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October 2006
Auschwitz: Afterword by Judith Gayle | Oct. 13. 2006 NATONALISM, which is a form of tribalism, is a frightening business and one which we must grow out of if we are to become a peaceful global entity. Yes, we love our country, and we love our flag -- or maybe the vote is out on that ... ma
October 2006
Leaving | Oct. 12, 2006 AUSCHWITZ was just part of my trip to Poland, a beautifully alive place. I think Krakow may have been the most pleasant, vital city I've ever visited in Europe. The great thing about it from my viewpoint is that you can basically talk to anyone; they are for the m
October 2006
The Big Lie | Oct. 11, 2006 Photo Above: Young students make their mark in the Earth beside human ash pit, Auschwitz ii -Birkenau, Sept. 27, 2006. Photo by Eric Francis. BEFORE we wrap up this photo and essay series on Auschwitz, we need to discuss the Big Lie. Everyone who is li
October 2006
Terrible Symmetry | Oct. 10, 2006 Full series is here: http://www.planetwaves.net/contents/auschwitz_photo_series.html View of Birkenau. Posted without comment, except for this excerpt from Adrienne Rich: I came to explore the wreck. The words are purposes. The words are m
October 2006
Teaching Our Kids | Oct. 9, 2006 Full series is here: http://www.planetwaves.net/contents/auschwitz_photo_series.html THE GUY in the photo above is called Leonard. He is a minister who brings groups of kids to Auschwitz a few times a year from Norway and Sweden. There were a
October 2006
Taking it All In | Oct. 8, 2006 AS I left Auschwitz, the original camp, I stopped to study and photograph the reactions of people gathered near the entrance listening to tour guides tell the story. This photo, taken from inside the camp gate looking outward, pretty much sums it up: a com
October 2006
The Death Penalty as Murder | Oct. 7, 2006 Photo Above: Execution wall between Cell Blocks 10 and 11 at Auschwitz. Here, several thousand Poles and Russian prisoners of war lost their lives. Eventually, the executions were moved to other locations, including Auschwitz II - Birknea
October 2006
Cell Blocks 10 and 11 | Oct. 6, 2006 Photo above: View from Cell Block 11 towards Cell Block 10 at Auschwitz. Photo by Eric Francis, Sept. 27, 2006. Additional view of Block 10 in current cover photo gallery. Link to full series: http://www.planetwaves.net/contents/auschwi
October 2006
A Prison System for the Innocent | Oct. 5, 2006 Photo above: Looking to the right as you walk in through the main gate of Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Oswiecim, Poland. This is the view standing directly beneath the sign that says 'Arbeit macht frei', or, 'Work makes one free'. P
October 2006
Auschwitz Photo Series | Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2006 Photo Above: Mug shots of Auschwitz Concentration Camp victims Hlawica Zdenka and Holan Adalberta, in Oswiecim, Poland, surrounded by hundreds of others. Documentary photos that will be presented this week were all taken by Eric Fra
September 2006
Well here it is... (134340) Pluto in the Minor Planet Catalogue. (134340) Pluto -- 29.667 49.901 -0.7 -- 20060922 -- 24.0 114.2 110.3 17.1 0.254 39.784 -- 78 -- MPO102381 (134340) Pluto -- 1930 01 23 690 C. W. Tombaugh http://cfa-w
September 2006
Heyo, So here's the funny thing about living in Belgium. Before you get dressed, you look out the window to see how the weather is, and then you go get dressed appropriately. When you're done, you look out the window and the weather has changed. It's suddenly cloudy -- I really hope there's a v
September 2006
This is cool. http://www.samtsai.com/p318
September 2006
From Political Waves by Jude On a Labor Day with little or nothing <On a Labor Day with little or nothing in that category to celebrate, we're poised on the big push toward the mid-terms, a tsunami of political hijinks and hype ... this day marks the official opening of the campaigns,
September 2006
This Week's Lunar Eclipse Thursday, Sept. 7 at 7:51 pm British Summer time and 2:51 pm Eastern Daylight Time, there is a partial eclipse of the Moon at 15 degrees of Pisces. Note that some ephemerides and chart services will list this time as being about 10 minutes earlier -- the time of t
September 2006
Brussels, Sept. 2, 2006 Dear Friend and Reader: We are rearranging some of the features on Planet Waves, and this includes discontinuing my daily blog as it's existed since October 2004, right before the presidential "election." For me as a writer, this is part of a project of pullin
September 2006
Saturday, September 2, 2006 | Moon enters Capricorn. Sun squares Ixion. Mercury is biquintile Chiron. "Chiron's function is to raise awareness. Or rather, to raise awareness at all costs. This is why it gets a bad reputation; quite often we don't like to have our awareness rai
September 2006
Friday, Sept. 1, 2006 | Astrology Questions & Answers IT IS Friday morning here in Brussels and my routine for this time of the week is to enter corrections into the new edition of Planet Waves that have come in from Rachael in LA, give the piece one last edit, write the birthday rep
September 2006
Thursday, Aug. 31, 2006 | Reality Checkpoint Dear Friend and Reader: Well today is the big day: Saturn opposite Neptune for the first time since Watergate. Having written quite a lot about this the past year -- the Saturn-Neptune era really came in with a splash one year ago during
September 2006
Wednesday, August 30, 2006 | Planet, house, sign... Dear Friend and Reader: ONE comment on yesterday's entry suggested that I tend to link the themes of houses, signs and planets -- in particular, the 8th, Scorpio and Pluto. This is a mistaken impression that I owe to a few shortcuts
September 2006
Tuesday, August 29, 2006 | Bring on the night... THIS HAS BEEN one of those days when I have nothing to say, but I feel better now that it's dark out in this part of the world. What a month it's been -- and yet what's wild is the extent to which so many of the events are conceptual: in p
September 2006
Pluto is a Planet!! Eric, Surprisingly, a now defunct rap/rock group, the 2 Skinnee J's, wrote a fun little song about the Pluto controversy in the mid '90s, appropriately titled, "Pluto" It's streaming here: http://www.2sj.com/ Lyrics here: http://www.2sj.com/lyrics
September 2006
Monday, August 28, 2006 | Everyone please stay calmDear Friend and Reader:It would be entertaining that planetariums around the world are trying to budget for how to reconfigure their displays and get rid of Pluto, were it not so sad. Like most of New York, the Hayden Planetarium was ahead of the curve
September 2006
Saturday, August 26, 2006 | Minor Planets & Pluto (Media contact information below!) Dear Readers: If you're new to Planet Waves, I would like to welcome you and point you to a few areas of the site that may provide some information you're looking for. I've been sp
September 2006
Friday, Aug. 25, 2006 | A new era for astrology Welcome Wall Street Journal Readers! And for Planet Waves readers, I was interviewed by the Wall Street Journal; today's front page article is reproduced here: http://www.planetwaves.net/contents/wsj.html While I'm sharing clip
September 2006
From Galactic Times - always worth reading - http://snipurl.com/vf1k
September 2006
From Daily Kos: Pluto's Concession Speech AP has a transcript of Pluto's concession speech: Just before coming down to speak with you, I called Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus and congratulated them on their success today. As I se
September 2006
Pluto loses status as a planet Pluto's status has been contested for many years Link to Original: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/5282440.stm BBC -- Astronomers meeting in the Czech capital have voted to strip Pluto of its status as a planet. About 2,500 experts were
September 2006
Thursday, August 24, 2006 | Final wording on IAU Planet Resolution The Final IAU Resolution on the definition of "planet" is ready for voting; the meeting starts in a couple of hours. Here is the chart: http://planetwaves.net/chart.php?c=pluto_vote The significator for
September 2006
Astronomers divided over "planet" definition Deutsche Presse Agentur Published: Tuesday August 22, 2006 Prague -- The world's astronomers on Tuesday passionately debated a plan to use roundness as the criteria for defining a "planet," with some experts calling the
September 2006
Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006 | Uranus 'Not a Planet', Some Astronomers Say IN A stunning surprise move at the International Astronomical Union general assembly in Prague last night, some astronomers will seek to have Uranus stripped of planetary status, Planet Waves has learned. If accepted late
September 2006
Monday, Aug. 21, 2006 | The Pluto Files I HAVE been marveling all weekend about the fact that some astronomers want to take the definition of a planet back to 1846, the year Neptune was discovered. That, basically, would be the effect of declaring Pluto "not a planet." It would m
September 2006
Saturday, Aug. 19, 2006 | Plutophiles and Plutagonists... Today from Space.com http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060818_planet_newprop.html The effort to define the term "planet" took a fresh twist today as two competing proposals were put forth at a meeting of
September 2006
Friday, August 18, 2006 | Big news... Dear Friends, Readers and Subscribers: The cover has been updated with all our latest coverage of the new planet proposal. We feel this news is so important that everyone should be able to have access to it -- so we're posting it to the open side
September 2006
Friday, August 18, 2006 | The discoverer says... Michael Brown, the discover of Xena/2003 UB313 and numerous other potential planets, had this to say on the name for Xena-UB313, what is in truth the 10th planet: "Interestingly, there are no actual rules for how to name a planet (
September 2006
Thursday, August 17, 2006 | Goddess Power Dear Friend and Reader: Okay -- with a whole bunch of help*, I think I've got to the bottom of, and actually comprehend, the IAU proposal for the inclusion of Ceres, Charon and Xena (2003 UB 313). It seems that these are indeed official planet
September 2006
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 | Dwarf Planets Dear Friend and Reader: I am following the International Astronomical Union's proposal to reclassify the solar system -- which preserves Pluto's status as a "planet" but creates the category of "dwarf planet" -- which will i
September 2006
Tuesday, August 15, 2006 | Well I'll be a monkey's uncle... Dear Friend and Reader: This is a follow up to story posted below, about the Arab guys with the cell phones accused of "terrorism" because they had phones "that terrorists might use." This is good -- a ve
September 2006
Monday, August 14, 2006 | Become the Media Dear Friend and Reader: WELL, yes, this has been an interesting Mercury retrograde. The echo phase, or shadow phase, ended Sunday, concurrent with the Mars-Uranus opposition. Mercury is now in new territory; we are all in new territory. This
August 2006
Sunday, August 13, 2006 | A Freudian Skip... Dear Friend and Reader: THE whole frantic thing lately about an airplane flying along, then exploding with a liquid bomb, has a few times this week been apparent as sexual imagery -- and the 'terror' aspect representing a vast sea of anxiety
August 2006
Saturday, August 12, 2006 | The Times We Are In Dear Friend and Reader: Police in Ohio and Michigan have been doing their own gumshoe cop-work to keep the world safe -- cracking down on pre-paid cell phones. Why? But of course -- they can be used by terrorists. Five different you
August 2006
Friday, August 11, 2006 | Non-11 Dear Friend and Reader: Well, it's been an intense two days and I'm plum tired. But I want to write this note to you before I call it a day. I just had an IM conversation with a friend from England who is visiting another friend in the US. Both of the
August 2006
Friday, August 11, 2006 | Non-11 This an excerpt from today's Planet Waves Weekly [subscriber edition], which has been emailed to our client. New subscribers will get instant access. The article is called, "Non-11: The Unbearable Tension of Water." While events of Sept. 11, 20
August 2006
Liquid Moon - Astrology Secrets Revealed http://cainer.com/ericfrancis/eric.html
August 2006
Thursday, August 10, 2006 | Plan B NOTE: The exciting astrology details relating to the "foiled terrorist plot" involving blowing up jet liners with fizzy drinks will be in tonight's Astrology Secrets Revealed, which shall blossom into tomorrow's Planet Waves Weekly. I'
August 2006
The Aquarius Full Moon conjunct retrograde Neptune, opposite Saturn, is exact Wednesday at 12:54 pm CED (central Europe), 11:54 AM BST (UK), 6:54 am EDT (Goshen, Keator's Corners, Manhattanville, Peabody, Miami, etc.), 5:54 am CDT (Chicago, New Orleans), 4:54 MDT (Ft. Collins, Las Vegas), 3:5
August 2006
Tuesday, August 8, 2006 | Video killed... Dear Eric: I JUST got back from seeing the movie Who Killed the Electric Car? -- an independent film that is currently enjoying limited national release in the U.S. Then I came home and saw your essay [Silk and Stone, below]. I figured it was my
