Oh My Stars

As many of you have probably heard, when the Moon is “Void of Course,” it’s a bad time to start a new project. Or finish an old one. Or… well, let’s face it, a Void of Course Moon is just a good excuse to slack off. In that spirit, and as a writer and an…

A team of researchers have recently determined that chimps and orangutans have personalities: individual variable traits like extroversion and neurosis and such. Of course this should come as no surprise, not only given that apes are close relatives of ours… but if you’ve ever know many cats or dogs or parrots, you already know that…

(Full disclosure: I am — all tea, no shade — a huge fan of RuPaul, squirrelfriends) “I do not impersonate females! How many women do you know who wear seven inch heels, four foot wigs, and skintight dresses?” -RuPaul Back when I was a kid, if you asked someone how many “gender identities” there were,…

Happy Star Wars Day! If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you’ve probably come to the conclusion that I am some kind of Science Fiction nerd… and you would be absolutely correct. I’ve written about Star Wars from a few different angles, from its usefulness as a metaphor to looking at the birth…

“When you hear about slavery for 400 years… for 400 years? That sounds like a choice.” Wait… what? *** Kanye West, born June 8th 1977 in Atlanta Georgia is having some difficult transits lately. There’s some controversy over his time of birth: the most commonly accepted chart has him having been born at 8:45 AM,…

(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…

I have now been the astrology columnist at Beliefnet for 700 blog entries (this is actually number 701, my recent article on the season premiere of Westworld and the Saturn-Pluto conjunction being officially number  700). Some of you have been here since the beginning, and some of you are new arrivals. In either case, I…

(Mild spoilers for both Season One of Westworld on HBO and for the upcoming Saturn-Pluto conjunction) Once upon a time there was a magical place of wonder where the rich and powerful could live out their fantasies at the expense of those less fortunate than themselves. Life there was good for everyone, except of course…

Internationally successful electronic dance music artist and producer Avicii has died at the age of 28. He was born September 8th 1989, time unknown, Stockholm Sweden. These are the bare facts. Feeling my way through the darkness Guided by a beating heart I can’t tell where the journey will end But I know where to…

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