Author: Christina

A Magical Week & More

  In the midst of this crazy month, there’s a magical week (well a little longer in fact) when a beautiful cosmic pattern forms in the sky, as Venus, now the Morning Star, turns direct on 13 April, and Mercury turns direct on 7 April. This pattern, an isosceles triangle connecting the signs Pisces, Taurus […]

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Dissolution

It was just that, until quite recently, for a few brief decades, in some parts of the world, we were able to carry on our little lives, listening to Daft Punk, making babies, sipping tea, scrolling through videos of foxes and grannies, planting carrots, dreaming, creating and generally trying to harm as few people as […]

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Valentine’s Day

Poor old Valentine’s Day, supposedly a day of romance and chocolate-munching, stuck in the chilly middle of February, stranded between Christmas and Easter, Imbolc and Equinox. You can’t help wondering if this day has been developed as a special lover’s celebration in order to encourage consumption of left-over Prosecco from Christmas and paper napkins. Sally […]

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The Quickening

You can feel the change in the northern hemisphere at this turn in the year — St Brigid’s Day, Candlemas, the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin. From the Philippines to Poland, 1-2 February are celebrated with candlelight. It is Imbolc, one of the four corners of the year on a Gaelic calendar. The […]

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The Year of the Snake

  Welcome to the Year of the Snake on this Aquarius New Moon (29 January). Blessed New Year to all! This picture by Gustav Klimt shows the goddess of good health, Hygiea with her pet snake. In both Chinese culture and here in the West, snakes are associated with wisdom and cunning, which may be  qualities […]

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2025: The Year of Flux

It was a shocking development. They knew that she was the Sultan’s favourite, the mother of his children, but who would have thought that he would actually marry the Ruthenian woman?  In the year 1533, Suleiman the Magnificent wed his concubine Roxelana, making her Sultana, the most powerful woman in the Ottoman Empire. She would […]

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