The November 2008 US elections took place during a Mercury Retrograde period, promising confusion, mix-ups and vague results, as was the case in the still on-going Franken / Coleman Senate race in Minnesota.
Lots of times confused issues that arise during a Merc retro period are resolved during a subsequent Merc retro period / shadow period. [...]

There has been lots of recent talk in the past week or so over media content on the internet: payment, profit, and rights. Just how long can media producers produce and endless stream of content without being paid? It’s easy to say people like the Associated Press are greedy bastards, but if they and the [...]

A recent article in the Washington Post talks about the global food crisis. The recent economic crisis has pushed this out of the headlines, but the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organisation has recently warned of “a looming disaster next year if countries do not make food security a top priority.”
The economic crisis has made a [...]

Being an astrologer, it allows you to know things long before other people catch on. For years now, while the world has been humming along merrily on credit and “growth”, astrologers have been harping on about how when Pluto entered Capricorn it would mark the end of the corporate era as we know it. Problem [...]

Monday saw the annual Full Moon in Pisces, with the Moon exactly conjunct Uranus and squaring Pluto while forming a loose opposition to Saturn.
Full Moons are about endings and Uranus is all about surprise, and Saturn represents the status quo and the fall of such an old established institution as Lehman Brothers is surely that. [...]