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.

This week's edition covers some themes associated with Mercury in Leo opposite Juno in Aquarius -- in particular, questioning our presumptions about relationships, jealousy and possessiveness. Juno in Aquarius represents intense social pressures to conform to cultural relationship norms. Mercury in Leo represents the desire to be an alive individual with your own ideas. I also take a look at the Stop-and-Frisk decision. Our musical guest is Bujak, the music and dance ensemble created by Jeff Bujak featuring Jen Dulong.

I've recorded a free preview of your Leo birthday reading, giving some highlights from your relationship-oriented charts of 2013-14. In this 15 minute introduction, I also cover some of my working techniques and how I get a full reading out of a chart cast for a major event around the time of your birthday, in particular, the Leo New Moon. Two asteroids factor prominently into your charts this year -- Juno, which addresses relationships and our ideas about them, and Vesta, who is about tending the inner creative flame. The reading is $29.95 for two half-hour sessions of astrology and a tarot reading. It's available for instant access and includes last year's reading as well.