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August 9, 2016

Dear Hillary: Get Over Yourself!

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In tonight’s edition of Planet Waves FM, I read the natal and progressed charts of Hillary Rodham Clinton. I cover the current astrology, including a solid introduction to Chiron, on the way to describing the Jupiter-Chiron opposition that happens later this week (and is in full effect right now). My musical guest is Jerry Garcia, who died 21 years ago today (his 74th birthday would have been Aug. 1).

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August 2, 2016

Donald Trump, Our Spiritual Teacher

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Tonight’s program leads up to a discussion of Donald Trump as the embodiment of the Kali archetype. Yes, he’s a half-baked, weak and tweaky version of Kali, but no less attempting (and potentially succeeding at) embodying the destructive force of the cosmos. Many spiritual traditions have documented this phenomenon, from Hinduism to Tantra to the work of Carlos Castaneda. My musical guest is Kate Bush.

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July 26, 2016
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Robert Schmidt Discusses the Inventor of Western Astrology

Use this link if you’re listening on an iOS or mobile device. Tonight we have something that’s got a touch of history to it: an interview with Robert Schmidt of Project Hindsight, who last week announced that he had discovered the inventor of Greek astrology, which means Western astrology. Robert Schmidt in 2006 at the Baltimore NCGR convention. File photo. From its beginnings in 1993, Project Hindsight tasked itself with the translation of ancient astrological texts, so that astrologers would have them to use and learn from. Up to that point, the translations were nonexistent or poorly done, and the origins of Western astrology were hazy. Eventually, as his collaborators Robert Hand and Robert Zoller went in their own directions, Hindsight under Schmidt’s leadership stuck exclusively to Greek astrology, starting with documents from the 4th century BCE. Those include something called the Thema Mundi, which we discuss in the interview. Images of that have been added below. Through extensive reading and translation of the literature, Schmidt deduced that there were both founders and a founding era, and his research all points to a Greek mathematician and astronomer named Eudoxus of Cnidus (c. 390–c. 337 BCE) as the leading founder. The original Thema Mundi, by Eudoxus of Cnidus. This addresses the domicile rulers (sign rulers) of the first seven signs. The additional sign rulers are implied; they are left out of the document. Here is an expanded Thema Mundi per Robert Schmidt, with the additional domicile rulers in red. The exaltations of the planets, by sign, are in green. The joys of the planets, which apply to houses, not to signs, are in blue.

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July 26, 2016

The Astrology of August, and Why I Got Out of Politics

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In tonight's edition of Planet Waves FM, I look at the current astrology -- Ceres in Taurus and Vesta in Cancer; and then open up the astrology of August, covering the Mars ingress into Sagittarius, Mars conjunct Saturn, the Leo New Moon and Jupiter opposite Chiron. This is a juicy astrology discussion, with lots about Ceres, Vesta and Chiron. I then talk about why I got out of politics as a full-time vocation in the spring of 1986.

Don't miss my exclusive interview with Robert Schmidt, of Project Hindsight, over on our main website.

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