The planetary formations up in the sky right now are rare and profound, and they’re hitting the USA right between the eyes. There’s a collective destiny at work here. And per the law of synchronicity, the American group soul has conjured up a circumstance perfectly suited to the life-or-death symbolism of a Pluto-Saturn conjunction: that […]

Attacking reporters is a classic gambit of autocrats, and with today’s glut of global tyrants, lethal assaults on journalists are increasing all over the world. Including here, in what is supposed to be a rock-star democracy. But like any tin-pot dictatorship, the USA has a president who calls reporters “enemies of the people.” In fact, […]

As the Trump era careens nauseously forward, the latest bout of huffing and puffing is over the Mueller Report. There was widespread shock and disappointment after its initial release at the Spring Equinox. But whence all this incredulity? We already knew that William Barr, who issued the risibly insufficient summary, was appointed precisely because he […]

Globalization can only go so far before everything goes to shit. All civilizations go through the same stages before they collapse and break up into smaller groups. — Camille Bordas, The State of Nature We know from history that empires are born and die. But, somehow, unless it happened in the distant past, it’s hard […]

Chaos, for astrologers, is as meaningful as any other organic phase. It shows up in times of transition, accompanying waning planetary cycles, such as the four up in the sky right now — all of them wheezing to their respective finish lines (covered in this webinar). Pluto in particular (in Capricorn 2008-23) is doing its […]

Click here for Part One. Dr Decay Pluto is about death and putrefaction. If you’re looking for a breath of fresh air, it’s probably not the first planet you think of. But I would argue that it is the most refreshing of all cycles to track right now, because it forces us to take the long […]

Saturday’s wedding at Windsor Chapel won’t mean much in a week. Hyperventilating fans will get their breath back, and pounce upon some new tidbit to distract them from global crises. But if we view all mass events – the great, the small, and the artificially inflated – as emblematic of the world moment, the spectacle was […]

Alpha Dogs After more than a decade of moving fast and breaking things, [Zuckerberg] should slow down and clean up the mess. — Andrew Marantz We have an extraordinary chance this month to consider some of the key themes underlying world events of the past decade. And what it might look like to take responsibility […]

Native Son (For Part Two, click here.) There are ways of looking at this appalling presidency that have nothing to do with politics per se. Those of a Jungian frame of mind, for example, might propose that Trump is a creation of the collective consciousness. A transpersonal astrologer, and even some historians, might say that he is not an aberration but an epitome. Uncle Sam’s Evil […]

(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 […]