Author: Christina

A Short Moment of Libran Momentum

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Today, September 29, is the birthday of three truly great painters — all masters of colour and movement. Here is Boucher, whose decorative, feathery, rococo paintings defined the taste of 18th century France. Here is Tintoretto, the Venetian colourist, “Il Furioso”, who’s mastery of movement and gesture make his figures fly. Here is Caravaggio, the dark master of the Baroque — intense realism, fanatical attention to detail and passion. Hope that takes your mind off things!

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#TakeAKnee

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I couldn’t help but note that on the day American footballers staged a peaceful protest across the country, Neptune, the higher octave of Venus (planet of peace) and Mars, the planet of warriors, came into perfect opposition. The athletes chose to kneel when The Star-Spangled Banner was played. The idea started last year when 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, knelt during the national anthem, explaining that he did so to highlight racial and social injustice in his country. Before today’s protests President Trump spent the weekend sneering at athletes choosing to do this. I guess they just showed him. The visuals are moving — […]

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Astrology of Now: Touched by the Moon

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This week, Mercury, Mars and Venus, the three rocky little planets closest to our own planet Earth are visible at dawn, and today, Lady Luna sails in front of those planets in a multiple “occultation”. What is more, the Royal Star Regulus is part of the show too. “The last time the moon slid past three planets within 24 hours as it will this week was on March 5, 2008 (when it was Mercury, Venus and Neptune), and the next time will be in 2036, according to EarthSky. During this year’s event, as a bonus, the moon will also interrupt the light […]

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Steppenwolf

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A man, who feels himself to be half wolf, wanders through the rainy night streets of a European city. He comes across a strange door in a wall and sees this sign, or thinks he sees it, but then does it disappear? Magic Theatre  Admission not for everybody — Not for everybody — MAD PEOPLE  ONLY Harry Haller, the protagonist of Hermann Hesse’s masterpiece, the short novel Steppenwolf, is having a bit of a crisis. Not only does his own life feel meaningless and empty, the world around him, especially the bourgeois world, seems hypocritical, deluded (and yet, and yet, strangely […]

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Jim Carrey: A Message From Planet X

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  Jim Carrey, actor, comedian (and now painter) gave a red-carpet interview this week which was labelled “weird” and “awkward”. Among other things he said that the fashion event he was attending was “meaningless”, a statement of the obvious, some might say. He then went on to talk as if he’d just finished reading The Tao of Physics, which, I guess, does’t wash well with the Daily Mail etc. With rebellious, crazy Uranus right on the Midheaven of his chart, Carrey could be a transmitter for messages from Planet X — or a world-famous comedian. But look at what’s happening to that […]

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Astrology of Now: The Horses of Neptune

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Homeric Hymn to Poseidon About Poseidon the great god first I sing, mover of the earth and the barren sea, marine god, who possesses Helicon and broad Aegae. In two parts, Earth-shaker, the gods assigned you your privilege: to be a tamer of horses, and saviour of ships. I salute you, Poseidon, earth-rider, sable-hair. Keep your heart well disposed, blessed one, and assist those at sea. —translation from the Loeb Classical Library Hurricanes, earthquakes, storm surges and floods: Poseidon aka Neptune. Between the eclipse in Leo (Aug 21) and the Full Moon in Pisces conjunct Neptune (September 6), the horses […]

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Astrology and Freedom

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I have quite a few Asian clients, brought up in the Vedic or Chinese systems of astrology. At first, I was curious that they should seek out a Western practitioner even though they were steeped in a more culturally-accepted tradition. But after several enlightening conversations, I started to understand just how liberating it might be to use a system that is outside your own culture — and saw what a smart choice these clients are making. This set me thinking about how all astrology needs to be understood within its own cultural and historical context. For example, if you read a Western astrology book written in the 1970s or 1980s, you might be […]

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Double Retrograde for A Reactionary Throwback

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Oh the splendidness of astrology. I was listening to that Jacob Rees-Mogg, a 48-year-old elderly schoolboy who may actually become the next leader of the British Conservative Party. He is a caricature of “posh”, with the faux self-deprecating, smooth-bumbling of an Etonian (super polite and very rude simultaneously), and the opinions of, well, a bigot. So, I was grinding my teeth, when I thought, I bet he’s a got Mercury Retrograde in Gemini. Lo, dear reader, he has — and more. Rees-Mogg’s “young fogey” act makes good TV, just like Trump’s “you’re fired” thing, and Boris Johnson’s bumbling idiot thing. All three are […]

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Astrology of Now: Ceres, Abundance or Famine

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    As the goddess of grain and agriculture,  Ceres was one of the most important deities in Rome. The “world of Ceres”, a pit with a stone lid, was ceremonially opened three times a year – August 24, October 5 and November 8 – and offerings were left for the goddess of abundance. Right now, Ceres is in moist, fertile Cancer. Cancer is, of course, one of the most fertile signs, but it is also associated with the sea, tides and the Moon. In many parts of the world right now, the earth is literally bathed in water. Ceres has just had a […]

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