I moved into this house four years ago and, what with one thing and another, up until December half my books had been packed in boxes up in the attic. This has been a source of grievous discontent to me, but the ingress of action planet Mars into booki…
Author: Christina
Astrology of Now: Goodbye to Neptune in Aquarius
2011: Idealism + action / Neptune + UranusNeptune, the god of idealism, illusion, fashion, faith, glamour and mist, is in the very last degree of Aquarius now. This is momentous because he will not return to this spot for, oooh, another 160 years or so…
Will 2012 See A Falklands Rematch?
Margaret Thatcher in her prime in 1983.I have a few thoughts on potentials in the UK chart for 2012. Here’s one of them.Back in 2010, I predicted riots and a royal wedding for 2011, since I thought we were likely to see some themes from 1981 repeat.* I…
Absolutely Fabulous Astrology
Heaven – gawping at Edina and Patsy.Last night, my beautiful daughter came downstairs trembling in her pyjamas after having gone to sleep hours earlier.”I heard a witch laughing and it scared me awake.””Oh,” me, sheepishly. “I think it was me.””It was …
Myth-making in a City of Scholars: JRR Tolkien, C S Lewis and all
I still get a small thrill when I walk past number 20 Northmoor Road after dropping my kids off at school. Half a century ago, JRR Tolkien wrote The Hobbit and the first two volumes of The Lord of the Rings in that unprepossessing suburban house.I…
How Adele is a Shaman
Listen to this.You wouldn’t think that the British singer Adele turned 21 last May, would you? She has the voice of, well, experience.When I hear a voice like hers, I ask myself where’s the Capricorn?Nina Simone…what a voiceThis is because I’ve …
January Horoscopes
Hallelujah! January horoscopes are here. Click this link to go to them.Meanwhile, clean your braincells with this from Ron Minis.
New Year’s Resolutions
The Orphic Egg from which the first god hatched.Happy New Year, everyone. Like quite a lot of people, I spent a while last night thinking about New Year’s resolutions. And you know, I can’t think of one that I have made or kept, so I thought this …
The Breath of the Zodiac
I love this time between Christmas and New Year. I like to stay quiet in my lair and think and talk and stare at the fire. It’s a pause in the year’s activity like the white space at the end of a paragraph.It’s deeply, profoundly, awesomely yin – that …
Merry Christmas!
Heart was purring, but you wouldn’t think so to look at him!Hey, it’s rather an auspicious Christmas this year. Who’d have thought it!Astrologically, it’s a pretty thrilling couple of days – with a New Moon in earthy, sensible Capricorn today (Christma…