Author: Christina

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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September Horoscopes

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With the wettest September Full Moon since 2015 coming up on the 6th, Mars and Mercury tangoing on the lip of an abyss, and Uranus and Jupiter in a final face-off across the divorce angle, September looks tempestuous. But where there is disruption, there is potential…. To read your horoscope, or subscribe, click here.  

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Astrology of Now: This Restless Summer

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…and yet the children eat figs on the beach, fight, splash. The wine tastes good. Sun sets. Everything, everything is precious. This summer is not like other summers. A magnifying glass hovers over the human world, making our invisible bonds almost visible, gossamer threads ruffling, stretching, floating like skeins a spider weaves, catching rainbows and dew. Imagine: a few years ago, we might have been on holiday from Aleppo — a day at the beach in Latakia, perhaps, with a paper bag of loukoum to nibble under an umbrella. Or maybe we were from Caracas… down at Isla Margarita for the waterskiing. Or a few […]

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Why Charlottesville?

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Angry faces reddened by torchlight, mouths agape spewing hatred. The sight of those men — and they were almost all men — scarring the beautiful campus of the University of Virginia was stomach churning, horrible, familiar — even on the small screen of this laptop, You’ve seen that same anger in other groups of men, waving banners, chanting. Maybe the images were in fuzzy black and white, maybe in sharp focus on your TV screen, maybe the language was one you couldn’t understand. The intention and the energy are the same. We know these people: they are haters. “Purification” is their motivation. Violence […]

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What Astrologers Are Saying About The Great American Eclipse

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The Great American Eclipse which sweeps from sea to shining sea on August 21 has the astrological world in a frenzy — and no wonder: it’s a great big Total Eclipse of the Sun, the first to go across the American landmass so thoroughly in about a century. And the eclipse is opposite the US natal Moon at 27° Aquarius. And it’s right on President Donald Trump’s Ascendant. It truly is making a big statement about the US of A. It is not misnamed. This eclipse is not unlike a previous Total Eclipse in Leo in 1999. This was the year that […]

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Astrology of Now: The Whole of the Moon

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“I pictured a rainbow, you held it in your hands I had flashes but you saw the plan I wandered out in the world for years while you just stayed in your room I saw the crescent, you saw the whole of the moon The whole of the moon” The Waterboys We have all known that person who reaches too high, too far, too soon. Maybe you were that person. Maybe you are that person. The Moon in Aquarius will be slightly eclipsed today at 20.35 BST. You’ll be able to see this if you are in Europe. It’s like a […]

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August Horoscopes

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I am writing this as a warm, dry wind rustles the fig tree outside the window. It’s a strange wind, unusual for this time of year in France, bearing no rain, but a promise of thunder. That feeling of an electrical storm — with all its beauty and terror — may be what you feel now about the month ahead. And indeed it is quite a month, with two eclipses and a Mercury Retrograde to contend with. The mighty Sun is at his most powerful in August, since the Lion, the sign he rules, rides on the horizon. And this August the Sun is accompanied […]

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