August 2006
Hi there -- just a note to say that Steve Bergstein's latest "Psychsound" on the death of rocker Arthur Lee is well worth reading. Lee was the founder and main talent of the band Love. Everyone gets turned onto the album Forever Changes by someone -- Steve turned me onto it years ago. I am
August 2006
Hi there -- just a note to say that Steve Bergstein's latest "Psychsound" on the death of Arthur Lee is well worth reading. http://planetwaves.info/blog2.html e
August 2006
Monday, August 7, 2006 | Silk and Stone I WOKE up from a dream this morning with the following words in my mind: "Gasoline is the silk and stone of freedom. Mistakenly attributed to Jack Kerouac." It might have meant less if one of the first emails I clicked on hadn't been a r
August 2006
Hey - a couple of people have said the PDF for the article below doesn't work, so I'll see about a new one and let you know when it's posted. Thanks for your patience. e
August 2006
Here is a fun article you might really enjoy -- about the guy who discovered Quaoar, Sedna and Xena, named Michael Brown, one of my heroes, at Cal Tech. This is from The New Yorker and was scanned by Arwynne for a Planet Waves project on minor planets. If you really dig the subject, if you feel like
August 2006
Saturday/Sunday August 5-6, 2006 | Meat and Cyber, Saturn and Neptune I'VE BEEN entertaining Planet Waves Weekly readers the past month with my metaphors and messages from the rapidly developing Saturn-Neptune opposition. It seems to be the ultimate encounter between 'fantasy' and 'reality
August 2006
Friday, August 4, 2006 | Weekend Astrology This article is a short preview from Planet Waves Weekly, subscriber edition. If you like this writing, you can read Planet Waves Weekly every week for less than the cost of the foam on your latte. Lead article is called The Swift
August 2006
Thursday, August 3, 2006 | Tips hat... IN CASE anyone was wondering whether The Onion is the King's Men of our day, I invite you to click this link. This is the most satisfying thing I've read since Charlotte's Web. http://www.theonion.com/content/node/51140 http://en.wikipedia.org/w
August 2006
Wednesday, August 2, 2006 | Chelsea Bottinelli I AM NOT one to get sentimental about birthdays. But for the past four years I've experienced a young woman named Chelsea Bottinelli as a co-worker and friend, and today she turns 30. If you subscribe to Planet Waves, you know Chelsea because
August 2006
Tuesday, August 1, 2006 | Beyond Belief Mirrored at: http://www.planetwaves.net/ericfrancis/reports/ TODAY working on the September horoscopes at the Natural Café, I got into "the discussion" again. After answering the question, what do you do, I was asked the ne
August 2006
Monday, July 31, 2006 | Where am I? GLANCING at Sunday's cover of CNN.com -- 60 Lebanese refugees killed "by mistake" in an airstrike -- I was met with that sense of paralysis and powerlessness that seems to be going around in pandemic style. I don't just think we feel powerless
August 2006
Sunday, July 30, 2006 | Two Letters from Readers In Friday's edition of Planet Waves Weekly, I asked parents to write in with experiences of teaching their kids about sex. The first letter covers this. The second relates to a woman's experience with "Abstinence Only Sex Education.&quo
August 2006
Saturday, July 29, 2006 | The Nature of... PART of why so few people speak up against rampant injustice and having their lives destroyed is because so few people do it. Everyone who is silent has their "reason." Maybe if you speak up against the mayhem in Iraq, you're afraid you'
August 2006
Friday, July 28, 2006 | Your News Team at Work PLANET Waves Weekly No. 621 has rolled off the printing presses and into subscriber inboxes as of a little while ago, and the final edition is posted to the subscriber homepage now -- with weekly sign-by-sign horoscopes, Leo birthday report, w
August 2006
From the City of Dis http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28898
August 2006
Good Morning, When trouble broke out last week, I wrote this prayer and have been including it every morning in my meditation work. I send it to you in case you would like to use it or write one of your own. Railing against what is happening will not work at the moment. We
August 2006
Attention all you Chelsea Bottinelli Fans out there in Internet Land. Does everyone know Chelsea (the Planet Waves business manager) has a web page? She creates these quilted paintings, which are basically mixed-media artworks that combine fabric, photographs, paint and other stuff, as
August 2006
Wednesday, July 26, 2006 | Who Profits? AT LAST we have a war that's controversial. I have no access to US news channels and internet news comes across in a different tone, but I am gathering that a few people do feel strongly one way or the other about what's going on in Lebanon. I will s
August 2006
War Profit Litany by Allen Ginsberg http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Allen_Ginsberg/3704
August 2006
Tuesday, July 25, 2006 | from the John Dewey High School Alumni List Eric, If Hezbollah were so concerned about the dead kids in Lebanon they would return the 2 Israeli soldiers they kidnapped, or better yet, they would not have gone into Israel in the first place, killing 8 soldiers and k
August 2006
Tuesday, July 25, 2006 | Leo New Moon THE LEO New Moon is just a few hours away, as I get ready to wrap up for the night. The Moon is void of course, as of this writing. Personally, none of my gears are connecting and I'm sitting here listening to Atom Heart Mother for about the 10th time
August 2006
From the Archives On March 28, 2003, several days after the beginning of the US invasion of Iraq, we published this article in our subscriber edition. It's called "Taking a Ride on Mars Conjunct Chiron." Looking back on this article every few months, I am amazed at its prescience
August 2006
Monday, July 24, 2006 | Planet News THIS is a week of swift changes, of both direction and atmosphere. Venus, Mars and the Sun are already in new signs: Cancer, Virgo and Leo, respectively, shifting energy to a core region of the zodiac where we share and experience emotional, creative and
August 2006
News... This just came over Political Waves -- well worth the read: a conservative talk show host apologizes for voting for Bush. It took a while...the lies have all been so transparent...but this ls clear. Paloma comments that it has a feel of Saturn-Neptune -- I get it, to me, it feel li
August 2006
July 23, 2006 | Giving War a Chance THE SUN is in Leo and Mars is in Virgo. Hopefully this will provide a change of scene to a more reflective state of mind on the violence of the world right now. Mars (aggression, warfare, passion, desire) could surely use some Virgo (grounding, clear thi
August 2006
From today's Planet Waves Weekly (subscriber edition) This edition also includes the weekly horoscope and birthday report, and a detailed essay on the social isolation of Neptune in Aquarius and what we can do about it. To subscribe and have instant access, use the link below the article.
August 2006
Wow. This came up on PlanetWaves.info tonight, because it contains the word 'astrologer', which we search all the news for: http://www.fcnp.com/620/benton.htm
August 2006
The Fulcrum | A short Planet Waves essay from the archives (1999) Every day, humanity passes gateways into the future. Most of the time, we hear about the scary ones: species dying off that will never return; environmental disasters that can never truly be cleaned up; laws passed that will
August 2006
Thursday, July 20, 2006 | A glance at tomorrow... PLANET WAVES is supported by your subscriptions. It's true that you get lots without paying anything; we are always doing more for all our readers, those who subscribe and those who don't. Here is a taste of what we offer: http://
August 2006
"Mr. Speaker, We make war with such certainty, yet we are befuddled how to create peace. This paradox requires reflection, if we are to survive. Making and endorsing war demands a secret love of death, a fearful desire to embrace annihilation. Creating peace requires the mirror of compa
August 2006
Wednesday, July 19, 2006 | A Beginning... THERE is another theory besides "the end" for what is happening in the world right now, and while I didn't make it up I'd love to help popularize it. The theory holds that our current tribulation is going to lead to what is really the beg
August 2006
Tuesday, July 18, 2006 | Sun-Mercury Conjunct WHEN I noticed last night that there was the exact Sun-Mercury conjunction I had the feeling it was going to be an interesting day today. I began this morning by finishing up recording my phone lines associated with a new weekly horoscope gig.
August 2006
Monday, July 17, 2006 | The Trib Trib SO perhaps it will comfort nobody to hear this, but when I was but a tadpole in the spiritual training pond known as Miracle Manor, most people would talk openly about a "tribulation period." This was held by my fellow future amphibians to be
August 2006
Friday, Dec. no Jan no July 14, 2006 | Word UP This Week's Theme Music is at >> http://planetwaves.fm Late into the morning Friday, word on the street is that Valerie Plame has sued Dick Cheney, Scooter Libby, Karl Rove and a bunch of other hacks. For -- conspiracy t
August 2006
Thursday, July 13, 2006 | World News from Political Waves IF YOU'RE looking for life to make sense today, don't bother ... it will only confuse and make you even more anxious. Trying to find a clear thread of logic is like herding cats ... or getting the baby ducklings scooped into the lau
August 2006
Thursday, July 13, 2006 | Euro News TODAY I stopped by the European Commission headquarters to pick up my permanent press credential, and took the opportunity to attend the daily press briefing. On the way in, I walked past MTV in the front lobby interviewing someone, which struck me as in
August 2006
July 11, 2006 | Syd Barrett CHART >> http://planetwaves.net/chart.php?c=barrett VIDEO >> http://snipurl.com/t32i WE are saddened to note the passing of Roger "Syd" Barrett, the co-founder of Pink Floyd, and one of the early pioneers of psychedelic
August 2006
Tuesday, July 11, 2006 | Astrology & Dad >> PHOTO http://www.planetwaves.net/home/joe.html THANK you for all your good wishes re. my dad, who was able to undergo a minimally invasive form of mitral valve repair yesterday morning. No need for a replacement (such as a pi
August 2006
Hello...and happy Full Moon...to friends who are wondering and readers who are not, my dad seems to have done well undergoing heart valve repair today at St. Francis Hospital; Francis being something of a patron of our family line, hence his appearance on Planet Waves today instead of in October. Th
August 2006
Monday, July 10, 2006 | Bird Flu Update Photo >> http://www.planetwaves.net/home/media_frenzy.html FRIDAY morning I had my first big experience visiting the European Commission headquarters. The government of Europe, the European Union (which is now, in total a [really weir
August 2006
Saturday's cover, "Deep Inside," is an illustration from Victoria's Blog, linked above. The illustration style is part of a 'pornography transformation project' or reclaiming of porn, turning it into art and story. A number of projects have been created by Victoria around the illustrations
August 2006
Friday, July 7, 2006 | Where's Kenny? I AM thoroughly enjoying the growing cloud of ambiguity dangling over the purported death of Kenny Lay. Perhaps the bigger question than "Is he dead?" is, "Was he ever alive, or was he a vampire all along?" But let's stick to the
August 2006
Bits, bobs I believe the appropriate response is, Oh God (somebody wrote in and said I was being too kind, the appropriate response is, "Oh fuck." Thanks Jude for this magnificent little article: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/05/us/05liberty.html?_r=1&oref=slogin S
August 2006
Thursday, July 6, 2006 | The Kenny Charts PEOPLE all over the Internet are writing in screaming, "They killed Kenny!" with images of the salt truck and the microwave oven in the operating room scene flashing through my mind. Yesterday I pronounced Kenny Lay alive, but I do
August 2006
Thursday, July 6, 2006 | Ace of Cups THE cover is the Ace of Cups from the Jodorowsky Tarot, a restoration of the Tarot de Marseilles published in 1997 and based on a 15th century edition. The Ace of Cups is the root of the powers of love. Feeling, receptivity, clarity and good vibes. The
August 2006
Wednesday, July 5, 2006 | BREAKING: Ken Lay is Not Dead Ken Lay is not dead. He is already in a foreign country. This is according to a reading of the horary chart associated with his death (4:51 pm CED, Brussels, July 5, 2006). In one of the most carefully planned escapes in shadow govern
August 2006
July 5, 2006 | Notes from a PMSing South American Canadian Hello Eric, The American government sucks. And to be honest, I believe the vast majority of American people are not scared. They're just lazy apathic and pathetic, their only motivation is to protect their salaries,
August 2006
http://www.planetwaves.net/test/index_july4.html Our July 4 cover.
