It’s hard to believe but it seems as if Iran and the United States might make friends, Syria might let in weapons inspectors, and Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama are back on speakers. Oh and global warming is on the agenda thanks to a UN report… maybe this time something [...]
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…And From The Archives: Whose Dreams Are You Dreaming?
Richard Diebenkorn. I was looking for something on this site and came across this post about the uses of astrology. I think it’s worth revisiting.
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Guardian of the Gates of Hell – Ceres Two
The Return of Persephone by Frederick Leighton. Wikimedia Commons. Golden-bright Persephone, Demeter’s beautiful daughter, was picking flowers one day in the wide, scented valley of Enna in Sicily when Hades, the prince of hell, burst out of the ground and grabbed her and pulled her down [...]
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Michaelmas Term
Saint Michael defeating Lucifer in the guise of a dragon. Jean Fouquet For most of us, September is still imbued with feelings about the academic year. Even if we have no contact with school or university, we remember for ourselves the sharpened pencils, the smell of new notebooks, the feeling [...]
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To Cherish — Ceres Part One
Mother Rose and her baby. Mary Cassatt (Ceres conjunct MC in Scorpio) who became famous for her intensely emotional pictures of the mother-child bond Wikimedia Commons. To caress the soft downy scalp of a baby, her head small enough to cradle in the palm of your hand, her hands like [...]
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Virgo New Moon: Time To Get Clarity
God or, more correctly, G-d opened the Book of Life on Wednesday, the first day of Rosh Hoshanah, and will be snapping it shut again next Friday, September 13. During these ten Days of Awe, he’s going to be watching you, taking notes and making a decision about your coming year. You have [...]
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Lilith, the Rebel Soul: “Drink Stars And Ask For The Moon”
Mother Ayahuasca Image source unknown. If you know who this is by, tell me. “I was looking for the will of the wild. I was looking for how that will expressed itself in elemental vitality, in savage grace. Wildness is resolute for life: it cannot be otherwise; for it will die in [...]
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September Horoscopes
The goddess Ceres and the four elements. Jan Breughel Plenty’s rich queen, cheerer of fainting souls,Whose altars are adorned with ripened sheaves. Mercury to Ceres in The Cobbler’s ProphecyIt’s September, Virgo’s month, and the harvest is coming in. This year, the [...]
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Venus Puts a Leash on the Dogs of War
Beleaguered PM David Cameron was born with Uranus-Pluto conjunct. Under the square, things are falling apart. Hooray! The British Parliament has voted against a military intervention proposed by the Prime Minister – possibly for the first time ever. At the start of the week, Prime [...]
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Correction: Edward Snowden’s Chart
Edward Snowden was born in 1983 not 1981. Here is the redrawn chart. It does put more emphasis on the mirroring. I’m noticing the Moon in Scorpio plus Mars-Sun-North Node. Apologies for the earlier version. Thanks to Arwynne for pointing this out.
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Tig Notaro: Crying Till You Laugh
Last year, Tig Notaro had quite an interesting four months. To begin with, she contracted pneumonia. The cure almost killer her though. A flesh-eating bacteria invaded her gut and she had to go to hospital where she hovered between life and death or a while. When she came out, her mother [...]
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The Resurrection of a King
The Death of Arthur by John Carrick (1852). Mallory’s Le Morte D’Arthur (the main source for all King Arthur legends) was published a few weeks after Richard III’s death “And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd, old ends stol’n out of holy writ, And seem a saint, [...]
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Bradley Manning and the Fire of Prometheus
Prometheus, Nicolas-Sebastien Adam. Prometheus, the rebel god, stole fire from heaven and brought it to the human race. This made Zeus, king of the gods, cross, because fire was one of the gods’ secrets, along with lightning and thunder and stuff. According to some versions of the story, [...]
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We’re All Crazy; We’re All Sane
Beatles fans in the 1960s. Uranus conjunct Pluto. Neptune in Scorpio. “Madness,” wrote Friedrich Nietzsche, “is the exception in individuals, but the rule in groups.” That would explain why psychopaths rise to the top then. The rest of us mill around being all [...]
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A Reader’s Question: Could Turkey Need a New Chart?
This is an 11th century map by Mahmud al Kashgari showing the lands of the Kurds, the Syrians and the Iraqis. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons Here is what someone wrote to me. It’s an interesting question. “I live in Turkey and there are some prophecies as well as political theories [...]
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Elders
Elders At night the moon shakes the bright dice of the water; And the elders, their flower light as broken snow upon the bush, Repeat the circle of the moon. Within the month Black fruit breaks from the white flower. The black-wheeled berries turn Weighing the boughs over the road. There is no [...]
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Where the Freakin’ Freak Is My Freakin’ iPad? or How This Horary Worked
Father Time, Edmund Dulac Horary astrology is not something in which I have much expertise. It’s never really appealed to me, since I’ve always though of it as not so much about psychology and stories and the great sweep of history and more about practical problems, the minutiae of [...]
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It’s Not Rocket Science
No. Really. Astrology is not science. I know this won’t come as a surprise to you, because, well, obviously it’s not science. Astrologers use some scientific data, like the position of the planets at a particular time, and often some good statistics, but you could never do a double [...]
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