In our book, When the Dragon Wore the Crown, we contend that long ago cultures all over the world shared an ideology of a great flying serpent that wrapped his considerable bulk around the North Celestial Pole and chased his own tail for literally thousands of years. In other words, the source of this myth was astronomical. This […]

                There have been a number of works which have influenced my thought through youth, but possibly none more so than John Michell’s The View Over Atlantis. It describes a time, now largely forgotten, when Terra Firma was mapped out as one big observatory, a ‘City of God’, nestled in the bosom of […]

  FBI Director fired for heading investigation probing into White House’s actions. Everyone is reporting the news. This is big. The media is abuzz. The ‘special prosecutor,’ the one whose job it was to check into illegalities at the governmental level, is being thrown under the bus, presumably before he can gather incriminating evidence that looks […]

                By Sarah Knapton, science editor  21 APRIL 2017 • 11:25 AM (English spellings) Ancient stone carvings confirm how comet struck Earth in 10,950 BC, sparking the rise of civilisations Ancient stone carvings confirm that a comet struck the Earth around 11,000 BC, a devastating event which wiped out woolly mammoths and sparked […]

One of the alignments that we have been monitoring in the US chart this year has been the Progressed Venus square to the US natal Pluto, which will be exact June 3rd, 2017. We’re building into it now. The themes of this alignment will reappear as the progressed Venus squares the progressed US Pluto on February 16th, 2019 . […]

Well, the proofs, editing and adjustments have been made. The book is on its way to the printers and will be available for mailing in May. You can pre-order the work through Amazon or Red Wheel/Weiser, and before you know it, a hard copy of The 8th Seal will find its way to your door. Pictured above […]

EUROPE German Forest Ranger Finds That Trees Have Social Networks, Too The New York Times Saturday Profile By SALLY McGRANE JAN. 29, 2016 HÜMMEL, Germany — IN the deep stillness of a forest in winter, the sound of footsteps on a carpet of leaves died away. Peter Wohlleben had found what he was looking for: a pair of towering beeches. […]

               NASAs REPORT ON THE ECLIPSE  This interactive Google map [1] shows the path of the Annular Solar Eclipse of 2017 Feb 26 . The northern and southern path limits are blue and the central line is red. You MUST be somewhere within the central path (between the blue lines) to see the annular phase of the eclipse. The […]

Returning to our feature from November 29th’s edition of the WEB (2016), we have now passed one of the alignments we saw forthcoming in the US chart (4th July, 1776). In that edition, the progressed US Ascendant inconjuncted Pluto in the final degrees of Leo and Capricorn, suggesting a power struggle between the king (Leo) […]

Taking a look at the national map (horoscope) reveals some of the choreography of what we are going through as a country and when. For now we’ll start with January and look at some of the principle aspects into mid-May. Remember that these are waves of energy, building into the dates indicated, then winding down […]

  We received a request a fortnight ago (in the Queen’s English, a fortnight is half a synodic month, 14.77 days, the mean time between a Full Moon and a New Moon) asking about the Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto T-square. In this case, it’s more than just the three planets that we have for the traditional T-square. If we […]

                 ITALY’S ZONE OF ENDLESS SHAKING  [There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All this is only the beginning of the birth pangs. -Matthew 24] NORCIA, Italy — Over centuries, residents of this Umbrian city and its environs have grown accustomed to the ragged tempo of earthquakes in the mountainous region. Resilience is […]

Why Catholics Built Secret Astronomical Features Into Churches to Help Save Souls After centuries of war, Catholicism and science reconciled over meridian lines. By Geoff Manaugh NOVEMBER 15, 2016  Giovanni Domenico Cassini’s design for the meridian line in the Basilica di San Petronio in Bologna. LINDA HALL LIBRARY OF SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY A disc of light moves […]

 Most folks that I’ve run into of late are simply standing there, slowly shaking their heads in stunned disbelief. What happened? Can this really be true? Bernie was offering avenues that led to our Aquarian future, but his time was not yet. The two party system each yielded their candidate.As the hen in Chicken Run […]

               NASA ADDS TO EVIDENCE OF MYSTERIOUS ANCIENT EARTHWORKS  NYT- November 12, 2016;   SCIENCEHigh in the skies over Kazakhstan, space-age technology has revealed an ancient mystery on the ground.Satellite pictures of a remote and treeless northern steppe reveal colossal earthworks — geometric figures of squares, crosses, lines and rings the size of several football fields, recognizable only […]

