Cycling through the air, straight-backed and determined, Miss Gulch transforms into a witch on a broomstick at the start of The Wizard of Oz. It’s terrifying and fabulous. Margaret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch of the West in the 1939 classic, owned the part fully, becoming a camp fixture in the nightmares of children […]
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In our new series, Astrology Talk Investigates, Sally and I look into the pressing question of why the actor Keanu Reeves is so beloved. Is it Pluto? Is it Chiron? Is it the Moon in Cancer? We take a short walk down the Reevesian Road and find ourselves in a matrix of possibilities. If you’d […]
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The Barbie movie is going to be this summer’s blockbuster — you know it. It’s been released when Venus, surely Barbie’s very own planet, is stationing, ready to go retrograde in Leo on 23 July. Leo is the actor’s sign, and we’re seeing a hella lot of actors in pink at the moment. When Venus […]
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Laura Dern just won the Oscar for best supporting actress. A well-deserved tribute to an actress whose electric screen presence is always mesmerising — even when she’s just ordering a kale salad in Marriage Story. Dern’s chart is just so Hollywood, with a massive stellium in glamorous Pisces plus shimmery, glittery, mutable, mirrory Pisces Rising. Her Aquarian […]
One morning in 1953, a slip of a girl turned up at the atelier of Hubert de Givenchy, one of a group of young fashion designers striving to put Paris back on the map as the post-war capital of fashion. She was wafer-thin with short dark hair, thick eyebrows and huge eyes. She wore narrow black capri pants with ballet pumps, a t-shirt and a gondolier’s hat with the word Venezia written on the band. She wasn’t what young M. Givenchy had been expecting at all, so at first he was disappointed. He’d been waiting for the famous Hollywood superstar […]
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The woman, the dress, the tune, the most poignant opening sequence…. Audrey Hepburn (4 May 1929-1993) wore it. Sun in Taurus, Aquarius Rising, Moon in Pisces, Venus in Aries. Hubert de Givenchy (February 20, 1927 — March 10, 2018) designed the dress. Sun in Pisces, Gemini Rising, Moon in Libra, Venus in Pisces. Blake Edwards (26 July, 1922 – 2010) filmed it. Sun in Leo, Moon in Leo or Virgo, Venus in Virgo. Henry Mancini (16 April 1924 – 1994) wrote the song. Sun in Aries, Cancer Rising, Moon in Virgo, Venus in Gemini. Of course, many more people were […]
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If you’ve been following these “Venus In…” posts for a while, you will know that your Venus sign does not necessarily describe what you look like — that is more for the Ascendant or ruling planet — but how you are attractive. Over the year, quite a few people have asked why I’m not putting up pictures of ordinary people or less beautiful ones. In fact, I’ve chosen people whose attractiveness is important to their careers — actors, singers, models — precisely because they are a pleasure to the eye (often not always). These are people working that Venus. Of course, Serena […]
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Spoiler alert. If you haven’t seen Before Sunrise, Before Sunset and Before Midnight, read no more. Jesse wears a manky greyish T-shirt with the word Neptune written across the body of a blue whale for about half the movie Before Midnight. Considering he’s an acclaimed writer of big, fat, sexy — yet high-brow — love stories, it’s a good choice. Neptune is the planet of art, illusion and imagination. It’s the planet of movie-making, gossamer and art. Jesse is the romantic American blue-eyed dreamer, whom we first met back in 1995 on a train to Vienna, when he was younger, […]
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Lush with satin and velvet, beautifully lit by candles and England’s cool northern daylight, the TV adaptation of Wolf Hall is as enthralling as the book. At the centre of the bedizened, voluptuous court of Henry VIII, there is a still, dark point, Thomas Cromwell. For more on the story and why — astrologically speaking — it has had such an impact on the collective imagination, read my piece about the novel here. Mark Rylance is mesmerising as Cromwell — still, watchful, intelligent. Of course, he is beautifully directed, and supported by an outstanding cast, notably Damian Lewis as the king (epitomsing Cancer Sun/Aries Moon), and Clare […]
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Adam Curtis’ extraordinary and beautiful documentary, Bitter Lake, mesmerises. Archival footage from the BBC, overlaid with a textured, eclectic soundscape creates an experience that leaves you breathless, wondering at the new world order that you sense, and at a new art form for the internet age. Ostensibly, Bitter Lake is a partial explanation of how the West wildly misunderstood Afghanistan. There are, as you might expect, an authoritative sounding voice over, subtitles and clips of world leaders shaking hands and soldiers fighting. But instead of delivering a load of facts to chew over, like most documentaries, Bitter Lake leaves you with a set of […]
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