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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, who was doing a number puzzle from a French paper. A copy of the International Herald Tribune was on the counter. "Between the Internet and BBC, it's really odd how today's
December 2005
Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2005 YESTERDAY, I NOTED the prison-like atmosphere of Clichy-sous-Bois, and how it works as a prison of the mind. In retrospect, the place blends the isolation typical of a rural community with the oppression of an urban ghetto. As far as I can tell it's worse than both c
December 2005
Monday, Nov. 21, 2005 REGARDING THE Cités of outer Paris. After a few attempts, a friend and I organized a trip out to Cilchy-sous-Bois. Frieda, a young poet, her friend Sam and I headed out Sunday morning to have a look around. Sam attends university fairly near Clichy and is a tal
December 2005
Planet Waves: What We Are Doing Dear Friend and Reader: REGULAR VISITORS to Planet Waves may have noticed some improvements to the site in recent days...in recent months...and in recent years. Every single day that passes, there are least two or three little developments that make our c
December 2005
Saturday, Nov. 19, 2005 Up from the Minors OF NOTE, in recent years Scorpio has been stirred up by the minor planet Pholus. This has gone on since Oct. 20, 1999. Note that minor planets are akin less to the minor leagues of baseball than they are to a minor scale in music. They are not
December 2005
Friday, Nov. 18, 2005 Hey. I'm taking a day off from blogging to wrap up Planet Waves and spend the rest of the day working on a programming project. But Melanie Reinhart sends in this lovely little comic strip that begins to warm up the theme of Sagittarius. http://www.nataliedarbel
December 2005
Thursday, Nov. 17, 2005 "Back in a bit, hang loose, the Full Moon has passed and I've noticed that a lot of the tension is out of the air. Any similar experiences, or different?" "Well, yes and no," writes Kyla. I have to agree. This has been one of those weeks t
December 2005
Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2006 I'VE RECEIVED quite a few interesting comments on life in Paris from Planet Waves readers, regarding yesterday's edition. I am, however, running super late today -- so I'll be back with a blog in some hours. There is an editor in New York very eager to see
December 2005
Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2005 MERCURY now is retrograde, and as of Tuesday morning Paris time, Luna is about 12 hours from the Full, in the sign Taurus. For the past few days I've been noticing various dependable digital devices just stop working for no explainable reason in that peculiarly Mercu
December 2005
Riots are a class act - and often they're the only alternative France now accepts the need for social justice. No petition, peaceful march or letter to an MP could have achieved this Gary Younge Monday November 14, 2005 The Guardian (Manchester UK) 'IF THERE IS no struggle,
December 2005
Sunday, Nov. 13, 2005 HEARING NEWS that Paris is under some kind of lockdown (see CNN article below) I geared up, bought a Metro ticket for the night, and went out on an investigative tourism mission. Having never been to Champs Elysees, I started there...taking the train to Place de la Co
December 2005
Comment: The two brothers, the two towers Hi, Eric. I am just now reading your Q&A column at Jon Cainer's site. Fascinating as always. Re: your remark, "The French national chart has another super-weird connection to the Sept. 11 chart -- involving the Moon's placement at 2
December 2005
From tonight's edition of Astrology Secrets Revealed Dear Eric, This is a super, super-important time for me, like all of us, and I really could use a clear understand of what the 'dark forces' of the universe are. I am asking you because I see you as a surfer riding the feared wa
December 2005
Thursday, Nov. 10, 2005 THOUGH IT may not seem like much to some, particularly those who are used to hearing about people thrown in to Guantanamo Bay with no charges left there four years, the British Parliament's House of Commons defeated a plan last night that would have kept &quo
December 2005
Bird Talk Thank you everyone for your really fun words of wisdom on capturing mischievous cockatiels, and other details about the birds you love. When I wondered why I let these two out of their cage, it occurred to me, "Of course you let them out!" They stayed on top of my bo
December 2005
Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005 THE WORLD is in a truly astonishing state -- benighted, and somehow, if I really use my imagination, awakening to its condition and to the potential we have. We have gone through a long, long phase of apathy; that is the word. I've always been annoyed by this word,
December 2005
Hello world, on a personal note, is anyone into taking care of birds? If so, I would appreciate a little advice on getting two cockatiels back into their cage. They are not tame; they are not wild; they have their flight feathers; Mrs. Oiseau bites; they are perched on my book shelves; happy, calm a
December 2005
US 'uses incendiary arms' against civilians in Iraq Italian state TV, Rai, has broadcast a documentary accusing the US military of using of phosphorus bombs against civilians in the Iraqi city of Falluja. In the film, eyewitnesses and ex-US soldiers who served in Iraq said white phosph
December 2005
Tuesday, November 8, 2005 FOR THE MOMENT, the grand fixed cross has moved on. But the configuration returns in early December and again in mid January (in high style, with a Full Moon), and there is the long-term astrology to think of. By that I am referencing the ongoing, long-term con
December 2005
This is how easy art is, just be real for a second. Thanks Danielle for sending this in. http://postsecret.blogspot.com/
December 2005
Monday, Nov. 7, 2005 "I take part because it's the only way I can express myself. All the other doors are shut." -- French youth protester on BBC World, reported by Richard Bilton. NO QUESTION there is a grand cross in progress...starring Neptune and co-starring the
December 2005
Sunday Reading, 11/6 I JUST found this piece on truthout.org -- on the theme of, "Hindsight is 20/20, But This is Ridiculous." Nice bit of writing. But I can answer the writer's question: people want to be on the side that's winning. http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005
December 2005
Saturday-Sunday, November 5-6, 2005 FEAR SEEMS to be issue #1. This is always the case in the land of swift death and little bliss, but now that the list of things to be terrified about is getting heaped higher and higher, it suddenly dawned on me one day last week, it was Thursday, to rai
December 2005
Friday, November 4, 2005 IN MY MOST RECENT post a few hours ago, I reserved a 10% stake in Avian Influenza being something other than pure pharmacop wannabe fascist shock the masses playtime for profit. There's a man in New York State, in state government, whose word I take rather seriousl
December 2005
One last for tonight... http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/31/politics/31war.html?emc=eta1
December 2005
Friday, November 4, 2005 WELL...I geared up and attempted a mission to Clichy-sous-Bois, the Paris "suburb" -- really a high-rise ghetto just outside the city -- where there has been rioting all week. But when I got to the RER station, they said that no trains were running there.
December 2005
Overnight Reading Dept. Here's an article sent in by a reader...I may pass on blogging Friday as I wrap up Planet Waves and head on a photo mission to the suburbs. This article is for mature audiences with a good stomach. http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/051107ta_talk_c
December 2005
Thursday, Nov. 3, 2005 IF YOU WANT to know why public health officials are so concerned about the possibility of an Avian Influenza outbreak, just learn a little about the 1918-1919 worldwide flu pandemic, called the Spanish Flu. By one estimate, 5% of the world population was lost to
December 2005
Overnight Reading...the U.S. government's Bird Flu Plan... http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110205I.shtml
December 2005
Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2005 THE SUN IS SQUARE SATURN and the new lunar month has begun. The Moon is in Scorpio and Venus is conjunct the core of the galaxy. Mars and the Sun are approaching an exact opposition, as Mars squares Neptune, stirring the cosmic pot. In Mexico and other countries
December 2005
Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2005 HAPPY NEW YEAR! Today is the first day of the new Pagan year, everyone. To celebrate, MSNBC has run an AP article on witches in the Netherlands getting a tax break for their classes -- something that's not so revolutionary because I am sure there are plenty of Pagan t
December 2005
Monday, Oct. 31, 2005 TWO MORE reasons we're the awesomest "astrology" Web page in the history of the galaxy, nay, of the Greater Nebadon Intergalactic Quadrant -- Inner Space, the house, home and weird little apartment horoscope, has been posted to the all new child-fr
December 2005
Monday, Oct. 31, 2005 TODAY IS Halloween, or the approximate day of the Pagan festival Samhain. This is a holiday rich in both social and astrological tradition. This holiday, which recognizes the final harvest and acknowledges death and its rituals, is the 'opposite' of a festival called
December 2005
This is a good one. Thanks Pod. cc: Political Waves http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1849201,00.html PS, so is this: http://snipurl.com/ja6c PPS, here is the quote of the week, my choice,
December 2005
Inside, as the president spoke, a man on the second level interrupted him, yelling "Mr. President, war is terrorism. War is terrorism. Step down now Mr. President. Torture is terrorism." Bush continued speaking as security officials escorted the man from the hall. http://news.yahoo.c
December 2005
Saturday, Oct. 29, 2005 Note to subscribers -- a link to the Friday horoscope is on the subscriber homepage at the blog on that page (now, one entry down). We have also emailed the link directly to all subscribers. The full newsletter has gone out by email but due to an Internet pro
December 2005
Friday, Oct. 28, 2005, revised Saturday morning. Note to subscribers -- a link to the Friday horoscope is on the subscriber homepage at the blog on that page. We have also emailed the link directly to all subscribers. The full newsletter has gone out by email but due to an Internet
December 2005
Saturday, Oct. 29, 2005 FOR THOSE accustomed to reading US-prepared news reports, here is a bit of what the BBC online edition has to say about the Scooter Libby indictment (link below). If you get your news in the United States, it's necessary to understand the concept of "spin."
December 2005
Friday, Oct. 28, 2005, revised Saturday morning. Note to subscribers -- a link to the Friday horoscope is on the subscriber homepage at the blog on that page. We have also emailed the link directly to all subscribers. The full newsletter has gone out by email but due to an Internet
December 2005
Friday, Oct. 28, 2005 WHATEVER HAPPENS TODAY -- whatever happens to White House officials or to the Bush administration or the Neocon movement that has seized control of United States society, the UK and in many ways the world, it's not really going to be justice. It will be a genuine,
December 2005
Thursday, Oct. 27, 2005 Discomfortable cousin! know’st thou not That when the searching eye of heaven is hid Behind the globe, and lights the lower world, Then thieves and robbers range abroad unseen, In murders and in outrage bloody here; But when, from under this ter
December 2005
Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2005 Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again And don't speak too soon For the wheel's still in spin And there's no tellin' who That it's namin'. For the loser now Will be later to win For the ti
December 2005
Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2005 I AM TRYING to focus my thoughts and am not having very much luck. But hey if I am feeling a little tense and nervous, imagine how Dick Cheney is feeling. If he is not personally indicted tomorrow, whatever happens affects him profoundly. His current transits include
December 2005
Monday, Oct. 24, 2005 THIS IS GOING to be an interesting week in the news. I feel 100% confident saying this. But there is an equally vast question hanging over whatever happens. Let me see if I can sum it up, and I may need to do so in the context of my personal feelings...about governmen
December 2005
Sunday, Oct. 23, 2005 THE SUN IS in Scorpio. We are in a 30-day phase of the solar cycle where we can ask some of the deepest questions about life, or where they will ask themselves. As just about everyone knows, Scorpio is the sign that deals with the mysteries of sex and death. We could
December 2005
Saturday, Oct. 22, 2005 Okay, an astrology interlude. Our lists are working better, by the way; you can be sure that lots of people on our friendly, kitchen-based, coffee-fueled technical crew have been working this one out all week. And I've bought Chelsea a brand new whip. Both the Su
December 2005
Friday, Oct. 21, 2005 IMPORTANT NOTE TO SUBSCRIBERS: We are still having some difficulty with our mailing lists, and possibly our email addresses. If you are a subscriber and have not received mailings recently, 1. Please email us at support@planetwaves.net and
December 2005
In-House News: Charting Project, What's Up with Our Lists, Monday Horoscopes & a Note for Yahoo! Subscribers First, I want to thank everyone for an enthusiastic response to the chart casting project. For reasons you'll read about in a moment, I have not been able to get back to everyo
October 2005
Planet Waves Astrology | Blog by Eric Francis Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2005 REGARDING RUMORS of the possible resignation of Dick Cheney, I have this to add to the discussion. When Spiro Agnew became the second vice president in US history to resign from office, on O
October 2005
Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2005 REGARDING RUMORS of the possible resignation of Dick Cheney, I have this to add to the discussion. When Spiro Agnew became the second vice president in US history to resign from office, on Oct. 10, 1973, Mars was retrograde in Taurus. This occurred less than one ye
October 2005
Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2005 I'VE BEEN ASKED TO CLARIFY what I meant by the comment about people in Iraq needing a strong leader or they do terrible things to one another -- back in Marco Polo's day. Which is simply this: whatever the cause, Iraq apparently has a long history of violence. Give
October 2005
Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2005 I'LL ASSUME everyone reading has survived the lunar eclipse; but you may need to dust your hat off. I had this whole kind of normal typical extremely busy day of writing astrology planned for yesterday, and I was at the "almost finished" point of the Lemona
October 2005
Monday, Oct. 17, 2005 The partial eclipse of the Moon in Aries is at 2:13 p.m. CED, or 8:13 am EDT. That means it's at 5:13 a.m. PDT and may be visible on the West Coast low in the western sky if you happen to be up and it happens to be clear. You will need to go to a high place, or a very
October 2005
Inauguration Chart Set AS PROMISED, the set of charts from the Jan. 20, inauguration of Bush and Cheney, is posted below. The story of the past five years in history is told as clearly in the astrology as it is anywhere else, and this is one of the more vivid moments in the process. Whi
October 2005
Saturday, Oct. 15, 2005 In reference to: http://theunitedamerican.blogs.com/Movies/2000A/2000.html hi eric- i want to keep this brief, and off the top of my head. thanks for the link to the mind-fuck-of-a-video on "soldiers dead" or "souls lost." &
October 2005
Saturday, Oct. 15, 2005 Dear Readers: I have received a request from a channeler I consider credible: Please ask the light workers, spirit workers, by whatever name, to please keep working with the souls that have been lost in the past few months. I was allowed a little glimpse of th
October 2005
Friday, Oct. 14, 2005 Good evening... HERE'S A KEY to the week's writings, related to Monday's eclipse and other stuff. An essay on the eclipse has been published at http://Cainer.com as the introduction to Astrology Secrets Re
October 2005
Thursday, Oct. 13, 2005 I was pleasantly answering emails listening to a super-mellow Grateful Dead song I woke up thinking about, called "Row Jimmy"...with its enigmatic lyrics, its slow, pulsating bass line and a dreamy, sweetly screaming Garcia steel guitar lead... http:
