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).Continue reading “The Curse of Rowan”
Tag Archives: Saturn
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 hereContinue reading “Decumbiture”
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.Continue reading “Lucky unlucky”
Blowing things up
The astrology of explosions ‘Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds’ 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,Continue reading “Blowing things up”
Into the Fire: Saturn in Aries
Saturn moves into Aries on the 25th of May, what can we expect to this sea change. Looking back at previous Saturn in Aries eras gives us some clues.
Fire and Water: Neptune in Aries
Neptune moved into Aries last Sunday, in this blog post I examine some background and have some thoughts about how this will work out in the future
Lovely Libra: do not be fooled…
Astrologers love to wax lyrical about lovely Libra, but she packs a punch, as we see in AOC.
Rishi! bites the bullet. Why now?
Finally, Rishi has put us all out of our misery and called an election for July 4th. Why now? We don’t have a time of birth for his chart, so we cannot know the Ascendant or the houses, although for my money he is either Gemini or Virgo rising, physically he has one of thoseContinue reading “Rishi! bites the bullet. Why now?”
Wheels within wheels
Looking of cycles of awakening, unraveling and crisis through astrology.
In the book, The Fourth Turning1 the authors discuss how history is made up of around 80-90 year cycles. What is an 80-90 year cycle in astrology? Well, our old friend Uranus who has a cycle of around 84 years. The Neptune cycle is around 165 years, so a half Neptune return would fit.
Elisabeth Brooke 