Sweet – but is it?

Gemini 2012 In New Zealand, the expression ‘Sweet as ‘ has come to mean – great, fine, good, cool, yes, ok … Our sign of the month, Gemini, concerns language and how we get the message out. Language develops and changes along with the meaning certain words can have. Sweet has always had positive connotations. It’s a bit like the …

Prepare for 2012

June 2012 Right! Astrologers have been waiting (and forecasting for quite some time with both anticipation and dread), for a series of sky happenings that will finally start this month. Their effects are already being felt worldwide – the planets not the astrologers. I have written before about the meetings between Pluto and Uranus in the coming years. This is …

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 …

Visual overload

April 2012 Now there’s yet another thing we probably should use on the big bad web.Β I must admit this one is easy and fun and probably is a good idea in the scheme of things. I just added a pin (yes it’s actually the old-fashioned kind meant here I think) of friend and astro colleague Liz Hathway and she said …

US vs NZ

Β April 2012 It may sound like a game but it’s about comparison. Lately I came across two things comparing these two countries. One is a article on a book called Fairness and Freedom by David Hackett Fischer. The other is an article from the New York TimesΒ called Elephants Down Under by Thomas L. Friedman. Both are written by Americans who …