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Things are heating up. True, as I write, it’s currently 19 degrees here in upstate New York. But the first of five traditional points has made its way into Aries, that being Venus, where it’s close to stationing retrograde in grand style. Over the next six weeks or so, Venus and Mercury retrograde back and forth between…

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — The other day I randomly opened the book Working Days: The Journal of The Grapes of Wrath to the entry where John Steinbeck was about to finish the novel. He was a Pisces, of course, and that tells us a lot about him and astrology.

What is going on in the United States? The government is getting whacked like a piñata. Funding to programs is being cut. Federal employees are being offered buyouts. And it looks like they will be replaced by the machine thinking of “AI.”

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — You simply must take care of yourself, whatever that means to you. There are mental elements to this, as well as physical and emotional. I’m not suggesting you follow the advice of every YouTube ad telling you what not to eat, but rather that you do what you know you need to do

So it turns out that the pro-Palestinian student protesters of last spring were right. It was genocide. And to decry the daily bombings and bulldozing of Gaza and the West Bank was not about being antisemitic. It was about standing up for people whose existence was threatened and who knew they were really being removed from their homes by force.