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…
Author: Christina
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…
Astrology of Now: All Our Stories Are Big
Ribbons on a maypoleWhenever I sit down and talk to someone about a chart, it strikes me afresh just how interesting and unexpected people’s stories are. Everyone’s life is not just one story but a whole necklace of tales threaded together by one …
Bull Beauty
Lovely Audrey Hepburn, b. May 4Is there a Taurus “look”? Judge for yourself. There’s a whole collection of very beautiful Bulls in this previous post on the Oxford Astrologer. Click here.
May Morning in Oxford
As you may know, May Day is a big deal here in Oxford. Here’s what I saw this unbelievably peachy morning.Happy May Day.
May Horoscopes
detail from a painting by Alphonse MuchaTwo eclipses and a Jupiter-Venus-Mercury love fest at the end of the month. May looks both exciting and rather delicious. To read your horoscope, click here.