Author: Christina

The New Horizons Mission to Pluto

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It’s quite catching: the excitement of all those NASA boffins. The success of the New Horizons mission to Pluto is wonderful. The images bring the planet so close, show the importance of his henchman Charon, the dark planet’s “heart”, and his handsome craggy features. The astrology? Well, this mid-month we’ve been having a pretty tough opposition from Mars-Mercury to Pluto. On the day of the closest approach, July 14, the dynamic duo were sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon, all in watery and imaginative Cancer. Now Cancer is the sign of home and tribe, so you could see this […]

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Temples Of The Sky

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I have been reading Deborah Houlding’s book The Houses, Temples of the Sky. It’s an excellent reference and should be on every astrologer’s bookshelf. Although Houlding is a traditional astrologer and her focus is on the horary and mundane, her research and ideas are relevant to her modern, more psychologically inclined colleagues. She has gone back to pre-18th century source material — specifically Manilius, Firmicus, Al Biruni and Lilly but many others also — and tried to decipher what these astrologers had in mind for the meaning of houses. Of course, these writers were all trying to make astrology fit […]

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East Meets West — A View From China

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My fellow blogging astrologer, Mitch Lopate, moved to China in March to teach at a business school. I asked him to send us the occasional pithy little anecdote to show us how his Western astrology is being received over there. He writes: So I’ve been teaching freshman English Reading & Writing at a finance-economics university in Nanchang since March–and astrology has been a major source of discussion for me. I have found it to be interesting as a verbal can-opener in order to try and get my students to talk. (They are VERY reluctant to practice their speaking skills: “We […]

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Everyone Has A Story

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Last Friday, I did a charity event, which meant I did a dozen readings back-to-back in a short space of time. I was worried that I’d end up being a kind of fairground fortune teller. Cross my palm with silver, etcetera. My worries turned out to be groundless. Although I’d lost my voice by the end of it, the experience was energising and profound. This was thanks to the people who came to see me. They reminded me — again — of something important that astrology teaches: everyone is interesting. In a way, I’m used to this. All my clients […]

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Beards

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Big bushy, smooth furry, patchy, pointy, oiled, curled and swooshing. Beards — big ones or neat ones — are the facial fashion for dandies these days. It’s so much fun. And maybe the biggest change in men’s fashion since bell-bottoms. Neptune is, of course, the planet of fashion, and since early 2011, the god of the seas has been in his own sign, which rules the sailors, romantic yearning, fantasy: Game of Thrones and Liam Hemsworth’s sweater, perhaps. Those Scandinavian chunky knits certainly say hello sailor. Neptune was last in Pisces throughout the 1850s, and indeed that was exactly when […]

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July Horoscopes

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July’s horoscopes are ready and waiting for you. Click here to find them, and remember to read both your Rising sign and your Sun sign. There are two Full Moons this month, plus a beautiful alignment of Jupiter and Venus, a Venus station and more… If you are not already subscribed to the horoscopes, just click the link and follow the instructions.

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Astrology of Now: Big Love

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The spectacular meeting tomorrow morning at 7am British Summer Time between Venus the goddess of love and Jupiter, the king of the gods is not just any old conjunction. These two will be so close, according to NASA, that they may look like one superstar. It only happens once every 2000 years or so. For those of you who read the Out of Bounds piece here, they are at the same declination as well as conjunct by degree. Astrologically, this is the two great “benefics” of the Zodiac joining together to commit good in regal, generous Leo style. It’s an […]

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Boxing The Euro

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Keen readers of this blog will know I’ve been tracking the euro for years, as Uranus, Pluto and Saturn pummelled the currency from various angles. It’s been like watching a boxing match with all the razzmatazz, wordplay, and brutality, as well as cigar-wielding managers and backers sitting in the front row, waiting to see who hits the ropes first. One of the boxers has been the euro, a shiny fresh-faced currency; his opponent has been a shadowy, shapeshifter, a character brought to life by the energies of the outer planets, donning different masks over the last four years: Anonymous, Varoufakis, […]

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Playing Games With The Euro

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“Rarely in modern times have we witnessed such a display of petulance and bad judgment by those supposed to be in charge of global financial stability, and by those who set the tone for the Western world. The spectacle is astonishing. The European Central Bank, the EMU bail-out fund, and the International Monetary Fund, among others, are lashing out in fury against an elected government that refuses to do what it is told. They entirely duck their own responsibility for five years of policy blunders that have led to this impasse.” — Ambrose Evans-Pritchard writing in The Daily Telegraph (To […]

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Solstice

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What beautiful alignments we have in the coming week. By July 1, Jupiter and Venus join together in Leo, and the Cancer Sun trines Neptune in Pisces. The change in mood starts now as the Sun moves into watery nostalgic Cancer, followed by Mars on June 24. Venus and Jupiter together spell loving playfulness and joy, and this mood underpins the rest of this month. We should all try to be generous now, and when Neptune and the Sun exchange energy allow ourselves to forgive the trespasses of the past and revel in the sweeter memories. Notice the exact conjunction […]

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