Dear Fellow Traveler: This weekend, Saturday at 7:30 am EDT (4:30 am PDT, 12:30 pm BST) is a partial eclipse of the Moon in Capricorn. [Most ephemerides list this as the time of the Full Moon; others list the eclipse separately eight minutes later.] This is an eclipse on the Aries Point, with many planets involved. … Read more
Free will, and freedom in general, are among the greatest challenges that most people ever face. One common response is to panic at the notion of potential and the opportunity to choose. Another is to run away with power and see how much abuse one can foist on the world. But the most common response … Read more
Went to the well but the water was dry Dipped my bucket in the clear blue sky Looked in the bottom and what did I see? The whole damned world looking back at me — “Liberty,” by the Grateful Dead (Hunter/Garcia) Dear Fellow Traveler: We are approaching the summer solstice, one of the most concentrated … Read more
Dear Friend and Reader: As the week has developed, the situation in the Gulf of Mexico has reached new dimensions of dire, and the story has followed the pattern of every other chemical disaster only on a scale that few people can imagine. It’s as if human greed and hubris have unleashed a pestilence of … Read more
Dear Friend and Reader: Today we arrive at the conjunction of Jupiter and Uranus, in the first degree of Aries. As I’ve written many times, this is one of the key events in the 2012 astrological pattern, which peaks when the Mayan long count reaches day 13.0.0.0.0 on Dec. 21, 2012. The astrological pattern associated … Read more