No sign bounces back from infamy as quickly as charming Gemini. It seems like just yesterday when Gov. Mark Sanford--a chatty Gemini Sun with an emotional Cancer Moon--called a press conference to talk about his feelings and confess it was a fib that he was walking the Appalachian Trail; instead, he admitted that had met his soul mate, that he had crossed moral lines before, … [Read more...]
Bang Your Special Drum
Earlier this year, the people-who-have-nothing-better-to-do raised a ruckus about 4-year-old Shiloh Jolie-Pitt dressing like a boy. Apparently she likes short hair, boys' neckties, jackets and hats. Mon dieu! In a Vanity Fair article, mom Angelina Jolie admitted yes, her kid "dresses like a little dude," and later elaborated for Reuters: "I think she (Shiloh) is … [Read more...]
Loose lips and Mercury retrograde
Mid-April 2010: The planes were grounded, liquor was flowing, and Mercury was retrograde during the weeks that journalist Michael Hastings traveled with General McChrystal and dutifully recorded the comments that eventually got the General fired. Mercury retrograde is the sleeptime of the mental cycle, when travel plans are derailed (what was supposed to be a two-day meeting … [Read more...]
The Wrath of the Feminine
The Moon rules women--mothers, daughters, wives; also one's own emotional seas and tides. It rules the public too, whose affections can storm, ebb, and flow with the passion of Mother Nature. Tiger Woods knows this intimately now, as Uranus, strengthened by its direct station, recently squared his Moon, liberating sordid images of the feminine from his underworld and splashing … [Read more...]
Newsflash: A Gemini Can’t Shut Up
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...]