NEW DELHI, INDIA, June 18, 2006: Saturn will hug Mars on Sunday night in a celestial embrace astronomers term conjunction. While skywatchers prepare for a visual feast, astrologers are calling it a disastrous encounter. Soothsayers have warned that the conjunction is bound to upset the usual order of things. For instance, Brazil, scheduled to play against Australia in a FIFA World Cup tie at 9.30 pm, could be in for a surprise. (HPI note: From our quick google on this, Australia are a ten-to-one underdog against defending world champion Brazil, who are favored to win this year’s cup.) In fact, astrologer Bejan Daruwalla predicts the FIFA World Cup will have an “unusual” winner and the Rakhi Sawant case will further flare up. Saturn and Mars will come closest on Sunday night and appear to touch each other. “In reality, the two are millions of kilometres apart. But viewed from Earth, it will appear as if they are touching. They will be about half a degree away from each other, that is a little less than the width of a little finger held against the sky at an arm’s length,” says C. B. Devgan, of SPACE, an NGO.
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