A butterfly is a delicate, ephemeral creature. So, the Zuni Butterfly Dance, which took place off a dusty, remote New Mexico road, came as a shock to many. As Clarissa Pinkola Estes describes it in Women Who Run with the Wolves, the dancer, Maria Lujan, was a large, elderly native woman with long, gray hair wearing a one-shouldered, red-and-black blanket dress and sporting … [Read more...]

Here is what happens during a lunar eclipse: the Earth casts a shadow on the Moon, blocking it from reflecting the Sun’s light. How do you like that? Here’s the little Moon, furiously trying to find some light to bounce around, only to find there’s a big old ball of dirt in her way. Similarly, at a lunar eclipse our ability to transmit and receive light – to channel and … [Read more...]

“Newton was sitting under an apple tree when an apple fell on his head and he discovered gravity. And we here are living in darkness and tragedy, and rockets are falling on us, therefore I thought of creating light.” Using two fans salvaged from a scrap market that he rigged to some wires, 15-year-old Hussam Al-Attar has created his own source of electricity. His goal was … [Read more...]

Pluto, the mythical Lord of the Underworld is an amazing transformation artist. But with clients, I never discuss his transits through the houses of their charts.  Pluto is too slow. It’s like discussing hair growth—only after hair’s gotten too long do you notice. It’s not something you see (let alone direct) as it’s happening. Slow-rolling Pluto goes like a great wave … [Read more...]

When Time Magazine asked Taylor Swift to pose for the cover as their Person of the Year, her response was, “Can I bring my cat?” That’s how Swift and Benjamin Button (one of her three cats), ended up on the Dec. 25 cover of Time. It was a unique way for the multiple Grammy-winning singer to celebrate her 34th birthday (on Dec. 13). But this pop megastar is famous for doing … [Read more...]