Author: Christina

Hillary Clinton, Dragon-Slayer

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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The Autumn Equinox

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Today the Sun moves from mutable Virgo to cardinal Libra and the night is as long as the day. It’s one of the four corners of the year, when the season turns and we start our walk to the darkest day of the year. We are at one of the four Cardinal points (0° Libra), a beginning. And this year, Jupiter, for the first time in 12 years, magnifies Libra, and the things of Libra… What is more Mercury, the planet of speed and communication, turns direct today… That is something to bear in mind in the coming weeks. Happy Equinox! *This rather mysterious painting, titled […]

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Brangelina Back To Just Plain Old Brad and Angelina

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What a shame that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are splitting up. It’s a tale of mutable tragedy. Pitt is a Sagittarian Sun and Jolie a Gemini — opposites attracted. Both these signs have been shaken and stirred this year by eclipses and a Jupiter transit in their fellow mutables Pisces and Virgo — not to mention gloomy Saturn’s transit through Sagittarius and harsh square to romantic Neptune in Pisces. The latter was a big reality check for everyone. That eclipse on September 1 smacked poor Brad Pitt right where it hurts most — on his Chiron. In fact, his […]

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Artist’s Birthday: Arthur Rackham

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They say that the best way to see fairies is slantwise, out of the corner of your eye. Twisting, twirling, pirouetting india ink, delighted detail, subtle washes of colour and something sinister: the drawings of Arthur Rackham. Fairies swirl into trees, spin into trolls, spin into wild flowers. It’s English illustrator Arthur Rackham’s 149th birthday today — or his third Chiron Return. And understanding Chiron in Pisces might be critical to understanding his work. Rackham drew the stunted, hunched, lame creatures of magic — the trolls and dwarves, giants and witches, wind-blasted hawthorns and twisted oaks — with a kind of beady zest that seemed […]

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A Musical Zodiac: Interview with the Composer

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  Since music and astrology are in some senses soul-sisters, it’s surprising (perhaps) that so little music based on our cosmic art has been written in the classical tradition. So it’s hugely satisfying that award-winning composer, visiting professor at the Royal College of Music, conductor and all round music maven Debbie Wiseman has filled this lacuna with a luscious, imaginative Musical Zodiac. This is a sequence of sound portraits in the classical tradition — like Elgar’s Enigma Variations — with one song for each sign from Aries to Pisces. Wiseman talked to The Oxford Astrologer last week and gave a little insight into the evolution of the work. […]

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Astrology of Now: Eclipse — It’s All Maya

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Tomorrow, September 16, there will be a partial eclipse of Lady Luna. You will be able to see this from Europe to the Western Pacific. The point of closest eclipse is at 18.54 GMT. Right now the Moon is already in Pisces. The eclipse takes place at 24°.   Last night, I stood in the garden looking at the Moon hanging like a glass bauble in the night sky. It was a very clear night — and unusually warm for this time of year. I could see all the mysterious markings across the white surface of the Moon. How she glistened. She appeared so […]

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