Poison Permits

Pluto (toxicity, pollution) is settling in, after four years in Capricorn (economic infrastructures). So far, the transit has taught us quite a bit, in some arenas. For example, before the Wall Street meltdown of 2008 most of us probably hadn’t given a millimeter of brain space to dirty tricks with derivatives. Now, the dangers of casino capitalism are on the public’s radar.

It’s a start. But to match the radical necessity of these times, economic solutions have to go as deep as the ecological peril we are in.… click here to continue reading.

Dec 2012
The Finger of God

Here we are, at last, at the end of 2012: the end of world as we know it.

I am joking. Sort of. I do think that if we play our cards right, we have a chance to make this the end of many aspects of the world, as we have known it. And to usher in a new version of the world. As we want to know it.

The Mayan cycle of thirteen baktuns was 1.8 million days long — 5,125 years — and it ends this month.… click here to continue reading.