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Bowie Turns To Face The Strange

by Christina • January 11, 2016

David Bowie must have known he was dying when he recorded ★ (Blackstar), his final album, released on his to birthday three days ago. It’s a privilege to hear from this liminal place, the place between this world and the next, from such a great artist and poetic visionary. The title song ★ is an apocalyptic vision, possibly a warning about the dark tides sweeping through the collective mind. The song Lazarus is about being dead. Can’t Give Everything Away, the final song on the album, sounds exactly like a swan song. In both the videos for his last album, Bowie is blindfolded. This is […]

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January Horoscopes 2016

by Christina • January 1, 2016

Happy New Year! What an interesting month awaits us. It could be rather a sticky start to the year, with both Jupiter and Mercury turning retrograde while Uranus, the planet of electricity is surging ahead. One aspect that is especially interesting kicks off right at the start of the month and that is the conjunction of Jupiter, the planet of expansion with the North Node, the gateway of destiny. Now these two encounter each other about once a decade, but usually it’s a quick how’s your father and on they go. Not this year. Jupiter hangs around the North Node for […]

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The Baroness: Dada Trickster

by Christina • December 10, 2015

“I went to the consulate with a large-wide sugarcoated birthday cake upon my head with fifty flaming candles lit – I felt just so spunky and affluent! In my ear I wore sugar plums or matchboxes – I forget which. Also I had put on several stamps as beauty spots on my emerald-painted cheeks and my eyelashes were made of gilded porcupine quills – rustling coquettishly – at the consul – with several ropes of dried figs dangling around my neck to give him a suck once and again – to entrance him. I should have liked to wear gaudy colored rubber boots […]

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The Passion Of Modigliani

by Christina • November 10, 2015

Yesterday this painting was sold to Chinese billionaire Liu Yiqian for $170m. Think about that for a moment. One hundred and seventy million dollars. Extraordinary. Christie’s chose the right month in which to sell it, with the Sun in Scorpio, since the subject of this picture is passion. Sex in the midst of death: this is Scorpio’s realm. Jeanne Hébuterne, Amedeo Modigliani’s live-in lover, the mother of his child, and his muse, had Scorpio rising. On her descendant, the angle of partnership, Venus and Mercury conjoin across fiery Aries and sensual Taurus. That Venus (in detriment!) is in the very final degree of Aries, so it has […]

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October Horoscopes 2015

by Christina • September 30, 2015

It’s always an interesting time of year — October. We are half way round the Zodiac now, in Libra, the sign of balance, measuring and assessment. Often there’s a weary contemplation of the self as we go into Scorpio, But this year, October seems full of potential. There are conjunctions and easy aspects. The lovers, Venus and Mars, are tantalisingly close to embracing. Opportunities abound. But in order to grasp those opportunities fully, we need to know and understand ourselves, of course. Now there’s the rub. Illustrations this month are some interesting self portraits. Worth looking at all of them. […]

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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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Monthly Horoscopes: September 2015

by Christina • September 1, 2015

Oh my! Two eclipses, a Mercury Retrograde and the opposition of the decade, if not the century (for some of us). To read your horoscope, click the links below. Aries through Virgo Libra through Pisces Horoscopes are for subscribers only, to join, click the links and follow the directions. Pictures this month are all about the detail, an homage to Jupiter in Virgo.

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On Pisces

by Christina • March 9, 2015

Sadko In The Underwater Kingdom by Ilya Repin (Wikimedia Commons) From Tunisia to Elizabeth Taylor, you never know who you’re going to swim past down there in the blue, blue sea. With the Sun still in Pisces, visit or revisit these OA posts on or about the sign of the Fishes. A Fortnight of Visionary Artists 7 Good Things To Do While The Sun Is In Pisces Neptune in Pisces by Sign Pisces Self-Portraits Brotherhood of Romantics Rupert Murdoch: Uber-Pisces 12th House People Unpacking My Library: On The Road Revolution Now or Never? Tunisia Tony Robbins: Guru or Snak Oil Salesman? George Harrison: […]

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Bitter Lake

by Christina • February 14, 2015

Adam Curtis’ extraordinary and beautiful documentary, Bitter Lake, mesmerises. Archival footage from the BBC, overlaid with a textured, eclectic soundscape creates an experience that leaves you breathless, wondering at the new world order that you sense, and at a new art form for the internet age. Ostensibly, Bitter Lake is a partial explanation of how the West wildly misunderstood Afghanistan. There are, as you might expect, an authoritative sounding voice over, subtitles and clips of world leaders shaking hands and soldiers fighting. But instead of delivering a load of facts to chew over, like most documentaries, Bitter Lake leaves you with a set of […]

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Astrology of Now: The Disappearance of Manannan Mac Lir

by Christina • January 29, 2015

A statue of the Celtic sea god Manannan Mac Lir was stolen from an Irish mountaintop on January 21, the day Mercury, the planet of thieves, went retrograde. Although Manannan is the “son of the sea” and a deity of storms, but he has more in common with Mercury than Neptune. Manannan is a trickster (sometimes appearing dressed as a clown), a musician (he plays a harp) and he moves with ease between this world and the other world, just like his Greco-Roman counterpart. If we understand myth, then we know that Manannan has simply slipped over for a short visit to the other world. That’s […]

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