Dear Friend and Reader:

In local news, the winter solstice is approaching, and tonight on Planet Waves FM I will describe that chart, which is another of the great works of astrology. I’ll also include the part about how people down in Oz and New Zealand are watering their gardens daily because it’s the height of summer down by you.

Scene Monday morning in my portable office at Outdated Cafe in Kingston. This is my research into Libra, Scorpio and Sagittarius, my current focus among the many projects coming together for Cosmophilia: You Belong Here, your 2015 annual readings.

In tonight’s edition I’ll be continuing to explore the events of 2015 — not just the big points but the subtle ones as well, the sign changes of centaur planets and what new activity is gathering around the Galactic Core.

On Sunday evening at 6 pm EST / 3 pm PST / 23:00 UTC, I’ll be hosting an All-Community Meeting — everyone is invited, and invited to participate (at no cost). This is a live conference call, in the approximate format of call-in radio.

The topic will be belonging, not belonging, acceptance and alienation — in a word, the individual aspects of community. This is your chance to share your feelings, to listen to the experiences of others and to get my direct feedback on what you share. Mark your calendar! This meeting is open to everyone, though community meetings are officially part of our new Core Community service and will be offered six times a year beginning in February.

Note, Dec. 21 is also the 16th birthday of the Planet Waves website. We first went online the evening of Dec. 21, 1998.

Check your inbox later today for details about how to attend that meeting, which you can participate in by phone or as a listener via streaming Web connection. We will send out the notice with call-in details three times — twice this week and once a few hours before the program.

This live conference is part of my work, and our collective work, on Cosmophilia: You Belong Here, the 2015 annual edition of Planet Waves. I am, as you may know, currently running my annual astrology marathon, doing detailed readings on all 12 signs in written and audio format. What you say during this call will influence my readings, so definitely chime in.

Work in Progress — this is the developing Libra sketch for Cosmophilia: You Belong Here. Each research file is about 10 pages of pure data, which I distill down to a hand-drawn sketch from which I do the actual reading. The process of developing these readings takes six months.

This is the last week to get our lowest pre-order discount of $77 for all 12 signs. On Saturday the price goes up to $97 for all 12.

Yes, we will be offering individual signs starting next week, for $24.95 each. However, at $6.42 per sign now, you cannot go wrong by getting all 12. Most people who read and listen to one want to read and listen to more.

A few other bits before I move on. Monday I published an analysis of the sixth of seven Uranus-Pluto squares.

How you respond to this aspect “depends on whether and how you want to participate in the rapid changes. Yes, it’s possible to wait out the storm, though that is a missed opportunity, on a multiple lifetime scale. Yes, you may be in some shock from the rapid changes that have come into your life. You may be wondering which way is up, or what to hold onto.”

As usual, I don’t recommend sitting around and passively waiting.

“Don’t knock yourself out wondering. Open your eyes, listen, and smell the air. Look for people with whom you have some rapport — some sense of recognition. Pick an adventure, no matter how subtle, and set off for the unknown.”

I’ll catch you tonight on Planet Waves FM, and Sunday at the All-Community Meeting.

w/love,

PS — we’ve opened up the past two annual editions, The Mars Effect and Listen, for everyone to check out or revisit. Just click those links — the passwords are removed.

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Dear Friend and Reader:

In service of a very busy time of year, I’ll be brief. I covered the last weeks of 2014 in a diary that appeared Monday on the new Planet Waves site. Password block is removed.

McLuhan wasn’t really a marshal, he was an English professor, but I thought this custom shield would look cool.

If you haven’t already upgraded to Core Community membership, I suggest you get a free introductory membership to the new site and have a look around. You’ll have access to most of what appears on the new site, including all the writers from the prior Planet Waves blog.

Tonight I will have a fantastic edition of Planet Waves FM, consisting mostly of an interview with Andrew McLuhan, the grandson of Marshall McLuhan.

It was Marshall who envisioned the world we live in today — the global village, the return to tribalism and people becoming the content of media rather than merely its consumers.

In other words, way back in 1964 he looked out at the world and saw what could become Facebook. In the process he commenced the whole field of media studies. By the way, from my discussions with Andrew, this would include astrology the way we do it at Planet Waves, which involves a careful study of the environment.

I’ll send out a note later today once it’s posted.

By the way, if you missed my essay about whether humans belong on Earth, here is a direct link. It’s the right question to be asking at this time in history, and an interesting discussion has emerged on the topic.

