Sagittarian Self Portraits: Half Human Half Beast

Lucien Freud, Dec 8, 1922. Not someone you’d want to take to tea with grandma.There’s a darkness to Sagittarius. Often it’s hidden behind a bold front – a big belly, a tornado of talk or just loudness. Sagittarius is the first sign of the zodiac to b…

Bliss and Bintang

I write this from a pool lounge in Bali in the most beautiful resort I have ever stayed in.
It is Monsoon season here & the rain has not long stopped. There is the tiniest squirrel-iest squirrel leaping from tree to tree, I have an ice cold Bintang…

Mary Plumb’s list of Winter Solstice 2011 blogs

How fabulous when astrologer and writer Mary Plumb publishes a yearly round-up of Solstice Week blogs over at Mountain Astrologer Magazine!Along with the many amazing blogs on Mary’s list, it makes me happy as a puppy with two tails that Stars Over Wa…

North Korea: The Tyrant is Dead, Long Live the Tyrant

A stamp commemorates Kim Jong Il’smeeting with Hu Jintao.Well, it’s been quite a year for departures, has it not. Ben Ali, Mubarak Bin Laden. Berlusconi, Papandreou, Havel. Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s beloved, is just the latest leader to vacate his thr…

12.19.11 House votes @ 6:30 pm as Orwell Rolls Over

Tonight at 6:30 pm est, when recorded voting begins in the House, America’s natal Mercury Rx ’25Can’ (“A Man Wrapped in an Invisible Mantle of Power”) rises which shivers me timbers and chills my bones. It’s an Hour of Mercury 6Sag21 in 5th H of risk-…