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…
Author: Christina
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 …
Astrology of Now: Fred Astaire
Thanks to Aya for pointing out that Fred Astaire was born with the Sun in Taurus and Venus conjunct Mercury in Aries. The grace of Taurus and the athleticism of Aries!That’s what’s in the sky right now.
Astrology of Now: Words of Love
My last post got lost in the Blogger inferno, so I’ll summarise it thus:Tell the people you love that you love them right now – do it, even if you’ve done it a thousand times before. Talking about love now will put you in tune with the universe.Mercu…
Venus and the Virgin
The Virgin at La Salette, France”MAY is Mary’s month, and IMuse at that and wonder why: Her feasts follow reason, Dated due to season— Candlemas, Lady Day; …
Taurus Self-portraits
Leonardo’s newly discovered self-portrait. His Sun is at 3° Taurus adjustedfrom the gregorian calendar.Many years ago, I used to work with a lot of graphic designers. Of course, all sun signs were represented in this group, but the one that cropped up…
Neptune and Bin Laden Update
If you read my post of May 4, you’ll know that I think Osama Bin Laden is an example of the dark side the Neptune archetype.A few more pieces of information have come to light that reinforce this notion.It has emerged that the codename for the operatio…
Astrology of Now: One Wedding, A Funeral and Two Fairytale Endings
St George and the Dragon by Jean-Francois Sulpice.The soldier prince Mars married the queen of the May, Venus, last Friday.A monster was slain on Monday.How can these things possibly connect symbolically? The charts, after all, are very similar with a …