by Robert Wilkinson Mercury goes direct at 5:54 am PDT on April 25 and will be in its shadow zone through May 13/14, after which it enters its next phase of moving through "unknown zones" where the themes of this ..read more

by Robert Wilkinson Mercury goes direct in motion at 5:54 am PDT on April 25 and speeds up for the next 10 weeks. This shows a quickening of the ability to coordinate, put things together, understand the whole and the ..read more

by Robert Wilkinson Every year on April 22, we celebrate Earth Day “to honor the Earth and the concept of peace.” From Wikipedia, Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First held on April 22, 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally by EarthDay.org (formerly Earth Day Network) including 1 billion people in more than 193 countries. The official theme for 2024 is Planet vs. Plastics. In 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco, peace activist John McConnell proposed a day to honor the Earth and the concept of p ..read more

by Robert Wilkinson This Full Moon brings a huge dose of concentrated spiritual energies into our lives as we release the impermanent and refocus our magnetism to that which is enduring, delightful, rewarding, and in line with our need to express our “mature independence.” Because Mercury is still retrograde, we’re still recalibrating, re-visioning, and getting a new angle on things. This Full Moon fulfills the Aries Total Solar Eclipse New Moon themes, which means we’ve begun a long term process of eliminating all which prevents us from joining with others to overcome a deficiency in some wa ..read more

by Robert Wilkinson Dusty would have been 85 on April 16, so we celebrate this awesome talent’s life and music with dancing courtesy of great videos of this legendary Diva! Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O’Brian, known to the world as Dusty Springfield (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999), was one of the greatest female soul voices ever to grace our planet. Icon of the 60s, Dusty’s look and voice, a peroxide blond bouffant hairdo in heavy makeup belting out soaring ballads, made her one of the greatest dramatic musical performers of all time. So today we remember and celebrate one of the best of ..read more

by Robert Wilkinson April 7 was the birthday of George Harrison’s sitar guru! We have lots of amazing video performances!! Born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, Ravi Shankar (7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) was an Indian musician and composer who played the sitar, and became globally known through his association with George Harrison, who introduced Ravi (and therefore Indian music) to the world on a scale never known before. His influence is incalculable, since before Ravi, there were no “exotic instruments” used in western pop music, and after Ravi, we’ve had a flood of music made incorporatin ..read more

by Robert Wilkinson Due to a lot of questions which came up related to the article Jupiter Conjunct Uranus at 22 Taurus – The Beginning of 13 Years of A New Day! I figured I’d do a second article and elaborate how it will operate in each house and if it conjuncts a planet in your chart. This is a 15 year focus in the house where you have 22 Taurus. It involves the innovative or unique expression of Jupiter in that life area. This is a fusion of the expansive principle with the revolutionizer who brings out our uniqueness and individuality. This begins an adventure in seeing and expressing som ..read more

by Robert Wilkinson We kick up our heels today into the night and boogie to the sound of a Texas original! If you don't know who this musical legend was, you're in for a real treat. He’s so good, we’re starting early! Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown (April 18, 1924 - September 10, 2005) was a pioneering blues musician. His unique style synthesized “old blues, country, jazz, Cajun music and R&B," and what came out was pioneering rock and roll and electric Texas blues. From wiki: “He was an acclaimed multi-instrumentalist, who played an array of musical instruments such as guitar, fiddle, mandol ..read more

by Robert Wilkinson Carl Perkins was one of the true originals! He was there at the beginning in “the club” with Elvis, Jerry Lee, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, and the rest of the Sun Records gang of wild men that made rock and roll history. We have rockabilly on the jukebox to celebrate his birthday! Carl Perkins (April 9, 1932 – January 19, 1998) started off in rockabilly, and gave us “Blue Suede Shoes,” “Matchbox,” “Honey Don’t,” “Boppin’ The Blues,” and “Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby,” along with a bundle of other immortal tunes. From Wikipedia, According to Charlie Daniels, "Carl Perkins ..read more

by Robert Wilkinson At this time, with Mars and Saturn in Pisces and Mercury and Venus in Aries, they are all clustered in the eastern sky around 5:40 am to 6 am. Here’s how they line up! Highest in the ..read more