WITH the Princess Diana story surfacing yet again, it seemed as good a time as any to take a look at the astrology. I had never seen the chart for the car crash itself; in 1997, I was still doing mostly natal astrology and it did not occur to me to check the event chart; … Read more
The Swiftly Tilting Planet Dear Friend and Reader: IF WE have learned one thing from doing the ongoing Mercury Retrograde news timeline, currently tracking the turning points of the end of the ‘shadow phase’, it’s that the news is difficult to deal with, and consumes a significant amount of emotional energy. If you are following … Read more
Wave of the Worlds EVERY now and then I get one of those funny emails, supposedly a forward to somebody else, but which winds up being an inadvertent reply to me. I don’t usually read them, but sometimes I do. Last year at some point, one arrived, saying something like: “I really don’t want to … Read more
Mercury: Walking the Hot, Thin Line EVERYONE LOVES a partially cooked theory; just watch the news any night of the week. As Roberta Folt writes in this week’s fine edition of The Onion, “All it takes is a little supposition mixed with critical theorizing and you can easily stumble on a tenuous half-truth that really … Read more
Twice: The Capricorn Full Moon This morning in the Montreal Gazette, the lead story was that science scores among students in some provinces are plummeting. Canada has a different view on life than the United States; an article like this can make big headlines. However, since people shoot one another less often here, Canadian journalists … Read more