A Weird Week in Politics

PM David Cameron was last spotted eating a Cornish pasty two years ago. Ooo – the spin doctors have been getting themselves in a twist this ...

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Is this the Most Challenging Saturn Return Ever? Part 3

Ha - I bet you thought I had forgotten, but we are now in full retrograde season, so I am ready to pick up this Saturn Return series where I...

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Astrology of Now: A Mars-Neptune Pas de Deux

Mars, the planet of the physical, is going backwards slowly, coming to an opposition with Neptune, planet vague, which drifted into his own ...

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Reader's Question: Why Is Jupiter So Horrible To Me?

Zeus to the Greeks; Jupiter or Jove to the Romans A friend wrote this to me recently.  " I have a terrible time when Jupiter is aspecti...

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Liberté, Egalité, Identité

The 1998 World Cup winning French football team was an emblem of French diversity. The National Front said it wasn't "French" ...

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Seeing Pregnancy Through Ceres' Eyes

I wonder: is this the most influential portrait of a woman from the 20th century? You wouldn't believe it now, but way back in 1991, thi...

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Unpacking My Library: On The Road

This cover was designed by Len Deighton in the late 50s. If Jack Kerouac had not drunk himself to death at the age of 47, he would have turn...

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Rebekah Brooks: Embodying Lilith

Rebekah Brooks: she made it up the greasy pole Oh, the irony. The woman who made a living dragging people's good names through the mire ...

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Astrology of Now: Relax, Everything's Retrograde

Ingres: The Turkish Bath.  Aries is the sign of beginnings, haste, inspiration. It's the fire sign that strikes the spark that sets the ...

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Afghanistan, Britain and the Uranus Cycle

Second Afghan War Six British soldiers were killed in Kandahar province this week. The oldest was 33, the same age as Jesus when he died, an...

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Astrology of Now: Festival of Colours

Today is the gorgeous, anarchic, joyful Hindu Festival of Colour, Holi, which welcomes spring and all that goes with it. You ought to run a...

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More Neptune: Picasso Holds Up A Mirror

Pablo Picasso loved the virile masculinity of the bull – the cojones. He painted and drew and modelled and made hundreds of bulls.  It's...

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Neptune Puts A Spell On You

Titania (Michelle Pfeiffer) and Bottom (Kevin Kline) in A Midsummer Night's Dream My friend J has great big, baby blue eyes. They're...

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Unpacking My Library: Invisible Man

Nude by Francis Cadell. “There must be possible a fiction which,  leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the ...

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