Entertainment | 01/20/2009 1:00 pm

Peggy Rometo: The Universe Says Hold It!

wOw’s Intuitive says now may not be the best time to forge ahead. Here’s why …

By Peggy Rometo

We heard Mercury was in retrograde and asked wOw’s intuitive, Peggy Rometo, what cautions we should take …

Mercury in retrograde started January 11 and will move forward January 31/February 1, but the effects can be felt a day or so past that date. So, optimally, you wouldn’t start to launch new projects or ideas until February 4 to be safe.

So why should we care? We should take retrogrades as an opportunity to slow down, to reflect, regroup, rethink, rewind or redo things. This is a time where we should not launch or start new projects, but rather go back and see what adjustments are needed — if any. Mercury’s energy also wreaks havoc with communication. Not only person to person, but with anything electronic. Before you throw out your cell phone, computer, television, refrigerator, etc., you may want to let this period of time pass. It could be a glitch in the system. Even if it is shot, you wouldn’t want to replace your electronic item until Mercury is moving forward again, or you’re apt to be setting yourself up for more electrical challenges.

It’s also best not to enter into any new partnerships or sign any contracts during this time. Because of Mercury’s pull influencing the communication aspect, there are likely to be errors or unneeded challenges in new endeavors. In addition, many things fall apart during this time. Many can be regrouped and reoriented for the better once Mercury moves forward on February 1. So be kind to your friends who have misunderstood what you said or vice versa, and no, not everyone is out to get you, not even your alarm clock.

You can choose to ignore this or not believe it; however, it is like gravity and affects you whether you are paying attention or not! Take a cue from the Universe: Slow down, pour yourself your favorite beverage, look at the past three months of life and make adjustments where necessary. It’s that easy. Enjoy.

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No, this is simply nonsense and nothing like gravity. Gravity is measurable and repeated experiments will yield the same results. Astrology does not do the same.

By R.J.B. Reed on 01/20/2009 1:18 pm

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RJB: Mercury going retrograde has been happening repeatedly and measurably since the ancients first glanced skyward.

By iris odonata on 01/20/2009 1:27 pm

Going “retrograde” wasn’t the part I had a problem with. That is simply a matter of celestial mechanics and certainly isn’t nonsense. What is nonsense is that the motion of a planet relative to that of the earth and sun has any effect on the way people operate.

By R.J.B. Reed on 01/20/2009 2:39 pm

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RJB: To further our understanding of each other’s perspective, a query. Do you agree that the moon has an effect upon the tides? If so, please remember that Einstein said it was all relative. Consider it “the butterfly effect.” Besides, if an astrological interpretation of life inspires someone to reach for the highest and best within themselves, would you deny them that?

By iris odonata on 01/20/2009 7:39 pm

Yes, the moon has a well understood and measurable affect on the tide due to the interaction of mass with gravitons. It does not have an effect on our emotions. Einstein’s use of the word “relative” has little to do with the way it is used in the common idiom. By relativity, he meant that space and time are not absolute, that they only have meaning when you look at two points relative to each other. I wouldn’t deny a person the right to follow any illogical and false thought pattern. It’s a free country. However, I feel that it is a shame that people follow things like astrology because it often inspries them to reach for the lowest and worst in themselves.

By R.J.B. Reed on 01/20/2009 11:06 pm

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P.S. love your ferret. What’s its name?

By iris odonata on 01/20/2009 7:40 pm

The ferret in my picture is named Xander.

By R.J.B. Reed on 01/20/2009 11:00 pm

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RJB: thanks for your intro to Xander “It does not have an effect on our emotions.” On what do you base your evidence? Isn’t this fun?

By iris odonata on 01/20/2009 11:40 pm

The experimental evidence that astrology is bunk is quite large. First of all, there are only four forces of any strength that govern the interactions between normal hadronic matter, which includes people and planets. These are the electromagnetic force, gravity, the strong force and the weak force. We can rule out the strong force as it only can affect things ~10^-15 m away. Planets don’t hold a charge, so they can’t effect us through the electric part of the EM force. They do have magnetic fields, but based on our measurements these fields do not affect us here on earth as their strength here is much much lower than all the noise put out by our electronics. The gravitational pull each planet exerts on us is both small and practically constant over the length of our bodies. Lastly, we get to the weak force. Certainly a weak interaction occuring between an atom in your body and a neutrino from the body in question could cause problems. Fortunately, the reactions don’t happen that often. Also, given that they hardly ever interact, the position of the emitting body relative to the earth is irrelevant, once again making astrology meaningless. Now, there certainly can be particles and forces that we haven’t measured. However the window for them to have a macroscopic and measurable effect on us and not be detectable in any other experiment is vanishingly small. In this case, I would say that an absence of evidence is evidence of absence.

By R.J.B. Reed on 01/21/2009 11:31 am

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RJB and Xander: Ah ha! Could you talk to me about the time dilation experiments done in the sixties? Have they been discounted? Reproduced? Has anything come of them? I’ve wondered about them all my adult life. I found a link (below). http://www.scivee.tv/node/2415 Time Dilation - An Experiment With Mu-Mesons

By rocky rocky on 01/23/2009 5:38 pm

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Sorry I took so long to answer!! In any case, this is still a valid experiment that indicates that Einstein was correct when he formulated that time slows down as you go further. In fact, this problem is one of the traditional ones given to second year undergraduate physics majors to solve. Mu-mesons are now called muons, and we know know that they are very much like massive electrons. They are also unstable. We know that they are formed in the upper atmosphere when cosmic rays strike atoms. We have also measured their lifetime to a extremely high degree of accuracy in our particle accelerators. If EInstein was wrong, we shouldn’t be able to detect any of these muons! But we do! Incidentally, one of the large experiments called CMS at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will measure the muons coming out of the collision to determine what went on!

By R.J.B. Reed on 01/27/2009 12:10 am

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OH! Now I’m interested in what the the LHC is doing, except of course whether or not it will end the world. Muons. Hmm. Thank you so much for giving me more to chew on, RJB. Do write often. Your fan, R.

By rocky rocky on 01/27/2009 9:50 am

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Don’t worry. Collisions at the energies that the LHC will reach happen between cosmic rays and particles in our atmosphere all the time. If they were capable of creating something that was world destroying, we wouldn’t be around to argue about it. Basically the press and some crack-pots took an unverified hypothesis to an absurd limit and ran with it. Obviously the press would rather publish a story saying, “OMG! The scientists will kill us all!” because it is emotionally and easy compared to publishing a story that explains what actually is being done.

By R.J.B. Reed on 01/27/2009 2:28 pm