“We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.…
Libra Full Moon: Things Fall Apart
Aries New Moon: Hold Your Power
Recently, a friend and I visited Old Town here in San Diego to seek Zoltar’s counsel. He had disappeared from his former location, so a manhunt was required. But at last we found him, in the foyer of the Alamo restaurant.…
Libra Full Moon: Bonding in the Broken Places
Born with a cleft lip and eyes of two different colors, seven-year-old Madden Humphreys often came home in tears after bullies at his school called him “ugly” and even worse names.…
Pisces New Moon: Go Surfing
One stormy day, a distraught man walked far out onto a jetty, as high waves crashed around him. In deep despair, he thought how all he had to do was take one step forward, and his troubles would be over.…
Leo Blood Moon Eclipse: Us vs. Them
The United States has become a battleground. Like Yankees and Confederates in the Civil War, we find ourselves on opposite sides of the fence, unable or unwilling to bridge the gap.…
Capricorn New Moon Eclipse: Making Your Intentions Stick
Few would dispute that positive thoughts make us happier, and negative thoughts bring us down. So it would make sense that visualizing a positive future would help us create it. And to some extent, it does.…
Scorpio New Moon: Wrestling with Demons
It’s been an unusually bleak time lately, between bomb threats, hate-motivated shootings and pre-election political rancor. The Sun and Mercury are dredging the depths of Scorpio, while Jupiter transits the final degrees of that dark, inscrutable sign, spotlighting life-or-death struggles – and the power to overcome them.…
Virgo New Moon: A Physical Reset
In his book, The Jack LaLanne Way to Vibrant Health, the fitness guru wrote that as a boy he was addicted to sugar and junk food, and suffered from headaches and bulimia.…
Pisces New Moon: The Wounds that Bind
Oscar Wilde, Irish poet, playwright and bon vivant, was sentenced to two years’ hard labor in 1895 – for the crime of being homosexual. During the time he was incarcerated, Wilde became determined to turn his suffering into a spiritual journey.…
Virgo Full Moon: Back to Earth
Life has been quite a roller coaster ride since last August’s total solar eclipse in Leo. Like it or not, we’re being revolutionized. This crazy energy reached a peak at the Feb.…
Taurus Full Moon: Resurrect Your Dream
Lately I’ve been re-reading my 2001 travel journal, the account of a five-month road trip in which I visited earthen homes in six states and interviewed those who create and live in them.…
The Great American Eclipse Through the Signs
Read the forecast for your Sun sign, and if you know what house 28-29 degrees Leo falls in for you, read that as well.
LEO/1st house: You could experience a radical shift in self-image, your relationship to your body or how you present yourself.…
Pisces Solar Eclipse: Hold Onto Your Horses!
The Horses of Neptune by Walter Crane
March, 2015 marked a turbulent time in my life. I was struggling to find my footing in my business and casting about in vain for the topic of my next book.…
Full Moon Eclipse: Super Bloom!
Did you feel the Sun burst into Aries on Saturday night at the Spring Equinox? It was like a torrent of energy had been let loose – Spring has definitely sprung!…