Thema Mundi: The Chart of the World

By Eric Francis NE OF my esoteric teachers, the late Arthur Joseph Kushner of New Paltz, liked to say there was a time when all things began. Sometimes the best teachings are the very simplest, though this is an easy one to forget. All that exists has its origins in time. Things and activities that … Read more

Thema Mundi: The Chart of the World

ONE OF my esoteric teachers, the late Arthur Joseph Kushner of New Paltz, liked to say there was a time when all things began. Sometimes the best teachings are the very simplest, though this is an easy one to forget. All that exists has its origins in time. Things and activities that date to immemorial antiquity did … Read more

Inner Space for March

Dear Friend and Reader: We’re now in that mysterious interval between two eclipses, and the suspended moment of a Mercury station direct. There was a fairly rare total lunar eclipse [in Virgo] over the weekend, and we are headed for a partial solar eclipse [in late Pisces, conjunct Ceres] on March 18, just before Equinox. … Read more

Sixties Redux : Correction and Details

IN FRIDAY’S edition I said that Uranus entered Virgo after the assassination of JFK. The more accurate guess would have been, it did not. Rather, Uranus first joined Pluto in Virgo in 1961, at the height of Camelot. This article contains the details of key 1960s events, including the dates of Uranus, Chiron, Neptune and Pluto … Read more

Beautiful Agony & Barak Obama

HERE IS some news: Barack Obama, a senator from Illinois, is the first presidential candidate with Pluto in Virgo. I have written a bit about this placement, usually in the context of discussing Sixties charts. Pluto is one of the planets that distinguishes both a generation and a phase of history, and Virgo was indeed an … Read more