Burt Lancaster (Scorpio) and Deborah Kerr (Virgo) in From Here To EternityThis month starts with the most beautiful, graceful New Moon in Pisces. In typical Pisces fashion, this is a Moon for everyone to make a wish on. And it ends with a turbo-charged…
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Writers, Writing And Astrology
Jack Kerouac: Moon in Virgo, Asc Virgo, Pisces SunWith Mercury still retrograde for a few more days, here is a reminder of some of the posts about authors on the OA…Witty and wonderful Jane Austen Cerebral and fantastic JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis&…
Creating A Library: Beginner Books
Attentive Reading by Gustave Jean Jacquet. (Wiki)First of all: thank you everyone for writing in with your brilliant book suggestions. Two big gaps in my library have already been filled. I have just finished Richard Idemon’s Through The Looking Glass …
Astrology of Now: A World Turned Upside Down
Port Meadow, Oxford, yesterday, February 16I started to write this post in the middle of the Full Moon storm, so it’s slightly out of synch with the weather now – three days later. But I have left the words as they are because I think it works with the…
Creating Your Library: Astrology Books
The Green Dress. Elanor Colburn. “You must read this book,” said my friend G, handing me a skinny paperback. She was a full year older than me, an Aquarian, and at that age, a year really counted.Well, I haven’t seen G in decades, but that skinny …
Mercury Retrograde: Clearing Out The Attic
On the first day of the Mercury Retrograde, February 6, I found myself deep in my attic, surrounded by piles of junk: old bedsteads, mysterious boxes, a couple of boogie boards, a broken dollhouse even. I’ve been meaning to clear out the attic since la…
Woody Allen’s Pluto-Uranus Transit
Chart data is from astrodatabank.I can’t tell if Woody Allen is a child molester from looking at his astrological chart. No one can.But I can tell you that transiting Pluto-Venus is smack-dab on his North Node in Capricorn in the fifth house of childre…
Zeitgeist: Women in Power
The defence ministers of Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Germany.Here a picture truly does say a thousand words. You don’t need me to explain why it’s momentous.The photograph was taken on Saturday February 1 at around 3pm and on t…
Uranus Square Pluto Digest
Astrologer by Milo Winter (1919) from Aesop for Children.When Mercury, the planet of information, chooses to turn tail and go back over his own orbit, it’s time for reviewing a situation. We’re coming up to Mercury Rx across Pisces and Aquarius (…
RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
Within a moment that distinctive, deep voice, rich in inflection, complex in character could take you away to another place or into another’s soul. No wonder Paul Thomas Anderson cast Philip Seymour Hoffman as the mellifluous, mesmerising guru in The M…