I got into a weird discussion the other day with a New Ager. You know, someone who believes in the power of crystals (especially that big 10-karat rock her boyfriend just gave her), astrology (as done by someone who doesn't know either astrology or astronomy worth a damn), Tarot cards (her Tarot packs are all beautifully arranged on the shelves of ( Read more... )

Plutus was the Roman God of wealth, cognate to the Greek God Hades, and the planet Pluto is named after Him. Like Hades, he rules the Underworld, and all things that go with it: enormous wealth and, in particular, buried treasure; sewers; swamps, marshland, and bogs; the realm of the dead (He is not the Grim Reaper; that function belongs to ( Read more... )