Tag: Nodes

Astrology of Now: Carnage on Everest

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Mountains house the gods — Shiva on Kailash, Zeus and the fam on Olympus, Ruwa on Kilimanjaro, Salcantay and Veronica in the Andes. To go to the mountain, to climb the mountain, means getting closer to god. Athos and Ararat, Kailash and Kanchenjunga are places of pilgrimage. What does it mean that the world’s highest mountain, Everest, the Holy Mother in Tibetan, becomes a playground for the wealthy? Another trophy to bag? Another brag? Another rich person’s goal? Apparently, it costs between £50,000 and £90,000 to make the ascent. Once upon a time, there was a kind of romance to […]

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Shadow Planets

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A few weeks ago I attended a seminar here in Oxford which included a discussion of the Vedic (or Indian) interpretation of the North and South Nodes by Adam Smith. The Vedic view turns out to be rather different from the widely held Western interpretation of the Nodes of the Moon as karmic — ironically. So I was fascinated by the Vedic personifications of the North and South Nodes of the Moon. Known as the “shadow planets”, they are considered as important as the seven traditional heavenly bodies. You’ll find flower-bedecked icons of these nine astrological “grahas” outside most Hindu temples. The North Node […]

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June Horoscopes

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Suddenly it looks like the planets are starting to make more sense. Jupiter turns direct after months of sleeping on the job. Neptune, that old illusionist, retires for a well-earned rest for a few months in mid-June. Could we begin to see a little more clearly? Could optimism come back into fashion? Will people start being nice to each other again? Click here for your June horoscope. This month it includes a 12-page supplement on the North and South Nodes of the Moon, which have just changed signs. The download button is at the end of each article.    

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Astrology of Now: Through The Looking Glass

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As some readers of this blog may have noticed, I couldn’t bring myself to take a close look at the close of polls chart for the US election. It was just too important — and I was scared of what I might find. However, a couple of weeks ago, when I was writing your horoscopes for November, I saw something that made my heart leap into my mouth — in a manner of speaking — something which I could not ignore. It was the passage of Neptune through the South Node in Pisces this month. The image that sprang to into my mind […]

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Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito And The Eclipses

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A sensational murder trial has finally come to a close. After seven long years, Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were cleared of the murder of Meredith Kercher yesterday by the highest court in Italy. All of the major actors in this drama are playthings of the gods, acting out an archetypal story in the world media for our mass edification. The headlines have been lurid, speculation has been unbridled, truth has been scarce. Prejudice and bigotry, national pride, racism, misogyny and snobbery have all played a part in a story that at heart may be very simple: an innocent was raped and killed by a murderer who […]

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