Most of us have the sense that something big is happening in the world right now. What’s going on in the sky certainly spells this out, especially the part about Neptune (universality) conjoining Jupiter (expansiveness). But a closer look at the meaning of this pair suggests that this Big Something we feel happening is more than big.

It’s a different kind of big.

Neptune (surrealism) and Jupiter (size) are easing into their spectacular first conjunction the end of this week.… click here to continue reading.

The transit of the year is coming to a head. As the Aquarius conjunction gears up for its peak (May 27th through the 31st) on the US Moon, Americans find themselves contemplating an ethical controversy of the classic American type. Illogic mixed with outraged bluster is creating a tempest of feigned righteousness. Is Pelosi lying, or is the CIA lying?

Propelled into the headlines just as the planet of deceit (Neptune) meets up with the planet of morality and law (Jupiter), at issue is the infliction of hideous harm (Chiron) upon incarcerees.… click here to continue reading.

Everybody’s talking nice about greening the economic recovery (if “recovery” is the right word for the ongoing suicide of free-market capitalism).

At the recent G20 summit in London there was plenty of lip service paid to emissions trading to reduce greenhouse gases. The trouble is, several of the signatory governments are getting cold feet; Uncle Sam being a notable example. Plenty of heavy industries were exempted from paying for carbon-trading permits; most permits ended up being granted for free.… click here to continue reading.

“Smithfield Farms.” The name invokes green pastures, happy cows and sweet pink pigs milling around under a blue sky in Pennsylvania or Kansas.

But it is in La Gloria, Veracruz, Mexico that we find the “Smithfield Farms” plant associated with the first case of Swine Flu. The four-year-old boy who is believed to be its ground-zero victim lives near the plant (it would be a stretch to refer to this operation as a “farm,”according to reader Georgeann Johnson, a resident of Mexico who has written about the issue).… click here to continue reading.