When I had my Vulture's wings taken by the Forest Service in Woodstock, NY last year, they put them into bags, and I was cited for a federal violation that I was not aware of. After I proved via writing an extensive letter sanctioned by a traditional Church explaining that I had obtained them in good faith as part of already-extant roadkill, had buried the rest of the body to the best of my ability, and had used them for spiritual worship purposes only, I was required to pay a $25 fine and a $75 surcharge.

Beloved readers, If you've been following my work, you may know that I published my first book, Quilless: An Astrological Journey of Poetry & Wordcraft, last year. It is a volume of 18 poetic works from the beginning of my poetry career combined with astrological delineations of the poems birth-charts, an experiment in genre fusion: imagistic poetry with astrological delineation, written in a way that is just as engaging for those who are new to astrology as for those who are experienced.

My heart is alight with a thousand orioles My heart is right today My heart is alight with a thousand orioles Because I've finally learned how to pray How to play how to pray how to play how to pray Because I've finally learned how to play. I've been foresaken I've been awakened I've been delayed I've been portrayed from my dreams over the sea but I reclaim Me I reclaim Me. I reclaim Me Because my heart is alight with a thousand orioles...

a Poem-Spell for the fall of oligarchs by James Cassidy

RECORD SUNSPOTS/SOLAR FLARES

RECORD SUNSPOTS/SOLAR FLARES "A solar flare last week was so big it disrupted radio transmissions on Earth. NASA said the burst of energy was the biggest flare of 2025 so far, and there could be more to come, with the sun at the most active point of its eleven year cycle. They warned: ‘Flares and solar eruptions can impact radio communications, electric power grids, navigation signals, and pose risks to spacecraft and astronauts.’ This latest flare on May 14 affected high frequency radio communications for ten minutes in the Middle East" (

Would you believe that although I published my book in September, I am only now really getting the chance to make videos about it and promote it? Truth be told, the process of getting it together was a tremendous challenge, as I did so while living quite literally in a borrowed “ultralight” hammock in one of the countries I traveled through on my two-year “walkabout” through some of Eurasia.

Any time spent with a beloved on this day is going to require creativity and “agreeing to disagree.” Not a day for soft, comforting romance, the astroweather shows instead that uncomfortable feelings may come up. In a truly conscious relationship, deep positive transformation can happen, but if there are elements of dysfunction or even lack of safety, this could make it easy for a lot of stress to play out.

It's hard to avoid the stream if anyone else in the vicinity is determined to watch it. So, I found myself watching and listening to the show on this very fine day. I found myself yelling at the TV, which is not a position I have found myself in often. It certainly is cathartic, on a surface level anyway. I was informed in conversation that Trump, Clinton, and W.