Eclipses of October

Dear Friend and Reader: Astrological events love to come in clusters. Watching the sky for a while, you can get the feeling you do when you’re waiting for a city bus — why can’t they spread out and come every 15 minutes instead of four busses showing up at the same time? Well, a lot … Read more

The War Goes On

Dear Friend and Reader: I caught the rerun of Pres. Obama’s Wednesday night speech on MSNBC at about 3 am Thursday. By then it was already the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 incident, and I was watching the announcement of a new phase of a war — the perfect commemoration. Part of my consciousness was … Read more

Belief, Hope, Faith: Full Moon Conjunct Chiron-Borasisi

Dear Friend and Reader: Monday’s Full Moon in Pisces is one of those gems of astrology, as beautiful for its celestial poetry as for its significance as a moment of spiritual opening. The Pisces Full Moon is sublime, carrying an inherent mysticism that even atheists and skeptics will feel. The Moon loves Pisces, and the … Read more

Inner Space Monthly Horoscope for September 2014

Inner Space Monthly Horoscope for September 2014 | By Eric Francis September is the month of the Libra equinox, a time of balancing out our lives. It’s been an intense year — more or less productive, and for some, a bit tumultuous. If you can manage it, take a week or two to coast and … Read more

Night and Day: Two Charts for Ferguson

Dear Friend and Reader: This latest shooting by police of an unarmed black youth set off weeks of riots in a city about the size of Kingston, located in St. Louis County. Local and state police, as well as the National Guard, were called in, though as the days progressed, the situation escalated and many … Read more