Mercury, Mercury, Mercury!
December 13, 2016 in Astro Matters, Spirit Matters
Today’s full moon in Gemini—which occurred at 1:04 EST but whose energy abounds all day—exactly conjuncts the asteroid Chaos. Especially since we’re already under the shadow of Mercury Retrograde (it officially begins December 19), communication—governed by Mercury, which is also Gemini’s ruling planet—is bound to be a whirling dervish. So just let it all out. Say what you need to say, worry about making sense later, and know that all that will remain when the moondust settles is what you need, not what you want. (#Saturn opposes this full moon, and that schoolmarm means business.) My one other piece of advice: Make love your means, not merely your end. It’ll help this not-so-sweet medicine go down
Death to the Cockocracy
December 12, 2016 in Country Matters, Etiquette Matters, Feminist Matters
Twice this weekend I was in a restaurant–one time in Soho; the other in Williamsburg–when a pack of youngish white guys–bearded, casually expensively dressed–grew so loud and rowdy that nobody else could hear themselves, let alone their companions. One group was clearly comprised of bankers; the other, hipsters who may even have considered themselves progressive. To me, they were equally offensive. I take this kind of rudeness very, very seriously, since white male entitlement is on a continuum that goes all the way to the oligarchy subsuming our country and our planet. You can argue that people are entitled to have a good time, that “boys will be boys,” but I am beyond tired of the privileging of this swath of humanity over the ears, needs, lives of everyone else. Bottom line: I’ve come to find bro culture violent in all its forms. If you are a white straight dude hanging out in public with your pals, check yourself.
The Church of Unseen Children
December 11, 2016 in Age Matters, Cat Lady Matters, Church Matters, Essays, Spirit Matters