Author: Christina

¡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…

February Horoscopes (again)

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…

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…

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…