Author: Christina

What’s Your Job on the Ship of Life?

One of the things that astrology teaches is that we need all kinds of different skills and qualities to keep the ship of life afloat. Society needs to work together to get things done.  And quite often the person who is most annoying in one role

12 Ways To Embrace Mars in Virgo

The action planet Mars has slowly toiled backwards through Virgo for months, but now there is only one more week to go. He turns on the 14th. Then we’ll still have another two months of Mars in Virgo as he makes his way back through almost the entire s…

Enter the Fairy Realm: Venus in Gemini

Steal away with the fairies for the next few months while Venus dances in Gemini”At the beginning of each summer, when the milk-white hawthorn is in bloom, anointing the air with its sweet odour, and miles and miles of golden whin adorn the glens and h…

Posts About Burma

To celebrate the sweeping victory of Aung San Suu Kyi and her party in yesterday’s election, I’m posting links to all the pieces I’ve written about her and her country over the past 18 months.Aung San Suu Kyi: Embodying the People’s DreamBurma: The Ugl…

April Horoscopes

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.

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…

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…