October 2005
Political Waves This article from the Sunday Times of London is an amazing read. It went out over Political Waves yesterday. Estimated reading time is about 15 minutes -- get comfy. It is stunning. You're about to meet the Sinead O'Connor of journalism. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/n
October 2005
Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2005 I made a mistake in time of the Pakistani quake chart, apparently casting the astrology of one of the aftershocks rather than the initial quake. The rather interesting 'incorrect' chart is posted several days below. Here is a URL to the corrected chart: http:
October 2005
Acutung! Beauty and Truth Fans... I took a few odd turns exploring an ancient Planet Waves site that has surfaced from the foggy corridors of the Internet, and wound up on the page linked below. It's an old interview with Rob Brezsny. Definitely a trip down memory lane. The article says th
October 2005
Entertainment update while writing Nov-Dec horoscopes... We hope you enjoy this highly inappropriate Multimedia Presentation, courtesy of our civil rights attorney in residence, Steve Bergstein. There is music, so plug in your earphones if your boss lacks a sense of humor. http://fi
October 2005
Mayan Astrology Report by Carol http://www.galacticalchemy.com/Journal-Chuen-October102005.htm
October 2005
Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2005 Columbus Day is in the neighborhood, celebrating the guy who "discovered America." In Quaker summer camp, we had a song that touched on the theme. It was a Peter, Paul & Mary song. In 1492, just to see what he could see Columbus, an Italian, set ou
October 2005
Monday, Oct. 10. 2005 CHART: http://www.planetwaves.net/charts/pakistani.html I THINK IT'S REASONABLE to ask what's happening...during the past 48 hours we've been presented yet another situation involving mass death and destruction, this time in Pakistan, India and Afghan
October 2005
New Orleans Survivor Stories http://citypages.com/databank/26/1294/article13694.asp
October 2005
Saturday, August 8, 2005 -- oops, it's October. Reading the Sidney Blumenthal article on the economics of Republicanism (see Political Waves article above, a "plan...a plan..."), I was reminded of a story about my old high school classmate Adam R. Kidan, the first Neocon I
October 2005
"Evil men obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience must be taken very seriously, and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply. Defeating a militant network is difficult because it thrives like a parasite on the suffering and frustration of others. The radicals exploit loc
October 2005
Political Waves: New York Times editorial from today President Bush's Major Speech: Doing the 9/11 Time Warp Again Yesterday, the same day New Yorkers were warned there was a "specific threat" of a bombing on their subways, President Bush delivered what the Whit
October 2005
Thursday night... Note to my friends, I am safely back in Paris. There are times when this city really gets on my nerves -- it's so dang serious here, most of the time -- but it's always good to come back. Paris has a cocooned feeling...it's gradually become one of the most familiar pla
October 2005
Thursday, Oct. 6, 2005 Okay everyone get out your Red, White and Blue jersey for the acting president's speech. I have been marveling at the irony of how he announces that he plans to use the Army for the flu (not, for example doctors; he really is out of touch, or he thinks that guns heal
October 2005
Thursday, Oct. 6, 2005 I know a lot of PW readers are not the "Watch the President's Speech" types, being too sensitive in the stomach or repelled by reptillian energy. However, this one is probably going to be worth it, given the timing, i.e., based on what's going on. Here, fro
October 2005
On Bird Flu -- by Jude from Political Waves, Oct. 5, 2005 I WAS HOPING TO AVOID IT -- but, the news is abuzz with Bird Flu stuff, it's all over CNN which is going to increase the amount of personal paranoia [and likely worries about the governments ability to deal with it.] The Dub has pro
October 2005
Context is Everything This has just appeared on the cover of http://CNN.com -- click quickly, the picture is priceless. A call by U.S. President George W. Bush for Congress to give him the power to use the military in law enforcement roles in the event of a bird flu pandemic has
October 2005
Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2005 Subscribers, please see meaningful note below this post! OUR LONGTIME READER Tyson Nuss has sent in a link to an article he wrote reinterpreting Libra. Great photos of the tightrope walker crossing between the towers of the World Trade Center, too. h
October 2005
Important Notice to Subscribers... Pax at bonum, You will need to add the domain "PlanetWaves.org" to your list of approved email addresses. If you want to add a specific address, the one to add is horoscopes@planetwaves.org, which is the new address from which h
October 2005
Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2005 Here are links to two additional horoscopes in the 'eclipse' series from Cainer.com. Monday... http://www.planetwavesweekly.com/drdc8/cainer/PW051003.html and Tuesday... http://www.planetwavesweekly.com/drdc8/cainer/PW051004.html Also, today i
October 2005
Okay here is what it looked like... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4304268.stm Thanks Mandy for the BBC link...
October 2005
Staring at the Sun, part v : Personal Account Hi Eric, The eclipse exactly 0d00m semi-square my Mercury right now may indicate some sort of communication so I suppose it’s relevant that I tell you of my experience being partially but permanently blinded by the sunR
October 2005
On Staring into the Sun, iii & iv Actually there were a number of Londoners who permanently damaged their eyesight during the total eclipse a few years back (1999?). Their stories were in the Evening Standard. One of them had watched the sun for less than 30 seconds and lost half the v
October 2005
On Staring into the Sun, ii WELL, I CAN REPORT first hand that an annular eclipse is not the most exciting phenomenon in nature I have recently encountered; the beagle puppy I made out with the other day left more of a conscious impression. But hey, the sky was clear, and I showed u
October 2005
On Staring into the Sun I KEEP SEEING warnings on the Internet not to look directly at a solar eclipse. Since I have not (to my knowledge) issued such a notice yet, I thought I would think the subject through out loud. This is an example of, "The Writing Process At Work."
October 2005
Border Song By Elton John and Bernie Taupin -- Holy Moses I have been removed I have seen the spectre he has been here too Distant cousin from down the line Brand of people who ain't my kind Holy Moses I have been removed Holy Moses I have been deceived Now the wind h
October 2005
Saturday, Oct. 1, 2005Here is a correction from the "Whole Earth Review" essay, above: Snopes.com has published a report that the 4,500 pound allgator allegedly found wandering the streets of New Orleans is really a 2003 photo of a crocodile from the Republic of Congo. While Snopes debunkings have
October 2005
Friday, Sept. 30 - Saturday, Oct. 1Well, here we are in the Mars station zone -- right here-now. It?s a get-reoriented moment, as THE forward moving energy of the astrological system reverses itself. Two articles above describe the phenomenon, though I don?t think I?ve looked at it closel
October 2005
Friday, Sept. 30, 2005 Dear Readers: Here is a little guide to my newest coverage of the eclipse and Mars retrograde. You'll find it in three places. First, my daily horoscopes covering the eclipse continue at http://cainer.com , where I am standing in for Jonathan. Friday nig
October 2005
Thursday, Sept. 29, 2005 Here is today's Jonathan Cainer Daily Horoscope, stand-in edition by Eric Francis. http://www.planetwavesweekly.com/drdc8/cainer/PW050929.html
October 2005
Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2005 If you like horoscopes and wonder how they are written, I've done two articles recently that get into the spiritual and psychological aspects of the work. There are very few Sun-sign horoscope writers who will actually explain the essential facts of the craft, but
October 2005
Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2005 For those who are into peace movement news, here is a gem. Washington, DC-based photojournalist Joe Tresh has posted some nice, clear images of the protest at which Cindy Sheehan, creator of Camp Casey, was arrested Monday, along with 360 other citizens --
October 2005
Wednesday, Sept. 28. 2005 Dear Readers: For those of you who have not just clicked over from Cainer.com, I'll be standing in for Jonathan Cainer for the next five weekdays; here is the daily column from Wednesday. http://www.planetwavesweekly.com/drdc8/cainer/PW050928.html
October 2005
Cindy Sheehan Arrested at White House By t r u t h o u t Monday 26 September 2005 Cindy Sheehan, along with several well-known peace movement figures, has been arrested at the front gates of the White House in Washington DC. Sheehan had attempted o
October 2005
A Letter from Eric Francis Paris, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2005 Dear Friend and Reader: HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED that when you go to a restaurant, dessert costs extra, and usually it's not so cheap? In France, they've figured out it's customary to have coffee after dinner, so you might as well
October 2005
A Chart & Notes http://planetwavesweekly.com/twdco99~/open/eclipsesolarLI05_web.html
October 2005
Friday, Sept. 23, 2005 As the floodwaters already begin to rise in New Orleans, I am thinking of Varuna. Here is an article from the Planet Waves Weekly archives, which has not appeared on PlanetWaves.net. It's from early July. The Varuna New Moon http://planetwavesweekly.c
October 2005
Friday, Sept. 23, 2005 "It is a sign of balancing, of careful weighing of values, and of achieving the right equilibrium between the pairs of opposites. It might be regarded as the sign in which the first real vision of the path appears and of the goal toward which the disciple must u
October 2005
Welcome, Johann Bisesti ABOUT A MONTH AGO, Mara Lefkowitz, recently of San Francisco, joined the Planet Waves staff helping me out in Paris. I met her husband Johann the other weekend, who is a professional photographer here in Paris. He showed me his portfolio. And...naturally, I inquired
October 2005
Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate; And though I oft have passed them by, A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun. -- Bilbo Baggins
October 2005
"Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold me back. But I would not have come, had I known the danger of light and joy." --Gimli to Legolas, as they leave Lothlorien "Even the very wise cannot see an end to all things" --Gandalf
October 2005
Thursday, Sept. 22, 2005 The past 12 hours I've been bouncing some emails back and forth with Phil Sedgwick, who practically invented the field of galactic astrology. (see http://philipsedgwick.com ). Our topic has been the astrological interpretation of the Galactic Core. As I mention
October 2005
Thursday, Sept. 22, 2005 Today is the birthday of Frodo and Bilbo Baggins -- LOTR fans are invited to send their favorite quotations from Frodo, Bilbo or Tolkien. Please send to francis@planetwaves.net for posting here later today. Thanks! It's also the equinox, exact overnight. Here is th
October 2005
Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2005 "There is another, more ancient language, more conducive to discourse on this level, but you have forgotten it. It is the universal language of light. Its transfer of information is accomplished through the actual projection of living informational units. The
October 2005
The Genius Behind George Bush http://www.badmash.org/videos/videos_flv.php?v=george_bush_512K_Stream.flv&t
October 2005
Monday, Sept. 19, 2005 (revised) Dear Ladies, Gentlemen, Canines and Felines (and Birds, and Trees), Today is the day I get to tell you I'm going out of the daily blogging field of reality. Effective immediately, after one heck of a nonstop news year dating back to Stolen Election Round
September 2005
Monday, Sept. 19, 2005 Dear Ladies, Gentlemen, Canines and Felines (and Birds, and Trees), Today is the day I get to tell you I'm going out of the daily blogging field of reality. Effective immediately, after one heck of a nonstop year (with a stand-in by Jude in the spring), this blog
September 2005
Monday, Sept. 19, 2005 With the passing of yesterday's Pisces Full Moon, we are now in the Zone -- or rather, the first of two distinct brief, intense and concentrated phases of cosmic movement associated with the solar eclipse of Oct. 3 (Libra New Moon/annular solar eclipse). We have been
September 2005
Sunday, Sept. 18, 2005 It dawned on me yesterday that this morning's Full Moon is in an close square to the Galactic Core. The core is at about 27 even Sagittarius. The Full Moon was at 25+ Pisces/Virgo, so we're close. Over the next 36 hours, the Sun and Mercury make an exact square to th
September 2005
Friday, Sept. 16, 2005 What I like about my job is there's never any question about whether I'm actually productive. What I don't like about it is how fast I have to go sometimes, which is in the nature of scheduled writing within which one vaguely hopes to convey anything meaningful. I've
September 2005
Friday, Sept. 14, 2005 (revised) From today's Planet Waves essay: We may wonder why "Republicans" -- I am loathe to even call them that, as it seems to be yet another piracy scam -- refuse to admit that global warming even exists. But their violence toward those who do reveals
September 2005
Thursday, Sept. 14, 2005 I've rounded up Mark Fiore to stand in for my blog today. I'll be back somewhat soon with some new writing. For now, introducing... Petrotheism. Flash player required. http://www.mojones.com/commentary/fiore/2005/09/petro.html
September 2005
Arctic Folly By Jimmy Carter The Washington Post Courtesy of truthout.org Tuesday 13 September 2005 CONGRESS IS ABOUT TO make one of those big decisions that marks an era. Unless wiser heads prevail, it may do it badly - making the wrong decision in the wrong way and about
September 2005
Wednesday, Sept. 14 2005 Heyo. I'm working on some new astrology articles this morning, which with any luck at all will begin to post tomorrow night, so I'm going to pass on a blog today. But I will share this commentary by Bill Maher with you, in red, below (sent in by a reader); and a li
September 2005
Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2005 OKAY: our current moment of history includes a wave of riots in Belfast, a blackout in Los Angeles, publication of evidence that one of the New Orleans levees may have been blown up with high-tech underwater explosives, the beginning of hearings for the new chief ju
September 2005
Monday, Sept. 12, 2005 Hello and thanks for visiting. I want to call your attention to several features from Political Waves tonight, our free news affiliate list. Basically, the last five or so postings are all one more shocking than the rest. This includes the "What to
September 2005
Monday, Sept. 12, 2005 FIRST, A MATTER of in-house business: I've nuked Google ads from Planet Waves. They made a brief appearance on the cover, beneath the banners of our good friends which have also recently been added, those graphic links for London Astrology and Sally Brompton and othe
September 2005
Sunday, Sept. 11, 2005 One last for now...not to make your head spin...but this is the kind of link we have to send to every cousin in the address book. It's published on MSNBC, you know, Bill Gates from Seattle, not LoonieLeftieFringe.info or ConspiracyMonger.org. http://www.msnbc.m
September 2005
Sunday, Sept. 11, 2005 For today's blogcast, I'd like to reconnect you to our ad-hoc News Department, the Political Waves list. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Political_Waves/ Scanning through the earlier posting of Sept. 11 articles, there are two that I want to point
September 2005
Saturday, Sept. 10, 2005 Dear Readers: On the sad anniversary of the Sept. 11 incident, here's a mostly complete compilation of my writing on the subject, and related subjects -- including a couple of early pieces on Iraq. These articles are all from the open archives, as well as fro
September 2005
Saturday, Sept. 10, 2005 Here a bit more on Dr. Ben Marble, the guy who invited Mr Cheney to go fuck himself on national television. The URL is snipped here. Thanks to Linde for sending this in. http://snipurl.com/hkbw In an earlier comment, I said that I would not consider this
September 2005
