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…
Author: Christina
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…
That Link on the Left
I don’t do ads on this site. But I have just added this Amazon button.It works like this. If you were about to buy something on Amazon and you clicked through here instead of going straight to the big A, The Oxford Astrologer would get a percentage, bu…
Sagittarian Self Portraits: Half Human Half Beast
Lucien Freud, Dec 8, 1922. Not someone you’d want to take to tea with grandma.There’s a darkness to Sagittarius. Often it’s hidden behind a bold front – a big belly, a tornado of talk or just loudness. Sagittarius is the first sign of the zodiac to b…
North Korea: The Tyrant is Dead, Long Live the Tyrant
A stamp commemorates Kim Jong Il’smeeting with Hu Jintao.Well, it’s been quite a year for departures, has it not. Ben Ali, Mubarak Bin Laden. Berlusconi, Papandreou, Havel. Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s beloved, is just the latest leader to vacate his thr…
Last Minute Presents For The Empty of Wallet
You’ve been making one of these right.Tell me if you know who took this pic.How do you choose something really special without breaking the bank? Well, clearly you should have spent the last 12 months handcrafting a variety of exquisite crocheted …