This Cannot Be Happening, But It Is

Published Jan. 16, 2020 | Link to original Dear Friend and Reader: Tonight I’m going to do my best to explain the events in American politics in the first three days after the Saturn-Pluto conjunction, and the first week after a lunar eclipse. This is not a pleasant topic to write about, though if we … Read more

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