Author: Christina

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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Books: Karmic Mates & Venus Signs

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You could say that the promise of romance keeps astrologers in work. Getting your love right — and that might mean lifelong celibacy, a series of mad flings or a nice, cosy 40-year marriage — is one of the cornerstones of living the “good” life. And creating that good life is the reason we study astrology. I was reminded of this when reading Jessica Shepherd’s books Karmic Mates and Venus Signs, both of which are essential reading for the love-struck, the love-ravaged or the lovelorn. If you have a strong Venus in your chart, you really do need to let her strut […]

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Venus in Cancer: As Beautiful As The Moon

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In Arabic, Egyptian Arabic anyway, when you want to describe someone as really beautiful, you say she is like the Moon, or she has a face like the Moon. (How unlike “moonface” in English). When Venus is in the sign of the Moon, two of the most feminine energies in astrology are blended; these energies lure you in. It’s notable that currently two of the world’s “most beautiful women” not only share Venus in Cancer, but for each of them, the planet of beauty is placed exactly on an angle of the chart. As you know, the purpose of these […]

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12 Questions To Ask With Mercury Rx in Gemini

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The little god of prestidigitation is standing perfectly still. For a moment in time, he looks both ways: into the future and into the past. Then he starts to go backwards. Think of how odd it looks in a movie when the broken glass and water on the floor magically swooshes up and reforms. The film is running backwards. Mercury in Gemini 30 April – July 8 Mercury Rx 18 May – June 11 Mercury shadow 1 May – 27 June During a Mercury Rx, that glass might reform as a balloon or a jet engine: things won’t just go […]

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UK Election: Breaking Up Is Never Easy

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What happened here last night was momentous: a seismic shift in the “political geology” of this country took place. Scotland, which just one year ago chose to stay part of the United Kingdom in a referendum,  voted almost unanimously for the Nationalist Party. As expected, leader Nicola Sturgeon’s Jupiter transit to her Midheaven was spectacularly decisive. All but three Scottish MP sitting in the House of Commons will be members of her party. For the benefit of American readers, it was as if, say, Texas voted in an entire congressional cohort that wanted independence for the state, or think of […]

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