Out Of Bounds

My colleague Jessica Shephard wrote a short piece about Venus Out Of Bounds a few weeks ago which set me thinking. Out of bounds planets are not something that’s not much discussed by astrologers. We’re all too busy getting our minds around cute new asteroids, imaginary dark points and multiple techniques for progressing a chart, not to mention what house system to use. (I plead guilty, m’lud) However, the idea of “out of bounds” is so simple, so obviously important — and so easy to look up — that I am amazed we don’t check this as a matter of […]

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June Horoscopes…

So anyways, I posted a great meme on my astro facebook page the other day. It said: Retrosexual- when you hook up with an ex during Mercury retrograde and blame the stars… I don’t want to know the details, but…

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Tuesday Toolbox: Lesson 2

So anyways, how did you go with last weeks mini lesson? Ready to keep going? Good. You know how last week you drew a line across the middle of the chart, separating it into northern and southern hemispheres? The top…

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Astro-Notes: John Oliver April 23, 1977

HBO’s Last Week Tonight is hosted by a British comedian with a dry sense of humor that American politicians, Politics, and society royally need. My theory has been to ridicule the powerful as much and as often as possible and John Oliver does not disappoint. In fact, Oliver is brilliant at it–first on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and now on his own, Last Week Tonight.

Sepp Blatter In His Own Words

Despite scandals a-gogo, FIFA has just re-elected its president Sepp Blatter for the 5th time. Swiss-born Blatter is nearly 80 and he’s been in office for 17 years. His rivals have been trying to get rid of him for about half the time he’s been president and last week a whole clutch of FIFA officials were arrested in the US and Switzerland on corruption charges. So why can’t anyone stop him? “I am a mountain goat that keeps going and going and going, I cannot be stopped, I just keep going.” He’s right: with Saturn-Sun conjunction and the North Node […]

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