Author: Christina

#metoo: Emotional Insight

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Every single woman that I know has experienced a straightforward sexual assault — raped, groped, flashed — mostly by someone she knew. And from her working life, every single woman I know has a catalogue of the occasions when she was manipulated, intimidated, pestered, ignored, frightened or belittled simply because of her sex. She’s learned to put those away in a box. Because if you spend too much time thinking about it, you could get quite bitter. #metoo opened all those personal boxes. The silence was broken, and many of us have spent the last few weeks recalibrating our memories, reliving […]

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Astrology of Now: Spellcasting

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Autumn is here. There is magic in the air. After the high winds: still, dull skies, yellow-leaved birch, bronze beech. Delicious fall smells: woodsmoke, rot, mushrooms, apples. The nights are reaching into the hours of day, here in the north. But everywhere, the season of magic opened today. The Sun moved into Scorpio, Mars moved into Libra. In a couple of days, the Sun will conjoin mighty Jupiter in this, the sign of what lies beneath, shining a light down there, maybe lighting a bonfire this year. Traditionally, of course, this is the time when the veil is thin. The mouth […]

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Half-way Through Pluto in Capricorn

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Pluto, the planet of transformation, death and rebirth, is only half way through the sign of Capricorn, which rules structure. The dark lord of the underworld entered that sign in 2008 — since when the collective has seen quite a lot of destruction — but little rebirth so far. Right now, with the Sun in Libra, the sign of the scales, we’re at a nice moment for assessing where we are. Pluto in Capricorn — 2008-2023 Pluto is currently at 16°57 travelling direct, and won’t be coming back to this degree for a couple of centuries. I came across this video […]

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Jupiter in Scorpio: Underworlds

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Within the earth, beneath the mountain, through the dark lake, there is another world. Sunlight does not penetrate. You must bring your own light. This is the realm of the dead, a place of ghosts and shades, a place of buried wealth, secrets, hidden desires. Gilgamesh, Inanna, Psyche, Demeter, Balder the Beautiful, Dionysus and Orpheus; the Japanese creator Izanagi, Gesar the King of the Mongols and the Mayan Hero Twins — these gods and heroes visited the underworld and returned. This dangerous, dark otherworld is found in the myth or folklore of all continents — so is the story of a […]

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Spain In The Midst Of A Nervous Breakdown

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A lot of people don’t speak Spanish as a first language in Spain. They speak Euskari in the Basque country, Catalan in Catalonia, Gallego in Galicia, and rich, juicy dialects in the south. Spanish itself is called Castellano by Spaniards, because it comes from the county of Castile, in central Spain. The citizens of certain parts of Spain feel as if they have been under occupation (off and on) by Castilians since the late 15th century, when Ferdinand and Isabella unified the country. Indeed some would argue that conquistadors were not only oppressing the natives of central and south America, […]

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October Horoscopes

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There is a major shift in energy this month, but you may not be feeling it quite yet. This will come as quite a relief to many of us. What a bumpy ride it’s been with expansive Jupiter in well-balanced Libra. This is because Lord of the Zodiac came into conflict with both Uranus and Pluto for much of the year. Well, there are only 10 days left of that tense energy — and then Jupiter cools off in the deep waters of Scorpio for 12 months. While Jupiter gets used to his new abode, we have two of the […]

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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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