Desert creature though the scorpion may be, Scorpio season isn’t known for its Sun rituals. Instead, we bum a light from the Scorpio Sun to kindle our jack-o-lanterns, our hearth fires, our altar votives. It’s a season where the membrane is said to thin between this plane and the next, where we’re closer than … Read more
Dear Reader, Thanks to modern technology, you and more people are reading the Watauga Democrat than ever before. Freedom of the press is essential for maintaining democracy: but a free press is not free. Mountain Times Publications’ 10 full-time journalists need significant resources to deliver credible, fact-based, and ethical journalism in the High Country. We … Read more
Welcome, Gemini season. Normally, as the sun skips, whirls, and flits through Gemini, it also nudges us to get brainy and flirty; to add crossword puzzles or Sudoku to the breakfast menu; to task-switch and super-task; to make coffee while ironing while arguing while feeding the cat while texting while assessing the contents of the fridge … Read more