Can Astrology Make You A Better Mother?

Gustav Klimt's Mother and Baby A friend's child has a Moon-Pluto conjunction in the 8th House . Unfortunately, she's an astrol...

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Astrology of Now: Talk Dirty

A hot Venus-Mars conjunction in sexy Taurus plus cheeky Mercury; Sun moves into chatty Gemini and what do you get?

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Ireland and Britain: A Miserable Marriage Turns Into a Beautiful Friendship?

The Queen's trip to Ireland this week shifted Anglo-Irish relations a lot closer to normal. The relationship between Britain and Ireland...

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Madhuri Dixit: Living Goddess

Bollywood produces beauties by the bucketload. If you're a leading lady in Indian popular cinema, there's a look you ought to have –...

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Dominique Strauss Kahn: A Tragedy Unfolds

"That old black ram is tupping your white ewe." Othello strangles Desdemona  from Othello Othello rose to the highest public offic...

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Algol: Decapitating the IMF

Medusa, the snake-haired gorgon, turned men to stone just by looking at them. Some say she was enraged by her violation by the sea god. The ...

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Astrology of Now: Fred Astaire

Thanks to Aya for pointing out that Fred Astaire was born with the Sun in Taurus and Venus conjunct Mercury in Aries. The grace of Taurus an...

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Astrology of Now: Words of Love

My last post got lost in the Blogger inferno, so I'll summarise it thus: Tell the people you love that you love them right now – do it, ...

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Venus and the Virgin

The Virgin at La Salette, France "M AY is Mary’s month, and I Muse at that and wonder why:     Her feasts follow reason,     Dated due...

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Taurus Self-portraits

Leonardo's newly discovered self-portrait. His Sun is at 3° Taurus adjusted from the gregorian calendar. Many years ago, I used to work ...

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Neptune and Bin Laden Update

If you read my post of May 4, you'll know that I think Osama Bin Laden is an example of the dark side the Neptune archetype. A few more ...

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Astrology of Now: One Wedding, A Funeral and Two Fairytale Endings

St George and the Dragon by Jean-Francois Sulpice. The soldier prince Mars married the queen of the May, Venus, last Friday. A monster was s...

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The Grim Reaper Comes for Bin Laden

According to the live Twitter feeds on the ground in Abbotabad on the night of April 29/May 1, US helicopters arrived at 45 minutes after m...

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The Ballad of Bin Laden

There are two opposing narratives about Osama Bin Laden. One is that he is an evil terrorist, who darkly manipulates invisible minions aro...

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Going A-Maying

Here is what the English poet Robert Herrick wrote about the morning of the first of May, about 400 years ago, in Corinna's Gone A-Mayin...

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Monthly Horoscopes: May 2011

This is an exciting month, especially for the romantically inclined.  Mars, Venus and Mercury spend most of it in a threeway tango through t...

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