This month’s horoscopes are written from the lockdown in Oxford. It’s a strange time indeed, and a fascinating month ahead. I’m introducing a new feature for horoscope subscribers, a live Q&A on the current astrology this Sunday at 7.30. We’ll see how it goes! Hope [...]
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What Astrologers Are Saying About the Coronavirus
Right now, I am sitting in my bedroom, looking out at a clear blue sky. It’s very quiet, because there’s so little traffic and I can hear bird song several gardens away, children playing next door. The air is clear and easy on the lungs. It smells different: good. There’s a [...]
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Mothering Sunday
It’s Mothering Sunday here, and I’d like to wish you, mothers and children all, a peaceful and cosseted day full of light and beauty. Even when your loved ones are far away, they are so close.
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Balanced on the Needle of Time
Today, on this day of balance, our astrological year begins; the Sun steps into 0° Aries. And what a strange beginning to the year. Most of the world, it seems, is locked down, locked in, locked out — locked up. This is the signature of Saturn-Pluto-Ceres. It was clear this would be a [...]
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Your Month Ahead: March 20-April 20
As usual, we’re looking at the month ahead, but in the circumstances, we talk a lot about the pandemic — a lot. We’re looking at the big astrology between March 20 and April 20 — including Mars’ conjunctions with Jupiter, Pluto and Saturn, plus Saturn’s [...]
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Harry Styles: Beloved by Venus
She lives in daydreams with me She’s the first one that I see And I don’t know why I don’t know who she is … ” — She Talented, graceful Aquarian Harry Styles is much more than a pop star, indeed he appears to be channelling something bigger than himself [...]
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Perspectives
One of the lessons of astrology is that it takes all sorts to run the world. We need Aquarian teamwork, Cancerian nurturing, Aries can-do, Leonine playfulness — or to put that in modern terms, we need Aquarian autism, Cancerian hypochondria, Arien sadism and Leonine narcissism. [...]
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Giving You the Heads Up
I wrote this for subscribers to my horoscopes at the end of February, but I thought in the circumstances, I’d better share it. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was […]
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The Best Book on Asteroids
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the asteroid Hygeia and mentioned that little work had been done on the asteroids in general. What is more, there’s a lot of really woolly thinking available for you to unravel around the internet. Most of it is all theory or wishful thinking, or just [...]
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Your March Horoscopes
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin And we’re still in Mercury Retrograde in Pisces. To find out what March holds in store for you, click here. If you’re a member, you’ll [...]
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The Dark Goddess in Aries, 2020
The Dark Goddess will be in the warlike sign of Aries for much of 2020, where she’s likely to find herself engaged in quite a few battles.
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Your Month Ahead Podcast: February 19-March 20
Will Pisces month be weird or wonderful? Well, let’s take a look and see.
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Coronavirus, China and the World Health Organisation
Sometime in late 2019, people began to fall ill in a city in eastern China. The disease was a type of virus, a mutation it seemed of the coronavirus, so a relative of the common cold. While it started to spread, Hygeia, the goddess of hygiene, was having a zizz. In early October, Hygeia the [...]
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Mars Takes Action
Fiery Mars will blast into Capricorn on February 16. Hold on to your hats!
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The Absolutely Fabulous Laura Dern
Laura Dern just won the Oscar for best supporting actress. A well-deserved tribute to an actress whose electric screen presence is always mesmerising — even when she’s just ordering a kale salad in Marriage Story. Dern’s chart is just so Hollywood, with a massive stellium in [...]
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Patterns
To understand astrology is to see patterns: geometry across space, cycles through time, patterns of behaviour or events. At the time of writing, a virus spreads across China, the president of the United States breaks that country’s constitution, locusts ravage East Africa, giant fires roar [...]
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Shakira’s Channeling the Wild Goddess
Last night, pop diva Shakira ululated at the Superbowl: a first outing on prime time American TV for this exuberant, controlled shriek of celebration that you’ll hear at any fiesta from Syria to Morocco. Apparently it’s used in other parts of Africa, the Balkans and Asia too. [...]
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February Horoscopes
Curled up under a blanket — 18th century Mughal. When the wind blows outside, it’s time to curl up with your horoscope and spend some serious time reflecting on what strange luck it is to be a human being, with sense, sensibility and consciousness. Horoscopes are for members only. [...]
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Lilith 2020
In a few days time, January 27, Lilith, that strange mathematical point in the sky — an empty space, an idea, a void? — shifts into the realm of Aries, where she might burst into flame. Her first contact will be Chiron, the centaur who weaves the outer and inner planets together, [...]
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Your Month Ahead Podcast: January 20-February 19
In this episode, we’re looking forward, from a rather bleak moment in mid-January towards the lighter, brighter energy of the coming weeks. Phew! But this does give us a chance to look at what’s just happened in the skies. Yes, that mega-conjunction. We discuss Aquarians, the Royal [...]
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