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…
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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…
February Horoscopes
The main news in February is that Mercury, the messenger, will retrograde February 6-28. This is part of a cascade of retrogrades that began with Venus in December.It runs like this.December 21 – January 31 Venus Retrograde in CapricornFebruary 6 – 28 …
Astrology of Now: Vasilisa The Beautiful and Baba Yaga
Ivan Bilibin (1899).Vasilisa the Beautiful escaped from the child-eating witch of the deep, dark forest Baba Yaga, using one of the witch’s own torches, hand-crafted, as they might say on etsy, from a human skull.Baba Yaga, a drooling hag who terrorise…
Ukraine: History Is A Process
Stamps depicting traditional Ukrainian headresses. Every woman is a queen. Ukraine has Venus in Leo/Moon in Aquarius.Is Ukraine destined to be a free democracy and part of Europe or a Russian vassal state?That is what people are protesting about on the…
Falling Into The Mirror
Narcissus (detail) John William Waterhouse.When the hunter Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection, he was looking into a pool of water. Self-love is so much easier these days: we have mirrors.Even 200 years ago, if you were an ordinary per…
Carlos Santana and that Old Black Magic
It’s not many people who have their own typeface, but then Carlos Santana has Sun in the third house. This is his latest album.Here’s a fun one.Carlos Santana, the shimmeringly brilliant guitarist who periodically gets rediscovered by new generations, …
Ariel Sharon: Simultaneously Complex And Simple
Ariel Sharon aged 19wikimedia commonsAriel Sharon lived a life of mythological proportions. Villain, hero, warrior; farmer, politican, bully; killer, peacemaker; and in every role “the bulldozer”. And those were just his public faces.So how come …