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 …
Author: Christina
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&…
Learning To Let Go – Maybe
Ceres by Antoine Watteau. The asteroid Ceres was discovered more than two centuries ago, but it’s taken astrologers a long time to acknowledge her as a contender. Astronomers now classify her on the same level as Pluto. The sickle she holds here is als…
Eclipse Notes: May 25th
May 25th sees the final eclipse in the Gemini-Sagittarius group that’s spanned November 2o1o until now. You can see it’s at 4° Sagittarius. In the way of these eclipse groups, it has overlapped at one end with Cancer-Capricorn and now it’s overla…
Damien Hirst Redux
The art establishment’s favourite entrepreneur is on the radio this morning, so I thought I’d repost a piece I wrote about him. It made me laugh again, but that is part of Hirst’s charm.To read it, click here.
Why Uranus-Pluto Is A Feminist Aspect
Feminist poster from the sixtiesI’m still pondering the significance of the world’s biggest sex symbol removing her secondary sexual characteristics. Did it really come down to a choice between desirability or living? And if it did come down to that ch…
Angelina Jolie: How To Be A Hero
Yesterday Angelina Jolie told the world she’d had an operation that reduces her risk of cancer from 87% to 5%. She’d had a double mastectomy.That one of the world’s most beautiful women should choose to have both breasts removed is a powerful notion. J…
Eclipses, Identity, Enslavement and Fairy Tales
Halvor kills the troll in Soria Moria Castle.”My name is Amanda Berry.”The first words she spoke after she crawled out of the house of her enslavement in Cleveland, Ohio were a statement of her identity.Amanda Berry is much more than what happened to h…