Author: Christina

Greece’s Alexis Tsipras Dreams Big

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Destiny, and the Greek electorate, have pushed Alexis Tsipras, up to Europe’s top table. He may be holding a weak hand, but it already looks as if he’s smart enough to play and maybe even win against bigger, richer, stronger, meaner opponents. Tsipras was sworn in as Greek Prime Minister on January 26, and immediately set about saving the poorest people in Greece from going without electricity and food. Compassion is written large in his natal chart. See Jupiter, the planet of caritas in its own sign Pisces right at the top. Jupiter is sandwiched between Ceres, which seems to be an important planet for […]

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Astrology of Now: Moonlight And Music

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There’s a big fat passionate Leo Moon out there, and with Venus, Mars and Neptune all in Pisces the air is singing with romance and yearning. Let’s face the music… There are so many great interpretations of this song: from wistful (Diana Krall, Scorpio) to tear-jerking (Willie Nelson, Pisces), from comforting (Ella Fitzgerald, Taurus) and sweet (Nat King Cole, Pisces) to razzmatazzy (Tony Bennett, Leo and Lady Gaga, Aries) or seductive (Fred Astaire, Taurus), but for this month’s mood, Sinatra hits it just right — jaded, salty, a little sad, but full of life. The arrangement by Johnny Mandel isn’t too shabby either. Today’s transits […]

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February Horoscopes

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The day of the year set aside for lovers by the makers of greeting cards falls, in the northern hemisphere, during the grimmest month. Where is the erotic promise in February’s pale days and cold rain? But not this year. This year, February looks fabulous. It looks sexy, fecund, inspiring. A sweetscented posy of snowdrops, a young lamb curled in the hay, a golden candle at an iris-blue window, a tender caress under a warm blanket. This month promises romance, music, love. Neptune,the planet of ideal love, Venus, planet of real love, Mars the plan of action, are all in Pisces, […]

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Mercury Retrograde Technospiral & A Weekend Message

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Just to let horoscope subscribers know, I’m having serious technical issues. (I’m writing this via a “proxy server”: how Merc Rx is that?!) Briefly, your horoscopes are written and ready to go — but I can’t access the site well enough to give them a final polish. This problem may be dealt with in the next 24 hours, but there may be a delay. I want all of you to take note though that Venus, the planet of grace, meets with Neptune, the planet of divine grace, on February 1-2. This is in Pisces, where the love goddess exalts. The […]

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Mercury Retrograde: Live The Question

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“I beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart, and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.” Rainer Maria Rilke in Letters To A Young Poet tr HD Herter Norton […]

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Astrology of Now: The Disappearance of Manannan Mac Lir

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A statue of the Celtic sea god Manannan Mac Lir was stolen from an Irish mountaintop on January 21, the day Mercury, the planet of thieves, went retrograde. Although Manannan is the “son of the sea” and a deity of storms, but he has more in common with Mercury than Neptune. Manannan is a trickster (sometimes appearing dressed as a clown), a musician (he plays a harp) and he moves with ease between this world and the other world, just like his Greco-Roman counterpart. If we understand myth, then we know that Manannan has simply slipped over for a short visit to the other world. That’s […]

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Dr Zhivago: Venus In The Midst Of Mars

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Like flowers the ice crystals on the window sparkle in the winter sun, transform into a sunny field of daffodils. Spring. Early-morning, low sun between rows of straight, rough-barked pines flashes as the camera moves. Treeless, snowy, dead flat land with a horizon straight as a ruler. A single tiny black dot is the only thing that moves: a troika carrying away love. Lingering images like these tell us that Yuri Zhivago is a poet, and that David Lean is a great film director. I watched Doctor Zhivago this weekend for the first time in decades. We cried and cried. It is […]

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Greece

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Here — Archipelago of Dreams — is a post I wrote about Greece in 2011. The chart I drew up puts transiting Uranus, the disruptor, on Greece’s natal Saturn today. All change. And here is one about Europe. Believe it or not they are both quite relevant tonight as the left sweeps back into power in Greece, promising to end austerity.  

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Randy Andy

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HRH Prince Andrew has dodgy taste when it comes to friendship. Right now he must really be regretting the day Ghislaine Maxwell introduced him to billionaire child molester Jeffrey Epstein. Now he finds himself embroiled in a distasteful scandal. One current transit to his chart illustrates just how dangerous so-called beneficial planets can be.   Andrew has Leo rising, appropriately for Prince of the royal blood. So he is currently having a Jupiter transit to the ascendant. Good, one might think, the “greater benefic” coming to play.  In fact it’s absolutely ghastly, exposing the private man to the public gaze. Furthermore Jupiter is currently […]

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Fiery, Inspired

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There’s a ring of inspirational fire energy around the zodiac until June. It’s burning long and bright. Uranus the awakener in Aries, Saturn the teacher in Sagittarius, Jupiter the joyous, in Leo. A Gift I Woke: — Night, lingering, poured upon the world Of drowsy hill and wood and lake Her moon-song, And the breeze accompanied with hushed fingers On the birches. Gently the dawn held out to me A golden handful of bird’s-notes. – Leonora Speyer Leonora Speyer was a virtuoso violinst before winning a Pulitzer prize for her poetry in 1926. Note the fiery trine from music and […]

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