I'm familiar with the feng shui principles of clearing clutter and beautifying my home to improve my good fortune. So it was a "duh!" moment when I realized that for months it's seemed like my money has been rolling out the door--and sure enough, in the wealth quadrant of my house, the patio door no longer automatically swings shut. Not only is it letting in flies, it's … [Read more...]
It's another Cancer New Moon. "Be nourished" is a favorite slogan of my Cancer rising friend Rebecca, who has introduced me to so many delightfully healthy foods that often in my kitchen I sing impromptu prayers of gratitude. I thought of Rebecca this week when I read Roger Cohen's excellent NYT Op Ed about a longevity study done with rhesus monkeys. Apparently, the 27-year-old … [Read more...]
It's ironic that the 24-hour-news pundits think Gov. Mark Sanford talks too much, as I've had the same thought about them many times. I'm not nearly as interested in politicians' love lives as the news outlets think I am. Even so, I find it refreshing that Sanford--a chatty Gemini Sun with an emotional Cancer Moon--keeps talking about his feelings, how he's met his soulmate, … [Read more...]
Gifted astrologer Lois Rodden taught that Jupiter--planet of abundance and good fortune--is often involved in death charts, because from the soul's point of view, death is a liberation, a passport to a new journey. Michael Jackson died just as the sky's current Jupiter/Neptune conjunction moved into a beneficial trine with Jackson's natal Jupiter. Jackson was born under a … [Read more...]
Family vacation—two words that have long inspired such terror in me, that when I told my 16-year-old son we’d be driving to the IONS conference on global transformation with my partner Robert and his kids, I was shamed by his bright reply: “Oh boy, my first real vacation!” Had I been ruled by my past that long? I remember childhood vacations, trapped in a car made miserable by … [Read more...]
