Tag: Outer Planets

Steppenwolf

A man, who feels himself to be half wolf, wanders through the rainy night streets of a European city. He comes across a strange door in a wall and sees this sign, or thinks he sees it, but then does it disappear? Magic Theatre  Admission not for everybody — Not for everybody — MAD PEOPLE  ONLY Harry Haller, the protagonist of Hermann Hesse’s masterpiece, the short novel Steppenwolf, is having a bit of a crisis. Not only does his own life feel meaningless and empty, the world around him, especially the bourgeois world, seems hypocritical, deluded (and yet, and yet, strangely […]

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Decade of Change: the Outer Planet Conjunctions of the 1950s

If you’re reading this article you may not have been alive in the 1950s and ‘missed’ the Great Conjunctions of the decade. It was a decade of change and new conditions across the globe and in America so I’ve put together a list of the four planetary conjunctions of the 1950s, when their energies combined and the Great Cosmic Clock started over for each pair.

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Ken Russell: Dedicated to Dionysus

Film director Ken Russell made big, messy pictures with a lot of sex and music in them. His fluid, emotional, freewheeling camerawork is still like no one else’s.Yesterday at the age of 84, the old maverick was taken by his maker (Uranus Retu…

2011: Springtime of the Peoples

Set during the Paris uprising of 1848, Flaubert’s novel Sentimental Education explores lessons in love and friendship. It was published some 20 years after the events.I’ve been thinking about the planet Neptune’s ingress into Pisces a lot over the past…