Author: Christina

Astrology of Now: Solstice

Yuli Yulievich Klever — Winter AfternoonIt’s just after four in the afternoon and night already. Daylight went in a blinking here in the deep of theyear.Tomorrow the Sun moves into Capricorn, Saturn’s sign; the sign of responsibility, of the fath…

Movies: Gravity

Gravity opens with the longest, loveliest view of our pearlescent planet, so large and luminous — and behind it black space. The Earth is our home, our heart, our mother — but what happens when we cut the cord that ties us to her?(Spoiler alert. Pret…

Venus in Art: Frida Kahlo

Two Fridas (1939)Frida Kahlo’s paintings have become so much part of popular culture that it is possible to forget just how great they are. Her Venus is in Gemini, the sign of the storyteller, and it is closely conjunct Pluto, the planet of transformat…

Venus in Art: Rivera and Freud

Dona Elena Flores de Carrillo by Diego Rivera. (1952)The Mexican muralist Diego Rivera was born on December 8, 1886.The British painter Lucian Freud was born on December 8, 1922.The sign of Sagittarius – half-man, half-beast. Centaurs were notorious …

Nelson Mandela: "I Am Prepared To Die"

“…[The ANC struggle] is a struggle of the African people, inspired by their own suffering and their own experience. It is a struggle for the right to live.During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fough…

December Horoscopes

James Stewart in It’s A Wonderful Life.The message this December is do your stuff before the 21st or so and then don your flak jacket and your helmet and take cover until January. Of course it’s not going to be that dramatic for everyone, but it would …

Dream Incubation

Hygeia by Gustav KlimtImagine that you are a citizen of Ephesus. The time is just over a two thousand years ago. You’re rather well off and everything in your life is just super — except that you get these terrible headaches every now and then. So you…

Astrology of Now: La Belle et La Bete

Walter Crane imagined the beast as a boar.Once upon a time, in a country rather like this one, not very long ago, lived a young woman called Belle…Anne Anderson imagined a sort of beaky beastThe first written version of Beauty and the Beast come…