News from Eric

Dear Friend and Reader: Day-by-day, the world seems to be spinning off of its axis. Yet the strife that we hear about in what we call “the news” puts us into immediate tension and conflict with the basic necessity of getting through the day. We all must do our best to maintain some peace of … Read more

Amidst much other fanfare and notable astrology that I cover, Mercury passes between the Sun and the Earth exactly at the Libra equinox — a rare event, connected to many other planets in the same pattern. There are new horoscopes, too.

The real work of the mutable signs is integrating the mental with the emotional. Often the two dimensions of experience are alien to one another. People often think one way, and feel another way — that can lead them to act a third way that does not resemble either thinking or feeling.

The teenage Princess Elizabeth’s eloquent broadcast encouraged strength and courage in the children of the empire who had been evacuated from the cities to temporary homes in the countryside, and even to Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States — a move designed to ensure the survival of the next generation (in a time very different from our own).