August 2006
July 4, 2006 | James Madison Quotes referenced in Audio "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." "It is a universal truth that the loss of
August 2006
Martin Luther King: Let Freedom Ring http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/Ihaveadream.htm MP3 Audio. About 15 minutes. Turn it up loud, and invite the whole family. MLK understood the injustice of the war in Vietnam on many levels, including how it did violence to Americans at ho
August 2006
The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies Thomas Jefferson authored the first draft of the declaration, and made changes per Franklin, Adams and the full Congress. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence "To prove this, let Facts be
August 2006
Monday, July 3, 2006 | More Mercury Station Retrograde ONE OF my favorite things about Mercury stationing is that it has a quality of "the truth comes out." I first noticed this in my personal life; in several situations where someone was being disingenuous with me, their ruse co
August 2006
Monday, July 3, 2006 | Mercury Station Retrograde MERCURY stations retrograde at 9:32 pm EDT on July 4 (that's mid-afternoon on the East Coast and Tuesday morning on the Left Coast; Wednesday morning in Oz. Mercury is stationing while Mars makes an exact opposition to Neptune in Aquarius,
August 2006
In the syntax of the real world, be killed and kill are the only language the possibilities allow. Study the news pages and see what I mean. The words seem to bend in no other direction, however hot you get them. The syntax is a mirror and when it shatters, nonexistence: annihilation by selfdenial,
August 2006
July 4 Weekend / Canada Day | Laying Low HEY WORLD, I'm back in Brussels, and I'm going to be laying low for a few days as I catch up, rest up and find my way around my neighborhood again. But we're watching the store here at Planet Waves, new horoscopes are going up (July monthly is poste
August 2006
Thursday, June 29, 2006 | And as for Stanley HELLO. I've just finally returned to Brussels late last night after more than six weeks on the road. So I'm going to save the story of the Depanneur in Quebec (mentioned yesterday) for Friday or Monday, and instead, print this little joke, sent
August 2006
Wednesday, June 28, 2006 | The Matrix I JUST saw The Matrix for the first time, last weekend. What a cool movie. On that note, Ruth writes: "I started writing this email saying your questions historically provoked thoughts of Nazi Germany for me and I wondered what, in retrospect,
August 2006
Tuesday, June 27, 2006 | Cartoon News ONE OF the first things I noticed, arriving in North America, is that the news seems to disappear, or fade into the background. On one level, it seems ridiculous; on another, it seems not to affect people and their lives. Everyone is too busy coming an
August 2006
Tuesday, June 27 | Old World Again I'M back in the Old World again, and will be back with a blog and audio soon. e
August 2006
Sunday, June 25, 2006 | The Funny Thing... THE FUNNY thing about Planet Waves is that you can click on a link and bump into 300 new articles, for free. And there are apparently people who sit around reading them; hey, that's why I wrote them. Here is just such a click: the question by ques
August 2006
Weekend, June 24-25, 2006 | Planet Waves Weekly Dear Friends, Far and Near, For the first weekend of summer, I'm posting today's Planet Waves Weekly, the full edition, including the weekly horoscope and birthday report. These are usually available to subscribes only, by clicking any of
August 2006
Friday, June 23 | Two on Jealousy Note to readers, this blog was accidentally deleted earlier in the week. I am reposting it by request. STATISTICS. Planet Waves switched to fancier servers a year ago, and with that we had more sophisticated statistical research tools, about what our re
August 2006
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062206S.shtml Big Gee Whiz Moment - and something optimistic to write about in tomorrow's PWW
August 2006
Thursday, June 22, 2006 | Morning Dew WE HAVE not seen the end of solstice news yet, but the two top-of-the-list, exact to the day developments vibrate with the Aries Point. One is an odd kind of ongoing nuclear escalation with North Korea, and the other is that a group of Marines have bee
August 2006
An oldie...but one made for today... http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/end.php And a new one... http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13715.htm
August 2006
June 21, 2006 | No Nukes! Donald Rumsfeld is an idiot. True, he is one of a cabal of the most idiotic idiots in the Annals of the Idiotic Idiocy of the Human Race, but this dude stands out like the Eiffel Tower on a clear night. He has other problems, but mainly, he's bloody stupid. Her
August 2006
Wednesday, June 21, 2006 | Take our survey! WHEN we started selling t-shirts, I wondered...what on Earth next? Yes...a survey. Would you please take a few moments and take our reader questionnaire? If you are a subscriber and already took it, your response HAS been counted. So please t
August 2006
Wednesday, June 21 | Litha Cover Image SINCE not everyone will make the connection between a breast and the summer solstice, it seemed worth a mention. It's a simple enough reference to classical astrology: Cancer is the astrological sign of the breast. Cancer is the sign of nourishment
August 2006
Wednesday, June 21 | Litha WELL we are here. Almost here, anyway: The Sun is about one-half degree from the Cancer ingress, also called Litha. Today's also the fifth anniversary of the June 21, 2001 total solar eclipse -- and this solstice brings the last aspect in a long series of movemen
August 2006
Tuesday, June 20, 2006 | The Yellow and the Black THE MORNING that I had selected astrologically to incorporate Planet Waves, I woke up early from a dream that gave me some clear directions for what else to do that day -- find a copy of The Powers That Be by David Halberstam. I knew what t
August 2006
Monday, June 19, 2006 | What Would Jesus Do? From Political Waves - by Judith Gayle I REFUSE to believe that Americans can read things like the articles below and not question what we're doing in Iraq -- I refuse to believe that anyone but the Dittoheads and the US Government are invest
August 2006
Monday, June 19, 2006 | Responses to What's Up Here is the first of several responses to my check-in question this morning... Hi Eric, Thanks for asking for impressions of the time. Also, I love Planet Waves and want to say that you're doing a great job. thankyouthankyouthankyo
August 2006
Monday, June 19 | Approach to Solstice EARLIER in the month, I pointed out the highly concentrated astrology in the last days of the Sun's movement through Gemini, into the Cancer ingress of the Sun (summer solstice in the northern hemisphere, winter solstice in the southern hemisphere). W
August 2006
Saturday-Sunday, June 17-18 | Edge On: Planet Waves Audio AUDIO. It's been someplace I've dreamed of going with Planet Waves for years. Today, it's happening. The link is on the main page of Planet Waves -- the first broadcast of Sound Waves on PlanetWaves.FM, discussing tonight's alignmen
August 2006
Saturday, June 17, 2006 | Resources, resources YESTERDAY I mentioned Alice A. Bailey. Mandy Hall reminded me she created an AAB resource area, which I will post along with all our other resource areas: Here is Bailey -- http://www.planetwavesweekly.com/resources/pworldsbailey.
