April 15, 2013 & Updated April 17 & 19, & 25 (including apprehension of Suspect #2): The ongoing tragedy of today's Boston Marathon bombings is covered in this story -- written the night of the disaster. Two charts (now 6 by April 19 & 25!) are presented -- one for the exact time today (April 15, 2013 at 2:50PM EDT in Boston, MA) when the explosions occurred, and the other for the World Trade Center first plane crash (September 11, 2001 at 8:47AM EDT, New York, NY) which began a series of catastrophes taking place over the next couple of hours thereafter. Other historical factors, current transits and a key progression are discussed. This feature will be updated in the near future. -- Mark Lerner, Publisher

A New Pope is elected at approximately 7:06PM CET in Rome, Italy today (March 13, 2013) with Libra Rising, the Moon in Aries (sign of leadership) approaching Pallas (the asteroid of genius), and with an enormous cluster of celestial bodies setting in the west (signifying the need to reach out to large numbers of people). This is the first Jesuit and Latin American Pope ever; and the first non-European Pope since the 700s. Learn more about his astrological birth chart in this short feature.

Charts are included for the Oath of Office of President Obama for 2013 and 2009, as well as those for President Lincoln in 1861 and 1865. A key theme over the next 4 years will be the safety and security of the nation -- due to cyber-attacks on our web-online grid system as well as possibly to our power base (governmental; banking; electrical; air & water; nuclear). The reason? The transiting Moon at 19+ degrees of Taurus during the new Oath of Office is exactly uniting with America's Vesta from our birth as a nation on July 4, 1776.

A fiery Meteor streaks through the sky in a Russian town (Chelyabinsk) this morning (Friday Feb. 15, 2013), East of the Urals, and hundreds of people are hurt by flying glass, eye problems, and the shock-explosion of this flaming intruder from the heavens...Updates via the AP -- quoting a NASA source -- suggest the meteor weighed up to 7,000 tons (much greater than at first realized) and that it exploded in the skies above Chelyabinsk with the explosive force of 20 Atomic bombs...

Dateline: Friday Dec. 14, 2012...Just one day after a Sagittarius New Moon energizing 22 degrees of this sign (exactly opposite America's Mars and square America's Neptune from July 4, 1776), we have another terrible tragedy where a lone, young gunmen has killed 20 elementary school children and at least 7 adults in Newtown, Connecticut. The story is here as well as a chart for the time of the shootings. More will be shared in the days ahead as the facts are collected and reported. Update at 3:16PM PST on the day of the shootings...Second Update Early Sunday Dec. 16: Solar Chart for Adam Lanza included.

Here are my presidential election projections and forecast (along with a new Update on the day after the election) -- considered over many months and written the night before the election, but based on 52 years of viewing presidential elections (since the neck-and-neck, photo-finish of JFK versus VP Richard Nixon in November 1960).

Many astrology cycles and alignments contributed to the large number of attacks on embassies and consulates -- starting on the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror events in America. What seemed originally to be outrage over a video disparaging the Prophet Mohammed, then turned into a rash of rabble-rousing by al-Qaeda fanatics intent on stirring up anti-American hated as well as animosity toward recently elected and installed "moderate" leaders in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and elsewhere in the Islamic realm. The furor is not likely to dissipate quickly.

Pre-Election Superstorm shocks the East Coast and Mid-Atlantic States as the Scorpio-Taurus Full Moon -- intensified by Mars opposite Jupiter on the USA Mars/Uranus explosive midpoint -- brings flooding, high winds, power outages and transporation-communication nightmares a week before the November 6, 2012 presidential election (on the day that Mercury goes into reverse for 20 days).

Updated with exact time of Paul Ryan! This morning (Saturday August 11) -- while the London Olympics are still happening, the USA PGA Golf tournament is a major sports event, and the pre-season of the NFL kicks off -- former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is announcing his selection of Congressman Paul Ryan (from Wisconsin) as his running mate. There is a lot of good astrological energy today -- with the Moon in Gemini uniting with Vesta, and Jupiter, and both of these celestial bodies forming a conjunction late tonight. So, it looks like a confident sounding Mitt Romney is going to gain some well-needed momentum with this conservative and yet sensible pick.

