Oh My Stars

Have a look at the people in this picture. The picture comes from an ad on a public transit bus in the city where I live. (Fun Fact: I don’t believe I have ever been on a Canadian public transit bus where there wasn’t some kind of Public Service Announcement ad like this, or for…

(CLICK HERE for the month’s major aspects!) Here’s the most important astrological forecast of the month. Really? Yes! Why? Knowing when the Moon Void of Course is happening is probably the handiest of all the common astrological techniques. Learn it, make it work for you, and save yourself tons of unnecessary aggravation! Seriously: you want…

A typical horoscope lays out what you can expect for yourself in the next week or month based on your Sun Sign. That sort of thing is great, sure… especially if you happen to be the only person on your planet. Astrology, like life in general, is a lot more complicated than “there are twelve…

Mars in Aquarius has turned retrograde. Whenever a planet turns retrograde there is some general stock advice that astrologers like to hand out, and in this article I will be doing that. However, I’m also going to have some specifics for you as to what you can expect from this Mars retrograde, which happens between…

On behalf of the management and staff of Beliefnet, I would like to apologize for the (possible) lack of vital and life-changing information that this blog entry could have provided. Good thing you didn’t click here and look! Oh. Here you are anyway. Well, I guess we might as well talk about Neptune retrograde then.…

Koko, the gorilla who learned to speak with sign language, has died just a few days short of her 47th birthday. She was good at communicating, but most people don’t realize that there are many human skills she was completely untalented at. She was born July 4th 1971, time unknown, in San Francisco California. Her…

On the morning of June 20th 2018, Canada became the second country on Earth to completely legalize the recreational use of marijuana. (Before I begin on the astrology though there are two groups of people I would like to address, who I know are absolutely chomping at the bit to get their two cents worth…

(I recently came across this blog entry, which I wrote in 2012, while Neptune was still in the first degree of Pisces, but was unpublished until now. I looked it over and I believe what I had to say still stands. I’ll come back at the end with one final follow-up comment.) Addiction in a…

Stand by for some potentially interesting times in your love life over the next week or so. Venus is in Leo, and that placement has a reputation for loving drama. Drama can be fun, but Venus isn’t getting a whole lot of support from the other planets. Right now and for the next few days,…

Like many of you, my day began today with the news of the death by suicide of Anthony Bourdain. I was a fan of his work and I’ll miss him. For whatever reason, I was particularly flooded with a wave of request by friends and clients and readers to write about this. There have been…

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