How I met my grandfather
My grandmother told me about the day she buried her husband: “I left that cemetery with nothing.” “I had a 7-year-old child in my hands, I had no job, no money, nothing. So that I could buy food, the neighbors…
My grandmother told me about the day she buried her husband: “I left that cemetery with nothing.” “I had a 7-year-old child in my hands, I had no job, no money, nothing. So that I could buy food, the neighbors…
You feel alone, empty, disconnected and numb. No one suspects the surface. But these feelings of aimlessness, purposelessness, and worthlessness eat away at you every day. The truth is, at a basic level, you feel lost. You feel disconnected from…
Episode 282 interviews astrologer Robert Weinstein about his work using astrology to study fluctuations in the value of a cryptocurrency called Bitcoin. Robert wrote an article about bitcoin astrology in The Mountain Astrologer last year and approached me last summer…
Chiron’s transit into Taurus is one of the major planetary shifts of 2026 and is part of a larger paradigm shift that we are slowly beginning to unlock. While Chiron spends a few months in Taurus from June 19th to…
The new moon in Gemini occurs on the evening of June 14 at a temperature of 24 degrees. It is clean and bright. There is no warning here. New months are about new beginnings. In general, we are still adjusting…
“When you realize that what was done to another was done to you, you have realized a great truth.” – Lao Tzu Cost of care Is caring for others a strength or a danger? It seems surprising that there are…
In Episode 283, astrologers Chris Brennan and Lisa Shaim look at some of the stories sent in by listeners about Saturn’s recent return to Capricorn, and look at their birth charts to see what lessons can be learned from them.…
Venus in Leo opposes Pluto @ five degrees in Aquarius on June 17th. The Moon is conjunct Venus at this time. You can feel it! Yes, you can expect old lovers aka “corpses” to show up. It’s normal to want…
Dear reader, I broke my leg. There is no other way to say it. It sounds unbelievable, but I did it, and I can’t have surgery to fix it because the medical team at NYU Langone agreed that it would…
Some types of loss only announce themselves in retrospect. Too late. You reached for a word in your heart, and it was gone. You try to navigate the city you know without your phone and realize that the map has…