Category Archives: Planet Waves FM

Mars Direct Through Aquarius

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Eric’s 2018 Autumn Reading, Empathy-Pathos, is now available for pre-order. This will be a 12-sign audio reading covering Venus retrograde and beyond. Pre-order all 12 signs now for just $57 — we will increase the price very soon.


Hey Virgo — Saturn is providing a solid foundation in Capricorn, your creative 5th house, and Uranus in fellow earth-sign Taurus is jazzing up your house of spirituality and travel. Order your 2018-19 birthday reading by Eric to discover how you can harness these energies. Check out more recent and new readings here.


Dear Friend and Listener:

Tonight’s Planet Waves FM begins with a discussion of Mars direct in Aquarius. Mars is now moving direct through the degrees where it was retrograde. This is not about a repeat but a re-framing of recent past events. You will be seeing the events of the summer from a new angle, having learned what you’ve learned.

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Mr. Mackey, guidance counselor for South Park Elementary, and Miss Chokesondick, a teacher, discuss lesson plans for the sex education program. They make a cameo in tonight’s edition of Planet Waves FM.

In the second segment, I challenge the notion that John McCain was a war hero and question where there was anything heroic at all about the Vietnam War.

Our obsession with lionizing McCain seems to be more about a coverup of the global tragedy that was Vietnam than it was about recognizing any actual accomplishments.

Tantra Studio is in two parts this week. I begin with talking about how, for us to make any progress on the issue of “consent,” we need to be easily conversant about sex, and its meaning. I look at how sex education can be considered controversial because talking about sex is a form of sex.

In the continuation, I consider a listener’s question about how we can know about what our partner is experiencing. I take a wide view of this, including the physical and psychic elements, and talk about erotic empathy, which is also called compersion.

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Full Moon, Mars Direct

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Eric’s 2018 Autumn Reading, Empathy-Pathos, is now available for pre-order. This will be a 12-sign audio reading covering Venus retrograde and beyond. Pre-order all 12 signs now — we will increase the price very soon.


Hey Virgo — Saturn is providing a solid foundation in Capricorn, your creative 5th house, and Uranus is jazzing up your house of spirituality and travel. Order your 2018-19 birthday reading by Eric to discover how you can harness these energies. Check out more recent and forthcoming readings here.


Dear Friend and Listener:

Tonight’s return of Planet Waves FM is timed with the Pisces Full Moon (Sunday, Aug. 26 at 7:56 am EDT) and Mars stationing direct in Capricorn (Monday, Aug. 27 at 10:05 am EDT).

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The Place of the Way, home of Planet Waves FM and recording & performance space for Vision Quest. Photo displayed in studio is Tia, photographed by Neal W. McDonough.

I cover the Mars retrograde event and the station direct in the first segment, exploring themes of individuality, groups and the impact of digital.

In the second segment, I look at recent news events, including those surrounding the special counsel’s investigation. In the third segment, I look at the recent verdict against Monsanto for its Roundup herbicide, and then go into the history of the herbicide/pesticide issue. In the last segment, I merge Tantra Studio with a reading of the Pisces Full Moon.

I’ve referenced several resources in the program. Here they are: my coverage of Monsanto and its astrology in The Mountain Astrologer; the article on IBT Labs and the Howard Johnson’s meeting; See No Evil by Vicki Monks; and my article on the history of PCBs as published in Sierra.

Music on tonight’s program is from Vision Quest, the Planet Waves in-house ensemble. The theme music is called “Proximity.” The second two pieces are “Sky Saw” parts one and two, followed by “Letter to Urbana.” Closing theme is “Proximity,” followed by “Digital Thunder.”

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