When you’re trying to draw something right in front of you, the key to getting it right is often to look at the space between. When you start to look properly, you can see that space has a shape and vivacity all its own.Look at the “negative space” in …
Author: Christina
Ray Merriman on the Debt Crisis
As we all know now, we are living in interesting times, but sometimes it’s hard to keep up with just what is going on. The scene changes so rapidly; opinions vary so wildly.The financial astrologer Ray Merriman has written a brilliant piece for The Mou…
Just To Remind You
At last Egypt has a democratically elected president, Mohammad Morsi, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.This is not a surprise if you paid attention to the astrology.Here’s what I wrote about Egypt back in November 2011: “I suspect the importance of…
Whose Dreams Are You Dreaming?
Like all things numinous and mysterious, the point of astrology is not always something that can be put into words. It’s poetic, it’s slantwise, it’s a feeling, an image, a fleeting thing. And just when you think you have it all pinned down and neatly …
50 Shades of Hades
Just in case you’ve missed it, 50 Shades of Grey is a story about a young woman who meets an insanely wealthy, mysterious, tortured but alluring older man. They have a passionate affair during which she discovers herself as a sexual being – and his t…
Astrology of Now: Midsummer Night’s Dream
It is indeed a dreamy night tonight, a night to stay up until dawn inventing epics and love stories. Neptune, master of illusions, rises as the Sun moves into Cancer. The two cast a knowing beam to each other through the imaginative, watery signs …
Steel Orchid Down My Way
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…
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…