This month I want to focus on the eclipses, now and at the beginning of July, because they will activate certain parts of everyone’s chart. Quite often eclipses manifest as events over which we have little control, but if you’re prepared, you may b…
Author: Christina
Mercury’s Magic Minstrels
Some songwriters are storytellers. Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney and Ray Davies of the Kinks were all born in the 1940s under a Gemini Sun. Take a look at these charts – the differences are as intriguing as the similarities.Ray Davies, writing about the …
How the God of Liars Feeds the Soul
Pippi Longstockings, teller of tall tales, eternal child and a favourite of Mercury. This is a still from the Swedish TV seriesFor the Romans Mercury was the protector of thieves and liars. He is that trickster god whom we find tiptoeing through the ba…
My Own (Small and Rather Pleasant) Partial Eclipse
The Lizard, CornwallYou never know just how the movement of the planets is going to shape your day to day experience, no matter how much time you spend poring over ephemerides and reading reference books.Here’s what I mean.I’ve just been on the most go…
Can Astrology Make You A Better Mother?
Gustav Klimt’s Mother and BabyA friend’s child has a Moon-Pluto conjunction in the 8th House. Unfortunately, she’s an astrologer so she knows just how badly that reflects on her. Obviously, she must be a possessive vampire mother who devours her childr…
Astrology of Now: Talk Dirty
A hot Venus-Mars conjunction in sexy Taurus plus cheeky Mercury; Sun moves into chatty Gemini and what do you get?
Ireland and Britain: A Miserable Marriage Turns Into a Beautiful Friendship?
The Queen’s trip to Ireland this week shifted Anglo-Irish relations a lot closer to normal.The relationship between Britain and Ireland has often been like a bad marriage: with Britain in the role of abusive husband. He loves her and he hits her. He ca…
Madhuri Dixit: Living Goddess
Bollywood produces beauties by the bucketload.If you’re a leading lady in Indian popular cinema, there’s a look you ought to have – long smooth hair, pale skin, almond eyes. It goes without saying really, that your sexual charisma needs to be pretty …
Dominique Strauss Kahn: A Tragedy Unfolds
“That old black ram is tupping your white ewe.”Othello strangles Desdemona from OthelloOthello rose to the highest public office; he fell because of a fatal flaw, a personality defect so big that it opened its mouth and swallowed him.Right now we …
Algol: Decapitating the IMF
Medusa, the snake-haired gorgon, turned men to stone just by looking at them. Some say she was enraged by her violation by the sea god.The only person to escape her fatal gaze was the hero Perseus, who used her reflection in his shield to aim the blow …