Weekly Roundup

Astrology, Tarot, Numerology, oh my! Divination's been all over the news lately. Here's your weekly roundup:

Energized Reading, Thanks to Feng Shui
Over at the Forbes blog, a self-described skeptic of all things "new-agey" talks about the transformative powers of Feng Shui. Rich Rennicks -- who also calls himself a "book-hoarder" -- describes how de-cluttering his personal library has given him what he calls "a shift in how I think about my reading habits/preferences and a fresh understanding of how I’ve been choosing to use my free time."
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Business Change for the Better with Chinese Astrology
The Tea Party Bookshop in Salem, Oregon has been a fixture in the state's capital, but owner JoAnne Kohler has recently become frustrated with a mistaken association: that her New Age store was in any way connected to the relatively new, far more conservative Tea Party political movement. Kohler was searching for a name when a Buddhist monk reminded Kohler of her sign in Chinese Astrology, and advised that she live up to it. Hence Tigress Books will stand in place of the Tea Party Bookshop -- and Kohler assures that little will change ... aside from her shop's new motto, "Wildly independent!"
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An Astrological Study of Young Love
It's fitting that Astrology's love planet would, from an astronomer's point of view, be thought of as "one of the most inhospitable places in the solar system" -- after all, the planet of passion would, from a more figurative point of view, be hot to the touch! But a new study by the European Space Agency suggests that when Venus was young, it may have been able to nurture life. Again, we leave you to draw your own conclusions about how Astronomy and Astrology intersect...
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