Tag: Europe

UK Election: …. And The Winner Is

by Christina • May 6, 2015

Most of my fellow astrologers have plumped for David Cameron as the winner in tomorrow’s election. I am not so sure: who won anything when Pluto was squaring his Sun? But then Ed Miliband has Pluto crossing (possibly, see previous post) his Midheaven, a transit which did for the last-but-one prime minister, Gordon Brown… Looks like it’s going to be a fight to the death… However, there is one party leader who stands out from all the others because of the excellence of the current transits to her chart — and that is Nicola Sturgeon, the leader of the Scottish […]

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Astrology of Now: The Deep Blue Sea And A Hero’s Journey

by Christina • April 21, 2015

To travel from Eritrea or Gambia across the desert to the lower lid of the Mediterranean Sea — braving torture, slavery, asphyxia in the back of a truck, rape and beatings — to cross in an open boat: this is a hero’s journey. Imagine doing it as a child. So far this week more than 800 people have drowned in the Mediterranean, trying to reach Italy from Libya. More than a 100 of those were children. Pirates — or entrepreneurial seafarers, depending on who’s talking — operated from the so-called Barbary Coast –– North Africa from Morrocco to Algiers, Tripoli then Tunis — from the 15th to the 19th centuries. […]

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Marine Le Pen: Killing the Father

by Christina • April 9, 2015

Tough, intelligent, focused and energetic, Marine Le Pen is France’s most charismatic politician. Compared to dreary Francois Holland and preening Nicolas Sarkozy, she has the “it” factor. Her chart ruler, Venus shines brightly in Leo. Le Pen is a serious contender for the presidency in 2017. If she wins, not only will France have its first female president, but also its first far right leader since Maréchal Pétain collaborated with the Nazis during the Occupation. The consequences for Europe could be catastrophic. She has taken the Front National (FN) party, founded by her father in the wake of France’s defeat in Algeria, and […]

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Saturn in Sagittarius: Part One

by Christina • March 12, 2015

As Saturn, the reaper, slows to a halt before turning retrograde in mid-March, let’s pause to reflect what the transit of this great planet through the sign of the centaur means. In this post, I’ll look briefly at the past Saturn in Sag period to give us a handle on this one. Then in later posts will delve deeper into the psychological and the personal, including Saturn Returns and the Seven-and-a-half. Saturn in Sagittarius 23 Dec 2014 – 15 June 2015 18 Sep 2015 – 20 Dec 2017 Saturn is stationing around 5° Sagittarius & turns Rx on March 14 By tradition, […]

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Talking Euro

by Christina • February 12, 2015

Since Christine Lagarde, the head of the IMF, seems to have borrowed Greek Fin Min Yanis Varoufakis’ leather jacket today, perhaps we can feel reassured that the talks about the future of the euro will go better than expected. Back in 2011, I wrote a short piece about the euro, the common currency used throughout most of Europe. It seemed slippery, wobbly and over-extended. Well, the euro weathered the storm when Pluto made an exact conjunction to its 10° Capricorn Sun in 2012. However, the eurozone has had the collywobbles ever since and today European finance ministers are meeting to try and figure […]

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Greece

by Christina • January 25, 2015

Here — Archipelago of Dreams — is a post I wrote about Greece in 2011. The chart I drew up puts transiting Uranus, the disruptor, on Greece’s natal Saturn today. All change. And here is one about Europe. Believe it or not they are both quite relevant tonight as the left sweeps back into power in Greece, promising to end austerity.

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Politics: A Tidal Wave of Emotion

by Christina • May 26, 2014

Right-wing nationalists have won the elections for the European parliament here in the UK. This is the first time a fourth party has won a nation-wide election for more than 100 years. For anyone living in England, this victory has been quite…

Astrology of Now: Mud Wrestling

by Christina • June 11, 2013

U-PluIt’s all been a bit jagged for, well, years.For most people, the ongoing U-Plu (Uranus-Pluto square) has not gone smash-bang and changed everything. It’s felt more like a massive arduous grinding shift; a huge stone cog that judders along, sending…

Taken at the Flood

by Christina • June 10, 2013

The RhinemaidensThe Elbe, the Vistula, the Inn, the mighty Danube himself, the busy Rhine – the rivers of central Europe are swollen, bursting their banks, rolling across the countryside, swallowing roads, cars, houses. Twenty people have lost their …

Eurowobbles

by Christina • March 22, 2013

So now it’s naughty little Cyprus, the island of Aphrodite, which is giving the eurozone the screaming abdabs. Aphrodite is the Greek Venus, of course. In astrology, Venus rules money, so maybe it’s not such a surprise that Cyprus was, until a week ago…

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