Singing the cheerful refrain, “Holy shit, shit, God’s shit”, while parodying prayer in the sanctum of one of Russia’s most revered cathedrals, the feminist punk band Pussy Riot, managed to get right up the noses of the Russian establishment on February…
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Ancient Symbols of Power
The four gospels surround the lamb of god.When a medieval craftsman lovingly carved a representation of the four gospels for the cover of this book, he was using symbols that had been sacred for thousands of years before the birth of Christ.The four go…
Local Astrology Events
This is Merton actually, but you get the pictureMy local astrology group has invited some excellent speakers to Oxford this year. Last Wednesday Barry Goddard of Astrotabletalk spoke to the group about Pluto. It was a pretty stimulating evening, much f…
Astrologer Wins Top Literary Prize
Oh how we love Eleanor Catton, winner of this year’s Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Her massive historical novel The Luminaries boggled the judges minds. How did she structure it? Using proper, grown up astrology.Twelve characters are based on the …
Venus in Sagittarius: Animal Magnetism
Jean Seberg in A Bout de Souffle (1960). Sweet and sexy. Scorpio Sun, Venus in Sag.I’ve been looking at loads of pictures of the actors with the planet of attraction in the sign of the centaur – and I have to say the stand out quality which they all …
Astrology of Now: Cold Snap
In Blue. Wassily Kandinsky: Saturn in Scorpio, Venus in SagittariusThe weather changed yesterday and a dry, icy wind sent tiny clouds fleeting across the sky, trees rattling and swaying, branches to the floor, drifts of leaves whirling up like spirits….
A Brief Look At Virtue and Vice
Francesco Pesselino – The Seven Virtues (male and female personificationsTo live a moral life, according to Plato, you needed the following qualities: justice, temperance, courage and prudence. These are the “cardinal” virtues and the foundations of a …
Higgs Wins That Nobel Prize
Peter Higgs, Emeritus Professor of Physics at Edinburgh, was – finally – awarded the Nobel Prize yesterday. It was entirely expected, since his hypothesis – that there’s a subatomic particle called a boson – was finally proved correct in a (rather larg…
Is There A Gay Planet?
Prometheus by Andre Durand. Srelton: UranianIs there a gay planet? Not really, but perhaps for obvious reasons, the planet of revolution, eccentricity and difference, Uranus, often makes itself powerfully felt in the natal charts of gay people.&n…
Astrology of Now: Stand Up To The Bullies
The Neighborhood Bully – John George BrownPolitics just go nasty again in the UK.Let me explain. In this country, there’s a “Leader of the Opposition” in parliament who is the head of the main party that’s out of office, and whose job it is to question…