The World in a Grain of Pholus

Originally published July 15, 2011 | Link to original So leave me now the Moon is up But remember all the tales I tell The memories that you have dredged up Are on letters forwarded from hell — Joe Strummer / "Something About England" Dear Friend and Reader: Every now and then, a significant global … Read more

The Ancestor

Originally published Nov. 22, 2013 | Link to original Dear Friend and Reader: On the first night that the Sun was in Scorpio, I fell asleep a bit early on the bed in my photo studio and awoke a few hours later from a lucid dream — a dream in which I knew that I … Read more

Storm Warnings: Astrology and the Assassination of JFK

Originally published Nov. 2, 2012 | Link to original 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 … Read more

Vesta Full Moon: From the Inside

Nov. 10, 2019 Dear Friend and Reader: Tuesday’s Full Moon in Taurus takes place a small fraction of a degree from the asteroid (4) Vesta. This is a remarkable conjunction, and a peak moment of Vesta’s extended stay in Taurus (which extends from June 10, 2019 through March 21, 2020 — notably, the same day … Read more

What Do We Do About These Flesh-Eating Zombies?

Originally published Feb. 9, 2017 | Link to original Dear Friend and Reader: What exactly are we supposed to do? That’s the question. It’s a little like The Onion’s fictional lady, Christine Pearson of Topeka, who baked an American flag cake after 9/11, just so she could do anything at all. "I had to do … Read more