Sunday August 5, 2012 begins with another act of domestic terrorism -- 7 dead (including the lone gunman) at a Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin -- and ends with the Mars Rover named "Curiosity" making an historic landing in a crater near the equatorial region of the red planet. Curiosity could survive for many years & contains highly sophisticated cameras and the most advanced scientific equipment to probe for water and signs of life. Charts and maps are included...Many Blessings, Mark Lerner

Updated Early on August 4: I wasn't planning on writing this article, but something remarkable occurred at the London Olympics today (August 2) -- just after a potent Full Moon yesterday. Gabby (the "Flying Squirrel") Douglas won the individual all-around women's gold medal in gymnastics while Kayla Harrison won the women's judo gold medal. Both were history-making feats by these formally almost unknown athletes. You may find this short feature just what you need to get away from the recent tragic shootings in Aurora, Colorado. Many Blessings, Mark Lerner - Publisher

A mass shooting took place early this morning in Aurora, Colorado at a Century 16 theater complex. At least 12 people are dead, and dozens have been wounded. All week long in the elaborate Extended Daily Cosmic Kalendar (only available by paid subscription & always running several weeks into the future), I have been advising readers about the red planet Mars being on a rampage. View this story to see a chart of this week's New Moon & more. Breaking News on July 27 reports that the suspect had been seeing a psychiatrist.

Subscribers and New Readers! This short feature gives you a brief introduction to our first redesign in 8 years (since Earth Aquarius News began on the web in 2004). Please take the time to check out this vital information. Plus -- some additional information appears about the July 12 Breaking News about the possible Yahoo breach of 453,000 passwords & emails, and the Discovery of a 5th Moon orbiting Pluto... Thank You...Mark

2012 is one of the strangest years in a long time. Did you know that giant Jupiter has a remarkable 83-year cycle that I first discovered back in the 1990s where it every 83 years this planet is exactly back to where it was 83 years before? Thus, on every day in 2012, Jupiter -- almost to the minute of arc in Taurus and now Gemini -- is back to where it was in 1929, the year of the Great Stock Market Crash of Oct. 24 & 29, 1929. Learn more about this rare phenomenon and 9 other key Astro-Events of this year in the following feature.

Thousands of Dolphins, Porpoises and now Pelicans are dying off the Northwest Coast of Peru. Some organizations in the USA and in South America believe the governmental authorities in Peru are covering up malfeasance by oil drilling companies using powerful sonar and explosive techniques to find deep-sea reserves of oil -- and, in the process, forcing many sea creatures and sea-dwelling birds to leave their usual habitats, and becoming severely disoriented to the point of death. This article explores the background and possible cover-up.

NASA reports that the highly successful DAWN space mission to Vesta has shifted gears as of Sept. 4 - 5 as the craft has successfully escaped Vesta's gravitational field as it is re-routed to the largest asteroid Ceres, for an early 2015 visit. This will occur during the same year that the New Horizons NASA mission to Pluto and its several moons will be happening.

Update July 14, 2012: An X1.4-class Solar Flare erupted on July 12 (shortly before our redesign launch) and the CME plasma wave is striking our Earth's atmosphere as I write this. Our solar observing experts anticipate moderate affects over this weekend -- affecting GPS, radio communications and some power grids. Are you aware that we are nearing a Sunspot Maximum in the next 2 years? What about the significance of Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs)? This article introduces you to the subject in a big, fiery and possibly alarming way.

Updated -- April 30, 2013: I have started an experimental magazine entitled West Coast Bias Sports. It is officially located within a fascinating new App that you can download for free. It is called Flipboard, and when you go there and put my name into their Search area, a couple of my magazines will come up. This is the first that has major content -- including the introductory article here within Earth Aquarius News. Sports and astrology have a gigantic connection, and it would take me an entire book project to explain how it all works, and my own personal interest in this cosmic association between the celestial bodies and earthly athletics. Enjoy this story for now. Many Blessings, Mark Lerner April 7, 2013

The third perfect game of 2012 has just occurred -- today, August 15 -- at Safeco Field in Seattle. The pitcher? The American League CY Young award-winner from 2010 -- Felix Hernandez. The 26-year-old was superlative in throwing a 1 - 0 shutout and "perfecto" against the Tampa Bay Rays. I had reported that today had Venus opposite Pluto as well as square to Uranus in the sky -- not to mention an intense and troubling Mars-Saturn union. However, that worked totally against the Rays and for Hernandez and his teammates, but the question is: Why? This little feature gives you that "Why"...

