Author: Christina

The Passion Of Modigliani

by Christina • November 10, 2015

Yesterday this painting was sold to Chinese billionaire Liu Yiqian for $170m. Think about that for a moment. One hundred and seventy million dollars. Extraordinary. Christie’s chose the right month in which to sell it, with the Sun in Scorpio, since the subject of this picture is passion. Sex in the midst of death: this is Scorpio’s realm. Jeanne Hébuterne, Amedeo Modigliani’s live-in lover, the mother of his child, and his muse, had Scorpio rising. On her descendant, the angle of partnership, Venus and Mercury conjoin across fiery Aries and sensual Taurus. That Venus (in detriment!) is in the very final degree of Aries, so it has […]

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National Geographic: Swallowed By A Great White Shark

by Christina • November 5, 2015

My grandparents had stacks of yellow-edged National Geographics in the basement of their house, some dating from the days before photographs were on the front cover. On rainy days in summer or awkward Christmas holidays, I escaped down there, opened those shiny covers and travelled the world. I guess it was like that for a lot of people. The magazine was like an old friend, something we took for granted. It would always be yellow, the pictures would always be great, and the world it told us about would always be awesome. Until last month the magazine was not for profit, which explains perhaps […]

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Astrology of Now: Love Subdues Anger

by Christina • November 2, 2015

“Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.” ― Jeanette Winterson, Venus and Mars in Virgo “The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.” ― Guy de Maupassant, Venus and Mars conjunction in Virgo Venus Peace Love Harmony Beauty Seduction “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche — Mars and Venus in Virgo Mars Energy War Blood Lust Anger Tomorrow, […]

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November Monthly Horoscopes

by Christina • October 31, 2015

November begins with a beautiful warm embrace between the lovers Mars and Venus. We can all benefit. It ends with an intriguing, difficult, stimulating encounter between the Grim Reaper Saturn and the planet of illusion and imagination, Neptune. To find out how this works for you, click here. You will also find a page with the charts for the Full and New Moons and important aspects this month. The visual theme: enchanted forests.

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Maggie Smith: Capricorn Rules

by Christina • October 24, 2015

We are well behind the curve in this household — just catching up on Downton Abbey. Love the frocks and the tableware, but mainly loving Maggie Smith, who is absolutely electric as the septuagenarian Dowager Countess. That means his lordship’s mum. So I wondered if there were a bit of the old sea-goat in her chart. What they say about Capricorn is that if you make it past your early 40s — unlike say Elvis — then you’re likely to go on and on and on. What is more you’re old when you’re young, and young when you’re old. Dame Maggie (for […]

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Divided by Pluto: Virgo through Capricorn

by Christina • October 23, 2015

I started writing about Pluto generations with the intention of keeping these summaries short and letting the pictures tell part of the story. These were meant to be ready references to spark off ideas. Then the subject ballooned out of control, and I had to stop for a bit. Now I’ve cut back and again and decided to publish these summaries and return to writing about the generations in greater detail later. Just to reiterate. There are a couple of interesting periods to look for each generation: when they come of age in their 20s and when they come to […]

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Apollo Wins the Canadian Election

by Christina • October 21, 2015

Canadians, it seems, have thrown out old and cold Saturn in favour of Apollo himself, the god of light. In other words, Justin Trudeau’s Liberal party trounced Stephen Harper’s Conservatives. Harper was older, colder, stiffer and meaner. Trudeau’s approach to politics? “Sunny ways, Canadians, sunny ways.” Justin Trudeau was born in the purple on Christmas Day, 1971. His father Pierre Trudeau was prime minister — and still riding the wave of “Trudeaumania” that swept him to power. In fact Trudeau Pere would go on to serve for more than a decade, so JT grew up in the power house. This legacy is something that JT will never […]

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Divided By Pluto: Gemini through Leo

by Christina • October 20, 2015

The movement of the outer planets, Pluto, Neptune and Uranus, is generational. In particular, Pluto’s movement is slow enough — it takes about 15 years to get through a sign — to give us a wide cohort. Pluto tells us what is powerful, what is transformed, what is lost. It’s interesting to look at the time when a particular Pluto generation comes of age, and then again when that generation comes to power. These are not necessarily at the same point. For example, the Baby Boomers (Pluto in Leo) came of age in the 1960s and 1970s but they came […]

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Lunar Etiquette

by Christina • October 12, 2015

This New Moon in Libra (18°) is exactly opposite the planet of explosive opportunity, Uranus. Some of us will be sprinting out of the blocks tomorrow into the next big adventure. Use this energy wisely because we have help from both optimistic Jupiter in Virgo and ruthless Pluto in Capricorn. These two are co-operating beautifully, intent on making some big idea manifest. Earth signs especially benefit from Jupiter and Pluto. Cardinal signs especially benefit from the Uranian intervention. Manners makyth man is the motto of New College — one of the oldest colleges here. What it means is: however high or low your birth, fat […]

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Ankara Massacre

by Christina • October 12, 2015

If you didn’t believe in the power of astrological symbols before, you should now. The chart I use for the Republic of Turkey is set for the declaration of the Turkish Republic in 1923, absurdly recent for a country with such a long history, but as you can see from the transits to the chart below, accurate. On Saturday, two bombs ripped apart a peace demonstration in Ankara, the Turkish capital, killing more than 90 people and hospitalising dozens. This was the biggest terrorist attack in modern Turkish history. You can read more about it here. Who is responsible? Some say […]

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