I have a friend who is also one of my favorite bloggers. Recently, she asked me some fascinating questions in an interview for her blog — questions that had to do with national and world events. I thought I’d expand on those questions a bit here, and use them as examples to illustrate the astrological […]

A book I’m reading got me thinking recently about some of the deeper issues of the current, ongoing Mercury-Neptune square, as Mercury has been retrograding over the degrees of the aspect, dragging out what is usually a very short encounter.  The square aspect generally presents as what a friend of mine called A FOG — […]

“The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts. We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn’t make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn’t live without them.” ~ Wendell Berry The cycles […]

Astrology’s reputation as “unscientific” (which I covered in The Astronomy of Astrology) and “You Don’t Really Believe in Astrology, Do You?” has meant that most people do not understand the full scope of astrology — what astrology actually can do to help us live better lives. Most of us know that it can predict happenings […]

I find that a lot of people shy away from astrology because they believe it is based on incorrect astronomy, and so cannot possibly give accurate information. Perhaps they’ve seen a video by Bill Nye or Neil deGrasse Tyson taking about how the constellations don’t line up with the signs anymore, and that pesky “extra” […]