The Never Ending Appeal of the Rocky Horror Picture Show

Contents 1: Still Doing the Time-Warp 2: Tim Curry as Frank-N-Furter 3: From the Stage to the Screen 4: Brad and Dammit, Janet! 5: The Haunted House Trope: Oakley Court 6: Rocky Horror’s Lasting Legacy   1: Still Doing the Time-Warp It’s astounding that fifty years on and we still jump up to do theContinue reading “The Never Ending Appeal of the Rocky Horror Picture Show”

All is Fair in Love and War:  Eros and Psyche meet again.

1: All is Fair in Love and War 2: The Eros and Psyche Conjunction, March 1st 3:The Eros-Eros Conjunction:  Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell 4: The Psyche-Psyche Connection: Jay Z and Beyoncé 5: The Psyche-Eros Connection: Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward 6: The Psyche-Eros Opposition: Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas 1: All is FairContinue reading “All is Fair in Love and War:  Eros and Psyche meet again.”

Red River Under a Blood Moon: the Astrology of Vietnam

1: On the Trail of the Red River 2: The Status of Astrology in Vietnam 3: Travelling and Astro-Cartography 4: The Geodetic Lines across Asia 5: The Natal Chart of Vietnam 6: ‘Uncle Ho’ Chi Minh  7: The Way Out is In   1: On The Trail of the Red River The Vietnamese are proudContinue reading “Red River Under a Blood Moon: the Astrology of Vietnam”

Björk: The Homogenic Landscape of Love

1: The Homogenic Landscape 2: Bjōrk: the Mid-Sixties Wild Child 3: The Outer Planetary Connection 4: Reverse Node Trouble with Ricardo López and Lars Von Trier 5: The Call to the Sacred Shimmering 6: The Sound of Sedna   1: The Homogenic Landscape Björk’s music and her unusual vocals have touched many people and repelledContinue reading “Björk: The Homogenic Landscape of Love”

The Poet of Film and the Mystic: Pier Paolo Pasolini and Chögyam Trungpa

1: In Search of the Ultimate Pisces 2: Pasolini: the Poet of Film 2: The Crazy Wisdom Rinpoche 1: In Search of the Ultimate Pisces “Take a moment to Live, Take a moment to Cry, Take a moment to Love, and Don’t ask Why. “  Winter Kills mixed by Armand Van Buuren (2020 ) InContinue reading “The Poet of Film and the Mystic: Pier Paolo Pasolini and Chögyam Trungpa”

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”