Attentive Reading by Gustave Jean Jacquet. (Wiki)First of all: thank you everyone for writing in with your brilliant book suggestions. Two big gaps in my library have already been filled. I have just finished Richard Idemon’s Through The Looking Glass …
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Astrology of Now: A World Turned Upside Down
Port Meadow, Oxford, yesterday, February 16I started to write this post in the middle of the Full Moon storm, so it’s slightly out of synch with the weather now – three days later. But I have left the words as they are because I think it works with the…
Creating Your Library: Astrology Books
The Green Dress. Elanor Colburn. “You must read this book,” said my friend G, handing me a skinny paperback. She was a full year older than me, an Aquarian, and at that age, a year really counted.Well, I haven’t seen G in decades, but that skinny …
Mercury Retrograde: Clearing Out The Attic
On the first day of the Mercury Retrograde, February 6, I found myself deep in my attic, surrounded by piles of junk: old bedsteads, mysterious boxes, a couple of boogie boards, a broken dollhouse even. I’ve been meaning to clear out the attic since la…
Woody Allen’s Pluto-Uranus Transit
Chart data is from astrodatabank.I can’t tell if Woody Allen is a child molester from looking at his astrological chart. No one can.But I can tell you that transiting Pluto-Venus is smack-dab on his North Node in Capricorn in the fifth house of childre…
Zeitgeist: Women in Power
The defence ministers of Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Germany.Here a picture truly does say a thousand words. You don’t need me to explain why it’s momentous.The photograph was taken on Saturday February 1 at around 3pm and on t…
Uranus Square Pluto Digest
Astrologer by Milo Winter (1919) from Aesop for Children.When Mercury, the planet of information, chooses to turn tail and go back over his own orbit, it’s time for reviewing a situation. We’re coming up to Mercury Rx across Pisces and Aquarius (…
RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Within a moment that distinctive, deep voice, rich in inflection, complex in character could take you away to another place or into another’s soul. No wonder Paul Thomas Anderson cast Philip Seymour Hoffman as the mellifluous, mesmerising guru in The M…
February Horoscopes
The main news in February is that Mercury, the messenger, will retrograde February 6-28. This is part of a cascade of retrogrades that began with Venus in December.It runs like this.December 21 – January 31 Venus Retrograde in CapricornFebruary 6 – 28 …
Astrology of Now: Vasilisa The Beautiful and Baba Yaga
Ivan Bilibin (1899).Vasilisa the Beautiful escaped from the child-eating witch of the deep, dark forest Baba Yaga, using one of the witch’s own torches, hand-crafted, as they might say on etsy, from a human skull.Baba Yaga, a drooling hag who terrorise…