In tonight's edition of Planet Waves FM, I survey the world as we approach Monday's total solar eclipse. However, we also travel back in time to August 1999, when a comparable event was approaching: the infamous grand cross total solar eclipse of Aug. 11 that year.

Tonight's Planet Waves FM visits the astrology between the eclipses, which includes Mercury stationing retrograde, many aspects involving asteroid goddesses (especially Mercury conjunct Vesta). We visit the Slutty Sunday party at Oasis in midtown Manhattan, and hear from The Doors — B-sides from LA Woman.

Today's edition of Planet Waves FM takes you on a tour of the world, beginning with the question: how often do you freak out? Then we look at eclipses both lunar and solar, considering the implications thereof. Today would also have been Jerry Garcia's 75th birthday, and commemorating that I have a musically rich program.

First, thank you to my listeners and readers for providing the funding we need to tell the world about The Gemstone File in a professionally distributed press release going out soon. We will send a copy to this list once it's ready for distribution. Your contributions make Planet Waves FM and The Gemstone File possible. Today's edition takes us one step closer to the total solar eclipse of Aug. 21. I look at the Sun and Mars in Leo, and consider this past Sunday's first of two Leo New Moons. Music is by Talking Heads.

Tonight's is an unusual edition of Planet Waves FM, mostly covering something called The Gemstone File. This is a soon-to-be-released collection of documents, dating from about 1930 to 2017, related to scientific fraud.

Madness is unfolding by the hour with the Trump campaign/administration's ties to Russia coming out into the open. We now know that campaign chairman Paul Manafort, Donald Trump Jr., and the kid whose name I forgot — Jared Kushner — all met with a representative of the Kremlin to talk about dirt on Hillary Clinton. Yet watching this slow-motion train wreck does not help us heal the world. The chaos that's leading to it is coming from somewhere, or something, and in tonight's edition, I try to get at just what that something is.

Today's edition of Planet Waves FM features a rare interview with don Oscar Miro-Quesada Solevo, a Peruvian medicine man. My conversation with Don Oscar covers three topics: the total solar eclipse of Aug. 21, 2017; the internet; and the nature and meaning of sex.

In tonight's Planet Waves FM I have an interview with Melanie Reinhart, author of Chiron and the Healing Journey. This is really the latest installment of a conversation that's been going on for about 19 years, by phone, on Skype, at conferences and by email. The interview begins about one hour and 40 minutes into the show, and lasts a little more than an hour.

Tonight, for solstice eve, I have a special edition of Planet Waves FM for you. Sometimes it seems like the most sensitive men, who respect and appreciate women the most, have been the most damaged by feminism. That's the topic I focus in an interview with Kasia Urbaniak, former 17-year dominatrix, nearly-ordained Daoist nun, and currently headmistress of The Academy, a training school for women located in New York City. My musical guest is Alan Parsons, the engineer behind The Beatles and Pink Floyd, who emerged as a first-rate artist in his own right.

Today is a full-strength bangin' Gemini edition, featuring music by performance artist Laurie Anderson and a guest appearance by Weegee Fellig, one of the inventors of photojournalism (view chart below). And, of course, lots of astrology.