Yes, I know we like to talk about roses and kisses and sweet romance, about Romeos and Juliets, the ones that got away and the ones that might just come back now that Venus has turned retrograde…But Venus is not just the planet of love – she rules …
Author: Christina
10 Things To Do With Mercury in Taurus
Mercury, which rules thought and communication, is currently in practical Taurus. This is good for everybody, because it means we have a real chance to get a few things done. You have until May 24, when we return to just talking about everything a lot….
Reader’s Question: Shall I Go To the Ball?
Here’s a letter a reader wrote to me recently, reprinted with permission.”I hate my chart. I hate its ambiguities, its lethargy (thanks Libra stellium) and its inability to just take a decision and stick to it. I hate my Virgo Moon, and its crippling i…
The Ideal Gift For Taurus
Me: “What would you like for your 9th birthday?”Taurus: “A voice-activated safe, please.”I’m not making that up.She got a safe: her Dad’s a Leo.Here’s a link to a piece by Pippa on Taurus and hoarding.
The Nation’s Soul
Ted Hughes was best known as a powerful nature poet before he was made laureate in 1984. It seemed like a strange choice; this poet of fox and moor, black-backed gull and deadly pike, above all of wildness•, asked to write about the baroque, many-lay…
Those Sexy Bulls
Does Scorpio have a corner on sex appeal?”Nooo,” shout the rest of us. “We have a smidgin of the x-factor too.”Of course we do. I write that in my most reassuring manner.Besides smouldering across the Zodiac from Scorpio are those earthy Bulls, who hav…
RIP Maurice Sendak: "So he gave up being king of the wild things…"
“The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another, his mother called him wild thing and Max said, “I’ll eat you up!” so he was sent to bed without eating anything.”Maurice Sendak’s short masterpiece Where The Wild Things …
RIP Maurice Sendak: "So he gave up being king of the wild things…"
“The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another, his mother called him wild thing and Max said, “I’ll eat you up!” so he was sent to bed without eating anything.”Maurice Sendak’s short masterpiece Where The Wild Things …
Looking At Your Kids’ Charts: Is It A Bad Idea?
A couple of weeks ago I was banjaxed by a stomach virus. I spent about 24 hours wrapped around the toilet bowl weeping.Naturally, I looked at my chart to see if anything jumped out at me. I felt as if Pluto himself had put his arm down my throat and pu…
It Takes All Sorts, So Why the Martial Emphasis?
A while ago I was asked to talk about astrology to some teenagers at the Museum of the History of Science here in Oxford. For a bit of fun, I asked them each to fill out a short questionnaire. They were to choose three words to describe themselve…