August 2006
From "2012 is Up For Grabs," linked above "Twenty-twelve is what we make it, one day at a time, one outer-planet sign change at a time, one breath at a time. Twenty-twelve is what we envision it to be. We, that is, you and me. Not those cool groovy people somewhere else. Not
August 2006
Weekend Bonus! | Astrology Secrets + Your Constitutional Rights Romped Upon First a cartoon: http://www.workingforchange.com/comic.cfm?itemid=20959 FOR FANS of Astrology Secrets Revealed, here is the updated archive of all the questions going back to April 2004, listed by topic rathe
August 2006
Friday, June 16 | Alice Bailey's Birthday TODAY would be the 126th birthday of Alice A Bailey. She wrote one of the most influential astrology books that hardly anybody ever read. Admittedly, that's because it's not easy and scarcely makes any sense at all, unless you're playing Dark
August 2006
Very Suspicious! Sent by Natesh. http://snipurl.com/rt7k
August 2006
Weds., June 14, 2006 | Let's get the truth out HERE is the full text of the statement by Marc Ash, editor of truthout.org, regarding the alleged exoneration of Karl Rove in the investigation of the Valerie Plame spy outing scandal. http://forum.truthout.org/blog/ Ash has taken a non
August 2006
Wednesday, June 14, 2006 (Flag Day) | truthout.org Standoff? BY ALL indications, truthout.org is sticking to its story that Karl Rove was indicted, at least at the time it published its article to that effect one month ago. This, despite Rove's lawyer stating this week that Rove has been c
August 2006
Wednesday, June 14, 2006 | Throw back the little ones LOTS of us are reeling at the news that Fitzgerald has let Rove off the hook in the Plame Affair. How did that happen? Five interviews in front of the Grand Jury and they couldn't nail him for lying to investigators -- when all he does
August 2006
Tuesday, June 13, 2006 | This Week in History "Former Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger was indicted on felony charges in the Iran-Contra affair, charged with four counts of lying to Congress and prosecutors. He concealed the secret arrangement to provide funds to the Nicaraguan con
August 2006
Monday, June 12, 2006 | What's in the Stars I WANT to follow up on yesterday's entry, with the note that it's been revised -- please see the new areas of text with bold type. We have many questions to ponder about what to do with astrological information. The mission of Planet Waves is to
August 2006
Sunday, June 11, 2006 | The Day the Sun Stands Still (revised) LET'S keep a close watch on the date range 6/17 through 6/23 -- with particular emphasis on the 19th and the 22nd. I say this with some concern that we need to take care when reporting potential global trouble spots, so
August 2006
Saturday, June 10, 2006 | Tour de Bliss I MANAGED to stay off the SUNY New Paltz campus for more than two weeks visiting here. I've had plenty else to do, plenty of people to visit, more than enough work and a few trees to visit. Usually the better trips to this area have less (i.e., no) i
August 2006
Eros Area Goes Live Saturday Morning! Brief announcement: the Eros area will go live Saturday, June 10 at 10:20 am Eastern Time, 7:20 am Pacific time. If you are in the UK, that would be 3:20 pm BST and if you're in central Europe, 4:20 pm CED. For those who have not heard about this pr
August 2006
Wednesday, June 7 | Up Close or Far Away I HAVE a few minutes for a blog before heading over to Marc Grossman's office for an eye exam. One thing about New Paltz is that there are some excellent alternative healers here. Marc is a master at eye exams and at prescribing glasses such that yo
August 2006
June 6 | My America THIS is only the second time I've been back to the United States since getting on a plane to London one morning in Seattle in April 2004. What I'm noticing this time back is how friendly people are -- the "openness" that Americans are reputed for in Europe see
August 2006
Monday, June 5 | Quick hello WELL, I managed to get nearly three days off the Internet, from Friday early afternoon through Sunday night. A miracle, really, and as a result I'm slowly starting to have vague recollections of my offline identity. At the moment I'm sitting in Natesh's room in Kingst
August 2006
Eros: A Planet Waves Frontier Note - last week I attempted to post the full archive of 2005 birthday reports but instead posted our sales link. That was not really a Freudian slip. Here is the birthday report archive, which is indeed aat least partially a ploy to get to you consider
August 2006
Heyo. We're doing a beta test of our new chat area. You can drop in and say hello if you like. Please sign in under your first name and last initial -- not a nickname. You must be 18 or older to try this out. Thank you! http://planetwaves.info/chat9/demo/demo7_in_english.php
August 2006
Thursday, June 1, 2006 | New Paltz ONCE AGAIN sitting on the some steps near Starbucks after closing; fortunately they leave the wireless network on. I'd love to know what kind of router they have; it could probably warm up a croissant. I'm getting a full signal about 35 feet from the coun
June 2006
Planet Waves Astrology | Blog by Eric Francis May 30 | Welcome to the Working Week Note, I'm running late on my planned blog...thanks for your patience! Hey there. I'm in a place where I have to drive 10 miles to check my email, which is actually pretty nice
June 2006
Just one question: Why doesn't the Pope meet a few Abu Gharib survivors? http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/05/28/auschwitz.pope.ap/index.html
June 2006
Just a reminder to check in with Political Waves for the latest updates. A lot of news is moving with the New Moon in Gemini -- almost faster than anyone can keep up. You can read Pol Waves directly at this link: http://planetwaves.info/polwaves.php See you over the weekend!
June 2006
Enron's Prize | from this week's Planet Waves Weekly CHART: http://planetwaves.net/chart.php?c=enron DOES CRIME PAY? Thursday at 11 a.m., the jury in the trial of Kenneth Lay, founder and former CEO of Enron and close compadre of George W. Bush, convicted him of six counts of fra
June 2006
Hello...there is way too much news coming through all at once to comment on, so I'm going to refer you to Political Waves. Jude has a handle on it... Interesting, exciting moments as the extreme waning Moon sweeps up some of the dust. News on Kenny Boy and Jeff Killing, as well as the Rovak and a li
June 2006
Note to readers: I'm in the Hudson Valley these days. If you'd like to get in touch, you may drop me a note at francis@planetwaves.net and I'll get back to you. Please include a phone number or two. Note, I am not doing astrology consultations, I'm just here to see friends and meet readers.
June 2006
Wednesday, May 24, 2006 | Twenty years ago today YESTERDAY was the day I set aside to visit the Amherst Campus of SUNY Buffalo, where I graduated 20 years ago this week. That's the new campus, which has grown up beautifully. I spent the day in Starbucks, writing horoscopes and looking out
June 2006
Tuesday, May 23 | What We Cannot See I THINK we're in the middle of an invisible turning point right now, going back about two weeks. I say this in the midst of some culture shock, both of plunging back into American society for the first time in nearly a year, and spending time with very
June 2006
Monday, May 22, 2006 | And for your reading pleasure... Here's a bit of Political Waves commentary, by Jude. Awwww jeez, this Da Vinci Code blowback is just stretching the envelope -- is there justification for the continued use of the words "heresy" or "blasphemy&
June 2006
Monday, May 22, 2006 HERE is the text of a statement released last night by Marc Ash, the executive director of truthout.org. Last weekend, truthout.org writer Jason Leopold broke the story that Karl Rove had been indicted for lying to investigators during the investigation of the outing o
June 2006
Monday, May 22 | Dipping into Fitz GREETINGS from the US of A, to wit, Buffalo, New York, where I am an alumnus. This week you're gonna get a lot of fast, easy and interesting blogettes, because I have a gosh freaking big darned bunch of stuff to do and I have some friends to see he
June 2006
Sunday, May 21 | Gemini Hey there. I've been hanging out in the background while the Sun made it's way through the last degrees of Taurus. The Sun and Mercury are now in Gemini, and we start a new cycle of experience, expression, and movement. We are already in the third sign of the season
June 2006
Thursday, May 17 | Horoscope Archive Beta Test WE'VE had a little project going behind the scenes -- a horoscope archive. It also doubles as a divination oracle. Without posting instructions, I would appreciate your feedback on whether it works for you, and whether you understand it easily
June 2006
Wednesday | Memphis Blues ONE OF my favorite songs in the Dylan-Grateful Dead genre is called Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again. Man, I just googled it and found out this song first came out in 1966, on the album "Blonde on Blonde" -- the last record in the earl
June 2006
Wednesday, May 17, 2006 | How strange it is... (updated) GET THIS. The USA government has released video tape of what it claims is Flight 77 hitting the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. As some of our readers know, my own analysis of crime scene photos has determined that there was no jetliner
June 2006
Tuesday, May 16, 2006 | Rove Riddle Answer Coming Soon LET'S see. I once put a quarter in a slot machine and won enough money to buy a Macintosh G4. Later the same day, I was betting in a poker game in a Laundromat (this was in Reno, on the way back from Burning Man 2001) and hit four aces
June 2006
Monday, May 15, 2006 | The Rove Indictment Mystery NOTE: SFGate has this update: http://snipurl.com/qi68 Detroit Free Press adds this: http://snipurl.com/qi8o WE ARE in an eerie moment of radio silence relating to the indictment of Ka
June 2006
Sunday, May 14, 2006 | truthout: Rove will be indicted TRUTHOUT.org is reporting that Karl Rove, also known as "Bush's brain," engineer of stolen elections, bungled wars and many scandals, will be indicted by the grand jury in the Valerie Plame spy outing case. They are reporting
June 2006
Saturday, May 13, 2006 | Full Moon, Toronto THIS is a great conference. First of all, I'm invited as a speaker, which personally adds a lot of fun. I'm not a big "conference guy" (with Aquarius Moon and Aquarius Saturn and a ton of gravel strewn between, I am fussy). It'
June 2006
Friday, May 12, 2006 | Chiron THERE are few things I love doing more than teaching astrology. I don't get to do it often but I'm doing it these these days. Yesterday's class, a full day seminar, focused on the Aries Point. We began with the 6/21/01 eclipse, and the personal stories of peop
June 2006
May 11, 2006 | Here beside the rising tide THUNDER and rain have visited Toronto the morning of my mentorship intensive here on astrology and activism -- the perfect weather. We have a meeting room on the 10th floor, digital equipment, an Internet connection into the space, and a gr
June 2006
Note to readers in eastern Canada: I'll be presenting a half-day workshop on astrology and activism on Thursday, as well as another on working with Chiron on Friday. This is part of the Astrology Toronto, Inc. mentorship intensive conference. If you're interested, please email me at francis@p
June 2006
Note to readers in eastern Canada: I'll be presenting a half-day workshop on astrology and activism on Thursday, as well as another on working with Chiron on Friday. This is part of the Astrology Toronto, Inc. mentorship intensive conference. If you're interested, please email me at francis@p
June 2006
Monday, May 8, 2006 | Probability fields PREDICTIVE astrology is pretty amazing stuff. Imagine the feeling of actually looking at a chart, seeing something in the future and then having it happen. Imagine the sadness or sense of loss of not seeing something critical. As an example,
June 2006
Sunday, May 7, 2006 | Worth Reprinting THIS came over Political Waves today -- it's an Associated Press article, and it seemed worth publishing here. Apparently there is at least one "reality based" judge left. The astrology is the Beltane chart, covered elsewhere. Judge ca
June 2006
Saturday, May 6, 2006 | Not about those USB cables.. WELL after a week of daily horoscopes plus all the regular ones plus a few extra ones here and there, plus Astrology Secrets, I've said just about everything I have to say about the astrology of this weekend. I was planning a blog last n
June 2006
Two notes, one is that Steve Bergstein has done a review of the Neil Young album in his Psychsound blog. This is about Neils new free album protesting the war in Iraq. You can click on the link above, or bookmark http://psychsound.com -- which points to his column, and that links to the free
June 2006
May 4, 2006 | Live on C-Span, In Reality... Mandy Hall, UK-based assistant news editor for Planet Waves, sends in this bit of information, email verbatim below. There has been quite a lot of correspondence flying through my inbox the past 24 hours relating to the Sept. 11 chart. Here is th
June 2006
May 4 | Excerpt from tonight's Astrology Secrets Revealed (This section is pertaining to the Summer Solstice chart, which is covered along with the Beltane chart for tomorrow...) 5. The lunar nodes are extremely close to the Aries Point. Notice, they are four arc minutes from bei
June 2006
May 3 | Kite Pattern, Venus into Aries TODAY'S entry will be brief: in a little while I need to wrap up my stand-in for Jonathan (always a busy week) as well as move the usual planets along -- a short edition of Astrology Secrets as well as Planet Waves Weekly. In Astrology Secrets, I'll b
June 2006
May 2, 2006 | World on the Edge of Time DO YOU EVER just wish there was a big psychic umbrella you could get underneath and get some shelter from the intensity of the world? I sure do. As much as I enjoy and feel privileged to participate in the discussion, to be aware and alert and writin
June 2006
May 1 | May Day In Puerto Rico by Paloma Todd Editor's Note: Growing up in New York City, Puerto Rico is a lot more important place than it's considered in most other locales. In the city not long ago, people were either black, white or Puerto Rican -- and this social mix has played
June 2006
Hello! Welcome (or welcome back) to readers who have clicked through from http://cainer.com and have arrived at Planet Waves. I'll be covering for Jonathan for a few days. Readers who started here and would like to catch my horoscope happening daily through Saturday, you can click back through an
June 2006
Sunday, April 30 | The Newest Hite Report AS a follow up to the gender issues thread this week, I would like to pass along this link, a New York Times review of Shere Hite's new book: http://snipurl.com/putf Hite is the author of The Hite Report, the detailed survey of female sex
June 2006
Sunday While I'm passing along tons of news clippings, here is a new one from The Independent in the UK, sent by Urslua in Toronto. Astrology rarely gets good press. The Independent, one of England's smartest and most politically savvy newspapers, is pretty friendly to our craft, however. Here is
