Author: Christina

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…

War Correspondents Redux

I have just had some very interesting correspondence about this piece: Who Has True Grit?So just in case you missed it, here it is again. I found some striking similarities and surprises in the charts of these war correspondents.

All Change: What Do China and the Vatican Share?

Pope Francis.More than half of the denizens of this planet have just had a new leader chosen for them. Two small groups of powerful people within two vast, and rather arcane institutions have voted in two new leaders on opposite sides of the world.Pres…

Astrology of Syria

Here is what I wrote about Syria last spring.”Let us pray for as many ceasefires as possible, because this is a long, drawn-out struggle. I really hate to be pessimistic, but it seems to me there is a strong potential for civil war, whether Assad …

Astrology of Now: Deep Prayer, Inner Vastness

Blue, Green and Brown by Mark RothkoI do wonder how much astrology is used in the Vatican. The timing of Benedcit XVI’s resignation and then the papal conclave that starts today, on the day of the Pisces New Moon, is perfect.This Pisces energy is well-…