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 …
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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…
Ukraine: History Is A Process
Stamps depicting traditional Ukrainian headresses. Every woman is a queen. Ukraine has Venus in Leo/Moon in Aquarius.Is Ukraine destined to be a free democracy and part of Europe or a Russian vassal state?That is what people are protesting about on the…
Falling Into The Mirror
Narcissus (detail) John William Waterhouse.When the hunter Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection, he was looking into a pool of water. Self-love is so much easier these days: we have mirrors.Even 200 years ago, if you were an ordinary per…
Carlos Santana and that Old Black Magic
It’s not many people who have their own typeface, but then Carlos Santana has Sun in the third house. This is his latest album.Here’s a fun one.Carlos Santana, the shimmeringly brilliant guitarist who periodically gets rediscovered by new generations, …
Ariel Sharon: Simultaneously Complex And Simple
Ariel Sharon aged 19wikimedia commonsAriel Sharon lived a life of mythological proportions. Villain, hero, warrior; farmer, politican, bully; killer, peacemaker; and in every role “the bulldozer”. And those were just his public faces.So how come …
Love Conquers War: Mars in Libra
Mars and Venus by Sandro Botticelli (c.1483)The god of war –- naked, defenceless, vulnerable – sleeps with his mouth half open, exhausted by lovemaking (we suppose), while Venus, the goddess of love, with not a hair out of place, fully clothed, reg…
Floods, I Ching and the Return of the Isle of Glastonbury
Port Meadow, Oxford this morning. The water level is still rising.First rain and snow, then floods. The old gods.Thousands of years ago, we’d have thrown iron into the water to propitiate them, or maybe sacrificed a white bull. Today we gaze …
January Horoscopes
Benozzo Gozzoli’s Procession of the Magi to Bethlehem. This panel shows Caspar, the youngest Magus, on a white horseHappy New Year!2014 promises to be another extraordinary year. We are half-way through the world changing square between Uranus, the pla…
Astrology of Now: Welcome Savage, Rebel –– Stranger
Eurasian shaman, early 20th century from a Russian ethnographic collection.”Sometimes a wild god comes to the table.He is awkward and does not know the waysOf porcelain, of fork and mustard and silver.His voice makes vinegar from wine.”When the wild go…