Scorpio 2021 Recently, I gave a talk on antidotes, where I described – or maybe I should also say prescribed – the use of one planetary archetype to mitigate the negative effects of another. I wanted to address some of the current heartbreaking, scary and dangerous ills of the world and offer a possible solution. Scorpio time – Pluto strikes …
T ‘n T exploding women’s rights
Virgo 2021 TNT is used as an explosive and indeed it has been a devastating month for many women. The two T’s in question are, of course, Texas and the Taliban in Afghanistan. A lot of hopes and dreams have been blown to smithereens for women in Afghanistan. And in Texas, the changes to the abortion laws, which go against …
Narrative control
Gemini 2021 It is now quite common to see Mercury retrograde discussed by non-astrologers. There is a growing interest in celestial occurrences amongst all manner of people, including news providers — eclipses get a lot more press coverage than they once did. Mercury is indeed retrograde as I write, a good time to go back and look at ‘old’ topics. …
Beautiful collisions in 2021
Capricorn 2021 When I was pondering what to write about for 2021, for some strange reason one of my favourite singers came to mind with her song Beautiful Collision. Bic Runga is from my hometown, perhaps that’s why her words resonate with me. What a beautiful collision Things that go bump in the night With such beautiful precision Fate could …
Those planets at it again?
24 June 2020 In my last Taurus post I said: well almost … this is what I actually wrote: We are waking up Jupiter and Pluto come together again this year. My Sagittarius post of 2019 talks more about this. Around the time of the first meeting in early April, average global graphs showed a spike in what have been registered as …
Coronavirus – an unsung hero?
Pisces 2020 “Viruses are our smallest unsung heroes.” This quote comes from an article by Peter Pollard – see link under websites below. He is describing the benefits many viruses give us. We ourselves harbour millions of them in what is known as our virome. According to another article – link also below – from Scientific American, “…, viruses may …