By Eric Francis WAY AT THE BEGINNING, someone named Al Morrison summed up Chiron brilliantly, if incompletely, when he called it the ‘inconvenient benefic’. Chiron nearly always bestows a profound gift, though it may seem an annoyance at the time; it will save us over and over, waking us up just in the nick of … Read more
Dear Friend and Reader: FINALLY ON WEDNESDAY night, I got it: Barack Obama won the presidency, and I felt my first wave of euphoria. I have learned to shun that particular feeling when involving myself with politics, perhaps wanting to avoid disappointment or maybe, as a kind of warrior, refusing to let my guard down … Read more
Dear Friend and Reader: NO MATTER WHO is declared president in the wake of the election or the “election” of 2008, Tuesday, Nov. 4 begins a new era in history. It’s rare that a major planetary alignment coincides so directly with a global historical event, but occasionally it happens. Today, the 2nd and 3rd largest … Read more
Dear Friend and Reader: I FORGOT TO mention that the local Republicans moved in downstairs from my erotic art studio. All summer long it was supposed to become a sports bar, but thankfully that didn’t quite work out. About a week later, the space was rented to a bunch of people running for county office … Read more
Dear Friend and Reader: WELCOME TO SCORPIO and the time of Days of the Dead. We are in that strange and beautiful extended moment when the worlds — our current, seemingly alive one, and the ‘after’ one — merge into one place, at least slightly. Scorpio is a sign that relates many complex emotions, most … Read more