Dear Friend and Reader: AUGUST BRINGS a pair of eclipses; this happens twice a year, each year always a couple of weeks earlier than the prior one. Eclipses bring a break in continuity and they help us set patterns and cultivate the future in a direct, immediate and dependable way. For starters, we have a … Read more
Dear Friend and Reader: LAST WEEKEND when I met Melanie Reinhart in person for the first time, she was chipper as ever about her belief that it doesn’t matter if people use Chiron in their astrological work. This is an interesting comment coming from one of the most grounded teachers and indeed creators of the … Read more
Dear Friend and Reader: I WENT through a phase early in my astrology career when I got into conversations with young tarot card readers. Maybe there were just two or three such conversations, but they seem to stand out as a distinct phase of gaining an understanding of life. Anyway, one of them would say … Read more
And if only fools are kind, Alfie, then I guess it’s wise to be cruel. — Burt Bacharach WHEN I WAS living in Brussels, the seat of the European Commission (akin to the central government of Europe), I got to know some of the sex workers there. Belgium is close to the Netherlands and prostitution, … Read more
Sagittarius: Intersellar Overdrive Dear Friend and Reader: THE COSMOS is thundering on our little Earth at the moment. Not everyone will be finding this pleasant, hearing the shocking vibration of their soul come through as a kind of last warning to get into motion; others are busting through years of resistance and karmic debris and … Read more