Aries 2023 Aries and Mars go together as sign and planet very well. So since we are in Aries time, Mars is on the agenda. He was in Gemini for a long time recently. He usually spends about 1.5 to 2 months in a sign, however due to retrograde motion, he stayed in Gemini from August 2022 until March 2023. …
What would Ceres do? Motherhood and abortion
Cancer 2022 The sign of Cancer is the symbol of motherhood, associated with nurturing, breasts and wombs. Ruled by the Moon, it is a sensitive, watery, reflective sign. It is perhaps not surprising then that Roe v. Wade, the judicial ruling that allowed abortions in the US, was overturned at this time of year, on June 24th. This brings the …
Protection and the Moon
Cancer 2021 Cancer is a water sign and this month, here in Europe, particularly in Germany, the flooding has been catastrophic. And more rain fell in central China in an hour than those fatal three days in Germany. People in Zhengzhou were trapped in shoulder-high water on subway trains. It must have been terrifying, and many didn’t make it. The …
Happy Birthday NHS
Cancer 2020 As a result of WWII, much needed to be done to heal the damage caused and to rebuild society. Many new enterprises were founded in 1948, and as part of this recovery, 31 ‘states and territories’ were also brought into being that year, among them Israel, Myanmar and both North and South Korea. (Wikipedia figures). I find this …
Ladies – please! … or Lunar eclipses
Cancer 2019 “Go back to where you came from!” This one from Trump, of course, addressed to the four US Democratic congresswomen known as ‘the Squad’. And from KLM – “Cover your breasts if you are breastfeeding!” These are a couple of items that were in the media near the time of the Lunar Eclipse on July 16th and this …
Family and belonging
Cancer 2018 Astrology – the way I use it anyway – makes use of archetypes. Our sign of the month, Cancer, is just one of these archetypes – meaning it has within it concepts or things that belong together. A group. A family, you could say, to use a Cancerian theme. To give you an idea of what this one …