The Art of Astrology
Crisis at the BBC
This week’s blog looks at the astrology of the BBC and muses what the future might hold for the institution.
The Curse of Rowan
The poet, her lover and the magic tree. The poet Katherine Raine fell in love with author Gavin Maxwell. Theirs was a stormy relationship, not helped by the fact that Maxwell was gay. Maxwell became famous after he traveled to Iraq with Wilfred Thesiger to explore the marshes (which were subsequently drained by Saddam Hussein).…
Right wing women
Looking at the astrology of Right Wing women, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Candace Owens and the author Andrea Dworkin.
Green shoots?
The new leader of the Green Party comes out fighting. Zack Polanski the new leader of the Green Party has the archetypal politician’s chart. We do not know his time of birth so we can only look at the planets and the aspects between them. The first thing to note are the signs of ambition…
Mists and Magic Mushrooms
Looking at the astrology of psychedelics, Albert Hofmann and Timothy Leary.
Decumbiture
The astrology of sickness This is an example of how Decumbiture works in practice. Decumbiture is a branch of Horary Astrology concerned with questions of sickness, what is wrong with me? What can I do to fix it? I will be teaching Decumbiture in the second term of my Astrology and Herbs course. See here…
Lucky unlucky
Temperaments in Astrology Temperaments show our basic nature and how we greet the world and in turn how the world greets us. Our temperament is calculated using the Ascendant, the Moon sign and planets ruling them as well as the season we were born in. How and when we entered this world in other words.…
Blowing things up
The astrology of explosions ‘Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds’1 This week was the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, a terrible event in a terrible war. Two atomic bombs, eerily called, ‘Little Boy’ and ‘Fat Man’ were dropped by the USA on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9,…
A revolution?
changing times I wonder if the emerging theme of Chiron in Aries and Pluto in Aquarius is the championing of the collective (Aquarius) and a rejection of the selfishness, bullying and egocentricity of recent years (Aries). I had originally planned, and half written a blog about Diane Abbott being suspended, but events overtook me which…
Fighting Fascism
The 1801 UK chart and the Cable Street Riot. The chart for the UK often used by astrologers is the 1801 Act of Union chart, the other is the 1066 chart. They are both radical in their different ways but both have Aries rising and the Sun in Capricorn, which I feel describes the country.…
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