Botticelli’s Birth of Venus.Before time began, gods emerged from chaos. Uranus, the god of the sky, made love to the earth, Gaia, every night, and from their union were born giants and Titans, both hated by their father, who, consequently, imprisoned h…
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Conscious Uncoupling: Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin
Love Locked Out — Ann Lee MerritThe rest of the world divorces, separates, splits up, breaks up, calls the lawyers, tears each others eyes out; film-star Gwyneth Paltrow and Coldplay frontman Chris Martin “consciously uncouple”.We may all roll our eye…
Seize The Day
A Declaration by Lawrence Alma-Tadema.Don’t ask to know what is forbidden, Leuconoë: what end the gods have assigned to you, or to me. Don’t mess with Babylonian numbers. Better to let happen what will happen. J…
Spring Forward
Beauty fighting a rogue during a flood. KunichikaThe roiling, tumultuous energy of this spring seems to be in full spate already, but it promises to become stronger and stronger into April. The question is: how do we shoot the rapids in our own li…
11 Things To Do With Mars Retrograde in Libra
Ginger Rogers doing it backwards and in high heels with Fred Astaire in Follow The Fleet.You still have until May 20 to use the energy of Mars, the planet of passion, retrograde in Libra, the sign of negotiation. This retrograde began on March 1, …
The Mystery of the Vanishing Airplane
Malaysian Airline Flight MH370 took off from the international airport in Kuala Lumpur at 00.41 on Saturday, March 8. Just over an hour and a half later, the plane made it’s last scheduled contact with the airline. Then some time within the next hour, …
A Fortnight (or so) Of Visionary Artists
Detail from the Stigmatisation of St Francis. Tiepolo (March 5)Tiepolo, a vivid conjuror of imaginary worlds, painted ceilings. So did Michelangelo. It was the fashion in those days, of course, to paint visions of heaven…What follows are works by art…
Mars In Libra In His Own Words
War (1924) by Otto Dix, who had Mars in Libra and turned his experience of battle into artPlanets traditionally have signs which they love or hate, where they are comfortable or uncomfortable. The assignment of these rulerships happened a long time ago…
Mercury Retrograde Has Its Uses — Really
Now, if I could just get Wolverine to sort these people out…Mercury Retrograde, brought to you by the people who brought you the Mayan Prophecy, dun dun daah. Communications go crazy, your electrical goods grow teeth, your commute turns into the Norm…
A Poem
This poem arrived in my inbox this morning courtesy of poets.org.ScandalAren’t there bigger things to talk about Than a window in Greenwich Village And hyacinths sprouting Like little puce poems out of a sick soul? Some cosmic hearsay–As to whom–it c…