Pisces Total Lunar Eclipse

Total Lunar Eclipse of Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2007 By Eric Francis and Kirsti Melto | Lunations THE AUGUST FULL MOON is a total lunar eclipse on the North Node and falls at 4+ degrees of the sensitive water sign Pisces — the last sign of the zodiac. This will be followed on Sep. 11 by a partial eclipse … Read more

A Matter of Conscience and Truth

Dear Friend and Reader: I TRAVELED back to the United States from Europe on Thursday to be in New Paltz for the dorms opening. After a six-hour scheduled layover, my flght was delayed in Dublin because a terrorism scare held the equipment up in Spain while it was being searched for a hoax bomb. I got … Read more

Woodstock at 38: The Spirit, and the Charts

“If you smile at me I will understand, that is something everybody everywhere does in the same language.”       — from the song “Wooden Ships,” performed at Woodstock   Dear Friend and Reader: THIS WEEK is the 38th anniversary of Woodstock festival that occurred the summer of 1969. At the peak of the Vietnam War, nearly … Read more

What Dioxin and Astrology Have in Common

Dear Friend and Reader: I TRUST that the Leo New Moon has helped you turn a page of your life. If you were born in the late 1940s and some of the 1950s, the New Moon was close to your natal Pluto, the planet of evolution, soul and moving your life from within. For those … Read more

Give Me Something Built to Last

Dear Friend and Reader: When that bridge collapsed in Minneapolis last week, it was more than a symbol of America’s national infrastructure crumbling — it was the real thing. There were miracles (the school bus full of kids that didn’t explode) and there are warnings (much of the infrastructure of the United States is the … Read more