Author: Christina

Beheading

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Not only was the news this morning sad, it was troubling, horrifying, grotesque, macabre — satanic even. I’m referring to the murder of the American hostage Abdul-Rahman Kassig and 18 unnamed Syrian troops by Islamic State. All were gruesomely killed for the camera, and the video was posted on-line. There is a star in the sky specifically associated with decapitation. This is the “Demon Star”, Algol, named also the Medusa’s Head. This bright star is visible in the sky right now. For directions on finding it, click here. It’s part of the constellation Perseus, named after the Greek hero who severed […]

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Neptune: To Dive or To Surf?

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The Sea Before dreams (or terror) invented mythologies and cosmogonies, before time was parceled into days, the sea, the eternal sea, was already here. Who is the sea? Who is that violent and ancient being that gnaws at the pillars of the earth and is one and many seas and abyss and brilliancy and chance and wind? To gaze at it is to gaze for the first time, always. With the wonder produced by elemental things, the beautiful evenings, the moon, the fire of a brazier. Who is the sea, who am I? I shall know this on the day […]

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The Thunder, Perfect Mind

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“….I am the incomprehensible silence and the much-remembered thought. I am the voice of many sounds and the utterance of many forms. I am the utterance of my name. Why, you who hate me, do you love me And hate those who love me? You who deny me, confess me, And you who confess me, deny me. You who speak the truth about me, tell lies about me, And you who have told lies about me, speak the truth about me. You who know me, become ignorant of me; and may those who have been ignorant of me, come to […]

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Tam Lin

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O I FORBID you, maidens a’, That wear gowd on your hair, To come or gae by Carterhaugh, For young Tam Lin is there. There’s nane that gaes by Carterhaugh But they leave him a wad, Either their rings, or green mantles, Or else their maidenhead. Janet has kilted her green kirtle A little aboon her knee, And she has broded her yellow hair A little aboon her bree, And she’s awa to Carterhaugh, As fast as she can hie. When she came to Carterhaugh Tam Lin was at the well, And there she fand his steed standing, But away […]

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An Evolving List Of Books

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Two MercuryRxes ago, I asked the readers of this blog to recommend astrology books and promised to compile a list. It’s taken a while. Quite a lot of recommendations were also made on the Facebook site. I have amalgamated them all into one long list, which I hope will evolve. This is a work in progress to be added to as we go along. Compiling this list, I followed readers recommendations and was delighted to find some new friends within the pages of books — in particular Richard Idemon and Caroline Casey. In the long run, I would like to include […]

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November Monthly Horoscopes

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Some fiery surprises lurk in the heart of sombre November. I won’t say any more than that. You need to read your Sun sign and your Rising sign. To get your horoscope click here. This month’s horoscope page is an homage to Hilma af Klint (b. October 26, 1844), the Swedish artist, mystic and anthoposophist. These works came out of her communications with spirit guides. Astrology was part of her mystical understanding of the cosmos. With special thanks to Maija (I think it was you but the story has vanished from the feed!) for telling me about her.

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Vampire Hunting

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Tomorrow night all manner of ghouls and creeps will walk our suburban streets. Maybe there will be vampires…if it’s the real thing, you know what to do, clutch your crucifix and drive a stake through his heart. But what it this is a more subtle vampire? The kind who smiles nicely and offers you friendship…how do you know that vampire before it’s too late? And what if you had his astrological chart… should you look for Neptune or Pluto? Scorpio or Pisces? Janet Kane has written an excellent article on this subject: Confronting the Dark Archetype: Neptune and the Mythic […]

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Scorpio Fashionistas: Edith Head

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Edith Head’s work is chic, cool, glamourous and powerful. You name a legendary Hollywood beauty (especially post-war) — Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren, Ingrid Bergman — and you’ll find that Edith Head designed clothes for her. Some of the most iconic Hollywood looks — Kim Novak in Vertigo, Grace Kelly in Rear Window, Mae West in She Done Him Wrong — are Edith Head’s work. It wasn’t just that she understood colour and black and white, film and form, she managed to make women look simultaneously classy and sizzlingly sexy. To have such impact in a world dominated by men, Head had […]

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Dragonfly Wings

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From egg to naiad to dragonfly. All our stories have the same beginning and the same ending. We are born and we die. A dragonfly may spend five years as a naiad and just a few months as a pond-skimming, silk-shimmering dancer. How does a naiad feel when it loses its husk and finds that, after all, it is a creature that flies? From water to earth to air. For the most part, we live a lot longer than dragonflies, and we may have had wings once or twice in our lifetimes already and lost them. We may have gone from dragonfly […]

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(Venus + Eclipse + Pallas) = (Love + Change + Wisdom)

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In three days time — October 23 — we’ll experience the second of this month’s pair of eclipses. The first, the awesome and eerie lunar eclipse, on October 8, delivered some shocking revelations — Ebola, the economy, or something closer to home for many people. That eclipse was the very middle of Aries at 15° – a robust, total eclipse, full of Aries power and conjuncting Uranus the planet of surprise and electricity.  The effect of that eclipse are still in operation, of course, and were certainly powerful to feel in these mid-October weeks. That eclipse also cast a spotlight on the cobwebby […]

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