1: The Parting Glance Neptune dipped back into Pisces yesterday and it has been non-stop rain in the UK. This will be the last time it stays in Pisces for the next 165 years; so what does that mean? This is the endpoint of the entire zodiac cycle -the exit door where people vanish intoContinue reading “The Parting Glance: Neptune reenters Pisces”
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The Saturn-Neptune Conjunction, Part II: Saturn-Neptune People
Saturn-Neptune Conjunction, 2026, Part II: Saturn-Neptune People 1809-10: Saturn-Neptune in Sagittarius (Chopin, Carson, Lincoln, Darwin, Gogol, Poe) 1881-83: Saturn-Neptune in Taurus (Gibran, Braque, Fleming, Stravinsky, deMille, Chaney) 1917-18: Saturn-Neptune in Leo (Kennedy, Mitterrand, Hayward, Ford, Spark, Jackson) 1952-53: Saturn-Neptune in Libra (Vajiralongkorn, Jinping, Blair, Oldfield, Judith, Barr, and Myss) 1989-90: Saturn-Neptune in Capricorn (Swift, Hoult,Continue reading “The Saturn-Neptune Conjunction, Part II: Saturn-Neptune People”
The Saturn-Neptune Conjunction in Aries, 2026
Part I: The Saturn-Neptune Conjunction in Aries 1: The Inception Degree    2: The Timeline 3: The Saturn-Neptune Cycle 4: The Saturn-Neptune Conjunction Part II: The Saturn-Neptune People   1809-10: Saturn-Neptune in Sagittarius (Chopin, Carson, Lincoln, Darwin, Gogol, Poe)   1881-83: Saturn-Neptune in Taurus (Gibran, Braque, Fleming, Stravinsky, deMille, Chaney)   1917-18: Saturn-Neptune inContinue reading “The Saturn-Neptune Conjunction in Aries, 2026”
March Madness Builds to a Grande Finale
Several major celestial events have occurred during March in a sequence every two or three days so it has the effect of a stellium where everything feels more intense. All these events planets and aspects align together and go back and forth over the same degree points 8-10° of Aries and 29-01° of Aries. SomeContinue reading “March Madness Builds to a Grande Finale”
For All Strangers in a Strange Land
1: Song to the Stranger in Strange Lands 2: Heinlein’s Natal Chart 3: Saturn in Pisces 4: Chariklo and how Sci-Fi Envisions ‘Things to Come’. 5: The Hauntological Question 1: Song to the Stranger in Strange Lands You quickly realise from Robert A. Heinlein’s novel Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) what all theContinue reading “For All Strangers in a Strange Land”
How to Drive someone Mad: Donizetti and the Bride of Lammermoor
1: Introduction 2: Gaslighting in ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’ 3: Donizetti’s own Mad Scene 4: Gaetano Donizetti 5: The Birth of the Mad Lucia 6: Enter Maria Callas as Lucia 7: The 1955 Berlin Lucia 8: Blood and Gore Throughout 1: Introduction It is wonderful to hear an opera fully realised on stage with aContinue reading “How to Drive someone Mad: Donizetti and the Bride of Lammermoor”
Housewife to Megastar: the man behind Dame Edna’s face furniture Â
1: The Death of a Great Comedian 2: Growing Up in Moonee Ponds 3: The Birth of Edna, Housewife and Superstar 4: Changing the Chat Show Genre 5: Sir Les Patterson 6: The World according to the Dame 1: The Death of a Great Comedian One of the great losses among many disturbingContinue reading “Housewife to Megastar: the man behind Dame Edna’s face furniture  “
Mercury Retrograde in Sagittarius: Refresh your Ideas
1) Mercury Retrograde in Capricorn and Sagittarius 2) Triggering the Aspects 3) Is Mercury really that Bad in Sagittarius? 4) Reflections on Sagittarius 5) Fictional Sagittarians 6) Famous Sagittarians 1) Mercury Retrograde in Capricorn and Sagittarius Here comes the merry-go-round again and Mercury is about to go retrograde on December 13th. Retrograde Mercury isContinue reading “Mercury Retrograde in Sagittarius: Refresh your Ideas”
Friedrich Nietzsche: the Exit out of the Labyrinth
1: Nietzsche: Behold the Man 2: Nietzsche and the Kaleidoscope of ideas. 3: The Zero Degree of Aquarius 4: Style and Substance: The Epigrammatic Nietzsche 5: Nietzsche: the Psychologist. 6: Love Hurts: The Eros-Chiron connection 7: Nietzsche’s Asteroids and Dwarf planets 8: Nietzsche: The Legacy Video version here. 1: Nietzsche: Behold the Man. ItContinue reading “Friedrich Nietzsche: the Exit out of the Labyrinth”
Les Dawson: Comedy with An Echo of Shadows
1: Legend of Comedy 2: Humour in the Chart 3: Why Les Dawson and Why Now? 4: Thalia: Muse of Comedy 5: The Status of Comedy Today 1: Legend of Comedy Last Sunday, I visited the memorial statue of comedian Les Dawson who was born 2nd February, 1931. Les Dawson spent the last yearsContinue reading “Les Dawson: Comedy with An Echo of Shadows”
Florence Farr: The Bohemian’s Bohemian
1: Florence Farr: Wisdom Given to the Wise 2: Farr as Bohemian Muse of the Era. 3: Mistress of the Isis-Urania Temple 4: The Four Asteroid Archetypes of the Golden Dawn 5: Farr’s Personal Asteroids 5:1 Florence 5:2 Vesta 5:3 Urania 5:4 Polyhymnia 5:5 Isis 6: Final Years in Ceylon See the video versionContinue reading “Florence Farr: The Bohemian’s Bohemian”
Writing at the Deep Heart’s Core: William Butler Yeats
1: Things Fall Apart 2: In Search of the Unrequited 3: The Eros Connection 4: The Battle of Blythe Road 5: Yeats’ marriage to George Hyde-Lees 1: Things Fall Apart ‘Things fall apart. The centre cannot hold’ can mean to us that something darkly weird is happening out there and we feel that onContinue reading “Writing at the Deep Heart’s Core: William Butler Yeats”
Reflections in a Golden Eye: Venus Retrograde in Leo.
