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Astrology of Now: A Very Important Retrograde

Imagine you are walking up a mountain trail. You’re slowing down because the way is getting steeper, and rougher — and your sense of dread and unease grows with every step. A dark shadow looms on the path in front of you, filling you with dread. You turn tail and fly, tripping down the mountainside. In fact, as you stumble away, you realise you had dropped your map some way behind anyway and you start looking for it on the way down. As you walk, you find that your path looks quite different from this angle. You are able to see layers of […]

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Women on Top: Venus in Power

I got excited a while ago when I noticed that Brazilian premier Dilma Rousseff, Ukraine’s ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and Korean PM Park Geun-hye all have Venus in Capricorn, the sign of earthly power. I wondered if there would be more women at the top of the political tree with this placement. Alas no, Venus in the charts of female elected heads of state turns up just about anywhere — except Leo. However, Venus ought to tell us something about what makes someone popular enough to get elected. Since I’d already done all the research, I thought you might like to have a look […]

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Divided By Pluto: Gemini through Leo

The movement of the outer planets, Pluto, Neptune and Uranus, is generational. In particular, Pluto’s movement is slow enough — it takes about 15 years to get through a sign — to give us a wide cohort. Pluto tells us what is powerful, what is transformed, what is lost. It’s interesting to look at the time when a particular Pluto generation comes of age, and then again when that generation comes to power. These are not necessarily at the same point. For example, the Baby Boomers (Pluto in Leo) came of age in the 1960s and 1970s but they came […]

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Kali Drives Change in India

Indians have taken to the streets to protest against violence against women.India, the world’s biggest democracy, is a great big bhel puri of languages, religions, customs and manners.  Special interests are as diverse as religious customs, but fo…

Why India Worships Shahrukh Khan

If you’ve never been to India, it’s hard to explain just how important Shahrukh Khan is. He is a V, V, V, VIP.Imagine someone who has the film star status of George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt rolled into one, who has the common touch and …

Lisbon summit Nov 19-20, 2010: a Pluto/NN meeting

"Military power can’t cure everything"! Now who let that cat of the bag?Because the people knew it, you and I knew it…but are the power elite are just now figuring it out? Well, glory-be! NATO’s ‘new strategy’ is to be "unveiled" at the Lisbon summit later this week while powerful, subversive Pluto – the world’s secretive string-puller supreme – continues ‘meeting’ with North Node (their exact