Tag: history

Astrology of Now: War or Peace?

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No doubt about it: this is a tough and dangerous month. Here’s why. Mars, the planet of war, aggression, action and passion, is pounding his way through the sign of Capricorn. At the start of April, he contacted sombre, stony Saturn, sitting there in his own sign, and at the end of the month, he contacts that underworld crime lord Pluto. These two powerful outer planets are both now in this sign of the establishment, governance and earthly power. You probably don’t need me to tell you what’s been happening to the “World Order” since 2008, when Pluto entered this […]

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Saturn in Capricorn: Winter is Coming

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This video was made during the one-day workshop held in January by The Oxford Astrology Group here at Trinity College, Oxford.
I took a look at the UK chart during the talk as well as touching more generally on Saturn, Capricorn and the shape of 2018. …

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Maimonides’ Letter On Astrology

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“Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.” — Maimonides   Rabbi Moses, son of Maimon, was without much argument, one of the greatest philosophers of the Middle Ages. Not only was he revered in his own time for the brilliance of his logic, he was widely read across the Arab world and in Europe through the following centuries. His ideas created an intellectual bridge between Aristotle and the so-called “Age of Reason”, between rationalism and Talmudic tradition. At the […]

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Astrology and Freedom

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I have quite a few Asian clients, brought up in the Vedic or Chinese systems of astrology. At first, I was curious that they should seek out a Western practitioner even though they were steeped in a more culturally-accepted tradition. But after several enlightening conversations, I started to understand just how liberating it might be to use a system that is outside your own culture — and saw what a smart choice these clients are making. This set me thinking about how all astrology needs to be understood within its own cultural and historical context. For example, if you read a Western astrology book written in the 1970s or 1980s, you might be […]

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2018 Lunar and Solar Eclipses with Themes

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Re: Cosmic Blinks! ‘Wild Card’ Eclipses Affect History

For better viewing, please enlarge the image of the 2018 list of Solar Eclipses (with themes) and Lunar Eclipses.

Occurring after what’s being called The Great American Eclipse of August 2017 which ‘splits’ our nation from coast to coast, the 2018 Solar Eclipses fall into the 1 South, 2 (New) North, and 2 Old North Saros Series and,

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Clare Hollingworth’s Appointment With Destiny

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It was August 1939 when 27-year-old Clare Hollingworth spotted rows and rows of German tanks, hidden under burlap on the German border . She might have been a rookie, but she knew a story when she saw it. She wired back to London warning “the German war machine is ready for a swift stroke”. Three days later, Germany invaded Poland. Hollingworth’s report was called the “scoop of the century”. Hollingworth stumbled into journalism. She’d gone to Poland initially as a political activist and ended up saving thousands of lives by getting visas for people fleeing Nazi persecution. But she’d  been forced out of that role and switched to journalism at […]

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Terrorism, the Discovery of Chiron and Great Art

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Chiron, the erratic asteroid that weaves between Uranus and Saturn, was discovered on November 1, 1977 on a photographic plate that had been taken on October 18. That second date might just ring a bell for you if you happen to be interested in contemporary art – because it’s also the collective title of some of the most famous works of art about terrorism ever made. Gerhard Richter’s weird, grungy pictures grouped under the title 18. Oktober 1977 reimagine the demise of Germany’s notorious Baader-Meinhof gang. On that day, three members of the gang were found dead in jail — as depicted in Richter’s compellingly creepy series. Officially it was suicide, but the circumstances […]

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Muhammad Ali: Leo Rising

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Self-named, self-invented, self-motivated, champion boxer Muhammad Ali was a modern embodiment of the archetype of hero. He was charismatic, strong, graceful, poetic in speech, courageous in deed. He spoke up for the millions and laughed at the powerful. He took his punishment squarely and came back to defeat his enemies. He was brave and inventive. Here is Leo Rising: the sign of the king on the Ascendant. “It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.” He was also playful, cheeky, brash and boastful and sometimes cruel as a child. Again Leo Rising. “It’s not bragging if you can back it up.” So the […]

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Anonymous – ‪#‎OpWhiteRose‬. White Rose Society – message to Trump

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A message to 2016 candidate Donald Trump from Anonymous (with a few Astrology notes added):

Here’s a link to The White Rose Society website which reveals its goal to fight the rise of the new fascism and it’s where you’ll find info including the leaflets the organization circulated against Hitler and the Nazis in 1942.

Mars the Warrior, Activist, and Arsonist

From Hitler to Trump, history

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The Baroness: Dada Trickster

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“I went to the consulate with a large-wide sugarcoated birthday cake upon my head with fifty flaming candles lit – I felt just so spunky and affluent! In my ear I wore sugar plums or matchboxes – I forget which. Also I had put on several stamps as beauty spots on my emerald-painted cheeks and my eyelashes were made of gilded porcupine quills – rustling coquettishly – at the consul – with several ropes of dried figs dangling around my neck to give him a suck once and again – to entrance him. I should have liked to wear gaudy colored rubber boots […]

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