In the wake of the Full Moon’s passage through Virgo in the 12th House of Undoing, the spirit of release permeates our lives this week. The motivation to clean house, […]
Inner Voices
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Story Time for ‘Locals’
Gather round for a genuine feeling of connection
You are three years old. You’ve just had a good dinner and some milk and cookies, brushed your teeth, been tucked into bed, and now Mom or Dad pulls up […]
IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK
Our House Was a Very Fine House
In a place of long memories, a house forgotten
Ken Fulk speaks of his loving restoration of the Vorse House in Provincetown — a house, he says, that “we couldn’t afford to lose.” I write of one that was […]
NAVIGATING BY THE STARS
Less Ego, More Bliss
A week to reconsider your approach to a life well-lived
The hard-boiled ego softens this week under the Sun’s conjunction with empathic Neptune in Pisces. A Virgo Full Moon in the 12th House of Endings and Intuition, ruled itself by […]
SKETCHBOOK
Great Horned Owl
‘Can you hear me?’ asks the great horned owl. We can.
In the deep January nights, when the light of the Wolf Moon falls like ringing iron through the trees, from Tom’s Hill and Cathedral Hill on either side of the […]
SUGGESTION BOX.
Suggestion Box by Mary DeAngelis
NAVIGATING BY THE STARS
Word to the Wise
Drink from your inner well of wisdom
The Sun illuminates psychic Neptune’s depths in intuitive Pisces while the Moon waxes poetic across sensual Taurus into expressive Gemini in the 9th House of Wisdom, ruled itself by Neptune. […]
the year-rounder
‘How Slight a Shelter’
What would Thoreau have made of 2020 Cape Cod?
Henry David Thoreau’s residency, starting in 1845, in a 10-by-15-foot shack next to Walden Pond for two years, two months, and two days is generally considered by scholars as a […]
Summer of '43
Little Joe Gould Arrives in Truro
A child’s life becomes less normal when a bohemian comes to town
little joe gould has lost his teeth and doesn’t know where to find them(and found a secondhand set which click)little gould used to amputate his appetite with bad brittle candy […]
Metaphysics
A Sense of Place
Taking care of internal business
Places that matter can help define us. For much of my life, the Outer Cape has molded a substantial piece of my inner being. My folks were renters, then residents […]
NAVIGATING BY THE STARS
Winter Retreat
A week to recast intentions
A winter retreat to warmer climes may be in the cards as the Sun, idling on the cusp of fun-loving Aquarius and escapist Pisces, shines in the 5th and […]
NAVIGATING BY THE STARS
Paper Hearts, Beware
A week for love’s beginnings and endings
Romantic shakeups — and even breakups — set the mood for Valentine’s week. The Sun shines in the 5th House of Love and Expression while lover Venus conjuncts healer Chiron […]
LOOKING BACKWARD
The Black Tiger: Lessons From the History of the Drug Trade
The laws of economics suggest that the cannabis bubble may burst
Edmund Burke, among others, warned that those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it. So a bit of history is in order in these times when many people […]
METAPHYSICS
The Short-Lived Loves of Local Squid
While males get distracted, females sneak in multiple mates
Squid appeared maybe 700 million years ago. They predate everything we think of as ancient — sharks, fish, and even trees. But they don’t predate sex. That invention happened about […]
SKETCHBOOK
East Harbor, North Truro
East Harbor, North Truro by Mark Adams
