I didn't expect a lot on Mother's Day. When my my 16-year-old got up at noon and uttered a groggy “Happy Mother’s Day,” I figured that was it—until I made the mistake of opening the envelope from his school. It contained the grades that were far worse than he’d led me to believe. This is an old battle between us, but as college looms, and his hormones rage, we’ve both become … [Read more...]
Mercury stationed retrograde yesterday and my bank denied the personalized image I requested for my credit card (it seems I don't own the copyright to Botticelli's Birth of Venus...but oh, in my heart, I do!). I also got a parking ticket and my iPod stopped working. Part of me loves Mercury retrogade. It's the sleep time of the mental cycle when the busy analytical mind hands … [Read more...]
According to the GAO, every year, influenza brings an average 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations in the United States--but suddenly the flu is news! For days hysterical media outlets have been busy counting single digit flu deaths around the globe, with panicky newscasters proclaiming "ten million deaths" could follow. Louise Hay says that "fear" and "mass negativity" … [Read more...]
Recently a famous guru visited our town and offered "darsan". A couple hundred of us descended on the church, then knelt and crawled to the little rug where we offered our bent heads to her transformative touch. I admit it: I felt nothing. But I did feel something a couple weeks later in the YMCA parking lot. As I opened my car door, a toddler appeared (his mother was … [Read more...]
Another sign of the recession: Ira Glass recently reported on This American Life that there's a surprising increase of people going to the dentist with broken teeth these days. Apparently there's plenty of grinding, gnashing and serious worry going on--another indication of Saturn-ruled Capricorn's influence on Pluto. Saturn rules teeth and worry, bones and fear. My teeth … [Read more...]
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Jeff Jawer, The Mountain Astrologer
