Dear Friend and Reader: ONE DAY last month, standing in a convenience store in northern Belgium, I decided to join the Nestlé boycott. I’ve always tried to avoid Nestlé products, but it’s difficult in Europe because they have such vast market share. I was standing in the store, wanting some chocolate, looking at a lot … Read more
Planet Waves Leo Birthdays for 2007 | By Eric Francis Additional information can be found in Parallel Worlds for Leo (the 2006 annual) and Spiral Door for Leo (the 2007 annual). Last year’s birthday reports are located in the archives of Planet Waves Weekly. The 2005 birthday reports are here. This article is applicable to Leo rising and Leo Moon. The themes … Read more
Dear Friend and Reader: A FEW years ago in a storm of indignant inspiration, I wrote a short piece called The Seven Definitions of Monogamy. The joke was basically this: the outer perception is that monogamy is one thing, one concept; in reality, everyone has a different definition, or lack thereof. The dictionary says it means … Read more
August Highlights Venus will be retrograde from July 27 through Sept. 8. The Aquarius Full Moon is July 30. The Leo New Moon is Aug. 13, conjunct Mercury and opposite Neptune [please note correction: prior editions said ‘opposite Saturn’, which is an error]. The Pisces Full Moon is Aug. 28, and a total lunar eclipse. August … Read more
Dear Friend and Reader: Where two signs meet is rich territory. Often it seems that the 12 meeting points of the signs are like another set of archetypes that we often hop over so we don’t break our mother’s back. Yet in those subtle spaces, we can slip between the worlds. They are the zones … Read more