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August Vedic Sign Predictions
AUGUST CHANGES: August of 2023 begins and ends with two bright Full Moons. Remember that in the Moon cycle, the genesis and birth of the month is at the New Moon when the Moon is not visible. A few days later, we begin to see it after sunset as a crescent in the West…....
Mark Hamill: The Hero’s Journey
The air alert is over. May the Force be with you! Mark Hamill’s voice on the Ukrainian Air Raid App, March 2021 Mark Hamill, the young actor who stepped into the role of young Luke Skywalker in 1976 for the first Star Warsmovie, has never really left that first blockbuster role behind. While…...
July Vedic Sign Predictions
Get ready for an eventful month! The first part of July will continue the themes of the last half of June, with the conjunction of Jupiter and Rahu in Aries now past exact degree but still impelling decisive (or impulsive) action. Last month Venus and Mars were together in Cancer, making for lots of emotion…...
Eisenhower and Everyman
In honor of Memorial Day and D-Day, at a time and year when another war looms, let’s remember Dwight D. Eisenhower, the architect and general of D-Day (June 6, 1944) and a keeper of the post-war Pax Americana. And for Memorial Day, a private chart of my relative, Reuben, who turned 100 last month, held…...
June Vedic Sign Predictions
Compared to the past few months, the planet and sign changes in June are simpler to describe, and two of the main ones occur on May 31 and June 1. Therefore, I begin with a repeat from the end of the last Vedic Sign Prediction column: “The very end of May gives us a…...
Helen Keller: A 20th Century Progressive Joan of Arc
“I feel like Joan of Arc at times. My whole being becomes uplifted. I, too, hear the voices that say, ‘Come,’ and I will follow, no matter what the trials I am placed under.” Helen Keller, the blind-deaf girl whose prison was unlocked through the efforts of her teacher Annie Sullivan, is known to…...
Vedic Sign Predictions for May 2023
MAY CHANGES The parade of planets continues to bring startling changes in the month of May, as the world unpacks the big news – Jupiter is in Aries and will be for approximately a year. Although the Sun moves on to Taurus on May 15, Mercury, Uranus, and Rahu (the North Node of the…...
Andrew Lloyd Webber and the King
Andrew Lloyd Webber has been commissioned by Great Britain’s King Charles III to compose the music for his Coronation on May 6, 2023. This prolific musical genius, who began his public career with the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Jesus Christ Superstar when barely out of his teens, is still at the…...
April Vedic Monthly Sign Predictions
APRIL CHANGES This month all eyes are on Jupiter, as it changes signs along with the Sun in the middle of April, and joins up with Rahu, Uranus, and Mercury. We will also have a Solar Eclipse on April 20 (not visible in the US). And on April 21-24, we will have Akshaya Tritiya,…...
Jimmy Carter: The Plains Man
“A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others.” (1) A Contemplation of What Has Been Created, and Why (2) I tried to fathom nature’s laws From twirling models and schoolroom sketches Of molecules and parts of…...
