Ciao ragazzi! The great golden god of the Zodiac has finally slipped into his own sign and it’s time for me (at least) to kick back and recharge the old batteries. Mentally, it’s been rather a frenzied few months. Astrologically there are several factors, not least Uranus [...]
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Temporary Communications Glitch
My email is not working at the moment. I apologise if you have been trying to get in touch with me. I hope to have it fixed by Monday afternoon. It’s a server problem. However, I do note that Mercury is moving veeery sloooowly right now as he gathers himself to turn retrograde on July [...]
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Astrology of Now: The Space Between
When you’re trying to draw something right in front of you, the key to getting it right is often to look at the space between. When you start to look properly, you can see that space has a shape and vivacity all its own. Look at the “negative space” in this painting by [...]
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Ray Merriman on the Debt Crisis
As we all know now, we are living in interesting times, but sometimes it’s hard to keep up with just what is going on. The scene changes so rapidly; opinions vary so wildly. The financial astrologer Ray Merriman has written a brilliant piece for The Mountain Astrologer which explains [...]
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Whose Dreams Are You Dreaming?
Like all things numinous and mysterious, the point of astrology is not always something that can be put into words. It’s poetic, it’s slantwise, it’s a feeling, an image, a fleeting thing. And just when you think you have it all pinned down and neatly explained, the meaning [...]
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Keeping It Authentic
I had lunch the other day with a well-respected and very experienced astrologer, who also writes. Our conversation was pretty intense since we’d never met before and we have a lot in common, especially when it comes to thinking about how to do good, authentic astrology. We had to fit in [...]
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The Nation’s Soul
Ted Hughes was best known as a powerful nature poet before he was made laureate in 1984. It seemed like a strange choice; this poet of fox and moor, black-backed gull and deadly pike, above all of wildness, asked to write about the baroque, many-layered, structured, civilised, profoundly tamed [...]
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It Takes All Sorts, So Why the Martial Emphasis?
A while ago I was asked to talk about astrology to some teenagers at the Museum of the History of Science here in Oxford. For a bit of fun, I asked them each to fill out a short questionnaire. They were to choose three words to describe themselves from a list of different character traits. [...]
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Redesign In Progress
Umm – the redesign. It was a little unexpected. I hope you like it. I am working on getting the gadgets back again, but blogger appears to have swallowed them up. Meanwhile enjoy the whizzy new views.
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What’s Your Job on the Ship of Life?
One of the things that astrology teaches is that we need all kinds of different skills and qualities to keep the ship of life afloat. Society needs to work together to get things done. And quite often the person who is most annoying in one role – say, the gossip at the school gates – […]
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Correction – Which Planet Rules Which Metal
I see I wrote that Saturn rules iron in my post about Mrs T. It’s a bit more complicated than that. She has Saturn in Scorpio, which is ruled by the iron planet Mars. In Western astrology, Saturn rules lead, Mars rules iron. However, in Vedic astrology, Saturn does rule iron. I’ll [...]
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The Oxford Astrologer on Facebook
I’ve just started an FB page for The Oxford Astrologer. I’m still trying to get my head around how to use it properly, but meanwhile here’s the link. Do go and like it.
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That Link on the Left
I don’t do ads on this site. But I have just added this Amazon button.It works like this. If you were about to buy something on Amazon and you clicked through here instead of going straight to the big A, The Oxford Astrologer would get a percentage, but you wouldn’t pay any more [...]
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10 Things to Do With Mercury Retrograde in Sagittarius
Ahh bless him. Revisit David Sshwimmer (Nov.2) and his Friends Oh my goodness – I do try not to get in a fritz about Mercury Retrograde. Indeed I laugh in the face of the doom mongers telling you not to move a muscle for weeks. But… Here’s what has happened in the past week or [...]
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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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Pallas Athena: Woven Music
This is similar to the one I looked at but a photograph doesn’t tell you an eighth of it. I had a strangely lovely experience yesterday. I went to pick up a carpet that had been cleaned and got talking to the owners of the shop. Now I know very little about oriental carpets. I […]
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Dr Seuss vs Dr Freud
Dr Seuss (2 March 1904). You’ll see how he fits in at the end. My friend P the psychotherapist, came around for dinner the other night. I know she’s rather dubious about my chosen career but she’s also curious. She asked me how often I like to see a client. I told her, [...]
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Ceres, Food and Revolutions
Shopping for bread in the middle of a riot can be hectic. Tunisia. Have you looked closely at your grocery bill recently? It’s gone through the roof in the last 12 months right. I’m sure inflation for food is way ahead of the official figure. So I was intrigued to read this piece [...]
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Beaches Beckon
My family is wresting this computer from my sweaty grasp and taking me to the beach until the end of the month. Blogging is verboten. Do please comment: I’ll publish when I get back at the beginning of August.
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