Looking at the world with an astrological eye
Cancer 2011 Cancer time – one of the sensitive water signs. With all the opinions being aired in an emotional way about Rupert Murdoch, News of the World and that redhead Rebekah Brooks, astrologers have been having a field day. A birth time for Murdoch which is categorised as B, pretty good, is doing the rounds. Yes, we astrologers have …
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 …
Gemini 2011 This might sound like origami, but in fact it is a continuation of my series ‘What if astrology is a good model for looking at the world?” My last blog post discussed how moments react with each other, and suggested there are moments waiting for us in the future that ‘produce’ something – maybe a child or a company. …
June 2011 I was just reading a blog post (in Dutch) by my friend and colleague Liz Hathway. She analysed the chart of the time that the first E-Coli victim in Germany reported sick. Knowing Liz she has done her research into how that time was found! I agree with her – it is a good example of the fight between those two …
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 …
Taurus 2011 Indeed astrology is all about time, which is a strange thing to think about. Carrying on from my last post, which was the first in the series “What if astrology is true?” where I looked at the astrologer’s main tool the horoscope, I want to look at another area astrologers spend a lot of time discussing. Relationships, being …