Author: Christina

Pisces Musicians: Nina Simone, Gifted and Black

by Christina • February 21, 2016

Nina Simone — singer, composer and activist — was born on February 21, 1933 in North Carolina. She has Moon in Capricorn — a singer’s placement (read more on this here), Sun, North Node, Mercury and the Part of Fortune in Pisces in the first house of self and cusp of second house of talent. Simone truly was extraordinarily gifted: her piano-playing alone is brilliant. But add to that a composer’s understanding of the mechanics of music, an unforgettable voice, and the emotional truth of Moon-Pluto, and you get genius. I went to see her a long time ago at the […]

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Pisces Musicians: Kurt Cobain and Randy California

by Christina • February 20, 2016

Kurt Cobain, lead singer and songwriter for the group Nirvana, probably doesn’t need much introduction. He died at 27 from a heroin overdose after making some of the most angst ridden, crazy, intense music of the late 20th century. How many Pisces things in that paragraph? Nirvana, crazy and overdose… His Sun is at 1° Pisces, since he was born on February 20th. But his Mercury, Venus and Saturn are at the other end of Pisces, opposite his generation’s angry Uranus-Pluto conjunction in Virgo. Here he is. I had to include the lead singer of Spirit, Randy California, also born on February […]

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Pisces Musicians: Seal

by Christina • February 19, 2016

Pisces, ruled as it is by Neptune, the planet of pure music, is a sign stuffed full of singers, composers, songwriters and probably maraca players and backing singers too. Starting today, I’ll try and find a Pisces for each day of this sign this year and see if we can hear a silvery fishy sound threading through. With Pisces you don’t necessarily get the big voices of Capricorn, or the mellow sounds of Taurus, or the precise wordsmithing of Virgo or Gemini. What you get is a feeling — sometimes quite a vague one, and sometimes overwhelming, as you’ll hear later […]

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Toni Morrison

by Christina • February 18, 2016

“If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.” Mercury and Sun in Aquarius It’s Toni Morrison‘s birthday today. She’ll be 85. The Nobel Prize-winning author (Mercury in Aquarius conjunct MC) and teacher (Saturn-Venus in the 9th) has Aquarius Sun, Pisces Moon, Taurus Rising, Saturn in Capricorn. She’s got staying power. “All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.” Pisces Moon opposite Neptune in Virgo, Jupiter in Cancer “At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.” […]

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Music To Set The Mood For Love

by Christina • February 14, 2016

Love songs for Valentine’s Day — these have passed the test of time. The singers are chosen by sun sign, naturally. Happy Valentine’s Day. Aries Sarah Vaughn: Aries Taurus Ella Fitzgerald: Taurus Gemini Brian Wilson, Gemini Cancer The Wannadies’ lead singer Par Wiksten is a Cancer Leo Isaac Hayes, Black Moses — all Leo Virgo All the Virgo angst in one package: Van Morrison Libra John Lennon, Libra Scorpio Diana Krall gives this song the full Scorpio intensity. Sagittarius Frank Sinatra, Sagittarius Capricorn David Bowie — Capricorn, of course. Aquarius Juliette Greco, Aquarius Pisces Nina Simone, Pisces […]

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2016: The Year of the Maverick

by Christina • February 10, 2016

Here we are at the dawn of the Year of the Fire Monkey and already the results of the New Hampshire Primary in the United States are telling us that this could well be the year of maverick. In Chinese astrology, the Monkey is just what you’d expect — clever, quick, a trickster, a talker, a stirrer of the pot — indeed very like the sign Gemini in Western astrology. When that monkey is set on fire, as he is this year, he can get too hot to handle. There are 12 animals in the Chinese Zodiac — and every year […]

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February Monthly Horoscopes

by Christina • January 31, 2016

February looks a lot nicer than January — potentially it’s quite an exciting month though. And the square between Uranus and Pluto is always with us, so it’s not going to be stress-free. On the other hand, it does look like a good month for a holiday for many signs. Some days are busier than others. February 6 and 7 are positively popping with activity. February 10 has a fantastic trine, and February 27 is, well potentially comic and flighty. Valentine’s Day may actually be romantic — for the first time in years! To read you horoscope, click here. They are […]

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RIP — Thornton Dial

by Christina • January 29, 2016

Wonderful, maverick, true artist Thornton Dial passed a couple of days ago at the age of 87. He had Sun in Virgo — the sign of detail and craft — Venus in Libra (artistic) conjunct Mercury. The titles of his works were important, and the works speak. Saturn was one degree past Return for him (3rd time), Jupiter had passed over his Sun and was making its way back to sweep him into the big beyond.

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Venus in Scorpio: Gracile Strength And Pure Power

by Christina • January 28, 2016

If you’ve been following these “Venus In…” posts for a while, you will know that your Venus sign does not necessarily describe what you look like — that is more for the Ascendant or ruling planet — but how you are attractive. Over the year, quite a few people have asked why I’m not putting up pictures of ordinary people or less beautiful ones. In fact, I’ve chosen people whose attractiveness is important to their careers — actors, singers, models — precisely because they are a pleasure to the eye (often not always). These are people working that Venus. Of course, Serena […]

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Flint, Michigan

by Christina • January 25, 2016

The city of Flint, Michigan has been poisoned by bad governance. That’s not a metaphor: it is literally true. Flint, located between two of the greatest freshwater lakes on the planet, is an old industrial town, ravaged like its big neighbour Detroit by post-industrial decline. Because of this collapse, State Governor Rick Snyder (campaign slogan: “one tough nerd”) sent in the suits to fix Flint’s books. In order to save $5m or so, they decided the city should stop buying water from Detroit and start processing water from the astonishingly polluted Flint River. On April 25, 2014, the city made the switch […]

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