Friday, Sept. 9, 2005 I'VE JUST FINISHED A SESSION with a client, my last for the day, and last for the week, after a rather intense week of writing. We ended on a note of "What's going to happen with America?" I opened my mouth and talked. "I think that the United States
September 2005
PS for this morning: Here is a little mind candy. A real moment, broadcast live from a "campaign stop" in Gulfport, Mississippi on CNN. Depending on what time of day you click, it may take a while for the stream to start. Study the look on his face immediately after he hears it. http://
September 2005
Friday, Sept. 9, 2005...of Freedom of Press and the Price of Gold I'VE BEEN TRACKING with one ear the discussion of media restrictions in the disaster zone; the issue keeps percolating into my inbox. After FEMA said that there would be no pictures of bodies allowed (to preserve thei
September 2005
Thursday, Sept. 8, 2005 Thanks everyone for the clues on the 17th Street Levee break time. That is proving to be a brilliantly elusive chart to chase down, but we now have some solid leads and are working with them. The Cainer Q/A piece has been posted. That will be at: http://cainer
September 2005
Brief note to news junkies. We need to track down the time of the 17th Street Canal levee breaking. If anyone can come up with this, please drop me a note at francis@planet... Thank you. Catch you soon. e
September 2005
Thursday, Sept. 8, 2005 Hi there. As this is the peak of my weekly writing cycle [and I even appear to be on schedule], I'm going to save my words for tomorrow's Planet Waves Essay. The weekly Q & A column should post shortly, in which I go over three of the charts involved in the Katr
September 2005
Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2005 We've made a few tweaks to the front page cover, including a new article that was supposed to be last week's Planet Waves essay, "The Cosmic Voice of Reason." The one that replaced it is also posted above, which you've probably seen ("Katrina the Awa
September 2005
Hi Eric, I was reading your daily blog today and it reminded me of a story one of my clients told me a few weeks ago. He is an economist and used to work for the WHO and has done consulting work all over the world. He spends time in Canada, Europe, the States and the Middle East. He was tell
September 2005
Overnight, Tuesday-Wednesday, Sept. 6-7 Well, another restless night. It's 3:30 a.m. in Paris and after a look at CNN.com -- this whole thing is still so surreal -- I've been perusing the Political Waves list, a project of Planet Waves run by Jude. There some truly excellent selections ton
September 2005
Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2005 HERE IS A CLARIFICATION or at least beginning of a discussion of the financial costs of the Iraq war. I've referenced the cost of $1 billion per day, which I have seen quoted several places. This is either a high-side estimate, an overestimate, or wrong -- or absolut
September 2005
Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2005 Drexcel in Fresno, CA writes: Hi Eric, I saw some coverage of this city just now. It's still up to its roof tops under water. People are getting around in different kinds of water craft. So many of them refusing to leave their homes. Disease is spreading
September 2005
Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2005 To: Eric Francis <francis@planetwaves.net> From: Russ Subject: Down in Houston, huge changes Eric, If the Bushes have a hometown, Houston’s it. The parents are here, Halliburton, Ken Lay, all of it. And Houston has b
September 2005
Monday, Sept. 5, 2005 A rocker...sent in by Yasmin Boland http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4214516.stm And a little closer to the center... http://neworleans.craigslist.org/ The Moon is making its way across Libra now. For the next 36 hours, counting from Monday evening, the Lib
September 2005
Monday, Sept. 5, 2005 THE QUESTION REMAINS whether we will get the messages of Hurricane Katrina, which at the moment I see as being three in number. No, let's make that four. The first is on the global scale. The United States has been criminally negligent in its refusal to part
September 2005
New Orleans Craig's List - http://neworleans.craigslist.org/
September 2005
Sunday, Sept. 4, 2005 Once again I'm going to point you to the Political Waves list, a Planet Waves project devoted to moving news to our readers. Jude, the list's editor and moderator, has been keeping up with both Katrina news as well as that of the passing of Chief Justice Rehnquist.
September 2005
Sunday, Sept. 4, 2005 Just when you thought things could not get any more weird, Chief Justice William Rehnquist dies at the age of 80. A 1972* appointee of Richard Nixon, Rehnquist was promoted to chief justice in 1986 by Ronald Reagan. So to lose his vote on the court is not exactly to l
September 2005
Saturday, Sept. 3, 2005 THE VIRGO NEW MOON happens later today, at 8:45 pm Europe time, 7:45 London time, and mid-afternoon in New York City, and so on. I've offered a somewhat detailed account of the lunation down a few entries, under Wednesday's blog, and also on http://Cainer.
September 2005
Friday, Sept. 2, 2005 Dear Readers: Well, Paris seems normal enough tonight. The rollerblade acrobats are doing their thing outside Notre Dame, Shakespeare & Co. Books is buzzing away, and the walkways along the Seine are full of life. But I have a feeling the world is different
September 2005
Katrina, the Awakener http://planetwaves.net/astrology/neworleans.html
September 2005
Letter from a Reader Dear Eric: Would you please ask people on your site to pray for the Hurricane Katrina victims especially over the next few days because the New Moon in Humanitarian Virgo combined with the transit of Jupiter and Venus... if a unified group of people in this world pr
September 2005
Friday, Sept. 2, 2005 Dear Readers: Here's an article called Katrina, the Awakener, the first in the New Orleans series. I am hearing many strange reports from people in the United States and abroad -- the most recent being that news in Canada is reporting that the US federal government
September 2005
Political Waves While I'm pulling together some New Orleans coverage for Friday, I can refer you you to the Political Waves site for articles recently posted by Jude. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Political_Waves/
September 2005
Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005 Hello. The Q & A on Jonathan Cainer's site has been updated with some new stuff, and part two in my series on how horoscopes work -- The Cosmic Voice of Reason -- is with Rachael, the proofreader in Los Angeles. The article includes reviews of the astrolo
September 2005
Wednesday, August 31, 2005 (updated) Thanks for the two day break. It's that waning time of the Moon and your Cancer rising blogger is feeling a bit introspective. We are approaching an eventful New Moon, exact Saturday, Sept. 3 at 8:45 pm CED. In the days between now and then, we have
September 2005
Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005 Hello -- I've been taking a couple of days off from this column, unannounced. I'll see you back on Wednesday with a bit on the Virgo New Moon and some new cover art. Thanks for tuning in. e
September 2005
Sunday, August 28, 2005 The New York Times just did an article on 2003 UB 313 "Xena" recently, which I thought was fair and accurate and even going a little deeper than superficial. So we've repackaged it and are offering it to Planet Waves readers. Interesting that, to my kno
September 2005
Dear Readers, For the curious...a prior incarnation of the Planet Waves site is available almost in its entirety, for the moment. You can look around at this link to learn more: http://ericfrancis.s418.sureserver.com/ To hear the official Planet Waves theme music, clic
September 2005
By the way -- before I log off for the weekend -- there's some great new stuff on Political Waves, our all-politics distribution list moderated by Jude. You don't need to be signed up to read it on the web for free. The address is here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Political_Waves/
September 2005
Friday, Aug. 26, 2005 From today's Planet Waves Weekly Let's presume that astrology does not work. That is, that it doesn't matter to Libras that Venus is passing through their sign, or that there's an eclipse coming up; it's just a planet going by. Saturn in Leo is the same as S
September 2005
Thursday, Aug. 25, 2005 Continuing in the series of non-blogs as the week's astrology builds to a crescendo -- Mercury makes its last square to Mars, the Moon and the Sun are at last quarter, and Venus crosses the degree of the Oct. 3 solar eclipse -- all the same day. Today and Friday pro
September 2005
Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2005 Good morning America, good afternoon London. I'm in the thick of my writing week, so I don't have much to say in a blog. But some new stuff on Virgo and Chiron is in the works for this week. Today is also the birthday of my friend, mentor and hero, Betty Ann Dodson
September 2005
Tuesday, August 23, 2005 GOOD MORNING WORLD, and welcome to Virgo. The Sun entered the sixth sign of the tropical zodiac about two hours past midnight this morning, Greenwich time. I've often noticed how at this time of year, at least some of the places I've lived, that the light changes a
September 2005
Monday, Aug. 22, 2005 THE WEEK AHEAD looks a little calmer than we've been used to, with the Full Moon having passed. Assuming you still have your job and still have some friends, you ought to be getting along better with them now. However, we are still under the lingering influence of wha
September 2005
And...unbelievable! http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4133&n=3
September 2005
Sunday, Aug. 21, 2005 THIS IS WORTH REPEATING. It is a lie and self-fulfilling prophesy so outrageous as to be criminal. From MSNBC/Reuters, from THIS weekend, not three years ago. Who believes these lies? Really? People who really need to? Take it away, George: Bush links Iraq war wit
September 2005
PS http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9022420/ Remember, the official US involvement in World War II was just four years. e
September 2005
Sunday, Aug. 21, 2005 Not a blog -- but a recommendation -- of a five minute truthout.org video. The link is below. The selection is the sixth down on the right side -- about Iraq Veterans Against the War. Many great video clips from truthout.org -- they know how to make the most of
September 2005
Saturday, August 20, 2005 THERE ARE certainly some interesting vibes in the air, which seem to be polarized between the most authentically friendly and the most ridiculously hostile, just judging from what I'm feeling and hearing go on around me. Some may be in one of those moments where &
September 2005
Note: there are alternate covers at http://planetwaves.net and http://planetwaves.info. Note also that the Moon is full Friday in the sign Aquarius at 7:53 pm Europe time, 6:53 pm London time, 1:53 pm New York time, three hours earlier in California and, if I am not mistaken, ve
September 2005
Thursday, Aug. 18, 2005 My afternoon activity is a new [hopefully short] bit in Planet Waves Weekly on the Aquarius Moon -- currently the Full Moon of the Month -- so for today's blog leave you with a couple of my prior efforts. Anyone interested in receiving tomorrow's full P
September 2005
Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2005 Well maybe it is just the time of year Or maybe it’s the time of man I don’t know who I am But you know life is for learning THIS TIME OF YEAR is the anniversary of the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival, held August 15, 16 and 17, 1969 in Bethel,
September 2005
Tuesday, August 16, 2005 MERCURY IS DIRECT as of late Monday just before midnight in North America, early Tuesday morning in Europe and the UK, and Tuesday afternoon in Oz. The station direct occurred in Leo, with Mercury in a 1.5 degree square to Mars, so it's holding a rare, long, as in
September 2005
Monday, August 15, 2005 IT'S ALWAYS FUNNY to find out where your school friends ended up. I made a discovery tonight clicking on truthout.org, checking out a story about some alleged fraud associated with people connected to Tom Delay (R-Texas), that fabulous example of a Con
September 2005
Sunday, August. 14, 2005 We Have the Power By Cindy Sheehan http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/ MY DAY STARTED way too early today. After 3 hours of sleep, I was being shaken awake by someone at 6:30 a.m. telling me that the Today show wanted me to be on. I had come into t
September 2005
Weekend Non Update - Aug. 13-14 It's been a fabulously intense couple of weeks and barring any really unusual news, I'll be laying low for the weekend. So, no blogs, though we will spare you and get Bush's face off the cover on Saturday. I mention that I'm doing more chilling than the
September 2005
Friday, August 12, 2005 Not to miss, breaking news: t r u t h o u t interviews Cindy Sheehan, mother of Army Spec. Casey Sheehan, near the president's ranch in Crawford, Texas. And there's an excellent followup with the founder of Code Pink: Women for Peace. For all formats and conn
September 2005
Friday, Aug. 12, 2005 http://planetwavesweekly.com/iimnc476/cainer/PW050812.html I'm going to post Friday's horoscope a little early. There's a daily from the Cainer series and also a weekly that will go out to subscribers. I have not dared to compare the two so I have no clue ho
September 2005
Thursday, August 11, 2005 Good to be back in Paris, as usual -- though there are times when the whole place reminds me of a chicken farm. London was really quite excellent, and I left with a whole different impression than I did after my 10 weeks there last spring. My friend Justine, wh
September 2005
Weds. Aug. 10, 2005 Today's cover photo is the latest in the mirror series, depicting Kezia Campbell, a British model who is a talented freelance photographer herself. I've included a link to her Web page. She is available for both modeling and photographic assignments. She specializes in
August 2005
Tuesday, August 16, 2005 MERCURY IS DIRECT as of late Monday just before midnight in North America, early Tuesday morning in Europe and the UK, and Tuesday afternoon in Oz. The station direct occurred in Leo, with Mercury in a 1.5 degree square to Mars, so it's holding a rare, long, as in
August 2005
Monday, August 15, 2005 IT'S ALWAYS FUNNY to find out where your school friends ended up. I made a discovery tonight clicking on truthout.org, checking out a story about some alleged fraud associated with people connected to Tom Delay (R-Texas), that fabulous example of a Con
August 2005
Sunday, August. 14, 2005 We Have the Power By Cindy Sheehan http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/ MY DAY STARTED way too early today. After 3 hours of sleep, I was being shaken awake by someone at 6:30 a.m. telling me that the Today show wanted me to be on. I had come into t
August 2005
Weekend Non Update - Aug. 13-14 It's been a fabulously intense couple of weeks and barring any really unusual news, I'll be laying low for the weekend. So, no blogs, though we will spare you and get Bush's face off the cover on Saturday. I mention that I'm doing more chilling than the
August 2005
Friday, August 12, 2005 Not to miss, breaking news: t r u t h o u t interviews Cindy Sheehan, mother of Army Spec. Casey Sheehan, near the president's ranch in Crawford, Texas. And there's an excellent followup with the founder of Code Pink: Women for Peace. For all formats and conn
August 2005
Friday, Aug. 12, 2005 http://planetwavesweekly.com/iimnc476/cainer/PW050812.html I'm going to post Friday's horoscope a little early. There's a daily from the Cainer series and also a weekly that will go out to subscribers. I have not dared to compare the two so I have no clue ho
August 2005
Thursday, August 11, 2005 Good to be back in Paris, as usual -- though there are times when the whole place reminds me of a chicken farm. London was really quite excellent, and I left with a whole different impression than I did after my 10 weeks there last spring. My friend Justine, wh
August 2005
Weds. Aug. 10, 2005 Today's cover photo is the latest in the mirror series, depicting Kezia Campbell, a British model who is a talented freelance photographer herself. I've included a link to her Web page. She is available for both modeling and photographic assignments. She specializes in
August 2005
Tuesday, August 8, 2005 I rang Jonathan on his cell a little while ago, just to say hi. It's been quite a while since we've spoken. I drop him little emails every now and then, usually with bits of news or astrological theory, or tossing in my two cents on the thought of the day. He get
August 2005
