This month the big cosmic shift continues. The world continues to be unsettled. Even steady Taurus, where the Sun sails in May, is disrupted by electrical Uranian vibes. And at the end of May and early June, first Saturn and then Jupiter change signs. Saturn walks into fire, and Jupiter dives [...]
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Ceres Symposium
I am so looking forward to participating in this symposium about the little planet tucked into the asteroid belt, Ceres, the mother goddess, on 15 June. Finally, Ceres will be getting the kind of attention she deserves. The symposium should be really interesting, since there will be six [...]
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Taurus Season: Power & Fury
It’s Taurus Season, and another month in this tumultuous spring that’s sweeping us all into the future. Hold on to your hats, grab your umbrella, swizzle your sonic screwdriver, and away we go. If you prefer to listen, here is the Astrology Talk website. The Lilith in Scorpio video [...]
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Lilith in Scorpio: The Apple and the Snake
Lilith, the Black Moon, arrived in Scorpio on 27 March, and she will stay there until December. This video is an overview of what that means in the natal chart and of the meaning of that transit. Interestingly, and in a very Lilith in Scorpio way, YouTube has objected to the cover for this [...]
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A Magical Week & More
In the midst of this crazy month, there’s a magical week (well a little longer in fact) when a beautiful cosmic pattern forms in the sky, as Venus, now the Morning Star, turns direct on 13 April, and Mercury turns direct on 7 April. This pattern, an isosceles triangle connecting [...]
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Dissolution
It was just that, until quite recently, for a few brief decades, in some parts of the world, we were able to carry on our little lives, listening to Daft Punk, making babies, sipping tea, scrolling through videos of foxes and grannies, planting carrots, dreaming, creating and generally trying [...]
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Valentine’s Day
Poor old Valentine’s Day, supposedly a day of romance and chocolate-munching, stuck in the chilly middle of February, stranded between Christmas and Easter, Imbolc and Equinox. You can’t help wondering if this day has been developed as a special lover’s celebration in order [...]
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The Birth of Dior’s New Look
On a chilly morning in February, just two years after the Nazis had been driven out of Paris, the creme de la creme of the fashion world crowded into a room in an elegant hotel particulier not far from the Champs Elysees. The atmosphere was electric. A shy, rather awkward, middle-aged fashion [...]
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Six Keys to 2025, the Year of Flux and Doubt
This year it’s going to be very hard to know what to hold on to and what to let go, who to rely on and who will vanish, how to move forward or when to stand still in this year of change and change about. This is because all the planets are changing signs, with […]
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2025: The Year of Flux
It was a shocking development. They knew that she was the Sultan’s favourite, the mother of his children, but who would have thought that he would actually marry the Ruthenian woman? In the year 1533, Suleiman the Magnificent wed his concubine Roxelana, making her Sultana, the most powerful [...]
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Astrology of Now: Out of Hell
As the prisoners pour out of the cells in Sadnaya prison, you can hear their liberators saying over and over, “Thank god for your safety,” the traditiional greeting for someone who has returned from a long journey or illness. “Hamdillah es-salaameh.” And many of these [...]
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These Times: Magical Snowfall
For many years in these parts our winters have seen no snow. Instead of the soft shock of the fall, the fluttering whiteness, the transformations, we had grey skies and louring stasis every winter. This morning, on the day Pluto moves into that wintry sign Aquarius for good (at least for 20 [...]
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November Horoscopes: The Wheel of Fortune
So much is happening this month. Pluto changes signs Mars changes signs Jupiter and Mercury get into mutual reception Mercury goes retrograde The wheel spins
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The Spectator Podcast
It’s always a bit worrying going to talk with sceptics about astrology, but this interview with The Spectator was lovely. They were very nice people and we even had a bit of a laugh. Enjoy. Here’s how they describe it “When pollster Nate Silver declared that dissecting an [...]
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Kamala Harris: Joyous and Responsible
Just as the 1960s were bursting into bloom, on the western edge of America, a scientist and an economist named their new baby after the lotus and the goddess, Kamala Devi. Maybe it was the Full Moon riding high in the sky on the evening when she was born that inspired them, or maybe it […]
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Astrology of Now: Beauty and Terror
“Why is it we are so emotional about this game?” asked the man sitting next to me, biting passionately into a chunk of tortilla. “Because it is a beautiful game,” I replied, as we watched the black and white ball slide perfectly off the foot of a Spanish player clad in [...]
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Democracy! Hoo-flippin’-ray!
If you listen to the podcast, you’ll know that I’ve been certain of the outcome of the 4 July General Election in the UK since it was announced. Two reasons. First: the mood of the country was clear, and second: the conjunction of Jupiter and Uranus in April. The last two times [...]
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Everything Green: May Horoscopes
We are so lucky to live on Earth, with her great oceans, her lush forests, her billowing grasslands, her mystical deserts and magical snowy poles. And right now, in the skies, so many other planets are beaming down on us from the glorious, earthy sign of Taurus, the sign most connected with [...]
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The Astrology of Earth Day
Greetings from this corner of our beautiful blue planet to your place on earth. Let’s, for a moment, consider that in this vast universe of possibility we may have landed in paradise. It’s our nurturing, nourishing or cherishing of that paradise that seems to be a bit of an issue. [...]
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