Last night I was reading a review of Daniel Ellsberg's latest book about the uber scary inside history of nuclear proliferation.  The re...

Today's chart refers to my Nov 2 post.  I put a blue smudge over Venus and Mars in the 5th House and a green one over the Moon in the 11...

Theatrical Drama First Last night I gave my neighbors a ride to church for the Wed night religious instruction leading up to First Commun...

Now is a good time to get a feel for the difference in the sky between Libra and Aries - or at least take a first step toward understanding....

Sun is lined up with Jupiter today.  This is a chart for this morning in Raleigh.  I put a green smudge on Jupiter and Sun, and a blue smud...

A (not so) quick clarification It has been over a year since I first started talking in posts about the angle of inclination between the ec...

Sometimes you look at a chart and see that a planet is retrograde and wonder when it started its backward motion.  Or you may see a planet a...

Can you spot Mercury and Sun above the eastern horizon in the chart for 8:33 this morn in Raleigh?  And Jupiter right on the line?  Sun is o...

This is what Venus and Mars 6:23am in Raleigh this morn looks like in the chart.  Venus is so bright it is unmistakable.  It is maybe a fing...

I was thinking about electrons and how the physicists on Quorum keep repeating that they are not particles.  I recalled a conversation about...

The chart is for Thurs afternoon in Raleigh and shows Venus catching up to Mars.  It will be late afternoon in England and the Sun will have...

3rd pada, 52nd sutra The yogi should neither accept nor smile with pride at the admiration of even the celestial beings, as there is the po...

The busy part started almost as soon as the conjunction had taken place.  There was a soft knock on the door from one of the neighbor childr...

Going from chart to ephemeris is like looking at a drop of water under a microscope and then going down to the river to see the running body...

The hardest working book in your library. There are free ephemerides on line- I have several 10 year ephemerides downloaded on my phone fro...

Can you feel in your inner world the Moon near Saturn today?  Last night I ducked committing to do a favor for a friend this morn.  I was co...

Sun enters Leo 11:16am today (Raleigh, NC).  10:16am for our friends in Memphis, TN.  The invisible old Moon will be close behind, entering ...

I've been reading the histories of Polybiius (Punic Wars around 250bc-lots of battles at sea and on land between Rome and Carthage) and ...

I saw my first double star last night through a beginners' telescope handed down to me from a customer.  I'm not absolutely positive...

I am reading Faulkner's Go Down Moses , with help from shmoop and wikipedia sorting out the many generations of characters.  I have read...