June 2006
Um, can you say World Oil War? http://snipurl.com/ptkh PS, can you say, Buenos Dias, Amerika? Apparently, the new Spanish version of the Star Spangled Banner has stirred up quite a fuss. But does everyone know that the United States does not have an official language? From The New York Ti
June 2006
Um, can you say World Oil War? http://snipurl.com/ptkh
June 2006
Saturday, April 29 | T-Shirts, Resource Areas and the 10 Most Wanted WE HAVE joined the ranks of websites that offer T-shirts. We have done this merely to improve our credibility. It's the next best thing to a White House press card. We've taken the Café Press business model
June 2006
April 28, 2006 | Dudespeak I love women. Always have as long as I can remember, since before grade school. I enjoy their company, much more than I do being around men. For me, it's not so much being afraid of them as it is being ill-prepared to deal with them. VERY ill-prepared. == H
June 2006
Thursday, April 27 | A Liberating Experience YESTERDAY EVENING I had a liberating experience with two young women. Both were born in Korea. One, named Kimy, I've known since the first day I lived in Brussels, when I promised her I would look at her natal chart. Everyone has been busy, but
June 2006
Weds-Thurs | Overnight Reading for the Potentially Mad AS PART of our work on Parallel Worlds, the annual edition of Planet Waves, Mandy Hall created a resource of information about Sept. 11. It's been growing in the three or so months since the annual edition came out, and i
June 2006
Wednesday | A five-star video clip, and note to men PS, this was sent in by a reader, who wants everyone to vote for it. Not to sound like the second grade teacher ("wot would happen if everyone sent in their thing to be voted for?" Why the blog would be nothing but...) however I
June 2006
Wednesday, April 26 | As The World Reflects CONTINUING with our series of reader-contributed entries, we have four additional short essays for you. Thanks to everyone who has been sending in their heartfelt contribution to this discussion. Here are samples from today's four selections:
June 2006
April 26 | As the World Returns I love the reader-written sections of Planet Waves. Here are three samples: == Our evolutionary journey seems to involve a deep deep need within each of us to 'marry' these forces within us, which of course are the forces that create the Universe, a
June 2006
April 24 | Curiosity BEFORE I get into rolling ahead with the many excellent responses I received to my freewriting therapy yesterday morning about the genders' fear of one another, I have a couple of afterthoughts. The three keywords are: self esteem, abandonment, curiosi
June 2006
April 24, 2006 | This Week's Astrology I REALIZE we've been going through one of those "What on Earth is next?" phases of astrology, and the action of the nodes, Mars and Mercury in the cardinal signs (Cancer and Aries) has been stirring the pot from the bottom up. Currently the
April 2006
Monday, April 24, 2006 | The Celibates ALONG with National Pork Producer's Month, International Tap Dancing Day and Lawn Mower Awareness Week, there is Masturbation Month, the month of May. It's coming soon. Yes, it's really true, there is such a thing. While nobody bats an eye at Concr
April 2006
April 23 | Why Men Are Afraid of Women MARS is the most active planet in the sky right now, in the sign Cancer where it's not particularly well supported, and making a long square to the lunar nodes, as well as crossing the degree of a huge eclipse. One of my colleagues described this as s
April 2006
Saturday, April 22, 2006 | Concessions in Nepal NOTE: Here is the mostly corrected version of yesterday's posting: http://planetwavesweekly.com/dadatemp/260041017.html WHILE I'm working on the astrology of the Nepal transition, such as it
April 2006
And I did something that you're not supposed to do as a journalist and which I try to make like it will be a cold day in hell before it happens but I spelled McClellan wrong. That is the right spelling. We'll correct it in the official version when we go through the archives in 2026. Thanks to Jude
April 2006
Friday, April 21 | Psyche Speaks NOTE: We've got a new version of the McLellan Quits chart with Psyche depicted in the ascendant, written out "psy". That would be here: http://planetwaves.net/chart.php?c=scottresign Also, there is a minor gaffe in this article, as I
April 2006
Thursday, April 20 | From Nepal to Washington WATCHING tensions rise in Katmandu in what may be the last days of King Gyanendra, I can see how George Bush could be pretty nervous. The Nepalese capital is now under a 24-hour curfew as people are demanding an end to the king's absolute rule.
April 2006
April 18 | And now, from the something finally gives files GOOD Goddess we had to wait a long time. The Aries Point has been in the deep fryer and the planets have been spinning wildly. And finally, two men on the top-10 list of those who most definitely need their mouths washed out with n
April 2006
Wednesday, April 19 | Energy I'VE been whining about evil the past couple of days, but have not been missing the rather amazing emergence of protests in many parts of the world this spring. This is Aries Point, this is Chiron conjunct Nessus, this is Saturn in Leo -- all the recent big one
April 2006
Tuesday, April 18 | Focus THE astrology I described yesterday is pretty much in exact focus now. It's about 1 pm CET and it's just at the peak. Venus is conjunct Uranus (hmmm, sounds interesting) and Mercury is square Mars, basically simultaneously. The whole setup in involves the Aries Po
April 2006
Monday, April 17 | Aries Point Alive THE INNER space known as astrology is making some exciting patterns right now. We have passed through the firestorm between the eclipses of Sept. 2005 and March 2006, with all the inner planet retrogrades and much else besides. The stretch between now a
April 2006
April 16 | Feast or Famine? "If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast." -- Ernest Hemingway ARTISTS and writers seem to pour through Paris. I
April 2006
Not a Blog But a reading recommendation: Meet Mr. Republican: Jack Abramoff by Matt Tiabbi http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041406E.shtml Tiabbi is the guy who recently crashed a U.S. Senator's $500 per plate birthday party posing as a lobbyist for a fake Russian gas company
April 2006
April 14 | 22 Views of Paris COMMEMORATING my last few days in Paris, we'll be posting a series of 22 images of this city, changing the photos every few hours through the weekend and into next week. The photos will be archived in the cover gallery, linked directly from the caption. Appropr
April 2006
April 14 | Weekend Update Whan that April with his showres soote The drougnt of March hath perced to the roote And bathed every vein in swich licour Of which vertu engendred is the flowr; Whan Zephyrus, eek, with his sweet breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tender cropp
April 2006
April 14 | Teach Your Parents From tomorrow's Planet Waves Weekly...which covers the astrology of the Iran nuclear situation, including the Nuclear Axis chart I've written about for StarIQ.com... READER WARNING -- there are people who believe that nuking Iran is a good idea. You may be
April 2006
Hello out there in Internet land. Is there someone who is a good typist who has about an hour to type in an article? This is the "Weekend of Listening" piece I wrote toward the end of the existence of Miracle Manor. My father has dug it out of my box in his basement on Long Island (thanks
April 2006
April 13 | Full Moon WHEN the Moon visits the sign opposite the Sun, the Full Moon is never far away. And that's where we are now -- with the lunation happening at 5:40 pm Thursday London time, Thursday afternoon in the eastern United States and in the morning in the western states. The Fu
April 2006
Here's a tragic story we need to get out there. School officials are going to need to pick up some skills at being chill with students who stand up for their rights. This article is courtesy of Ursula in Toronto. Please spread the link. http://www.socialistworker.org/2006-1/584/584_01_Soltero.
April 2006
April 11 | Stop Everything And... THERE'S this movie that everyone talks about but nobody has seen recently enough. That film is Dr. Strangelove. I'm gonna keep this a mercifully short blog on the theme of "leadership" and invent a way for you to do the writing -- go rent that fi
April 2006
Iran Hint at Nuclear Milestone From al-Jazeera: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/11A69B00-8004-4D87-997B-953ECD94C22A.htm Excerpt: "Iran's president has promised 'good news' within days about the country's nuclear programme and a newspaper said he might announce urani
April 2006
Tuesday, April 11 | Leadership in the Next Age FIRST, a clarification. In yesterday's edition, I said that to get into government on the top level, one had to be a crook, an idiot or both. This was not intended as an insult to public employees, and I apologize because it may have sounded l
April 2006
About today's photo | By Paloma It's three o'clock in the afternoon and I am in the metro exit. I can't see nor hear them yet. Something inside me has moved. I can feel it. It is as if a smell or an intense boiling inner sensation invisibly touches my skin from the inside out. Maybe it is because
April 2006
April 10 | Governance THE ISSUE of who will run society is one of those things that lives at the root of the human experience. Usually it's the guy with the biggest stick, who knows how to use it, and who has done so a few times. It is a sad fact that for the most part, in history as we kn
April 2006
From the Holy Living Fuck files... http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040906A.shtml
April 2006
April 9, 2006 | About that Glass Vase - and the News THERE is this thing called the MSM. It includes television, the big newspapers, many smaller newspapers that are owned by big chains, as well as the news magazines (Time, Newsweek, US News and others), and is characterized by a fe
April 2006
Gentlemen, he said, I don't need your organization, I've shined your shoes, I've moved your mountains and marked your cards But Eden is burning, either brace yourself for elimination Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards. Peace will
April 2006
Saturday, April 8 | Morning Dew I'm sitting here listening to an apropos of the moment song by the Grateful Dead, the song Morning Dew written by Canadian singer-songwriter Bonnie Dobson. I thought I heard a baby cry this morning, I thought I heard a baby cry this today. You didn’t he
April 2006
April 7, 2006 | Planet Waves Weekly Here is the full text of Planet Waves Weekly, including the article, "The Hole in the Bucket," as well as the weekly horoscopes. http://planetwavesweekly.com/dadatemp/1443549694.html
April 2006
"Row Jimmy" - The Grateful Dead Words by Robert Hunter; music by Jerry Garcia Copyright Ice Nine Publishing; used by permission. Julie catch a rabbit by his hair Come back step, like to walk on air Get back home where you belong and don't you run off no more Don't hang your
April 2006
Wednesday, April 5 | Astrology Secrets WEDNESDAY is usually the day I write Astrology Secrets Revealed for Jonathan Cainer's web site, which updates late Thursday. After a break of running the column every two weeks, we're back to a weekly cycle, and I'm sifting through the question
April 2006
Here is the link to the Jan. 28, 2005 horoscope -- the one I mentioned this morning from back the day of the Mars-Pluto conjunction in 2005. Here ya go, from the mysteries of the Planet Waves Weekly archives -- http://www.planetwaves.net/blog_files/050128.html
April 2006
Hi again I was gonna write a thing based just on the last fact Will Pitt presents in his article here...but frankly, Rivers said it as good as it's gonna be said. Here is your link, http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040406A.shtml
April 2006
CNN Wolf Blitzer's Situation Room transcript for 4/3 WOLF BLITZER ON CNN: Carrie Lemack is joining us on the phone now from Boston. Her mother died aboard American Airlines flight 11 on 9/11. You know, your mother, Judy, Carrie, give us your reaction to this unanimous decision by the juror
April 2006
April 4 | Mars opposite Pluto http://planetwaves.net/chart.php?c=mars_opp_pluto THERE is still one bit of the 3/29 cluster left to happen, and that is the opposition of Mars and Pluto. Occurring once every two years, it's not one of those super rare aspects, but anything b
April 2006
Dear Eric, There have been a lot of changes for me in the events leading up to the eclipse of March 29. I was laid off from a company I had worked for over thirteen years in January. It was a small shock, but more of a relief to me. It felt like a blank slate had been granted to me & I hope
April 2006
Monday, April 3, 2006 | Into the Season Dear Diary, It's been a really weird series of days since the Mercury station and the solar eclipse. What a combination. These kinds of events really 'stir the pot' and keep a definite edge of not taking too much for granted. Does anyone el
April 2006
Subscription Q & A | April 2, 2006 Dear Eric: I am paranoid about buying things on the Internet, but I want to subscribe to Planet Waves Weekly. What can I do? I can't seem to get over the unsettling feeling of typing my credit card into the Internet. -- Digitally Impaired in
March 2006
March 31, 2006 | More on Retrogrades ACTUALLY I noticed the time period between December 2005 and March 2006 when I was working on Bridge to the Core. At that point, I was very glad it was a year away. Today, I am happy it's behind us. Of course, Mars retrograde in Taurus was at tha
March 2006
Thursday, March 30 | The Swarm Passes WITH ANY LUCK we have all survived the combination of an Aries Point eclipse and mercury stationing direct more or less unscathed. Events of the past week wrap up a seemingly endless swarm of relentless planetary changes. Most notably, we ha
March 2006
March 29 | Eclipse Pause THE 3/29 eclipse is within hand's reach. I think that the events of the past week or so have revealed some of the direction of things. I just got off the phone with someone in New Paltz who told me there is a peace conference happening in Turkey, in the path
March 2006
March 28 | Linking the Issues I RECEIVED an email from one of those Planet Waves readers who is a news hawk yesterday. We have a few of them and it's a lot of fun to know they are out there, scouring the issues and putting together the mosaic of reality. She was annoyed that last
March 2006
March 27, 2006 | Different Season The hammer of the gods Will drive our ships to new lands, To fight the horde, singing and crying: Valhalla, I am coming! On we sweep with threshing oar, Our only goal will be the western shore. -- Led Zeppelin PERHAP
March 2006
March 25, 2006 | Oil Drilling in the Grand Canyon? EVERY NOW AND THEN I read something that explains it all. But not so often. Maybe once every 20 years. I read something yesterday that fit that description, which was distributed by Jude to Political Waves, so maybe you read it.
