Sparking That Grid

Dear Friend and Reader: Tuesday morning, conveniently before work for anyone but the milkman in the Eastern and Pacific zones of the United States, is an event called Fire the Grid. It’s a kind of virtual worldwide meditation to heal the Earth. I’ve had quite a few requests to spread the word, and I’m sure one … Read more

Inner Space for July

Aries (March 20-April 19) Bear in mind what of your emotional landscape is the product of past influences and what is the product of current ones. They may be impossible to discern, so you may want to do one of those exercises where you walk around your house, pick up various objects and say, “This is … Read more

Of Miracle Manor, Flo Higgins and Mercury Retrograde

MY PLAN was for a book called The Starseed Transmissions to fall out of my bag during the job interview. The Starseed Transmissions is a book of channeled messages from an angel, intended to help humanity prepare for the future, that were put on paper by a then-builder named Ken Carey. The job I wanted was as a newspaper … Read more

World AIDS Day :Pass the 7-UP

By Eric Francis TWENTY-FIVE years ago, when I was a high school senior, I was sitting in my room and my mother walked in with a newspaper clipping from The New York Times about a new disease called GRID. This was, I read in our family’s newspaper of record, a disease that was impacting the gay male … Read more

Horoscopes: The Cosmic Voice of Reason

I believe in the future, I may live in my car My radio tuned to the voice of a star — Paul Simon SINCE IT’S POSSIBLE for horoscope columns to be effective without astrology itself working, we can look a little deeper into what makes this so. I suggest we don’t need to look too … Read more