I’m on at 1.30 this week instead of the usual 2.30. Radio Oxford with Alex Lester 1.30pm, November 4 Tune in for a look at the month ahead plus some other random Scorpio stuff.
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The Death of the Press
Hot-metal printing was finally killed off in the mid-1980s. Its demise had been a long time coming, as it was superseded by other cleaner, faster, cheaper technologies. London’s print unions were some of the last in the world to hold out, in the Wapping Dispute with Rupert Murdoch’s News International. When they caved in February 1987, it was the end. Imagine though, a composing room, in 1983 or even 1883. Lead type melts, is moulded, banged into place on the composing stones with wooden mallets by the compositor. On one side of the stone, the compositor; on the other, the editor: jobs strictly delineated. Editors […]
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November Horoscopes
Happy Halloween! Black cats all round for this month’s horoscopes. Click here to find yours. And remember to read your Rising and Sun signs.
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Nasty Women
No matter what you think about the candidates for president in the USA, the campaign has given rise to some barnstorming feminist political speeches. It feels like a real breakthrough — a change in the weather. In astrology, we have a “nasty woman”. She’s called Black Moon Lilith, and she’s strutting around in Scorpio this year. She’s been here since May, and she won’t leave until February. Lilith in Scorpio seems pretty powerful. She’s even been given a voice by Senator Elizabeth Warren, whose speech about nasty women made some of us fall around laughing. “Nasty women are tough, nasty women are […]
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Astrology of Now: Volcanic Forces
Mars and Pluto are having their biannual conjunction — today, tomorrow, and the day after. Yes, that’s two warriors having a confab in ambitious, driven, earthy Capricorn; the planet of action, Mars, and the planet of the Underworld, Pluto, working together; war plus power. On the mundane level, watch the Mosul Offensive taking place over these days in Iraq. If you have planets in Libra, Capricorn, Cancer or Aries at 15°, pay attention. You can move the mountain now — maybe using some TNT. If you have planets at 15° in Pisces, Taurus, Virgo or Scorpio — you have may be able […]
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Hillary Clinton, Dragon-Slayer
This American election is an archetypal battle, the stuff of fairytale or legend. The two sides line up, accusing each other of hatred, lying and lasciviousness; of baseness, vileness, bestiality. In their vagueness sometimes, the smears require a leap of imagination from the public. What’s the worst thing you can think of? The words are Biblical, the accusations are of immorality. The candidates are speaking of a seething abyss of sin. It is extraordinary. Although this language has been used for a while by the right wing of the Republican Party, now it has irrupted into the mainstream. And in Donald Trump, the Republicans […]
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Astrology of Now: Six degrees of Jupiter in Libra
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon: a game based on the idea that any player in Hollywood can be linked, through the films they have worked on, to character actor Kevin Bacon within six steps. So say, Kevin Bacon has a value of 0 — he being the centre of the Hollywood universe — then try linking Michael Caine. He has a Bacon number of 2: Caine was in Now You See Me with Woody Harrelson, and Harrelson was in She’s Having a Baby with Bacon. The truth is that you could pick almost any living actor in Tinsel Town and he […]
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October Monthly Horoscopes
The October Horoscopes are here and ready for your perusal. In pictures, this month we’re celebrating Libra in a big way: love, togetherness, laughter and old-fashioned glamour. Jupiter, the bringer of joy and jollity, embarks on his magnificent tour of this sign of relationship with a fresh New Moon today. All three! lunations this month look exciting, stimulating and full of potential. Meanwhile, Mars is making some feisty contacts. Don’t forget to read both your Rising sign and your Sun sign. Publishing these a little early to catch the New Moon! To read them, click here.
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Darby Costello in Oxford
I just wanted to remind you that a doyenne of psychological astrology, the wonderful Darby Costello, is coming here to Oxford in November. She’ll be giving a one-day workshop on the Progressed Moon as a guest of The Oxford Astrology Group. This workshop is suitable, I think, for anyone working with astrology on any level — whether that’s investigating your own chart or working with clients. Powered by Eventbrite
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Astrology of Now: Righteous
There’s a great deal of political hatred and vitriol these days. Everyone is righteous. Perhaps Jupiter in Libra is exaggerating our differences before getting us all to kiss and make up…. written wistfully. This may not be possible in the wider world. Jupiter in Libra can well have a polarising effect. Just look at Donald Trump, who was born with this astrological signature. But sometimes, it’s good to have clarity about who your enemies are, because then you can embrace your friends more tightly. However, on a personal level, we could try looking at things from the other person’s point of view. […]
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