Stranger than Fiction… The only thing currently in the neighborhood that could be stranger than fiction is an eclipse of the Moon in Scorpio. For those who may still be wondering, the past two editions have been fiction essays that were based on my April Fool’s parody, “An Open Letter to the Space Brothers.” I … Read more
From Aboard the Mothership Dawn April 5, 2005 — A six-mile long spacecraft is not really a spacecraft; it’s more like a portable asteroid. It’s also somewhere particularly easy to get lost, against which a variety of precautions are taken. This particular six-mile ship has an unusual property: it can exist in two dimensions at … Read more
Mars, Chiron and Iraq HARD TO BELIEVE it’s now been two years of nonstop, escalating war in Iraq. Two years is one Mars cycle, and about once per cycle, Mars makes a conjunction to slower-moving Chiron. There was a conjunction in 2003 just following the invasion of Iraq, covered in Planet Waves Weekly in the … Read more
Of Technicalities Minor, Major, Mercurial, Aesthetic and Functional I spent much of my birthday Thursday involved in an investigation of how an unauthorized person posted to the Planet Waves subscriber’s list overnight Wednesday. As I am sure you can imagine, I was alarmed by that rather fishy development — the first time such a thing … Read more
Author’s Note — I don’t remember when I wrote this article. I think I was living in Paris, so that would make it about 20 years ago (here is how it looked in its original format). It’s my tribute to the Capricorn Moon, presented as published way back when. I have not had a moment … Read more