“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 …
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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
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Lilith: Both Anima and Animus
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May Horoscopes
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Happy May Day from Oxford
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Balancing The Masculine and The Feminine
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Redesign In Progress
Umm – the redesign. It was a little unexpected.I hope you like it.I am working on getting the gadgets back again, but blogger appears to have swallowed them up. Meanwhile enjoy the whizzy new views.