Happy Birthday, Your Majesty

Dear Friend and Reader: Today is the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II, who is now Great Britain’s longest serving monarch. As of today, she has served 64 years and 72 days, recently surpassing her great grandmother, Queen Victoria (1837-1901), whose reign lasted 63 years and 216 days. The third longest serving monarch of the … Read more

Wild Card: From Eclipses to Uranus-Eris

Dear Friend and Reader: How is your swimming going? The sky is still overwhelmingly Piscean in the wake of Tuesday night’s Pisces New Moon with a total solar eclipse. We’re now in ‘the eclipse zone’: the two weeks between a matched set of eclipses, one solar and one lunar. Although the solar eclipse was not … Read more

Figuring Out Where You’re Coming From

Dear Friend and Reader: In the astrology readings below, you have my interpretations for November, a month with two turning-point events in our mini-era of personal history. These are the main events on which I’ve based your readings. The first is a conjunction of Venus and Mars in Virgo; this is the third conjunction between … Read more

Fire on the Mountain

Long distance runner, what you standing there for? — The Grateful Dead Dear Friend and Reader: Though the Sun is still in Libra, along with Mercury, the North Node and Juno, there is some unusual activity going on one sign away in Virgo. I’ve kept the focus on Libra themes during the Sun’s transit and … Read more

Treading the Razor-Edged Path of Libra

Dear Friend and Reader: Mercury is retrograde in Libra, and at least as far as I’m experiencing it, this has opened the way to a useful discussion of relationships and sexuality. If it has not for you, this might be a time to bring up the topic where you feel it’s necessary or appropriate. Now … Read more