Award-winning photographer Alice Smeets has an uncanny connection to Haiti. Her latest project, Ghetto Tarot, transforms familiar Tarot images into bold, earthy scenes shot on location in that beleaguered but beautiful land.…
Leo Full Moon: Show Us What You’ve Got!
He was weird and wonderful – a unique hybrid of showman and alien. When David Bowie passed, just two days after his January 8 birthday, I ran to look up his chart.…
Cancer Full Moon: Family is Where You Find It
You never know who may be watching your back.
At the height of the Depression, Martin Klapper’s family was forced to go on welfare. Christmas looked bleak. A few days before the holiday, ten-year-old Martin looked out a kitchen window to see his father sitting on the stoop, head in hands.…
Gemini Full Moon: Let Us Give Thanks
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Taurus Full Moon: Protect What You Hold Dear
“Everything is speaking to us, and we are speaking to everything.” –Doryan Dean
I’ve been spending more time in my backyard lately, communicating with my enormous pepper tree. Each day I ask it a question (a practice suggested by Jean Houston).…
Blood Moon Eclipse: What’s Your New Superpower?
Over a two-year span from 1967 to 1968, I went from a chubby, awkward child to a slender, sexy guy-magnet (not that I knew how to handle my new superpower!) In the world at large, the hippie movement burst onto the scene with the Summer of Love, and the Civil Rights Act was finally signed – but not before its most persuasive advocate, Martin Luther King Jr.,…
Pisces Full Moon: Fill Your Bucket
Yesterday I got a message from a client, asking if the world is really going to end in September. Apparently there have been reports of impending doom, from an asteroid hitting the earth (disproved by NASA) to the culmination of a series of Blood Moons predicted in the Bible to mark the end days.…
Brags and Blue Moons
I just watched a great little interview, in which the inspiring Regena Thomashauer (aka Mama Gena) shares how she begins all her staff meetings with what she calls the Holy Trinity.…
July 1 Full Moon: Pride and Patriotism
As Independence Day approaches, many are cheering the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn same-sex marriage bans, while others are tearing Confederate flags down from government buildings in the wake of the horrific shooting of nine black churchgoers by a young white supremacist in Charleston.…
Sagittarius Full Moon: Cutting Thru the Hype
Between the dawn of civilization and 2003, approximately 5 exabytes of information were created. Now that much info gets churned out every two days – much of it devoted to glamorous couples like Brad and Angie, Kanye and Kim.…
Scorpio Full Moon: The Call of Nature
Happy Beltane! We may not run wild in the fields anymore to celebrate this ancient fertility festival, but the call to connect with nature is stronger than ever before. Jon Stewart certainly heard it.…
Libra Full Moon Eclipse: Are You a Lone Wolf?
In America, 27 percent of people now live alone. In other parts of the world, the figure is even higher – 32 percent in Japan, 47 percent in Sweden. Some of these folks may be enjoying the single life, but others are just plain lonely.…
Virgo Full Moon: Live Long and Prosper!
Yesterday, astrologer Michael Lutin honored the passing of Leonard Nimoy by posting a picture of his alter-ego, Mr. Spock. Lutin called Spock’s iconic split-fingered salute (inspired by a Yiddish blessing that impacted Nimoy as a child) “a symbol of the Uranus-Pluto conjunction, a permanent change in human consciousness and a testimony to the brother-sisterhood of all beings in the galaxy and beyond.”…
Leo Full Moon: Your Divine Spark
Some people are born knowing who they are. They shoot straight out of the womb and onto a fast track to fulfilling their desires, never looking back. I’m sure you know someone like this – it may even be you.…
Cancer Full Moon: Compassionate Rabble-Rousing
Just as the Cancer Full Moon is about to catalyze the crazy-making Uranus-Pluto square (Jan. 4, 8:53 pm PST) comes the news that Pope Francis is about to deliver a bombshell to the world’s bishops in the form of a 50-page letter calling on them to take concerted action on climate change.…