In US in the 1960s, the youth of this country rebelled against “the establishment” with many professing to “drop out.” Fifty years later, the pendulum has swung and now all generations are willing, card-carrying members of the establishment from memberships to large business entities such as Costco and Amazon to numerous identity cards allowing us into corporate (name badge), financial (checking accounts) and health care establishments (health insurance). 1,123 more words
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What Does Saturn Transiting Your Sun Feel Like? Ask Comey.
Your astrologer friends are always saying some life event is occurring because of this or that planetary transit. You’ve probably heard, “Saturn is transiting my sun and I can take it no longer” and wondered what that meant. 884 more words
How to Be Your Own Nostradamus
Nostradamus was a 14th century physician and astrologer who is best known for a series of prophecies that some believe predicted the Holocaust and others believe are mere coincidences or creative translations that snugly fit historical facts. 871 more words
History Continues Itself - The Opium Wars
“History repeats itself,” the saying goes. Or you might prefer Edmund Burke’s “Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.”
At first glance both sayings appear correct, but it might be more accurate to say, “History continues itself.” Rather than historical events starting, stopping then repeating themselves, so much of our current historical landscape can be traced back with unbroken line to past events. 1,093 more words
Cat Analyzes Garth Stein Horoscope
When I told my cat that I attended a lecture by an author who writes from a dog perspective, she asked what the dog thought about Pluto transiting Capricorn. 1,065 more words
American Ice
When in college, I woke every day and prepared myself a tall glass of ice water. I still recollect the intense sensation of that habit which spanned all seasons from the cold winter to the hot summer. 1,326 more words
Neptune and Pluto in Malaysia
Malaysia has frequently been in the international news in the last couple years. Perhaps I should say it made it to the US news which means it made it into the five minutes we allot to the rest of the world in our national news. 1,245 more words
