Author: Christina

May Horoscopes

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Spring this year has come on with hallucinatory zeal. Blossom piled on blossom. It’s a dream of flowers here. And this May looks like extended dreamtime. There’s a seriously funky Mercury Retrograde which will start having its effect right now, today, even though the official Rx does not start until May 19. I can tell you that the troubles I’ve had publishing this page have been, well, trying my patience already. This Mercury Rx is strengthened because it’s in Gemini, Mercury’s own sign. Now this does mean things can go much weirder than in a common or garden Rx. A […]

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Generation K

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“I had expected that technology would be core to the identity of the cohort I call Generation K—young people aged 13 to 20 years old, born between 1995 and 2002, ” writes Professor Noreena Hertz in The New York Times.  You’d be right, Prof, because you’ve chosen the exact years that the planet of hi-tech Uranus was transiting his own sign, Aquarius, the sign of the geek (or wizard). Basically, that creates a whole generation with a powerful dash of Aquarius in their collective character. Of course, for every individual this works out differently, depending on how Uranus interacts with the other planets. Professor […]

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Great Reading, Wrong Chart

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I had a charming client today: a warm, chatty, red-head sporting a pair of riding boots. The reading was going swimmingly — accurate, useful, insightful. And then I found I had the wrong birth time. I don’t know an astrologer this hasn’t happened to, but it’s unsettling all the same. “But no,” said my client. “This is the most accurate reading I’ve had. Everyone keeps on telling me I have Capricorn Rising, but I know I don’t.” I looked at her – she really glowed with positive Sagittarian energy, so what was wrong? I had erected her chart for Oxford […]

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Astrology of Now: The Deep Blue Sea And A Hero’s Journey

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To travel from Eritrea or Gambia across the desert to the lower lid of the Mediterranean Sea — braving torture, slavery, asphyxia in the back of a truck, rape and beatings —  to cross in an open boat: this is a hero’s journey. Imagine doing it as a child. So far this week more than 800 people have drowned in the Mediterranean, trying to reach Italy from Libya. More than a 100 of those were children. Pirates — or entrepreneurial seafarers, depending on who’s talking — operated from the so-called Barbary Coast –– North Africa from Morrocco to Algiers, Tripoli then Tunis — from the 15th to the 19th centuries. […]

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UK Election: Striking A Balance

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This surreally dreary British election campaign is apparently the closest-run in a generation. The opinion polls bounce back and forth between Labour and Conservative. From the public discourse, you might not suspect that there are serious issues to be resolved.  There’s little talk of security, the global economy, Britain’s future in a changing world, climate change or — perhaps most pressingly of all — inequality. There is much talk of opinion polls, spin doctors and politician’s spouses. Fluff. The rise in inequality in this country has been striking over the past 10-15 years, and it has accelerated dramatically over the last five: inequality between high-earners […]

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Aries, April and Some Donna Summer

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I am off on holiday for a few days, so unable to respond to correspondence. Meanwhile enjoy these seasonal posts from the archives of The Oxford Astrologer. How Donna Summer Unleashed Lilith One Spring 11 Things To Do While The Sun Is In Aries Aries Self Portraits Icons: Venus in Aries 10 Things To Do With Mercury In Taurus Maya Angelou Some American Aprils The Nation’s Soul Lady Gaga vs Madonna  

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Marine Le Pen: Killing the Father

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Tough, intelligent, focused and energetic, Marine Le Pen is France’s most charismatic politician. Compared to dreary Francois Holland and preening Nicolas Sarkozy, she has the “it” factor. Her chart ruler, Venus shines brightly in Leo. Le Pen is a serious contender for the presidency in 2017. If she wins, not only will France have its first female president, but also its first far right leader since Maréchal Pétain collaborated with the Nazis during the Occupation. The consequences for Europe could be catastrophic. She has taken the Front National (FN) party, founded by her father in the wake of France’s defeat in Algeria, and […]

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The Astrology of Alzheimer’s

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Some readers of this blog have been having a discussion about Alzheimer’s in the comments section under the short post on Terry Pratchett, the English author who died recently of the disease. They have come up with several interesting hypotheses about finding a predisposition for the condition in the chart. So I thought it would be interesting to get up a few charts of well-known people who were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and see what we could see. The proposals are Mars-Mercury contacts This is to do with Mercury’s rulership of aluminium and Mars’ of iron. The processing of these metals […]

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UK Election: Nigel Farage

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I wrote this piece originally for March edition of The Astrological Journal. Like a certain Transylvanian immigrant, Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party, has a habit of rising from the dead. Just when his enemies think it’s all over, there he is again climbing out of his coffin with a Rothman’s in one hand and a pint of beer in the other. He has almost died twice – for real. He also reinvented his career at least three times, and not so long ago it looked like UKIP was all washed up. Now, of course, like Dracula himself, […]

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Joy, Pleasure, Happiness and Chocolate

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As you tuck into your Easter egg this morning, you may want to as yourself  this: what is the difference between joy and pleasure? This week I listened to the writer Anthony Seldon talking on the radio, distinguishing between pleasure, which we might get from eating chocolate, happiness which we might get from sharing chocolate with friends, and joy which is transcendant. (He starts at around 24 minutes). Accordingly, pleasure is a passing thing, where some of us get stuck: eating another chocolate bar, reading another trashy magazine. You might associate that with the sign Taurus, the most sensual of […]

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