This beautiful hybrid orchid is named after Aung San Suu Kyi.You never know who you’re going to see in Oxford. A while ago I got to say good morning to a fistful of bishops as I got out of the car.This afternoon, we saw Aung San Suu Kyi whizz past in a…
Author: Christina
Egypt: Eating Shit or Revolution?
There’s been a creative explosion of graffiti in Cairo post-January 25″Given a choice between eating shit or eating shit, most Egyptians have decided they’re not hungry,” Omar Kamel, Egyptian activist. He was talking about the phoney elections hel…
Wild Thing
Woke up wondering about Jimi Hendrix’s Lilith…. As you do…Seventh house – no wonder he needed to know for sure.What a chart!And here is a link to the king of the wild things.
Gemini: Face To Face With History
Gandhi’s morning walk, photographed by Margaret Bourke White (b. June 14, 1904)In the tangled of intricacy of the natal chart, the Sun sign is so often dismissed as too vague or too broad an indicator. But when it comes to career, it should never be ov…
Gemini Self-Portraits Redux
I’ve just re-read last year’s Gemini self-portraits piece again and it made me smile. Take a look and enjoy how surprisingly alike some of the artists look, right down to the facial hair and the rebel attitude.To see the whole piece click here.Main pic…
Astrology of Now: Watching the Dirty Laundry Churn
I watched the current Chancellor of the Exchequer and an ex-Prime Minister lie on oath yesterday. And I have to admit, I was a bit shocked. I’m just not that cynical. I thought George Osborne and Gordon Brown would probably tell the truth. But neither …
Astrology of Now: What The Venus Have You Invested In?
“This day prov’d as favourable to our purpose as we could wish, not a Clowd was to be seen … and the Air was perfectly clear, so that we had every advantage we could desire in Observing the whole of the passage of the Planet Venus over the Suns disk:…
Putting A Spin on Pluto
My good friend Isy pointed out in a recent comment that we should not think of Pluto as a simple lump of rock spinning through space, but as a group of objects with a great big hole in the middle. So I asked her to write about it. Understanding t…
Jubilee: The Cult of the Queen
The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Cor blimey, ma’am; 60 years on the throne, god bless her. For a while, it seemed as if it were mainly a marketing opportunity for paper napkin, bunting and biscuit-tin makers. It’s been Union Jacks agogo for a month in …
June Horoscopes
What a month! So much is going on in the sky. Just to mention two major events. We have Venus’ rare transit to the Sun (which I hope you are going to try to watch) and the first exact hit of the Uranus-Pluto square.Have a look around the site for more …