Karmic Knowledge

In the past month, we’ve seen an enormous amount of volatility in the global financial markets, mostly due to the subprime mortgage crisis and the collapse of the real estate bubble. In an attempt to calm the panic, the Federal Reserve dusted off a protocol last invoked during the great depression of the 1930s, enabling […]

Shadow and Substance (http://shadowandsubstance.com/) has some lovely animations and illustrations of tonight’s full moon in Virgo and lunar eclipse.

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Dennis Kucinich can’t get no respect. First he was excluded from from a December 13th Democratic debate in Iowa, then he was not allowed to participate in the ABC sponsored debate in New Hampshire. In both cases, the sponsors of the debates claimed that Kucinich had not met the criteria for consideration as a serious […]

On May 15, 2007, the Reverend Jerry Falwell, founder of the Moral Majority, president of Liberty University and popular television evangelist, died unexpectedly after being found unconscious in his office. Often credited with being the first to break the taboo on blending politics with faith, Falwell has repeatedly made headlines with his outrageous statements, making […]

In the past few weeks Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has been under fire for suspected abuse of the power of his office. His troubles began with the revelation of possible misuse of the Patriot Act to collect information on ordinary American citizens, and were compounded by the dismissal of eight U.S. attorneys for […]

Wired News reports that the state of New Mexico has introduced a bill declaring that, as it passes over the state’s night skies, Pluto will be called a planet. The resolution would also designate March 13th as “Pluto Planet Day.”
Read more here.

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Now that Al Gore’s revolutionary documentary on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, has won an academy award, the call to draft Gore for a 2008 presidential run is growing louder and louder. And while he continues to insist that he is not interested in another run for office, Mr. Gore had no problem faking out […]

John McCain, long considered to be the frontrunner for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination, is suffering a bit of a setback after President Bush’s announcement last week that he would be sending 20,000 additional troops into Iraq, a plan now commonly referred to as the McCain Doctrine.
The Boston Herald reports today that new polling […]

This past week, several of my favorite astrology blogs wrote about the Mars/Pluto conjunction that will be exact on January 13th. As if their coming together was not significant enough, the dynamic duo will be doing their dance at the Galactic Center.
Mars and Pluto represent Force and Power. When they come together you can get […]

The year is almost at an end. It has been an exciting year astrologically, and, with much still unsettled in the world, it will continue to be so into the new one.
One of the more significant upcoming events is the imminent conjunction of Pluto to the Galactic Center which makes its debut on December 28th. […]