Author: Christina

Pluto Poetry

I wonder if Walt Whitman was experiencing a Pluto transit when he wrote this poem. Pluto is now retrograde until September. The dark planet spends quite a lot of his time in retrograde motion, so it’s not unusual. He’s moving between 11’35 and 8’5…

The Death of Margaret Thatcher

Winning her second term 1983.The whole country was frozen, dry and still in March and early April. In my garden, which at this time of year is usually bursting with buoyant blooms, nothing changed for weeks. This was all due to the strange, bitter…

April Horoscopes

Hanuman, the monkey god – warrior and friend, humble and brave. His birthday falls on the day of the eclipse this year.I hope you are enjoying the fertile and sexy conjunction of Mars and Venus in Aries right now. This energy carries on – more or …

Astrology of Now: Zip Zap Zipidee Zoo

This week is going to be a firecracker, as the Sun, Mars, Venus cluster around unpredictable Uranus in Aries, the touchpaper sign. The Moon is already involved with this, making a quincunx aspect to that pack of planets shortly, which creates a Yo…

Eurowobbles

So now it’s naughty little Cyprus, the island of Aphrodite, which is giving the eurozone the screaming abdabs. Aphrodite is the Greek Venus, of course. In astrology, Venus rules money, so maybe it’s not such a surprise that Cyprus was, until a week ago…

The Year’s Awakening

Cherry blossoms and snow outside my house.How do you know that the pilgrim trackAlong the belting zodiacSwept by the sun in his seeming rounds Is traced by now to the Fishes’ bounds And into the Ram, when weeks of cloud Have wrapt the …

Astrology of Now: Effervescence

The Sun is in the last degree of Pisces today, just about to POP into Aries like a bubble bursting out of water. It will be at 0° Aries at 11.01AM  tomorrow, March 20th. That marks the start of the new year for the Zodiac.In particular, this…