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…
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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…
Hmmm… Just A Touch Of Scorpio?
Artist Georgia O’Keeffe born 15 Nov 1887 – Sun, Moon, Mercury, Jupiter in Scorpio opposite Neptune (illusion, glamour)-Pluto (death again).Scorpio – death, archeology, digging deep, the bare bones – and sex. Scorpio rules the genitals, of course.
Celluloid-Meltingly Sexy Scorpios
Equally beautiful, equally deadly. Alain Delon (Nov 8) and Monica Vitti (Nov 3). It took a Libra, Michelangelo Antonioni, to put them together in L’Eclisse (1962).Rather appropriately for our times he plays a shallow, materialistic stockbroker un…