Daily Horoscopes This Week Dear Readers: This week I'm covering for Jonathan Cainer in the Daily Mail, Melbourne Sun and the Sydney Daily Telegraph. The horoscope is available on Jon's website at http://cainer.com/ , and we've produced a version of our own, at this link -- which w
August 2005
Planet Waves | August 7, 2005 - from JudeI watched the History Channel into the wee smalls ... amazed, distressed, and thoughtful. The actual supressed footage of the Hiroshima aftermath was shown on Sundance, a channel I don't get here in the Pea Patch ... so the horrendous snips of children
August 2005
Planet Waves | August 6, 2005 - from JudeAnother lengthy post, my dears -- but appropriate to the day. This is the anniversary of human-kinds ability to destroy itself.I was born a child of war -- my mother was a pretty teenaged USO singer who married a young swabbie in a whirlwind romanc
August 2005
And strictly for utilitarian purposes -- http://www.sorrygottago.com/
August 2005
Friday, Aug. 5, 2005 The Leo New Moon was overnight Aug. 4-5 in the US and Europe, an exciting chart with a variety of contradictions and puzzles, but in true Leo fashion, ultimately, clear and convincing. For starters, here is the basic chart, which may not be posted yet. I've cast it
August 2005
PS, for anyone who has suggested in the past that I am "too political," Jude comments: "And ... ummm ... it's JOHN Bolton, Michael would be the pop singer with the long hair and high falsetto?!! : )" Ya, that would be John. Facts are such a pain in the butt. No, no
August 2005
(A Bit of Political Waves) Hi everyone, I'm going to be on the road for a few days and I need to focus -- so I've been going easy on the blogs. I was also wondering about the whole Micheal Bolton situation -- this really strange, hostile guy who's suddenly become the UN representative o
August 2005
Worth Reading http://villagevoice.com/screens/0531,tv1,66484,28.html Thanks to Steve Bergstein, who surfaced from the decrepit bowels of the Federal judiciary to send me the link. e
August 2005
Tuesday, August 2, 2005 Though I can't blog today for reasons of editorial overload, I wanted to post this article, which is rather apropos of Chiron visiting the last degree of Capricorn again. http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080205B.shtml Also, we've really got to ponder how Mich
August 2005
Monday, August 1, 2005 Some last thoughts on Garcia's birthday. Recently a copy of So Many Roads arrived in my post box, which I ordered about six weeks ago when I was in Montreal. It's a cloth-bound five-disc compilation of rarities and peak moments selected from out of an entire tape vau
August 2005
Note to Readers: The August Inner Space and Planet Waves are published. Just click the "July Horoscopes" link above -- we'll change the name of the month soon, but it will take you to the same place. e
August 2005
Sunday, July 31, 2005 Hey there. A brief note on the cover photo, by Robbi Cohn. I was looking for the perfect Garcia photo to go with my article, and spent about an hour in Google image searches. Rob's site came up, and there the photo was. It's sometimes difficult to get permission to us
August 2005
Space News This is bouncing around the astrology and astronomy communities like mad at the moment. I will have more to say in my late-week reporting next week after I sort it out a bit and read comments from readers. But here you have it. http://space.com/scienceastronomy/050729_new_
August 2005
Readers may be interested in this article from http://truthout.org/ http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/072905A.shtml e
August 2005
Saturday, July 30, 2005 Mars is square Saturn. This is an annual aspect, though it alternates, waxing phase or waning; today's aspect marks the last quarter in the Mars-Saturn cycle. The square is a turning point that can be anything from decisive to violent, but for sure, it's tang
August 2005
Paris, Friday, July 29, 2005 THERE IS AN OLD JOKE that sounds like it was written by Mark Twain. "If Pro is the opposite of Con, what's the opposite of Progress?" But of course -- Congress. The real question, though, is what's the opposite of Congress? The
August 2005
From Carol, Mayan astrologer and sometimes Planet Waves writer. GALACTIC CURRENTS Dream-Pulse of BEN - The Cosmic Explorer July 24 - August 5, 2005 Dear Friends: Happy Summer! I would like to let you know there are some new updates at the site. I am especially happy wit
August 2005
Thursday, July 28, 2005 Moving along with another non-blog, I'm here to let you know what's on tap for this week's writing. In Planet Waves Weekly is my tribute to Jerry Garcia, who would be 63 years old next week, and who died 10 years ago this summer. It's also the band's 40th anniversar
August 2005
Wednesday, July 27, 2005 This just in. http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/07/26/womenpriests0726.htmlEnjoy I'm continuing to focus on my schedule writing, so blogging will be a bit sparse the next few days, but I will post interesting news items and emails that come
August 2005
A little more for today. Just got this email from one of my more energetic correspondences in England. It's enough to send me back down to the catacombs for another nude photo shoot. And yes, I think that many locales are getting a bit egocentric about how important they are to terrorists. But then,
August 2005
Tuesday, July 26, 2005 Hi all, as I mentioned yesterday, I've got a rather top-heavy week. Typically I do more blogging early in the week and then as the writing schedule winds up to full tilt through Friday morning, somewhat less. However, I'm going to keep my head on the horoscopes. I do
August 2005
Here is a little something to end the day... http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4129 Catch you Tuesday. e
August 2005
Monday, July 25, 2005... What can you really say about the state of the world right now? I feel fortunate that my landlord forgot to pay the cable television bill sometime while I was in North America, and when I got home earlier in the month, there was no ridiculous CNN, no BBC World with
August 2005
Speaking of Saturn | Paris, Weds. July 20, 2005 In the blog below (on the http://PlanetWaves.net/ homepage edition), you've got links to some articles on Saturn in Leo. But speaking of Saturn, we are full-on into the Capricorn Full Moon round two. The first was back in June, which I covere
August 2005
Welcome to Saturn in Leo Paris, July 18, 2005 Dear Friends and Readers Around the World: Welcome to Planet Waves! As you may know, Saturn has entered Leo as of Saturday. I've been writing about this extensively (as well as incorporating the material into my weekly and horos
July 2005
Welcome to Saturn in Leo Paris, July 18, 2005 Dear Friends and Readers Around the World: Welcome to Planet Waves! As you may know, Saturn has entered Leo as of Saturday. I've been writing about this extensively (as well as incorporating the material into my weekly and hor
July 2005
Paris, July 16, 2'5, late afternoon Hot afternoon in Paris today. I was visiting the squat at 59 rivoli on photo business, and stopped to say hello to an artist who became my heroine the first time I saw one of her paintings -- Aurelie. Her specialty is portraying women depicted in advertising re
July 2005
Paris, July 15, 2005 Here's a good one. Scientists have discovered a "planet with three suns." http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/07/14/planet.suns.reut/index.html And while we're at it, here's another good one: Karl Rove says the reporters told him about Joe Wilson's wife b
July 2005
Paris, July 14, 2005 Looking at Io Sprite, my chart animation program, it appears that Saturn is just 16 arc minutes (a little over 1/4 of a degree) from the threshold of Leo. In the approximately 47 hours between this writing (9:18 am Thursday morning, Eastern time) and the ingress on Saturday
July 2005
July 13, 2005 The world sure is an interesting place as Saturn squeezes the last few drops out of Cancer. But this is also personal astrology; where any person has Cancer, the sign of emotions and security, in their chart is going to be a sensitive area. And this change of signs is likely to be c
July 2005
Tuesday, July 12, 2005 Perhaps this may clarify things a bit -- from today's t r u t h o u t reprinted from the Washington Post. http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/071205J.shtml For some quick background, here is what Rove has said directly about Plame: As ABC News's Th
July 2005
July 12, 2005 In honor of Karl Rove (subject of the White House Press Briefing, above) we've updated the front page cover with an image of Varuna. Last week's New Moon was in a close conjunction to this relatively new planet. For the curious, there are two articles linked from the caption
July 2005
Dear Readers:This was today's lead story on Yahoo News. http://snipurl.com/g6t7Here's the Plame Leak case in one sentence. Take a breath and...It is now known that:After George Bush lied about Saddam Hussein's pursuit of nuclear weapons in the 2003 State of the Union address in an effort to get
July 2005
Why was the Moon in Cancer? (from Eric) | Paris, July 11, 2005 I think we really need to watch the mind-control machine in action and we have the perfect opportunity right now.I don't want to get caught up in the emotions of the London bombing; it doesn't tickle my patriotism or my desire
July 2005
Updates to GalleryOn the offhand chance you're inside on a summer Sunday, I'd just like to let you know that Tracy and I have made a number of updates to the gallery in the past few hours. About 20 new images have been added, mostly from Paris on Saturday but also a few from New York City on the day
July 2005
From Jude, posted by Eric...is this cynical? Somehow it's refreshing, I think. e -------------- Jude Writes: I try not to fill up your in-box on the weekend, but ... this is spot on -- and a good one to push out the walls of the box and give us the larger perspective. &nbs
July 2005
Dear Readers:I've been informed by our ISP that PlanetWaves.net will be down for about an hour on Saturday. Assuming you see this prior to the interruption, I suggest you go to our mirror site at http://PlanetWaves.info/ , where much of our content exists as well. This outage will probably affect Pl
July 2005
Friday, July 8, 2005 Dear Readers: The Friday newsletter, with horoscope, has just gone out to all subscribers. This week we've also posted the essay, pertaining to the London terrorist bombings, to the front page. I must quote Jonathan Cainer's thought of the day today. He writes, in th
July 2005
Dear Readers: Here is the chart for today's bombings in London. http://planetwaves.net/charts/london_explosions.html More follows in the blog below, as well in tomorrow's edition of Planet Waves. e
July 2005
Regarding the Terrorist Attacks in London Dear Readers: Thursday morning's bombings in London have sent the UK into shock. For readers outside the country, it's important to recognize that England is a densely populated island community, and as such, it has a much closer-knit emo
July 2005
Ms. Miller herself told the court that she would not reveal her source no matter how long they jailed her. "If journalists cannot be trusted to guarantee confidentiality, then journalists cannot function and there cannot be a free press," she read from a statement as she stood before
July 2005
From Eric, July 6 (Paris) I thought this was interesting. I've been hearing rumors about it, though thank you Jeff Jawer of StarIQ.com for sending a link in an email this morning, under the subject header, "Breakthrough in Idiocy." I think we may have found the identity of the Bush admi
July 2005
Blog by Jude (posted by Eric, from Political Waves; mine follows) Politics is to "progress" like bee's are to a picnic ... spoils the whole party. Long before we got the Dub and his kick-ass-kill-em-all notions, common wisdom pointed to lack of opportunity, class struggle and repress
July 2005
Paris, July 5, 2005 (from Eric)The Moon is now in Cancer and as of this writing we're about a day away from the Cancer New Moon, conjunct Varuna (see Planet Waves Weekly last week). The intense watery activity of a Sun-Moon conjunction, plus Saturn in the last degrees of Cancer, mean that many will
July 2005
New WorldsIn Woodstock, I sat on the front stoop of one Joseph Trusso of Witch Tree Road drinking water and listened to stories from the diary of Marco Polo on the Silk Road, Iraq and Iran and so long since showing up there one twisted winter afternoon 13 years before, perhaps my first free gesture
July 2005
Greetings from Parise
July 2005
July 2, 2005 (from Eric)I want to know why I keep going places and seeing ... the Poker Channel.e nyc
July 2005
Planet Waves | July 02, 2005 - from JudeI live in the Heartland -- in the Ozarks, SW Missouri, USA. This is the land of lakes and trailer homes and city-shy hillbillys and tourists and poverty and craftsmen ... in the state of KC barbeque and blues, grazing cattle and soy-bean fields, and the bell
July 2005
July 1, 2005 (by Eric in Montreal)I must admit that every time I go to a computer and check in with CNN.com, I hold my breath for a moment half expecting to be met by something really strange. But the world is strange enough, though what's truly odd is how so many people perceive things, which is es
July 2005
Correction - from EricReaders of this week's Planet Waves essay on Varuna, please note that there is an error involving the sign changes of this planet. I incorrectly state that Varuna leaves Cancer in December 2012. It the last ingress to Leo is really in 2017. The correct ephemeris, bel
July 2005
Dear Friends & Readers,I've received quite a few comments on the video, linked below, about the alleged crash (or lack thereof) of a 757-200 at the Pentagon. I am happy to see that at least the subject can be discussed today, whereas before, it was like trying to have a discussion about, well, I'll s
July 2005
Space Weapons Are Really a Terrible IdeaBy Karl Grossman[Note to readers: I was just on th ephone with Dr. Grossman, a professor at the State University of New York at Westbury, interviewing him about Sunday night's blow-up-the-comet project. Grossman is a well respected author and commentator on the
July 2005
June 29, 2005 (by Eric)Sooooooooooo. I watched the "president's" speech last night, the one that was supposed to pull the federal government out of the tailspin that is the Iraq war and make us all feel really good. What a concept: we're in Iraq promoting peace. I really wonder, does he think that p
July 2005
Dear Friends and Readers:Here is my official response to "President" Bush's speech tonight.http://www.freedomunderground.org/memoryhole/pentagon.php#MainCatch you tomorrowe
July 2005
Tuesday, June 28, 2005 (by Eric)Venus and Mercury are now close together in Leo, making an opposition to the Chiron-Nessus conjunction. This is a rare, precise opposition of two tight conjunctions; it represents a moment to study and in particular a moment to make progress.If you click on the link be
July 2005
Planet Waves | June 27, 2005 (by Eric)Hey there. So: planets now begin moving in to Leo. Mercury and Venus are heralds of the first Leo era in many moons, and the drumroll begins on Saturn entering the sign of the Kittycat or the Lion, as you prefer.None of the transpersonal or outer planets have been
July 2005
Dear Readers,The blog below is by Jude. I've been in transit returning from Toro to Montreal -- and I'll be back with a bit of astrology late tonight or tomorrow.Thanks for tuning in.e
July 2005
Planet Waves | June 25, 2005With the political rhetoric heating up in the last days, I've been pondering the deep differences that divide this country -- they haven't changed since September 11, 2001. We all took a sharp in-breath ... and became the prototype of our understanding of the Universe. Som
July 2005
A really good one... Courtesy of Political Waves. http://snipurl.com/ft8x e
July 2005
Dear Dan: Hi, it's Eric Francis, your old neighbor from Vashon Island. Remember me from the ferry, and your Skipping Towards Gomorrah signing at Books By The Way? Of course you do. How could you forget? ;-) There are times when I've liked your column, there are times when I've ha
July 2005
Planet Waves | June 22, 2005Apparently, we've "turned a corner" ... no, not the effusively optomistic kind that GWB turns every so often to keep us in the patriotism-corral ... a real one, where the war has become too heavy a burden, the economy is not working, the cronyism is too rampant and t
July 2005
Note to readers -- Jude and I are going to be switching with the front page blog. I will leave most of the hairy politics to her (except for Watergate, etc., etc.). I'll mostly stick to astrology and how to explain to your doctor that you're not a cracker because you also see an herbalist.
