This article describing my consultation process first appeared under a slightly different title in the May 2014 edition of Jyotish Star. Thanks to Juliana Swanson for encouragement and guidance, and Christina Collins for publishing. Thanks also to my teachers, Hart DeFouw and his guru Mantrji, without whom I’d never have seen the light of the […]
SCORPIO RISING: book excerpt 1.4
As some of my readers know, I’m a writer as well as an astrologer. A couple of years ago I wrote SCORPIO RISING, the first book in my New Age Noir series. Here’s the cover blurb: Criminal profiler Axel Crowe investigates the killing of a New York heiress, and discovers her death is linked to two […]
Jyotish Star interview: Alan Annand
A conversation with Alan Annand This was an interview (April 12, 2014) conducted by Juliana Swanson for the May issue of Jyotish Star emagazine. Juliana Swanson: Is Annand your real name? And are there any other astrologers in your family? Alan Annand: In my social circles â Jyotish, Ayurveda and Hasta â a lot of people […]
Frozen Warriors: Napoleon & Hitler in Russia
On 23 June 1940, after the German armyâs swift conquest of France, Hitler made his first and only visit to Paris. He toured the City of Light, admiring its boulevards and architecture, and paid a visit to Napoleon’s tomb. There he vowed never to repeat the Little Corporalâs mistakes. Exactly one year later, having apparently […]
Michael Schumacher: an accidental irony
Michael Schumacher suffered severe head trauma during a skiing accident in the French Alps on December 29, 2013. As of this writing, he remains in stable but critical condition after doctors performed neurosurgery to relieve pressure from a blood clot in his brain. The irony is that Schumacher is a seven-time Formula One winner who […]
Miley Cyrus & PopTarts Anonymous
âHi, my name is Miley and Iâm a twerkaholic. Donât judge.â Ever since Miley Cyrus appeared with Robin Thicke on the Video Music Awards, 25 August 2013, the world has been reeling with the image of the tongue-twisting pop tart in flesh-colored short shorts doing the next-to-nasty on prime time network TV. Shocking, perhaps, but […]
Most interesting astrologer: stellar advice
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Edward Snowden: a deer hunted out of season?
Like whistle-blowers Assange and Manning before him, Edward Snowden by proxy wielded a pen against the sword of the current US Administration on June 6, 2013. That day his leaked story, as scooped by Glenn Greenwald, appeared in both The Guardian and The Washington Post. In it, Snowden revealed the breadth and depth of systemic […]
Penis size and finger ratios
Judging penis size by comparing index & ring fingers:Â If your friends have ever questioned the value of your studying the esoteric arts, your moment of validation has arrived. Korean researchers have determined that, compared to the index finger, the longer the ring finger, the longer the penis. Several other scientific studies had previously already […]
Britain on the Butcher’s Block?
No more hiding down the block when a bomb goes off. Now itâs up close and personal, with blood on their hands. And when the dirty work is done, the perpetrators explain themselves to witnesses. British soldier Lee Rigby was murdered last week, Wednesday May 22, 2013, in the Woolwich district of London. According to […]