Voting is Not Enough

Dear Friend and Reader: Today is Election Day in the United States, long-awaited, anticipated and the focus of much anxiety. Today is the day to brave voting lines, interrupt your schedule, miss hours or a day of work, all to do what may seem futile. We have a lot of problems in the world and … Read more

Storm Warnings

Dear Friend and Reader: My original plan for this week was to write an interpretation of the chart for the assassination of John F. Kennedy, prior to the Mercury retrograde election on Tuesday, but then the storm intervened. I will get to Sandy and the election in a moment. First, let’s make contact with this … Read more

The Morning After Sandy — Eyes on the Election

Inner Space Horoscope for November 2012 Dear Friend and Reader: This month opens up a new mini-era of astrology, characterized by three super-interesting and potentially world-changing events. The first is that Mercury stations retrograde on Election Day — the first time it’s ever done so on the day of a presidential election. Mercury will be … Read more

Ohio (or: the Election Gets Personal)

Dear Friend and Reader: We keep hearing that the election may hinge on the results of one state — Ohio. There are several close states, but for a number of reasons, Ohio stands out. FiveThirtyEight, a blog project of The New York Times, has been running computer simulations of the many permutations of what might happen … Read more

Meet the Natal Horoscopes of Obama and Romney

These Men Have Issues Dear Friend and Reader: Once I read an article in an astrology magazine about how to figure out who is going to win an American presidential election. “The person with the worst chart wins,” said the author, who had been paying attention for a while. Astrology, a vastly complex subject, often … Read more