Author: Christina

April Monthly Horoscopes

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Spring is most definitely here. With all the fierce power of youth, blossoms are bursting from trees and emerging from the ground. The birds sing their hearts out every morning even when it rains, and at last the evenings are lengthening. From now until June 21, every day will be longer. Surely this quarter is the most exciting. And somehow this year the dawn chorus sounds more urgent, the daffodils are more profuse, the hyacinths glow bluer, the day is more intense. We have been through a long, dark tunnel — not just the winter: the seven strikes of the […]

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Definitive Chart For ISIS

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A few months ago I published a chart for ISIS which I’d picked up at the British Astrological Association Conference on the understanding that it had been drawn up by Professor Geoffrey Cornelius. A flurry of emails followed with some discussion whether it was the right chart. Things went a bit blurry after that. The simplest thing, I thought, was to ask the chart’s creator for the right data. So I did and he wrote back this charming email with his reasoning and the data, which is indeed different not only from my chart, but from the other charts published […]

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Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito And The Eclipses

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A sensational murder trial has finally come to a close. After seven long years, Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were cleared of the murder of Meredith Kercher yesterday by the highest court in Italy. All of the major actors in this drama are playthings of the gods, acting out an archetypal story in the world media for our mass edification. The headlines have been lurid, speculation has been unbridled, truth has been scarce. Prejudice and bigotry, national pride, racism, misogyny and snobbery have all played a part in a story that at heart may be very simple: an innocent was raped and killed by a murderer who […]

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Astrology of Now: Close Thunder, Distant Music… Dance

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The astrology of the coming weeks promises high drama, epic sweep and lasting impact. No one is likely to get away unmoved: some of us will go up and some of us will go down, some of us will watch it on TV. There will be endings, but there will also be music and sweet promise. And it’s already started — as of March 10 or so we are in a period of upheaval. For example, an extraordinary cyclone has flattened the Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu, right in the path of next month’s lunar eclipse, which happens to take place at 14° Libra, within a […]

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Saturn in Sagittarius: Part Two

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Saturn is the most distant and by far the slowest moving of the planets used by traditional astrologers. Therefore he has the deepest impact on the sign in which he finds himself. Saturn rules boundaries, gloom, depression, restriction, rules, harvest, death, structure, bones, old age, longevity, melancholy; the bare necessities, the bare minimum, the nitty gritty. I saw an interesting lecture by Rick Levine last September at the Astrological Association Conference. He pointed out that in English, words beginning with st are often Saturnine in meaning: stone, static, steely, steady, stern, setting a standard, sturdy, steadfast, studied, stone-cold sober, structure, strict, stranded… […]

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Terry Pratchett Mort

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Hilarious, cosy, and wildly imaginative, Terry Pratchett cheered a lot of people up. He died yesterday, but his Discworld series will undoubtedly be read by generations to come. One of his greatest characters was Death himself, a rather comforting and kindly sort of person. “Don’t think of it as dying,” said Death. “Just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush.” — From Good Omens, The Nice And Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch Here is Pratchett’s chart — no birth time — with the transits on the day he passed over. Notice all the activity around 12-15°, including the […]

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Saturn in Sagittarius: Part One

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As Saturn, the reaper, slows to a halt before turning retrograde in mid-March, let’s pause to reflect what the transit of this great planet through the sign of the centaur means. In this post, I’ll look briefly at the past Saturn in Sag period to give us a handle on this one. Then in later posts will delve deeper into the psychological and the personal, including Saturn Returns and the Seven-and-a-half. Saturn in Sagittarius 23 Dec 2014 – 15 June 2015 18 Sep 2015 – 20 Dec 2017 Saturn is stationing around 5° Sagittarius & turns Rx on March 14 By tradition, […]

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On Pisces

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Sadko In The Underwater Kingdom by Ilya Repin (Wikimedia Commons) From Tunisia to Elizabeth Taylor, you never know who you’re going to swim past down there in the blue, blue sea. With the Sun still in Pisces, visit or revisit these OA posts on or about the sign of the Fishes. A Fortnight of Visionary Artists 7 Good Things To Do While The Sun Is In Pisces Neptune in Pisces by Sign Pisces Self-Portraits Brotherhood of Romantics Rupert Murdoch: Uber-Pisces 12th House People Unpacking My Library: On The Road Revolution Now or Never? Tunisia Tony Robbins: Guru or Snak Oil Salesman? George Harrison: […]

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The Moon And Freedom

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Liberty The last light has gone out of the world, except This moonlight lying on the grass like frost Beyond the brink of the tall elm’s shadow. It is as if everything else had slept Many an age, unforgotten and lost The men that were, the things done, long ago, All I have thought; and but the moon and I Live yet and here stand idle over the grave Where all is buried. Both have liberty To dream what we could do if we were free To do some thing we had desired long, The moon and I. There’s none […]

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Posts For This Saturn Station

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Saturn’s move into Sagittarius back in December came as a huge relief to many people — except maybe those born under the sign of the centaur and those born with Saturn in Sagittarius, for whom this will be the dreaded “Return”. This month, the planet Saturn is stationing — that is apparently standing still — and will turn Retrograde on March 14. You have Saturn in Sag if you were born in the mid-1980s or the mid-1950s. Dec 1926 – Mar 1929 Jan 1956 – Jan 1959 (check carefully for this one because Saturn Rx into Scorpio in spring 1956) […]

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