So the planetary combinations tend to help, but this is still a Scorpio New Moon, an archetype that deals with death and separation. I’ve just taken a call while writing this Moon Mail from a good friend who’s lost her dog last night after twelve years and is devastated by the loss. As a matter of fact, those […]

               THE QUEST FOR HILARY’S TRUE BIRTHTIME  ‘This is not to be trusted’: Astrologers are battling over Hillary Clinton’s true birth time By Justin Wm. Moyer October 14, 2016 In a bitter election year when basic facts seem open to question, vital statistics can offer cold comfort. Though birthers may falsely claim […]

  You may have a totally new zodiac sign, according to an astronomy society that redefined the zodiac calendar, but NASA wants to clarify its role in the matter. Back in 2011, as TIME reported, astronomers from the Minnesota Planetarium Society found that because of the moon’s gravitational pull on Earth, the alignment of the stars has […]

In January 1959 during the latter portion of the two-term Eisenhower administration, the US progressed Moon entered Scorpio. This can represent many things, among them covert operations, especially while traveling through the 12th house. It was in January 1959 that Fidel Castro overthrew the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, the leader of a government friendly to […]

   Earth is warming at a pace ‘unprecedented in 1,000 years’ “Records of temperature that go back far further than 1800s suggest warming of recent decades is out of step with any period over the past millennium. “The planet is warming at a pace not experienced within the past 1,000 years, at least, making it […]

In a few days, on August 26th, transiting Uranus will square the US Mercury. This is the second, or retrograde pass, of the series of three alignments that is in the midst of playing itself out. By taking a look at what happened on the days leading up to this combination as it made its […]

As most WEBHeads out there know, this is the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius. The boundary separating Pisces from Aquarius has already been crossed and a new vibration is at work, changing old patterns. Yet we are still in the infantile stages of this new epoch, and its tender young shoots are only just […]

  As we begin this column, Pluto is rising. The world is getting to be a crazier place. We are slowly witnessing a crumbling order, the end of a period of time, the end of a vibration. The WEB, Athenas WEB has been attempting to alert people to this transition since we have been writing, […]

Now that we’re back and settled on Nantucket for a while, we’ve had a chance to go a little beyond the Dailies and work on a couple of theme pieces, filed under the WEBCollection. In our last series we took a brief look at Poverty Point, Louisiana, the site of the oldest set of Mississippian […]

       M7 is an open cluster of stars above the sting of the Scorpion, Scorpius. A companion cluster to Aculeus. Wikipedia says Messier 7 (also known as M7, NGC 6475, or the Ptolemy Cluster) is an open cluster in the constellation Scorpius. Sometimes referred to as Akumen. The Akkadians called Scorpio, Girtab, the “Seizer”, or “Stinger”, and the Place where One Bows Down, […]

  On the international level, Paris is going through the worst floods it has seen in 30 years, threatening Paris’s cultural institutions and soaking the French countryside east of the capital (Neptune). “The Seine has continued to swell since the river burst its banks on Wednesday (the day the first of these aspects, the Sun squaring […]

  This Moon Mail is being launched as the Full Moon aligns with Mars, and we are at our closest approach to Mars in a Sun Mars opposition, with the Earth caught between the two. We are therefore closer to Mars than at any other time in its two-year orbit. Over this weekend, both the […]

  These videos are an interesting foray into the facts, sizes, distances and precautions involving the Mercury transit across the face of the Sun on Monday. Number 1, Do not look directly at the Sun. Mercury is too small to see with the naked eye, and will not blot out significant portions of the body […]

[We now stand at a crossroads of two huge currents of time; the end of the Age of Pisces and the beginning of Aquarius. 'The 8th Seal' is a work that closely examines the Biblical book of prophecy that spoke of these futuristic conditions, and what they might mean for us today. The events that […]

  Well, we’re back on the road again. Driving up and out of the Florida peninsula we crossed the Alabama border after midnight and pulled into the first rest area we came across on Route 231. It was the Alabama Welcome Center. No overnight parking. So, after taking an hour and a half nap, it […]

The Book of Revelation is a book of prophecy, but one that is so steeped in metaphor and imagery that it has remained for most people an enigma over the last two thousand years. Through the Spring of 1995 the WEB examined elements of that work week by week, pulling apart the pieces, and going […]

