A Fairytale Ending for Milibands

Once upon a time there was a miller who had three sons. When he died his oldest son took the mill, his middle son took the donkey, and that ...

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How being an astrologer is like being gay

Because at some point you have to come out of the closet,  being an astrologer has something in common with being homosexual. "What do ...

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Lady Gaga vs Madonna

Can you believe the shoes? Lady Gaga has finally sauntered onto my middle-aged radar by wearing that outrageous dress. Wow - it's punk a...

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The subtle knife

Whenever I go past the alley of trees in this picture, I think of how somewhere between them may be the Sunderland Avenue, North Oxford, Sum...

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A little girl names the dark lord

Hades (Pluto) Oxford is a small town with a famous university in the middle of England. But it's much more than that too. It's the ...

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Synchronicity, dreams and a case of exact astrological aspects

I'm going to tell a story that starts off badly and ends up well. Last night I dreamt that I was the only person left in the world and I...

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The generation that won't shut up

Gustave Doré's Red Riding Hood. Usually, conversational gambits at the school gates go something like this: "How is Ermyntrude sett...

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A few more examples of Jupiter and death

Redeemer? After my last post , I thought I'd check to see what Jupiter was doing at some famous demises. Naturally, the psycho-analyst C...

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David Cameron, Jupiter and death

David Cameron with his first son Ivan in 2002. Ivan died in 2009. It's remarkable how often in families a death and a birth happen in qu...

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Newspaper horoscopes: should you bother?

Desire Dehau reading a newspaper by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1890). They didn't have horoscope columns back then but it's a nice p...

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Why I love Mercury retrograde

Yes - it's that time again. Mercury is retrograde, so astrologers say don't put anything in the post, don't sign contracts, don&...

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Harvest

Ripe apples drop about my head;  The luscious clusters of the vine  Upon my mouth do crush their wine;  The nectarine and curious peach  Int...

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