We are our pets: our pets are us. Or so we may believe. Who knows what’s really going on beneath those be furred skulls. What is true though is that Virgo is a writer’s sign, and if you type in the words writers and cats into a search engine, you will be deluged with images. […]
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August Horoscopes: Potent Memories Brew
It’s a strange month, full of nostalgia for other Augusts, even ones you never knew. We are cupped between two bright harvest Moons — on 1 August and 31 August in the final signs of the Zodiac, Aquarius and Pisces, bringing us to the halfway mark of the astrological year at the end of the […]
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July Horoscopes: Stay Cool
It’s hot. It’s complicated. It’s kind of fascinating. July is a pivotal month for everyone. If you’re already a member, to read your horoscope, click here. To join The Oxford Astrologer, click here. To read last month’s horoscopes, click here.
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June Horoscopes
This is a month of potential and excellence somewhere in each of our lives. And the beginning of Venus’s long sojourn in the sign of specialness, royalty and glory. That is Leo. She’ll be in the sign of the Lion from now until early October, and it’s important to figure out [...]
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May Horoscopes: Signs of Change
The year’s clock ticks on. Here we are already, halfway between the equinox and the solstice. An important tock, or possibly tick, is the change of signs by Jupiter, the King of Olympus. In his royal progress through the Zodiac, Jupiter moves into a new sign (usually) just once a year, [...]
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April: An Eclipse, Mercury Retrograde and a Very Lucky Day
Come, fill the cup, and in the fire of spring Your winter garment of repentance fling. The bird of time has but a little way To flutter – and the bird is on the wing. Omar Khayyam (Taurus) tr Edward Fitzgerald (Aries) Pale plum blossom and primroses, dancing daffodils, [...]
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In Conversation with Astrologer Barry Goddard
You probably know that I do a Q&A for subscribers to the horoscopes (which happens most months). The format varies, and this month, we were lucky to have Barry Goddard over to chat about astrology and shamanism, what Pluto wants, and more. He also answered questions from the audience in a [...]
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February Horoscopes
Get your canvases primed, your paintbrushes cleaned, your models suitably disposed, your paints squeezed on to the palette. Let’s get to work and make something beautiful this year, starting now. Oh, and let’s finish off a few things too. February horoscopes are here, ready for members. If you [...]
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Happy New Year & Horoscopes
It’s not considered wise to travel on a Mercury Retrograde. But, as you may know, I’ve been in Egypt and I had to get home for 31 December. We did encounter some classic Mercury Rx stuff. I put my trousers on inside out — it was a 3am start — and spent the whole [...]
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December Horoscopes
World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion A tangerine and spit the pips and feel The drunkenness of things being various… from Snow by Louis MacNeice One of the things I love about this time of year is the contrast between the sweet [...]
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November Horoscopes
I am looking forward to November, even though we’re surfing into it on a strange eclipsey tide. I’m looking forward to the introversion of Mars retrograde, and the stunning Full Moon eclipse which contains such a surprise, and the presence of Jupiter in Pisces. I’m [...]
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October Horoscopes
Despite this year’s strange weather, nature is still on a schedule as the days begin to shorten after the autumn equinox. The leaves are sere, berries reddening, squirrels squirrelling. It was an eventful summer (or winter), and the consequences are still unfolding into the next [...]
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September Horoscopes
The Sun is in mutable earth at this time of year, in the sign of Virgo. There’s always something a little wistful about September — at least in the North. All the bustle of August holidays is over, empty ice-cream wrappers blow in an easterly wind, and the children are [...]
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August Horoscopes: Start With A Bang …
The month begins with a hugely important conjunction between fiery Mars and rebellious Uranus. This is an exciting breakthrough, a picket line, an accident, a passionate clinch — because it makes a conjunction with the North Node, it may be life changing. The rest of the month is [...]
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July: Fireworks and Passion
It’s a hot season — even if it’s winter where you are. Fires are burning in Taurus, Aries and Leo. Fiery words, fiery deeds, fiery anger and fiery desire — and just fire. Americans are experiencing a major astrological transit as their country has its first Pluto Return ever — and it [...]
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Flaming June Horoscopes & an Audience with Victor Olliver
Mars and Jupiter are on fire. Venus is feeling sexy. Mercury is spitballing. Saturn just wants to be alone. And Neptune is mellowing out. In other words, quite a few of the planets are behaving just like it says in the books this June. That makes a pleasant change. To read your full monthly [...]
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April Horoscopes: The Great Wave and Eclipse Season
We are awash with watery energy, leaking across boundaries, flooding the basement, slooshing through the media, washing over the doorsill and up the stairs. We’re not at the high tide yet, though, it’s coming. You may have noticed breaches in boundaries — political (Ukraine), professional [...]
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March Horoscopes: Surf, Swim, Ride the White Horses
Awed, baffled or frightened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, most of us don’t need recourse to astrology to know that we are watching something big unfold. Like January 2020, Spring 2022 will go down as a historic moment. We’re on a great cosmic wave that’s sweeping us into spring [...]
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February Horoscopes
The Sun this season moves from a conjunction with Saturn, the planet of old age, sobriety, rules and hard work on 4 February, to a conjunction with Jupiter, the planet of expansion, optimism and excess on 5 March. Both these planets are teachers. Saturn teaches us how to say “No” [...]
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Welcome to 2022
HAPPY NEW YEAR! I hope you enjoy reading this introduction to January’s astrology (below). This is part of the monthly newsletter for members of The Oxford Astrologer, along with the full-length individual horoscope for each sign. This month there is also a video for each sign [...]
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