My chum UK astrologer Sally Kirkman has written a forecast book for the whole of 2016 — it’s 150 pages of info. Sally is a Scorpio so she’s good at cutting to the point. Here’s an extract. The 3 Biggest Opportunities Coming Your Way In 2016 Aries Living out your [...]
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2016 Astrodiaries: Xmas Gift
Here is a must-have Christmas present for the astro-enthusiastic young women in your life: The Essential Life Guide 2016. Along with a host of quality astrologers — Jo Tracey, Sally Kirkman, Kelly Surtees, Sam Reynolds, Joanne Madeline Moore, Gary P Caton and more — I contributed [...]
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December Horoscopes
The holiday season promises to be charged with emotions this year, with a Full Moon on Christmas Day, and the Moon and Jupiter embracing on New Year’s Eve. But before then, mid-December looks a bit sticky, as Mars, the god of war, clashes first with the Lord of Underworld, Pluto, and [...]
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November Monthly Horoscopes
November begins with a beautiful warm embrace between the lovers Mars and Venus. We can all benefit. It ends with an intriguing, difficult, stimulating encounter between the Grim Reaper Saturn and the planet of illusion and imagination, Neptune. To find out how this works for you, click here. [...]
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Maggie Smith: Capricorn Rules
We are well behind the curve in this household — just catching up on Downton Abbey. Love the frocks and the tableware, but mainly loving Maggie Smith, who is absolutely electric as the septuagenarian Dowager Countess. That means his lordship’s mum. So I wondered if there were a bit [...]
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Can Astrologers Have Any Impact On Public Discourse?
Last week, I had lunch with an astrologer friend and we talked about how attitudes to astrologers have changed in the past couple of decades. She commented that if you said you were an astrologer 20 or 30 years ago, you might be greeted with scepticism, but you never ran into [...]
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October Horoscopes 2015
It’s always an interesting time of year — October. We are half way round the Zodiac now, in Libra, the sign of balance, measuring and assessment. Often there’s a weary contemplation of the self as we go into Scorpio, But this year, October seems full of potential. There are [...]
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What Astrologers Are Saying About Saturn in Sagittarius
Saturn in Sagittarius 23 December 2014-15 June 2015 September 17, 2015-December 20 2017 You can just imagine Saturn walking into Sagittarius’ flat — and reeling at the chaos, the freewheeling coffee cups, the jumble of throws, the mysterious sticky saucer under the sofa, the stacks [...]
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Astrology of Now: Overwhelming
Jupiter in Virgo opposition Neptune in Pisces — September 17 Readers of the horoscope will know that the coming opposition between Jupiter and Neptune is the most important aspect this month, influencing this entire period into the next season and possibly the whole year. For some [...]
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Talk On Astrology Of Now
I’m very pleased that Aquarius Severn has asked me back for a third time. I will be giving a talk on Thursday, September 3 in Cheltenham. Click here for details of how to get there. Since I’m stepping in at the last minute, they’ve asked me to throw together a smorgasbord of [...]
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On The Beeb
I’ll be on BBC Radio Oxford with Alex Lester today at 3.30 talking about the month of August. Tune in or listen again.
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August Monthly Horoscopes
There is just so much going on this month: Jupiter changes signs, Venus is Retrograde, and Saturn turns his face to the future and starts to make his final farewells in Scorpio. The first week of August does look fabulous with Jupiter and Venus in a clinch. Saturn, the old devil, is trying to [...]
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Temples Of The Sky
I have been reading Deborah Houlding’s book The Houses, Temples of the Sky. It’s an excellent reference and should be on every astrologer’s bookshelf. Although Houlding is a traditional astrologer and her focus is on the horary and mundane, her research and ideas are relevant [...]
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East Meets West — A View From China
My fellow blogging astrologer, Mitch Lopate, moved to China in March to teach at a business school. I asked him to send us the occasional pithy little anecdote to show us how his Western astrology is being received over there. He writes: So I’ve been teaching freshman English Reading [...]
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Everyone Has A Story
Last Friday, I did a charity event, which meant I did a dozen readings back-to-back in a short space of time. I was worried that I’d end up being a kind of fairground fortune teller. Cross my palm with silver, etcetera. My worries turned out to be groundless. Although I’d lost my [...]
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July Horoscopes
July’s horoscopes are ready and waiting for you. Click here to find them, and remember to read both your Rising sign and your Sun sign. There are two Full Moons this month, plus a beautiful alignment of Jupiter and Venus, a Venus station and more… If you are not already subscribed [...]
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On The BBC
I’ll be talking about the solstice, Gemini and Cancer and the romance of July 1 on BBC Radio Oxford this Friday around 3.30pm. You can listen again if you miss it live. Here is the link to their website. I should be on the radio the first Friday of every month from now on, talking […]
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Out Of Bounds
My colleague Jessica Shephard wrote a short piece about Venus Out Of Bounds a few weeks ago which set me thinking. Out of bounds planets are not something that’s not much discussed by astrologers. We’re all too busy getting our minds around cute new asteroids, imaginary dark points [...]
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June Horoscopes
I have written at some length this month because it seemed necessary for you to have an overview of some of the extraordinary astrology of the entire season, which really begins here. It looks like it could be a long, hot summer of love for some of us — and the rest of us will […]
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