Author: Christina

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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Pope Francis: The Earth, Our Sister, Cries Out

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“1. “L AUDATO SI’, mi’ Signore” – “Praise be to you, my Lord”. In the words of this beautiful canticle, Saint Francis of Assisi reminds us that our common home is like a sister with whom we share our life and a beautiful mother who opens her arms to embrace us. “Praise be to you, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, and who produces various fruit with coloured flowers and herbs”. 2. This sister now cries out to us because of the harm we have inflicted on her by our irresponsible use and abuse […]

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Astrology of Now: Narrative/Counter-Narrative

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Three married sisters from Bradford — in their early thirties and with nine children between them — have run away to join ISIS in Syria. The British media has twisted itself into a pretzel trying to fit this story into a palatable narrative. The women were “brainwashed”, “radicalised”, “duped” even. The husbands, left behind, are “very emotional”, “bewildered”. The community is “shocked”. They were a “quiet” family. Apparently, the authorities are at fault for “failing to stop the women” and not helping the families track them down. The words used have become familiar: the community is always shocked, no one […]

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On The BBC

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I’ll be talking about the solstice, Gemini and Cancer and the romance of July 1 on BBC Radio Oxford this Friday around 3.30pm. You can listen again if you miss it live.  Here is the link to their website. I should be on the radio the first Friday of every month from now on, talking to Alex Lester. (This month there was a special music day, so we’re doing it this week instead.) That’s the current deal anyway. I am kind of excited — especially since the astrological timing for me is rather good. Mercury — which one would associate […]

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A Note On Pluto

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A while ago my friend Isy wrote a brilliant guest blog about Pluto describing his relationship with Charon and showing that in fact this minor planet is really part of a dyad. To read that click here. I was reminded of this because she sent me this note about the most recent Plutonian data. Hi sweetie, Another intriguing bonne-bouche … Pluto’s vortex with Charon creates a curious combination of stable, though bizarre, orbits, and utterly unpredictable tumbling rotations. According to this, some of them orbit Pluto in opposite directions, though in roughly the same plane. I’d check that. I’m not […]

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