The Ballad of Bin Laden

There are two opposing narratives about Osama Bin Laden. One is that he is an evil terrorist, who darkly manipulates invisible minions around the world and is responsible for the deaths of thousands. The other is that he is a martyr for Islam, fighting…

Cardinality, Control And The Angles

“It’s really about control, my body, my mind. Who was going to own it? Them? Or me? I’m not a one-man woman. Bottom line.”
–Nora Darling, She’s Gotta Have It (Spike Lee)

NPR turns 40 today with a Uranus/Chiron opposition

Looking at the natal horoscope of NPR’s first-ever broadcast of All Things Considered, it’s interesting to note a few of the astro-factors shown.Broadcaster Jupiter Rx 3Sag58 (‘4Sag’ = "A Little Child Learning to Walk"!) is in process of its Great Conjunction with Neptune 2Sag13 Rx in 2nd house with Neptune representing media and its masses of listeners. Let’s consider – not all things – but a

Going A-Maying

Here is what the English poet Robert Herrick wrote about the morning of the first of May, about 400 years ago, in Corinna’s Gone A-Maying. Read it and feel a rush of blood to the head.Flora designed by William MorrisGET up, get up for shame! The bloomi…