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Astrology of Now: Sensual, New

by Christina • March 11, 2017

Today, Mars, the planet of physicality, action and Iron John moves into the sign of the Bull. Strangely, this is traditionally considered a difficult position for the planet of masculinity — maybe there’s just too much testosterone there. However, I note that people with this placement natally have incredible stamina, focus and often straightforward physical strength. It’s just a matter of what you do with that. (And indeed a team of scaffolders is currently swarming over my house.) This transit though, Mars in Taurus has some interesting help. Taurus’ ruler, sweet Venus, is currently walking down into the underworld of Aries: […]

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Venus in Aries: Alexander McQueen

by Christina • March 9, 2017

The late Alexander McQueen said that he wanted people to feel afraid of the women who wore his clothes. His shows were legendary: shocking, emotional, Gothic, visceral — absolutely exquisite. In 1995’s The Birds — inspired by Hithcock’s movie — models stumbled down the catwalk, dresses torn and tire-marked as if they’d been run over. In 1999’s No. 13, the finale is a model being spray-painted by robots. The violence and the vulnerability (Pluto opposite Moon, Venus in Aries) were more or less explicit in every show. “People find my things sometimes aggressive. But I don’t see it as aggressive. I see it […]

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Venus in Aries: Willem de Kooning

by Christina • March 4, 2017

“Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.” Willem de Kooning, April 1946 How Willem de Kooning worked made an impression on visitors. He would sit for hours contemplating a painting and then pick up a brush and attack it intensely and decisively. “The ‘Women’ had to do with the female painted through all ages, all those idols, and maybe I was stuck to a certain extent; I couldn’t go on. It did one thing for me: it eliminated composition, arrangement, relationships, light – all this silly talk about line, colour and form – because that was the thing […]

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Venus in Aries: Anish Kapoor

by Christina • February 19, 2017

Continuing the series on artists with Venus in Aries. The picture tells the story really. Anish Kapoor has Venus at 0° Aries — the Ur degree, the alpha … the very beginning of the whole Zodiac. And well, is here is a great big Mons Venus in Aries own colour. Kapoor loves red. It’s nice that he has North Node in Capricorn — a sign which often seems to feature in sculptor’s charts. One suspects his relationship with India must be pretty complex (but a source of inspiration) with Uranus on the South Node. It’s interesting that he manages to be extremely […]

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Venus in Aries: Francisco de Goya

by Christina • February 17, 2017

Venus, the planet of love and art, harmony and sweetness, spends a long time in Aries, a sign that represents some quite contrary energies, in 2017. So we have an opportunity to look and think about how Venus behaves here. I’ve been looking at the charts of artists, fashion designers and film makers with Venus in Aries and seeing if this shows in their work. Francisco de Goya, the Spanish painter, whose life spanned the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries, got into a spot of bother in 1808, even though he was a successful court painter. It was […]

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Vivienne Westwood: Venus in Aries

by Christina • February 10, 2017

Vivienne Westwood started her career running a shop called Sex at the grubby end of the King’s Road — first stop on London’s punk trail in the 1970s. Today, she is a doyenne of fashion world — doing the whole cat-walk-show thing and yet still a social revolutionary. With her North Node and Midheaven in Libra, the sign of couture, her chosen profession comes as no surprise — and with fiery Sagittarius Rising plus theatrical Moon in Leo square Uranus, nor does her propensity for making outrageous remarks and shocking fashion statements. The inconjunct between Moon and Mercury in Pisces might […]

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Astrology of Now: Countering The Ugly

by Christina • February 6, 2017

February is a fast and urgent month with Mars, Venus and Uranus in fiery, furious Aries. Mars in his own sign is rather unbridled, Venus in her opposite sign is not doing her usual harmony, sweetness and light thing and Uranus is spitting sparks. Somewhere in your life there’s probably a bit of a turmoil or drama. But frankly, this whole past 12-month has proved to be a challenge for those of us with tree-hugging, peace-loving, rose-tinted spectacle wearing tendencies. There’s a lot of ugly out there. But astrology does offer us some ideas of how to handle the rough stuff. Jupiter, the planet […]

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When Scorpio Engages With The Camera

by Christina • January 4, 2017

John Berger, art critic, author, poet, visionary, European became (almost) a household name when he made a four-part TV series called Ways of Seeing. This came out in 1972 and it’s a fascinating watch today — not just for the ideas, which became extremely influential, but also for Berger’s relationship with the camera, his delivery and the pacing. I think you can feel his chart — no birth time — powerfully in Ways of Seeing. His whole argument is based on the idea of looking at art truthfully, stripping away one’s cultural baggage and seeing the bones of the work underneath. He […]

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Monthly Horoscopes: January 2017

by Christina • December 31, 2016

Happy New Year! We made it. The month ahead is full of potential, with an extraordinary Full Moon on January 12. I am working on a booklet for the year ahead and will deliver something well after Mercury turns direct and goes back in to Capricorn. I’m still working out how to make it as concise and handy as possible. The theme this month is beds! Click here to reach your horoscope, and thank you all for subscribing. May each of you have a wonderful 2017, filled with love and laughter, serendipity, curiosity and joy.

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8 Things To Do While Jupiter’s in Libra: Flamboyant Grace

by Christina • December 8, 2016

The planet of luck, exaggeration and expansion, Jupiter, is in Libra until October 2017. Here are some ways to work with that rather flamboyant energy. Polish Your Politesse It’s time for manners to make a comeback. Make a conscious effort to say please and thank you, to respond graciously when someone annoys you, and to take the time to put other people at ease. This is not about brittle etiquette and using your fish knife correctly, but about pouring oil into your social interactions. “Manners Makyth Man” … See You in Court This could be the year to get that […]

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