Lovingly,

PS — if you’re a Sagittarius or Sag rising and are wondering about the influence of Saturn on your chart, I suggest you check out my birthday reading for your sign. Response has been phenomenal, and I am sure you’ll love it. Here’s a letter I sent out earlier this morning.

Dear Friend and Reader:

Today the grand fire trine continues, as the Moon moves through Aries. At about 11 am EST (16:00 UTC), the Moon enters an exact grand fire trine with Eris, Pholus and Jupiter. I’ve never seen anything like this — and I’m curious to observe how this manifests.

This fiery energy continues to turn up as the Moon waxes toward full phase, exact on Saturday. That will be the Gemini Full Moon, with the Moon in Gemini opposite the Sagittarius Sun, and it is exact Dec. 6 at 7:27 am EST (12:27 am UTC). Len Wallick has written your Moonshine horoscopes, interpreting this event for all 12 Moon signs.

Macy’s Herald Square, photo by Eric Francis.

I covered the theme of ‘fiery’ in yesterday’s diary, called Taking a Ride on the Grand Fire Trine.

Wednesday at 12:14 am, the Moon enters Taurus, which should slow down and stabilize things a bit — though there are still 11 planets, prominent asteroids and influential minor planets in fire signs.

In this tally I am including just a three of the 18 minor planets and deep space points now gathered in Sagittarius. Over the next two weeks the Sun, Mercury and Venus are making a series of conjunctions to these points. In a word, this is restless and unpredictable. This would be good to account for consciously, and to work with consciously. You may need to guard your patience and keep a cool head. Saturn in Scorpio is a reminder to use psychology when necessary — it will work better than force or confrontation.

I will lead off tonight’s Planet Waves FM with the theme of fire in the sky, describing this unusual alignment. I’ll suggest some ways to consider all of these newly discovered planets. I’ll then continue with The Top Five Events of 2015, begun last week and covered in this past Thursday’s subscriber edition of Planet Waves.

This week I will look at the three conjunctions of Venus and Mars (the theme of competition and polarity), and the Jupiter-Saturn-Nessus T-square (accountability at all costs).

My musical guest will be The Grateful Dead (possibly with one cover by Burning Spear) and I will look at the chart of the first Grateful Dead concert, held this week in 1965. It is quite a chart — especially if you were born in the Sixties.

w/love

Dear Friend and Reader:

This week I am switching up the horoscope schedule a bit. Today I am posting the Sex By Sign monthly edition, a new column (actually, a weekly but with one monthly edition mixed into the cycle). I began this column in July and that is part of our Core Community membership. Thursday I will be posting an extended-length Inner Space for November as the weekly horoscope.

Joan Quigley, who became famous as the astrologer to the Reagans. AP photo.

Part of the plan is giving me a week to get ahead on the weekly horoscope, in preparation for the 2015 annual edition, called COSMOPHILIA: You Belong Here. We will have news about that soon, including a description of the project, the initial purchase offer (best price) and our revised holiday schedule.

In tonight’s Planet Waves FM, I will cover the astrology of our Scorpio phase of the year, and two topics from the news. One is a tribute to Joan Quigley, who served as astrologer to the Reagans from 1981 through around 1987. Joan died last week at age 87.

I’ll be looking at her natal chart and also consider what influence she may have had as the only astrologer with a direct hotline into the White House.

Second, there seems to be something brewing in Canada. There were two rogue attacks in one week, and now one of the country’s most popular radio hosts has been fired by CBC for alleged sexual misconduct. Note, I suggested that something like this would be happening in the article that accompanied the October monthly horoscope — a prominent event involving the politicizing of sexuality.

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Dear Friend and Reader:

I’ll be covering this very interesting astrology week in two editions of Planet Waves FM — a recorded program Tuesday evening and then a live call-in edition Wednesday evening, called a Core Community meeting.

Looking upstream on the Coxing, October 2011. Photo by Eric.

The live edition is by invitation. I’ll come back to that in a moment. And if you’re born under the sign Scorpio, or have Scorpio rising, look for information about your birthday reading at the end of the letter.

In tonight’s live edition, I will look at the charts for the movement of the Moon, Venus and the Sun from Libra into Scorpio on Thursday, followed immediately by a solar eclipse. This unusual sequence of events is followed by Mercury stationing direct two days later.

This is astrology for those with strong nerves. We’re pulling a lot of G-force, with many changes concentrated into a small time. You might feel like you’re on the Magic Teacup ride, aboard the teacup with the kid who is making the thing feel like you’re in a NASA training exercise. I will talk about how to make the most of this astrology, and offer some ideas proposing what all that stress really is about.

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