1: Keep an Eye on Venus 2: Timeline of Venus in Leo 3: Venus in Leo Personalities 4: The Retrograde Effect 5:Transits to Note in your Diary 6: Mars in the Mix 7: Venus in Leo through the Zodiac Signs 7:1 Aries 7:2 Taurus 7:3 Gemini 7:4 Cancer 7:5 Leo 7:6 Virgo 7:7 Libra 7:8Continue reading “Reflections in a Golden Eye: Venus Retrograde in Leo.”
The Eternal Eros in Harry Styles
1: How to Embody an Archetype 2: Casting Styles as Eros 3: Styles’ Fashion Style 1: How to Embody an Archetype No other system confirms hunches time and again as much as astrology. It underscores the formulation by Hermes Trismegistus of ‘As Above, so Below; as Within, so Without‘ and these synchronicities construct theContinue reading “The Eternal Eros in Harry Styles”
Attractions and Repulsions with Brett Easton Ellis
1: Picking up the Shards of the Past 2: Saturn Moves into Pisces 3: Brett Plays Bad Boy 4: What Memory Can Do for You 1: Picking up the Shards of the Past A book starts with a feeling, an emotion. It’s not a rational process. So says the Pisces Brett Easton Ellis bornContinue reading “Attractions and Repulsions with Brett Easton Ellis”
Dion Fortune: Sea Priestess of Avalon
1: Jupiter on the Move 2: The Sea Priestess of Avalon 3: Dion Fortune:Â Astro-Biographical Details. 4: Mars and Jupiter in Aquarius in the 5th 5: The Changeling Story 6: The Avalonian of Glastonbury 7: The ‘Magical’ Battle for Britain 1: Jupiter on the Move If you are still recovering from the eclipses onContinue reading “Dion Fortune: Sea Priestess of Avalon”
When Lovers Meet: Eros conjoins with Psyche
1: Eros: Light and Dark 2: The Conjunction Chart 3: The Love Vibration 4: The Discovery of Eros and Psyche 5: Psyche and Eros in Libra 6: Fixed Star Arcturus 1: Eros: Light and Dark This might seem counter-intuitive at a time when- the world is being disrupted by geopolitical shifts, when economies areContinue reading “When Lovers Meet: Eros conjoins with Psyche”
Time, Space and Astrology in Bali
1: Island of Gods and Demons 2: Balinese Astrology and Calendars 3: Balinese Birthdays 4: Temples and Megaliths in Bali 5: Woven into the Fabric of Life 1: Island of Gods and Demons When I go on a long trip my Sagittarian sun kicks in and it often becomes a giant learning curve. ForContinue reading “Time, Space and Astrology in Bali”
Proust and his Time Capsule of Curiosities
1: The Search for the Real Proust 2: Proust in Love and Hate 3: Proust’s Daimon or Genius 4: Proust’s Sense of Humour 5: Death and a Cork-lined Room 6: The Cinematic Proust 1: The Search for the Real Proust They say people are changed by reading Marcel Proust. Life is foreverContinue reading “Proust and his Time Capsule of Curiosities”
The Window of Bliss Conjunction of Jupiter and Neptune in Pisces
Contents ( jump to the part that interests you and/or see the video talk on AOAUK) 1: The Time Line 2: Jupiter and Neptune as Archetypes 3: The Neptune- Jupiter Conjunctions 2022: Phase 1 and Phase 2Â 4: Chart Example 1: William Bramwell Booth 5: Chart Example 2: Mikhail Vrubel 6: My War Gone ByContinue reading “The Window of Bliss Conjunction of Jupiter and Neptune in Pisces”
Proteus Astrology 