Monthly Horoscope for May 2012

The Lighter Side of Taurus Dear Friend and Reader: The Sun is now in Taurus, the first earth sign of the astrological year, and the first fixed sign. After the fiery start of the cycle in Aries, Taurus stands as an anchor in the zodiac, making sure that the cosmic wheel doesn’t go flying off … Read more

Spring 2012: The Deep Background

Dear Friend and Reader: By now you may be familiar with some elements of the astrology of the (Northern Hemisphere) spring of 2012 — a pair of eclipses in Gemini and Sagittarius, Venus stationing retrograde, and the Venus transit of the Sun on June 5. These events lead us into the first exact meeting of … Read more

Titanic: The Atlantis Connection

And the little children cried as the waves swept o’er the side It was sad when the great ship went down. — American traditional Dear Friend and Reader: Evangeline Adams, the mother of modern American astrology, is said to have advised her client J. Pierpont Morgan, “Do not get on the Titanic.” Morgan, a man so wealthy … Read more

Mars stations direct; Sun conjunct Eris

Dear Friend and Reader: Mars stations direct Friday, after spending about 11 weeks retrograde in Virgo. It’s slowing to a station opposite Neptune and Chiron in early Pisces. This is a week to take one step at a time; to proceed one day at a time. Mars changing directions is about a precise realignment of … Read more

The Intersection of You and the World

Dear Friend and Reader: Poets and artists are usually the ones who notice that the world as we see it is going away before our eyes. Art is not just descriptive, or an ethical comment on existence, but also an attempt to make the feeling of the current world last a little longer than it … Read more