July 2005
Planet Waves | June 20, 2005What is truth? Where to begin? I got a very nice e-note from a European reader who advised me [to paraphrase] to take politics a little less seriously and smile more. That should amuse those of you who thought my early smiling suggestion ideocyncratic. See -- I'm not t
July 2005
Sun Void of Course: Slippery when AiryToday, Monday, the Sun is in the last degree of Gemini. As I write, it's about 18 arc minutes, meaning it has approximately 19 hours before reaching an exact square (90 degree angle) to the Tropic of Cancer and thus entering the astrological sign Cancer. This is
July 2005
Hi there. I received a request for info on the book on botanical medicine referenced in the blog below. The book is: Clinical Botanical Medicine by Eric Yarnell, Kathy Abascal, Carol G. Hooper. Its a textbook for doctors -- not a consumer book (as you'll see from the price). And I have not read it -
July 2005
Toronto, Saturday, June 18(from Eric...)It was a truly fun and productive day teaching and learning Chiron in Toronto. The astrologers who atteneded, about 35 of them, were a clear-headed bunch, dedidated to the work, curious and excellent students. I now see it took a friendly litt
July 2005
WEEKEND UPDATE | June 16, 2005, by Eric F., MontrealSpeaking of the Moon, whenever I go someplace, I feel like I'm on a Moon mission.The technical aspect of packing takes about three hours. Then it takes me about six minutes to make sure I have enough socks and bandanas, two pressed shirts and
July 2005
Planet Waves | June 15, 2005Money is not the root of all evil, according to the Christian good book ... the LOVE of money is. Uh oh! We DO love money, don't we? Our nation has grown, thrived, prospered over the years -- we thought we'd never bottom out, there would always be opportunity and
July 2005
The Galactic CoreDear Readers:For the Sun's next trick, it makes an opposition to the Galactic Core. the GC is at about 27 degrees Sagittarius. The Sun is now in the sign Gemini, so in the Northern Hemisphere at night, the Earth's surface, looking more or less straight up, is pointed in the direction
July 2005
Sun opposite PlutoDear Friends:I mentioned last week -- but not quite lately, that I recall -- the Sun is now opposing Pluto. It happens to be now, as in right now; the aspect is exact at 11:11 pm EDT tonight (different time zones please count your chickens for the local time)...and within arc minute
July 2005
Monday, June 13Good Morning America, Good Afternoon England, Good Evening Oz,Dear Friends,Soon, I'll be passing the blog back to Jude, to continue. My travels have taken me through quite a few lands and quite a few cities lately, and she's been doing us all a great service with her ideas and her pers
July 2005
Dear Friends and Readers:Eric here...with an astrology update for the weekend. We're currentl in the early phase of the lunar cycle; there was a New Moon in Gemini nearly a week ago, and appeared as a crescent in the evening sky a few nights ago. And we're toward the end phase of a solar cycle -- the
July 2005
Planet Waves | June 10, 2005Every morning I wake up, hopefully with a bit of sunshine streaming in the window, and my little dog, Widget, bounds across the bed -- overjoyed at open eyelids -- to get his first scratch of the day. I speak to Holy Spirit, evoke a blessing on the day, on the work. I inv
July 2005
Planet Waves | June 08, 2005This week we learn that, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, fully one half of Americans will be mentally ill at some point. [Oh my gawwd, there's a great political punch-line there ... but I will restrain myself; if you're thinking the same thing I
July 2005
Planet Waves | June 06, 2005Let's go back and talk hero's, again -- I have a short list in politics, sadly.One is Robert Byrd, that grand old Democrat and statesman of the United States Senate. Byrd is set to run for his 9th term -- you do the math. He's been around and seen a lot in his 87 years
July 2005
Planet Waves | June 04, 2005Planet Waves is aptly named, I think -- Political Waves as well. The energies come, they influence, they go ... and then another wave of energy boots us along toward the next challenge and response. I've always liked the particle/wave analogy ... the tiny raindr
July 2005
Planet Waves | June 02, 2005Mirror, mirror, on the wall ...Back in the day, we spiritual seekers were told that the "answer" to all questions was right under our nose. Why couldn't we see it, then? It was in "the mirror," we learned. The mirror was any situation in which we noticed OURSELF as we g
July 2005
Planet Waves | May 31, 2005"Nothing I see means anything."That's the first affirmation in the Course in Miracles workbook -- it speaks to the notion that at any given moment we have neither the full facts, nor the clarity of mind or even spiritual capacity to make a complete value judgment abou
July 2005
Planet Waves | Memorial Day, May 30, 2005It's the day to honor our fallen -- and this year it's particularly poignant. No matter what your personal view of "war," the truth is that it always requires "blood sacrifice" -- count 1,658 Americans returned to us in body bags and 12,348 wounded an
July 2005
Hello...the weekly horoscopes went out yesterday (from the address tracy@, so please check your spam filters if you don't see it) and were also posted to the subscriber homepage. If the monthly horoscopes have not gone up, they will be up right after the hoilday weekend. efc, in high falls, ny...
July 2005
Planet Waves | May 28, 2005First, Representative John Conyers joined 87 of his fellows to write a letter to the President asking him to respond to the Downing Street memo -- he has received no reply. He's asking for 100,000 citizens to join him -- here's the link; add your name if you want
July 2005
Hi all, I was just informed that the weekly horoscope didn't make it out yesterday. I've spotted the problem and we're working to get the horoscope to subscribers and onto the subscriber homepage. Thanks for your patience!Happy holiday weekend...Eric Francis / New York City---
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Planet Waves | May 27, 2005When you testify in court, you put your hand on the Book [they still do that some places] and swear to tell "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth." If that can be demanded of John Q. Public ... why is it not demanded from the people who lead this nati
July 2005
Planet Waves | May 26, 2005I rarely have moments of political glee these days -- there are so few voices that tell the truth or offer something other than the Official Party Line that when I find one, I tip over in rapture [read NOTHING into that remark but immense pleasure!] There are t
July 2005
Planet Waves | May 25, 2005First, a note about the links in prior posts -- they don't appear to be active, and I apologize. Please cut and paste them to go to the articles -- and I will attempt a "fix" on my end.Yesterdays news was full of speculation and analysis of the "stand down" that the group of
July 2005
Note from Eric | May 24, 2005 Dear Readers: Hello from New York. My travels have me moving far and wide these days, and I'm writing this on a cool, rainy afternoon in Kingston, New York, in the part of the country I feel is my true home. There are old friends everywhere, I've lived in n
May 2005
Planet Waves Astrology | 2005 Blog Archive | April 26 to May 25 Planet Waves | May 23, 2005In the 70's Adele Davis was the eating guru with her book, Lets Eat Right to Keep Fit ... and Francis Moore Lappé, with her Diet for a Small Planet, gave us a real he
May 2005
Planet Waves | May 20, 2005We talk in worried tones about the pending civil war in Iraq ... but what about the one we're having right here in America -- in our families, in our churches, in our workplace. It's a struggle between religion and spirituality, between belief systems, between the "Lette
May 2005
Planet Waves | May 19, 2005Short and sweet, this time...Today, as our Senators exchanged heated words and Bill Frist came closer than ever to pulling the pin on the "nuclear option" ... as media went crazy over the Newsweek retraction and the White House response ... as our generals gave us a
May 2005
Planet Waves | May 18, 2005OK -- remember that movie, While You Were Sleeping, where the girl who works at the ticket counter of the train falls in love with a stranger and then saves him from being run over by the train but he goes into a coma and the family thinks they're engaged and while the guy is
May 2005
Planet Waves | May 17, 2005[For those of you who think I'm entirely too spiritual and "Pollyanna-ish" to breathe fire -- a rant...]The last four-plus years have been hard on the American public -- they've been hard on our self-image. We used to have a notion about America as the "land of the free
May 2005
Planet Waves | May 16, 2005First, good news -- Eric arrived safely in New York yesterday. Read his note about scheduling on the post below this one.Then on to the topic of the day -- Star Wars.I remember when I saw the first episode in a tiny, crowded theatre in Davis, California -- that was 1977,
May 2005
Note from Eric: If you live in the Hudson Valley, Eric is taking appointments for astrology consultations for mid-week next week, most likely in Woodstock Wednesday and Thursday, with sessions during the day and late afternoon. Call Chelsea at (877) 453-8265 for more definite info, or if
May 2005
Planet Waves | May 15, 2005 Ahhhh -- politics. What a snarl, today. You've no doubt heard the flap about John Bolton's nomination -- and this business of the "nuclear option" proposed to remove the filibuster [also known as cloture.] Just more
May 2005
Planet Waves | May 14, 2005 I hug trees -- yes, I'm one of "those." More, I speak to them ... they are the breathing apparatus for our planet, a vital part of our ecosystem, and silent sentinels to the folly of mankind. All around us, life c
May 2005
Planet Waves | May 13, 2005 I was born a few months after the United States dropped their payload on Japan. I guess that makes me one of the earliest "boomers." I'm also one of the very first tv addicts, unable to remember life without it. I do have very ea
May 2005
Note to Readers in the Hudson Valley We are currently sniffing out a place for me to do astrology consultations in the Hudson Valley. It's a little late to be doing this, I know, but much else has been going on and it kind of snuck up. Ideally, this would be a location in New Paltz
May 2005
Planet Waves | May 12, 2005"Politics is the process and method of decision-making for groups of human beings. Although it is generally applied to governments, politics is also observed in all human group interactions including corporate, academic, and religious." [Wikipedia]The thing
May 2005
Planet Waves | May 11, 2005 My mother was a fanatic about lying. "Are you telling me the truth?" she'd ask, head cocked, giving me that squinty-eyed Mother assessment [you know, the one that puts your heart in your mouth and turns your knees to water?] "I want the truth,
May 2005
Planet Waves | May 10, 2005 Namaste! I love to use that word when I write -- like Shalom and Aloha, that's a word that you can start with, or end with, or tuck anywhere in between. When I was first introduced to yoga, years back, I was told
May 2005
Planet Waves | May 9, 2005I read today that John Kerry wants us all to get angry about the current situation in America. Well, gosh, didn't the progressives already do that? Howard Dean did that very successfully and then coverage of his victory howl branded him zealot and left
May 2005
Planet Waves | from Jude on May 8, 2005In the States, it's Mother's Day. I wish a day of blessing, then, to those of you who are mothers, or those of you who have one. The historical essence of this day is the celebration of goddess ... woman energy. In our current culture, hon
May 2005
Planet Waves | from Eric on May 8, 2005Mykonos, May 8, 2005Sun Taurus, Moon TaurusDear Friends:On May 5, I visited Delos for the first time -- the island birthplace of the twins Artemis, Goddess of the Moon, and Apollo, God of the Sun, of light and divination. I was led to the Cave of
May 2005
Planet Waves | for May 7, 2005 I knew that "smile" suggestion would earn me some commentary. One of our readers wrote to say that anger is motivating and authentic, and that telling the truth and offering fewer phony smiles seemed a more appropriate resp
May 2005
Planet Waves | for May 6, 2005This week we turned our attention -- with humility and trembling, I trust -- to Holocaust Remembrance Day. PBS and The History Channel have filled their programming with amazing footage of the final days of World War II, the death camps, the astounding c
May 2005
Planet Waves | for May 5, 2005 War and Peace ... and the Gray Area Between Retired U.S. Army Col. David Hackworth died yesterday at 74. He was pretty much what you would think an American military commander who spent half a century at the front li
May 2005
Planet Waves | for May 4, 2005 Well, something remarkable happened today ... a military judge responded with considerable "nuance" [read that -- he thought about it.] After listening to Lynndie England's testimony, he called a mistrail. Lynndie, you will remembe
May 2005
Planet Waves | for May 3, 2005I have a collection of hero's -- every decade I find a new one, it seems. In the '60s [yeah, I'm old] it was Ram Dass. When the hippys discovered "better transcendence through chemicals," it was God they were looking for ... only later did that becom
May 2005
Planet Waves | for May 2, 2005Hi everybody -- I'm Jude, editor of Political Waves. Eric asked if I'd keep you amused for awhile, and I'm gonna give it my best shot. Politics, of course, is a loaded subject -- as in that old saw about sex, religion and politics being party-sto
May 2005
Planet Waves | for May 2, 2005 Dear Readers: For the next couple of weeks, I’ll be on holiday. As you know, it’s rare for me to step back from Planet Waves, but it’s definitely time to take a break. It’s been quite interesting moving through two weeks of w
May 2005
Planet Waves | May 1, 2005 England is worried about more than burritos these days. Tracy contributes this: Full article here: http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1474335,00.html To wit: “The man who led Britain's armed forces into Iraq has said tha
May 2005
Planet Waves | April 30, 2005 I get some interesting emails. This one should get some kind of prize. Do we all feel better? e ---------------- Dear Americans, Oh say can you see, ... remember all those sensational headlines when the conservative
May 2005
Planet Waves | Saturday, April 30, 3005 I recently bought a Pink Floyd compilation CD -- true, a mere shadow of my various collections of their albums over the years, listened to during many days of tripping. The song 'Echoes' is in the collection (from the LP Meddle), one of band's early
May 2005
Dear Readers: Today's edition of Planet Waves is a milestone: ten years since I began the project. The first edition of this column was published on May 1, 1995 in a newspaper called Free Time in Poughkeepsie, New York, covering the first two weeks of May. If you had told me then that
May 2005
Planet Waves | April 28, 2005 Dear Readers: In recent weeks we have had two questions involving suicide. Even given the hundreds of questions we get, these are quite rare. Perhaps it's a coincidence. Perhaps it has to do with the weather in the Northern Hemisphere warming
May 2005
