The controversial remarks veteran White house correspondent Helen Thomas made last week have ignited a storm of coverage, and her sudden retirement from Hearst on Monday brought a decisive but unsatisfying end to her unparalleled career. The retirement announcement itself seemed more like a last-ditch attempt to exercise some control over the chain of events, [...]
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Uranus in Aries, and an Eastern Take on the Oil Spill (audio)
Thursday put me back in the studio with Melanie Farmer and Keesha Ewers, ARNP, for this week’s Metaphysical Thursday. Last week we took a look at each other’s charts; this week we shifted our focus outward to today’s sky and the front page of the newspaper. In the first segment, Melanie looks at the Gulf oil disaster [...]
NPR Pledge Drive Meets Scorpio Seattle
Listening to the NPR pledge drive pleas over the past week, I kept hearing the local announcers say something that made me think back to Amy Herring’s portrait of Scorpio Seattle. To make your pledge give us a call at (206)543.9595. Or, if you really don’t want to talk to anyone over the phone right [...]
An Oddball Wedding Date – Part 1
When El Pisces and I decided to get married, we knew that choosing a wedding date was going to be a pretty important part of the process- partly because our families are from opposite ends of North America and planning was going to be a chore, and partly because, well, an astrologer just has to [...]
A Scorpionic Seattle?
Fellow Seattleite and evolutionary astrologer Amy Herring is the local astrology writer for Examiner.com, and she posted this article on Seattle’s astrology chart that I’ve just been having a great time thinking about. Turns out, my beloved angsty hometown is a Scorpio sun, which is quite fitting considering its tawdry gold-rush history, goth and grunge [...]
{Artes Liberalis und Artes Mechanicae}
Fresco by Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco, circa 1500. Fries mit Grisaille-Fresken zu den Artes Liberalis und Artes Mechanicae im Casa Pellizzari in Castelfranco Veneto. Szene: Globus, Mond, Sonne (Astronomie) Have a great weekend!
