Do Not Enter the Netherlands

July 2011 This week this advertisement appeared in the NY Times. It is a response to proposed government cuts on subsidies for Culture in the Netherlands. It had the desired effect… much outrage. On top of this, at the moment and all at the same time, three major museums are fully or partly closed  in Amsterdam. As an astrologer I …

The US 2009 – 2010

October 2010 I know not everyone always wants to hear about the US , but as it really does have an influence on the global economy, my tip this month is to watch what happens there on or around October 19th. This date marks the end of a long event in the sky which affects Venus – money belonging to …

Dogs

January 2010 Did anyone see the BBC documentary on dogs last week? Parts of it were very interesting (how they are using dogs to decode DNA of disease and how dogs scan human faces).  But … there are still hugely sweeping statements and conclusions being made on these documentaries. No mention was made of Rupert Sheldrake’s work with telepathy and in …

Happy Birthday Tony Blair and Goodbye!

Taurus 2007  A few days after his 54th birthday, Tony Blair, of course a Taurean, announced his plans to hand over the reins of the country later this year. As a typical Taurus he stubbornly waited until he was ready to do this. Stubbornness and patience are part of the Taurus mould. Taurus is also the sign associated with finance …

Fighting Talk

Aries 2007 This month we are back to the beginning again – Aries the first sign, ruled by the planet Mars – the God of war. So it was with interest that I read an article about the mission to Mars, one of many such articles currently in the press. The topic of this particular one was about how the …

Money, money, money

Taurus 2006 Astrologers work with the twelve signs of the zodiac.  These signs can seen as archetypes. Interestingly, Peter Senge in his business book ‘The Fifth Discipline’ refers to twelve systems archetypes: “Presently researchers have identified about a dozen systems archetypes, nine of which are presented in this book”. Although Senge’s archetypes are not the same as the zodiac signs, the …