Indians have taken to the streets to protest against violence against women.India, the world’s biggest democracy, is a great big bhel puri of languages, religions, customs and manners. Special interests are as diverse as religious customs, but fo…
Author: Christina
Knowledge Travelling Through Time
William Blake: Seven Spririts of God. Now he had some really funny ideas.Whenever we receive wisdom that’s come down through many centuries, we can be certain that it has lost half its original bodyweight, accrued an encrustation of opinion, developed …
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January Horoscopes
Thermos of tea. Polar blanket. Biscuits. Crampons. Diary. Camera. Socks. Cuddly toy. Horoscope. Coalscuttle. Cabbage. Sealing wax. Fifty Shades of Grey. Brandy. Handcuffs. Kendal Mint Cake. Are you ready for adventure? You’d better be, b…
Some Thoughts on 2012 and 2013
Negotiating 2012 required a sound umbrella and a stiff upper lip.Hurricane SandyWell, that was quite a year. We have all been buffeted by the stormy energies of the planets in 2012. In particular, the cardinal signs – Aries, Capricorn, Cancer an…
Merry Christmas
Detail from Rubens’ Adoration of the Magi (or astrologers as we like to call them)May peace, good cheer and love fill your heart this Christmas.I won’t be posting until January. Horoscopes should be here on New Year’s Day.The Uranus-Pluto s…
Sleeping Nature, Fire Within
In the Northern Hemisphere, nature is sleeping. The leaves have fallen and the ground is frost-hard. Here at England’s navel, dusk is at 4pm. The dark is rising outside my window.Today the Sun moved into the sign of the strange goatfish, Capricorn, rul…
Homage to the Creator of The Hobbit et al
Bilbo Baggins first wriggled his furry little toes just down the road from here. So I often think of that notoriously shy scholar John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and his vast imagination after I’ve dropped my children off at school, when…
The Skull Beneath The Skin
Imagine if you suddenly found yourself reading Don Draper’s (from TV’s Mad Men) chart.Rather casually a while ago, I agreed to draw up someone’s chart while he was here talking business with my partner. He was a suit-wearing, briefcase-porting, pen wie…
Planning Your Future in Detail
Rene Magritte: Rider in the WoodsMy friend Q has been rather cross recently. As far as she is concerned, life is not working out. Somewhere on the journey, she took a wrong turn and found herself in a thicket of gorse and shale instead of travelling th…