Jupiter Moves into the Sign of Cancer

1: The Big-Picture  2: Jupiter: The Good, the Bad and the Contradictory 3: The Jupiter Cycle 4: Heath Ledger: Jupiter at 29° of Cancer 5: Jupiter in Cancer: Sign by Sign  Aries; Taurus: Gemini; Cancer; Leo; Virgo; Libra; Scorpio; Sagittarius; Capricorn; Aquarius; Pisces 1: The Big-Picture  I posted my Overview of 2025 a few monthsContinue reading “Jupiter Moves into the Sign of Cancer”

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”

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  

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”

Venus Unveiled as Isis

1: Venus as Hesperus 2: Solar Return to Blavatsky 3: The Backwards Glance   1: Venus as Hesperus On August 13th Venus conjuncts the Sun marking the Venus star point at 20° of Leo the home of the Sun. It marks one of the most energised events of Venus in her dance with the SunContinue reading “Venus Unveiled as Isis”

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”

Jupiter in Taurus: Feel the Earth Move under your Feet.  

1: Jupiter on the Move 2: Jupiter Archetype 3: Jupiter through the Zodiac 3:1 Taurus 3:2 Gemini 3:3 Cancer 3:4 Leo 3:5 Virgo 3:6 Libra 3:7 Scorpio 3:8 Sagittarius 3:9 Capricorn 3:10 Aquarius 3:11 Pisces 3:12 Aries   1: Jupiter on the Move The biggest most gaseous planet Jupiter is on the move again inContinue reading “Jupiter in Taurus: Feel the Earth Move under your Feet.  “

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”

Dion Fortune: Sea Priestess of Avalon

1: Jupiter on the Move 2: The Sea Priestess of Avalon 3: Dion Fortune:  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”

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 2  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”

Rudolf Steiner: Mystic for the Modern Era

1: Rudolph Steiner: Mystic for the Modern Era 2: The Kaleidoscopic Viewpoint 3: Astrology and Theosophy   1: Rudolph Steiner: Mystic for the Modern Era The work of Rudolf Steiner has impacted more people in the past few years than it ever did in his lifetime. His was a quiet voice and nothing he saidContinue reading “Rudolf Steiner: Mystic for the Modern Era”

Nobody’s Lapdog: John Lydon, the ex Pistol

1: Not Rotten at All 2: Uranus, the Promethean 3: The Ultimate Contrarian 4: The Gig that Changed the World   1: Not Rotten at All Johnny Rotten was born Jan 31st 1956, was known by this name when he was in the Sex Pistols but the more you know about him the less theContinue reading “Nobody’s Lapdog: John Lydon, the ex Pistol”

The Age of Individualism: Lord Byron’s travels across Europe

1: The First Modern Anti-Hero 2: The Astro Location of Byron in Europe 3: What the Asteroids Say 4: The Death of a Poet 5: Being Byron     1: The First Modern Anti-Hero The name Byron represents one who stands out from the crowd- the lone hero battling his personal demons.  It is aContinue reading “The Age of Individualism: Lord Byron’s travels across Europe”

Master of Masters: Enter Bruce Lee

1:  Enter Dragon Lee 2: The Philosopher-Teacher in Hollywood 3: Pluto and Chiron: Uneasy Bedfellows 4: Exit the Dragon 5: Father and Son 6: Lee is Dead: Long Live Lee   1:  Enter Dragon Lee When Bruce Lee bursts in the room, he lands on his toes, arching like an alley cat, raises his armsContinue reading “Master of Masters: Enter Bruce Lee”