They’re coming at us right out of the gate, as 2021 begins: cosmic echoes of 2020. In astrology, the calendar year doesn’t have a singular beginning. Cycles overlap, bleeding one into another. New lessons begin against the backdrop of old ones. The cosmos is saying: You want to know what’s going to happen? Assimilate what you’ve just […]

Whether he wins or loses, we’re not off the hook. First of all, Election Day won’t be just a day long, thanks to the GOP’s blood-curdlingly cynical campaign against non-existent “voter fraud,” their attacks on the post office and polling stations, and Trump’s Oh-yeah?-Make-me! approach to leaving the White House if he loses. These stunts […]

The writing has been on the astrological wall for years. It tells us that systems of governance are breaking down so they can be cleaned up, reshuffled and made over. It’s a natural process, and a healthy one. But we’re probably feeling like dust motes in a windstorm. When we’re in the thick of a […]

Spike Lee is on fire. He has two new releases out, one short and one long, just in the past month. Both films place American racism in historical context. Both are redolent with anguished  humanity. Their timing is so spot-on, given the firestorm unleashed by the killing of George Floyd, that people are calling it […]

Whatever sign it’s in, Saturn uses absence as a teaching tool. Saturn (lack, negation) moved into the Air element in March.(1) This was when the quarantine was at the point where, for some of us, a stolen breath of fresh air had taken on a new poignancy. We are being reminded that we are oxygen-breathing […]

In the biggest crisis since WWII, humanity is mustering its forces against a very small, very formidable villain. But this time, an organized global response has failed to arise. The U.N. Security Council is MIA. The G20 is in the hands of a murderous Saudi prince. And Uncle Sam, once the great architect of Pax […]

We knew something was going to blow. For years now, astrologers saw that 2020 would be a year like no other. We didn’t know that the transits would show up as a 21st-century plague. That was the blank that got filled in. The offending microbe is a lot like Pluto, isn’t it? A teeny tiny […]

There are many layers of meaning to the virus crisis, from the political to the esoteric, and we’ll be looking at some of them in upcoming blogs. Approaching the pandemic from a plurality of angles is our best bet right now. It’s a bad idea to cleave to a preferred ideology, or to glom onto […]

“If Ronald Reagan’s presidency was a tragedy, then Trump’s is history repeating itself as farce.” — Noam Chomsky How do we talk about the sordid drama underway in Washington? The conventional media can only offer up its anesthetized talking heads, who seem as eviscerated by futility as the politicians themselves. Helplessly locked in position, like trench […]

It’s easy to lose our bearings, with outrageous news stories coming at us hourly, as if shot from a gun. Let’s take a moment to regain our astrological balance. We’re in a grey area right now, between the Age of Pisces, now dying, and the Age of Aquarius, famously dawning. Against this backdrop, the Capricorn […]