Will we got to war with Syria? Why are we asking this kind of question again? Yes, we're being invited once more to endorse the state of perpetual war. I do my best to untangle this overwhelming situation. Mars is the leading planet, as you might expect. Along the way is the Virgo New Moon, exact Thursday morning EDT, bubbling with tension, passion and the sense of something about to happen. My musical guest today is Graveyard Lovers from New York City, with two songs from their new CD "Dreamers."

In tonight's special extended edition of Planet Waves FM, I play the full recording of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech and do the astrology of the speech and of Dr. King. I also look at the chart for the rumor of war with Syria, and I do the chart of the woman of the hour, Miley Cyrus. Our musical guest is the Boston-based rock string quartet Darlingside, who I met at Backstage Studio Productions (BSP) in Kingston, NY. Note -- Friday's member edition of Planet Waves will focus on BSP, and I'll soon have a special edition podcast about the place.

In tonight's edition of Planet Waves FM, I cover both the Aquarius Full Moon (exact Tuesday, Aug. 20 at 9:44 pm EDT) and the elusive theme of the Age of Aquarius. I do so with some help from the book Esoteric Astrology; I've provided a few quotes from that book, selected by Laurie Burnett (click on title above to get those). Our musical guest is the phenomenal Treetop Flyers, some boys out of England that I met at Backstage Studio Productions in Kingston. In the program I mention an article called You Are Who You Are, a Planet Waves member-area favorite that covers the precession of the equinoxes and the difference between the two zodiacs.

The Blue Studio Sessions are back. Begun last autumn, this series of recordings is about the honest discussion of sex. In tonight's edition, Diva Carla Sanders and I talk about how to have conversations about sex, whether about pregnancy, STIs, and figuring out what kind of sex is appropriate to the relationship or encounter that you're having. We talk about all the reasons not to have the conversation, how awkward it can be, and how to make it easier. Additional resources are inside.