Neptune in the Kitchen

A friend recently described my house as "tousled". She really was being too kind. I have Neptune (floaty chaos) on the IC (home an...

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Leo Self-Portraits

Andy Warhol - What an incredible sense of colour. This picture is reproduced under the principle of fair use. Last month, I found a huge ...

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Are You a Pirate or an Able Seamen?

"Why join the navy when you can be a pirate?"   Steve Jobs Especially if Johnny Depp is your co-pilot. Let's say pirates are u...

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When Saturn Goes Off the Rails

Saturn devouring his son by Rubens In the third instalment of her thought-provoking series on Saturn, OA guest Isy explains what happened...

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Steve Jobs in His Own Words

Steve Jobs has a vision of beauty. Steve Jobs' has a visionary Pisces Sun in the workaholic 6th house. His chart is dominated by a ...

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Ceres, Food and Revolutions

Shopping for bread in the middle of a riot can be hectic. Tunisia. Have you looked closely at your grocery bill recently ? It's gone ...

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Gadaffi's Exit

On Sept 1, 1969, Muammar Gadaffi and the Free Officers took over the government of Libya in a swift and efficient coup that ousted the monar...

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Slow Down: A Mercury Retrograde Story

This Merc Ret has taken place in my 12th house, the house of confinement. So guess what... Schloss Astrology has been a house of sickness f...

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The (Kind of Creepy) Birth of Venus

Alexandre Cabanel's Birth of Venus (1875). You can see why Napoleon III wanted it for himself. In the second post of her three-part s...

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Astrology of Now: Dream of Your Self

Shiva, god of tranformation, dances his cosmic dance within a ring of fire. Image courtesy Wikemedia Commons. Art by Arumugam Manivelu. Co...

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6 Things to Do with Mercury Retrograde in Leo

6. Give an abandoned cat a home. This one is called Bean and he's staying with me. Mercury the messenger shimmies backwards in Leo un...

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Castration, Rape and a Sharp Blade: Saturn's Tricky Childhood

Saturn is the master of time and death I'm very excited to have my first guest here at the Oxford Astrologer . My friend and coll...

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The UK Riots: Mummy I'm Hungry

Ah the Sex Pistols… England's finest Rioting is an English tradition…that's why a Riot Act was passed in 1715. But what we riot a...

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Why I'm Not Surprised by the Riots

Brixton 1981 Well, what a welcome home. Back in October last year, I said we might get a royal wedding and riots in the coming months. Ha...

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Monthly Horoscopes: August 2011

Claude Monet - Antibes Ah August  - is this really a month in which to do … anything at all?  Surely we should all be getting out our tents ...

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