Second Afghan WarSix British soldiers were killed in Kandahar province this week. The oldest was 33, the same age as Jesus when he died, and the youngest was 19.The Afghan War has been going on for 10 years and 153 days. World War Two lasted just under…
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Astrology of Now: Festival of Colours
Today is the gorgeous, anarchic, joyful Hindu Festival of Colour, Holi, which welcomes spring and all that goes with it. You ought to run around outside, splashing perfumed colours and smearing each other with wild hues.It’s the full moon, of course, i…
More Neptune: Picasso Holds Up A Mirror
Pablo Picasso loved the virile masculinity of the bull – the cojones. He painted and drew and modelled and made hundreds of bulls. It’s well known that he especially identified himself with the Minotaur, the mythical monster half-man, …
Neptune Puts A Spell On You
Titania (Michelle Pfeiffer) and Bottom (Kevin Kline) in A Midsummer Night’s DreamMy friend J has great big, baby blue eyes. They’re beautiful. She comes across as a little flaky, vague, kind, not quite of this world, when she walks along, these days in…
Unpacking My Library: Invisible Man
Nude by Francis Cadell.“There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.”– Ralph Ell…
Monthly Horoscopes: March 2012
March arrived in a heavy fog this morning. You couldn’t see the end of our street. Then by noon we had brilliant sunshine and it turned out that spring had arrived while our heads were in the mist.Actually, it looks like being a pretty good month, just…
Astrology of Now: Are You Really Ready To Commit?
John and Yoko married on March 20,1969.It’s nearly February 29th, the day we laydeez are supposed to get down on our bended knees and propose. So it’s nice that Venus, the maiden planet, is in trousers right now, sorry that’s in Aries. And she is just …
Who Has True Grit? Looking at War Correspondents’ Charts
War reporter Marie Colvin in Homs.Photo: Democratic Underground.Homs, Syria is a long way from Oxford, England.It’s on another continent, the people speak another language, have different customs than mine. They are in the midst of a bloody civil war. …
Astrology of Now: Imagination
“What if you had a really big seed and you could draw on it and if you planted it, your drawing would grow into a real thing?””What would you draw?””A kitten.”Neptune (imagination) is squaring my six-year-old’s Mercury in Gemini (story-telling) from th…
Astrology of Now: Organised Healing and the New Moon
Pisces arrives. JW Waterhouse’s MirandaI felt some relief as the Sun slipped out of detriment in Aquarius and into Pisces yesterday. It was as if we’d suddenly remembered to take off the handbrake and now we’re gliding gently down the lane with the eng…