Saturn in Pisces, ‘full of mercy’, has closed the Blue Cafe. Rea stubbed out his last cigarette, stood up without hurry, and said quietly to himself, “That’s enough.” There was no drama. No tears in front of an audience. The only thing that lingered was something indefinable, emerging somehow out of nowhere. When Henry Yates, the journalist who writes for magazines like NME, Metal Hammer, Louder, arrived at the house where Chris Rea lived, he says it took a couple of seconds to remind himself who he was standing in front of—an icon who sold millions, not just an…
In the Year of the Snake, we got drunk on poison – 2025. A REVIEW through the telescope of Alan Watts
When I say “we got drunk on poison,” I don’t mean only the alcohol—though there was plenty of that. Even those who never touch a drop drank deeply. I’m not talking about the smoke we inhaled beyond our usual limits, nor the venomous words we sometimes hurled at one another. I mean the people who turned us poisonous toward ourselves. Because poison is also medicine. Without them—just as they are—we would never have moved forward toward individuation, toward integrating the shadow. Yes, this was the year of the SHADOW: it emerged, shattered silences, tore through the veils beneath which it…
New Moon at the Galactic Center – December 19, 2025.
Tomorrow the New Moon in Sagittarius falls precisely at the Galactic Center. The place where all laws cease to apply. Truths bend like spoons in The Matrix, and the black hole swallows everything without mercy. It might even burp at the Moon’s unfulfilled dreams and feel a little queasy from that Sagittarian naïveté that “everything will be fine in the end.” From the black hole’s perspective, it’s practically a crime to be so uninformed—to sleep through the void, or stuff it full at any cost, gorging on cakes, stealing kids’ gummy bears, drowning in alcohol, convincing yourself you’re not alone…