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| I write a publication called The Herbst Newsletter (catchy title, huh?). In the '80s and '90s, my newsletters were snail-mailed quarterly to my friends and clients. Since 2002, they've been sent out to subscribers via email on a monthly basis (roughly about ten times a year, since I usually take two months off from the pressures of writing commentaries with deadlines).  Most of my newsletter commentaries since 2002 have focused on Civilizational Astrology, specifically the unprecedented Uranus-Pluto alignment that spans 2007-2022. This period is arguably the deepest, most profound crisis ever faced by collective humanity. I have written about various dimensions of symbolic meaning that will shape the decade of the 2010s, from the history of past Uranus-Pluto alignments in the 1930s and 1960s, to future alignments later in this century. Newsletters are archived here on the site after being emailed to subscribers, along with other essays, both new and old. Much of what I've written in the past seems to be aging nicely and holding up well, but you get to be the final judge of that. |
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To UNSUBSCRIBE from the newsletter, click here to send me an unsubscribe email. (Be sure to send that request from the same email address you originally used to subscribe, or type your subscriber email address into the body of the text.) The page All Newsletters and Essays contains the complete index for nearly 100 of my articles and essays that are free to read or download. The 40+ commentaries in what I call the Uranus-Pluto Series comprise together a panoramic view of the amazing times in which we live.
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Below is a sample excerpt from my Spring 1996 newsletter to whet your appetite. I don't know if someone can be both a diehard idealist and a cynical curmudgeon at the same time, but that does seems to be where I live…
"Are Astrological Sessions Really Helpful?"
Basic marketing strategy in Con Man Capitalism 101 involves convincing potential customers that services or products are not merely valuable, but so preeminently essential to their well-being, happiness, or comfort that they can't afford not to buy them. Like the carrot in front of the donkey, the wormed hook to entice the fish, we poor "consumers" suffer a deluge of lies, hype, and posturing in marketing and advertising, all aimed directly at our greatest vulnerability — our fantasies.
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