Michael Cohen Testimony: Where the Buck Stops

Originally published Feb. 28, 2019 | Link to original Dear Friend and Reader: Those who took the time out to watch Michael Cohen’s testimony Wednesday heard him describe what is essentially a vast criminal syndicate led by Donald Trump, which has accompanied him into the White House. Cohen hinted that federal prosecutors in New York … Read more

World Within, World About

Originally published Feb. 21, 2019 | Link to original “These different kinds of pain share a common thread: our lack of healthy connection to each other, our inability to see the full dignity of each other, and the resulting culture of fear, distrust, tribalism, shaming and strife.” — David Brooks in The New York Times … Read more

The Saturn-Pluto Initiation

Jan. 12, 2020 | Link to Original Dear Friend and Reader: We have now passed through, or perhaps directly into, the Saturn-Pluto conjunction, which was exact a few minutes before noon Eastern Time on Sunday. This is a turning point in all of our lives. It is time for a check-in and a review. Using … Read more

It’s Two Minutes to Midnight

Published Jan. 9, 2020 | Link to original Dear Friend and Reader: It is encouraging that on the eve of the lunar eclipse and Saturn-Pluto conjunction, tensions between Iran and the United States began ramping down, not up. Full Moons can be confrontational, and Sunday’s grand conjunction in Capricorn represents some major turn of history. … Read more

Into the Eclipse, and the Conjunction

Dear Friend and Reader: What we are witnessing now in the world is typical, even predictable, of what you would expect from combining an eclipse with the most potent planetary alignment since the 1960s. You would expect the world to be on the brink of war. It was only a month after the Saturn-Pluto opposition … Read more