When after all it was you and me

Dear Friend and Client: Ted Kennedy’s departure from the planet marks the end of a dynasty in American politics. It’s interesting that we consider it so: John served as president a little more than 1,000 days, more than four decades ago. Robert was mainly known as attorney general. Teddy was a senator — being hailed, … Read more

Planet Waves Monthly – September 2009

Dear Friend and Client: Events of September represent a culmination of the astrology of the past 12 months, and if we look as far as late October, we see a culmination of developments of the past two years. For the next few weeks we get to ask, if not answer, the question: what have I … Read more

The Electric Tide

Dear Friend and Client: Here is the question everyone has asked at least once: how exactly do you not get your ass kicked by Mercury retrograde? Here’s a better question: how do we use these phases, which come dependably three times a year, to spark our creativity, solve problems and improve communication with the people … Read more

Leo New Moon: The Holistic Sense of Self

Dear Friend and Reader: It’s a pleasure to be able to write about a solar-lunar event that is not an eclipse, or something sitting on the Aries Point. That has been the story behind every New Moon or Full Moon so far this summer. With the Leo New Moon of Aug. 20, we close the … Read more

Fellowship Among Men and Women

Dear Friend and Reader: This weekend is the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock Festival, which was actually held in Bethel, New York — a town whose name translates to “house of God.” We’ve always paid tribute to Woodstock at Planet Waves, and commemorated the event in some small way almost every year. The original, one … Read more