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Southern solstice has arrived. As of Thursday night, Planet Waves has been published continuously for 25 years. I posted the first version of the website on the eve of the winter solstice in 1998, from my friend Neal McDonough’s home in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, with the help of Keiko Ito.

(Our 20th anniversary as a company was this past July. Both charts were chosen to emphasize the cardinal points.)

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 20) — Since 2008, the mighty planetary system known as Pluto has been in your sign. This magnificent cluster of six objects all orbiting a common point has come with every conceivable up, down and sideways, and its presence in your life has represented the single greatest phase of self-discovery and self-becoming that you’ve ever lived through.

The idea of professional astrology is to give people who have not studied it all the advantages they would have, had they invested a lifetime in the work. And occasionally, that actually happens. Here is how.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 20) — Due to the problem of taboo, most people never map out their own sexuality — and the thought of doing so is usually unappealing or extremely frightening. There can be a lot “down there” that many do not want to know. Yet right now, you are being called to the awareness of something deep in your nature.

In this STARCAST, I look at the current astrology and then consider some of the themes of 2024 that I’m developing for the Somewhere In Between annual readings.

There is no article this week; here is last week’s seven-in-one presentation, awaiting your comments and questions. The music accompanying STARCAST is “Gemini99” by Vision Quest (solo).