Tag: Saturn

Bowie: Back After a Decade of Silence

Plaintive, beautiful, broken, nostalgic. David Bowie’s new single Where Are We Now?, released today, is a return to his Berlin years both lyrically and musically.Bowie’s 66th birthday is today – maybe a good moment to recall those times in Berli…

RIP Dave Brubeck

With his customary impeccable timing (Saturn in Virgo), jazzman Dave Brubeckwas died yesterday, just two days short of his 92nd birthday. But today is his actual Solar Return, the moment in the year the Sun returns to the place it was when you were bor…

Saturn-Sun transits…again…

Ok, checking in quickly… I’ve had a few Scorpio peeps over the last few weeks ask me about Saturn/Sun transits… I’m too madly busy to reply to each of you, but, here are the links to the posts: 50 Shades of Black Back to Black I…

Gaza: The Quality of Mercy

After I gave birth to my first daughter in a London hospital, I shared a room with three other women – a Palestinian, an Israeli, and a London Iranian. No kidding.There was some awkward negotiating around drips, cots, nurses and nappies. But the…

Who Should Die And Who Should Live?

Where is Woody Harrelson when you need him? (as Tallahassee in Zombieland)My friend the doctor has some really hard choices to make. He told me this week that he’s having to write up the “Do Not Resuscitate” protocol for one of the care homes he visits…