Wake Up and Smell the Smoke

OUR STORY begins with something really weird: a thread connecting the first California fire this week, the Asian tsunami, whatever happened on Sept. 11, 2001 and the stolen presidential election on Nov. 7, 2000. Conspiracy theory? No, just astrology. Remember, astrology is based on astronomical facts: specific times and places that provide precise global and … Read more

Mercury and the Sun: Libra and Scorpio

Dear Friend and Reader: We release the new monthly horoscope on the first Monday the Sun is in the new sign. The Sun is currently in the last degrees of Libra, so Planet Waves Monthly will be published one week from today. For now I want to chime in with a short astrology report, as … Read more

William Pen and Ling Ling: Writer’s Cats

FOR A while I lived in New Jersey, and behind a butcher shop in the town that I covered was a tribe of feral cats that I loved. They were fluffy and savage looking, and their fierce, intent round eyes were irresistible peering back from the midst of grass and weeds. One of these cats … Read more

The Road to Nowhere

Dear Friend and Reader: ON SUNDAY, Sept. 30, I drove from the Hudson Valley down to New York City and then to Long Island on a mission to visit my parents and collect the bits of my property that were scattered around the New York area. After nearly a decade of living in many cities … Read more

Inner Space – October 2007

Aries (March 20-April 19) You have no need to defend your feelings; they are your feelings. Take the same approach to your physical space; it is yours, and subject to your influence and to some extent your control. Remember that our first notion of a “house” is not our own house, but rather the one we … Read more