Photo by Lanvi Nguyen. Thank you for sponsoring Planet Waves FM In this week’s edition, I look at two timeframes of astrology: the Cancer Solstice cluster of events happening now, and the winter solstice cluster of events around Dec. 21. I continue my discussion of what kind of world we want. In science news, we look at the Surgisphere scandal, involving a company selling fraudulent data, which scientists used in major studies on Covid (published in the The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine in May 2020).

  Photo by Lanvi Nguyen. Thank you for sponsoring Planet Waves FM The new Planet Waves FM is ready. This week’s theme is The Nature of the Beast: for example, how it is that police are beating on people who are protesting against police brutality, as if to prove their point for them. For this discussion, I am grateful to my American Studies professor and mentor at SUNY Buffalo, Mike Frisch.

  Photo by Lanvi Nguyen Thank you for sponsoring Planet Waves FM Here are the time markers: the first segment is intro and astrology; the second segment, beginning at 49 minutes, is on Covid, where I cover two of the top non-issues. Then the third segment beginning at 1:32 is the Laurie Buchanan interview; and finally the fourth segment is Vesta Studio and begins at 2:45. This week I focus on the fear issues surrounding the seeming pandemic and its aftermath, and how to manage our own inner responses. My guest is a psychotherapist named Laurie Buchanan, who helps…

  Attempted social distancing or virus barrier at the Kingston Farmer’s Market on Saturday, May 23. Thank you for sponsoring Planet Waves FM In tonight’s program — the longest ever — I look into the psychology of why people resist considering ideas about environmental issues. I talk about getting out of the desperate, conflicted and authority-driven paradigm of health and wellness, and into a more autonomous model of self-care. In the second segment beginning at about one hour and four minutes, I explore the astrology of our moment, featuring Gemini galore, Vesta, Venus retrograde and Mercury. In the third…