Author: Christina

Astrology of Now: Venus Exalted

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My daughters’ favourite moment during the recent Venus Retrograde was their discovery of a large skeleton in a lonely, crumbling ruin by the edge of the roaring Atlantic — even the 13 year old lost her composure for a full moment. They burst out of the broch — a 10th century miniature fort — and into the rain, terrified and thrilled. Then they crawled back through the dark, muddy tunnel for a closer look. The 40-day Venus retrograde can be read as Venus’ journey through the Underworld. Perhaps this was a little re-enactment of that story of Inanna’s journey to the Kur, the Sumerian hell. As you […]

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April Horoscopes

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It’s a very complicated picture this month, but things do slow down a lot — and about time too. It’s important to note that from April 9 to 24, Venus will be between just two degrees of Pisces, 26° and 28°. This intense focus from the goddess of love and luck is unusual and will touch you directly if you have any planets around these degrees in water signs, Cancer, Pisces and Scorpio, earth signs, Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn — or Sagittarius and Gemini. It seems as she will be especially supportive during an otherwise potentially fraught week as the […]

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Brexit: Pluto’s Plaything

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Well, it had to happen eventually. Prime Minister Theresa May will start the legal process of Brexit tomorrow. For the United Kingdom to leave the European Union she must “trigger” Article 50, the relevant piece of legislation, by writing an official letter to the European Commission. She has chosen to do this on March 29. As some of you may recall, the chart for the Brexit vote on June 21, 2016 had Pluto Rising. Tomorrow’s charts also have Pluto’s fingerprints all over them. In a nutshell, Pluto is about death and rebirth: something wiped out in order for something else to come, slash and […]

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Liz Greene on Jung

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I have a place in from 5-7 May on Liz Greene’s workshop: JUNG’S ASTROLOGY AND THE PLANETARY JOURNEY OF THE RED BOOK. However, I can’t go. If you would like to take my place, let me know, and I will let the organisers know that you are coming in my place. Needless to say, Liz Green is the foremost astrologer working in Britain — and she does very little teaching these days, so this is quite a rare opportunity. At least one other well-known astrologer will be participating I believe. As for the Red Book, well… intriguing, fascinating, strange…. For more […]

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Attack on Westminster

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Attacks  in London today brought terror to the Mother of Parliaments. At least two people have been killed and many more have been badly injured after a car mowed down pedestrians on Westminster Bridge — and shortly afterwards, a man wielding a knife attacked police guarding the Houses of Parliament. One officer has been confirmed dead. One attacker was shot around 2.45pm. The car started mowing people down shortly after 2.30. Note the position of the Moon — which often triggers events. Also note 23° ASC, Uranus and Moon. The Moon has moved from Pluto conjunction to square Uranus. Mars on the MC. Note transiting Pluto to the […]

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In the Key of Pisces: Adam Levine

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Last year, we featured  a series of musicians born during the month of Pisces — one for each day, but there were just too many to fit in. Here is Adam Levine, another for our sweet-sounding Pisces male voice choir, that includes James Taylor, Chris Martin, Nat King Cole, George Harrison, Tom Chaplin and Kurt Cobain. Adam Levine’s smart, sexy band Maroon 5 have made a whole bunch of hits. This one shows off his voice well and that talented pattern connecting Venus (sugar) – Pluto (sex) – Neptune (music). And then there’s Tom Chaplin, Keane’s frontman and singer.

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The Lonely Sun of Theresa May

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Theresa May became Britain’s second woman Prime Minister last summer, because there was no alternative. The rest of them had done each other in. She was the last woman standing, and the country breathed a collective sigh of relief when she stepped into the breach. She seemed capable, calm, reliable — and strangely familiar. The latter not just because of a faint resemblance to the last female PM, Mrs Thatcher (another Libran with Saturn in Scorpio), but because she appeared to embody a kind of British everywoman: the vicar, the headteacher, the local librarian, memsahib, head girl, a good sort, a brick. […]

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Astrology of Now: Sensual, New

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Today, Mars, the planet of physicality, action and Iron John moves into the sign of the Bull. Strangely, this is traditionally considered a difficult position for the planet of masculinity — maybe there’s just too much testosterone there. However, I note that people with this placement natally have incredible stamina, focus and often straightforward physical strength. It’s just a matter of what you do with that. (And indeed a team of scaffolders is currently swarming over my house.) This transit though, Mars in Taurus has some interesting help. Taurus’ ruler, sweet Venus, is currently walking down into the underworld of Aries: […]

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Venus in Aries: Alexander McQueen

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The late Alexander McQueen said that he wanted people to feel afraid of the women who wore his clothes. His shows were legendary: shocking, emotional, Gothic, visceral — absolutely exquisite. In 1995’s The Birds — inspired by Hithcock’s movie — models stumbled down the catwalk, dresses torn and tire-marked as if they’d been run over. In 1999’s No. 13, the finale is a model being spray-painted by robots. The violence and the vulnerability (Pluto opposite Moon, Venus in Aries) were more or less explicit in every show. “People find my things sometimes aggressive. But I don’t see it as aggressive. I see it […]

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In the Key of Pisces: Tom Chaplin

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Tom Chaplin, of the British band Keane, sings with all the tortured melancholy you’d expect from a fish-boy with Sun squaring Neptune, the planet of music. That Neptune is in Sagittarius, the sign of excess, so it also comes as no surprise that Chaplin has had his share of drug problems. One of his most beautiful compositions, Somewhere Only We Know, expresses all the nostalgic yearning that you’d expect from a Moon in Cancer — an emotional powerhouse, vulnerable and strong. His latest solo effort is, of course, called The Wave — and it’s an almost uncanny musical description of what it’s like to […]

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