First Week of Virgo, a Season of Her Own

Threefold Goddess in a Field of Grain Dear Friend and Reader: Virgo is the mutable earth sign (the only one). Mutability is a form of changeability; earth is a form of stability. We have some tension manifesting through that contrast. Of course, the Earth is in a constant state of flux and change, especially in … Read more

The Great Reveal

Dear Friend and Reader: This morning’s Full Moon in Aquarius begins a kind of astrological Olympics. Late August through the end of the summer is an adventure where a good few world records will be set. We might ask, though, before looking into the details of this sequence of events, how it is that the … Read more

Hillary Clinton: Scorpio of the Ages

“Laura had secrets and around those secrets she built the fortress that, well that in my six months with her, I was not able to penetrate and for which I consider myself an abject failure.” — Dr. Jacoby, Twin Peaks, Season One, Episode Four Dear Friend and Reader: Amidst one of those hot and heavy … Read more

Finding Uncommon Ground in Politics

Dear Friend and Reader: The political nominating conventions have made for difficult watching. I must admit that I maxed out on the Republican National Convention (RNC) last week, and have only been sampling snippets of the Democratic National Convention (DNC), which climaxes Thursday night with the first major-party female candidate for president accepting her nomination. … Read more

How Not to Go Insane

Dear Friend and Reader: Based on even a cursory reading of the news, or listening to anyone speak for more than five minutes, the mental health problem is now obviously at the pandemic scale. Random acts of violence, the lack of the obligation to make any sense, and a frantic feeling that seems to be … Read more