Yearly Archives: 2012

Inner Space — and the 2013 Annual

Posted by Eric Francis

We are still on our holiday schedule as I finish your readings for 2013 — part of LISTEN, our annual edition. (That link takes you to the page with the subscriber discount — 12 signs for the price of three.) Today we have the Inner Space horoscope, published below in this issue.

We’re About to Go Off the Map

Posted by Eric Francis

The third week of December has been, at least, the last week of the Mayan 13th baktun — a span of time within the Long Count that dates back to 3114 BCE, or 5,125 years. By human standards, that’s a vast reach, encompassing 1,872,000 days. A baktun is 144,000 days, though it’s not the longest measure of time that the Mayans used…

Moonshine Horoscope for December

Posted by Eric Francis

These horoscopes, written by our global correspondent Genevieve Hathaway (who is now in Australia), are based on your Moon sign.

Sun is conjunct the Galactic Core

Posted by Eric Francis

Before we get to Genevieve’s horoscope, first a note. Today the Sun is conjunct the Galactic Core. This happens once a year, in our era, always around this day. We live in a galaxy; we share the space with many other stars. That galaxy is held together by a supermassive black hole, and around that object is a cluster of stars and radio sources that, together, make up the Galactic Core.

The Mayans, Juno and the Abyss

Posted by Eric Francis

It’s time for yet another visit with the chart for 12/21/12 before the event itself. Well, maybe ‘event’ is too strong of a word, though this seems to be the conclusion of a 5,125-year span of history that began on Aug. 11, 3113 BCE, day one of the first baktun of the Mayan long count.

Onward, Inward, and the Unseen Guide

Posted by Eric Francis

I have been boycotting the news lately, devoting myself entirely to the study of psychological and spiritual astrology for LISTEN, the 2013 annual. I have been studying my annotated 2013 charts, about 100 of them, since early July, and now is when I pull many planets and aspects together into a series of coherent narratives that offer some guidance for growth and living.

Sagittarius 2012

Posted by Eric Francis

Weekly Horoscope for Sagittarius, Friday, Dec. 14, 2012
An extraordinary New Moon in your birth sign on Dec. 13 is pushing you to express yourself, your whole self and nothing but yourself.

Deeper than Confetti: An Introspective Year

Posted by Eric Francis

I’ve been watching the news the past few weeks for signs and symbols of Mercury retrograde in Scorpio, which ended Monday. This and the surrounding astrology (covered in Tuesday’s edition featuring Twin Peaks) caps off a deeply introspective year. I feel confident saying everyone learned a lot about themselves. Yet it was also a truly intriguing moment for personal-meets-political.