    The following is the contemporary natal map of Germany. While it illustrates many attributes of this nation’s heart and soul, what we are really interested in for this edition of our newsletter is the natal Moon, located at precisely the degree of our current eclipse. While falling at 18 degrees and fifty-nine minutes […]

Here’s your column for this fortnight. It’s short, simple and to the point. It mirrors my experience while living with an herbalist for fourteen years and being exposed to a number of conditions that green wisdom was able to both treat, and heal. This is a beautiful example of both the Full Moon and the […]

  Happy Chinese New Year 2016! Everything you need to know about the Year of the Monkey. This year, Chinese New Year – The Year of the Monkey – begins on February 8th and lasts until January 27th, 2017. Celebrations have started around the world – and now London is joining the festivities.       People […]

  The etymological record bears a particularly rich yield with regard to Chiron, who has come to be known as the wounded healer. While examining an arrow dipped in the gall or blood of the Hydra he accidentally dropped it on his knee or thigh. Chiro is related to a word meaning “hand”, from the Greek cheir. Chirography […]

On the 12th of October last year, we published a column entitled, “On the World Stage” and described Neptune squaring the US Ascendant/Descendant axis, an alignment that would occur three times. That copy was specifically commenting on the second of the three alignments, exact on September 28th, 2015. In that same series we also mentioned […]

Many of the characters of myth were shape-shifters. Besting them meant they would be forced to reveal hidden secrets about past or future. Menelaos wrestled with Proteus, an early god of the rivers and oceans until Proteus provided him with the information he sought. Heracles wrestled with Asclepion who kept changing his appearance in an effort to throw him […]

  Both Frederick Douglass and the island of Nantucket shared a common bond with one another. Each arose from an uncertain genesis, as neither was sure of their precise date of birth. Like the fog that often blankets this lonely island lying thirty miles out at sea, their origins were obscured beneath the damp grey […]

Many of us have been watching the skies of late, observing the Jupiter, Venus, Mars alignment among the stars of Leo last month. With the first two of these planets clocking in as the third and fourth brightest objects in the sky (after our two luminaries), it’s been a sight to behold for stargazers everywhere, seeing […]

The following is part of a series I ran back in 2010, but it’s as timeless as ever. These are two out of the five columns that were run as the Sun transited through Scorpio that year. It strikes to the heart of Scorpionic energy, but in a humorous fashion. Who says that learning can’t […]

  Earlier yesterday, Afghanistan experienced a strong 7.5 magnitude earthquake which shook this northeastern area and the countries surrounding it. Looking at the celestial map of this moment, one thing stands out, and that’s the number of inconjuncts at work at the time of the quake.       The lines running through the middle of […]

  On the 27th and 28th of September, we were watching as we had the Full Moon on the former, and Neptune squaring the US Ascendant on the latter. Certainly, here was an issue worthy of note, celestially speaking. What would it be? In a hard aspect, Neptune can deal with confusion, illusion, deception and […]

  There are many things going on out there in the world right now, some of them amazing and some terrifying. Recently a whole new dimension of measured stones were found about a mile from Stonehenge, migrants have been flooding Europe, and ISIS has been defying the World Order.       These are among the […]

This New Moon we’re looking at a column run by Deutsche Welle, in but one example of the changing vibration the Earth is facing as we move into the New Age. Few now doubt that the melting ice the world around is due to global warming, but I’d just like to throw a hat into […]

        On Sunday evening, September 6th at 5:45 PM EDT, Nantucket TV will begin to offer the WEBDailies to the local public. While these are the same series as has been made available on YouTube, they have been dressed up and made to look more professional. As an official resident of Nantucket, complete with […]

  There’s a powerful alignment coming up at the end of September that’s likely to knock the US on its heels. Retrograde Neptune will be squaring the US Ascendant/Descendant axis, stirring mud and sediment from the metaphorical ocean’s bottom, disturbing our visual clarity. There’s a storm a-brewin’. Let’s look at some examples. Because this is […]

   Our new venture into the Daily Planets. Carried on WMUA, WPOE and WRSI in western New England through the 70s and 80s, we now bring our venture to video, both on NCTV and YouTube.  It’s all for you, no matter what you do.   

