Apocalypse Now

Sagittarius 2012 No, I don’t think the world will end in a huge disaster on the 21st December 2012. But if recent events don’t suggest apocalyptic times, I don’t know what does. Children being raped, abused, mown down with bullets or other weapons – and not only in the US – conjure up horrific images. In the news, much has …

Women on the rise

Taurus 2012 It’s Taurus time again – growth and fecundity and theoretically spring here in the north. In Amsterdam you could be forgiven for not noticing it, although as I write this we finally have a nice day. The Bull (Taurus) has been seen as a masculine fertility symbol for a very long time. But as I research for a …

Carry on Women!

Β March 2012 In 2006 two things happened. One was that Natascha Kampusch escaped from captivity. She had been abducted years before and held prisoner – originally underground. Later, several similar cases repeated this theme. Elisabeth Fritzl came out of captivity in 2008 in Austria and in 2009 Jaycee Lee Dugard was found safe and well after 18 years of being …

My heart goes out to Norway

July 2011 What a terrible experience it must have been yesterday in Utoeya Island and in Oslo with the bombing. At present it seems to be the work of one person, which may or may not be more comforting than a bigger organisation claiming the deed. Being able to keep tabs on a single person has always proved to be …

Can astrology help Christchurch?

Pisces 2011 Each time I finish a post, my mind wanders off looking for ideas for the next one. In my head I had it all sorted out this time – it was to be about how we need to re-evaluate the victims and underdogs in our society. Pisces planet Neptune, will change sign soon, returning to his own sign …