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 …
What’s she up to now?
Cancer 2017 Since 2006, when Ceres was given her rightful status next to Pluto, I have been keeping an eye on her so I can learn how this planetoid works in practice. Clues to her nature are given by the wonderful myth we have about her and her daughter as well as by what she does astronomically. However I always …
Our broken democracy
Cancer 2016 Lately, I often hear myself asking “what the hell is wrong with the world?” There is an overdose of sad, horrific and bizarre items in the news. I like to keep up with what is happening in the world so I don’t want to block it out by not reading the news. However a cartoon doing the rounds on …
Greece is the word – but is the word in or out?
Cancer 2015 Sorry but I just couldn’t resist – there has been so much about Greece in the news, I had to use this title even though I noticed, after I had chosen it, that a few had used it before me. It’s funny, but the lyrics of Grease seem vaguely appropriate for Greece! “We take the pressure and we throw …