Artist Georgia O’Keeffe born 15 Nov 1887 – Sun, Moon, Mercury, Jupiter in Scorpio opposite Neptune (illusion, glamour)-Pluto (death again). Scorpio – death, archeology, digging deep, the bare bones – and sex. Scorpio rules the genitals, of course.
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Celluloid-Meltingly Sexy Scorpios
Equally beautiful, equally deadly. Alain Delon (Nov 8) and Monica Vitti (Nov 3). It took a Libra, Michelangelo Antonioni, to put them together in L’Eclisse (1962). Rather appropriately for our times he plays a shallow, materialistic stockbroker unable to connect emotionally. She is [...]
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Why Paisley?
FABRIC BY JANNASALAKDESIGNS OK – some of you have wondered what the paisley connection is with the November horoscopes. It’s just this in my tiny mind. Paisley = fertility = Scorpio. Paisley pattern, which originates in South or Central Asia depending on who is talking, is [...]
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Crimson Pirate
The Crimson Pirate: Sagittarius Rising Happy Birthday (and RIP, natürlich) Burt Lancaster, superstar Scorp. Was there ever a more robust yet complex specimen of manhood. Born 2 November 1913: Scorpio Sun (water), Capricorn Moon (earth), Sagittarius Rising (fire). Trapeze with Tony Curtis [...]
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Dracula: Scorpio perchance?
To celebrate Halloween, I’m revisiting a post I wrote a while ago about vampires and squid and stuff. To find out if Dracula was a Scorpio or just a very confused Taurus click here.
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The God of Cuckoldry Gives Advice on Marriage
Imagine you are…Classical Lady by John William Godward OK, we are back in Rome, sometime in the 2nd century AD. It’s autumn, the grape harvest is in. We’ve all been celebrating in perhaps too Dionysian a fashion. Imagine that you are a togaed Roman with time and money on your [...]
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Half in Love with Easeful Death
Sylvia Plath was not the only poet born under Scorpio to be drawn to death’s glamour (see my previous post). Here is an extract from Ode To A Nightingale by John Keats (born October 30). … Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call’d [...]
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Death: A Most Authentic Experience
Autumn, A Wood Path Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823-1880) It’s Sylvia Plath’s birthday: Sun Scorpio, Moon Libra, Aquarius Rising. (b. October 27, 1932) A real Scorpio has to find the authentic experience. A real Scorpio has to dive deep and come back again, transformed. Death is a [...]
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Mark Rothko: Painting God
Unspecified Mark Rothko (September 25,1903) Sun, Mercury and North Node in Libra. Is one expression of Libra the erasure of ego? A reflection of the viewer Moon in Scorpio Profound emotion Jupiter in Pisces Encountering endless compassion Venus in Virgo Artistic [...]
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Call Me Venus
BB Some people are emblems of their Sun sign. These three women all have Libra Sun, but more than that they have Libra at a critical angle of the chart. Venus, the goddess of beauty, rules Libra. Catherine Zeta Jones Brigitte Bardot – Sun Libra, Libra MC Catherine Zeta Jones – Sun [...]
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Mrs Libra Says No No No
Happy Birthday Mrs. T. Enjoy the Iron Lady in her element. When Mrs Thatcher said no she meant no, displaying all the qualities of a truly hard-core Libra. Of course, it helped having Saturn smack on her Scorpio ascendant. Boy, she can really kick ass. Can you see what makes her so storming?
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Libra: The Iron Fist in the Velvet Glove
Vladimir Putin – Russian president and Libra You know, when I read about Librans in most astrology books I only half recognise them. I mean that fairly precisely. I recognise the need for beauty, the ability to accessorise, the instinct for grace, the love of socialising, but the [...]
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Venus the She Warrior
Bright blue Venus seems suspended in the black branches of my neighbour’s cherry tree these evenings. When I tuck my daughter into bed, I look out her window and see the planet shining more brightly and steadily than anything else in the sky.I am looking west. Venus is in her guise as [...]
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The Day of Atonement
Jews praying on Yom Kippur (1868) by Maurycy Gottlieb courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. The wheat is threshed, the apples are picked. It’s time to weigh and measure this year’s harvest. And I mean that metaphorically. We’re coming to the end of the the ten days that observant [...]
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Barter = Commerce Libra Style
I could trade some apples. I’m rather pleased. I have just arranged to exchange astrology lessons for acupressure sessions. I like barter as a form of exchange. You don’t have to get any banks involved – nor any middlemen, sales reps or big corporations. The scales of Libra are [...]
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Mahatma Gandhi
Born on October 2, Mahatma Gandhi epitomised that wonderful Libran quality – grace. He also had Scorpio rising with Mercury, Venus and Mars in the first house: tenacity, bravery and the ability to find the right words to expose flimflam and woolly thinking. Here’s a link to piece [...]
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9 Things to do with Mars in Leo
James Bond (Daniel Craig) Mars, the god of war has emerged, dripping wet and sulky from the sign of his fall, Cancer. He’s ready to light a bonfire and roast some chillies on the hot beach that is Leo.Mars, of course, rules Aries, the number one fire sign, and as such is all about taking [...]
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How Much Virgo Does A Writer Need?
There is something very cool about Agatha Christie even as a child. Could it be Virgo Sun, Virgo Rsing and Saturn in Virgo Many years ago, I moved from working in (weekly) magazine publishing to editing books. It was truly a move from Gemini-land to Virgo-land. The magazines were all about [...]
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Wise Counsellors for Cancer, Leo and Virgo
You may have read some of my previous posts on the “tutelary deities” used by Roman astrologers. These came as a surprise to me when I read about them last year since I’d not come across them in any astrology texts or lectures that I’d attended previously. Suffice to [...]
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Astrology of Now: Dream of Your Self
Shiva, god of tranformation, dances his cosmic dance within a ring of fire. Image courtesy Wikemedia Commons. Art by Arumugam Manivelu. Copyright Himalayan Academy Publications. As I start to write this, the Sun, Venus and Mercury are clustered at the Midheaven in Leo. The Sun is [...]
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