Author: Christina

Mami Wata

Mami Wata 1999, by Moyo OgundipeIt’s Mothering Sunday here. The Moon (Mama) is in the sign of the Fishes, coming up to conjunct the Sun in a day or so. Mama Wata, Yemanya, La Sirene — these are all names for the mother of the ocean worshipped in …

Six Things To Do With Venus in Pisces

Ursula Andress – Sun, Venus, Mercury, Saturn in PiscesThere’s an incredible amount of energy in the sign of the fishes this month, helped by the bicentennial transit of Neptune through the sign. Neptune is joint ruler of Pisces, along with Jupiter, but…

March Monthly Horoscopes

From the film Ponyo by Hayao Miyazake. Notice the reflection on the wave.We’re surging into March on a tidal wave of Piscean energy. Mars, Venus, Mercury, Chiron and Neptune himself are all in the sign of the fishes.Pisces is the final sign of the Zodi…

The Popes and the Mother Goddess

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 …

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…

¡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…