I've just listened to Martin Luther King's sister talking about his birthday and the inauguration, followed by a clip currently on the BBC homepage of MLK himself being interviewed in 1964 in London about the possibility of a black president. It's really strange, I feel so emotional and tearful about these times, dare we as a species truly hope? Then I think Gaza, Mumbai, economics (yawn)... America, your image in the outside world is in its best chance for positive change that it has been in for decades. Don't blow it, there's a whole community out here waiting for you. OK, Mercury retrograde, total eclipse of the Sun in a couple of days, website rapidly coming to its end, changes imminent. Headless chicken time, rollercoaster city. For real time updates, listen in this Friday at 11.00 UK time on www.glastonburyradio.net to The Caustic Astrologer (me) with a live transmission on current issues from as astrological perspective, repeated on Monday and Wednesday.