Grounded

Pluto's retrograde station is explosive; Mercury's is fraught with miscommunications and snafus. Between both events this month (Pluto's on April 6 and Mercury's on April 17), Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull erupted. There was the lord of the underworld appearing in a volcano at the top of the world. There was messenger Mercury (in earth sign Taurus) sending plumes of grit into … [Read more...]

Pluto still a force

I'd begun to think I was living in an alternate universe where things were so grand, its reporters had nothing to talk about but a very-good-golfer's sex addiction. But last week Pluto stationed retrograde and suddenly we have so many difficult things to talk about, words hardly do them justice. En route to commemorating the tragic Katyn massacre, the Polish president, Lech … [Read more...]

Does the Full Moon make you crazy?

Mist covers the landscape. A Full Moon peers through the clouds. In the distance, a wolf howls. Alone in his room, a man grabs his face in horror. Hair sprouts from his hands and face and quickly covers his whole body. His screams convert to throaty growls. Racing into the night on all fours, he's going to kill something. In the horror flicks I grew up on, this was a … [Read more...]

Take the warrior to the temple

New Agers proclaim that New Ages are launching all the time. I confess I’m a little skeptical at the flurry of emails each week, proclaiming how Great Cosmic Forces are opening Windows, or spiriting us along like Soul cattle across some Mystic Prairie. But this year I can’t deny it. Yes… what you’ve been sensing is true. Things have been moving faster. The karma you’ve … [Read more...]

Venus Evening Star Rise

This week Venus reappears as the Evening Star, in the sign of her exaltation (Pisces) and conjunct magnificent Jupiter. I would expect nothing less, as she's been kicking ass during her recent underworld journey (which began just as Tiger Wood's furious wife took a golf club to the cheater's SUV). In my Oregon town (often called "land of a thousand goddesses" for its many … [Read more...]