The Sky Is Meaningful
Christianity rejects fatalism, divination, and attempts to control the future; however, does that mean the heavens can bear no meaning at all? A Christian astrologer reflects on freedom, providence, symbolism, and what it might mean to read the sky without surrendering faith.
A wounded willow sapling became my first lesson in guilt, ritual, and the mysterious power of sacred attention. This childhood memoir recalls a very young boy, a damaged tree, and the first strange intuition that words, gesture, remorse, and love might somehow participate in the healing of what has been harmed.
As astrologers gather in Chicago for UAC 2026, one of the most consequential conversations surrounds a speaker who will not be there. What began with Steven Forrest’s use of a racial slur has become something larger: a reckoning over race, accountability, professional power—and a community increasingly divided over what justice should look like.