Tower of Babel, Part 2
The Official Story I don’t think anyone doubts, at this point in American history, that the mass media frames the official narrative. Much is made of the fact that different media fiefdoms lean either to the “left” (HuffPo, MSNBC) or “right” (those earnest liberals now gobsmacked with incredulity about where all the Trump supporters came […]
Tower of Babel, Part 1
Point of Entry I notice I’m not the only astrologer who’s been feeling reluctant to write about the presidential election. What is it about partaking in this great national conversation that feels so prickly? Besides my Moon in Sagittarius? I think it’s because we smell the danger, to mind and spirit, of getting dragged into […]
Oct 2016
Keeping Us on Our Toes
Don’t get comfortable. We aren’t supposed to be settling in, right now. The transits upon us are not about complacency, they’re about mass destabilization; and the more on-board we are with them, the more creative we will be. Things are rocking and shifting. Our goal should be to align ourselves with the tumult, and let […]
Sep 2016
Faith and Doubt
September is upon us. The biggest celestial event of the year, the Saturn-Neptune square, reaches its third and last exactitude on the 9th and 10th. Coming to a head right now are the issues we’ve been looking at in the Skywatches throughout this year. Since late 2015 when the square began, the world has been […]
Aug 2016
The Lie that Tells the Truth
This month is buzzing with the Saturn-Neptune square, a rich and difficult transit. It’s vibrating the hinges off of August from beginning to end. What happens during the next few weeks shouldn’t come as a surprise. All year the Sat/Nept conflict has been rattling our windows with its central theme: How to live in a […]
Jul 2016 Preview
Gunning for Change
We don’t hear much about the Cardinal Cross anymore, but during the first part of July it surges back into life. Our Big Issues – the ones we’ve been confronting since 2010 — will rear their heads… To read the full Skywatch subscribe now.
The Gag Candidate
A Trump U. employee was seen carrying a life-size cutout of its founder into their Manhattan offices. When asked what it was for, he explained that those who signed up for classes were promised a picture with Donald Trump upon graduating. But Trump was traveling, so the students were going to pose with the cutout […]
Jun 2016
Secrets and Lies
We’re being teased, again, with that great cosmic riddle: How to tell the real truth from what passes for truth. The Saturn-Neptune square — the biggest deal of the year, astrologically – is exact again on 6/17-18.(1) Even if we feel we’ve already been tested, we’ll be tested again. During the first week of the […]
May 2016
Queen of the May
In a year bristling with chaos, (1) let us take a few weeks out to celebrate the boundless fertility, order and serenity of Nature. As May begins, half the planets in the pantheon are in earth signs (2). When we connect the dots between their placements in the sky, the configurations they form are sublime. […]
This is Not an Election
What’s happening in the USA makes no sense as a rite of democracy. But it fits this historical moment like a hand in a glove. This most unpresidential of presidential campaigns is a blatant — if distorted — display of the biggest transit in the sky. For several months now, the square from Neptune (erasure) […]