Hudson Valley Astrologer

“What’s that got to do with the price of fish?” Hundreds of miles between Iceland, Norway and Scotland, in the frigid subpolar waters of the North Atlantic, lies a tiny volcanic archipelago called the Faroe Islands. Aside from the breath taking scenery and turf roofed houses, these edenesque islands produce an incredible amount of seafood,…

“The Deadline for Complaints was Yesterday…” My complaints, when I have them, are trivial compared to others in life. This coming March I turn 64. I‘ve noticed a distinct change in my energy levels; I tire easily; there is an unfamiliar tendency towards feeling achiness. Other than that, life is good! I have nothing to…

“Astrology done well, cannot leave the human being behind.” ~ Noel Tyl We were coming off a championship season but in my heart I knew it was my last year in the “almost Dixie” state of West Virginia. Those years are blurry now but I recall it was around 1981. I thought it would be…

“I am alone against hordes. I cannot stop nor let go. I stand here in the long cold hours, alone against every foe” Cu Chulainn, The Táin Bó Cúailnge After listening to Tommy Vietor and Ben Rhodes on Pod Save the World, and specifically how Ben described Gaza after Israel obliterated the Palestinian Territory. I…

“Isn’t it pretty to think so?” The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway Fascinating! We were literally just talking about this yesterday. Is it the right time to buy a lotto ticket? Maybe, at least for the fine gentleman I had coffee with yesterday. This morning, The Sun Also Rises, but still below the Ascendant of…

“You can observe a lot just by watching.” Yogi Berra “Lettering” in a sport use to be a big deal but I don’t really hear much about it anymore. When my dad passed many years ago we were going through his stuff and came across his “Letters.” They had little decorative achievement pins on them.…

“There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.” ~ Leonardo Da Vinci Behind me on the wall hangs a 14 1/2 x 40 3/4ths frame with facsimiles of pages taken from the notebook of Leonardo Da Vinci. The Vitruvian Man is in…

“Maybe it’s being alive that makes them lie.” * A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams My last drink was in the summer of 1994. I remember coveting the leftover champagne from the wedding a little more than “normal.” It was boxed and put away in the kitchen pantry. But I developed this craving, an irresistible…

“People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.” – ~ Rogers Hornsby Long before the appearance of snowdrops and morning cloaks, queen bubble bees and robins, there is another resounding call that says spring is here.…

“A bird is one egg’s way of becoming other eggs.” ~ Alan Watts Nelson Rockefeller was the governor of New York at the time, and he was trying to convey to the architect, Wallace Harrison, his vision for a state of the art meeting hall. Construction began in 1966, modernist and brutalist architecture were trending.…