There will be dazzle, and there will be sparks – and some of that will relate to questions that are hanging in the air – questions about why Putin has just arrived in China for a state visit so soon after Trump’s departure; questions about the standoff between the US and Iran, and the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz; Read the full article…

Way back in early May of 1945, the world was feeling jubilant. Wars were coming to an end, armistices were being signed, and people were able to breathe again after so many years of extreme turbulence. And as this current trecena begins, many people will be remembering – and commemorating – all that, and wondering how long they will have Read the full article…

Spring is sproinging – and the “renewal of life” energy of Eb’ can be seen in abundance as Mother Nature signals that it is time for buds to open and new life to venture forth. Although the Eb’ trecena does not always coincide with spring, it is doing so this year, which ties in well with this “awakening” of the Read the full article…

One of the most interesting things about the Maya calendar is its ability to offer glimpses into the cyclical nature of events. Its energies serve as markers that can help us to comprehend the nature of the forces that affect us, observe how things evolve, and acquire awareness of significant beginnings and endings. Two cycles ago, in November 2024, this Read the full article…

On the heels of an extraordinary day in world history, when millions took to the streets across the US and in many other countries around the world to call for an end to the Trump presidency, and tens of thousands of people gathered in London to march against the far right in the biggest multicultural demonstration in UK history, this Read the full article…

Can you feel it? Can you feel the forces that are poised to make their presence known? Do you have the sense that everything is about to burst open? Indeed the season is changing and this trecena – oriented around personal authority – will be bringing self-determined change on multiple levels. In some places this will be heralded in vibrant, Read the full article…

A Blood Moon lunar eclipse in the wake of a rare planentary parade and a rare Saturn-Neptune conjunction at 0° Aries, as we move into a “Full Sun” period in the Maya calendar that has the potential to shed considerable light on things that previously have been hidden. One thing is certain as we go through this period – things Read the full article…

Are you feeling it yet? That sense of recalibration, that strengthening of resolve, that assurance (as former US President Obama said the other day) that “We’re going to get through this.” It really began one cycle ago – last June – when millions of Americans said “No! We are not having it – No Kings in America!” as they pushed Read the full article…

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . . . it was the epoch of incredulity”. When Charle Dickens penned those words in the 19th century he never could have imagined the incredulous nature of these times. And in many ways, that huge dichotomy between “best” and “worst” will be playing out vividly within Read the full article…

For the past few days Vancouver and its environs has been covered by an inordinately dense, clingy, chilly kind of fog, which one news source even described as “kind of apocalyptic” as it has been so thick that its “near zero visibility” at times has made any kind of travel quite challenging. And as much as this is a weather Read the full article…