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…

Something about telling the stars…

Tuesday August 6 Moon in Leo We’re in the dark or balsamic phase of the Moon at present- the New Moon is just around the corner- more on that later. New Moons are always pretty special. Part of this is…Read more →

This is who I am….

We’ve talked before about how the stationing degree of a planet- especially an outer planet- is important. Because the outer planets move so slowly and take a while to pick up any sort of speed, they tend to be at…Read more →