eris anyone

So on the way home from Skagit Valley we drove through Mt. Vernon. We stopped at the Co-op there and found where all the hippies and rainbow people went. They are all in Mt. Vernon. There was no Kombucha or blue haired clerks. They were selling Mountain Astrologer in the check out line, and I bought one. I forgot that I love astrology. I love the precision of the planetary angles joined to the vagueness of the interpretations. It has been my cure for the dangers of science-mind.

There is a new planet. There has been since 2005 and somehow I never heard. It was initially nicknamed Xena but now has been formally called Eris for the Goddess of Warfare and Strife. The moon is named Dysnomia, which means lawlessness. Frankly, I think we could have done without both of them, but they are right for the times. Eris has been in Aries since 1925. It will be interesting to figure out what that must mean.

For a funny, pick up the current issue of MA and read Orr's lighthearted article about Eris. It's good to have a sense of humor about such things.