Author: Christina

The Astrology of Ceres

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The dwarf planet Ceres, named after the goddess of fertility and agriculture, takes four years to make her way through the Zodiac, spending about four months in each sign. But this year, due to retrograde, she will be spending an unusually long time in Aries and the early degrees of Taurus. Ceres turned retrograde on August 31 at 5° Taurus and she retreats into Aries on October 13. Ceres is about the same size as Pluto. Although her influence has been widely ignored by the astrological establishment — even though the asteroids were discovered over 100 years earlier than Pluto […]

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The Book of Heaven

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I have, beside my bed, a most delicious and strange book. It’s so rich and peculiar that I have found I can only dip into it one story at a time. Yet it is so delightful that I keep it there to pick up every now and then so that I can take my mind far, far away — to another universe in fact. If you have even the vaguest passing interest in astrology, you should read The Book of Heaven by Patricia Storace. It’s premise is one that you will appreciate. With Mercury Rx in Virgo, I am looking at the […]

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A Musical Zodiac (Tonight)

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A Musical Zodiac, composed and conducted by Debbie Wiseman (with sleeve notes by Jonathan Cainer). Launched September 16.   A crab yearns for the moon, a seamstress stitches in a pool of sunlight, twins play — Debbie Wiseman’s musical character sketches of the signs of the Zodiac are powerful, delicate, acute. From the weaving complexity of Gemini evoked by violin and cello to the heat and power of Leo the Lion, from the shimmering otherworldliness of the Fishes to the civilised balance of Libra, Wiseman creates a Zodiac of sound. Wiseman was commissioned last autumn to write a 12-part suite by […]

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RIP Gene Wilder

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“I wanted to come out with a cane, come down slowly, have it stick into one of the bricks, get up, fall over, roll around, and they all laugh and applaud. The director asked, ‘what do you want to do that for?’ I said from that time on, no one will know if I’m lying or telling the truth.” — Gene Wilder on his role as Willie Wonka Gene Wilder’s on-screen characters teetered between sanity and reason. All of them seemed unreliable, friable, on the point of fragmentation. Say boo to Leopold Bloom in The Producers and he might have an […]

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Astrology of Now: Re-detailing the Details

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Mercury Rx in Virgo 30 Aug- 22 September 29°-14° My goodness — what a super duper Mercury Rx. My household is swept up in a frenzied combined back-to-school, major-clear-out reading party. Here are some good things that have happened in the last few days. • You can see the floor of the garden shed — and the fancy missing trowel turned up. You can see the pond, having removed all the grass that had grown over it. • The woodpile is a model of symmetry and order • My glasses surfaced at last, so I can stop wearing the prescription […]

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September Horoscopes: Practical Magic

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  A piece of wood, some catgut, ebony: a violin. Grapes transformed into wine. Paint transformed into image. Practical magic. This month opens with a wondrous eclipse in the sign of skill and craftsmanship, Virgo, which opens up the powerful generational aspect between Saturn and Neptune, rules and imagination. These two distinct energies don’t often work together — but when they do you get something really special. You get craftsmanship and fairy dust, you get art, or wine. The second eclipse is in Pisces, Neptune’s own sign, the sign of collective emotion, mass hysteria — and mystery. Neptune in Pisces won’t […]

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Winds of Change

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As promised, here is a lengthier explanation of the coming series of astrological events that rock the mutable signs, and with them the whole Zodiac. I felt there wasn’t quite enough room in the monthly horoscopes for this  since it covers the end of August and some of September. This is part of a big pattern unfolding over the coming months that includes Saturn, Neptune, Mars and the eclipses. I’ve included a brief outline of how it might work for your Sun sign, but I leave it to you to ponder wider ramifications. This long essay is for subscribers only. […]

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Asteroids Paint A Picture of A Modern Martyrdom

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My colleague Rollan McCleary sent me this email last week, which I thought I’d share with you. This is especially for those of you interested in asteroids. “I will paste below a small piece I put out on the American Noel Tyl site and called Picture of a Modern Martyrdom.  You  may find you could use some of this. I feel that the point alone about asteroid AHMED is important to know. PASTE Two days ago on July 26th around 9.25 am according to report, two youths devoted to ISIS entered a village church near Rouen, France, and murdered Father […]

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August Monthly Horoscopes

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It’s rather marvellous that this year’s Olympics take place with a rocket-fuelled Mars in sporty Sagittarius. Will long-standing records be smashed on August 22, when Mars meets Saturn? Athletes remind us, perhaps, that there are many ways to be heroic. We are all heroes of our own life-stories. Nothing can take that away. To read your horoscope, click here.

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The State We’re In

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“Society suddenly finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism; it appears as if a famine, a universal war of devastation, had cut off the supply of every means of subsistence; industry and commerce seem to be destroyed; and why? Because there is too much civilisation, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce. The productive forces at the disposal of society no longer tend to further the development of the conditions of bourgeois property; on the contrary, they have become too powerful for these conditions. […] And how does the bourgeoisie get over these […]

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