Author: Christina

Jupiter, Having Drunk Deep…

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Jupiter, the King of the Gods, a roisterer, has spent many months now in the cool, clammy depths of Scorpio. He has drunken deep of the dark wine kept here in the cool caves. Jupiter has opened the doors wide to the land of the dead — perhaps — and now what…? When he is in this water sign, Jupiter likes to drink — and some of us may have chosen even to drink the drink of oblivion during this retrograde. There have been some unlikely high-profile suicides — Anthony Bourdain, Kate Spade… But for some, Jupiter’s retrograde in Scorpio […]

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Lying in Grass

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Lying in Grass Is this everything now, the quick delusions of flowers, And the down colors of the bright summer meadow, The soft blue spread of heaven, the bees’ song, Is this everything only a god’s Groaning dream, The cry of unconscious powers for deliverance? The distant line of the mountain, That beautifully and courageously rests in the blue, Is this too only a convulsion, Only the wild strain of fermenting nature, Only grief, only agony, only meaningless fumbling, Never resting, never a blessed movement? No! Leave me alone, you impure dream Of the world in suffering! The dance of […]

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Juno in the Garden (Part One)

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“Th’ whole world’s in a terrible state o’ chassis” Captain Boyle in Juno and the Paycock In Sean O’Casey’s play, Juno and the Paycock, Juno Boyle is the matriarch of a broken family. While her children are wrecked and her husband is a wastrel, she carries on providing, protecting and planning. The roles of the divine Juno — hugely popular among the Romans — are notoriously multifarious, but perhaps not so dissimilar from her Irish namesake. She was protector of the community, matrons, demobbed soldiers, and newborn babies. She was a goddess of childbirth and marriage, civic order; spear-bearer, consort, […]

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Astrology of Now: Fish Magic

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This glorious watery summer just keeps flowing on. The magnificent Grand Trine in Water — Sun in Cancer, Jupiter in Scorpio, Neptune in Pisces — continues to create magic. This week the Moon in Pisces joins in. In a few days time (July 10), Jupiter will station direct. Then watch the waters turn and and surge, ripple and foam in all directions. There may be more floods, but in the waters of the flood there are fishes, daisies and diamonds.

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July Monthly Horoscopes

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The cosmos is alive with marvellous, crackling energy this month. Stay light on your feet and dance your way through July. Members should have your horoscope newsletter in your email inbox within the next hour (oh my, the planets are dancing a fandango this month). If you would like to become a member, click here. There’s a temporary glitch with archived horoscopes on this website but they should be accessible again within 24 hours. If you need me to resend this month’s, let me know christina at oxfordastrologer.com Enjoy!

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Astrology of Now: Sober Moon

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Although this moon rides high, luscious and fulsome in the midsummer, it’s not bound to take us away from our connection to the earth. Indeed this, rather sombre Moontide, is all about feeling grounded. The Moon is in Capricorn and she conjoins old sobersides Saturn himself. Saturn has a sense of humour — dry — but he’s not about to break out the maracas and dance a fandango. And he won’t expect Lady Luna to do so either. Instead, he reminds her of her — and our — deep connection to nature. Lie on the ground this Full Moon and see […]

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Mars Dreaming

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Mars turns retrograde today at 9° Aquarius. The planet of war will douse his firebrands for a while and may turn his passions inwards. Today, he is tightly conjoining that mysterious South Node of the Moon — a place of dissolution and dissipation. It’s time to lay down our arms and let go of anger, rivalry and aggression. Mars will be retrograde until August 27.

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