Friday July 26th 2002 - edited by Bernard Fitzwalter This week in Astro News: ~ Scorpio ~ ~ AstroDiary ~ ~ Astrology & Fertility - Can you help with some research? ~ It's holiday time... It's holiday time, and that means blue skies and blue waters. It also means sitting outside on the terrace having a late dinner, and walking along the beach afterwards under an inky sky studded with stars. It's very romantic – and it's also a perfect opportunity to see one of the most impressive signs of all: Scorpio. You can't see Scorpio properly from the UK, because we're too far north; but if you're holidaying in the Mediterranean, or better still in Florida or the Caribbean, then you can't miss it, and once you've seen it you'll remember it for ever. Any time during the next month or so will be fine. You need to face south after sundown when the stars are coming out, preferably looking out to sea so you get a low and level horizon. Just over the sea you'll see a definite T-shape, tilted to the right; if you follow the stem down away from the head you'll find it goes on a bit and then curls round to the left in a wonderful hook, like an upside down coat hanger. That's the sting. It's a real whopper of a constellation - much bigger than you expect. The red star behind the head is Antares, known to the Babylonians as the Watcher of the West, and important enough to the Greeks for several temples to be built aligned towards it. The star at the end of the sting is called Shaula; it sounds like it would make quite a nice name for a girl, but I'm not sure what it would do to her personality! Still, being called Sting never did a certain rock star any harm, did it? It seems I was right about last week's fine weather as the Sun and Jupiter conjoined. Unfortunately, such aspects don't last. During the coming week there are no fewer than seven separate contacts between Neptune and the other planets – sometimes two or three on a single day. Neptune, of course, is the god of the sea. Get your wellies out. AstroDiary Tomorrow (July 27): Oast house Astrology 2002. Asteroids for All! 10am-4pm. Intermediate level. £75 (includes gourmet lunch). Discounts available. 01435 813479; or email paul@astrologywizard.com www.astrologywizard.com Sunday (28 July): London School of Astrology: Day at the Races with Sue Tompkins. Predicting horses at Ascot. Members' Enclosure: £21.00. Leaving central London 9.45am. Last race 5.45pm. Info: 07979 595900. Summer schools: Aug 5 – 9: Company of Astrologers. School of Acupuncture, 13 Mandela St, Camden, London NW1. Day: £32 (£28 Friends); Week: £120 (Friends only). Tarot (Aug 5); Surviving Outer Planet Transits (6th); Interpreting Progressions (7th); Relationships (8th); Horary (9th). Book: 01227 362427. Email: admin@coa.org.uk. Aug 16 – 23: Faculty of Astrological Studies, Annual Residential Summerschool. Brasenose College, Oxford. Email: summerschool@astrology.org.uk or visit www.astrology.org.uk. August 18: Healing Your Birth Story. One-day interactive workshop, £70 in advance. Grove Neighbourhood Centre, 7 Bradmore Park Rd, London W6 0DT. Book: 020 8741 4770. Info at: www.healingstars.co.uk. Please double-check with the organisation before attending any events listed here - we cannot accept any responsibility for events changed/cancelled. Are you holding an astrological event - especially one outside London!! - that you would like others to know about? Write to jon@cainer.com with subject heading: Astro Events with website links. Please note - we cannot promise to include ALL submissions but will do our best. Research into Astrology and Infertility by Pat Harris, MSc., D.F.Astrol.S. I would like to thank everyone who has responded to my earlier notices on Jonathan's website and who volunteered to take part in the research that I am conducting as part of my PhD in astrology and health psychology at Southampton University, UK. I now have quite a number of people taking part which will help me in conducting my study into factors that may or may not correlate with fertility treatment outcome. I should have a progress report out soon. However, I am still looking for women who are currently pregnant - not necessarily as a result of fertility treatment - and who would like to contact me about details of my research to see if they would like to take part. My email address is: pharris@interalpha.co.uk New Service is Top for the Charts The Astrological Association of Great Britain is proud to announce that you can now speak LIVE to an expert astrologer. 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"I rang last Tuesday and spoke to an astrologer called Maria. Within moments, she was telling me details about my childhood that she could not possibly have known... then she said some fascinating things about my future. If you missed any of Friday's Astronews articles, click on the Archive Thought for the Day link in the left hand frame.