With Merc turning around today, the 22nd, in apparent retrograde (shortly after 5 PM Pacific Daylight Time), we may find …
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Astrology of Now: “Weaponised Data”
Last night Channel 4 news ran a piece in which the head of the data collection company Cambridge Analytica, one Alexander Nix, offered an entrapment and disinformation service to a journalist posing as a Sri Lankan politician. Cambridge Analytica worked on Donald Trump’s election and the Brexit campaign and was funded by billionaire Ayn Rand enthusiast Robert Mercer. This came a few days after the exposé in The Observer and New York Times of the massive data harvesting on Facebook undertaken by Cambridge Analytica and used to create microtargetted propaganda. To paraphrase whistleblower Christopher Wylie, the data was used to create […]
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New Podcast: The Month Ahead
What’s in store for the month ahead? Which Sun Signs are up? Which are, well, coasting? What dates should you take a risk and when should you stay at home? And why was last month so … last monthish? I’ll be chatting with my friend and fellow astrologer Sally Kirkman about our favourite topic – the language of the stars — at the start of each astrological month Our starting point is the Sun sign of the month and the major astrological events coming up, but we’ll see where that takes us… This month it’s Aries and that pesky Mercury Retrograde…
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ReCorrecting Our Launch | Mercury Retrograde, Sun enters Aries
Sun enters Aries. Monday March 19 still holds some of the left-over sparks from the weekend’s highly-charged Aries Moon. This emotional energy could encourage us to brave brand new steps… toward the New Moon intentions that were planted over the last few days. As we embrace what feels incredibly unfamiliar and foreign, but yet exciting […]
ReCorrecting Our Launch | Mercury Retrograde, Sun enters Aries
Sun enters Aries. Monday March 19 still holds some of the left-over sparks from the weekend’s highly-charged Aries Moon. This emotional energy could encourage us to brave brand new steps… toward the New Moon intentions that were planted over the last few days. As we embrace what feels incredibly unfamiliar and foreign, but yet exciting […]
New Moon in Pisces March 2018 A Goldilocks Moon
The New Moon occurs at 6:11 AM Pacific Daylight time at 26 Pisces 53. Both bodies (Sun, Moon) are applying …
Willful Words, Willful Wants: Mercury and Venus in Aries
Looking ahead a bit, there are two days coming up I wanted to discuss; I would describe them as ‘potent’, …
Mercury Retrograde: March 22, 2018 – FRUSTRATING
Mercury will turn retrograde on March 22, 2018. If you’re in the United States getting ready to file your taxes, check these dates for filing your tax return. Outside of that, I expect this to be a particularly frustrating time. … Read More…
Adventures in Mercury Retrograde, December 2017 edition
It’s easy to give advice like “don’t plan any trips or start anything new when Mercury is retrograde,” we can’t always put our lives on hold. I always advise clients who need to begin a new job or start a new endeavor of some kind during Mercury retrograde to go ahead and do it, but […]
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Astrology of Now: In the Footprints of Saturn
We woke up to snow on Sunday. Swirling, twirling flakes, hurtling fast, then fluttering delicately past the bedroom window. The garden had vanished by 6am and by mid-day a soft, heavy blanket of white had covered everything. With snow comes silence. It’s easy in the first snowfall to imagine yourself in a different time — maybe a horse-drawn sleigh will trot down my suburban street. And then time slows too. Instead of cars, people and their dogs trudge and stumble down the street. We went out for a while and, coming home, walked past the end of our road, unrecognisable […]
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