It occurs to me - some 5 days and 2 hours before my Uranus half-return is partile for the first time - that there are very few uniform astrological opportunities of this magnitude available in a human life for evolution. I can only document my own experience of course, but there is no question that... Continue Reading →
"Pluto connected with Venus is an important factor in love life and married life. Already in the Kosmobiologisches Jahrbuch 1965 I have drawn attention to the fact that the two "society ladies" Nitribitt of Frankfurt and Keeler of London, in fact had a close conjunction and opposition of Venus and Pluto respectively. In their cases,... Continue Reading →
Possibly the most over-asked off-the-cuff question I am asked as an astrologer is : "will I be a writer?" It normally arrives in this exact format too, undisciplined, badly thought through, open-ended. It occurs (without wanting to split hairs particularly) that so long as one writes, one is by definition a writer. Of course, the... Continue Reading →
I am going through a dreadful upheaval just now so I am having to defer today's post until the weekend at the earliest, maybe till Tuesday, I simply haven't got the mental fortitude to write it out today. However, if you want to read some incredible astrology, go and see my true friend Deirdre, she... Continue Reading →
Here then is my first foray into writing out a primer for the practise of the medical astrology. I shall begin with making a few key observations. I think one of the fundamentals has to do with interrelatedness in very much the same vein as any astrology; the aspects create a relationship between principles as... Continue Reading →
The excellent Jeff over at Seduction Central asked me recently to contribute an article, so please go there to read since it was published there today.
A beating heart of flame consumes the wastes, Rolling lambent and lithe, waxing and waning, 'Cross moonless halls these cold shades lament The promise of new life; this unbound spirit In crevasses of cracking crystal, Sibilant waves of glass break, roaring with dread, Yet bright as Paladin's faith; this tread Into arms of light. Crushing... Continue Reading →
Today, I wish to explore a little of the terrain of that counterpart to the astrologer's insight: the Jungian view of the soul. It is no coincidence that Jung's theoretical premises of psychoanalysis form such a supportive and compatible adjunct to the astrology, because Jung himself was a believer in the totality of symbolic experience.... Continue Reading →
The fact that today I don't get a single hard transit, Venus conjunct Uranus woke me at 8:04 this morning and she crosses my Ascendant around lunchtime (and I am looking good today, if I say so myself), has got me in the way of thinking about the quality of aspect experience in the nativity.... Continue Reading →
Deirdre just sent this to me, from Hamburg. I went out to find the Moon but it is very dark out there! What a pity, this falls in my usually unpopulated 5th house, conjunct Neptune which squares my Neptune exactly next week. Woooo.
I am at pains to emphasise that, in the astrology, the distribution of trines and squares, conjunctions and oppositions is profoundly insightful and the astrologer ought always to take note of how they stack up, because a trines person is fundamentally and profoundly different to a squares person regardless of any other factor in the... Continue Reading →
One of the least understood factors in astrology is that there is no such thing as a good Pluto aspect; there is only a less bad one, but even this rather sidesteps the reality of all applications of Pluto, Pluto is an imperative to transform, most especially in the mode of configured signs and houses,... Continue Reading →
I know exactly when this was taken, it was at the exact moment that the Sun was conjunct radix Saturn in Aries; thus early April, it was also the first pass of the Neptune square that I am currently surviving. I had driven into a wall in Tunbridge Wells and had no car so I... Continue Reading →
Another one from the cellphone files. This is the way that I run on occasion. This evening I am creating a Neptune playlist, it is ipod therapy for astrologers under hard transits. I fully expect it to be profoundly, if fleetingly effective, but it beats Tequila right?
I ought to explain; we live in a world that has no time for the old gods, but really, how can you expect even the lowliest water-sprite to give you the time of day if you don't show just a little awareness? I am therefore paying homage to Neptune; it is a humble plea that... Continue Reading →
Dreaming of the sea...
I recently watched Sean Penn's magnificent biographical drama of the life of Chris McCandless, described as an American wanderer who quite literally went "into the wild" to try and answer some inner impetus. I found the film to be profoundly moving (I don't care, I cried - a lot!) and I cannot recommend it highly... Continue Reading →
This is a true story. Abra-Melin the Mage. Bizarre though that gambit is, there is purpose in it, not least because it came to represent a relationship I never truly understood; one that grew in stature long after my Grandfather passed, leaving me just some old books. Curious books, leather-bound by his long-dead hands, they... Continue Reading →
I read yesterday about Pholus, Chiron's kin who was the guardian of the wine-groves, a Centaur also, but one that, unlike Chiron, was mortal. He too was kind, wise and honourable. He died when a poisoned arrow struck him in the foot. Where Chiron is the rainbow bridge between Saturn and Neptune, Pholus promises another... Continue Reading →
At last, the blessed night draws down, Like velvet cold on fevered crown, No Lord of the apple towns, I, No darling heir of hop-frames high, This darkling manor, none of mine, I trespass from an Eastern shore, Outcast by the witch-queen's war. Far-off the flares of my demise, Magisterial dark oaks rise, I am... Continue Reading →
