Esoteric Astrology as news for week December 6 – 12, 2023

St. Nick, Hanukkah, New Moon, Two Marys & Mercury retrograde!   We have a week filled with multiple festivals, a saint’s day, a festival of light,...

The Coffee Table

Fast Food Judgement   I just read about a judge who, in an effort to make the punishment fit the crime, sentenced a woman to work...

HavingREELFun

This week we had beautiful sunshine but chilly winds. A good outfitter told me one time it’s never bad weather just bad clothing, so...

Esoteric Astrology as news for week December 13 – 19, 2023

A Mercury Retrograde Season!   Mercury retrograde begins Tuesday (December 12) night around midnight after the Sagittarius new moon. Mercury remains retrograde ‘til the first...

The Dirt on Nicky

Worms in winter A word about earthworms – wiggly. There are worms in most all non-glacial, non-ice-covered areas of Earth. Even in deserts. How did they...

HavingREELFun

The water in Swepco lake always stays around 70° all year long even in the dead of winter and that’s why a lot of...

The Coffee Table

No thanks required, but… Two days before Thanksgiving, I drove to Eureka Market to purchase ingredients for a “Thanksgrieving” meal at my home:  a gathering...

The Dirt on Nicky

Make sun while the hay shines But enough about hay… let’s go inside and visit the Schlumbergeras. One variety, Thanksgiving cactus, is blooming now and...

Esoteric Astrology as news for week Nov. 29 – Dec. 5 Advent

Sagittarius, Advent, the Work of the People with Right Human Relations We’re in Sag now, sign of food, music, the photographer, adventurer, philosopher, rider on...

The Dirt on Nicky

How to look through a seed catalog Way before Black Fridays, “Feliz Navidad,” or the Pickle Bowl, seed catalogs are arriving in gardeners’ mailboxes. ‘Tis...