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Astrology of Now: Equinox, Public Humiliation and Mercury Rx

by Christina • September 23, 2015

I’m writing this just as the Sun approaches the celestial equator. It is the equinox, when night and day are perfectly balanced. We enter the sign of Libra today, which this year is already hosting Mercury’s retrograde. Libra is one of the four cardinal signs that open the seasons – Aries (spring), Cancer (summer), Libra (autumn) and Capricorn (winter), or the reverse if you are in the Southern hemisphere. Libra is the sign of balance, of equal measures, of the other, a contrast to the one-pointedness of its opposite Aries. Maybe it’s useful now to think about how the whole Zodiac balances and rebalances […]

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Zenobia And The Temple of Bel

by Christina • September 11, 2015

The warrior queen Zenobia passed under that Zodiac dozens, maybe hundreds, of times. By the start of her reign in the 3rd century BC, the Temple of Bel in Palmyra was already 200 years old. Its fabulous portico with the seven planets personified, surrounded by the signs of the Zodiac, would have been a familiar part of the sacred furniture of the the queen’s great desert city. Subsequent generations of travellers to the Middle East crossed the desert to visit Zenobia’s city, inspired by the legend of the warrior queen and rumours of the romance of the ruins. Isobel Burton, writing in the 1870s, […]

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The Glory and the Dying of the Light: Chiron/Sun

by Dawn Bodrogi • September 8, 2015

We find it easier to understand when Chiron hits any of the personal planets. The personal planets have to do with our functioning, have to do with our effectiveness, and we understand when Chiron places a chink in our armour. Chiron/Mercury, and our ability to move, articulate and/or take in ordinary information can […]

Refugees: Jupiter-Neptune In Action

by Christina • September 7, 2015

Last week, I did a talk at Aquarius Severn which included a short picture essay. I’ll show it to you here. Remember that Neptune and Jupiter, the planets that promote flow, meet across the mutable Virgo-Pisces axis once a century. Jupiter in Virgo, Neptune in Pisces — 1849 Jupiter in Pisces, Neptune in Virgo — 1939 Jupiter in Virgo, Neptune in Pisces — 2015

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The Labour Party’s Misty Meltdown

by Christina • August 12, 2015

Of course it’s one thing to look at Jeremy Corbyn’s chart. He is clearly having a high old time, but we really ought to look at the chart of the Labour Party to get an idea of what’s going on. I asked my friend Liz, who is a fount of natal charts, what she had for the British Labour Party. Here’s what she said: “Nick Campion gives two: 27th Feb 1900 and 12th Feb 1906. Both noon in London. There are arguments for both; the later date is more the foundation of the Parliamentary Labour Party, the former is when […]

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Sacred Earth (Part One)

by Dawn Bodrogi • July 24, 2015

EARTH SIGNS, EARTH HOUSES: THE TRIFECTA OF MANIFESTATION TAURUS: HUSBAND TO GAIA Overview: The Triumvirate of Earth No one really thinks about it, but all of the elemental triumvirates follow the same pattern, no matter the element. There is initiation or inception, process or testing, and then building or result. In Fire, there is the […]

Updates

by Dawn Bodrogi • July 22, 2015

Hi Folks, Thank you for being so patient as The Inner Wheel gets on its feet again. First of all, for those who have been waiting for the article on Sacred Earth that was begun in the last newsletter, it is about to appear. Parts One and Two will be up in a […]

The New Horizons Mission to Pluto

by Christina • July 18, 2015

It’s quite catching: the excitement of all those NASA boffins. The success of the New Horizons mission to Pluto is wonderful. The images bring the planet so close, show the importance of his henchman Charon, the dark planet’s “heart”, and his handsome craggy features. The astrology? Well, this mid-month we’ve been having a pretty tough opposition from Mars-Mercury to Pluto. On the day of the closest approach, July 14, the dynamic duo were sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon, all in watery and imaginative Cancer. Now Cancer is the sign of home and tribe, so you could see this […]

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Astrology of Now: Narrative/Counter-Narrative

by Christina • June 18, 2015

Three married sisters from Bradford — in their early thirties and with nine children between them — have run away to join ISIS in Syria. The British media has twisted itself into a pretzel trying to fit this story into a palatable narrative. The women were “brainwashed”, “radicalised”, “duped” even. The husbands, left behind, are “very emotional”, “bewildered”. The community is “shocked”. They were a “quiet” family. Apparently, the authorities are at fault for “failing to stop the women” and not helping the families track them down. The words used have become familiar: the community is always shocked, no one […]

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Movies: Before…

by Christina • June 9, 2015

Spoiler alert. If you haven’t seen Before Sunrise, Before Sunset and Before Midnight, read no more. Jesse wears a manky greyish T-shirt with the word Neptune written across the body of a blue whale for about half the movie Before Midnight. Considering he’s an acclaimed writer of big, fat, sexy — yet high-brow — love stories, it’s a good choice. Neptune is the planet of art, illusion and imagination. It’s the planet of movie-making, gossamer and art. Jesse is the romantic American blue-eyed dreamer, whom we first met back in 1995 on a train to Vienna, when he was younger, […]

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