It takes a Scorpio
My pal Susie at Suburban Guerilla wrote a lovely epitaph about the demise of the very Plutonian Sopranos, and even gave me a shout-out in the process. Thanks, Susie – and farewell, Tony. The fans at Television Without Pity are bitterly divided today on the conclusion of this fine series, …
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Travelogue
No Gemini/Sagittarius full moon would be complete with a travelogue, right? We spent the long holiday weekend making a pilgrimage to San Francisco, and everything was wonderful… the two daylong drives through surprisingly light traffic, the hotel, the meals, the visits with friends and family. Perfection. Even the cats had …
Read MoreGetting Unstuck
Two great friends of ours just made a huge move from San Diego to London. For months, they downsized in preparation for the move; they must have had three or four yard sales, and everytime they visited us they left boxes and bags of household items. They spent weeks scraping …
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Thursday Thirteen Vol. 23
This Saturday (2:00 am PST / 5:00 am EST), Mars and Pluto collide in their last conjunction before Pluto leaves Sagittarius. When irresistible force (Mars) meets the cold, dark collective heart of darkness (Pluto), the result is almost always the ultimate defeat of Mars’ shadow side of reckless, self-destructive temper …
Read MoreAnd then there were 8.
Oh, Pluto… (to the tune of Billy Joel’s “Always a Woman”): “You’re always a planet to me!” Well if Pluto’s not a planet, I’d certainly like an explanation for the doomed, hellish landscape of my life between 1994 and 2004. And my Moon, bedevilled by its natal square to Pluto …
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MMMmmmm
Well, I’m happy to report that the Pluto Monologues went over pretty well; I truly had no way of guessing which way it would go, since it was kind of an unusual talk. But my friends and colleagues at SDAS were, as always, warm and welcoming, and endured my 90 …
Read MoreThe Pluto Monologues
If you’re in San Diego and would like to listen to me blather in person, drop by the San Diego Astrological Society‘s monthly meeting this Friday, April 14 at 7:30 pm. My lecture, on Pluto transits and ethnographic astrology, is cunningly entitled “The Pluto Monologues.” God knows how the thing …
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Mano a mano
Mars in Gemini opposes Pluto this weekend; and when the irresistable force of Mars goes mano a mano with the immovable force that is Pluto, Pluto comes out on top every time. The way it works is this: Mars stomps its feet and demands to have its own way, while …
Read MoreThe point was the rope.
What happens to us when we get into our forties? After a lifetime of appeasement and making nice, I have absolutely lost the knack for putting up with people’s crap. I’m practically brawling with people in the streets. Granted, transiting Pluto has been squaring my natal Mars seemingly forever, so …
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Tell me what you’re thinking.
Early Sunday morning – meaning, we’ll be feeling it most today and tomorrow – Venus will oppose Pluto. Pluto in hard aspect to Venus always puts me in mind of a bandit holding up a bank in an old-time western. “Gimme all yer money!” Pluto hisses, low and mean — …
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