The female passenger was taken to Royal Jubilee Hospital under the Mental Health Act, and it is likely charges, such as driving without due care and attention, will be laid against the man, Rice said.
The Mental Health Act? For having sex in a car? Either this article is missing some details or wow.
from http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=21a94312-6d66-4d97-a356-2870439ae258&k=36410
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2.) from the Times Colonist website, an ad from Google:
Bear Mountain Resort
Luxury Fractional Ownership
36 Holes of Nicklaus Designed Golf
www.BearMountain.ca
and another treesit article:
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=8d4b3d13-3cd8-45e4-894a-9c6708349f8f&k=77141
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4.) From Sagittarius to Capricorn (for Kerria):
This constellation is one of the oldest to have been identified, possibly the oldest, despite its dimness. Since it falls in an area of the sky known as the sea, it became considered a sea-goat (in the same sense as a sea-maiden). Depictions of a goat or goat-fish have been found on Babylonian tablets dating back three thousand years. The constellation may owe its antiquity to the fact that at that time, the northern hemisphere's Winter Solstice occurred while the sun was in Capricorn. The concern for the sun's rebirth might have rendered astronomical and astrological observation of this region of space very important.
For the same reason, the sun's most southerly position, which is attained at the northern hemisphere's winter solstice, is now called the Tropic of Capricorn, a term which also applies to the line on earth where the sun is directly overhead at noon on that solstice.
Due to early Greek beliefs that sin accumulated throughout the year, causing the darkness to increase, together with the sun's descent and pause at the Solstice, the ancient Greeks referred to this area of sky as the Augean Stable, where they considered the sun stabled during the year. The cause of the association with the location or name of Augeas is not currently known. Perhaps an association could be made with the Labours of Hercules (or Heracles) who had to clean out the Augean Stables which had never been cleaned out before. The gradually accumulated dung could be synonymous with the gradually accumulated sins. However, during the classical period of Greek history, this name gradually fell out of use.
The constellation of Aquarius, who was said to have poured out a river, then represent the yearly cleaning rains, associating to one of The Twelve Labours of Hercules.
Due to the precession of the equinoxes, the December solstice no longer takes place while the sun is in Capricorn, but the astrological period called Capricorn begins at approximately the same time as the solstice.
Capricorn has been variously associated with the Augean Stable mentioned above, Amalthea (a goat that suckled the infant Zeus once saved by his mother Rhea from his father Cronos), or Pan when he dove into the Nile to escape the monster Typhon (and the part underwater morphed into a fish-like creature).
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capricornus
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5.) and from Capricorn to Aquarius (for Fiona):
The best-known myth identifies Aquarius with Ganymede, a beautiful youth with whom Zeus fell in love, and whom he (in the disguise of an eagle, represented as the constellation Aquila) carried off to Olympus to be cup bearer to the gods.
Aquarius generally resembles the figure of a man, and when considering fainter humanly visible stars, it takes on the image of a man with a bucket from which is pouring a stream. Aquarius was also identified as the pourer of the waters which flooded the earth in the Great Flood, in the ancient Greek version of the myth. As such, the constellation Eridanus was sometimes identified as being a river poured out by Aquarius.
It may also, together with the constellation Pegasus, be part of the origin of the myth of the Mares of Diomedes, which forms one of The Twelve Labours of Heracles. Its association with pouring out rivers, and the nearby constellation of Capricornus, may be the source of the myth of the Augean stable, which forms another of the labours.
The corresponding month in the Babylonian calendar is Arax Šabaṭu, "the destroying month", also called arax arrat zunne, "month of the curse of rains", associated with the Great Flood. It is dedicated to Ramman, the storm god.
We're in the Age of Aquarius according to New Age mythology. (or are we? see below: #7)
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquarius_%28constellation%29#Mythology
alternate way to connect the stars of Aquarius
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6.) The Sea in astrology, which I've come upon several times, is an area in which various water-related constellations appear.
* Aquarius the Water-bearer
* Capricornus the Sea-goat
* Cetus the Whale
* Delphinus the Dolphin
* Eridanus the Great River
* Hydra the Water serpent
* Pisces the Fishes
* Piscis Austrinus, the Southern Fish (not named by Ptolemy)
Sometimes included are the Argo Ship and Crater the Water Cup.
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_%28astronomy%29
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7.) The Age of Aquarius is one of the Astrological Ages. How you map it out affects where we are in the great cycles. Briefly (as this seems to be a hole you would forever disappear into), an astrological age roughly corresponds to the time taken for the vernal equinox to move from one of the twelve constellations of the zodiac into the next one.
The Ages in astrology, however, do not correspond directly to actual constellation boundaries where the vernal equinox may be occurring in a given time.
In astrology, each age is led by the Zodiacal sign of the constellation in which the Sun actually appears at the vernal equinox in northern hemisphere. Nevertheless, as it is described above, this may not correspond to the actual constellation in the sky, since each age has a fixed 30-degree length and the constellations have variable lengths. The changes upon Earth are caused and marked by the influences of the given astrological sign, related to the northern hemisphere. However, the Age's influences are also complemented by the sign in which the autumnal equinox occurs (the autumnal equinox occurs in the southern hemisphere at the same time that the vernal equinox is occurring in the northern hemisphere). For example, the Age of Pisces (the Fish), vernal equinox, is complemented by the astrological sign of Virgo (the Virgin), autumnal equinox; for this reason the current Piscean age is called in astrology the "Age of Pisces-Virgo."
Since each sign of the zodiac subtends (on average) 30 degrees, each astrological age might be thought to last about 72 × 30 = about 2150, 2156 or 2160 years (the most common ones). This means the Sun crosses the equator at the vernal equinox moving backwards against the fixed stars from one year to the next at the rate of one degree in seventy-two years, one constellation in about 2156 years, and the whole twelve signs in about 25 800, 25 868 or 25 920 years (the most commonly-adopted periods), sometimes called a Great Sidereal Year. The length of the ages are decreasing with time as the rate of precession is increasing. Therefore no two ages are of equal length.
The Age of Pisces is the current Great Month, and will remain so for approximately another 600 years. At that time, the vernal equinox point will no longer be facing Pisces, but both the Zodical sign of Aquarius and the constellation of Aquarius, thus beginning the Age of Aquarius.
(note that the Astrological Ages or Great Months, as they're called, move backwards through the zodiac. also note that we aren't in the Age of Aquarius yet, according to this article; see here.)
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Aquarius
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