Author: Christina

The Magic Window

Commuters on a Train — Cyril Power[/caption] I grew up in a country where it was unusual, on public transport, to see people reading anything other than a smudged newspaper. I moved to London, where inside the bright-lit tube trains, a colourful collage of hundreds of paper covers made a journey gayer and more interesting. Tired people would bury their minds between the paper covers of novels and magazines. Who was reading Harry Potter? Or Tolstoi? Or The New Scientist? Today, when you ride a train or a bus or a plane, everyone escapes through the magic windows of their […]

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Year Ahead Workshop

January 19, Trinity College, Broad Street, Oxford. Starts 10am. Come if you can and bring your chart.
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January Horoscopes

Well, first of all, a very Happy New Year to you — and pats on the back all round. Right at the start of 2019, we will get a sense of the big themes of the year. We have a couple of eclipses and an important aspect comes to “perfection” for the first time since 1852. What is more Uranus leaps into action and starts making his way — finally — out of Aries… This month’s pictures on the theme of city streets. To subscribe to the horoscopes, or read yours online, click here.

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December Podcast

In this astrology podcast, we start at the beautiful Full Moon on the Solstice, trip lightly over an eclipse, and come to a stop just before the next one. Sally and I wend our way through the month’s astrology — and how it could work for each of the Sun signs. Merry Christmas to all!

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RIP Nancy Wilson

Intelligent, emotional and true — Nancy Wilson called herself a “song stylist”. She managed to mix irony and compassion in her interpretations seemingly effortlessly. She died today at the ripe age of 81. Listen to her caught-you-red-handed song, Guess Who I Saw Today, for an example of her ability to spin a yarn, her remarkable technique and perfect timing. Wilson was born with Venus Rising in Aries, and along with being a straightforwardly beautiful woman, this could explain the immediacy of her singing, and its pin-point precision. There’s a lot of water in this chart — Sun and Moon, plus […]

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Stocking Stuffers for the Astrofan

                    It’s that time of year again, and I have had a shufti around the internet and found some astrowonders to stiffen even the floppiest stocking. Every year one or other couture house goes astrowild — and this year it’s Givenchy, under the direction of Claire Waight Keller. The jewellery line is truly gorgeous — although you need a pretty long neck to get away with the earrings — and fat wallet, too. Someone would like you a lot if they received one of these little trifles in a stocking. There […]

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