Yesterday afternoon I stopped in my local woowoo bookstore for a minute, and walked out with a stack of great books. Only the first one here is physically new; the others are used book treasures. I found: Noel Tyl’s Guide to Astrological Consultation, by Noel Tyl The Astrology of Fate, by Liz Greene Saturn: A [...]
Archive | July, 2009
The Cosmic 2 x 4
I spend a lot of my consulting time with people who are going through heavy Pluto transits, and I hear the same thing over and over again: Why does it have to SUCK so much?! Let’s face it, a lot of major Pluto transits just plain suck. If it’s squaring off with something in your [...]
The Detox Stellium
I now often refer to the current Jupiter-Chiron-Neptune conjunction as the “detox stellium”, but it’s important for me to make clear that it was not me who dreamed up this brilliant label, but the lovely and talented Molly Cliborne. Since I’m a big believer in giving credit where credit is due, here are her posts [...]
Solar Eclipse Review – 22 July 2009
On Wednesday, July 22nd 2009 (late July 21, if you’re in North America) the eastern hemisphere basked underneath the longest solar eclipse of the twenty-first century, reaching a maximum of 6 minutes and 39 seconds in some areas. Since the path of totality cut across so many major cities in Asia- Surat, Vadodara, Bhopal, Varanasi, [...]
Solar Eclipse – 21/22 July 2009
I have an upcoming recap of the 22 July 2009 solar eclipse, but for now I’ll let some of the event photos speak for themselves:
Astrology in Fine Art
(An illuminated manuscript from the 15th-century Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, a Book of Hours) Astrology has been a popular topic with artists for hundreds of years. From sculptures and inscriptions in Egypt and the Fertile Crescent, to Renaissance and Baroque paintings, to fine illustrations from all eras, astrology captures the artist’s imagination. [...]
A Tarot Q&A
What exactly is tarot, anyway? Tarot, fundamentally, is the use of oracle cards that display a set of archetypes and images to gain insight into a question or situation. The images and structure of a tarot deck have been distilled into a commonly accepted framework, although there are hundreds of variations. Cards should at least [...]
Full Moons and Singing Bowls (video)
The recent night of July 7th was the full moon in Capricorn, as well as a much-discussed lunar eclipse. My local teahouse/metaphysical shop hosted a crystal bowl ceremony, which drew an unexpectedly huge crowd- nearly fifty people, which was almost unheard of for them. Debra Kelly arrived with a full complement of quartz crystal bowls, [...]
