Today’s Oracle was a bust-out laughter moment for me, sitting here at Dominick’s. I remember writing that one, in the run-up to the Aug 11, 1999 grand cross / total solar eclipse in mid-Leo. Those 1999 horoscopes are all a study in that event, which I covered, among other places, in the article Thinking of You on Judgment Day. This is the one article reference I use frequently that came before Planet Waves was known as such — back then we were The Star-Navigator.
This was the story that focused our astrojournalism mission, and which taught me how to handle a public event in the private world of the horoscope column. I didn’t know so much about the Aries Point back then, but I know now that an event that occurs in the mid-fixed signs (mid Taurus, Leo, Scorpio or Aquarius) is an Aries Point event because of its mathematical relationship to the cardinal points — the first degrees of Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn.
We are about to have an Aries Point event tomorrow, which is a New Moon just six degrees from the point itself; that is, the place where the Sun is on the first day of spring. This New Moon is on the seventh day of the season, so it’s pretty close to the point; which is also called the sidereal vernal point or vernal equinox. (Just like in J.R.R. Tolkien’s books, everthings have many names in astrology.)
On a Kaila note, I would like to thank everyone who has written in and commented to this diary. I spent some time at her grave this morning, documenting it when it’s still a new thing. I have this idea to set up the tripod in the same place once a month or so and watch the Earth and the seasons change around it.
I got two emails overnight, one suggesting that there be a meeting point on the Internet for people trying to get out of the heroin mess, and their families; and another pointing to an actual place that can help. We have many resources areas on Planet Waves (they are filed above, under Archives). I propose a recovery resource area, for issues surrounding serious narcotics. This would include intellectual resources, covering science and psychology; websites; as well as treatment programs, support projects and other on-the-ground services. If someone is up to working as a team with one or two other readers and assembling this, please drop a note to info – at – planetwaves.net. We can dedicate this to Kaila, something I am sure her mom, the sweetest little Fish you ever met (well, she’s tied for first), will be happy to hear is happening.
I will be back some time today with a few comments on the Aries New Moon. Also, I’ll tell you about how it is that we’ll be joined by many thousands of new readers. The details are less important than the fact that we as a community are energetically prepared for a lot of new people to arrive. I will be increasing the richness of this page for about a week (think of it as Sweeps Week), including posting more subscriber content to the free pages here, with the intention of picking up additional subscribers and thus building the quality of what you see here.
While we still have the relative intimacy of our older, smaller readership, remember that the relationship between what you see here and how many people subscribe is a direct 1:1 ratio, or better — due to a property called synergy. More subscriptions faciliates two things; one is it frees my time and energy to give you more of my creative output; and it allows me to get talent on board that does the same thing. Planet Waves is not about profits and I don’t care if it never is. Planet Waves is about serving our audience, by providing a spiritually-grounded journalism work and playspace. Unlike the “corporate” media, every dollar that goes into Planet Waves stays in, or somehow enriches, Planet Waves. I am not an investment adviser, and I’m definitely biased, but this sounds like a good one.
Long ago I decided I wasn’t going to sit around and wait for someone else to make the world a better place, and it’s in that spirit that I come to you every day, offer what I have to say, and lead our creative team.
Speaking of which: to our editor candidates, please bear with my delay getting back to you — it’s been an unusual time in my life, and I’ll contact you as soon as possible. Feel free to send a second email, as I tend to work off of the top of my inbox.
Carrying on, live from Dominick’s Cafe in uptown Kingston, NY, this is
Is there an article that I could read that would explain more about the Aries Point and also the relationship of the Mid-Fixed Signs that Eric mentions? My birthday is mid Taurus and I am really interested to find more about the point in correlation to it. Thanks!
~Elle
Eric,
More readers? WOW. I HOPE SO! The more people that read and get the messages here the better! In this time of change, I remind everyone I know that you, the writers here, the readers here, and this website have been (and continue to be) exactly what we need.
It seems every family suffers from drug abuse, and it is time to stop it. Hopefully you are not blaming yourself for anything that happened.
Pisces tend to give in to kids too easily (I do it too) and so they keep testing for limits, finding none. I feel pretty lucky that my kids didn’t go too far, but have to admit there were a couple of close calls. I’m saying this all wrong I know, but the the ‘just say no’ generation is really a ‘me’ generation, too open to the demons that await a toehold. Edgar Cayce wrote about the demonic possessions of alcoholics.
I don’t know what to think, but I’m sorry this happened. We had a bad situation in my family this week too. I just don’t know what to think, or what to do.