In his weekly radio address today President Obama has called for Republicans to stop their symbolic battles, battles which seem to this blogger to be meant in part as a salve to the Tea Partisans watching GOPers closely for backtracking on their promises to do things differently than Congress’ previous sorriness.And the millions of dollars that GOP ‘symbolism’ has cost the US taxpayer during only
Astrology and the News: Massive Animal Kills Captures Media Attention
(Astrology Explored) Fellow astrology blogger (Astrology Explored) Lynn Hayes asked our Astrology Blogger group if anyone found any astrological correlations between the recent massive bird kills reported in the media for the past several days. Various colleagues speculated on shifts … Continue reading →
8 January 2011: A Pisces Moon, and a Little Time Travel
The 5 AM hour of the 8th sees the Pisces Moon sextile Pluto, offering a window for deep contemplation, meditation, or emotional purging, but all with a positive result. The only negative is if this hooks into your chart in … Continue reading →
Daily Planets Sunday 9/1/11 And a recipe! Plum Bakewell Tart
Anyone else got that urge to space out? Five Foot Nothing just came back from next door with an invite for a pantry mashup BBQ and I can’t even summon the mental strength to decide- chicken or steak? Yep, the Moon is in Pisces and for the rest of…
Daily Planets Saturday 8/1/11 All About Steamboats
Phew Saturday! This has been one helluva week. Routine shot to pieces with Five Foot Nothing being on holidays & swimming twice a day, work busier than it has been in months (actually, that is a good thing), emotions running very high & extrem…
Jon Stewart unFriends Facebook (video) and so will I
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon – Thurs 11p / 10cThe Anti-Social Networkwww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical Humor & Satire Blog</a>The Daily Show on Facebook
Here’s Jon Stewart’s hilarious take on recent FaceBook developments. Personally I had already decided to ‘unFriend’ FB, too, ever since the news broke of Goldman-Sachs and RUSSIA sticking their camel noses under the FB
Dream Come True This Weekend? The Waxing Moon in Pisces.
If you believe that the Moon influences our lives…..drawing things out as it moves towards fullness and closing things down as it darkens…..then you should pay attention to it’s phases and the signs that it passes through. The Moon en…
7 December, I mean, 7 January 2011: Sudden Turns
11 AM PST the Moon’s conjunct Neptune, and soon thereafter conjunct Chiron. Can we separate these two conjunctions? or must Neptune/ Chiron blend into a stringy, sticky fondue that coats the emotions (mmm, cheese metaphors!) We can separate them, oh …
Vengeance is mine, sayeth Venus in Scorpio
…and after nearly four long months, we bid a fond adieu to Venus in Scorpio. In the dying days of this long transit, I happened to catch a couple of extremely Venus in Scorpio-evocative things on cable. One was “Cousin Bette,” starrin…
Astrology and Art: Capricorn Self-Portraits
There are two main ways I like to use astrology when I’m thinking about art.1. Knowing an artist\s birth chart or simply natal Sun can give you real insight into how planets might work out in real life. Works of art are a non-verbal expression of chara…
