Author: Christina

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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Kitchen Alchemist

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When Michelin-starred chef Heston Blumenthal wanted to check the best way to cook a really nifty pulse, allegedly he wrote a fan letter to Harold McGee, author of On Food and Cooking, the kitchen-nerd’s Bible. Harold McGee is the doyen of the science of cooking, from creating the perfect caramel to fermenting peas. He writes a great column for the New York Times, in which he tackles such knotty issues as how much water does pasta really need and how gross is it to share a dip? And he has a website called The Curious Cook, exploring the science of food and its transformations. Now from […]

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Chart For Medecins Sans Frontieres

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Further to our discussion on the previous post, here is the chart for MSF. There is no birth time although noon does work well, putting Jupiter on the MC. Note Chiron in Aries –pioneering doctors — ruled by Mars in Pisces — fighting for compassion. Jupiter in Sagittarius: no borders. Saturn Rx in Gemini opposite Neptune in Sagittarius: no borders. Sun at 29’56° Sagittarius about to jump over the border. Sagittarius/Gemini — the message is as important as the action, the teaching and training.

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The White Masks Of Ebola

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Someone asked last week when the white-masked people were coming to fight the black-masked Islamic State killers. Maybe the answer is, they are already here; but they’re busy. Healthworkers tackling the Ebola outbreak are sheathed in plastic. The white hoods and masks they wear do make them look like aliens. No wonder West Africans were at first suspicious. The battle against the virus is clearcut in one way: it’s humans vs. disease. But in another it’s a battle without boundaries. There is no cure as yet and Ebola crosses borders and travels along flightpaths invisibly. What might you look for astrologically? This is a story […]

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Venus in Libra: Grace, Balance… But Not Always

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I’ve often thought that Bill Clinton looks an awful lot like an older, whiter version of the actor Will Smith.     When the planet of beauty is in her own sign of Libra, you’d expect to find some real physical beauty. In particular, you might expect to find some perfectly balanced faces. Grace Kelly is always cited as an example of someone with a perfectly proportioned face. How about Beyoncé? For sheer glamour, it’s hard to bet Vivien Leigh or Rita Hayworth. One of the characteristics all these actors share — including Bill Clinton — is grace. Richard Gere moves […]

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Astrology of Now: Deep Thought

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If, like me, you find yourself plunged into deep contemplation in this post-eclipse period, you may find it useful to have your brain cells defragged. Bach’s music has the purity and precision of a golden toothpick. He was born with Sun and Ascendant in Aries, exactly trining Mars in Sagittarius: sharpness and purity. Feel your braincells realigning as you listen to this. Yo Yo Ma, who bows your mind into order, had the eclipse on his Sun this week — born October 7. His Libra Sun is opposite Bach’s Aries Sun, hence the perfect partnering. And here is something astrological to ponder. Today, […]

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What Blew Cloonuddin’s Commitment-Phobia Away?

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George Clooney, handsome, talented and famous, seems to unite some of the best blessings of existence. Amal Alamuddin, beautiful, successful, cosmopolitan and not just a top lawyer, but a human rights one! Cream at the top of the collective coffee cup. Both just so good on paper. Which one is more trophtastic? Clooney was until last week possibly the most eligible commitment-phobe on the planet. What changed? Well he has pretty much literally met the woman of his dreams. The new Mrs Clooney’s glamourous conjunction of Neptune (the great dreamer himself) and the Moon (her very soul) are right on George’s Midheaven in Sagittarius. Amal is what […]

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