Benedict XVI steps down tomorrowPope Benedict XVI has the chart of a true “Prince of the Church”. He has the two planets of power, Saturn and Jupiter, near the axes of his chart. This is something you see in royalty, people born to rule. In …
Author: Christina
Astrology of Now: Rules About Sex
A still from the TV show Mad MenHenry Kissinger said power is an aphrodisiac. Well, it works for some people, but you know what, a lot of us don’t find it that attractive.The two top stories in the news here in the UK today are about sex and power.&nbs…
Daniel Day-Lewis’s Chart In His Own Words
Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln.Sitting in a darkened cinema and watching Daniel Day-Lewis filling up and spilling out of the screen is a pleasure: sometimes terrifying, sometimes heartbreaking, always visceral.He’s an actor who gets right into you…
Unpacking My Library: Reading Pisces (with Mercury Retrograde)
The Reader by Federico Faruffini. I found this on the wonderful blog Reading and Art.”I awoke one morning with the usual perplexity of mind which accompanies the return of consciousness. As I lay and looked through the eastern window of my room, a fain…
¡Holawood!
Spanish does not have to be your first language if you want to make it in Hollywood, you’re a man and your Sun is in Pisces. But maybe it helps…Javier Bardem (March 1, 1969)Benicio del Toro (Feb 19, 1967)Raul Julia (Mar 9, 1940)Just wondering…
Copernicus: Mind-Expanding Magus
There’s a lovely little google doodle today of the planets moving around the our star, the Sun. It’s there in celebration of Nikolaus Copernicus’ 500th birthday. Copernicus’ book, On The Revolution of the Celestial Spheres, in which he posited tha…
The Zodiac at the Heart of St Peter’s
Nuns in St Peter’s Square, Ash Wednesday 2013.On Ash Wednesday several thousand people queued around St Peter’s Square in the slanting afternoon sun. Above pulsed the blue dome of the a perfect Roman sky, ahead the pearly dome of the St Peter’s, m…
Punch Drunk Britain
(This is the second part of my piece on the UK. There is much more to say, but for now, this will suffice.)Sometimes it feels like Britain is a boxer still upright after 10 rounds but punch drunk: standing up because of a combination of will power and …
Britain On The Rack Of The Uranus-Pluto Square
Corridors of power under a Neptune transit.For a month or so last summer what it meant to be British in the 21st century seemed so clear – in an eccentric sort of way. There were James Bond and the Queen and Mr Bean cavorting about, and various sport…
Venus in Aquarius, Vogueing
All these women have Venus in Aquarius.Christy TurlingtonKate MossElle MacphersonSienna MillerParis HiltonCharlotte RamplingSharon StoneMarlene Dietrich