Humania

Monday, February 28, 2011

Purple and yellow crocuses have raised their heads on my wet lawn. Snowdrops are still nodding in the borders and the fleshy leaves of daf...

I wrote a post at the start of this month about the Year of Revolutions, 1848, and its paralells with now. To read it and reflect on the eve...

I'm giving a talk on Scary Monsters. February 16 at the Oxford Astrology Group. For more information look at their site . Come along if...

I've always thought it more than a little ironic that the day of the year designated for lovers is February 14. After all the Sun is in ...

Egyyptian women demonstrating in the 1919 uprising against the British. Photo: Wikimedia Commons As you already know if you are a regular re...

A 19th-century wooden centaur attributed to a Mr Dines. The planetoid Chiron , which orbits between Uranus and Saturn, was discovered in 197...

Giovanni Bellini 's Adoration of the Sleeping Child. Let me tell you about the last time Chiron conjuncted one of my personal planets, ...

Aquarius is the sign of the avant-garde – and who could be more emblematic of the avant garde than Edouard Manet. Some of his paintings are...

This month I'm focusing on how you can take advantage of Jupiter's move into fiery Aries for a half-year sojourn. Click here for th...

Set during the Paris uprising of 1848, Flaubert's novel Sentimental Education explores lessons in love and friendship. It was published ...