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 …
Author: Christina
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.
Astrology of Now: Speak Of The Devil
On the evening of November 18, 1987 an inferno blasted through King’s Cross underground station,negligence and a discarded match.killing 31 people, and injuring and maiming three times that number. The causes were negligence and a discarded match….
Learning From Your Own History: Eclipses Part Two
Kali dancing on Shiva. Kali is associated with the North Node, Rahu, in Hindu astrology.Take a look at the comments on the previous post and you’ll see that readers have already come up with some telling examples of how eclipses across Taurus/Scorpio h…
The Three Eclipses of Spring 2013: Part One
Gradually, the familiar golden ball slides behind a disc of silver. Birds fall silent, the air chills, for a moment the day is strange. Solar eclipse.A superseding, a complete annihilation. Emotionally, in English anyway, the word eclipse contain…
Arguing for a Scorpio Rising US National Chart
The eagle is another symbol for Scorpio.My friend Michael Wolfstar, who runs the website Neptune Cafe, wrote to me after reading my previous post American Aprils. He didn’t disagree with the substance of it, but he wanted to point out that the chart he…
Some American Aprils
The “Minutemen”, American revolutionaries ready to snatch up their weapons at a moment’s notice, confront the redcoats. Their flexibility, speed and the urgency of their cause was a big factor in their victory. Allied to the fact that they were on home…
Venus in Taurus: Revisiting Primavera
To celebrate Venus’s entry into Taurus, where she revels in earthly pleasure, here is a piece I wrote about this beautiful painting by Sandro Botticelli. Click here to read it.