The Sacred Space of Self

Dear Friend and Reader: Once again we are in a concentration of events, especially Saturday’s Taurus New Moon simultaneous with Mars conjunct Chiron in Aries. Today’s extended readings are based on reading those aspects as one concurrent event. I approach this differently in each of the readings for sign and rising sign. These are the … Read more

Planet Waves by Eric Francis for May 14, 2026

The Arrival of Vesta: Haven of Inner Awareness There is a new factor that describes our moment: as of today, Vesta has entered Aries. This places it in the Aries Point repeating station or amplifier that connects the individual to world events and collective awareness. I don’t just mean this in the sense of your … Read more

Proving Moment This Week: Mars Engages the Chiron-Eris Conjunction

This week, Mars passes through the Chiron-Eris conjunction. It did this most recently in 2024; before then the conunction was not within close orb. In my process of delineating minor plants, I use the concept of the proving moment. Not proof like in a geometric theorem but rather like in homeopathy, where a population takes … Read more

Schedule Update – Mars Conjunct Chiron-Eris

My mind and body need a rest, so I’m going to take one. I’ll be postponing the horoscope I had planned for Thursday until early next week and we’ll take it from there. This includes Thursday’s Starcast and Friday’s Planet Waves FM — my voice needs a break too.

An Unsealed Letter: Astrology of McLuhan’s ‘The Medium is the Message’

McLuhan’s presentation to the radio men was a succinct introduction to everything he would say and write for the rest of his life. This includes elaborating the profound effects of print technology and the way that they were unraveled by electrical media. Linear, sensible categorization gave way to the chaos of simultaneous experience that can only be navigated by intuition and pattern recognition. We would do well to remember that today.