1: Fellow Travellers of the Mind 2: The Return of the North Node 3: Burroughs, the Walking Pharmacologist 4: The Aquarian from Interzone 5: An Accidental Death in Mexico 6: The Wild Boys of Rock Music 1: Fellow Travellers of the Mind “Love is the most natural pain killer there is” was theContinue reading “William Burroughs and the Algebra of Need”
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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”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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”
How Bram Stoker created Dracula, Lord of the Undead.
1: Stoker: The Dark Dubliner 2: The Origins of Dracula 3: The Forensic Astrology of Dracula (1897) 4: Screen Portrayals of Count Dracula 1: Stoker: The Dark Dubliner Many have wondered from which pit of hell was wrenched a character so imprinted on the collective mind as Count Dracula. Stories as to how thisContinue reading “How Bram Stoker created Dracula, Lord of the Undead.”
When is a Muse not a Muse?
1: Musing on The Muse 2: The Liannán Sídhe 3: The Irish Muse 4: Muse Asteroids 1: Musing on The Muse This is another meditation on a theme which is presented as a visual essay in video form as well as this written version here. I conceived it as a visual essay as itContinue reading “When is a Muse not a Muse?”
Why is the Moon Exalted in the Sign of Taurus?
1: The Moon Comes Home 2: The Worship of Cow Goddess Hathoor 3: Moon Watching 4: The Moon in all the Signs 5: Tyrion Lannister and his Moon in Taurus: Peter Dinklage 1: The Moon Comes Home On the evening of the 12th April till the morning of the 15th of April the MoonContinue reading “Why is the Moon Exalted in the Sign of Taurus?”
The Quest for Life Force and Pure Being: Wilhelm Reich and Ram Das
1: First and Foremost 2: Orgone Accumulators and Cloud Busters: Wilhelm Reich 3: Psychedelics and the Search for the Divine: Ram Das 1: First and Foremost In my previous gallery of the first and foremost I had to leave out a few original talents who also demanded attention as Aries does not like toContinue reading “The Quest for Life Force and Pure Being: Wilhelm Reich and Ram Das”
The Ultimate, the Indescribable Endpoint of the Zodiac – Pisces
1: Pisces: Last but not Least 2: I Put My Spell on You: Nina Simone 3: The Piscean Flavour in Russian Romantic composers 4: The Piscean Signature 5: What to do in Pisces Season 1: Pisces: Last but not Least Hokusai’s woodcut captures that a wave becomes a mountain if it is frozen in time,Continue reading “The Ultimate, the Indescribable Endpoint of the Zodiac – Pisces”
Flying the Kite of Destiny: the life and death of Yukio Mishima
1: Confessions of a Mishima 2: Sun and Steel Body Cultivation 3: Capricorn Broods on Time 1: Confessions of a Mishima There is a pleasurable intensity in books that confess to sins or crimes that alienated the author yet seduce the readers. “Confessions of a Mask’ (1958) is like this – an autobiographical novelContinue reading “Flying the Kite of Destiny: the life and death of Yukio Mishima”
Shirley Jackson’s Chironic Eclipse Message
1: Throw the First Stone 2: The Chiron Signature: Moving Forwards 3: Lotteries for Money 4: Arabic Parts or Lots 1: Throw the First Stone Shirley Jackson has something to tell us from beyond the grave. Her date of birth is on this December 14th eclipse, her star is rising again with Elisabeth Moss portrayingContinue reading “Shirley Jackson’s Chironic Eclipse Message”
The Revolving Doors of the December 14th Solar Eclipse
1: Fascination with Eclipses and the Fall of Empires 2: The 2020 Finale: Eclipse Season 3: The Dec 14th Eclipse 1: Fascination with Eclipses and the Fall of Empires An eclipse can chill us to the bone- even when it is not visible to the naked eye. On March 20th in 2015 I wentContinue reading “The Revolving Doors of the December 14th Solar Eclipse”
Hard Knocks on the Path of Love: the Story of Eros and Psyche
1:The Golden Ass 2: Eros and Psyche: the Labours of Love 3: The Story of Eros and Psyche 4: The Long Game of Aphrodite: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton 5: Crazy in Love: Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown 6: Psyche the Asteroid 1:The Golden Ass One myth that speaks directly to me is that ofContinue reading “Hard Knocks on the Path of Love: the Story of Eros and Psyche”
Muse Asteroid Sample Report: David Bowie
Sample Muse Asteroid Report for David Bowie The contents of every standard report will contain a section on the background, history and mythological significance of the muses and a short intro to how muse asteroids are used in astrology. In this sample, it will skip straight to the chart of singer and performer DavidContinue reading “Muse Asteroid Sample Report: David Bowie”
The Bumpy Ride gets Bumpier: March 2020
When I talked about transits of Mars in a previous post, I said get ready for a bumpy ride as the sun comes into Aries. That’s right about now, March 20th. So congratulations we have made it to this point. But this global panic, crisis and toilet paper hysteria is just a tasterContinue reading “The Bumpy Ride gets Bumpier: March 2020”
Finding your Creative Signature in Houses and Signs
Hilary Mantel has just published the third book in her historical trilogy about Thomas Cromwell. ‘Wolf Hall’ (2009) won the Booker Prize and was adapted into a successful TV drama. The second book ‘Bring up the Bodies (2012) also won a Booker Prize. So we might think her signature as a writer is with Mercury and it is true that her Mercury is in Leo in the 11th sextile to Saturn in Libra in the first so she is a good and balanced storyteller. But the books are about history and her particular skill is in bringing fresh insight to the historical circumstances. So we might also look for asteroid Klio, the muse of history. Asteroid Klio is placed in the 4th house. Sure enough her Sun conjunct Uranus and Venus in Cancer -the house of historical archives in the 10th, but these are opposite to Kilo residing there in the 4th suggesting that history might be her thing.
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