Skunk Medicine and the Cap Full Moon

Dear Friend and Reader: Today marks the official end to my sabbatical. Thank you for a month off from weekly horoscopes, clients and those long essays. This was my first break from the weekly horoscope in five years, and I am happy to be back, with a new perspective on things. Thank you to the … Read more

Spider Medicine and the Solstice Cluster

Dear Friend and Reader: LAST NIGHT my friend asked me to help her deal with a black widow spider. One of the most poisonous species in North America, the critter had made her web below the step leading into the front door, and no matter how many times the web was removed, she would return. … Read more

On Birds and Dreams

Gemini Solar Returns, 2007 By Eric Francis Dear Gemini Friend and Reader: It would be easy to sum up Gemini birthdays this year as beginning the time of completion of Pluto in Sagittarius, a transit that has been a profound influence in your life the past dozen years. That, however, is mostly in the background, … Read more

Cho Seng-Hui: Broken Mirror

  I stopped my song and almost heart,     For any eye is an evil eye     That looks in onto a mood apart. – Robert Frost, A Mood Apart (1947) INITIATES and students of healing have been warned for ages not to concern themselves too much with the ways of the dark side. You learn very little, it can … Read more

Ceres Equinox

THE COMBINED Mercury station direct, soon to move beyond echo phase (when Mercury finally enters new territory), the solar eclipse last Sunday and the vernal equinox earlier this week, have combined to push many people and things through turning points, some of them difficult. Even though this is an equinox, which is about balance, we … Read more