Four planets, including wild and crazy Uranus, are now in exuberant Aries. And, Mercury is finally picking up speed after its seemingly interminable retrograde. One might conclude that the show can finally hit the road. Yet the fiery, impulsive Aries planets have been duking it out with the edgy Uranus-Pluto square, a discombobulating energy that was particularly strong at … [Read more...]
When I was a kid, we played a storytelling game. "Once there was a girl with blue hair who lived on Mars…" Back and forth a friend and I went. My heroine inevitably ended up at the bottom of the ocean swimming with dolphins and mermaids. Now that the Sun is in the dreamy, undersea world of Pisces, along with Mars, Venus, Mercury, Neptune and Chiron, again I’m diving into … [Read more...]
“If our true nature is permitted to guide our life, we grow healthy, fruitful and happy…yet 98 percent of us die before we taste the nectar of our magnificence.” –Abraham Maslow When first studying astrology in the early 80s, I attended a weekend workshop at Zipporah Dobyns’ rambling old Victorian house in a slightly seedy part of Los Angeles. One of astrology’s late, … [Read more...]
In her recent book, Finding Your Way in a Wild New World, Martha Beck shares the story of Imaculee Ilibagiza, a Tutsi woman who narrowly escaped slaughter in Rwanda’s horrific genocide. “Along with six other women, Ilibagiza took refuge in the home of a Hutu preacher, who hid them all in a spare bathroom about the size of an enclosed phone booth—for three months. Every day … [Read more...]
“At the ‘end of the world as we know it,’ the Unseen World waits to be found again.” –Michael Meade Last week, to allay escalating fears about an impending apocalypse on December 21, Russian officials demanded that the country’s main TV stations stop airing a sensationalized program about Mayan prophecies. The government even took the unorthodox step of reassuring the public … [Read more...]
