courtesy of Kerry DarlingtonWhat a delightful, exciting month ahead. I’ll be posting about some of the more exhilirating cosmic events later on, because I think they deserve more attention.Meanwhile, click here to find your monthly horoscope.
Author: Christina
A Weird Week in Politics
PM David Cameron was last spotted eating a Cornish pasty two years ago.Ooo – the spin doctors have been getting themselves in a twist this week here in Blighty.I’ll explain briefly for my non-UK readers.First, Chancellor George Osborne cut the t…
Is this the Most Challenging Saturn Return Ever? Part 3
Ha – I bet you thought I had forgotten, but we are now in full retrograde season, so I am ready to pick up this Saturn Return series where I left off.(Mercury, Mars and Saturn are all doing the backwards shuffle.)In previous posts I gave an overview of…
Astrology of Now: A Mars-Neptune Pas de Deux
Mars, the planet of the physical, is going backwards slowly, coming to an opposition with Neptune, planet vague, which drifted into his own sign, Pisces, just a little while ago. Mercury has slipped backwards into Pisces too for another brief swim in t…
Reader’s Question: Why Is Jupiter So Horrible To Me?
Zeus to the Greeks; Jupiter or Jove to the RomansA friend wrote this to me recently. “I have a terrible time when Jupiter is aspecting things. Rather than being a benevolent and blossoming force, he’s like the biggest bitch in the world, but too m…
Liberté, Egalité, Identité
The 1998 World Cup winning French football team was an emblem of French diversity. The National Front said it wasn’t “French” enough.France is having a weird and unnerving time of it. Everything that seemed certain about the country is being shaken, qu…
Seeing Pregnancy Through Ceres’ Eyes
I wonder: is this the most influential portrait of a woman from the 20th century?You wouldn’t believe it now, but way back in 1991, this cover of Vanity Fair showing the then highest-earning actress in Hollywood naked and heavily pregnant caused a stor…
Unpacking My Library: On The Road
This cover was designed by Len Deightonin the late 50s.If Jack Kerouac had not drunk himself to death at the age of 47, he would have turned 90 on March 12 this year. He was in many ways the perfect Pisces author – a drunken, dreaming mysti…
Rebekah Brooks: Embodying Lilith
Rebekah Brooks: she made it up the greasy poleOh, the irony. The woman who made a living dragging people’s good names through the mire is being dragged through it herself.Yesterday, she was arrested (again) at her home near Oxford.Rebekah Brooks was un…
Astrology of Now: Relax, Everything’s Retrograde
Ingres: The Turkish Bath. Aries is the sign of beginnings, haste, inspiration. It’s the fire sign that strikes the spark that sets the world aflame. So what happens when the planet of speed, Mercury, turns tail and retreats in such a go-getting pa…