March 2006
March 24, 2006 | An Intriguing Week TALES OF INTRIGUE are coming in from the four corners of the Planet Waves coverage area. There is an atmosphere of sudden change and transformation in the air. Layers are peeling off the Big Lie, not to mention small and medium lies; it's been
March 2006
March 23, 2006 | Blog Pause! Hey there -- just wanted to mention to regular readers of my blog that I'm taking a day or two of. Lots of writing in progress...so stay tuned... e
March 2006
March 22, 2006 | Light and Dark DRIVING home on a long car trip today, my first experience driving in nearly a year, I stated telling my traveling partner stories I knew from offbeat mythologies. As I was rambling along, ignited by a sudden plunge into Paris rush hour traffic, a sto
March 2006
March 21, 2006 | Chumped ETHICALLY, we have a kind-of 'out' as regards the Iraq invasion: it was fraud. Fraud involves the actions of the perpetrator, rather than the actions of the victim. Basically, at least under United States federal law as I understand it, you have a right
March 2006
March 20 | Three Years I REMEMBER seeing my first anti-Iraq invasion protest in the summer of 2002, driving through Seattle one Sunday afternoon. It was a long, long march of people through the quiet streets of a neighborhood I happened to be passing through, thousands protesting so
March 2006
Planet Waves is a breath of newness that weaves a golden thread between the worlds of Inner and Outer. It is a necessary gift to the growing consciousness. Planet Waves is a Socio-spiritual "Motion" rather than a "new age movement." It is a wisdom school for those who live
March 2006
Sunday, March 19 | Of Necessities and Luxuries A Sermon offered by the Rev. Eric Francis, DD, BA, Uncertified Astrologer and former baseball card collector. To My Dear, Dear Flock, THANK YOU for coming to church on Sunday morning, the Church of Marketing here in
March 2006
Overnight Musical Interlude I am sure that most people don't know that Planet Waves has official theme music. It's not by the Beatles or 50 Cent; rather, it is the song, "When I Was a Lad" (the Admiral's song) from H.M.S. Pinafore, by Gilbert and Sullivan. http://diamond.bo
March 2006
March 18 | Two More Dreams Greetings I have a comment about my lunar dream and recent nebula discovery. My dream: My husband and I traveled to an event, spiritual in nature. That evening in the hotel room we retired to bed. Then as I was sleeping I could not move and someon
March 2006
March 18 | More Eclipse Dreams Note -- Any that you may have submitted that you have not seen published, I misplaced! Please resend, in that case, and it helps if the word "dream" is in the subject header. I will keep this feature going as long as we have material t
March 2006
March 17 | Your Lunar Eclipse Dreams Dear Mr. Francis, The lunar eclipse has caused me to somehow prowl more on the "darker" side of my desires. I'm a pretty fair and logical woman on almost all days, but recently I have been slipping under some strange an
March 2006
March 16 | Updates, updates Hi and Hello, First I'd like to welcome you if you're a new reader who has percolated over from Cainer.com this week. You've found your way to a place called Planet Waves, an Internet magazine that's based on astrology -- but which goes a lot further b
March 2006
Hunting the Moon I STEP into the snap chill of the April night and before the motion-detectors see me and flood the world with incandescent glare, I see the Moon, in the clouds, in the trees, in the east. Nothing could have prepared me for such a sudden breath: Not spending the better par
March 2006
March 15 | Sun square Pluto Note to new visitors: This week's subscriber birthday report is linked below! This is published each week covering birthdays in the Sun's current sign transit. AS I MENTIONED earlier in the week, we have stars, planets and asteroids flying aroun
March 2006
March 15 | A Touch of Madness THERE IS definitely a touch of madness to a lunar eclipse. That touch touches many people at every Full Moon, but an eclipse has a special charge. It's a Full Moon and a New Moon combined; I look at it as living a month in a night. Anyway -- if you're f
March 2006
Tonight's Lunar Eclipse Details - Courtesy of Jonathan Cainer Just before midnight tonight*, as the moon becomes completely full, the earth will cast a subtle shadow across its face. This 'darkening of the moon' is seen, in some traditions, as inauspicious. I prefer to think of it a
March 2006
March 14 | Back from a Breather HOLLAND for my birthday -- that was fun. Living 4,000 miles from anyplace I've truly called home, The Netherlands always has that feeling for me. It had also been quite a while since I was able to totally disconnect from the whole stream of tracki
March 2006
What to Do | March 13 | From Vennila dear eric, below is an announcement for installation that is very much related to your cover series of 'what to do'. may be you can share it amidst the community of peace workers...? i shall be working on a larger (nation-wi
March 2006
What to Do | Contribution from Stephen Dear PLANET WAVES folks, Drawing back from the fearful, angry, and violent present time on our planet, we have the astrological cosmic perspective to put to use. It permits us to know that the changing of the Ages, Pisces to Aqu
March 2006
March 12 Continued | From Michelle Hi EricI'm an Aussie who's been reading your site, thanks to Jonathan Cainer. Eric, because of your work I've grown as a person. I've found that the most profound change I've experienced has been an increase in my value of ethics, al
March 2006
March 12 | What to Do, Continued From Karen: Pointing fingers and externalising the call for change is all very well but change, like charity, begins at home.We could all start by using vinegar where we use bleach and turning the tap off whilst we brush our teeth. W
March 2006
March 11 | What to Do | Contributions from Mary and Diana From Mary: I couldn't watch the Today Show the morning after the election. I was horrified that we'd done it again, voted him BACK in, as if to say he hadn't stolen the election the first go round. I've never f
March 2006
March 10 | From Jeanne Treadway Reconnect With Nature Spring is returning to the northern half of this glorious Earth. Each day brings hints of the coming beauty. In my part of the world, globe willows now have their sweet and subtle golden-green halo. These are
March 2006
Hey all, Pardon the interruption in the "What To Do" zone. I realized today is March 9, the anniversary of the Sullivan decision. I know not everybody gets excited about Supreme Court rulings but this happened close enough to my birthday that I take it personally. http://en.wikipe
March 2006
March 9 | Contribution from Gail Dear Eric:I've been puzzling for some time about how things continue to be "business as usual" in the face of these overwhelming events and facts. While I was "down" last spring/summer, I took to reading Mike Ruppert's work and his websit
March 2006
Modern History as Performance Art By Martha I stew about this night and day and then some. It seems to me that the first obstacle we face is our invisibility. Those of us, who are sickened, outraged, fed up-to-10-on-the-dial and furious are writing, news releasing, shouting-out every day. O
March 2006
Reader Contributions to Continue! Dear Readers: We are going to continue our What We Can Do series by readers in the Planet Waves blog. The essays have been excellent and the response positive. So, please submit your contribution to us in care of april@planetwaves.net The arti
March 2006
March 8 | What to Do, continued By Pat Bishop What to do in the face of this worldwide disregard of life itself? Well, we've seen how religion is used as "The Great Excuse" for every horrifying desecration we are witnessing. It's spinning out of control: mater
March 2006
March 7 | Reader Contributions: What to Do But first a correction: Today's entry by Patricia was Paquette, not Bishop -- Pat Bishop is another clear thinker and astrologer who has contributed to this series and whose name shows up regularly in my inbox. And here's the URL to Patrici
March 2006
March 6 | Reader contributions: What We Can Do MUCH as I love movies, I rarely have time to go, and I've grown not to trust many of them because of how I often feel sitting in a cinema. Having asked some of my colleagues at Planet Waves for their comments on the Oscars, and getting
March 2006
... and I'll leave you with this thought ... your feedback on this interpretation welcome at francis@planetwaves.net ... as I say good night from the European capital ... and will catch you in the morning ... efc http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030506Z.shtml
March 2006
March 5 | from Political Waves, by Jude Hey all, this one falls into the "said it better than I can possibly say it" genre, so I am sharing it with you here. - efc I self-edit a lot -- trying to keep a balance between the things I intuit and the
March 2006
March 5 | Religious Interlude: Marketing Day AS REGULAR readers of this column know, Sunday is held sacred and sanctified for a marketing pitch; the Sabbath of Subscriptions; the day I get to remind you what else we have to offer, and also that Planet Waves and all its related services grow and t
March 2006
March 5 | Response from Arizona "The homeless get lots of aid here in the US. I work for the homeless on a daily basis along with hundreds of others in my city. They get a lot more than blankets passed out to them. AND, I live in Arizona, a patently Republican stronghold. Where I live there
March 2006
March 4 | Re: Victim Stuff I SPENT the day thinking about Anne's letter (see below). Be careful what you send me because I just might mull it over for a while. I have decided that she has a point, but on two accounts got it backwards. When I got in tonight, Anatoly, our web guy in the Ukraine
March 2006
March 4 | Reader Comment: Planet Waves Blog is on Victim Trip Hello Eric, The homeless get lots of aid here in the US. I work for the homeless on a daily basis along with hundreds of others in my city. They get a lot more than blankets passed out to them. AND, I live in Ariz
March 2006
March 4 | What to Do: Copy Edit! I HAVE a really nice collection of 'what to do' letters sitting in a folder that I am sure many people are eager to read, and I would like to ask a reader here to take over cleaning them up and getting them ready for publication. You would need to have some
March 2006
March 3 | What To Do: Let's Stop Playing it Cool I KNOW that in writing this series, I'm contacting a lot of people who care. So I don't mean to get too preachy with those of you who are already willing to stick out your neck, and risk pissing off spouses, friends and bosses, to get a little move
March 2006
March 2 | What to Do, part two THERE IS a viewpoint that at this point in history we all need to 'let go and let God'. It would seem that a lot of the more spiritually oriented people are witnessing this time of global crisis and either hoping or certain that God is going to step in and do someth
March 2006
Hello everyone, I am between countries at the moment, and will be continuing with the "What to Do" series Thursday morning. Thanks for your patience -- and meantime, I would love to hear your ideas for what to do because I am sure you have plenty of them. e
March 2006
Feb. 28 | What To Do, part oneIT'S NOT always easy getting used to the idea that you're not totally ineffective. Based on any analysis you like, except for one, it's impossible that your life has no effect on the world: whether you look at physics, social science, biology or history, individual huma
March 2006
Feb. 27 | The Green Line in the Sand I'D LIKE to offer you a theory of what's happenin' here. I make no claim of originality, but the presentation and interpretation are my own. Let's put some pieces together. Just in terms of the basic operative facts of the moment, one m