One of the great pitchers of the National League throws the first Perfect Game (June 13 in San Francisco) in the history of the SF Giants & NY Giants (going all the way back to 1883).

July 12 Special: With Gold at $1568 an ounce (as we go to online press today) and Silver at $27.21 an ounce -- both prices quite a bit lower than previous, recent highs of around $1921 an ounce for Gold (Sept. 2011) and $47 an ounce for Silver (2011) -- the question for people looking into investments is whether these precious metals (alias commodities to some and currencies to others) will start rising again considerably in the near future. Some of the past and a glimpse into the future are presented in this current feature. Enjoy! Mark Lerner - Publisher

Venus can be either a "morning star" -- rising before the Sun each day -- or an "evening star," setting after the Sun. When rising before the Sun, Venus acts bullish -- especially for investors. When Venus sets after the Sun, Venus acts bearish, for these same investors. Mercury works likewise, but with traders -- who are more volatile in their approach and attitudes about economic activities. Read this feature for some rare insights.

The entertainment community worldwide is in shock as word spreads about today's suicide by one of the great directors of our time -- Tony Scott. His birthday is in dispute (see this story), but the approximate time of his passing is known. Read this short feature and email me at MARKL@MARKLERNERASTROLOGY.COM with any views or opinions....

Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Laudner -- superstars of the five-fold Twilight films -- are making megabucks now, earning a minimum of $12 million a film for the second and third movies in the series, and undoubtedly much more in the last two Breaking Dawn films. This is a double-feature that will open your eyes to many unusual facets about our global culture in the 21st century.

On the eve before our redesign launch (July 11), a prominent Cable News show reported about Invasion of Privacy -- that wireless telephone companies, via GPS tracking, are constantly aware of where we are moving, going and visiting, minute by minute. In addition, if police officials want that information (for any reason!) and request it from the wireless telephone company (i.e. Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, At&T, etc), these companies simply hand over the information -- no need for a warrant or actual police surveillance, just a request to the wireless company who are too afraid not to give up the GPS information that -- perhaps -- is wrong for them to have in the first place! Read this important story about your safety and security on the web, but now extend this to your cell phone, too.

Zane Stein, an expert on Chiron and what are called the Centaur celestial bodies in our solar system, sent in this great feature on Damocles many years ago. I started re-reading it tonight as we are about to launch our EAN redesign and, for whatever reason, this special story keeps resurfacing as if it needs to see the light of day. So, put on your cosmic seat belts and get ready for a unique ride into mythology, psychology and Centaur-oriented astrology -- as only Zane Stein can tell it...

Look back to what I wrote many years before the 2008 election day and inauguration of the president in January 2009 in this rare Future Shock story. Now consider that Barack Obama was elected on the day of the first of 5 Saturn-Uranus oppositions (Nov. 4, 2008) and his 4-year Term of Office as President (beginning during an intense, Scorpio Moon void-of-course uncertainty cycle) has been marred by all kinds of rare accusations and bizarre situations -- that he wasn't born in America and the recent constitutional quagmire and contention over the legality of "Obamacare."

Updated Early on August 4: I wasn't planning on writing this article, but something remarkable occurred at the London Olympics today (August 2) -- just after a potent Full Moon yesterday. Gabby (the "Flying Squirrel") Douglas won the individual all-around women's gold medal in gymnastics while Kayla Harrison won the women's judo gold medal. Both were history-making feats by these formally almost unknown athletes. You may find this short feature just what you need to get away from the recent tragic shootings in Aurora, Colorado. Many Blessings, Mark Lerner - Publisher

What you are going to read here will shock you -- as it did me. I wrote this article 10 years, 5 months, and 17 days ago. I created it on the very day we initiated the air war over Afghanistan. It is filled with dire warnings of the potentially destructive path this war will take -- that it might go on for at least 7 years and be a horrible financial drain on America