Annular Solar Eclipse, 30 Virgo

NOW THAT I think about it, I’m happy I was trained in the use of firearms as a kid. Though I concede it’s a little strange, though perhaps not in the United States, all the men around me had weapons when I was little. By the time I was 14, I had quietly declared myself … Read more

Inner Space for September, and Eclipse Note

This Week’s Lunar Eclipse  Thursday, Sept. 7 at 7:51 pm British Summer time and 2:51 pm Eastern Daylight Time, there is a partial eclipse of the Moon at 15 degrees of Pisces. Note that some ephemerides and chart services will list this time as being about 10 minutes earlier — the time of the Full … Read more

Non-11: The Unbearable Tension of Water

AND JUST WHAT has come gushing out of the starry dynamo of the night? Early Wednesday, in the first hours after a stunning Full Moon set off the Saturn-Neptune opposition, British intelligence and police said they made arrests in an alleged plot to blow up airliners with bombs made of liquid or gel. The Sun … Read more

The Wheel, Weekend Astrology, Horoscope

The Wheel THIS weekend’s top story is Mercury stationing direct in Cancer. Despite its reputation for being lunar, maternal, watery, emotional and moving sideways, Cancer is an assertive, even aggressive archetype, with claws. We may account this to the strength and protective spirit necessary for mothering/parenting, or Cancer’s association with Aries (both share places on … Read more

Wave of the Worlds, Sex Report & Fishy Moon Crabby Mercs

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