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The Lonely Sun of Theresa May

by Christina • March 17, 2017

Theresa May became Britain’s second woman Prime Minister last summer, because there was no alternative. The rest of them had done each other in. She was the last woman standing, and the country breathed a collective sigh of relief when she stepped into the breach. She seemed capable, calm, reliable — and strangely familiar. The latter not just because of a faint resemblance to the last female PM, Mrs Thatcher (another Libran with Saturn in Scorpio), but because she appeared to embody a kind of British everywoman: the vicar, the headteacher, the local librarian, memsahib, head girl, a good sort, a brick. […]

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Catch You Later, President Obama

by Christina • January 20, 2017

Barack and Michelle Obama may have left the White House today, but they have certainly not left politics. In fact, Obama’s career as a world leader and elder statesman has only just begun. While he was president Obama carried a burden of huge responsibility, without always being able to wield a huge amount of power, because the Republican-led congress was determined to thwart him. From the autumn of 2012, Saturn — which can be quite oppressive — was moving across the top of Obama’s chart from the cusp of the 9th house to the cusp of the 11th. During this second term […]

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Venus in Pisces: Dirty Sweet

by Christina • January 16, 2017

Those of you following this Venus in… series will know already that Venus is not entirely about how you look. For that we look at the Ascendant and planets aspecting it. Venus though can tell us what makes you attractive, or even what makes you beautiful. So it’s pretty interesting that the first three names that came up on my database when I typed in Venus in Pisces were: Michelle Obama, Jesus Christ and Martin Luther King. Presumably we can discount Jesus, since last I knew there was some controversy over his exact birthdate, so the next one down is Kurt […]

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The Donald: America’s Shadow Steps Out Of The Looking Glass (P1)

by Christina • November 24, 2016

Donald Trump has been on TV since 2004, sitting at a big desk with the stars and stripes behind him. He wasn’t the president then, just pretending to be a boss on the reality TV show The Apprentice. He looked menacing and said, “You’re fired”, and rewarded contestants if they were “good”, and appeared to be in charge of something important. Now he has stepped through the screen and will soon — if all goes according to plan — be sitting in the real Oval Office, making real decisions that affect the lives of millions of real people around the world. (Neptune […]

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USA Chart Analysis, November 9, Dawn

by Christina • November 7, 2016

My friend Anton D’Abreu from Cycles of History has very kindly sent this chart analysis of transits to the chart of the United States on the day after the election. The Sibly chart (Koch) is used. Only the USA chart is analysed. All dates 2016 unless specified otherwise. Transiting houses are marked 1H while natal houses are marked 1st H. Rounded-up transit orbs are for November 9, 4.30 am) 1) Pluto (2H) opposes the US Sun (7th H). This is one of the most dramatic transits in the USA’s 240 year history. It suggests the transformation or destruction of the way American […]

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Nasty Women

by Christina • October 27, 2016

No matter what you think about the candidates for president in the USA, the campaign has given rise to some barnstorming feminist political speeches. It feels like a real breakthrough — a change in the weather. In astrology, we have a “nasty woman”. She’s called Black Moon Lilith, and she’s strutting around in Scorpio this year. She’s been here since May, and she won’t leave until February. Lilith in Scorpio seems pretty powerful. She’s even been given a voice by Senator Elizabeth Warren, whose speech about nasty women made some of us fall around laughing. “Nasty women are tough, nasty women are […]

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Hillary Clinton, Dragon-Slayer

by Christina • October 12, 2016

This American election is an archetypal battle, the stuff of fairytale or legend. The two sides line up, accusing each other of hatred, lying and lasciviousness; of baseness, vileness, bestiality. In their vagueness sometimes, the smears require a leap of imagination from the public. What’s the worst thing you can think of? The words are Biblical, the accusations are of immorality. The candidates are speaking of a seething abyss of sin. It is extraordinary. Although this language has been used for a while by the right wing of the Republican Party, now it has irrupted into the mainstream. And in Donald Trump, the Republicans […]

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It’s Time For The Media To Push Back On Lies! – video

by jude cowell • September 15, 2016

Here’s an interesting segment from yesterday’s Thom Hartmann Show but I must ask: if we could take lying away from the media and the politicians they ‘cover’, how could any of them communicate? Why, the false reality they feed us these many years would dissolve and show its true face behind the elaborate mask they’ve created to keep the public uninformed and diverted from the facts:

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Women on Top: Venus in Power

by jo • February 17, 2016

I got excited a while ago when I noticed that Brazilian premier Dilma Rousseff, Ukraine’s ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and Korean PM Park Geun-hye all have Venus in Capricorn, the sign of earthly power. I wondered if there would be more women at the top of the political tree with this placement. Alas no, Venus in the charts of female elected heads of state turns up just about anywhere — except Leo. However, Venus ought to tell us something about what makes someone popular enough to get elected. Since I’d already done all the research, I thought you might like to have a look […]

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2016: The Year of the Maverick

by Christina • February 10, 2016

Here we are at the dawn of the Year of the Fire Monkey and already the results of the New Hampshire Primary in the United States are telling us that this could well be the year of maverick. In Chinese astrology, the Monkey is just what you’d expect — clever, quick, a trickster, a talker, a stirrer of the pot — indeed very like the sign Gemini in Western astrology. When that monkey is set on fire, as he is this year, he can get too hot to handle. There are 12 animals in the Chinese Zodiac — and every year […]

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