Hudson Valley Astrologer

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci I’ve always wished I could draw—especially with pencil and charcoal. About a year ago, I was having lunch with a dear friend from high school when he showed me something extraordinary. On his phone were photos—not of…

“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life – and travel – leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks – on your body or on your heart – are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt”…

“What propels the individual? With what environmental objects and institutions do we interact and how? What mutually dependent processes participate in our differentiation and development?” ~ Henry Murray Noel Tyl was an extraordinary astrologer and a prolific writer. His work was masterful in both its depth and reach. He was in fact called “el Maestro”…

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” ~ Maya Angelou I wish that I had something significant to say and could write about it each day. Not to add to the noise and chatter that come and go like a murder of crows that roost atop my black-walnut trees,…

“We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson My father had a nickname for each of his children, a sobriquet meant to be endearing or funny. Apparently, my legs didn’t stop moving whenever he put me down in the crib… spinning in circles, round and round and round. He called me “Wheels” but…

“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” ~ Joseph Campbell Resilient! The one word that describes me and to some extent all of us who aspire to accomplish something but have not given up. Or maybe the word relates to a tenacity for just hanging on,…

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” ~ Oscar Wilde Once upon a time, there was an old engineer. He was famous in his small circle of engineering friends in that he specialized in very particular type of situational phenomena related to the comings and goings of large objects in the sky. Almost like…

“Give me now libidinous joys only, Give me the drench of my passions.” ~ Walt Whitman Freddie Mercury sang about taking the road less traveled in his anthem to the bicycle. The allure of freedom, and independence, the seductiveness and attraction in doing and saying what one is truly passionate about. If I were to…

“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary.…

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” ~ Carl Rogers Coping with negative feelings or moodiness is such an art, and especially for the Water Signs who have their Moon in Fire Signs. There can be a smoldering of the personality reminiscent of a campfire…