Roughly a metric buttload (what? it’s a measurement!) of planets are currently moving through Scorpio, and people can’t stop talking about it. Of course, it doesn’t take much to get people talking about Scorpio. We’re fascinated…
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How to Write an Astrology Book in 11 Weeks
I just finished writing a 400-page astrology book in eleven weeks. I did it without collaborators or ghost writers, and while I managed to recycle a limited amount of material from my archives, it didn’t amount to much. Still, I met my terrifyingly t…
Aries New Moon: The One We Feed
Striking balance at this Aries New Moon offers some vital challenges. Instead of exciting your lower instincts with messages of anger, attacks, and retaliation, feed your positive Aries warrior wolf by taking positive action to support your beliefs. There is a fight going on inside you, and me, and every other person, too. Which wolf will win? The one we feed….
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Intermission.
Yesterday I turned in the first half of my manuscript. Despite the insane deadline, writing this book is going far more smoothly than the first; I’ve already written a portion equivalent to the entire length of my first book, and in a third the…
New Moon in Virgo: Less Than Perfect
New Moon in Virgo Wednesday, September 8, 2010 3:30 am PDT/6:30 am EDT Sun and Moon at 15.41 Virgo Less Than Perfect When you get right down to it, life is a grand mess – and in fact, it’s kind of beautiful that way. Maybe everything is already…
Why yes, I *am* crazy, thank you.
I’m writing another book. Because yes, I am that crazy, thank you. I have until October 22 to write about 350 pages. Of which I’ve completed about 50 so far. See? Crazy….
I Survived the August 2010 Cardinal (Anti-)Climax and all I got was this stupid t-shirt
When the Moon entered Cancer and Venus entered Libra on Friday, the astrological world held its collective breath. These two fast-moving celestial bodies were, we felt, the catalysts that would galvanize the slow-building and long-anticipated cardina…
Remember that marriage survey?
A couple of years ago, many of you were kind enough to participate in my survey about marriage. The results of the project can be found in my article “When Will I Get Married?”, which appears in the Aug/Sep 2010 issue of The Mountain Astrol…
Eclipse fallout: Impermanence as a good thing
I woke this morning thinking about how exhausting that lunar eclipse on Saturday was, and about how I’m just beginning to find my balance. And my mind kept returning to this old essay about the impermanence of things – right down to the e…
The Upside of Eclipses
Eclipses are coming! Eclipses are coming! Time to hide under the bed, batten down the hatches, buy duct tape to seal off the doors and windows? In a word, no. But we astrologers can sound a little like tabloid journalists as we breathlessly – urg…