Political Waves | April 26, 2005 This was sent to me by Jude, who is returning to the Political Waves list after a brief hiatus the past few weeks. She said she's taken a break from the news (hard to believe). But these are her observations upon returning. "We're in an interest
May 2005
Hello Readers! Sorry for the spotty blogs this week. I've been doing some intense horoscope writing, with a little Pope Ratzo thrown in for good measure. Speaking of whom, I have a new piece on Jonathan's site at this link: http://cainer.com/ericfrancis/eric.html That will get yo
April 2005
Planet Waves Astrology | Blog by Eric Francis | March 16 to April 25, 2005 Heyo everyone. Monday through Wednesday are my big writing days, so I have not had a chance to prepare a blog. But there will be lots going up on Planet Waves and Cainer.c
April 2005
Written in the Stars | Monday, April 18, 2005 NOTE TO READERS: Today's entry is from the Planet Waves Weekly daily blog, on the subscriber homepage. It's usually a kind of astrological ledger that keeps tabs on current astrological events. For those interested in subscribing, you can find
April 2005
Brief update...April 17, 2005 We've got some new material on the front page of http://PlanetWaves.net/ , particularly a photo series called, "Wednesday Afternoon at the Bastille." It's coverage of Wednesday's student protest against budget cuts and curriculum changes in the Frenc
April 2005
April 15 -- I've had a few inquires about today's devastating fire in Paris, that killed a lot of adults and kids in a hotel. I was not at the scene this morning, but from other fires I can tell you that there's just a sense of hopelessness and grief and nobody can really say much. Meantime, I would
April 2005
Friday, April 15, 2005 Today's cover photo is the latest in the "digital photography saved my mind" series. Saved it from what, we will never know, and for what, we shall soon see. However, what photography has done has let me out of the box of always having to make sense. Does everyone
April 2005
April 14, continued Emily writes... Perhaps useful? excerpt Alternet (4-14-05) article: http://www.alternet.org/story/21753/ A new poll <http://www.pipa.org/OnlineReports/europe/040605/html/new_4_06_05.html> conducted by GlobeScan and the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIP
April 2005
April 14, 2005 | Planet Waves A few days ago I asked for comments on the political climate in the United States. I've received quite a few, and I'm going to begin with Greg, whose band is The Divided, http://thedivided.com/ I'll post more through the end of the week and the weekend. If you don
April 2005
Hello readers. Today I'm passing the microphone to Philip Sedgwick, who always has something worth reading with the Galactic Times -- particularly about deep space astrology. To sign up for free, see the web link at the bottom of this article. Jupiter - Cool and Close The Galactic Times
April 2005
Paris, Monday, April 11, 2005 Anyone wondering what the weird vibes in the air are -- it's Mercury stationing direct, which occurs overnight Monday to Tuesday in the states, early Tuesday in Europe, and Tuesday evening down under. This is an extremely interesting Mercury station as it occu
April 2005
I don't normally stay up into the small hours on a Saturday night researching the Freemasons (in fact I've managed to ignore them quite well, and I'm happier that way), however, while I was doing so in connection with the assassination of Albino Luciani, Pope John Paul I, I found this link on the Va
April 2005
Written in the Stars | Saturday, April 9, 2005 Did someone say something about the pope? God I'm glad that's over. Or at least over for now. Next, the mini-pontiffs get to mourn and politic for the next eight days, as Mercury stations direct, then hold an election leading into an eclipse o
April 2005
Anaserma "It's a very old image called anaserma. It's an image of a person, it could be a man or woman, but we, these are primarily images of Aphrodite, where she is shown ritually lifting up her skirt -- and that's the anaserma, the lifting, the revealing of her sexual body, essent
April 2005
Written in the Stars | April 8, 2005 Today is certainly a day when all roads lead to Rome. The funeral service of Pope John Paul II has begun as of about half an hour ago. I imagine that anyone in North America up at this hour will be watching the service, which is really an enormous ritua
April 2005
Planet Waves for April 6, 2005 This is re-published from my March 18 column on Jonathan's site, covering the astrology of this week. The first degree of Aries, or the beginning of the whole story, is called the Aries Point. It's where we reckon the tropical horoscope and t
April 2005
April 5, 2005 While I'm catching up with horoscopes and taking astrology lessons from the Space Brothers, I thought I would post this piece on one of my favorite contemporary issues, written by a writer whose work I admire for its erudite qualities and scholarly research, Mr. Bill Maher.
April 2005
Written in the Stars | Amsterdam, Sunday, April 3, 2005 Dear Readers: I am traveling at the moment, though also developing the article on the astrology of the Pope John Paul II. Factoring in a little more R & R mixed in with reporting and writing, I’ll have something up by thi
April 2005
Planet Waves for March 31, 2005 My old friend Lane is a geologist (professional, actually) and she offered to do a write up on what happened in Indonesia earlier this week. I will have a short astrological summary up on my Q and A column on Jonathan's late late tonight. Also -- we've pos
April 2005
Written in the Stars by Eric Francis | Mon-Tues., March 28-29, 2005 (This is the daily astrology report for Planet Waves Weekly subscribers. NOTE: I HAVE JUST GOT NEWS OF THE EARTHQUAKE AT SUMATRA. I WILL BE GOING OVER THE CHARTS IN A MOMENT. Note however that it's about 90 days after t
April 2005
Written in the Stars by Eric Francis | Mon-Tues., March 28-29, 2005 (This is the daily astrology report for Planet Waves Weekly subscribers. NOTE: I HAVE JUST GOT NEWS OF THE EARTHQUAKE AT SUMATRA. I WILL BE GOING OVER THE CHARTS IN A MOMENT. Note however that it's about 90 days after t
April 2005
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 b
April 2005
Pluto's Pivot - Promising or Pernicious? The Galactic Times for March 23, 2005 by Philip Sedgwick Important GT note: To continue receiving the Galactic Times by e-mail after 20 April, you must sign up on my website. Please go to www.philipsedgwick.com <http://www.philipsedgw
April 2005
Planet Waves by Eric Francis | Wednesday, March 23 Today is the exact day of the first Mars-Chiron conjunction in Aquarius in more than 40 years. With supporting aspects from Venus and the Sun, this is really some extraordinary astrology, and what I would call the initiation of a new cyc
April 2005
Paris, March 18, 2005 Dear Readers: I'll be taking a few days off from writing, a rare treat. I have posted a lot about the Equinox and Mercury retrograde on my colleague Jonathan Cainer's site, at this link: http://cainer.com/ericfrancis/eric.html And check the homepage here for
April 2005
Planet Waves | Paris, March 16, 2005 Dear Readers: We have, I feel, reached a turning point in the Iraq war. I have never had this feeling more clearly, and it comes from listening to, and analyzing, news of the United States military's apparent ambush on the vehicle of freed hostage/journal
March 2005
Planet Waves Astrology | Blog Archive Feb. 8, 2005 to March 15, 2005 | by Eric Francis Planet Waves by Eric Francis | The Last Days of Pisces, March 14, 2005 Dear Friend and Reader: We are now in the last days of Pisces -- which are the very
March 2005
Paris, Saturday, March 12, 2005 I've been a "bad blogger" lately -- it's been a heck of a busy time behind the scenes, and my birthday was Thursday. That was also the New Moon in Pisces, a kind of peak of intensity of what was for sure a rather unique week of emotional and psych
March 2005
Hi Eric, If you don't mind, I'd like to add a thought or two regarding the Sex and the City finale where Carrie ended up with Big. As an undergrad, I studied English, French and comparative literature, and graduated with a degree in English literature. I don't remember much (it bei
March 2005
Paris, March 7, 2005 Dear Eric: Thank you for the information about "9 Songs" [article to be posted here shortly]. I keep up with movies, yet had not heard about this one. I thought I would e-mail to gently let you know that the main character, Carrie Brad
March 2005
Paris, March 5, 2005, about 9:30 pm Is anyone else feeling like hamburger, or perhaps sushi? As in, you, personally? Or perhaps on top of the world, but hyper-emotional? There is some intense astrology cooking tonight: the Moon is setting off a grand cross aspect in the cardinal sig
March 2005
Paris, March 3, 2005 Sorry to bore you with more in-house news, but the horoscope page is now fixed, tuned up and has some new artwork, and we've added a direct link to the new Cosmic Child Horoscope, which will take you over to the new Kid site. (If you're reading this on the Weekly s
March 2005
Hi everyone, I've noticed a problem with the monthly horoscope page. When we made a correction yesterday, at the same time the February and March horoscopes were deleted from the menu. We're working on that -- please be patient, it should be fixed shortly. Meanwhile, if you'd like to get Inne
March 2005
Paris, March 2, 2005 Dear Friend and Reader: A couple of times a week, I get a note from someone saying, "I know about your comp subscription policy, but I feel bad about taking advantage of it." That policy is simple -- we run a business that does not discriminate for lack o
March 2005
Paris, March 1, 2005 Hello World, Apologies for being out of touch for a few days. I got a bit lost in the adventure of running Planet Waves and have neglected the blog. Local news for the day is that the monthly horoscopes for March have gone up - both Planet Waves and Inner Space. He
March 2005
Paris, Feb. 25, 2005 The world may be going mad, but Planet Waves has had a banner week. We have posted a full update to the new Parent Waves site at http://planetwavesparenting.com, done part two of the 'Book of Jobs' essay series (on finding the right livelihood) begun
March 2005
Paris, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2005, updated the 25th CNN and other media have reported that the a tracheotomy has been performed on the Pope, who was taken to the hospital today. That occurred a little before 8 pm GMT. A tracheotomy is an operation that creates an airway that bypasses the mouth, pe
March 2005
Paris, February 22, 2005 e, Here is my deep gratitude to Hunter: For Gonzo journalims which I believe made first person reportage acceptable (Hunter T. acceptable???)...and thrives with writers like yourself. As a radical phenomenologist (see Merlau Ponty for some on phenome
March 2005
PlanetWaves By ERIC FRANCIS Paris, Monday, Feb. 21, 2005 . Daily at http://PlanetWaves.net/ Subscribe! (206) 567-4455 Coming Soon: Virgo Full Moon - CORRECTED! I made an AM/PM error in my timing of the Full Moon. Please disregard the times I posted yest
March 2005
Paris, Feb. 21, 2005 In case everyone hasn't noticed, I got a digital camera a couple of weeks ago. I have always found photography to be an easy creative outlet, but the whole expense, and the significant environmental problem with film and processing, started to get to me. I've gone a good fi
March 2005
The Backlog of Brilliance The Galactic Times for February 18, 2005 By PHILIP SEDGWICK Today's GT was difficult to start. The biggest problem was picking the right title. There could have easily been six, seven, maybe even eight appropriate titles. Actually, there's an astrologi
March 2005
Thursday night 9:00 pm, Paris The Sun goes into Pisces in about 18 hours - therefore is now void of course. Be cool, take it easy, pay attention. New update on Jonathan's page, extensive Q & A column on Chiron in Aquarius and Chiron in general. Chiron changes signs just after the
March 2005
Planet Waves Company News | Paris, Feb. 15, 2005 Hi everyone, I'm here with an update on what we've got going on at Planet Waves. The new edition of Planet Waves Parenting [http://PlanetWavesParenting.net] will be ready Monday. This will be our Pisces edition, featuring an
March 2005
Paris, Feb. 14, 2005 It is Valentine's Day, the dumbest holiday of the lot. I mean, it's fine if you have someone who brings you candy or at least to send candy to, or whatever. If you don't, you have my empathy, my unconditional love and some honorary roses. That being said, I'm going to
March 2005
Paris, Feb. 14, 2005 Dear Visitor: If you're new to Planet Waves, welcome. We have a lot to offer everyone -- from articles on politics to astrology to mysticism to sexuality. Have a look around our current issue and our archives, and please let me know what you think. If you'd l
March 2005
News You Can Use | Paris, Feb. 12, 2005 Dear Readers: As some of you know, I've been openly predicting the first serious discussions of a military draft for the coming spring. Now Rolling Stone is providing some information about this possibility, though without specific timing. I thought yo
March 2005
Aquarius is Rising | Paris, Feb. 11, 2005 Opening up my first chart of the day sent a little shock through my system. I had awakened from a dream that came with the message: you have to be who you are. Then typing 'any key' and waiting a moment for my friend Planet iMac to wake
March 2005
Paris, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2005 I've been busy behind the scenes creating new content for Planet Waves, so I've been neglecting the blog for a few days. We posted a site update tonight -- a long awaited piece by Planet Waves slacker oops civil rights attorney Steve Bergstein, as well as a new up
March 2005
Aquarius New Moon | Paris, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2005 We are in the doorway of the Aquarius New Moon. Aquarius is the sign of inventions, and of designing our world. Creating reality as we go is the most effective way to get from the past to the present -- and thus to a different future than we migh
February 2005
Introspection Planet Waves essay from Friday, Feb. 4, 2005 by ERIC FRANCIS Beyond the many disturbing, obvious comparisons between the United States today and Germany of the 1930s is one contrast that I have not heard mentioned yet. True, I was not there when the first torture camp
February 2005
Paris, Friday, February 4, 2005 Here from my little perch in the Cyber Spiral, I see, am in touch with, and participate in what I can only describe as an underground, honest-to-goodness spiritual movement. Most of the people I hear from, write to or work with are not involved in any kind of for
February 2005
From a 1998 essay by Eric Francis... In Germany it's hard to get anybody to talk honestly about the Holocaust. One of my missions in coming here was to find out how it happened, how so many tens of millions of people were arrested, imprisoned, shot, tortured, gassed and cremated, just
February 2005
Paris, Feb. 3, 2005 Bob asks: > So why didn't you say anything about the Iraq election? I don't believe it was real, Bob, and I don't believe it matters. I think it's 110% spin. Can we name any candidates? Can we name any positions? Can these people really cast ballots the size of ta
February 2005
Paris, Feb. 3, 2005 Here is one last comment on the Inauguration photo posted a week or so ago. Please send your comments on the State of the Union Address to francis@planetwaves.net. I'll publish them selectively in this space, identifying the writer by first name only. Thank you.
