Hello again everyone at Myss.com. I'm back with another topic for your consideration. I'd like to thank all of you for your feedback and for taking the time to read my last article, 'The Real Secret'.  Your response was phenomenal! If you missed that article please follow this link to Caroline's newsletter archive: http://www.myss.com/news/archive/2007/061907.asp.

I offer the following musings regarding constellations as being entities. No conclusions are offered, just some thoughts for consideration and lots and lots of questions.

What was the Star of Bethlehem ... and how did the 3 wise men know where to stop without GPS?

Breaking news on 09 October was that North Korea had detonated their first nuclear weapon underground. Since they were nice enough to publish the co-ordinates and the time the actual test happened, I thought it would be an interesting experiment to look at the event chart for the test.

Editor's Note: Way back when we were pondering the new format of Aspects and what we would endeavour to present to our readers, the Monthly Forum column came up as an idea - the main thrust of which was ‘a space where we can share and discuss interesting topical issues around Astrology with our readers, AND more importantly, a place where they can discuss these issues with us'.

Now, more than a year later, we are in the glorious position where we don't have to find these topical interest subject - you, our readers, are the ones supplying them! Monthly Forum has come into its own and we look forward to sharing even more interesting discussions with you in future issues.

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A fantastic two days of learning The Art of Horary was had by all at Muqita's recent workshop. We worked through a pile of examples and gained a lot of knowledge BUT I still have a provocative question about one department: STRICTURES OF JUDGEMENT - TO USE OR NOT TO USE?

If you've ever wanted an astrological conundrum to sink your teeth into, you'll have to go a long way to find something as mind-bending as this:

Is time of birth taken from the 'delivery' of the baby or from the cutting of the umbilical cord ('first breath')?

Editor’s Note : For those of us in the Southern Hemisphere, that would be the Winter Solstice. As always, we’d really enjoy hearing your perspectives and ideas. Please send your thoughts to .

My own take on the coming Summer Solstice event is more along the lines of presages for the coming 18-19 months (and beyond in some global areas) as we enter into the new lunar nodal "era" of the Dragon's Head in Pisces, and the Dragon's Tail in Virgo from 22 June 2006 to 18 December 2007.

Editor’s Note : Update on last month’s forum - We didn’t get much of a response from our astrologers out there on the misinformation that Ms Sarah Freder was spreading around the internet. As an interesting follow-up, Isabella wrote the following letter to Sara Freder, to test her response: