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The decline of the US print media



The Virgin and the Crow


The demise of big city print media, displayed in full by the painfully slow sale of the mammoth New York Daily News, is going nationwide as ad sales decline 50 percent and circulation plummets, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis. According to their report, "The Declining Value Of U.S. Newspapers," just three different media companies in 2014 alone decided to dump more than 100 newspaper properties. Pew said the companies spun off the money-losing properties "in large part to protect their still-robust broadcast or digital divisions." May 24 http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/pew-companies-dumping-newspapers-50-ad-decline-circulation-plummeting/article/2564995










This blogpost will serve as an example of how an eclipse can create events long after it has gone. Shown here is the chart for the lunar eclipse of October 8, 2014 drawn for New York.  Notice that it is extremely significant for the place since it carries  a powerful T-square on the angles. Uranus-Pluto in the T-square is about the collapse of an old order. On the Ascendant [12li] with the Sun[15li] are the stars of Corvus, the Hydra and the Virgin.

Corvus is the Latin name for both the raven and the crow and these two birds are usually paired together in mythology. From the same family, their obvious intelligence and ingenuity, as well as their distinctive caw, has given them a widespread association with trickery, storytelling, the relaying of messages, and the serving of self-interest. But the colour of their plumage has also drawn a universal connection with malevolence, sinister forces, and ominous warnings. The stars of Corvus share this reputation and the classical myths that relate to the constellation speak of mistrust, shameful motives, insincerity, glorification in the misfortune of others, and the bearing of bad news [1].

The Crow  is a talking bird, and these are people in love with gossip, tidings, what’s happening, what’s new, what’s up – many journalists, newsmen and media people are born under these stars. The worst of them become greedy, scavenging and exploiting opportunists.  But also here are the stars of the Virgin which longs for “truth” and “purity”.  Few other skyscapes are so polarized between light and dark, clear air and suffocating darkness, with a tremendous conflict between the Virgin’s honest, upright will-to-do good and the Hydra’s dark lair of greed and arrogant self-interest [2].

It is easy to see from the foregoing that the Uranus-Pluto square in the eclipse chart is the reason behind the demise of the print media mentioned in the news. The transit of Pluto [15cp12] square the eclipse Sun [15li06] within just 6 arcminutes serves as the immediate trigger!


[2] Secrets of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg (v.2, p.78-80)

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