March 2006
And this is really amazing... http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022606A.shtml
March 2006
Feb. 26 | Psychic Weather Advisory BEFORE I resume with my analysis of the entire world in Monday's edition, if nobody minds, I'll slip in a little mundane astrology -- a weather advisory re. the Pisces New Moon and also Mercury stationing retrograde in Pisces. That's a lot of Pisce
March 2006
Sunday, Feb. 26 | Holy Spiritual Marketing Day Dear Friend and Reader: MARKETING is a religion, and today is Sunday, so regular readers of this blog, and those who stumble in from the far corners of the ethers, get to experience one of my high-quality solicitations for you to inv
March 2006
In high school, my friend Mike Ackerman & I had a party called "Sid Vicious is Dead but Punk Lives." I say the same tonight, upon finding this note in the handwriting of Johnny Rotten (John Lydon), refusing an invitation to the Sex Pistols' induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
March 2006
Feb. 25 | The List ONE OF my readers emailed me yesterday to say how much she appreciated my blog. But she said she had to rise above a lot of fear to write to me, because she was concerned that her email might be intercepted and that she would, as result, get profiled. Th
March 2006
Feb. 23 | All Hands On Deck YOU KNOW, cousins, I'm sick of all this heavy stuff myself. I spent most of the weekend and into the week reading about, and discussing among my friends, what I will politely call 'camps' in the United States -- which I would be less concerned about if th
March 2006
Feb. 23 | Humble Beginnings: Notes from Germany NOTE: When I was traveling in Germany in 1998 with my friend Maria Henzler, I was writing for a magazine on Rob Brezny's Real Astrology site, and did a series on civil rights in Germany and the early days of the Nazi regime. I went to Deutchl
March 2006
And always remember... http://www.theonion.com/content/node/45591
March 2006
Feb. 22 | News Bulletin I DON'T know if you've been following this astonishing story involving the Bush administration authorizing the sale of six ports to a company based in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Democrat and Republican lawmakers in Congress have lined up against the a
March 2006
Feb. 22 | Where Do You Go? MY FATHER is a professor at one of the poshest community colleges in the US. True, a community college is not the Ivy League, but if two-year colleges had an Ivy League this would be among them. There's even ivy growing on some of the buildings. He teaches com
March 2006
Feb. 21 | Detention Centers in USA WE HAVE been discussing the issue of detention centers in the United States behind the scenes at Planet Waves the past few days, sorting out fact from fiction and, I think, coming to some terms as individuals with the situation. A friend in Oregon sent me
March 2006
Feb. 21 | More Fishy Times I HAVE a feeling that this is going to be an impressive Mercury retrograde in Pisces, as far as the whole 'transparency of reality' issue is concerned. Yet the utter strangeness of this moment in history is how see-through it's all become -- and how little this s
March 2006
Feb. 20 | These Fishy Times EL SOL is in Pisces, the 12th sign of the zodiac, and the third month of winter in the Northern Hemisphere. Each season begins with a cardinal sign (winter begins with Capricorn), peaks with a fixed sign (in this case Aquarius) and ends with a mutable sign (Pisc
March 2006
Feb. 19 | Sun in Pisces AS OF last night, the Sun is in Pisces. It's raining and cold in Paris. When I click on my "dashboard" feature, I am informed that it's sunny and a very pleasant 20 degrees Celsius. A few days ago, I thought of Bev Dulis, an astrology reading graduate I
March 2006
Feb. 18 | Donald Rumsfeld's Big Quote (revised with follow-up below) http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/04/september11/main520830.shtml ONE of the ways I keep up with the news is that there are some talented people in the Planet Waves network who sweep the news pages, do Goog
March 2006
Notice to Political Waves Readers WE ARE in the process of moving our free, all-politics list off of Yahoo! Groups and onto Google Groups. Yahoo! has just been spazzing out way too much the past few months for our sanity, and we've reached the limit (spoiled as we are at Planet Waves on te
March 2006
Feb. 17 | Adios, Mars in Taurus, by Eric (revised) TODAY is the day, even in Europe (where it happens just before midnight), when Mars ambles or thunders or thinks its way or whatever it does, into Gemini. The Mars cycle is an interesting one; our nearest planetary neighbor, probable home
March 2006
Feb. 16 | Yet More Strained Credibility by Jude from Political Waves IT STRAINS credibility to discover this amount of missing money in the FEMA assistance program. New Orleans continues as a gaping hole of need, and survivors are still farmed out around the country, likely to remain so in
March 2006
Feb. 15 | Summary of Cheney Incident Press Coverage This Washington Post link below is an excellent summary of coverage of Dick Cheney shooting a fellow hunter, landing him in the intensive care unit and and leading to a heart attack. I'll have more to say on Astrology Secrets Revea
January 2006
Planet Waves Astrology | Blog by Eric Francis Jan. 4 | Shocker! I Helped Adam Kidan Defraud Foodtown of Tongue AS REPUBLICAN superlobbyist Jack Abramoff pleaded guilty to bribing something like a fifth of the United States Senate, I recalled another incident involving pet
January 2006
January 2 | euroPART Scandal LATE last week, a news story, dateline Vienna, blew through Europe involving some highly controversial billboards that were posted as part of a public art program. Receiving some private and some public sponsorship, the project, called euroPART, has put art photo
January 2006
Overnight Reading (unless you're in Australia, in which case it's hot sunny afternoon reading)...scanning the PlanetWaves.info newswire (linked from our front page), I just found this excellent book review on the history of astrology. http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/entertainment/books
January 2006
January 1 | Stone Soup Dear Friend and Reader: I REALIZE we are adding features to Planet Waves faster than most people lacking a Mercury-Mars conjunction can keep up. This weekend, we've added a permanent home for our extremely useful PlanetWaves.info newsfeed, and a brand
January 2006
January 1 | Free the Boy! Free the Boy! NOT ELIAN GONZALEZ. But yes, a story related to Florida. First you need a little backstory, which I'm going to keep short and get back to horoscopes. There's news these days about Farris Hassan, an American-born Iraqi youth from Ft. Lauderdale,
January 2006
90 minutes to midnight, CET WELL, another day and another year at Planet Waves. I have done my best to "apply the seat of the pants to the chair" today and proceed on the Parallel Worlds horoscopes, and have succeed somewhat; even managing to get out to the market (my
January 2006
Saturday, Dec. 31, 2005 WHAT A YEAR. I don't quite know what I'm feeling, except I have to keep reminding myself how much it's been, and I am grateful to be sitting here writing. But as one of your artists in residence, I need to say how grateful I am to have this space to experiment with vi
January 2006
Parallel Worlds Update HERE'S WHAT'S happening in Parallel Worlds land. Despite the scale of the project, we would appear to be something vaguely resembling on schedule, thank Dog. In addition to the annual horoscopes (what some call "forecasts") for each sign, we have a little mor
January 2006
12/30/05 : Last Comment (for Now) on Nuke Paltz Dear Readers: Here [below] is the finished article on the New Paltz "it's all good" PCB test results from the Poughkeepsie Journal I mentioned the other day. If you've been reading this blog lately, you have a sense of my involveme
January 2006
Thursday, Dec. 29, 2005 LET'S FINALLY HAVE a look at the chart after all these years. Ladies and gentlemen, without another decade's delay, please meet the New Paltz PCB disaster, in nine planets, four asteroids and Chiron: http://www.planetwaves.net/charts/new_paltz_pcb.html Th
January 2006
Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2005 STEVE BERGSTEIN, our resident civil rights lawyer, has written an excellent article on gay marriage, posted to his Psychsound blog. It's based on the situation in New York State, one of the epicenters of the issue, because in New Paltz last year, a young mayor
January 2006
Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2005 A LITTLE while ago I spoke with Dan Shapley, the environmental reporter for the Poughkeepsie Journal. It seems that the State University College at New Paltz, in New York State, just released a new round of test results which assert that their dormitories, which were
January 2006
Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2005 WATCHING the tsunami memorial specials last night on BBC World, I was remembering what an intense year it's been. True, not as intense as for the many hundreds of thousands of people who had their homes washed away in Asia and the Americas, but for everyone who has bee
January 2006
Monday, Dec. 26, 2005 IT IS DIFFICULT to imagine an event that kills 300,000 people in a couple of hours, but that's what happened a year ago Dec. 26. Potentially, it is impossible to consider; all you can really contemplate is an individual or a family. We have seen many interviews of peopl
January 2006
Sunday, Dec. 25, 2005 MIDNIGHT MASS was something of a virtual experience. I had dinner with my Peruvian neighbors, who are two are two socially talented sisters attending university here. Among their friends were a few guys from Peru and Argentina collected from around Europe, and one who m
January 2006
A Christmas Reminder... BEFORE signing off for the day, I just wanted to put a reminder out there: Christmas is a really difficult day (or time of year) for many people. I hope it's not for you, but I can tell you from much past personal experience that it can be an emotionally crushing time
January 2006
Saturday, Dec. 24, 2005 Before dinner later with some neighbors from Peru (followed by an excursion to Notre Dame for a nude photo session at midnight mass), my job for the day is to look at the United States charts, for a Parallel Worlds article called United States Live. The
January 2006
Friday, Dec. 23, 2005 IS IT REALLY Dec. 23, 2005 already? I guess so. The Parallel Worlds astrology inquiry has moved into the realm of Chiron in Aquarius. Though I've written quite a lot about this over the past couple of years, I'm approaching the subject as if I've never touche
January 2006
SINCE TODAY is the 7th anniversary of Planet Waves, I was poking around super old issues in the Wayback Machine. It's kind of amazing how far I got establishing content in the PW webspace even after just a month or two on the gig. Here is something silly I've found -- &n
January 2006
Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2005 FROM THE mobile astrology laboratory at Café Metro, near Maubert-Mutualité, left bank, Paris -- I'm working out of the house (usually better for getting anything done) on the astrology for Parallel Worlds [see page linked from PlanetWaves.net hom
January 2006
Highly recommended. Requires Flash 8, a free download. http://chris-floyd.com/bush/
January 2006
Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2005 "AS I HAVE SAID, this isn't the first time your civilization has been at this brink. I want to repeat this, because it is vital that you hear this. Once before on your planet, the technology you developed was far greater than your ability to use it responsibly.
