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November Vedic Sign Predictions
NOVEMBER CHANGES: Dear Readers, October was such a roller-coaster of emotions and events. I like to seek to emphasize the positive, though that has been hard to do as another war has broken out in the Middle East and there is other difficult news. In my own family and neighborhood, there are many unexpected surprises…...
October Vedic Sign Predictions
OCTOBER CHANGES: The theme of the month, which really began at the September Equinox on September 23-24, is Everything Everywhere All at Once. It seems as though change is in the air and people are on the move, with all sorts of unexpected results and shifts. The gift of Vedic Astrology is that it…...
Barbie’s Women: A Play in Four Parts
Here is some light-hearted fun from the recent hit movie Barbie. The recent smash hit movie has provoked memories and discussions across genders and generations. Oddly enough, Barbie the doll has a birth chart! In Vedic Astrology we call this a Muhurta – a time chosen for the beginning of an event, a company, or…...
September Vedic Sign Predictions
SEPTEMBER CHANGES: The dance of the planets settles down in September, a month unusual in that only the Sun and Moon change signs! The rest stay in their same sign all month, giving us more time to adjust after several seasons of dramatic change. We begin the month with the Sun in fiery Leo with…...
Harrison Ford and the Perpetual Adventure
“Don’t tell me the odds!” – Han Solo to C3PO Last month we looked at Mark Hamill, the actor best known for playing the young hero Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars movie series. Yet co-star Harrison Ford’s 60-year career in acting has eclipsed even Hamill’s. Like the scrappy and comic Han Solo character…...
August Vedic Sign Predictions
AUGUST CHANGES: August of 2023 begins and ends with two bright Full Moons. Remember that in the Moon cycle, the genesis and birth of the month is at the New Moon when the Moon is not visible. A few days later, we begin to see it after sunset as a crescent in the West…....
Mark Hamill: The Hero’s Journey
The air alert is over. May the Force be with you! Mark Hamill’s voice on the Ukrainian Air Raid App, March 2021 Mark Hamill, the young actor who stepped into the role of young Luke Skywalker in 1976 for the first Star Warsmovie, has never really left that first blockbuster role behind. While…...
July Vedic Sign Predictions
Get ready for an eventful month! The first part of July will continue the themes of the last half of June, with the conjunction of Jupiter and Rahu in Aries now past exact degree but still impelling decisive (or impulsive) action. Last month Venus and Mars were together in Cancer, making for lots of emotion…...
Eisenhower and Everyman
In honor of Memorial Day and D-Day, at a time and year when another war looms, let’s remember Dwight D. Eisenhower, the architect and general of D-Day (June 6, 1944) and a keeper of the post-war Pax Americana. And for Memorial Day, a private chart of my relative, Reuben, who turned 100 last month, held…...
June Vedic Sign Predictions
Compared to the past few months, the planet and sign changes in June are simpler to describe, and two of the main ones occur on May 31 and June 1. Therefore, I begin with a repeat from the end of the last Vedic Sign Prediction column: “The very end of May gives us a…...
