Vive la Résistance!
Part Two: Sea of Lies
Social media is a perfect fit for the Trump brain, an organ that has proven itself creepily savvy without being intelligent. Ideally, the media (from mediate) exists to provide a bridge of thought between a given news event and the mass mind. But Trump’s “shadow government by Twitter” (the Guardian) has gotten around this. His febrile little midnight tweets, […]
Mar 2017
Golden Rule
As the month begins, the transit that puts 2017 on the map(1) reaches its peak. On March 2nd and 3rd, the second of three Jupiter-Uranus oppositions is exact to the minute of arc. Jupiter retrograde Jupiter is retrograde at the moment; conventional wisdom says this is not the time to launch big projects. Until this big […]
Vive la Résistance!
Part One: Inside the Gate
I like the fact that we, the anti-Trump multitudes, are being called The Resistance. My Moon in Sadge gets off on being anointed with this historically dignifying term. All the same, maybe we shouldn’t capitalize it, just yet. It feels a bit presumptuous for American progressives, a relatively cosseted lot, to identify ourselves with the brave anti-fascists of […]
Feb 2017
Rejecting the Intolerable
Mercury kicks off the Uranus-Jupiter opposition on the first two days of February, igniting the year’s big cardinal T-square. (1) Whatever arises during these few days is a statement about the key lessons facing us. Whether the event is inner or outer, respond to it with awareness. If you find yourself reacting, instead, that’s okay. […]
Welcome to the Kakistocracy
Sisters and brothers, it’s time to shake off our spiritual hangover from November. Things are happening very fast since the Clown Prince was inaugurated. A high level of alertness is required right now. No small feat, maintaining alertness during times like these. But by astrological logic, there’s a link between the intensity of world events […]
Fool’s Gold
Fellow Americans, we are entering the next phase of our country’s nervous breakdown.(1) Time to zoom out from the chaos with a cosmic wide-angle lens. When an individual has a psychotic break, their sense of fundamental reality starts to drop away. When a group has one, what drop away are the cultural structures that are […]
Jan 2017
A Well-Crafted Poem
2017 begins with a lesson about the fictional nature of reality. The Mars-Neptune conjunction on New Year’s Day asks us to accept that the world is slippery and unknowable. The best approach is a bemused spiritual detachment: to stand outside of events, in observation mode. If our behavior (Mars) vacillates and equivocates right now (Neptune), […]
Dec 2016 Preview
Swan Song
The feeling that’s in the air right now – that of crisis of faith — began the year, set the tone for its twelve months, and is resounding more vocally than ever as the calendar year winds to a close. Only now it’s spiked up with what Uranus-Eris hath wrought: the results of the November […]
Nov 2016
Fair is Fair
The most important transit of November takes place on an American holiday devoted to gratitude. This is an utterly appropriate approach to the Jupiter-Pluto square. Gratitude is the most fitting response to any transit of Jupiter, the planet of unasked-for blessings, or “fortune” (1). Unlike Saturn, its evil twin, Jupiter does not require that we […]
Tower of Babel, Part 3
The Buck Stops Here In this series we’ve looked at some of the assumptions underlying the media onslaught about the election. We’ve considered how it boxes us into a worldview not our own. This is true of all media messaging. Is it possible to think outside of the box when we can’t see its walls? […]