life as an explorer. Becoming the sage personified. Moving away from concerns about the day to day distractions of relationships. Becoming more concerned with broadening your outlook. Getting an opinion. Developing confidence in making your opinions known. Learning to put your own wisdom before the chitter chatter of other people. Developing a bigger personality. Laughing louder and harder.

This is a beautiful article written by Mr. B.K.Kumar. In this article, author has tried to elaborate the fundamental difference between astrology and modern science.