Lunar Scorpions and Hypervigilance

It wasn’t that late, but it was late. I was out to work up some sweat. It’s safe enough in my street but once I step out, the safety zone ends. There is a dark part of the road to navigate, a big ditch to avoid, ensuring you are not run over by passing traffic (the […]

Sore Loser Republicans, midpoint pictures, and an Ed Schultz video

113th Congress: An Ill-Deserved Summer Vacation

by Jude Cowell

With Congress now on an ill-deserved 5-week recess with its work half done (until September 9th), we’re ‘treated’ to many pundits addressing topics related to Republican obstructionism and their continued dissatisfaction with President Obama and his policies, sore losers that Republicans are.

Perhaps the party’s natal *Sun

StarWatch August 2013

Venus as the Evening Star will brighten considerably between now and December, when she reaches maximum brilliancy at magnitude -4.9 …Continue reading »

It’s Not Rocket Science

No. Really. Astrology is not science.I know this won’t come as a surprise to you, because, well, obviously it’s not science. Astrologers use some scientific data, like the position of the planets at a particular time, and often some good statistics, bu…

Thomas Jefferson on Newspapers and Despots

“The most effectual engines for [pacifying a nation] are the public papers…[A despotic] government always [keeps] a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, [invent] and put into the papers whatever might serve the ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true

The Fantastic T-Square

There’s an aspect brewing this August, and in honour of a fortuitous dream my good girlfriend, Erin Reese, had on my behalf, I’m calling it the fantastic t-square. The fantastic dream had nothing to do with t-squares, not really, except that it was so full of wonder and marvel that I could happily spend the […]

The heart of the matter…

As most of you know, I’ve recently updated my website. At the time I also started talking to a designer about a logo for my business…and that’s where the confusion started. I have no idea what I want my logo…Read more →

On Bees and Bad Transits

I promised you a post on what’s been happening in my life. I decided to write this because I wanted to share with you some of the startling astrological correlations and also to talk a bit about ‘bad transits’. It’s … Cont…