Dear Friend and Scorpio: WHEN WE TALK about the movement of Pluto, we are considering a planet that personally tells you something about the story of your life; and we are talking about the history of the world. Pluto takes roughly 12 to 20 years to pass through a sign. The roughly part involves how … Read more
A Little Astrology [Written: Paris, May 1, 2005] Dear Readers: This week and part of next, I will be on holiday, doing some actual celebrating of a decade of horoscope writing, and letting the Sun shine into some of my other creative rooms. So, I’ll be taking time off from writing essays for a few … Read more
From Aboard the Mothership Dawn April 5, 2005 — A six-mile long spacecraft is not really a spacecraft; it’s more like a portable asteroid. It’s also somewhere particularly easy to get lost, against which a variety of precautions are taken. This particular six-mile ship has an unusual property: it can exist in two dimensions at … Read more
Introspection Beyond the many disturbing, obvious comparisons between the United States today and Germany of the 1930s is one contrast that I have not heard mentioned yet. True, I was not there when the first torture camp was installed into an urban neighborhood called Ilvers Gehoffen in the liberal city of Erfurt in early 1933. … Read more
Author’s Note: This is my first article on scientific fraud, about the resettlement of the Love Canal neighborhood, written in 1983 when I was 19 years old. I learned skills reporting and writing this article that I still use today, mostly from my conversations with Lois Gibbs. It was Lois who figured out that there … Read more