Dear Friend and Reader:
When I started Planet Waves back in 1998, I didn’t have any idea how it would work out blending photojournalism with astrology. It just seemed like the thing to do.
Now that the world is going through many, many rapid changes, nearly all of which are difficult to understand, are spiritually provocative and affect us directly, it’s becoming clear that this was a useful invention. Astrology is the bridge between the inner and the outer, between the mundane world and what we go through as living, growing humans on our journey here.
Before arriving on the scene as an astrology writer, I had covered municipal government, liquor regulation and higher education. And I was becoming very well known for my environmental investigative reporting, especially about Monsanto. Adapting journalism to astrology was easy, interesting and lent itself to a new writing model — the astrology news piece.
The beauty here is that astrology always points us inward. Inward means personally relevant. My articles became a way to express what I call the growth and awareness aspect of our relationship to the world, as well as a way to seek clarity on many of the most pressing spiritual and psychological questions of our day.