The conjunction of Pluto-Saturn-Ceres in January set up a stress test for the entire global system — government, health services, international co-operation, financial markets, capitalism in general. That was the Lord of the Undeworld, Father Time, and the goddess of human-nature relations getting together to see how they could test structures. One teeny-tiny morsel of […]
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Fresh green ripples across the land; the garden is filled with bird song. Yet Easter is a festival of death. Christ’s Last Supper was Seder, the annual dinner party at which Jewish people all over the world commemorate the Exodus. Jews remember the Angel of Death passing over their houses before they followed Moses into […]
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New York governor Andrew Cuomo’s daily briefings about the Coronavirus have become comfort-viewing for millions over the past few weeks. As he sits behind the great big wooden desk in New York’s state capital Albany every day and calmly explains the numbers, the plan and the program, he exudes competence, responsibility and sometimes issue a […]
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This month’s horoscopes are written from the lockdown in Oxford. It’s a strange time indeed, and a fascinating month ahead. I’m introducing a new feature for horoscope subscribers, a live Q&A on the current astrology this Sunday at 7.30. We’ll see how it goes! Hope you can turn up too. Click here for this month’s […]
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Right now, I am sitting in my bedroom, looking out at a clear blue sky. It’s very quiet, because there’s so little traffic and I can hear bird song several gardens away, children playing next door. The air is clear and easy on the lungs. It smells different: good. There’s a strange stillness as we […]
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It’s Mothering Sunday here, and I’d like to wish you, mothers and children all, a peaceful and cosseted day full of light and beauty. Even when your loved ones are far away, they are so close.
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Today, on this day of balance, our astrological year begins; the Sun steps into 0° Aries. And what a strange beginning to the year. Most of the world, it seems, is locked down, locked in, locked out — locked up. This is the signature of Saturn-Pluto-Ceres. It was clear this would be a year of endings, […]
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As usual, we’re looking at the month ahead, but in the circumstances, we talk a lot about the pandemic — a lot.
We’re looking at the big astrology between March 20 and April 20 — including Mars’ conjunctions with Jupiter,…
She lives in daydreams with me She’s the first one that I see And I don’t know why I don’t know who she is … ” — She Talented, graceful Aquarian Harry Styles is much more than a pop star, indeed he appears to be channelling something bigger than himself — a kind of feminine […]
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One of the lessons of astrology is that it takes all sorts to run the world. We need Aquarian teamwork, Cancerian nurturing, Aries can-do, Leonine playfulness — or to put that in modern terms, we need Aquarian autism, Cancerian hypochondria, Arien sadism and Leonine narcissism. Problems arise when we get too much of one […]
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