Monthly Horoscopes: January

The first signs of the year, Capricorn and Aquarius, both belong to that austere planet, Saturn With the final conjunction of two of the so...

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The Yin of Capricorn

Winter Moonlight by George Inness captures the stillness of this time of year. The end of December. In the northern hemisphere, the darkest...

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Why Capricorn Nigella is a Modern Vestal (Un)Virgin

A priestess of the goddess Vesta, "tutelary deity" to Capricorn. Here imagined by 19th century  painter  Lord Leighton. Capricorns...

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What Astrologers Are Saying About the Eclipse on December 21

I have to admit my heart sank a little when I looked at the chart for the Lunar eclipse on the solstice tomorrow morning. The poor little Mo...

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Captain Beefheart: Creativity Nurtured by Saturn

Captain Beefheart (far right) and the long-suffering Magic Band, back in 1969. A creative visionary died this week. Don Van Vliet (aka Capta...

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8 Good Things to Do with Mercury Retrograde in Sagittarius

Mercury back through Sag means review the map of your life – or plan to take a trip that you've taken before. So last week, I found myse...

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Astrology of Now: Honour Thy Father or Else!

Riot police in Parliament Square.* The god Pluto wears a helmet of invisibility. Are you enjoying the ferocious fisticuffs between Mercury, ...

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Death and the Maiden

Death and Life, Gustav Klimt 1911. Death catches up with us all – but in what guise. As a virus? A car crash? Will it come slowly or will it...

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7 Good Things To Do When Mercury Retrogrades in Capricorn

Take a leaf out of Rodin' s notebook and have a little think. Here's one of the simplest ways to use astrology: work with the energ...

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Wikileaks and That Cheeky Mercury

Sometimes astrology is really simple. Take the Wikileaks leaks. Last round was the Iraq War logs. I wrote a pretty dark blog about those at...

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City of Books - ha!

St Giles at Dusk by Francis Hamel. For more of his Oxford views click here . Sometimes, on a winter evening when the yellow lights in the bu...

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Astrology of Now: The Future Is Not What It Used To Be

So it's been seven years – May 2003 to be exact. What a lot has changed since Uranus, the planet of future forward, went into the final ...

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