Tuesday Letter, The Mountain Astrologer and Website Update

Dear Friend and Reader:

Moonshine Horoscope by Genevieve Hathaway will come out next week, closer to the New Moon. In more immediate astrology, the theme for the next few days is adjust your strategy. You may have had one plan on Friday when the work week ended just as the Full Moon was peaking. There may have been some kind of urgency, or at least a sense of priorities, though the astrology has moved significantly since last week.

Photo taken during Tree Love: The Heart of the Forest by Elisa Novick. Elisa is planning another day with the trees in the autumn. If you love trees and you're within, say, four hours driving distance of upstate New York, this will be worth the trip. Stay tuned for more info -- or visit Elisa's Thriving Planet website. Photo by Eric.

The adjustment may mean using certain elements of an older (perhaps discarded) plan, or doing a detailed review of just what you were thinking, and seeing how that relates to right now. Mercury in Virgo is saying use your intelligence, and stay up to date. Consider facts in the context of one another.

Also, in case you happen to be reading this relatively early Tuesday morning, the Moon will be void of course until 11:41 am EDT, which could mean a slow start to the day but really, some challenges getting focused; I suggest you wait until after lunch before starting anything new, or making any serious commitments.

Or, rather than wait, meditate on what you need to do and how you're going to get it done. Apply the concept of efficiency and remember some (or a lot) of what you think you have to do, you don't have to do.

Two in-house items before I leave you to your day. One is a reminder that I have a pretty darned large feature in The Mountain Astrologer's October/November edition, which is now out in digital format. TMA is the only actual astrology magazine in print in the United States. Many of us learned astrology reading TMA; it was one of the first resources I tapped into, and the magazine does a great job balancing excellent introductory materials with advanced stuff. My article in the new issue, however, is truly groundbreaking material. The minor planets are simply not part of mainstream astrology -- or rather, not until now.

Secretary Maple from Tree Love: The Heart of the Forest. The workshop returns to the Hudson Valley in the autumn. Photo by Eric.

In this article, I've provided a comprehensive introduction to the topic of the minor planets that I write about in Planet Waves. This verges on book-length (well, a very short book) though it has that feeling; I give the history of the minor planets starting from Ceres, discovered in 1801, through the discovery of Chiron in 1977 and the watershed of Eris and the reclassification of Pluto as a minor planet in 2006.

This article describes our age of discovery, though it's also a chronicle of the world itself, since the minor planets show up for some of the most profound turning points that we witness and experience.

Nothing like this has ever been written. It's actually an example of what modern astrology can be. If you'd like to read the piece, and also support my nascent career with The Mountain Astrologer, I invite you to sign up and/or get a single copy.

Second housekeeping item: thank you for your suggestions about how to design our new website, and a reminder that we will continue emailing all of our issues. I will do a more thorough report of that project in a letter devoted just to that topic, though we're moving along, gradually transferring content from the old archive, and we've begun the project of integrating our subscription and payment management system with the new website. I realize that other publications have done this, but nobody has designed a system that parallels the still-unparalleled Planet Waves. Therefore, it's up to us.

These projects are never easy, but we are determined to create a magnificent, easy-to-use website and pleasant reader experience. More on that soon.

Catch you with a modestly scaled regular edition on Friday.

Lovingly,