Signs of Potential

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, [...]

Planetary orbital periods are a central part of astrology, because the cycles of transiting aspects are defined by each planet’s orbit. The fastest planets, with short orbital periods, set the short-term rhythms of life, while the outer planets take a lifetime to experience the full cycle, or even just part of it. Because of this [...]

The Time Clock started as an offshoot of Havi Brooks’ nifty weekly check-in ritual, now known as the Friday Chicken, over at The Fluent Self. After years in cooking, and because we’re all about the march of time here, my weekly review requires clocks, and usually kitchen notes. If you want you can join me [...]

I’ve been an irrepressible joke-maker today… after a friend commented on it, I of course joked that I should go read my horoscope. Which I did… like Molly, I keep a subscription to astro.com’s Personal Daily Forecast, since my own things sneak up on me. And lo, my Mercury return arrived late last night! I’ve [...]

Happy solar return to me (yay!), and back to writing here also. I, like so many of you, have been just walloped by some recent mega-transits, and I’m still trying to sort out the wreckage, to wit: an unexpected cross-continent relocation new (old) day job relationship upheaval standard-issue existential crisis that accompanies these things There [...]