Dear Fellow Traveler: Mercury stations retrograde today. Can you feel it? If you have the patience, it’s one of those deep-thinking moments. If you don’t, you may be encountering significant frustration — so practice patience, especially in any form of communication. Prudent astrological counsel is to move gently, slowly, carefully; do so day by day … Read more
One of the recurring questions I get as an astrologer is, what do I do if I have to make a decision or purchase or important move while Mercury is retrograde? Here’s a question that came in this morning, typical of the genre: I am about to get laid off from my job. I won’t … Read more
Dear Fellow Traveler: The cardinal sign alignment we are living through keeps taking new forms. It really consists of many aspects at once, and at different times different aspects come into focus. It’s a little like using a camera on a wide-open f-stop: everything is in the frame, but only certain things are in focus … Read more
Dear Fellow Traveler: Today is the 65th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. I do have some good news to report in today’s short edition (which does not include a horoscope), but first I suggest we pause in remembrance of the people who unexpectedly met their end as the American B-29 Superfortress bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic … Read more
We are living in the midst of many rare aspects, most of them involving Saturn. The planet of structure, limits, boundaries and the passage of time is in opposition to the largest planet, Jupiter, giving the feeling of ‘two lifetimes at once’; it’s opposed to the inventive, revolutionary planet Uranus, which is putting us under … Read more