February 2005
Here's a really interesting book review. efc == January 30, 2005 'Collapse': How the World Ends By GREGG EASTERBROOK From the New York Times Book Review COLLAPSE How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. By Jared Diamond. Illustrated. 575 pp. Viking.
February 2005
Paris, Feb. 1, 2005 I was trolling my inbox and came up with this interview: Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! interviewing Will Pitt of t r u t h o u t. The subject is the importance of the alternative media. Alternative media is not a household word where the household media is Time magazin
February 2005
O Superman | Paris, Jan. 31, 2005 . I was playing the song 'O Superman' today and thought I would share this with you. It's by a performance artist named Laurie Anderson, who you may have seen mentioned on Planet Waves before. This was written and first performed in the 1970s. It appeared on he
February 2005
Paris, Jan. 29, 2005 Tracy writes: "My opinion is that we will all one day be asked exactly what we did about this when it was going on under our noses, just as people living near Auschwitz were, and one lame answer a lot of people will have to give will be, well we didn't like to menti
February 2005
Eric, I think Bob Dylan says it well: Adele -- Oh my name it is nothin' My age it means less The country I come from Is called the Midwest I's taught and brought up there The laws to abide And that land that I live in Has God on its side. Oh the history books
February 2005
Today, I'm passing the blog to my senior colleague, Mr. Philip Sedgwick. -efc Pointing Proper The Galactic Times for January 26, 2005 By PHILIP SEDGWICK Mars now mercifully inches over the conjunction to Pluto and starts pointing at the Galactic Center (26 Sag 55). O
February 2005
About Our Artist: Carol Houghton Paris, Jan. 26, 2005 Dear Readers, Perhaps you've noticed that we've been changing the cover art daily, to show off our new discovery -- Carol Houghton of Marin County, California. We'll have two additional works, Thursday and Friday, and then we'll
February 2005
Paris, Jan. 25, 2005 Dear Readers, As you can imagine, it's been a busy but exciting week standing in for Jonathan over at http://cainer.com and in the Daily Mail, Sydney Daily Telegraph and the Melbourne Herald-Sun. It's a lot of fun writing daily horoscopes and it's a lot easier than I eve
February 2005
Hi everyone, I'll be standing in for Jonathan Cainer this week, so if you'd like to read a daily horoscope by yours truly, please check in at http://cainer.com. All through this week, our cover art will be provided by Carol Houghton, a Marin County artist, and we'll be changing pieces daily. I'll
February 2005
Sunday, Jan. 23, 2005 I received an email from a reader earlier, among many other truly interesting and thoughtful responses, which said that the portrait of the Capitol Building was essentially the same for the Clinton inauguration. That fits; the traditions of the U.S. government tend to be
February 2005
Letter from Kitty | Jan. 22, 2005 Hi, Eric Francis, Thanks for posting this picture. (I think.) I'm one of those people who have been feeling and experiencing the energy shifts since August, 2001, and even so, it's been a very intense experience to actually see it presented i
February 2005
Don't Look Behind the Curtain No, you don't want to know what's behind that curtain. Let's not talk about that. It's too scary. So let's look right at it. I have some thoughts; I had to put on a jacket, make some tea and take my temperature after I saw it; but I'm wondering what you
February 2005
Paris, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005 A moment with Wilhelm Reich "Thus, I arrived at the conclusion that human mendacity [dishonesty] and meanness are still a reflection of the deep biological nucleus. Only thus can we understand that the fact that the ideology of human moralism and in
February 2005
This call for a world-wide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one's tribe, race, class and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for all men. This often misunderstood and misinterpreted concept has now become an absolute necessity for the survival o
February 2005
Paris, Sunday, Jan. 16, 2005. Bridge to the Core is written, designed and posted. I am reluctant to say it's done, because there is more to say on the subjects that the web page raises -- which I will be developing in this space, and in Planet Waves Weekly. Bridge to the
February 2005
ANNUAL HOROSCOPE UPDATE !!! Paris, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2005, 7:41 am Dear Readers: Bridge to the Core, the Planet Waves 2005 annual horoscope site, is about done. We're about a day behind, but barring anything too interesting happening, we'll be able to go live with th
February 2005
Hello all, Just checking in with an annual horoscope update. The sign reports are done! The charts and annual calendar are nearly done! The website structure is up to page test. I am currently working with Carol Burkhart, our resident Mayan astrologer, on the Bridge to the Core materials. Pro
February 2005
So anyway, if anyone is curious to know my favorite Planet Waves cover ever, you're looking at it, above. That face! I wouldn't want to be drinking salt, either! Have a good weekend. Thanks for your patience on the annual horoscope. Please send me warm vibes and ease the way! e
February 2005
A reader wrote into Jonathan Cainer's office with high praises for both of us, adding, "Great to read your yearly forecasts. Have a word with Eric and push him a little in that department will you...!" Ah, but I don't need a push -- I am a taskmaster with myself. I'm working on it,
February 2005
BREAKING NEWS "We have found numerous, serious election irregularities in the Ohio presidential election, which resulted in a significant disenfranchisement of voters. Cumulatively, these irregularities, which affected hundreds of thousand of votes and voters in Ohio, r
February 2005
Paris, January 4, 2005 | Annual horoscope details below this post It's difficult to believe that we're watching the aftermath of the worst natural disaster in modern history. This, in a time when we've seen many such disasters and quite a few unnatural ones as well -- and though the pa
February 2005
aquasphere For those eagerly awaiting the 2005 annual horoscope, and especially for those considering subscribing to get access to the annual, I suggest spending a little time with aquaphere, the 2004 annual horoscope package. From there, you will also find links to five years
February 2005
Site Update Info - Annual Horoscope - Earthquake Report Dear Readers: I'm checking in with a site update. A second major analysis of the Great Flood chart is in progress, and will be posted as my Q & A column to http://Cainer.com later this week. Regular reader questions will co
February 2005
Hi there, Eric Francis checking in with a 2005 annual horoscope update. The annual this year is called Bridge to the Core. Due to a week's delay involving covering the terrible disaster in Asia, I've got the coming week scheduled for completing the first stage of the 2005 annual horoscop
February 2005
While the sand slipped through the opening And their hands reached for the golden ring With their hearts they turned to each other's heart for refuge In the troubled years that came before the deluge. &nbs
February 2005
From everyone at Planet Waves: we wish you a safe and sane New Year's holiday, and our prayers, blessings and pluck for a brave, healthy and heart-felt, and most of all, perfectly real 2005. Remember, we're all in this together. Love, e
February 2005
Paris, Dec. 31, 2004 Dear Readers: My new article, "The Great Wave," has been posted to my Q & A page at cainer.com. The URL is: http://cainer.com/ericfrancis/eric.html As for the January horoscopes and the year-ahead predictions: here's the drill. The entire pro
February 2005
Dear Readers: I have been busy preparing a more detailed analysis of the Great Wave chart, which will appear both in Planet Waves Weekly and on Cainer.com late tonight. With the help of the amazing team at Planet Waves, I've dug out a lot of new information about this chart, including the pot
February 2005
GUST BLOG Independent Media TV Under Reported December 28, 2004 Earthquake: Coincidence or a Corporate Oil Tragedy? By: Andrew Limburg Independent Media TV -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now I don't claim to be an expert on s
December 2004
"... a great disruption in the Force." Here's update on the Tsunami, growing numbers of dead and places where you can contribute $$ for assistance. There are a number of prayer-efforts going on ... one at FaithfulAmerica.org, and most spiritual organizations. What a way to end
December 2004
I have just heard that the United States is offering $14 million in relief to the devastated region in southeast Asia. I wanted to throw up when I heard the words come out of Colin Powell's mouth. According to the Center for American Progress, the war in Iraq is costing $177 million per day. But
December 2004
Monday, 27 December As the death and damage from yesterday's great wave becomes obvious, I am wondering whether the message is getting across that we in the Western world have much more important things to do with our resources than bomb people. Nature has come along and dealt a devastatin
December 2004
Hi Francesco, I am still eager to see the minor planets; I'll do Riyal and my own list off of ephemeral.info soon. However my training says look for the obvious first -- the winter solstice, the alignment with the GC, the Full Moon, Saturn and Chiron. And I cannot get over the v/c moon just fiv
December 2004
In 10 years, will we remember that the day after Christmas 2004, in the midst of the Cancer Full Moon, the most devastating earthquake in decades came on the day that Viktor Yuschenko won the Ukranian election? Without resorting to superstition, is it possible to make a connection between the tw
December 2004
Full Moon Earthquake in Southeast Asia, Sunday, Dec. 26, 2004, 6:OO pm CET By Eric Francis with BBC reports and reader contributions Charts at: http://planetwaves.net/astrology/sumatra.html Data from: US Geological Service http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2004/us
December 2004
A Religious Experience -- Early morning, December 25, 2004 Just past midnight on Christmas, I dragged myself out of the house into the wet night and walked over to Notre Dame Cathedral to see what was happening. I walked up Boulevard St. Germain, and then turned up a side street toward t
December 2004
English Lesson Tonight I was hanging out with some Tunisian guys. Knowing I would be seeing them, I came up in advance with my big funny line, hoping I could deliver it with some conviction. I had my moment. "I just have one question." "What?" "Where t
December 2004
Christmas Eve, 2004 Good evening from Paris. I would like to wish you a happy holiday, whatever one it is for you, or just a good Sabbath. Here's a little astrology update. The Christmas holiday this year falls in the approach to the Full Moon, which is exact the afternoon of Dec. 26 in Eur
December 2004
Paris, Weds. Dec. 22, 2004 Well, things, as in life and the cosmos, does seem to have settled down a little since Mercury stationed direct and the Sun changed signs to Capricorn. It has been a totally insane year, speaking astrologically and many other ways. The pace has been picking up steadil
December 2004
Paris, Monday, Dec. 20, 2004 Good morning America, good evening Europe. I realized yesterday how long of a break I've taken from this page -- as I keep working in the background and, finally, take some good weekends off. The months leading into the election were an ever-escalating experi
December 2004
Heyo, I'm pleasantly swamped in writing work the next couple of days, so it's likely I won't be blogging; but who knows, maybe tomorrow. I'm watching the astrology of the Greek hostage situation carefully. It does not look like it's headed for a showdown, but let's keep that bus with the light aro
December 2004
Planet Waves, Paris, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2004 Nearly 1,300 U.S. soldiers have been killed since the war began. Many thousands more have been wounded. Last week the New England Journal of Medicine reported that the US is facing a "severe shortage of surgeons in Iraq" to treat woun
December 2004
I'm gonna let Tom Toles, once of Buffalo, now in Washington at the Post, do all the blogging we could possibly need tonight. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index2&cid=1072
December 2004
Paris, Dec. 12, 2004 Dear Readers, Cousins and Friends: We've updated the homepages with Friday's essay, Revolution of the Willing. We're using a graphic of a galaxy to illustrate the article as this week, the Earth and Sun align with the core of the Milky Way galaxy. This happens once a
December 2004
Paris, Dec. 11, 2004, 2:14 pm Greetings, cousins and friends. I am doing well, apologies for dropping off of this page for a few days. I got myself fully immersed in the annual horoscope, then the Cainer page, then the Friday essay. I'll post a sample here, and we'll have the whole thing f
December 2004
"I do not believe the wicked always win. I believe our despair is a lie we are telling ourselves. In many other periods of history, people, ordinary citizens, routinely set aside hours, days, time in their lives for doing the work of politics, some of which is glam and revolutionary
December 2004
Paris Picture -- here's a photo Yaz Boland posted to her web page tonight. I'm way too caught up in writing projects today to even select a blog, but I'm more or less on schedule (the big curve is Tuesday through Thursday). This Mercury retrograde feels a little like doing twice the work to g
December 2004
Paris Picture -- here's a photo Yaz Boland posted to her web page tonight. I'm way too caught up in writing projects today to even select a blog, but I'm more or less on schedule (the big curve is Tuesday through Thursday). This Mercury retrograde feels a little like doing twice the work to get the
December 2004
While I'm scrounging around the Internet looking for things to steal from Michael Jackson, who owns publishing to the whole Lennon-McCartney catalog, thanks to a gaffe by Paul in the 1980s -- he thought he could trust Jacko with the little fact that the portfolio was up for bid, and Michael prompt
November 2004
Planet Waves Astrology | Blog by Eric Francis Readers, Speak Out! | Nov. 24, 2004 It's time for me to take a break from daily blogging, but I would like to keep this feature going. So I am inviting you to write to me and have your comments posted. Idea
November 2004
Dear Diary | Nov. 23, 2004, 10:00 p.m. My inbox has been buzzing with concern about how there are, like, you know, huge impassioned, rapidly growing protests going on in the Ukraine, in the cold, rain and snow, and the threat of civil war over a stolen election... while most of the U.S. populatio
November 2004
The Next Season | Nov. 22, 2004, 11:06 a.m. Today begins a new season in the story of the world. Scorpio is ended; the Sun went into Sagittarius about 10 hours ago as of this writing. This year for all of Nov. 22 the Sun is in Sagittarius; it's not always the case. Today is the 41st anniversary o
November 2004
Sample Issue Offer | Nov. 20, 2004 A reader in Australia writes, "I do enjoy your website very much and it is a part of my morning-ritual, coffee, toast and cheese and planet waves. I would love to receive next weeks planet waves. I would subscribe, but money is too tight. I love the way
November 2004
Friday afternoon, seven minutes to five Ladies and gentlemen, it has been quite the week of loving and learning, and I for one am done writing for a while. Other states of mind and shades of color do beckon. Sweet deep breaths liberated of language & its rhythm. So good that we know
November 2004
Of Lovers and Warriors | Paris, Nov. 18, 2004, 9:45 am CET Wow, I had to do a double-take on the Nov. 18 business. I can't believe it's that late in the month, on the one hand, or that late in the year, and that it's only been two and a half weeks since the election on the other. I want to sha
November 2004
Hello everyone, apologies for no posting today. I have been busy preparing some exciting writing for my column on Cainer.com -- and will be back later in the morning with a few comments about these days of history. Thank you for tuning in. Catch you soon. -eric francis
November 2004
And the days go by | Nov. 16, 2004, 8:11 pm CET It certainly has been an interesting few days. Those occultations certainly brought a wave of change through our local subdimension of the cosmic physical plane. We are seeing it on the political level; we're feeling it on the personal level. It see
November 2004
Of Rats and Theocracy | Paris, Nov. 15, 2004, 9:01 p.m. It never ceases to get more interesting, does it? Tonight, I offer you two links. The first is to the website of the Zogby polling organization, which has reprinted an article called "I Smell a Rat," analyzing the statistics
November 2004
What to do | Paris, Nov. 15, 2004, 10:09 am CET It is a little strange not having the election to push against. I find myself doing odd things like taking the whole weekend off, or sleeping at night. My apartment is finally clean and my laundry is done. Friends who were staying for weeks,
November 2004
What ever happened to Dan Quayle? | Nov. 14, 2004 Those who were born long enough ago remember Vice President Dan Quayle. It was said that President Bush the First chose Quayle as a kind of life insurance policy; nobody would be cruel enough to inflict this man on the world as president. He was r
November 2004
Planet Waves Parenting Paris, Nov. 13, 2004 Dear Friends and Clients: In late summer, I spent a few weeks in Bamberg, Germany (in Bavaria), visiting my friend Maria, with whom I traveled in the summer of 1998. I hadn't seen Maria in four years and by now she had a little one named There
November 2004
Scorpio New Moon | Paris, Nov. 12, 2004, 4:16 p.m. I watched the funeral of Yasser Arafat with some amazement, noticing how it coincided exactly with the Scorpio New Moon. Here were my comments in Planet Waves Weekly, which went out a little while ago: One thing is certain, no matter wh
November 2004
Yasser Arafat | Paris, Nov. 11, 2004, 5:16 p.m."We are fighting because we want to live in peace."So said the man who has waged war on Israel since 1964 and, among other things, was involved in the 1972 massacre of the Israeli Olympic team.Still, so powerful a symbol of Palestinian
October 2004
Feeling the Chill | Evening, Nov. 9, 2004 There remains this whole question of what to do. My friend Ginger, an old friend and a smart one, wrote to me tonight and said the big shocker for her regarding the election is that votes really aren't counted as much as statistics are analyzed. I have he
October 2004
Just thinking out loud. At this moment it seems obvious that the war will awaken us to all of the problems of the world that we would otherwise deny. In some way it may save us from a much worse fate.
