For several weeks this spring, a shouting Donald Trump made fun of the way Hillary Clinton was shouting. He complained that her voice was shrill and it hurt to hear it. All politicians shout. But women know exactly what it means when they’re accused of being shrill. It’s code for “Your strength is unattractive.” Recently we lost a beautiful strong woman. Basketball coach Pat … [Read more...]
Olympic Retrograde
Mars rules athletics and competitions. So when the Winter Olympics is held during a Mars retrograde, one might expect the difficult and strange. The crash and death of the Georgian luger, Norda Kumaritashvili, made for an unsettling beginning—echoed symbolically by the fourth leg of the Olympic cauldron failing to rise. Lindsey Vonn, arguably the best female skier in the world, … [Read more...]
How I Spent My Solar Eclipse
My hard drive crashed on the solar eclipse—just as Mercury was stationing, directly into the Saturn/Pluto square. The next day, the hard drive on my new laptop--the one I'd purchased in December and had just taken out of the box--also crashed. There was no receipt in the box. I'd bought it online and my only record of purchase was on the other crashed hard drive. My feeling of … [Read more...]
