This July, Uranus, Pluto, Neptune and Jupiter will form a perfect pattern shaped like a brazier, chalice or grail that spreads across the signs between Aquarius and Leo via Aries and Gemini. This perfects around 18 July depending on where you are in the world, but it is already active now. All [...]

At this month’s Salon we discussed the future, using the Pope’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas as a way in to thinking about how to approach the incredible pattern of planets this summer. This led to discussion of inequality, the effects of the 2008 banking crisis and much more. To [...]

This is the first 20 minutes of the member’s salon in which I discuss the chart of Pope Leo, water wars and space — some of the themes of current astrology. During the Salon, we go the news that Orban lost — which was great! The Salon is actually about an hour and a half, [...]

How do you deal with the Inquisition, the Nazis, ISIS, the secret police, the occupiers, the forces of oppression, the slave catchers, ICE? What if they come knocking on your door? Many of our ancestors had to answer this same question, and many people around the world right now. And the [...]

Lilith, the Black Moon, has finally arrived in one of her favourite signs, Sagittarius where she is free to run barefoot through the wild woods. I have shared some thoughts on a short video to get you thinking. Click on the image to go to the video on YouTube. It’s going to work [...]

Stern Saturn and idealistic Neptune met in the 20th century in just three signs at approximately 35-year intervals. Each time, there was a paradigm shift for Russia. 1917—By February, more than 9 million had been killed in the war; famine scratched at the civilian population as the government [...]

I spoke with author, teacher and astrologer Alex Trenoweth at the October Salon about her new book Zeus on the Loose. Here’s the publisher’s blurb: “Every parent wants the best for their child – and that starts with understanding how they learn. In astrology, Jupiter is [...]

This essay came with this month’s horoscopes on 1 October. I’ve adjusted it slightly because — events, darling. This month’s illustrations were details of roses, which in themselves combine perfect order and disorder. A pair of scales, the symbol for Libra, has also [...]

This month’s horoscopes came with this short essay. I think it’s important to know. Things fall apart, slowly at first, and then it happens all at once. We’ve been experiencing the “all at once” phase. The global order with which we are familiar was established after World War Two [...]

Is it June already? Something weird has happened to time over the last six months. It’s accelerated — as if we were on a high speed train crashing through barrier after barrier. And in another way, it has slowed down, as we watch the slow-motion catastrophes in the Middle East, Africa, the [...]

You can feel the change in the northern hemisphere at this turn in the year — St Brigid’s Day, Candlemas, the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin. From the Philippines to Poland, 1-2 February are celebrated with candlelight. It is Imbolc, one of the four corners of the year on [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

This year’s great cosmic shift — the move of Pluto into Aquarius — has already caused much hammering of keyboards, bursting of brain cells and copious words to be spilled across the internet. Here’s what you need to know. • Pluto will be in Aquarius from 20 January [...]

I’ve been avoiding the whole Harry/Meghan/etc saga, but yesterday it was so in my face that I thought I’d sneak a peek at the prince’s chart. My question was essentially: why now for Harry? I looked at just three charts: Prince Harry’s natal chart, which has an A rating [...]

About half-way through a person’s life — in their early 40s — the planet of rebellion, revolution and change, Uranus comes to a point exactly 180° from where he was at birth. It’s called a half-return. Astrologers used to equate this with the classic mid-life crisis [...]

I gave this talk this time last year (2021) for Aquarius Severn, putting our times in their historical context. This ia a broad overview of the current astrology, exploring the spirit of these times — a vision which sometimes gets lost as we leap from one lunation to the next. Context is [...]

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 […]