Author: Christina

Astrology of Now: Venus in Virgo

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Venus, who has spent the whole summer lolling around in the lap of luxury (Leo), moved into Virgo today. This means she will be out of the shadow of her retrograde by tomorrow. If you have been having to rethink, reinvent or reassess your attitudes to love, money, values or friendship this August/September, that period should be coming to a close and you will be ready to take practical action. Virgos and Pisces get ready for a heady month ahead as the goddess embraces first Jupiter and then Mars. The rest of us might also be wise to take a gamble […]

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Venus in Leo: Charisma

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As Venus strolls through each sign, she dons different clothes or new makeup; she sheds jewellery, cuts her hair, adds glitter, goes natural. The goddess shows that allure comes in many guises, not just physical beauty. The Rising sign, Sun sign and prominent planets are also important in shaping a person’s looks. But Venus is what makes us attractive. That’s why it’s interesting to look at people whose appearance is critical, or at least a part of, their work. Now Leo is the royal sign, ruled by the golden Sun itself. Venus in Leo is extroverted, projecting outwards, rather drawing in like, say, Cancer. Leo […]

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Can Astrologers Have Any Impact On Public Discourse?

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Last week, I had lunch with an astrologer friend and we talked about how attitudes to astrologers have changed in the past couple of decades. She commented that if you said you were an astrologer 20 or 30 years ago, you might be greeted with scepticism, but you never ran into outright hostility. These days you do run the risk of getting attacked by a cheerleader for scientism – or a Christian or Muslim convinced that astrology is the devil’s work. You’d think that getting the boot in was only important if astrology really represented a threat to the prevailing belief systems, yet the public status of astrology — […]

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October Horoscopes 2015

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It’s always an interesting time of year — October. We are half way round the Zodiac now, in Libra, the sign of balance, measuring and assessment. Often there’s a weary contemplation of the self as we go into Scorpio, But this year, October seems full of potential. There are conjunctions and easy aspects. The lovers, Venus and Mars, are tantalisingly close to embracing. Opportunities abound. But in order to grasp those opportunities fully, we need to know and understand ourselves, of course. Now there’s the rub. Illustrations this month are some interesting self portraits. Worth looking at all of them. […]

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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“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

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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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