The AI freakout has formally begun. Let’s pull on our big-girl pants and get real about robots. Panic engulfed the ecosphere this summer when it was revealed that some naughty little bundles of AI text had gone rogue. (Don’t the words “agents” “escaping their sandbox” call up the image of…
Who’d have thought Americans could get so hopped up about ancient literature? English teachers and internet historians are having an improbable field day. Symbol readers, too, have caught Odyssey fever. Movies are to modern society what myths were to the ancients: they present big, timely themes the mass mind is…
Uncle Sam is having a hell of a 250th. He’s staggering around in confusion, like somebody who attends a big national party and looks up from his twenty-dollar cheeseburger only to find there’s nobody else there. Oceans rise, empires fall If you’re in America right now, you’re part of the…
It’s always personal with Trump. He dominates as Henry VIII did in England, or Caligula did in Rome. His trip to China wasn’t about US-China relations, it was about Trump-Xi relations. Everybody knows that Trump’s behavior has nothing to do with statecraft or geopolitics. That is, everybody except the traditional…
How do we understand a world unhinged by the psychosis of one man? No easy answer to that one, even for symbol readers. But a starting point, for astrologers, is to see certain public figures as modern myths: personifications of something the Universe wants to teach humanity. We decode transits…
Well, it never worked before, so let’s try it again. Only this time, let’s do it with a drunken captain at the wheel. Israel has dreamed for decades of a splintered, broken Iran. Netanyahu has been grooming Washington for 30 years to swoop in and make it happen. After multiple…
You could see from his face what a good man he was. Each detail that emerged about Alex Pretti’s life and death was like an icepick to the heart. It felt like our brother had died. He was a caretaker, murdered because he came to someone else’s aid. His death…
“Joy is great, isn’t it?” Those were the first words of the first blog I wrote for MotherSky, back in November of 2008. Obama had just won, and people like me were dancing in the streets. Now Mamdani has won in New York. Another charismatic outlier, setting another record for…
Donaldo needed both a new Epstein distraction and a quick attention fix. A packed stadium somewhere. So he hit upon the surreally ill-advised idea of ordering Secretary KegsBreath to summon 800 of the highest-ranking generals (the top guys, a tremendous group, nobody’s ever seen anything like it) to Quantico. Young…
At last, we hear from the survivors. As September began, a microphone was finally handed to the women who, as teenagers, served as party accessories for Jeffrey Epstein and his guests. Uranus (sudden clarity) was stationing in the sky, sending a bolt of lightning through the chaotic murk of the…
