Showing posts with label Myth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Myth. Show all posts

Friday, November 23, 2012

Mercury in Scorpio: Inner Demons

A detail from Hieronymous Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights "Beware the slinking whisperer who whispers into the hearts of peo...

Thursday, October 18, 2012

How I Broke My Achilles Heel

The boy hero was educated by Chiron, the centaur. Here depicted by John Singer Sargent Silver-footed Thetis, the sea goddess, leaned over th...

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

The King Is Dead, Long Live the Queen

Princesss Elizabeth and her dashing consort Philip at a polo match in Kenya, just days before she succeeded to the throne in 1952. The 33 da...

Sunday, August 21, 2011

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...

Sunday, August 14, 2011

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...

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

The Magical Tide Jewels of Japan

One of Hiroshige's Views of Mount Fuji As a wedding gift, the dragon-king of the sea gave his human son-in-law two jewels - kanju and m...

Monday, March 14, 2011

Fat Boy, Fukushima and Japan Facing Frankenstein

Godzilla emerged from the depths of the ocean back in 1954, and trashed Tokyo. He may have been a plastic monster in a less than B-movie, bu...

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Awakening Frankenstein

Boris Karloff in the 1931 film Frankenstein. In the summer I wrote a post about Dracula with some suggestions about which planets we could a...

Saturday, September 18, 2010

A little girl names the dark lord

Hades (Pluto) Oxford is a small town with a famous university in the middle of England. But it's much more than that too. It's the ...

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Beginning at the beginning

So you know you can cast a chart for just about anything. It's just a diagram of the sky at a particular time - waiting to be interprete...