Author: Eric D. Linter

After a very long winter and a chilly spring marred by an unprecedented assault on the cherished Boston Marathon, this summer is the time for New Englanders to relax their shoulders and let their hair down...

"No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities." — Joseph Campbell

As winter's cold settles across New England, overhead the stars portend change. The precarious state of many governments, institutions, corporations and households confirms life is indeed a delicate proposition.

As loyal readers of this column know, nations as well as individuals — anything with a beginning birth time and place — have horoscopes.

The old year is ending, its daylight hours dwindling until the winter solstice, when once again the life-affirming...

"There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for the spring."

During the nearly four decades that I have been studying and interpreting the secret meanings written in the stars...

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." — Abraham Lincoln, a Sun sign Pisces (February 12, 1809-April 15, 1865)

“A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world.” — Kahlil Gibran

As I sit here writing about the springtime stars, temperatures are hovering in the single digits.