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Libra Season Podcast and Video: Goodbyes Contain Hellos
  The Queen is dead; long live the King. And so it always is. As Elizabeth II is put in her final resting place, we also bid farewell to the great Serena Williams and Roger Federer, long-reigning Queen and King of the tennis circuit. But all are replaced immediately, that is the nature of [...]
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Asteroids Report: September through December
This is just a tiny clip from the latest Asteroids Report, which is available on the Member’s Page. You do have to join to watch the full thing, which I make once every three to four months. This one’s a bit long, so you may want to eat some cake while you listen, or do […]
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About The Queen’s Passing
Having recently lost both my parents and both my in-laws, I know that one effect of death is to change the shape of a person’s life. Up until that point, if they have lived long, you may be thinking of them as a very old person, but a while after they die, you begin to […]
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King Charles III: Full Moon in Pisces
In a country otherwise wracked by disease, pusillanimous politicians, climatic weirdness and economic storms, the smooth transition of power from Queen Elizabeth II to King Charles III comes as a balm. With a magical Full Moon in Pisces conjoining mystical Neptune, we can dream big … at [...]
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September Horoscopes
  The Sun is in mutable earth at this time of year, in the sign of Virgo. There’s always something a little wistful about September — at least in the North. All the bustle of August holidays is over, empty ice-cream wrappers blow in an easterly wind, and the children are [...]
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Patterns on the Way
Astrology is the study of patterns. Patterns in the sky repeat as patterns in the soul, repeat as patterns on the Dao. Patterns on the way repeat every few years or decades or days or hours. Not all are lovely. But sometimes we have to repeat them for a while before we know how leave […]
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Emily Maitlis Drops a Truth Bomb
Those of you who listen to the Astrology Talk Podcast will already know that the word Sally and I chose for this month was “surreal” a truly Uranian word. As that planet stations on 24 August and gets back into a tough square with Saturn, its influence is extremely evident. So it [...]
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Salman Rushdie: Rebel, Story-teller, Gemini
Midnight’s Children — a tale of twins, mistaken identities, India and Pakistan, doubling and mirroring, knees and nose — catapulted its author, Salman Rushdie, a double Gemini, of course, to international fame in 1981. He did things with English that no one had read before [...]
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Virgo Season Podcast: How to Deal with Strange Times
  If August has been bonkers for you so far, find out why we believe Uranus is the planet of the surreal, how it’s playing out in real life & when it’s active once again. A slightly chaotic but exciting month coming up in Virgo season, traditionally the time of the [...]
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The US Pluto Return: We Took It Personally
Well, it was quite a welcome. In our first 36 hours in America, we accidentally saw Miss America (for real and about 20 feet away), stood for the Star Spangled Banner, went on a Pro-Choice demo, saw hundreds of police, tens of teen-age girls juggling fake guns, and got caught in an [...]
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August Horoscopes: Start With A Bang …
  The month begins with a hugely important conjunction between fiery Mars and rebellious Uranus. This is an exciting breakthrough, a picket line, an accident, a passionate clinch — because it makes a conjunction with the North Node, it may be life changing. The rest of the month is [...]
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Sizzling Summer Podcast
You can listen to this month’s podcast (22 July-22 August) or watch it by going to the home page. It’s hot! — Oh wait, I think you know that already… Pour yourself an ice cold lime juice and join us…
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July: Fireworks and Passion
It’s a hot season — even if it’s winter where you are. Fires are burning in Taurus, Aries and Leo. Fiery words, fiery deeds, fiery anger and fiery desire — and just fire. Americans are experiencing a major astrological transit as their country has its first Pluto Return ever — and it [...]
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Overturning Roe, Sowing Dragon’s Teeth
As soon as Amy Coney Barrett was sworn in as a Supreme Court Justice, the overturning of the federal law protecting a woman’s right to abortion in the United States was inevitable. It was a matter of when, not if. Knowing a bad thing is going to happen does not make it less bad. The […]
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Brad Pitt’s Saturn Return Goes Neptunian
The second Saturn Return at around the age of 58 or 59 is a time when a chapter closes and a new door opens into what may be the final third of a person’s life. It’s as important as the one at 28, when real adult life begins and the first flush of youth is […]
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Summer Solstice Podcast Special
  This month we’re talking about Cancer, the meaning of the Solstice chart and what’s ahead in June and July. To pick up the podcast or watch on YouTube, go to the home page and scroll down.
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The Q&A ft Victor Olliver
This is my monthly Q&A, this month featuring the inimitable Victor Olliver. Usually these meetings are for members only, but I thought I’d share it with everyone. If you are interested in Draconic astrology this is the fastest introduction to this technique that you’ll ever [...]
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Kate Bush’s Surge
Kate Bush, visionary song-writer and performer, is being rediscovered by a whole new generation, thanks to the inclusion of her song Running Up That Hill in the TV series Stranger Things. For a person born with a Uranus-Sun conjunction in Leo, of course, nothing is strange, and anything can be [...]
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Paula Rego, Strong Women
“This is another thing that is not in our culture, which I show in the picture of the girl with her legs up, Lila.” Paula Rego, feminist, artist, storyteller died this week, leaving behind one of the most consistenly extraordinary and powerful bodies of work of the past 50 years. [...]
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Flaming June Horoscopes & an Audience with Victor Olliver
Mars and Jupiter are on fire. Venus is feeling sexy. Mercury is spitballing. Saturn just wants to be alone. And Neptune is mellowing out. In other words, quite a few of the planets are behaving just like it says in the books this June. That makes a pleasant change. To read your full monthly [...]
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