January 2006
Dear Readers: We are planning a special holiday edition of Astrology Secrets Revealed (the Cainer.com Page Q & A) this Thursday night featuring your reader comments about the astrology of 2005. If you would like to add a short, intelligent, concise comment, you have today to do it. Comme
January 2006
Monday, Dec. 19, 2005 IT'S FUNNY -- people have actually sent in a few mildly shocked emails responding to my "pray for Bush" comment. It is true that I am still able to feel some human compassion for the guy, but in a way it's not the least bit personal. Here is the thing we ne
January 2006
Monday, Dec. 19, 2005 A BRIEF blog before going to bed; I'll revise it in the morning. I just had a look at the chart for right now (it's about 1 a.m. Paris time) and noticed that the Leo Moon is about to go through the fixed grand cross. About once a week, this proves to be a source of a li
January 2006
Sunday, Dec. 18, 2005 THESE HAVE CERTAINLY been some remarkable days in the story of the world, or at least our little chapter. Just how meaningful they turn out to be, we will see in time, because there is more to come; whatever may transpire over the winter, the dates March 28-31 are vibra
January 2006
Jude writes on Political Waves: "According to Martin Garbus in Huffington Post, the president in authorizing surveillance without seeking a court order has committed a crime. The Federal Communications Act criminalizes surveillance without a warrant. It is an impeachable offense."
January 2006
Jibjab's Year in Review Not to miss... go to: http://jibjab.com/ and you'll see it. I would put a direct link, but I think their gadgets read your browser and media player. You'll have to endure a Sprint ad first. This is some serious LOL material. Their best, I think. &n
January 2006
Saturday, Dec. 17, 2005 Update: Bush confirms New York Times report, and admits he authorized spying on U.S. citizens http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4538286.stm From the BBC report: Senator Arlen Specter, the Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee,
January 2006
Friday, Dec. 16, 2005 IN A STUNNING synchronicity, the U.S. Senate rejected renewing the Patriot Act today, the same day that The New York Times reported that the Bush administration authorized spying on Americans without court orders. Nice little wave of Sun conjunct Pluto in Sagittarius, w
January 2006
Friday, Dec. 16, 2005 Dear Readers: Instead of a blog, today I'm posting the weekly horoscope, normally posted only to the subscriber side of Planet Waves. If you'd like to receive the weekly every week -- and many other other benefits of a subscription, including access to the
January 2006
Thursday, Dec. 15, 2005 WE'RE NOW in the thick of the Gemini Full Moon; this is what it feels like. I'm always interested in how the "astrological phenomenon" has no official approval but everyone knows that the Full Moon does something to you. People who know best are the the ones
January 2006
One from the Vault http://www.ericfrancis.com/articles/workshops02.html
January 2006
Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2005 WITH THE MOON now in Gemini, we're officially and certifiably in the Fool Phase. Inner planets as well as the Sun and Moon are making quite a lot of aspects currently and over the next few days, with the Gemini/Sagittarius energy reaching a sudden peak beginning righ
January 2006
Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2005 Stanley "Tookie" Williams, founder of the Crips gang in Los Angeles, was executed this morning at San Quentin Prison following a widespread campaign to save his life. Here is BBC coverage. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4523502.stm Wade
January 2006
Monday, Dec. 12, 2005 IF YOU HAVE a moment, I'd like to call your attention to our revised Terms of Service. This is usually the thing you skip over every time you click the "agree" button on a Web site when you make a purchase. Our TOS document is different: it's a bit more intere
January 2006
Monday, Dec. 12, 2005 MARS has stationed direct, which is likely to help clear a glut of stuck energy, some of it leftover from Mercury retrograde and some from long before. The Mars in Taurus era, not over until February, has arrived with some of the most significant global events of 2005:
January 2006
Saturday, Dec. 10, 2005 Last-minute climate change agreements were reached at the worldwide summit meeting in Montreal. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4515898.stm
January 2006
"The Bush administration is a rogue administration. They have been seen for who they are, and they do not represent the large proportion of the American people. They only represent the corporations that got them into power and we will continue without them." -- Official at Climate Change
January 2006
Friday, Dec. 9, 2005 Pod sends in this link: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article331947.ece ...which is just one example of how outrageously devoid of any responsibility the Iraq war is, from top to bottom, from the first life lost to the last, from the first
January 2006
Thursday, Dec. 8, 2005 "WELL, well, well. How about that?" I take the liberty of quoting Aunt Josie, because that's what I keep thinking. British Law Lords, the highest judicial officers in the United Kingdom, have said it's the law of the kingdom that evidence obtained by tortu
January 2006
Should be nominated for a pulitzer...http://www.theonion.com/content/node/43189
January 2006
Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2005 Dear Readers: Lise LePage in Vermont has been editing Parallel Worlds, the 2006 annual edition, coordinating the articles by Planet Waves writers besides myself. She just asked me to post this request to our readers. You can reach her at lepage@musearts.com
January 2006
Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2005 I DON'T RECOGNIZE Saddam Hussein in those pictures I keep seeing. I don't recognize the intense, somehow merry eyes of this once towering figure. He just doesn't seem his old self. It's true that he's allegedly traded in his six palaces for a jail cell -- but I think
January 2006
Monday, Dec. 5, 2005 MERCURY has stationed direct (in Scorpio), and Mars is stationing direct over the next week (in Taurus). One thing at a time, but be aware that both are happening in close proximity, and across the Taurus-Scorpio axis: that vast reservoir of sexual-creative energy. Stati
January 2006
Sunday, Dec. 4, 2005 Dear Friend and Reader: I'd like to take a moment and point you to some of the new features on Planet Waves, and then remind you in about one sentence why it's a great idea to subscribe to our weekly service. Read to the end for special offers. All of these
January 2006
NOTE TO INTERNATIONAL READERS. We are creating an International Links Page. Please send us your favorite non-English language links related to astrology, world affairs, spirituality, photography, sexuality, NGOs or activist organizations, or other topics of interest to Planet Waves rea
January 2006
Friday, Dec. 2, 2005 Ladies, Gentlemen and Pleiadians, With my stint covering for Jonathan over and the week fairly well wrapped up, I'm going to bow out of public life for a few days. If Dick Cheney up and quits, I won't have a word to say about it till Monday. Welcome to all the n
January 2006
Re-introducing Steve Bergstein... MY OLD FRIEND Steve Bergstein wrote to me the other day and asked about how he could set up a blog. Blogspot? Something else? I seized on the opportunity. Um, how about for Planet Waves? We come with actual readers, and we're starting to get our act together
January 2006
Thursday, Dec. 1, 2005 UNLESS Dick Cheney resigns, I will not be blogging today. However, there will be an extra edition of Astrology Secrets Revealed tonight on Jonathan Cainer's site that will double as the Friday Planet Waves essay (and will be sent to subscribers Thursday evening
December 2005
Planet Waves Astrology | Blog by Eric Francis Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2005 THANKS FOR the incoming feedback on the gray cover format. Planet Waves is in its entirety an experiment...and I appreciate your participation. We're in the extreme waning phase of the Moon at th
December 2005
Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2005 THANKS FOR the incoming feedback on the gray cover format. Planet Waves is in its entirety an experiment...and I appreciate your participation. We're in the extreme waning phase of the Moon at the moment. As of late Tuesday night, the Moon is in mid-Scorpio. The
December 2005
Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2005 Just a brief note to our European and UK readers who have been trying to log in -- our new servers were down for scheduled maintenance, but we did not figure that out until they were pulled offline for a few hours overnight Monday to Tuesday, east coast time. For
December 2005
Monday, Nov. 28, 2005 I SOMETIMES WONDER what it's like showing up at Planet Waves for the fist time -- is it more like picking up a strange, interesting magazine in the waiting room of a bus station on another planet, or dreaming something odd and unfamiliar, or getting beamed aboa
December 2005
Another Little Project... Hey all...We are looking for someone to create the monthly astro calendar each month for Planet Waves. This is a PDF (sample on main homepage) that basically lists the main events each month: lunations, planetary sign changes, stations, and important aspect
December 2005
Not a joke, either... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10174732/ Must be Kafka's birthday...
December 2005
Not a joke... http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2005/11/26/riot25.htm But it was precisely this kind of article that inspired the very existence of The Onion. Long Live Kafka. Okay, enough futzing around online, I've gotta get some work done.
December 2005
Sunday, Nov. 27, 2005 Hey all. I'm having something of an actual weekend off (except for a modest project today of writing the Wednesday daily) which reminds me -- I'm covering for Jonathan starting tonight. This appears on http://cainer.com/ Subscribers to Planet Waves Weekly
December 2005
Dear Subscribers: I've sent out the Friday edition of Planet Waves Weekly a few hours ago, but because I was behind schedule, it's in the queue in the list server in New York. It will probably move in an hour or two -- it's now about 1 pm in New York. However, it has been posted to the
December 2005
Friday, Nov. 25, 2005 I'M ALL MIGLED up in finishing next week's daily columns for Jonathan Cainer (he's taking a break to figure out an aspect, as he has said, but I have no clue what aspect that is and I'm not going to ask), so today's will be a short blog; contrary to all the forces of
December 2005
Thursday, Nov. 24, 2005 ALICE'S RESTAURANT, the Arlo Guthrie song, is the greatest shaggy dog story of all time. This is a kind of joke where the story goes on and on and on, seemingly leading to something cryptic and profound, but the long-awaited punch line turns out to be a bad pun, or
December 2005
Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2005 Here's a Web page that I discovered because they discovered an article I wrote in Chronogram recently. AstroCocktail.com is daily site based on Long Island (NY, USA) that specializes in gathering astrological news from all over the world, a great idea that gives a
December 2005
Internet reality check: Have any readers attempted to email us at an @planetwaves.net email address and not had a reply? Or are you getting a bounce message of any kind? I probably don't count, as Chelsea is much more efficient at email than I am -- more like customer service emails, a
December 2005
Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2005 AT THE BREAKFAST in America diner this morning, I was sitting next to the owner, Craig