Astrology
Astrology | Week of May 17, 2012
ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19: Is there a difference in sound quality between relatively inexpensive modern violins and the multimillion-dollar violins created by master craftsmen in the 1700s? In research done at the Eighth International Violin Competition, most ...
Astrology | Week of October 31, 2013
ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19: Once when I was hiking through Maui’s rain forest, I spied a majestic purple honohono flower sprouting from a rotting log. As I bent down close, I inhaled the merged aromas of moldering wood and sweet floral fragrance. Let’s make this scene ...
Astrology | Week of June 13, 2013
ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19: Irish poet Richard Brinsley Sheridan didn’t confine his lyrical wit to well-crafted poems on the printed page. He used it to say things that would advance his practical ambitions. For example, when he first met the woman who would eventually ...
Astrology | Week of July 12, 2012
ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19: During an author tour a few years ago, I was a guest on San Francisco radio station KFOG. For a while, the host interviewed me about my book and astrology column. Then we moved into a less formal mode, bantering about psychic powers, lucid ...
Astrology | Week of October 17, 2013
ARIES March 21-April 19: This is an indelicate oracle. If you’re offended by the mention of bodily functions in a prophetic context you should STOP READING NOW. Still here? OK. I was walking through my neighborhood when I spied an older woman standing over her aged ...
Astrology | Week of February 24, 2011
ARIES March 21-April 19: “Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization,” said George Bernard Shaw more than six decades ago — and it’s still true. It’s very important that you be more discerning than ...
Astrology | Week of May 30, 2013
ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19: Back in the 1920s, the governor of Texas was determined to forbid the teaching of foreign languages in public schools. To bolster her case, she called on the Bible. “If English was good enough for Jesus Christ,” she said, “it’s good enough ...
Astrology | Week of March 27
ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19: I have coined a new word just for your horoscope this week. It’s “zex,” short for “zen sex.” Zex is a kind of sex in which your mind is at rest, empty of all thoughts. You breathe slowly and calmly, move slowly and calmly, grunt and moan ...
