Dear Friend and Reader: When the Moon opposes the Sun once a month, the planets don’t stop, though it’s one habit of astrology to pretend as if they do. Of course, most astrology is based on pretending to make the planets stop; they don’t stop at the time you’re born, but that moment, etched onto … Read more
Dear Friend and Reader: If you made it through this much of 2014, you experienced some of the most wrenching astrology in recent memory. The cardinal grand cross of January and April, combined with Mars retrograde and some strategically placed eclipses, earned most of the current year the rating of whiplash machine. I’ll start with … Read more
Dear Friend and Reader: On one level, people get it. If the Supreme Court can rule that a for-profit corporation can ignore a federal mandate to provide health insurance that includes birth control coverage to women based on an ethical objection, then the government must respect everyone’s ethical values. This is called Equal Protection Under … Read more
Dear Planet Waves Reader: Your July horoscope covers the exciting changes of the new season — both Mars and Jupiter change signs, which will create the effect of “the other 2014” — a new year within the current year. On Monday, Mercury stations direct, concluding more than six months of end-to-end inner planet retrogrades. As … Read more
Dear Friend and Reader: July is the month when Jupiter changes signs to Leo. Jupiter takes about 12 years to go around the Sun, so it spends about a year in each sign. It’s been in Cancer since last summer, and quite a time it’s been. During this phase we’ve lived through some genuinely challenging … Read more