The Bossy Universe

Scorpio 2014 Recently I was asked to write an article for a Dutch Career Coaching magazine. Vocation is one of my favourites topics so I was delighted, as it is not often that astrologers receive invitations to contribute to ‘normal’ magazines. Each of their issues has a theme and this time it was ‘coincidence’ – obviously a topic for which …

What the world needs now is …

Scorpio 2013 Trust sweet trust – it’s the only thing that’s there’s just too little of – you know how the song goes. Yes – I know the original says love. And that wouldn’t go amiss either. But since it’s Scorpio time I wanted to talk about one of the Arachnid’s themes. Most people are wary of Scorpions – understandably. …

Ancient sex 

Scorpio 2012 This month I want to consider two themes, Capricorn, which aligns with Saturn, and Scorpio, which aligns with Pluto. The reason for my focus here is that for the next couple of years these two planets are in what is called ‘mutual reception’ in the sky. Pluto is in Capricorn and Saturn has recently entered Scorpio – i.e. …

C&A and the Brenninkmeijers

May 2011 A few years ago when I was doing my dissertation for my MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology, I was lucky enough to get an interview with one of the managers at Athos, the managing company of C&A in Amsterdam. This week in the press, there was an article about them, confirming what I had discovered then. They had …