        NASA’s New Horizons mission has answered one of the most basic questions about Pluto- its size.         Mission scientists have found Pluto to be 1,473 miles (2.370 kilometers) in diameter, somewhat larger than many prior estimates. Images acquired with the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) were used to […]

Torpedoed is a good Pluto word. At the turn of the year in two sequential editions, we discussed several upcoming alignments in the US national map, focusing mainly on the transiting Pluto triggering the national Sun Saturn square. In a column entitled ‘Putin’ it Mildly’, we talking about the implications of the upcoming alignment from […]

                 LIFE AND TRAINING OF AN ASTROLOGER*  Now you, whoever you are who try to read these books, since you have received the whole knowledge of this diving science and are not endowed with the secrets of the stars and have learned the first principles of the art, shape […]

                 GENESIS 24, 1-9  And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things. And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had.       “Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh: And I will […]

                STORM KING  Climate change is in the news every day, it’s drumbeat growing louder. It looms larger with each passing month, part of the New Age coming home to roost. We tune into stories warning us to stop emitting too much carbon dioxide, while not really understanding just […]

THE WATER BEARER  As we head into the Age of Aquarius, the characteristics of this vibration will be increasingly seen in contemporary media. AI, or artificial intelligence, is one major measure of this incoming tributary. Computers, laptops, iPhones, iPods. kindles are all part of an electronic wave coming at us, each requiring their own learning […]

Chimney Rock is itself over 535 million years old, and offers a 75-mile panoramic view of the surrounding landscape. It’s part of the San Juan National Forest and is surrounded by the Southern Ute Indian Reservation.  The Chaco culture that inhabited the Chimney Rock area centuries ago was hierarchical, with a priestly class overseeing the […]

November 23, 1842. June 7th, 2015. In our previous examination for this year for the United States, we focused on transiting Pluto setting off the natal Sun Saturn square in the US chart. These are strong alignments. The Sun is one of the ‘big three’ of Sun, Moon and Ascendant. Whenever any of these are […]

We have now completed our series of seven transiting Uranus Pluto squares, the first of which was on June 24th, 2012 and the last of which was this past Monday, March 16th, 2015. Naturally, these have impacted different folks in different ways. Under the first pass in 2012, Lisa and I headed out for a […]

The final attack in the battle of the Alamo commenced on the early morning of March 6th, 1836, although the conditions leading up to this moment had been building for years. Anglo settlers outnumbered Mexican settlers, but changes in the Mexican government had left these immigrants dissatisfied with the new administration and they decided to divorce […]

                 The Chinese Spring Festival, otherwise known in the West as the Chinese New Year, is the most important family festival of the entire calendar year. This is a special time, a magical time, when the traditions attempt to secure peace, prosperity and happiness for their people, bringing […]

                Well, WEBHeads, it’s time once again to tell the truth. In our December 21st edition of the Capricorn New Moon Mail in a section entitled ‘Putin it Mildly’, we discussed the historical precedent of how this energy manifested for General Washington at Valley Forge as the progressed […]

  The Music of the Spheres is an ancient concept, generally attributed by historians to Pythagoras. It is suspected by some, Plato among them, that musical traditions and even poetry were in fact derived from the Egyptians and had existed for at least the previous ten thousand years.   These compositions were considered to be […]

                In our last Moon Mail, we looked at the upcoming year and examined the transiting Pluto pass (opposition) to the US Sun. This week, we look at the other major alignment being triggered by the Dark Lord, and that is a square from transiting Pluto to the […]

  There is an alignment in the US natal chart that we have looked at before in our historical analysis, and its an important player in the overall scheme of things. Born on the 4th of July, 1776, the US catches an applying Solar square to Saturn, within about a degree. Pluto by transit is […]

                 The story of Genesis as found in the opening book of the Bible is a fairly familiar one to most folks. God floated on the Void, made all of Creation in six days, and then rested on the seventh. In Chapter One God makes Creation and Man, […]

      Sagittarians like to do things at a gallop. This is a FIRE sign that lives life at a spirited pace and with panache. They are enthusiastic, eager and active. At least for a while.   Because Sag is also a mutable sign, this can indicate fluctuating with the breeze and the social currents that go with it. […]

  The images are everywhere around us, growing stronger day by day. The changes will continue to grow, and the seeds will lay down their roots, eventually strengthening into stalks, and finally bursting forth into vibrant fresh green shoots. Aquarius is here. The seeds have been sown. You can see it if you know where to […]

                 Spreading our wings as we glide across the mythical landscape, distant wonders seem to drop into view. Ancient cultures from around the world address similar symbolic attributes, a ‘language’ that speaks across both time and space. One of the oldest of these (according to Robert Graves) goes […]

