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…
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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 …
Doctor Who, British Identity and the Chiron Return
Are these the 12 faces of Chiron — or just a bunch of actors in funny clothes?If you want to get a handle on a certain well known asteroid/planetoid/…er… comet… er … thingie whizzing around between Saturn and Uranus right now, then you might d…
The Doctors Redux
In case you missed it last time, here is the link to Doctor Who astrology. Enjoy.
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…
Astrology of Now: What Shall I Do Without My Eurydice?
Well, Mercury has begun his long walk out of the Underworld. Today he is at 2° Scorpio — only another 28° to go.It’s was a powerful retrograde, as you might expect when the planet of mind goes through the sign of depth psychology. Of course, Mercury…
Venus in Capricorn: Beautiful Bones
Scarlett Johansson. Sun in Sag. Venus-Jupiter conjunction in CapVenus is a about money and love and beauty. Her natal placement tells us about all those things. It tells us about how we love, what we love and what makes us loveable. Venus is also about…