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…
Author: Christina
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.
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…
5 Steps to Dealing with "Bad" Planets in the House of Love
Preity Zinta and Shahrukh Khan in Veer ZaaraLove: comes in like a thunderbolt, and goes out like a monsoon. Especially if some heavy planets are involved. It can be pretty depressing when you’re just in the midst of the monsoon part and you regard Uran…
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 …
Happy Holidays!
I am off-line now for Easter break. I’ll be back in the second week of April. A bientôt!
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…