        My last scheduled appointment in New England was on a Friday with my son Andy at the High Horse in Amherst, the day after the presentation in Hartford. We had lunch together and parted on a positive note, and so the journey began. Along the way I stayed overnight with family […]

               I LIKE IKE  The wings of the Owl alighted briefly in Hartford this past week to give a presentation on US history as seen through stellar eyes. During the presentation, I was reminded of a lesson right out of Astro 101 on Libra, our sign of the month. […]

  The Ones are a group of energies that offer intuitive guidance through Peg Robbins, an old friend of mine. The following was the tale end to a series of issues, some of which we will share with you over the next few weeks. The Ones seem to look at the Earth and its inhabitants with a […]

  The conjunction is thought to be the most potent of all the celestial aspects, as two planets simply align with each other together in the sky. This week, a little over five hours after the New Moon, Mars conjuncts Saturn. It is the first alignment, planetary or lunar, following the New Moon. Mars and Saturn are […]

                 I have never let schooling interfere with my education. -Mark Twain It is my humble opinion that the Book of Revelation was written at a time when one epoch was morphing into another. The Classical Tradition gave way to a Christian ministry, together with all its later […]

               SUMMERTIME METEORS    On the late evening of July 28th and the early morning of July 29th, the Earth will experience the peak of the Delta Aquarids Meteor Shower. Best observable after midnight, the shower can produce up to 20 meteors per hour, space debris left behind by […]

    Astronomically speaking, we’ve had a very interesting parade of planets through the southern skies of late, highlighting these short night. Regulus, the heart of the Lion will be lost in the light of the fading Sun very shortly after sunset. Few may catch it. But moving east, Mars and Saturn are in the constellations Virgo […]

  In our last Moon Mail, we took a brief look at a few of the themes that Mark Raney, author of “Secrets of the Pueblo Universe” shared with us after years of investigation. Although many of the stellar constellations would look strange to western eyes (for instance, the stars we know of as Auriga, […]

Will be talking USA – History and Predictions and the ASC Astrological Society of Connecticut, Hartford. The ASC P.O. Box 402 Rocky Hill, CT 06067-0402 860.568.8617 The Astrological Society of Connecticut was founded October 17, 1972 in Hartford, Connecticut.  The ASC is one of the largest and most active local astrological organizations in the United States.  We […]

  Over this past weekend, Lisa and I journeyed out to Tempe, Arizona to attend the conference for the Society for Cultural Astronomy in the American Southwest, held on the campus of Arizona State University. It was a three day event, and offered a selection of various papers on different topics, most of them on […]

  In yet another weave of the WEB, we have found our symbolic center stepping forward into the light once again. While driving through the Southwest, Lisa and I have been studying the ways of the native tribes, the Zuni, Comanche, Navaho and Hopi. But most of our information on these contemporary Pueblo peoples comes from […]

STONEHENGE REVISITED LondonTelegraph By Edward Malnick 5:41PM BST 01 May 2014 “As the closest town to one of Britain’s most famous landmarks, it has long been left in the shadow of Stonehenge. But now it can now lay claim to its own place in the history books. “Amesbury, in Wiltshire, has been declared the oldest town […]

Over the last few Moon Mails, we’ve been taking a look at the Cardinal Grand Cross in an effort to better understand just what it might mean. Laying out the aspects a few weeks ago (and explaining just why the configuration can be so complex), we now have a partial review of what has transpired […]

Like stones placed along a path, so individual alignments help to contour the course of the incoming New Age. This is the week where we begin to see just how Time will craft a few of these colorful threads. Over the next ten days or so some of our millennial Spring Cleaning begins in earnest. This is the […]

  Keeping WEBHeads up with current celestial events, a couple of Moon Mail’s ago (March 1st), we took a look at all the celestial aspects coming up involving the Grand Cardinal Cross and its triggers to the US chart. As far as the outer planets are concerning, the principle aspect that we had in March […]

Keeping WEBHeads up with current celestial events, a couple of Moon Mail’s ago (March 1st), we took a look at all the celestial aspects coming up involving the Grand Cardinal Cross and its triggers to the US chart. As far as the outer planets are concerned, the principle aspect that we had in March was […]

Will be talking USA – History and Predictions and the ASC Astrological Society of Connecticut, Hartford. The ASC P.O. Box 402 Rocky Hill, CT 06067-0402 860.568.8617 The Astrological Society of Connecticut was founded October 17, 1972 in Hartford, Connecticut.  The ASC is one of the largest and most active local astrological organizations in the United States.  We are […]