October 2004
So This it What it Takes, Maybe | Planet Waves for Nov. 9, 2004, 10:09 am CET My inbox keeps getting more intense. And I am not sure I want to get so deep into the psychology of the lust for war, and the simultaneous denial of human suffering, and the denial of human potential. But the
October 2004
Prayers and Tears in Falluja | Planet Waves for Nov. 8 I pass the microphone to the BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3986085.stm
October 2004
The Occultation Zone | Monday, Nov, 8, 2004 We're now in the week of the occultations -- those four extra eclipses between the 9th and the 14th that I've been ratting the cosmic cage over for the past few months. Covering the astrology of the Bush administration for four yea
October 2004
From truthout.org | Sunday, Nov. 7, 2004 Tin soldiers and Nixons coming We're finally on our own -- Neil Young, "Ohio" The one name conspicuously missing from the news these days is WADE O'DELL, the president of Diebold Corp, which makes electronic voting machines. He is an Ohioan,
October 2004
Saturday Notes | Planet Waves for Nov. 5 People seem to be going through a grieving process, getting used to the fact that Bush has been selected again. There is a sense of disbelief and disconnect among the Americans I am meeting here, and people from France and many other countries. They
October 2004
Hoax Hoax Warning | Nov 6, 2004 Upon further investigation, it turns out that the hoax warning about the IQ test score page may be a hoax and that the results appear to be real. Go fucking figure. No, we are not attempting to create a new myth of the Illuminati. Here is the link again, see no
October 2004
Hoax Warning | Planet Waves for Nov. 6, 2004 Heyo. I think it's probable that the IQ test score and the income test score links are hoaxes. However, that could be researched, I just don't have the inclination to do the work. And it may be true. In any event, the fact that it appears so plausible
October 2004
The Fruit of the Poison Tree | Planet Waves for Nov. 5, 2004 We have posted the entire edition of Planet Waves Weekly for today, which has my Friday essay The Fruit of the Poison Tree. This is my best shot at explaining what happened this week. Please feel free to pass the link on. I've in
October 2004
More Subversive Propaganda | Planet Waves for Nov. 5 My friend James, out roaming Paris and checking in from a cybercafe, just sent me this. I offer it for your sabbath mediation. http://attenuation.net/files/iq.htm
October 2004
That's His Style | Planet Waves for Nov. 5, 2004, 9:40 a.m. CET "I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it," said George W. Bush, in his first post-election press conference on Thursday -- and one of the few of his administration. What an interesting co
October 2004
Let the Games Begin | Planet Waves by Eric Francis Thank you for visiting. I am loving doing daily writing. I was Born to Blog, and thanks to Tracy D, the HTML deejay who wrote this blogging program from the first little < in the code, I can go positively wild. Thanks for all y
October 2004
Note from Jude | Planet Waves for Nov. 4, 2004 (blog below is 4th, too) Jude is the moderator of the Political Waves list, a free distribution list for news and information. You can subscribe here. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/political_waves/ Begin quote: OK, so...an Old Testament Go
October 2004
Take a Breath and... | Planet Waves for Nov. 5, 2004 All night I've been getting quite a lot of email from disheartened friends and readers... people who have worked tirelessly on this campaign, people who have watched the whole thing with shocked interest... emails from Craig's List from peopl
October 2004
Kerry Concedes | Planet Waves for Nov. 3, 5:27 p.m. CET If you have not heard, it's recently come across the news wires that Kerry has called Bush and conceded the election. This is fully understandable from a political perspective; it would be nearly impossible for him to govern the
October 2004
Awaiting Word | Planet Waves for Nov. 3, 4:44 p.m. CET As you've probably figured out, the Kerry campaign has a decision to make about whether to fight for Ohio's electoral votes. As I understand it, here's how it works. Essentially, the Kerry campaign has to decide whether there are enough po
October 2004
Beyond Ohio | Planet Waves for Nov. 3, 10:00 a.m. CET | By Eric Francis We may ask the question: what happened? But the real question is what will happen now? I don't mean with the election. I mean with the United States, and as a result, with the world. At this point, the outcome of
October 2004
Kerry Pounces On Antarctica | Planet Waves for Nov. 3, 5:31 a.m. CET John Kerry has won Antarctica by a more than three-to-one margin over George Bush -- at least at the huge McMurdo Station, the largest of three bases on the world's southern-most continent. According to our Antarcti
October 2004
Neptune Alert | Planet Waves for Nov., 3, 2004 The vigil continues here in the 5th arrondisement. For the first time I'm experiencing some kind of collective relief that the Dumya era might -- just might -- be ending. However, this might be a good time to interject with a bit of astrological re
October 2004
Phone Number Correction -- I got the international dialing code wrong. The correct number is: 011 33 1 4329 0834
October 2004
Reporting from France | More from Nov. 2, Paris Watching BBC-World, holding vigil. It's close to midnight here. Reports over in Europe are that there has been the highest voter turnout in 40 years. There are lots of scenes of long lines at the polls. I don't think this is any kind of show of popu
October 2004
The Cell Phone Issue | Planet Waves for the evening of Nov. 2 Well, leave it to Jimmy Breslin to dig out this little bit of news. It seems that those Bush-Kerry polls, which have been remarkably, well, the word is flat, as the nation and the world have plunged into disaster, were missing somethin
October 2004
Why Kerry will beat Bush | By Jimmy Breslin I will be back with an evening edition in a little while. But this just came in from one of the Planet Waves champion news readers... the last regular column by the legendary Jimmy Breslin. November 2, 2004 One day last May, I assigned the elect
October 2004
How King George the First Got In | Planet Waves for Nov. 2 Gather round everyone and listen to your old Uncle Eric tell a little story from when he was a boy. It's a scary story, so I'm telling it during the day. And I know you may not believe it, but I do value my reputation as a journalist, eve
October 2004
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October 2004
The Eve of the Revolution | Monday, Nov. 1, 2004 Planet Waves by Eric Francis http://planetwaves.net/ ONE way or another, today is the eve of the revolution. Whether we like politics or not, or believe it to be remotely meaningful or personally important, we have reached the end of on
October 2004
It's Oh So Quiet | Sunday, Oct. 31 The news remains fairly quiet just 36 hours before the election. It seems the PR strategists who run the world (I'm one of those people who believe they exist, but beware, I also ask comets for advice) have planned a normal-seeming election campaign. No Code
October 2004
As your reward for tuning into Planet Waves tonight, you may click here. http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/contentPlay/shockwave.jsp?id=this_land&track=0&ratingBar=off Catch you Sunday. Happy Halloween.
October 2004
By the way, I have just the article for this time of year, posted a few years ago to StarIQ.com. It's called Unbroken Chain and it's the story of Halloween.http://www.stariq.com/pagetemplate/article.asp?PageID=1670
October 2004
Not Too Late Planet Waves for October 30, 2004 | by Eric Francis Yesterday, Planet Waves Weekly was running late. This happened for a few reasons and, as often occurs, they started to pile up on one another, culminating with our server being infiltrated by a spammer who dumped in
October 2004
Hello subscribers, Planet Waves Weekly has gone out. Apologies for the delay and thank you for your patience. --Eric Francis
October 2004
Attention subscribers -- we are experiencing a listserver problem, so Planet Waves Weekly Friday edition delivery by email has been delayed. Please check http://planetwavesweekly.com and log in for your edition posted to the web. Sorry for the inconvenience! We are working on the problem w
October 2004
Journey to the Beginning of the Earth | Oct. 29, 2004 Here is a perfectly fine excuse to set politics aside for a moment. But not for long, of course. Yesterday I had the privilege of visiting L'Observatoire de Meudon, a space sciences center just outside Paris (near Versailles), where part of th
October 2004
Shameless Marketing Pitch | Thursday, Oct. 28, 2004 THANK YOU all for visiting Planet Waves, which will be updated here daily, twice daily and more through the peak of election news. We will be bringing you the morph of astrological, political and social viewpoints that makes P
October 2004
Morning After Eclipse, Paris, Thurs., Oct. 28 This is one of those 'let's see what the day holds days', if there ever was one. True, that's every day, but the day following an eclipse is worth watching carefully. We are already in an unlikely time with strange things happening. Is it some
October 2004
Taurus Eclipse & Grand Quintile - Weds, Oct. 27 - Thurs., Oct. 28, 2004 As of Wednesday evening Paris time, the Moon is in the last degrees of Aries, opposite the distant planet Huya. It's an appropriate last aspect prior to a potent eclipse across the Taurus-Scorpio axis. Huya involves a mythology of
October 2004
Don't forget your Freedom Plugs... http://www.workingforchange.com/comic.cfm?itemid=17961
October 2004
Thoughts on Awakening, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2004 Paris. I woke up thinking that what's missing from the current events of the world is that this is all leading someplace positive. We live in times that are a mix of somber, stoic or sober, looked at one way, and out-to-lunch delusional, looked at another.
October 2004
Update for evening of Oct. 26, 2004I heard that the link to Lie Girls isn't working. Here's a new version of the same link.http://www.liegirls.com/quicktime.htmlef
October 2004
Planet Waves Daily for the evening of Oct. 26, 2004 It's time for a little video break. This first presentation arrived via Chelsea, who got it from Via Keller, the founding illustrator of Planet Waves, who said she wishes she had thought of it. It's called Lie Girls. http://www.liegirls.com/quic
October 2004
We're now in the final day and half before the total eclipse of the Moon in Taurus. As I write, the Moon is in the 14th degree of Aries, just at the midpoint of that sign, and the Sun is at 4 Scorpio, exactly opposite the Chiron discovery point -- we are very close to the Full Moon. When the Moon enters
October 2004
Back in Paris... Monday evening... Arriving from Amsterdam, I waited till the crowds had passed and was one of the last people to get off the train. Striding along the platform I was stopped by a group of cops, who announced that they were with the French Customs Service.[In French.] "Do you speak Frenc
October 2004
Hello from Amsterdam, one of the sweet spots in all of Europe.Indeed there will be a weblog here beginning tonight. Thank you Tracy for the programming overhaul of the homepage that makes this possible. We're still working on a redesign, so you'll be seeing some changes over the next few
October 2004
Eric will be blogging here from Monday.
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