I am pretty sure I can tell you why people can’t figure things out. It’s because they refuse to comprehend that other people are not like them. They just can’t grok the fact that people are individuals. They think or act or respond in a certain way and assume others feel similar when they do […]
When considering aspects in astrology, traditionally, trines and sextiles are considered, “good”. Squares and oppositions are “bad” or “challenging”. Conjunctions are judged on a case by case basis. For example, conjunctions to Jupiter or Venus (benefic planets) are “good”. Conjunctions to Saturn or Mars (malefic planets), “bad”.
When it comes to studying astrology, oppositions are far and away my favorite thing to consider. The tension they create, interests me. But it’s also the confoundedness of it all. To illustrate what I mean, this is a story about people on separate sides with something in common… Genius, friend and criminal mind, Arie, joined
There is only person in this world who I think truly understands the way my mind works and it is my sister. This is because she grew up with me. We shared a bedroom. We have the same parents and if you took any one of those things out of the equation, I think she’d
Few people believe there is no such thing as a crime of passion when hard research shows otherwise. “I lost my mind and killed her?” Turns out this is something criminals tell juries and judges and lawyers but it is not what they tell Lonnie Athens. Lonnie Athens is considered a maverick in the criminology
“They’d be those kind of women who only have friends who are uglier than they are. You know those women?” I asked. “I thought pretty much all women were like that,” my husband said. “No they’re not. I’m not like that. Hmm,” I said, challenged to think about it. “My friends are always… they’re distinctive.
Yesterday I had to turn down a client for a consultation because I just didn’t feel I could deliver what she wanted. This doesn’t happen that often but it does happen. The person may want some form of astrology I know nothing about like horary. Sometimes they want me to time things like a wedding,
Once upon a time there was a heinous crime in a tony neighborhood in one of the richest cities in this country. All jaws hit the floor. A (now) famous prosecutor made his career on the case and a number of years passed. Over the last week or so, I got talking to my sister
