Archive | October, 2011

Fingering Wall Street

It’s hard to believe the Occupy Wall Street phenomenon is just over a month old. images Long expected by astrologers, long awaited by progressives and long dreaded by the One Per Cent, the movement hit the ground running.

It expresses the world moment so precisely that it seems to have arisen full-blown, like Athena from the head of Zeus. Germinating since 2008 when Pluto entered Capricorn, it is an organic consequence of the dirty secrets that were revealed when the economy went bust.… click here to continue reading.

Whose Streets?

The corporate media tried to ignore the Occupy Wall Street movement. Lord knows it tried. images Over the past three weeks, as protests filled the streets of New York and started springing up in cities all over the country, the TV news at first played blind, deaf and dumb.

They tried to distract the public with the usual meaningless faux-controversies. But the Equinoctial transits were so powerful that even these non-issues came with subtexts that were inadvertently on-the-mark.… click here to continue reading.

Oct 2011
Seeing in the Dark

To get a bead on the energies of this month, let’s first consider its place in the solar cycle. A time of Dark Mysteries, Scorpio has a strong seasonal character. It is governed by the planet Pluto, governor of taboos and secrets.

Not only the Sun, but Venus and Mercury ingress into Scorpio in October. This will make for a potent Halloween (or Samhain [pronounced SOW-en] in Wicca): our annual celebration of the human desire to know forbidden things .… click here to continue reading.