Author: Christina

Astrology of Now: The Eclipse, the Pope and the Hajj

by Christina • September 27, 2015

The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia has this to say about more than 700 people being crushed to death at Mina during the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, the Hajj: “As for the things that humans cannot control, you are not blamed for them. Fate and destiny are inevitable.” Fate and destiny are by definition inevitable, of course, but the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is right to be furious. Those people died because of poor crowd control. However, with the massive energies of Jupiter (pilgrimage) and Neptune (religious ecstasy) in opposition across the Zodiac right now, you might have expected a really huge number […]

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Astrology of Now: Equinox, Public Humiliation and Mercury Rx

by Christina • September 23, 2015

I’m writing this just as the Sun approaches the celestial equator. It is the equinox, when night and day are perfectly balanced. We enter the sign of Libra today, which this year is already hosting Mercury’s retrograde. Libra is one of the four cardinal signs that open the seasons – Aries (spring), Cancer (summer), Libra (autumn) and Capricorn (winter), or the reverse if you are in the Southern hemisphere. Libra is the sign of balance, of equal measures, of the other, a contrast to the one-pointedness of its opposite Aries. Maybe it’s useful now to think about how the whole Zodiac balances and rebalances […]

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Sensitive

by Christina • September 21, 2015

Dr Elaine Aron’s book The Highly Sensitive Person validates something astrologers have always known — some people are more sensitive than others. Dr Aron puts this figure at about 20% of the population. In other words, it’s perfectly normal, but sensitivity is not always valued by our culture. Here are four important characteristics of the Highly Sensitive Person (HSP). Depth of processing. HSPs tend to ponder deeply, but there are broadly two types: those who are interested in everything, and those who focus keenly on just a couple of things. Over aroused (easily compared to others). This can be a big problem […]

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What Astrologers Are Saying About Saturn in Sagittarius

by Christina • September 18, 2015

Saturn in Sagittarius 23 December 2014-15 June 2015 September 17, 2015-December 20 2017 You can just imagine Saturn walking into Sagittarius’ flat — and reeling at the chaos, the freewheeling coffee cups, the jumble of throws, the mysterious sticky saucer under the sofa, the stacks of books and LPs, the exotic stranger asleep in the bathtub, the weird smell and the three empty bottles of surprisingly good wine collecting dust by the bed, and the collection of stray cats draped over the radiators. “We need some rules around here,” he’d mutter, and pretty soon there would be some changes: such as […]

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Chrissie Hynde, Leader of the Band

by Christina • September 16, 2015

“Now, let me assure you that, technically speaking, however you want to look at it, this was all my doing and I take full responsibility.” — Chrissie Hynde could be talking about her whole life in that one sentence. Everyone had that album: the Pretenders first. Pictured: a line up — sulky Chrissie Hynde in a ketchup-coloured jacket with the three male members of the band in black, variously posing. There she is, just one of the band — and at the same time, so startlingly different. Hynde was no floaty hippie chick, like the women in Fleetwood Mac or even Grace Slick; she wasn’t […]

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Zenobia And The Temple of Bel

by Christina • September 11, 2015

The warrior queen Zenobia passed under that Zodiac dozens, maybe hundreds, of times. By the start of her reign in the 3rd century BC, the Temple of Bel in Palmyra was already 200 years old. Its fabulous portico with the seven planets personified, surrounded by the signs of the Zodiac, would have been a familiar part of the sacred furniture of the the queen’s great desert city. Subsequent generations of travellers to the Middle East crossed the desert to visit Zenobia’s city, inspired by the legend of the warrior queen and rumours of the romance of the ruins. Isobel Burton, writing in the 1870s, […]

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Astrology of Now: Overwhelming

by Christina • September 8, 2015

Jupiter in Virgo opposition Neptune in Pisces — September 17 Readers of the horoscope will know that the coming opposition between Jupiter and Neptune is the most important aspect this month, influencing this entire period into the next season and possibly the whole year. For some people it will be the most important aspect of a lifetime. For the refugees walking out of danger, the meaning of this aspect is clear, but every single one of us feels this one. Neptune in Pisces is super-powered. Jupiter, opposing him, both magnifies the power and distributes it. This aspect is about huge […]

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Refugees: Jupiter-Neptune In Action

by Christina • September 7, 2015

Last week, I did a talk at Aquarius Severn which included a short picture essay. I’ll show it to you here. Remember that Neptune and Jupiter, the planets that promote flow, meet across the mutable Virgo-Pisces axis once a century. Jupiter in Virgo, Neptune in Pisces — 1849 Jupiter in Pisces, Neptune in Virgo — 1939 Jupiter in Virgo, Neptune in Pisces — 2015

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Talk On Astrology Of Now

by Christina • September 1, 2015

I’m very pleased that Aquarius Severn has asked me back for a third time. I will be giving a talk on Thursday, September 3 in Cheltenham. Click here for details of how to get there. Since I’m stepping in at the last minute, they’ve asked me to throw together a smorgasbord of ideas, so I’ll be looking at the Neptune-Jupiter opposition, the refugee crisis, Corbynmania, ISIS, Jupiter in Virgo and whatever else crops up. I hope we’ll have a good freewheeling discussion. I’m bringing plenty of charts. See you there. PS If you run an astrology group and you’d like […]

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Monthly Horoscopes: September 2015

by Christina • September 1, 2015

Oh my! Two eclipses, a Mercury Retrograde and the opposition of the decade, if not the century (for some of us). To read your horoscope, click the links below. Aries through Virgo Libra through Pisces Horoscopes are for subscribers only, to join, click the links and follow the directions. Pictures this month are all about the detail, an homage to Jupiter in Virgo.

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