The creatures of the Zodiac cavort in a loop through the sky that takes us from midwinter to midsummer and back again. We are used to thinking of them as starting with Aries the Ram and ending with Pisces, the Fishes. But there is another way of orderi…
Author: Christina
Astrology of Now: Mud Wrestling
U-PluIt’s all been a bit jagged for, well, years.For most people, the ongoing U-Plu (Uranus-Pluto square) has not gone smash-bang and changed everything. It’s felt more like a massive arduous grinding shift; a huge stone cog that judders along, sending…
Taken at the Flood
The RhinemaidensThe Elbe, the Vistula, the Inn, the mighty Danube himself, the busy Rhine – the rivers of central Europe are swollen, bursting their banks, rolling across the countryside, swallowing roads, cars, houses. Twenty people have lost their …
Twelfth House People
Lying in bed, feeling a little strange, a little light-headed. The sun sends blocks of light across your duvet; because it is broad daylight, and you alone are not at work or at school. Everyone else is busy.There are noises in the house: a tap ru…
Free Nelson Mandela
The angels are calling Nelson Mandela. He may not go yet, but they are very close.When a death is at the right time, often Jupiter, the planet of benevolence and generosity arrives, ready to shepherd the soul on its journey. Mandela’s Jupiter Return is…
Healing Hands
I’ve just had the best massage I’ve ever experienced. Waves of healing energy swooshing all over the place. And S came and did it on our lawn in the golden afternoon sunshine.Mercury rules the hands and he’s opposite Pluto -deep healing – right now, cr…
Turkey: A Question Of Identity
Agia Sofia: layers of meaningPhoto: Osvaldo Gago, wikimedia commonsIf you stand still in the middle of the vast space of the Agia Sofia, Istanbul’s great mosque/church, as the masses of tourists swirl around you and the silvery light filters from high …
June Horoscopes and General Overview
June begins with shift in mood for everyone. Mars, the planet of action, moves into Gemini, the sign of speed and communications. But meanwhile Mercury, Gemini’s own ruler, splashes into watery Cancer.These are the planet of luck’s last three weeks in …
Astrology of Now: Low Tide Secrets
Low tide Cornwall, high noon.As the tide pulls away from the shore, a wondrous world of rock pools is revealed. Anemones, starfish, crabs. Slippery seaweed.Broken fishing nets, plastic bottles, a locked box, a glove. Detritus along the high tide mark.A…
La Pensée Sauvage
Lévi- Strauss’s seminal book La Pensee Sauvage is translated into English as the Savage Mind, which is not quite right, of course, and sounds vaguely pejorative. Sauvage means wild, as in the opposite of domesticated. Pensée&…