The Light in August: Your Monthly Horoscope

Dear Friend and Reader: August 2011 is one of those months when it will pay to know a little astrology — or even a little bit about the current astrology. The planetary movements of the next four weeks present a number of challenges, just as many opportunities and an occasion to peer into the future. … Read more

Space Shuttle Lands on Another World

Dear Friend and Reader: When the Space Shuttle Atlantis glided majestically through the early morning darkness and touched down at the Kennedy Space Center on Thursday, July 21, it landed on a different planet from the one Columbia first took off from in April 1981. Atlantis landed on a hotter, more crowded planet, one engulfed in economic, environmental and ideological … Read more

The World in a Grain of Pholus

Link to original So leave me now the Moon is up But remember all the tales I tell The memories that you have dredged up Are on letters forwarded from hell — Joe Strummer / “Something About England“ Dear Friend and Reader: Every now and then, a significant global event affirms the theme of one … Read more

The World in a Grain of Pholus

So leave me now the Moon is up But remember all the tales I tell The memories that you have dredged up Are on letters forwarded from hell — Joe Strummer / “Something About England“ Dear Friend and Reader: Every now and then, a significant global event affirms the theme of one of the recently … Read more

After the Eclipses: Unfolding the Cardinal Square

Dear Friend and Reader: July began with the third of three eclipses in just one month, and it was an impressive one. You may be aware that the influential planets Saturn, Uranus and Pluto are arranged in what is called a T-square (three planets at right angles). This has been going on for a while … Read more