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…
Author: Christina
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…
Afghanistan, Britain and the Uranus Cycle
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…
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…