The Other Side, Part Two
(For Part One, click here.) We (Not You), the People Everywhere we look, cultural institutions are dissolving. What’s the best way to participate in this chaotic historical moment without losing our sanity? Or, to put it in more spiritually ambitious terms, how do we express ourselves from the center of our charts while a shit storm […]
Sep 2017
The Furies
The big configuration that puts 2017 on the map is peaking this month. This is the Jupiter-Uranus/ Eris-Pluto T-square. The last two Jupiter oppositions with Eris, exact to the minute of arc, take place Sept 9th and 27th. During 2017 this column has covered the symbolism of Jupiter in Libra (fairness and equality), its opposition […]
The Other Side, Part One
Beyond Incredulity It’s hard, isn’t it? watching Trump’s most vicious fans on the march, righteous and emboldened. It is painful in a different way — as in, bitterly ironic — to watch marginalized rural folks cheering for policies that would eviscerate their own interests. It is galling to see struggling, out-of-work Americans fawning over a billionaire who […]
Aug 2017
Behind the Moon
For a while now, astrologers have been looking at the transits of late summer 2017 with mixed emotions: some with dread and some with awe, but all with great respect. Uncle Sam singled out The Great American Eclipse, so called because its path of totality highlights the USA from coast to coast, coincides with the New Moon of August 21st. This tells […]
Truth or Dare: Major Transits of 2017
Originally published in The Mountain Astrologer, Feb/Mar 2017 The opposition between Jupiter (understanding) and Uranus (shifts and shocks) will be asking Americans to get real in a new way this year. Worldwide, it will rattle complacencies. Starting in December ‘16, we saw an upswing of urgency against a backdrop of long-term crises. The confusion and chaos […]
Jul 2017
Dive Right In
Mars sets off the Cardinal Cross this month, igniting our gnarliest issues. Problems that have been dogging us for years make themselves known, daring us forward. If we’re smart, we’ll dive right into them. “Can you cook and sew, make flowers grow?” (1) Mars is now in Cancer (6/4-7/20), a moody, close-to-home placement. In this sign […]
Donald Trump and the USA Chart
Originally published in The Mountain Astrologer, Feb/Mar 2017 With his progressed Sun moving into his first house (significant beginnings) and Jupiter trining his Sun/Uranus for most of 2017, Donald Trump’s electoral success makes astrological sense. This is the year of his Jupiter Return, a year to cash in on many fronts (2nd house). Cardinal Cross But it […]
Skeptical but Aware
We know that what we see on the news isn’t reality. On some level of awareness, everybody knows that no matter what type of corporate media they’re watching — straight-up propaganda like Fox News, or propaganda-lite like CNN — they’re seeing a carefully sanctioned story line. But this doesn’t let us off the hook for what’s going on in our world. It doesn’t […]
Jun 2017
Fairness Awareness
There are five planetary ingresses in June. Nearly half the solar system is moving from one sign into another. On the 6th Mercury moves into Gemini, and Venus into Taurus. Each is entering the sign of its rulership. Our mental functioning (Mercury) will be especially quick and active for a couple of weeks. Aesthetically and emotionally (Venus), artistic […]
Apocalyptic Comic Strip, Part 2
(Continued from Part 1) Still not getting it It isn’t for any lack of information. An avalanche of critical consensus has described what happened in November as a massive rejection, by ordinary Americans, of the status quo. Trump’s win has been called “a very, very bad answer to some very good questions.” In a colossal waste of opportunity, those questions are still not […]