Clearing the Smog of War

Dear Fellow Traveler: In the dozen years that Neptune has been in Aquarius — a transit that started the same year Bill Clinton was impeached, 1998 — there’s been an absurd increase in secrecy by government agencies. Particularly since the Sept. 11 incident, it seems like everything has become a state secret, held in the … Read more

Monthly Horoscope for August 2010

It’s Not Always Like This — But It Is Now Dear Fellow Traveler: Astrology is always interesting, but the aspects are not always like this. They don’t always push us so hard to get our lives together, work toward our true goals and get rid of the ones that we don’t really want. At the … Read more

Let’s Get Real: Saturn in Libra

Dear Fellow Traveler: Have you ever caught yourself or someone you care about describing this scenario: when you’re in a relationship you have to put your authentic life agenda aside, and be the ‘relationship you’, until you can’t stand it any more and you get out of the relationship so you can go back to … Read more

Tuesday, Planets on the Edge

Dear Fellow Traveler: Today the Sun is right at the end of the sign Cancer. It’s one of my astrological traditions to publish the new monthly horoscope only after the Sun has entered the new sign; that happens Thursday evening in the States, overnight Thursday to Friday in Europe or Friday in Australia. The Sun … Read more

A Pause in the Anti-Sixties

Dear Fellow Traveler: How does it feel not to have crude oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico? As of the current moment, the blown out Deepwater Horizon well is still capped “like a soda bottle,” in the words of The New York Times. This is part of a 48-hour integrity test to check whether oil … Read more