Eric Francis

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Fifteen minutes to midnight

Dear Friend and Reader: WHEN ASTRONOMERS (and old-fashioned astrologers) measure the year, one way they do it is to divide the year into 24 “hours.” Midnight is when the Sun arrives in the fist degree of Aries. So measuring the year using this method, it’s now about fifteen minutes to midnight — meaning that we’re … Read more