Beleaguered PM David Cameron was born with Uranus-Pluto conjunct. Under the square, things are falling apart.Hooray! The British Parliament has voted against a military intervention proposed by the Prime Minister – possibly for the first time…
Author: Christina
Correction: Edward Snowden’s Chart
Edward Snowden was born in 1983 not 1981. Here is the redrawn chart. It does put more emphasis on the mirroring. I’m noticing the Moon in Scorpio plus Mars-Sun-North Node.Apologies for the earlier version.Thanks to Arwynne for pointing this out.
Tig Notaro: Crying Till You Laugh
Last year, Tig Notaro had quite an interesting four months. To begin with, she contracted pneumonia. The cure almost killer her though. A flesh-eating bacteria invaded her gut and she had to go to hospital where she hovered between life and d…
The Resurrection of a King
The Death of Arthur by John Carrick (1852). Mallory’s Le Morte D’Arthur (the main source for all King Arthur legends) was published a few weeks after Richard III’s death“And thus I clothe my naked villainyWith odd, old ends stol’n out of holy wr…
Bradley Manning and the Fire of Prometheus
Prometheus, Nicolas-Sebastien Adam.Prometheus, the rebel god, stole fire from heaven and brought it to the human race. This made Zeus, king of the gods, cross, because fire was one of the gods’ secrets, along with lightning and thunder and stuff.Accord…
We’re All Crazy; We’re All Sane
Beatles fans in the 1960s. Uranus conjunct Pluto. Neptune in Scorpio.”Madness,” wrote Friedrich Nietzsche, “is the exception in individuals, but the rule in groups.”That would explain why psychopaths rise to the top then. The rest of us mill around bei…
A Reader’s Question: Could Turkey Need a New Chart?
This is an 11th century map by Mahmud al Kashgari showing the lands of the Kurds, the Syrians and the Iraqis. Courtesy Wikimedia CommonsHere is what someone wrote to me. It’s an interesting question.”I live in Turkey and there are some prophecies as we…
Al Qa’ida
On 11 August 1988, three men met in the dusty city of Peshawar on Pakistan’s northwest frontier. On that day, Osama bin Ladin, Ayman Zawahiri, and “Dr Fadl” decided it was time to set up an international jihadist organisation that would make spectacula…
A Poem
EldersAt night the moon shakes the bright dice of the water;And the elders, their flower light as broken snow upon the bush,Repeat the circle of the moon. Within the month Black fruit breaks from the white flower. The black-wheeled berri…
Where the Freakin’ Freak Is My Freakin’ iPad? or How This Horary Worked
Father Time, Edmund DulacHorary astrology is not something in which I have much expertise. It’s never really appealed to me, since I’ve always though of it as not so much about psychology and stories and the great sweep of history and more about practi…