If you really want to know what is going on in our country today, set down your New York Times and read and listen to Heather Cox Richardson . You can subscribe to her newsletters or watch her on her You Tube Channel .  I do both.  Richardson is a professor of American History at Boston College, with a focus on the Civil War, Reconstruction, the American West and Plains Indians.  I listened this morning to her Nov. 11, 2025 You Tube video about what is really going on with t

Patrick Leigh Fermor, an author and a WWII hero, was a classic Aquarius. He had  the  Sun in Aquarius, as well as Mars in Aquarius, conjunct Uranus. I came to learn about him by reading his book A Time of Gifts , which was enchanting. Fermor was born in London on Feb. 11, 1915,  during WWI. When he was almost one,  Patrick was left in England for his safety. His mother and sister went to India to join Patrick's father who was a geologist. Patrick spent the next four years wit

David Baltimore, one of the most consequential scientists of the 20th Century died at home on Saturday, Sept. 6th. Baltimore was a...

Paul McCartney and John Lennon met shortly after 4 pm on July 6, 1957. Lennon was 16, and Paul had just turned 15. John was playing in a...