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…
Author: Christina
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
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…
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…