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The Experiment of Literate Horoscopes
Dear Friend and Reader:
Horoscopes are supposed to be the tawdry, downmarket dregs of astrology, laughed at by proper astrologers and also by people who think they understand science. Traditionally stuffed in the back of newspapers next to Jumble and Family Circus, the only time a sensible person reads them is to find out why they are having a bad day.
But good writing is good writing, wherever you find it — which happens to be not so many places.
Nearly all Planet Waves subscribers pay just to read my horoscopes. I am the only writer who can actually charge money for a horoscope rather than give it away free to sell some other thing. It’s not the “loss leader.” It’s the core of my business.
Over the years, I’ve been told many times that, “I don’t like astrology but I love your writing.” Any written form can be creative; The Onion started as an ad sheet and the articles were something to put between pizza and chicken wing ads. The hamburger started as a thing that cost five cents and came with three pickle slices, and is now considered a gourmet meal.
An Astrological Diary
My horoscope is a kind of astrological diary that provides a viewpoint for you to consider. I’ve maintained this for 30 years running — my anniversary is May 1.
I strive to offer ideas rather than advice. Working in whole thoughts, I consider the different ways you may approach the factors in your environment. My astrology is based on real charts (often cast with 50 planets and points), as well as integrating wisdom from A Course in Miracles, Gestalt Therapy and Tantra.
I present the result in my distinctive voice, speaking to you and not “people like you.” I view one’s “sign” as a meeting place (and Planet Waves is applicable to Sun, Moon and Rising sign, or whatever you prefer). I show up, and you can show up, and read a coherent, continuing journal of philosophy in realtime.
These entries are designed to avoid reader dependency. I also have no taste for the habit of some horoscope writers, which is throwing in a bad week or a bad day every now and then just to show how balanced you are.
I look at the aspect pattern as a puzzle to be solved with the best outcome for everyone concerned — with emphasis on you.
Writing the horoscope is a serious commitment: I produce about 100,000 words a year of just weekly and monthly columns.
Synergy of Astrology, Personal Evolution and News Coverage
Planet Waves horoscopes are accompanied by my weekly articles and the Starcast podcast, and the Planet Waves TV series, which are a synergy of astrology, personal evolution and study of the news.
All of my work comes with my photography or my curation of the work of other artists. Overall, I want everything to be beautiful.
As a devoted student of the impact and influence of digital media, I confront the greatest spiritual crisis of our times — a nearly invisible crisis of meaning, self-worth and cultural chaos that I do my best to address every time I speak or write.
I believe that small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the power to invoke a higher order, which can be seen through the astrology if you know what to look for.
There are two ways to subscribe — via this Substack, or three options direct from Planet Waves. I offer many reading options at the Astrology Boutique.
With love,
Your faithful astrologer,
Here is how I got into the work.
Aries Sun + Rising (Scroll down for other signs.)
Neptune entering your sign a few days ago may not bring any sense of resolution to your current state of mystery, though you might find the many unknowns of your life easier to live with. There are always plenty of those, though sometimes more obvious and sometimes less. What you’re living with is not some general state of not knowing, but rather a specific state of intense expectation of what is coming — and coming soon. We might more accurately say what is arriving, which you have never experienced before. Perhaps if you were conscious in the early 1970s there was a little something similar, though that was a very different place and time. And it was nothing in comparison to current developments — particularly given the ominous nature of life here at the bottom of the digital ocean. What I am saying is that the intensity and pressure of your astrology is ramping up fast, all at a time when humanity has been shocked out of its collective body into total chaos. This is a special time for you. Pay attention.
Aries Astrology Studio has been published, preview below:
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Two previews for each sign are here — just tap!
The 2025 spring reading is done. These are 50-minute readings that calmly explore our current astrological wilderness. I wanted to have your reading ready well in advance so you have time to work with the ideas I’m seeing in the astrology. We’re getting a lot of action all at once; I read the charts thoughtfully, in plain talk, in slow motion — so you can really get the feeling of these events and put them to maximum benefit. Note, it’s alternately called For the Faithful, Reckoning and the Spring Reading…you can choose your favorite name and color.
Weekly Horoscope for April 3 by Eric Francis
Reckoning for Aries has been published, preview below. Note, more previews are on our YouTube channel.
ARIES Sun + Rising. Note, more previews are on our YouTube channel.
Neptune entering your sign a few days ago may not bring any sense of resolution to your current state of mystery, though you might find the many unknowns of your life easier to live with. There are always plenty of those, though sometimes more obvious and sometimes less. What you’re living with is not some general state of not knowing, but rather a specific state of intense expectation of what is coming — and coming soon. We might more accurately say what is arriving, which you have never experienced before. Perhaps if you were conscious in the early 1970s there was a little something similar, though that was a very different place and time. And it was nothing in comparison to current developments — particularly given the ominous nature of life here at the bottom of the digital ocean. What I am saying is that the intensity and pressure of your astrology is ramping up fast, all at a time when humanity has been shocked out of its collective body into total chaos. This is a special time for you. Pay attention.
Reckoning for Taurus has been published, preview below. Note, more previews are on our YouTube channel.
TAURUS Sun + Rising
The story of your charts is of the quest for yourself. Imagine that earlier in life, you had a different personality, but somehow forgot who you were. Pretend you woke up one morning and knew, at least, that you had another existence in this body and yet cannot remember it, as if your memory was wiped out. You had enough information and remnants of your previous life to know you were once someone else. Then imagine you go on a conscious quest for that person — to connect with that person, and to make peace with them. That is what your charts are about now; that is the scenario they describe. You may be dimly aware of your growing need to rediscover someone you actually were, and slowly the lights are going to come on. But if you’re having little recollections and getting visions and fragments in your dreams, you’re not making things up.
Reckoning for Gemini has been published, preview below. Note, more previews are on our YouTube channel.
