Bascove: Reading in BedI found myself yesterday, rather to my own surprise, urging a client to read The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a book which was written more than 250 years ago and which I last read about 350 years ago.This is how it begi…
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Obi Wan Kenobi vs Darth Vader: Saturn vs Pluto
Here is the question that Iris asked on this site: Could you say a bit about how you would distinguish the cutting away of the unnecessary by Saturn from the letting go of the unnecessary by Pluto? How might they feel different?Iris is right: both…
Is This The Most Challenging Saturn Return Ever? Part 2
Saturn is in LibraOct 29, 2009 – Apr 7, 2010 Jul 21, 2010 – Oct 5, 2012Sept 21, 1980 – Nov 29, 1982 May 6, 1983 – Aug 24, 1983Nov 20, 1950 – Mar 7, 195 Aug 13, 1951 – Oct 22, 1953Oct 7, 1921 – De…
The Oxford Astrologer on Facebook
I’ve just started an FB page for The Oxford Astrologer. I’m still trying to get my head around how to use it properly, but meanwhile here’s the link. Do go and like it.
Is This The Most Challenging Saturn Return Ever? Part 1
Father Time by Edmund Dulac.I started writing this post a while ago and realised there was so much to say that I’d have to split it into three to do justice to the subject, so here is the first part. In the past 12-month, I have read a lot of…
Burma’s Thaw: Managing Inevitable Change
Burma’s generals.Why has Burma’s junta, which has ruled the country for decades with steely ruthlessness, decided that this is the time to start making peace with its rebels, release political prisoners and allow elections?Could it have anything to do …
Unpacking My Library: The Mystery of Numbers
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…
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 …