Today is May Day, an ancient Spring festival. May Day, always under the sustaining light of Taurus, is the Celtic (Gaelic) festival...
The announcement came out on April Fools’, and I laughed. P.J. GrubeSanta Cruz | Real Estate Broker
I think Santa Cruz is still a bit of a beach town, and that means you have to commute to work, unless...
Lunar and solar eclipses follow one another. Lunar eclipses occur at full moons, and solar eclipses at new moons. Two weeks ago...
I’m trying to commute more on my bike and buy less stuff. Kris AyerSanta Cruz | Nurse/Midwife
Following Holy Week (passion, death and burial of the Pisces World Teacher) and Easter Sunday (Resurrection Festival), from April 19 to the...
What I’m concerned about right now is water. I don’t know how that’s going to be resolved as far as the...
Sunday is Palm Sunday. Symbolizing victory and triumph, paradise, sacrifice and martyrdom, the Pisces World Teacher entered Jerusalem (City of Peace) on...
Sun squares Pluto Thursday, 2:22 a.m. West Coast time. A challenging and potent transit for the day. Transformative. Summoning Persephone from the...
I feel like it would ruin the small old-town feeling of Santa Cruz. It wouldn’t be the same Surf City kind of...
There’s nothing like getting “a sign” to write a memoir about your Polish family’s mindbending tale surviving Stalin’s mass deportations of the...
My favorite street performer goes back a few years, when I first moved to Santa Cruz, it’s Tom Scribner. And a relative...
In celebration of the new film Cesar Chavez, a biopic of the famed civil rights leader and farm labor organizer by actor-turned-director...
Last week, Sun entering Aries, the new spiritual year began. Archangel Raphael assumed protection of the Earth. Raphael is the Archangel of...
The Santa Cruz journalism scene would not have been as contentious, creative, or subversive in the 1970s and ‘80s without Buz Bezore....
My mother (96) died last week, 10:30 a.m., Thursday, March 13, 2014. For the past nine months I never left her. I...
I would pick Tom Davis. He is the owner of the climbing gym, Pacific Edge, and I find his climbing accomplishments and...
Sunday is the Full moon Pisces Solar Festival (26 degrees) and Purim, the Jewish Festival of Queen Esther who saved the temple...
How the situation in Ukraine is going to resolve itself. Patrick Wilkinson Santa Cruz | Retired Teacher
Jupiter is in the astrological news this week. Thursday Jupiter in Cancer ends a five-month retrograde (since November 2013). Jupiter is the...
Well I finally saw a doctor after 35 years. And, I’m healthy. Larry Smith Felton | Unemployed
Citing a record dry 2013 and a current snowpack that is 20 percent of normal, Gov. Brown has declared an official State...
Friday morning (Feb. 28) Mercury in Aquarius turns stationary direct. Until Marsh 21 we remain under the shadow of Mercury retrograde. If...
Matthew McConaughey for Dallas Buyers Club. I never appreciated his work before but I found him very credible and just enjoyed the...
We are now under the influence and light of Pisces—the Light that saves the world, sign of World Saviors. Pisces is the...
Well, I’ve always felt pretty safe in Santa Cruz, and although that was a shattering experience for our community, I still feel...
Friday is Valentine’s Day, a full moon in dramatic Leo (Aquarius solar festival) and Chinese Lantern Festival. A creative multi-festival celebration—full moon...
Brent Adams, a local homeless advocate and champion of the Santa Cruz Sanctuary Camp housing concept, recently returned home from a multi-state...
Walking West Cliff at sunset. Tanya MansfieldSanta Cruz | Spa Therapist
Thursday, Feb. 6, Mercury makes its first 2014 retrograde (from 3 Pisces to 18 Aquarius). We’re familiar with generalized guidelines for Mercury...