Author: Christina

Astrology of Now: This Transit of Mercury

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This afternoon, at around 4pm GMT, the little planet of speed, insight, commerce and travel, dances across the face of the Sun. With the right equipment, you’ll be able to see it. And I think it’s astrologically significant too. Mercury’s transit to the Sun happens 14 times this century — and only in Taurus or Scorpio. This is the axis of the material vs the hidden, the object and its shadow, procreation and death, sex and power, ownership and enslavement. Last time, Mercury retrograded in Scorpio was 2012 and 2013 — but last time he performed this particular dance in […]

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The Asteroid of Love Stories, Fairy Tales and the Soul’s Journey

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Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, in a country far away, a girl of breath-taking beauty lived with her family. Her two older sisters were “successfully’ married, to wealthy, middle-aged men, but her father was perplexed. Who was good enough to marry his darling youngest, Psyche? He went to the oracle which told him something which broke his heart. “On mountain peak, O King, expose the maid For funeral wedlock ritually arrayed. No human son-in-law (hope not) is thine, But something cruel and fierce and serpentine; That plagues the world as, borne aloft on wings, With fire […]

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Astrology of Now: Turmoil

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There’s an awful lot of churn right now. You can see it on the streets of Santiago, Hong Kong, La Paz and Barcelona; in the British Parliament and American Congress. And in Kurdistan where “confusion now hath made his masterpiece.” People are in a froth. There’s shouting. And the way forward is not clear. You may find this is also true in your own life. Even if you yourself have the utmost clarity; people around you may be in a flap, a flurry, a fritz — or very stuck. I am finding that a lot of people are confused and/or depressed. […]

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Why Meghan Is Brilliant For The Crown

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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Harry and Meghan, are finally suing the tabloids. The British media and the royal family have a weird symbiotic relationship. The media veers between creepy sycophancy and vicious criticism; relentless pursuit coupled with endless judgment. The family invites attention and demands privacy; grants interviews and expects deference. The royal family has often had its privacy trespassed by the meeja — phone-hacking, telephoto lenses, and kiss and tell stories. Most heinously, Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car crash while being pursued by paparazzi, photographed as she died. The latest grown-up addition to […]

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The Tree of Time

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An early morning walk in Wytham woods set me thinking about the cycles of time. We also ran into the forester with a shotgun, who told us a story about magic mushrooms, and a group of scientists sitting around very delicately tagging the legs of birds. It was lovely — and timeless (except for the fact that the birds will each have a teeny electronic tracker attached to its leg).

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October Horoscopes 2019

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The season of mists and mellow fruitfulness is upon us — at least it is here in Oxford, where it has been raining sheets this week interspersed with spectacular rainbows and sunshine: god’s weather. The apples in the gardens are indeed luscious and ripe. They thump sporadically to the ground. There are rosehips, red rowan berries and those transparent berries that look like they are made of red glass. Crab apples are splattered across the pavements, and the whole neighbourhood smells like cider and rotting fruit: wasps’ delight. I hope it’s as lovely near you. To read your horoscope for […]

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Baroness Hale’s Spider Brooch

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Baroness Brenda Hale, head of the Supreme Court, delivered the devastating verdict on the government’s attempt at prorogation, yesterday. Her language was exceptionally clear and easy for even the most unlearned friend to understand. Also she looks like a sweet grandma out of a story book but she wears a giant spider on her left shoulder. Does that sound like an archetype to you? She really is rocking the Pluto meets Saturn look here. So I had to look at her chart — just quickly. I don’t have a birth time, of course, but ladies & gents, take a look at […]

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Astrology of Now: The Law

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Well, yesterday was quite the day for the law and democracy on both sides of the Atlantic. In London, the Supreme Court found that the government, and therefore Prime Minister Boris Johnson had broken the law when it suspended parliament. In fact, Judge Hale said that legally the “prorogation” did not happen. So parliament is back in business today. In the US, top democrat Nancy Pelosi has finally started an impeachment enquiry against Trump. “No one is above the law,”  she said. Both these legal decisions will have long-term effects on the law in both countries. The British Supreme Court […]

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