Author: Christina

Islamic State

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At the Astrological Association annual chinwag a few weekends ago, the astrologer Geoffrey Cornelius, author of The Moment of Astrology, showed a chart for Islamic State, the group claiming hegemony across northern Syria and Iraq. His reasoning for this chart was convincing, (the founding of the Caliphate was timed to coincide with the beginning of Ramadan), and the chart itself is really powerful. Here it is.     I wrote about Pluto in my previous post about open enemies. You can see here that this chart is dominated by Pluto, first it is on the Ascendant — and then it rules […]

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Astrology of Now: Open Enemies

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Walk into Libra’s garden, the seventh house of the chart, and you will find yourself in a bower of sweet scented roses, treading on forget-me-nots, violas, love-in-the-mist. You might stroll down a lover’s walk through dripping wisteria to a summerhouse by a romantic lake. The seventh house is where you meet your match. But oh, we know our match is not always what we expected or wanted. It turns out to be not a lover, but an adversary, a rival, a competitor. This is the garden of partnership, but it is also called the house of “open enemies” — a delicious irony and a delicate insight into the […]

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Seven

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Today the Sun, the heart of of our solar system, moves into the seventh sign – Libra. We are still, of course, in the ancient seventh month — September. So pour yourself a glass of 7-Up, kick off your seven-league boots, switch off symphony number seven and align your seven chakras. Seven is a magic number. 7 = 3+4 Three = spirit. Four = matter. Together they make life. Three qualities – cardinal, fixed, mutable. Four elements — fire, earth, air and water. 3 x 4 = 12 Twelve signs of the zodiac. Seven traditional planets. Seven days of the week. Seven […]

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Anthony Hopkins: Darkness Visible

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    Anthony Hopkins’ trademark is intense stillness broken by an electrifying stream of words, or a sudden violent movement, or a flash of those unsettling pale eyes. He was born in the dark of winter. His powerful, stony Capricorn Sun is buried in the 12th house – the place of collective dreaming and collective nightmare, the prison and the place of letting go. The 12th house Sun must wrestle with angels and demons. I was fascinated by this quote when it came up on my Facebook feed. You can hear the rapid Welsh rhythm in the language he uses. The […]

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Ethereal Woman vs Material Girl

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  Did you know that popmamas Madonna and Kate Bush were born within a few weeks of each other? Oh astrological joy! The English mystic and the queen of consumerism…. let’s check it out. Kate Bush shimmered on to the music scene with an astonishingly original sound when she was just a teenager back in 1978. Unbelievably, here, she was the first woman to get to number one with a self-penned song, Wuthering Heights — a catchy tune about a Victorian novel. About six years later, along came Madonna with her bangles, her bleached hair, her brilliant producer Nile Rogers, and a song […]

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Full Moon Dreaming

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In the Mohawk language the word for shaman ” means “dreamer” in the sense of one who dreams strong, one who dreams true, one who can travel in dreaming and heal others inside the dreamspace. It also means “doctor” and “healer.” There we have the ancient understanding that to be a shaman, or doctor, or healer, you must be at home in the dream worlds.” Robert Moss — Dreaming The Soul Back Home There is the reason that Chiron, the shaman, spends longer in the Piscean sea of dreams than in any other part of the Zodiac. It is here that the […]

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Scottish Independence: Change Is Coming

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In just a few weeks, the people of Scotland will decide whether or not to remain part of the United Kingdom. This is momentous. Of course if the polls are right. Scotland will vote to stay part of the UK and we’ll all just carry on as usual. England, Scotland and Wales — Great Britain —  together have been a powerhouse of industry, creativity and influence in the world for the last 400 years, since James IV of Scotland inherited the English throne from his Aunt Elizabeth and became James I of England too. (It didn’t become official until 1707, see below.) Admittedly, […]

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September Monthly Horoscopes

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It’s appropriate that school begins when the Sun is in this most studious of signs, Virgo. And this year, there really is a back to school feel to September, in the nicest sort of way. Do you remember the smell of freshly sharpened pencils and the smoothness of your September notebooks, the anticipation of telling your friends about your “brilliant” summer holiday. There are few things more delightful than a primed pencil case, and a back pocket full of tales of adventure … but this is not a nostalgic month in fact: it’s all about looking forward to what the […]

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Astrology of Now: Beautiful Dreamers

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  The charmed quincunx between Jupiter and Neptune continues this week but now it’s graced by the presence of Venus, the goddess of love herself. Please read this piece for more on the quincunx. Jupiter is at 6/7° Leo. Venus joins him there today and for the rest of this week. Neptune is at 6° Pisces. Neptune, the god of illusion, is sometimes described as the higher octave of beautiful Venus. Together they make art. Even if these aspects touch nothing in your chart. Make time to dream, to listen, to imagine…. to love….

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RIP Robin Williams

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When Robin Williams was on comic form, he made visions with words that tumbled out of his mouth and mind with an electrifying force and speed that was almost hallucinatory. His imagination was as wild and free-wheeling as a dolphin at play, or sometimes like a loose cable spraying sparks. Click here to watch a clip from the 1980s to see what I mean. But the cascade of words hid a deeply sensitive and vulnerable human being. If he wasn’t laughing, maybe Williams was crying. You can see from his chart that maybe  he needed to perform to keep the demons at bay. Moon […]

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