Writing

The End of Teflon Don. A 1973 Vibe. America and the AR-15. Astrology Can Explain.

March-May issue 2024

From April 2018 to April 14, 2027, America reaches a poignant and pivotal moment in the cyclical awakening to its self-inflicted wounds — the Chiron return. This was the same cycle at work during the most damaging presidential corruption scandals in US history, including Watergate, and the most devastating losses, including the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. It coincided with the deadly flue pandemic of 1918, the Prohibition years, the violent and divisive post-Civil War era and the birth of the abolitionist movement to end slavery.

The latest cycle began as Americans realized they’d fallen for a Russian PSYOP that helped put Donald Trump in the White House. That was April 2018. As you know, it’s been a real laugh riot ever since.

We’re now nearly done with this nine-year transit, a period historically indicative of chickens coming home to roost. It shares a melancholic vibe with 1973, when Vientam War veterans returned defeated and demoralized, just as the US Senate began its televised Watergate hearings, escalating the scandal that led to Richard Nixon’s resignation. Watch for signs that we’re reaching rock bottom in the coming year.

Along the Taurus-Scorpio Axis

March-May 2023 issue

Like so many White Americans, after George Floyd's murder, I wanted to understand why a Black man's life still meant so little. I wasn't naive. I grew up in the South. When I was born, people still stood when the Confederate flag was raised. As a young reporter for small-town Southern newspapers, I was berated by racist publishers for covering Black communities. After the horrific dehumanization of Floyd, though, I had to confront my own complicity in the oppression of Black people. I needed to unwind the history of this event, using the best tool I had: a journalistic approach to astrology. This wouldn't have been possible if African American studies expert and master astrologer Sam Reynolds hadn't answered my out-of-the-clear-blue DM and generously agreed to collaborate.

The result is this article that asserts that race in America is rooted in a Taurus-Scorpio loop. That's what we discovered after reviewing more than 40 astrological charts important in the African American experience.

In some events, such as the inauguration of Barack Obana and the birth of Martin Luther King, Jr., this alignment was loud and clear. In others, like the first battle of the Civil War and the pre-Revolutionary War killing of Crispus Attucks in 1770, it echoed like thunder reverberating through the centuries. The more charts of historical significance we uncovered, the more undeniable we found recurrent Taurus-Scoprio signatures.

in the Astrologer-Client Relationship

September 2022 issue

It starts quietly enough. You’re gritting your teeth through your Mars-Saturn transit and notice the next three clients on y ou books were born with the same challenging aspect. Or after a full day of consults, you realize everyone shared the same Progressed Moon placement. Or maybe after a few years of consulting you realize that the same Chiron wound you’ve healed in yourself routinely appears jagged and raw in your clients.

This kind of synchronicity in client work is a mysterious phenomenon that announces itself the more you engage with astrology. It shows up as astrological affinities, like my own practice took root with Scorpio dominant clients, the sign at the root of my natal chart. Or it might manifest in the outside world like an ambulance siren filling the space after a client complains of how chaotic and unmanageable her life has become. Like a wink from the Cosmos, the meaningful coincidences remind us that all technique aside, astrology is metaphysical.