Walking home last night I saw what i thought was a distant headlight, but it was Venus low on the horizon, setting just after sunset, clear and bright because of the unusual weather conditions.  Then overhead I saw Jupiter on the tail of the bull in Taurus almost as bright as Venus, and then the Moon obscuring the Pleideas in the shoulder of Taurus.  When putting the rubbish out before going to bed I look to the east and there was Mars, bright orange, rising in mid Virgo.  I was tempted to get up early to spot Saturn, thus making the entire set of visible planets in one night excepting Mercury, which is only visible for two weeks a year, but was I going to get up in minus five to see Saturn?.  What a panorama - we are the only planet that can see its Moon, the perfect clock and dictating timing like no human invention.  We live at the heart of a perfect construct, impossible to build randomly, leading me to assume a greater purpose for our existence that we can imagine.  I really look foward, at the moment of my physical death whenever that may be, to ...

Mars has been on my Ascendant for the last month - I've been quite unwell and lost a number of teeth - any good dentists out there?  And some of you worked out the best way to my heart - thanks for the coffee from both central Europe and from the Rockies.  And I've signed the contract on behalf of the Green Gathering for three years at our current location (WooHoo!).  And all my proposed website changes are delayed until I get a)better, and b) catch up financially.  But this site is losing its integrity.  I can't see the blog comments any more, all that's reliable is the front page and the sunsigns.   February sunsigns and videos (recorded when I was not at my best) will be up shortly....

still not dead....   back soon i hope

In the last decades of the twentieth century the spawn of cold war paranoia took root in fundamentalist attitudes in both the Pentagon and Tehran, resulting in ill thought through attempts to ‘rule the world' - witness 9/11, where outside America the vast majority of people intuitively feel that at least to an extent it was an inside job.  Whether this was an excuse for the Bush jihad or not, the cost of the resultant resource wars in terms of money and especially in terms of the middle ground Republican vote was and continues to be catastrophic.  Much of what was left of the old Republican party have tried to purge and purify their ideology (Tea Party), resulting in a plethora of sanitized candidates, none of whom have a spark of individuality, all who seem to think that the only way forward is by ...