An interview, aired in two parts on Springfield's PM Magazine format show, Cable Connection, with astrologer Don Cerow, recorded the day after the tragic Space Shuttle Crash.
CC = Cable Connection's Greg Graff DC = Don Cerow
CC: By now, all of us are familiar with this tragic film clip. The Space Shuttle Challenger exploding and killing seven American astronauts as they reach towards the stars. But were the stars telling us not to go? With all of our interest in space, astronomy and futuristic technology, were we ignoring one of the oldest sciences known to Man: astrology? Don Cerow is a professional astrologer who hosts the Athena's Web segment of Cable Connection. Let's take a look back at Athena's Web for Monday, January 27th, and see what Don had to say about that fateful Tuesday morning.
"As far as tomorrow's activity is concerned, 9:00, 9:08 tomorrow morning, Mercury semisquares the planet Uranus so we're going to find that whatever was on our itinerary for tomorrow morning is changing to some degree. People are calling up and saying things differently. What they said before is not going to equal what they're saying tomorrow or what we're doing tomorrow. Mercury deals not only with communication but transportation, so getting out and being on the road, dealing with traffic can be quite crazy, scheduling with people, making arrangements, finding out that folks aren't there. Things happen: flat tires, all kinds of accidents and the unexpected; machinery malfunctions, stuff.... like... that... there."
The Challenger on her rendez-vous with destiny
CC: What did Don see in the celestial combinations that allowed him to make such an accurate forecast? We had a chance to talk to Don after the crash about what the astrologer saw for Tuesday morning.
DC: "The principal aspect that was going on Tuesday morning was a Mercurial semisquare to Uranus, forming a 45 degree angle (Mercury and Uranus as seen from the Earth); and, anytime these two come together in a hard combination (semisquare, square, sesquiquadrate, whatever...) it can indicate some sort of screw-up. Things are different, things change from what has been anticipated. Mercury represents our conscious mind- logic, communication, how we express (ourselves), what we write on paper, talking to people on the telephone, etc. Uranus semisquaring that says the unexpected occurs. Uranus is the planet of lightning, it's the unusual, the bizarre, the unexpected; so, in a hard aspect to Mercury, what you think is going to happen, what you anticipate, what you plan, what you try to get your logical mind to harness, changes somehow. Things just don't go as anticipated. They don't go as you planned. It's common, whether in video or in the newspaper, when I see that combination, to talk about machinery malfunctions because that's quite often one of the ways that it manifests itself."
CC: Don Cerow's Athena's Web segment Monday night was actually taped weeks ahead of time, so he had no idea the shuttle would be taking off Tuesday morning. Most of us can recall that there were several delays and postponements of the shuttle's scheduled lift-off time. Don feels that his forecast should have been very similar to the forecasts of other professional astrologers around the world.
DC: "The majority of them, the majority of them would back up what I was saying. The media seems to be sort of a simplification/filtration system. You have to gear down in order to translate astrological information for the masses. Again, that's something I've tried to get away from. I'm trying to take it a step higher, trying to throw out more information as people see it and become more used to seeing it, they'll understand more themselves. But absolutely, the majority of astrologers wouldn't have any squabble with that at all."
CC: Don did not come right out and say that the shuttle would explode in mid-air, but then he's not a crystal ball gazer. He's an astrologer, and his science is best used not to predict a specific event in the future, but rather to come up with the most common types of occurrences that will happen during a specific period.
DC: "That day stood out as probably the heaviest progression going on all year. As a matter of fact, I think it is the heaviest progression going on all year and this is the 28th of January, was the 28th of January, so it just happened to occur right at the beginning of the year. To me that says something very heavy is going on and then... astrology is a symbolic science. It throws certain symbols at you, it's sort of like a puzzle. You take those symbols and you try to balance them and figure out what the image is going to be, and in that there is some intuitive ability, obviously. But the mechanics of it, the alignment of the aspect is pure math. That's all it is. That's what yields the date."
CC: There is little doubt that Don hit the date right on the head. While Don Cerow was just as shocked by what happened as the rest of us, as an astrologer, he may not have been as surprised.
END OF FIRST INTERVIEW
HINDSIGHT DEPARTMENT
Part II of this series, shot as two seperate pieces, continues with Greg Graff's interview.
