Astrology and Incentive — Your July Stars

Dear Planet Waves Reader: Your July horoscope covers the exciting changes of the new season — both Mars and Jupiter change signs, which will create the effect of “the other 2014” — a new year within the current year. On Monday, Mercury stations direct, concluding more than six months of end-to-end inner planet retrogrades. As … Read more

Good As Gold

Dear Friend and Reader: July is the month when Jupiter changes signs to Leo. Jupiter takes about 12 years to go around the Sun, so it spends about a year in each sign. It’s been in Cancer since last summer, and quite a time it’s been. During this phase we’ve lived through some genuinely challenging … Read more

The Sun, Mercury, the Star and the Solstice

Dear Friend and Reader: On Saturday the Sun ingresses the sign Cancer, an energetic high point in what for many has been a challenging year. Before that happens, though, there’s an unusual event today. Mercury is currently retrograde, and at the midpoint of that process, Mercury, the Earth and the Sun line up — that … Read more

Night of the Centaurs

Dear Friend and Client: Our culture specializes in pent up and uptight, then exploding. That’s how an archconservative political nobody can get an established, high-ranking uber-conservative congressional leader thrown out of office for allegedly not being conservative enough. Then he can claim to have started a revolution — the “antigovernment” one symbolized by the Gadsden … Read more

Mercury, Weaving the Story of Nessus

Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder. — Alice Miller Dear Friend and Reader: Nessus, the third centaur planet (discovered in 1993), recently entered water sign Pisces. This is a slow-moving … Read more