Dear Friend and Reader: MERCURY IS RETROGRADE from Sept. 24 through the first half of October. The retrograde begins two days after the Libra equinox and ends just as the Moon reaches the full phase in Aries. The Oct. 14 Full Moon is a dramatic event, coming at the peak of the national political campaigns. At … Read more
Aries (March 20-April 19) Quite the tale of intrigue is showing up on the September radar, events that seem strange, beautiful and in some way fated. One theme is that for most people, love is based on need, and clearly you’re feeling that. Another is that what appears to be love may be one of several … Read more
Dear Friend and Reader: THE OTHER night exploring the astrology of the Large Hadron Collider — a particle smasher that scientists will use to study the formation of the universe — I joked that the lead scientist, Prof. Peter Higgs, namesake of the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle, was a holdover from Atlantis. It went well with … Read more
Aries (March 20-April 19) The time has come to set limits, and you also know that you need to exceed your prior limits. The question is what aspect of life to assign to which category? I think you need to exceed a certain value you’ve placed on playing it safe. This has grown really tired, particularly … Read more
Dear Friend and Reader: THE ELECTION of 2008 comes down to a head-to-head confrontation between the progressives and the conservatives. Elections have a way of polarizing people, but this one is going to be special, and it may be a portent of things to come. A reader’s letter to the Houston Chronicle this week summed up one side … Read more