Author: Christina

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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Movies: Before…

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Spoiler alert. If you haven’t seen Before Sunrise, Before Sunset and Before Midnight, read no more. Jesse wears a manky greyish T-shirt with the word Neptune written across the body of a blue whale for about half the movie Before Midnight. Considering he’s an acclaimed writer of big, fat, sexy — yet high-brow — love stories, it’s a good choice. Neptune is the planet of art, illusion and imagination. It’s the planet of movie-making, gossamer and art. Jesse is the romantic American blue-eyed dreamer, whom we first met back in 1995 on a train to Vienna, when he was younger, […]

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Out Of Bounds

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My colleague Jessica Shephard wrote a short piece about Venus Out Of Bounds a few weeks ago which set me thinking. Out of bounds planets are not something that’s not much discussed by astrologers. We’re all too busy getting our minds around cute new asteroids, imaginary dark points and multiple techniques for progressing a chart, not to mention what house system to use. (I plead guilty, m’lud) However, the idea of “out of bounds” is so simple, so obviously important — and so easy to look up — that I am amazed we don’t check this as a matter of […]

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Sepp Blatter In His Own Words

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Despite scandals a-gogo, FIFA has just re-elected its president Sepp Blatter for the 5th time. Swiss-born Blatter is nearly 80 and he’s been in office for 17 years. His rivals have been trying to get rid of him for about half the time he’s been president and last week a whole clutch of FIFA officials were arrested in the US and Switzerland on corruption charges. So why can’t anyone stop him? “I am a mountain goat that keeps going and going and going, I cannot be stopped, I just keep going.” He’s right: with Saturn-Sun conjunction and the North Node […]

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June Horoscopes

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I have written at some length this month because it seemed necessary for you to have an overview of some of the extraordinary astrology of the entire season, which really begins here. It looks like it could be a long, hot summer of love for some of us — and the rest of us will have our perks too, thank you very much. The question is how to take advantage of some of the marvellous opportunities. To read your horoscope click here.  

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Mercury Rx: Indexing

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I am re-indexing this website during this Mercury Retrograde. Apparently it wasn’t done properly when we switched over from Blogger last year, so not all the posts are searchable (or should that really be findable). It seems like appropriate action to take when the god of communications is going backwards in the sign of wordsmithery. At the same time, I’m re-reading a lot of old posts and sending some of the choice ones out to subscribers. If you want to catch these, you can subscribe by email in the box on the right. It’s free and when I start doing […]

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Taurus New Moon: Sexing The Garden

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The gardens froth blossom. Petals flake the lawns. Now the very first bud of apple and pear swell. The birds peck green cherries. It’s Taurus’ month and Eden. Taurus’ partner across the Zodiac, Scorpio, sometimes signified by the snake. This New Moon is free and easy, not overtly aspected, except that it takes place on the fixed star of snake-haired Medusa, Algol. Medusa is the monster, once priestess of Athena, raped in the temple by the god of the sea Poseidon and punished for that violation by an eternity of horror. Her gaze turns living flesh to stone. Think about […]

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