My dear readers, there has been (another) glitch with the subscriber feed, which I think has been resolved. If you did not get the link for the February Horoscopes, here it is again.And now that Jupiter, the bringer of joy, is zipping forward again thr…
Author: Christina
February Monthly Horoscopes
February: short, and this year anyway, quite sweet.We have just slipped into the month on a frothy Jupiterian wave. It seemed pretty easy – maybe that’s because all planets are going forward for a change. Even all the asteroids are going the right wa…
Jane Austen: Details, Wit and Planets in Detriment
Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle putting the sex into P&PIt is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first e…
Astrology of Now: Bright Ideas, Shiny Synapses
The Moon from De SphaeraAs I write, the Moon is running the gamut of an opposition to Pluto. She’s in her own sign, Cancer, so she’s no pushover, even for the lord of the Underworld. But as she slides through the sea of Cancer, she brings into action a…
Time To Draw A Line In The Sand, Harry
Harry: Mars in SagittariusOh dear, the royal family is so much better when they are like proper icons – that is silent.Prince Harry, the third in line to the throne, has given a disastrous interview about his life in the army. This is from the normal…
Aquarius The Engineer & Civilisation
Roman aqueduct, Segovia, Spain.In the first century AD, Rome’s 11 aqueducts delivered tons of fresh water to the one million citizens who thronged the capital of of the world’s biggest empire. Without those aqueducts and the giant cisterns that held fr…
Jodie Foster’s Chiron Return
Jodie Foster is one of the few movie stars who has managed to transmute her juvenile brilliance into adult excellence. Now, she’s 50 and still at the top of her profession. It’s a remarkable career.But just as remarkable has been her determination to k…
The Nebra Sky Disc
This mysterious disc is said to be the oldest known map of the heavens.Two nights ago the stars sparkled so fiercely above our house. Jupiter was a perfect, tiny orange disc, suspended between bright burning Aldebaran, the Watcher of the East, and Orio…
The Lyre
It all started with this picture. The sculpture’s called Spring and I thought it was a pretty good representation of Lilith conjunct Sun in Capricorn. Lilith is, of course, all that is unmentionable and dark about the feminine. She is, among …
Bowie: Back After a Decade of Silence
Plaintive, beautiful, broken, nostalgic. David Bowie’s new single Where Are We Now?, released today, is a return to his Berlin years both lyrically and musically.Bowie’s 66th birthday is today – maybe a good moment to recall those times in Berli…