What a beautiful Full Moon on which to set sail for 2018! Happy New Year to all of you. If you are a subscriber, your January horoscope should be in your mailbox by midnight on New Year’s Eve. If you still can’t reach it, go to the Horoscopes page and it should be up. If you would like to subscribe to the discursive monthly horoscopes — and why not treat yourself? — click on Horoscopes at the top of this page.
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A very merry and peaceful Christmas to you.
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“Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.” — CS Lewis The Sun, our own mighty star, enters the Cardinal sign of the Goat-Fish tomorrow just before 4.30pm GMT on December 21, and so we enter deep winter. This is the Solstice — the longest night and shortest days. And this one is special because the old teacher, Saturn, has returned to his home sign for the first time since 1991, and he greets the Sun at 0° Capricorn. As I mentioned in my previous post, this has not happened since 1664, so this Solstice holds a […]
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It’s been a long, strange trip around the Zodiac for Saturn over the last 27 years, but at last he’s come home. Yesterday, he arrived with the dust of the road clinging to his clothes, in Capricorn, the sign which, by tradition, he rules. Perhaps, he heaved a sigh of relief to be back in this cool, winter palace. He left this place in 1991, and like Odysseus coming back to Ithaca, Saturn returns to find his house topsy-turvy in 2017. He has a few of years to sort things out — until 2020. But he is strong here, he […]
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Yesterday morning, you could see the Moon like a great grey coin in the dawn sky, reflecting just a tiny sliver of light. Today she is already in the sign of the centaur, Sagittarius, where she will be utterly obscured at around 7.30 am (UT) on December 18 (tomorrow) when she is in conjunction with the Sun. Five hours later (around 2.10pm), the Moon meets Saturn, staggering to the end of his tour in Sagittarius. Less than half an hour later, Lady Luna steps into Capricorn, her fall. So the energy of the Moon in Sagittarius is here now — we […]
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You may, if you are fully in the swing of this Mercury Retrograde, still have some Christmas present puzzles to solve. If you would like to introduce friends and relatives to The Oxford Astrologer, I am offering two pretty vouchers. • A year’s subscription to the Horoscopes for £28.80. Horoscope voucher • A personal reading for £95. Reading Voucher Download your copy of the voucher from the PDFs, and send me an email (christina@oxfordastrologer.com) so I can bill you and note details of the recipient.
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We woke up to snow on Sunday. Swirling, twirling flakes, hurtling fast, then fluttering delicately past the bedroom window. The garden had vanished by 6am and by mid-day a soft, heavy blanket of white had covered everything. With snow comes silence. It’s easy in the first snowfall to imagine yourself in a different time — maybe a horse-drawn sleigh will trot down my suburban street. And then time slows too. Instead of cars, people and their dogs trudge and stumble down the street. We went out for a while and, coming home, walked past the end of our road, unrecognisable […]
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“I woke up absolutely raging with desire for you my love … Oh dear God how I did want you. Perhaps you were stroking your darling self.” — Olivier to Leigh If sensual Taurus and sexy Scorpio can get it together, the earth really does move, after all these are (arguably) the two most intense signs in the Zodiac. When Laurence Olivier met Vivien Leigh, they were both already married, but that didn’t stop them from falling wildly in love. Laurence Olivier (Taurus) and Vivien Leigh (Scorpio) were the Brangelina of their day. Glamourous, beautiful, talented, passionate … Their union […]
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Let’s focus on some good news. Prince Harry, brother of the future king, is going to marry a successful, mixed-race, working woman in her 30s. She’s American, divorced and brought up largely by her single mother. Her family is not out of the top drawer, but out of that capacious middle one. All of those ordinary facts make Meghan Markle an extraordinary bride for an English prince. In fact, Meghan Markle is special. She is born under the sign of special, Leo, and all Leos are kings and queens in their own realms. And this one also has her North […]
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“And that’s why I have to go back to so many places there to find myself and constantly examine myself with no witness but the moon and then whistle with joy, ambling over rocks and clods of earth, with no task but to live, with no family but the road.” From The Wind in The End of the World by Pablo Neruda, the most lunar poet of them all, born on the New Moon in Cancer. I hope you saw the beautiful Moon last night, luminous and magical from dusk to dawn. Moon 11° Gemini, Sun 11° Sagittarius, Jupiter 11° […]
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