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: Uranus
Right wing women
Looking at the astrology of Right Wing women, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Candace Owens and the author Andrea Dworkin.
Mists and Magic Mushrooms
Looking at the astrology of psychedelics, Albert Hofmann and Timothy Leary.
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”
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.Continue reading “Fighting Fascism”
Shaking things up
Uranus moves into Gemini Next week, Uranus, the planet of revolutions and sudden change moves from staid Taurus, where it has been for 8 years into mutable, speedy Gemini. Uranus in Taurus was a hard slog as Taurus is fixed earth and is antithetical to the energy and chaos of Uranus. Uranus in Taurus broughtContinue reading “Shaking things up”
The Year Ahead
my thoughts about 2025 and its game changing astrology This is an extract from my article in the new The Dark Half Journal to purchase a copy click here As you have probably seen, the next few months is an exciting time for astrology, a lot of big changes are happening in our world. IContinue reading “The Year Ahead”
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?”
Beauty and the Beast: Jupiter Uranus:
A new biopic of Amy Winehouse and the Jupiter Uranus conjunction of last week made me check out Winehouse’s astrology. And indeed, she had a Jupiter Uranus conjunction in Sagittarius quite close, Jupiter at 4’19 and Uranus at 5’29, both opposite Chiron at 2’55 Gemini in the 12th house.
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 