Author: Christina

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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Inspired By The Dying Of The Light

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Listen to a nocturne by Frederic Chopin late at night in a darkened room — just you and the music — and your spirit is taken somewhere beautiful, melancholy, mysterious — passionate. You are immersed in emotion, and emerge in the dawn light, soul-cleansed. There’s a lot of give in a Chopin nocturne, a looseness and fluidity to the sound, so interpretations vary enormously. The two pianists that I like best (today) are Dinu Lipatti and Brigitte Engerer. You might disagree with those choices but there’s a version of the nocturnes out there to suit everyone’s taste. So I was intrigued to find that Lipatti, Engerer and […]

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Astrology of Now: Listen For The Blue Quincunx

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I am sitting at a desk in a high-ceilinged room in Brighton. The tall window frames blue, at the lower edge lavender blossom and then a few inches above, the horizontal of prussian blue sea meeting pale, brilliant summer sky. In the distance, the sounds of church bells, surf, cars’ swish. My friend, whose flat I am borrowing, is a religious scholar. Beside me the Qur’an, The Muhaddithat, then the poet Brodsky’s On Grief and Reason. I gaze at the sea, listen to the chimes. I am at a loss for what to write. I cast a horary chart. “What shall I write about?” The answer […]

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