Hi, Folks– Last chance for an OTC reading. Looks like there are six slots still available, scattered during the 9th, 10th, 12th and 14th of January. Readings are spontaneous readings by me which last about 45 minutes. The cost is $60. I will use the natal chart, progressions, transits and we will have […]
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Just A Little Broken: RIP George Michael
Fragile, strong, sweet, sharp — a little broken. George Michael was a superstar with a seemingly boundless musical gift, but it was his vulnerability that made him special. Something, somewhere, had been cracked (one felt), and, like a “golden repair” on a Japanese pot, it made George Michael beautiful. Michael’s soul seeped out gradually into his stage persona. At first, he just seemed like a pretty, talented teenager eager to have fun and make money with his schoolfriend. But then there was Careless Whisper: we heard that sweet, strong voice deliver the wistful, hurting lyrics, and it was clear his talent was bigger than Wham! This is such a sensitive […]
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Merry Christmas!
A very happy holiday to you.
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A Street Called Hope
The shortest day of the year unfolded, unintentionally, as a meditation on our connection to God via a city break in Liverpool. In the morning, we went to the great hulking Anglican cathedral — which lours over the city from a high point overlooking the River Mersey and the Irish Sea. The longest cathedral in the world looks more like a power station than a house of god from the outside. Over the entrance, there’s a sculpture by Elizabeth Frink: a thick-limbed, stolid, “human” Christ. Inside its massy walls, the force of a kind of muscular Christianity is astonishingly real. Designed at the height of British […]
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The breakdown of Kanye West (and a birthtime controversy)
Kanye West was hospitalized yesterday after an erratic onstage rant that led to his walking offstage and canceling the rest of his tour appearances. Kanye West (born June 8, 1977, Atlanta Georgia, no confirmed birthtime*) has always been one of the more intriguing figures on the public stage. I wrote about him back in […]
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The New Gyre Is Out
The latest edition of The Widening Gyre is out, with new material on Saturn and info on upcoming classes.
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Site Crash
Sorry, Folks, I don’t know what happened, but everything from July to October that appeared on this site has been eaten. Simply disappeared, and no record I can see. I’ll be working on it. In the meantime, I hope everything else is still intact. All well and good that it wasn’t a time I […]
The Death of the Press
Hot-metal printing was finally killed off in the mid-1980s. Its demise had been a long time coming, as it was superseded by other cleaner, faster, cheaper technologies. London’s print unions were some of the last in the world to hold out, in the Wapping Dispute with Rupert Murdoch’s News International. When they caved in February 1987, it was the end. Imagine though, a composing room, in 1983 or even 1883. Lead type melts, is moulded, banged into place on the composing stones with wooden mallets by the compositor. On one side of the stone, the compositor; on the other, the editor: jobs strictly delineated. Editors […]
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October Monthly Horoscopes
The October Horoscopes are here and ready for your perusal. In pictures, this month we’re celebrating Libra in a big way: love, togetherness, laughter and old-fashioned glamour. Jupiter, the bringer of joy and jollity, embarks on his magnificent tour of this sign of relationship with a fresh New Moon today. All three! lunations this month look exciting, stimulating and full of potential. Meanwhile, Mars is making some feisty contacts. Don’t forget to read both your Rising sign and your Sun sign. Publishing these a little early to catch the New Moon! To read them, click here.
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The Astrology of Ceres
The dwarf planet Ceres, named after the goddess of fertility and agriculture, takes four years to make her way through the Zodiac, spending about four months in each sign. But this year, due to retrograde, she will be spending an unusually long time in Aries and the early degrees of Taurus. Ceres turned retrograde on August 31 at 5° Taurus and she retreats into Aries on October 13. Ceres is about the same size as Pluto. Although her influence has been widely ignored by the astrological establishment — even though the asteroids were discovered over 100 years earlier than Pluto […]
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