Shade and Darkness – The Evening before the Deluge. JMW Turner 1843A wall of water ripped through inland Australia tearing up trees, tossing cars and buses like flotsam, swamping houses and taking lives.Today hundreds of Brazilians died in muddy…
Author: Christina
Ghostwritten by Chiron
Jules et Jim (1962). Ghosts from long ago summers.This is a true story, but it’s a little off the wall, so bear with me.I had a kind of waking dream the night before last in which the ghost of an old, old boyfriend came and spoke to me. Now in real lif…
Catherine Middleton’s Birth Chart: Cool, Powerful and Sensitive
I want a William and Kate souvenir toothpick, please.I received an email a while ago asking me to look at the chart of Catherine Middleton, who is to marry the heir to the British throne, Prince William, in April. Well, her birthday’s on the 9th of Jan…
Astrology and Art: Capricorn Self-Portraits
There are two main ways I like to use astrology when I’m thinking about art.1. Knowing an artist\s birth chart or simply natal Sun can give you real insight into how planets might work out in real life. Works of art are a non-verbal expression of chara…
Royal Wedding Astrology: Juno Lends a Helping Hand
Here’s great-great-great (oh forget it) granny Victoria getting hitched to Albert.Juno (discovered in 1801 but largely ignored by astrologers until fairly recently) is the asteroid associated with marriage – and she’s an obvious place to look if you’…
Monthly Horoscopes: January
The first signs of the year, Capricorn and Aquarius, both belong to that austere planet, SaturnWith the final conjunction of two of the solar system’s most serious players, electric-dreamer Uranus and boundary-busting Jupiter, closely followed by a sol…
The Yin of Capricorn
Winter Moonlight by George Inness captures the stillness of this time of year.The end of December. In the northern hemisphere, the darkest, quietest and stillest part of the year. The time when the earth’s energy is at its weakest and we have a littl…
Why Capricorn Nigella is a Modern Vestal (Un)Virgin
A priestess of the goddess Vesta, “tutelary deity” to Capricorn.Here imagined by 19th century painter Lord Leighton.Capricorns is a dull sign, ruled by that old curmudgeon Saturn – right? It’s all about status and work and dads and being s…