2025: Shifting Gears on the Highway Ahead

1: Shifting Gears for 2025 2: Your Battery is Low: Mars Retrograde 3: Pluto in Aquarius 4: Jupiter enters Cancer 5: Uranus enters Gemini 6: Nodes and Eclipses   7: General Forecast for 2025  7:1 FiRE SIGNS: Aries Leo Sagittarius 7:2 EARTH SIGNS: Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn 7:3 AIR SIGNS: Gemini, Libra, Aquarius 7:4 WATER SIGNS:Continue reading “2025: Shifting Gears on the Highway Ahead”

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”

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”

Pluto reenters Aquarius conjunct the Sun

Pluto is shifting from Capricorn to Aquarius and the news is littered with scandals coming to light- the dirt is being stirred up from the depths. Some knew all about these stories already, but for others, it is shocking and new. There is genuine anger at the injustices perpetrated often at first in the nameContinue reading “Pluto reenters Aquarius conjunct the Sun”

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”

Make Way for Eclipse Season: April and May 2023

1: What’s in an Eclipse? 2: The Solar Eclipse April 20th 3: Emmanuel Macron 4: Benjamin Netanyahu 5: The May 5th Lunar Eclipse   1: What’s in an Eclipse? It’s time to check in with the eclipses again. Back in 2020 I wrote about the Dec 14th total solar eclipse in Sagittarius which was importantContinue reading “Make Way for Eclipse Season: April and May 2023”

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”

Nick Drake: The Loner’s Loner

  1: The Troubled Mind 2: Nick Drake Birth Chart 3: The Chariklo Moon 4: The Death of Nick Drake:  What does the astrology say? 5: Why listen to Drake Why now?   1: The Troubled Mind This period while the sun is in Cancer has been cathartic mainly because I listened once again toContinue reading “Nick Drake: The Loner’s Loner”

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?”

Chimananda Ngozi Adichie Counters the Mono-Narrative

Author Chimananda Ngozi Adichie has just made a statement that I want to applaud.  She’s a voice speaking out with the fiery tone that James Baldwin used to have when he called out the mob mentality among all shades and skin colours. He said – and it is still true – that hate leaves theContinue reading “Chimananda Ngozi Adichie Counters the Mono-Narrative”

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 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”

Aquarius, the Internet and the Empires that Mark and Jack Built

1: Is the Internet Aquarian? 2: The Empires that Mark and Jack Built 3: The Spidery Web 4: Saturn Square Uranus Times Three   1: Is the Internet Aquarian? Continuing the exploration of all things Aquarian, Aquarius and the Internet have long been linked. The internet opened a world of niche interest groups across theContinue reading “Aquarius, the Internet and the Empires that Mark and Jack Built”

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”