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... )

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To all linguistically challenged astrologers, Magickians, etc. out there who call me a "grammar Nazi ( Read more... )

When asked to explain why the new Age of Aquarius is so horrible, rather than being replete with sweetness-and-light and all that good stuff, New Agers "explain" that it's still the Age of Pisces, that the Vernal Coleur (the point in the sky occupied by the Sun at the first moment of Spring) has not yet advanced all the way back through Pisces to ( Read more... )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG_b4OEZL7k&feature=youtu.be&Email=polaris93@aol.com&utm_source=BH&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=YT+Aug31Read more... )

http://www.beliefnet.com/News/Articles/Why-Panic-Over-Astrology.aspx?source=NEWSLETTER&nlsource=12&ppc=&utm_campaign= ( Read more... )

http://www.theonion.com/articles/your-horoscopes-week-of-january-24-2012,27153/

. . . Sagittarius Due to unusual and convoluted circumstances too involved to go into here, you'll spend the next three years imprisoned in an aging 1960s ( Read more... )

Apparently claims have been made recently by fairly prominent people that the weather can be controlled by means of astrology. Worse yet, there are people who've bought that idea hook, like, and sinker. That's bad. Whether you believe in astrology or not, it should be pretty easy to see that it is a predictive discipline, not a branch of ( Read more... )

For those who are interested in such things, a rather nasty transiting T-square has been operating for some time that to some way to explain certain types of difficulties that have been arising for people the last few months. Currently it is part of an even nastier formation, a Grand Cross, and there are also trines and sextiles related to it. ( Read more... )

I've been reading Michael Gruber's Tropic of Night, a stunningly good novel of suspense. On pages 80-81 I encountered the following, part of a lecture given to a college audience by anthropologist Marcel Vierchau ( Read more... )