Film director Ken Russell made big, messy pictures with a lot of sex and music in them. His fluid, emotional, freewheeling camerawork is still like no one else’s.Yesterday at the age of 84, the old maverick was taken by his maker (Uranus Retu…
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Astrology of Now: Eclipse Energy
Race ahead during an eclipse like this chap in the film StagecoachAll of us, without exception, are on a journey of evolution and change. Sometimes the road is smooth and even, we roll along at a steady pace; sometimes we stop for a long, long time at …
Grandma Love
Alison Uttley’s Little Grey Rabbit has the bright eyes and busyness of my darling mother out lawI am blessed with a very lovely mother-out-law, who is both charming and sweet-tempered. What is more, she really loves my children. The feeling is mutual.T…
George Harrison: Water Boy
George: Sun, Moon, Jupiter, Venus in water signs.Marty: Sun, Moon, Mars, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter in water signs.”Who’s your favourite Beatle?”When I’m feeling difficile I like to reply Yoko Ono, but the truth is, for me, it’s always been George. W…
Egypt: More Work To Do
Praying in Tahrir SquareBack in February, I concluded my piece on Egypt with this remark: “Meanwhile, it remains to be seen if the junta makes way for a genuine democracy. Getting rid of Mubarak may turn out to have been the easy part.” To read th…
Astrology of Now: Mars in Virgo = The Big Clean Up
I have been down at the bottom of the garden this week, turning my compost, mulching the autumn leaves, sawing up wood, stacking old flowerpots and sharpening blades. It’s creating a surprising amount of room under the laurel trees.The action planet Ma…
Natalie Wood: Saturn Returns
Robert Wagner and Natalie WoodHollywood legend Natalie Wood – beautiful, talented, passionate – died in mysterious circumstances 30 years ago. She was 43 years old and had spent the previous 39 years working, loving and living smack in the public e…
Jeff Buckley: Fallen Angel
Jeff Buckley, of the astonishingly beautiful voice, the soulful eyes and the strange and tragic death would have been 45 today (Nov 17).Jeff Buckley (1966-1997)His natal chart is compellingly simple. Almost everything is tightly aspected, He was b…
Jeff Buckley: Fallen Angel
Jeff Buckley, of the astonishingly beautiful voice, the soulful eyes and the strange and tragic death would have been 45 today (Nov 17).Jeff Buckley (1966-1997)His natal chart is compellingly simple. Almost everything is tightly aspected, He was b…
Scorpio Self Portraits: The Agony And The Absence
Francis Bacon, Oct 28Don’t expect to find this an easy bunch of pictures to look at. We are in the land of Scorpio this month – and this sign like to deal with deeper truth. Not for Scorp the polished surface of a Gemini or the gorgeous patterns of Lib…