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…
Author: Christina
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…
Astrology of Now: Fat Full Moon Coming
Fertile, fecund, luscious – this Full Moon (on the 6th) is bursting with promise.Ceres, the planet of fertility is conjunct the Sun – and so is the wild one, Lilith – all in the most fertile sign, earthy Taurus. The Sun is applying to Jupiter, wh…
Lilith: Both Anima and Animus
Munch’s Madonna. He had Lilith in Cancer opposite the feminine Moon in her fall.”Oh, Mother, my mother!” cried the agonized girl, turning passionately upon her parent as if her poor heart would break. “How could I be expected to know? I was a child…
May Horoscopes
Fragonard. The SwingMay’s the time for frolicking, especially with Venus. the goddess of love. in that most flirtatious sign Gemini the whole month. La di da.It’s all looking pretty gorgeous what with an eclipse and the famous Venus Retrograde. To take…
Happy May Day from Oxford
Happy May Day to all my readers.As you may know, May Day is celebrated with some ferocity in Oxford – drinking, dancing, dressing up. It starts with a choir greeting the dawn from the top of Magdalene Tower and continues with dancing in the str…