This spring, we will witness the manifestation of the Grand Cardinal Cross in dramatic fashion. People hear this term being bandied about by astrologers, without really knowing what it means. Indeed, even the astrologers do not fully understand what it will mean, but in general there’s a powerful combination that is getting ready to be […]

Venus is considered to be the ruler of Taurus. During the time during which the Vernal Equinox was passing through the constellation Taurus, themes thought to be within the ‘realm’ of Venus come into more prominence, as her mythical qualities are ‘nourished’ by heaven above. We know a great deal about Egypt, in part because the […]

Those who have followed along the weaves of the WEB are aware of the historical dimensions of the alignments that have taken place as the Vernal Equinox (Spring) has aligned with the stars in the ‘Scroll’, the strand of thread, ribbon or fishing line that runs from Al Rischa (the knot) to Omega Piscium, the […]

     Mythology is a form of symbolic communication. This manner of connecting is very old and predates the phonetic script we use today. While hieroglyphics were thought of as part of a divine script or ‘God’s word’, it was held in high regard by various cultures before phonetic script, based on sound rather than images, began to […]

Ages come and Ages go. As each New Age washes overs us civilizations learn new lessons about life, new ways of being. Once an epoch has past, cultural memories begin to fade, preserved first by tradition before being lost beneath the sands of Time. The more one walks the mythic trail, the more it becomes […]

   Last edition we applied an old formula to a new genus of myths. The Kalevala is a compilation of recited verses that record the memories and beliefs of the ancestral Finnish people in song. It was an oral tradition in a truly magical world, for to them, all things, for good or for ill, were the […]

THE FINNISH EGG: FINNISH MYTH I In previous editions of the WEB, we have examined the mythical theme of being ‘Born of the Egg.’ It is a simple vision, that all Creation was Born of an Egg, deriving from a time when the Great Bird flew over the Cosmic Sea and laid the Universal Egg. […]

  Through the annals of the WEB, we have examined the relationship of Dragon to serpent many times, for there is much to be seen there. The name for the constellation ‘Draco’ is simply a Greek word for ‘snake’.  Since Draco was a snake that circled through the heavens night after night, without any of […]

November 23, 2013 10:30am – 5:00 pm Don Cerow’s planetarium show on the archetypal roots of zodiacal symbolism has been presented from California to Florida – from sea to shining sea! The symbol of the dragon is the vestige of a formerly world-wide system of encoded, or esoteric, knowledge found in the stars.   Whether […]

     This Moon Mail will need to be a quick one. Lisa and I are on the road, headed for Florida, where we will be presenting on the 7th and 23rd of this month. October left us feeling like a pin-ball wizards, bouncing from one book signing to the next all over New England. […]

  This is another reflection on a Cherokee myth, one that seems to tie together Uktena (our Dragon, Draco) with mountains, circular ceremonies, and a gem of great power for those who knew how to wield it.     If we follow the mythic clues being presented to us, an interesting pattern begins to emerge […]

      “Throughout legends around the world, power over the elemental forces of nature have been associated with the Dragon, especially in Chinese, Japanese and Malaysian cultures, but they are found in the West as well.” “Hercules must save a kingdom beset by a Dragon vomiting floods in one variation on a familiar story.” […]

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  We’ve been observing Lakota star tales recently, noting some of the many ways the People (what the Lakota call themselves) made use of stellar information. The stars were employed to tell when to plant and when to harvest, they suggested where the People should be geographically and when, and were used as an inspiration […]

   Over the last few weeks, we’ve been looking at the Lakota and listening to a few of their stellar stories. While there are differences between their theologies and those of western tradition, there are also similarities.  The naming of the Bear, flight of the Thunderbird, and sharing of the sisters (Pleiades) provide an initial […]

  The deeper one looks into the mythologies of indigenous peoples, the more one finds associations that link them to other traditions. We think of Ursa Major as the Great Bear, Big Dipper or the Wheel. Native Americans also called the seven principle stars of this constellation the Great Bear or Big Dipper. They tell […]

In our last Moon Mail, we began to take a look at some Lakota myths and found a number of interesting similarities. In our work When the Dragon Wore the Crown, we spend a considerable amount of time observing the Center and Circle in myths around the world. The Center, of course, was guarded by the constellation Draco, the flying […]