Entries from January 2016
Aspects for the week beginning 31 January 2016
Terry Wogan (1938 – 2016) “A lot depends on luck, and being in the right place at the right time; which was certainly true in my case.” ~ Sir Terry Wogan His Birthchart We have no birth time for Terry Wogan, or Tel as he was nicknamed. He had half his planets (5 out of […]
Categories: Astrological Appreciation · Celebrities · Obituary
Aspects for the week beginning 24 January 2016
Aquarian Animal Totems and Archetypes The Sun entered Aquarius last Wednesday 20th January 2016 at 15.27 Hrs. in the U.K. This is the ninth in the series where I look at some of the animal totems and Archetypes for the various signs (sad to think the series is almost completed! I have enjoyed writing it, […]
Categories: Animal Totems · Archetypes
Aspects for the week beginning 17 January 2016
David Bowie (1947 – 2016) from my teenage diary: 8/1/66 [David Bowie’s birthday]: “Went to the Marquee Club [in Wardour Street, London] and collected autographs from David Bowie and David Essex.” How I wish that I had written more on his 19th birthday, and written in a less superficial vein. I hope to remedy that […]
Categories: Astrobiography · Medical astrology · Obituary
Alan Rickman (1946 – 2016)
His aquiline face, with all it’s magnificent hauteur: made him a star: something between an eagle and a big cat.” ~ Peter Bradshaw, the Guardian Sunsign One of my favourite actors, Alan Rickman, died in the same week as David Bowie at the same age, of 69. He had the Sun conjunct Venus in Pisces, […]
Categories: Astrological Appreciation · Obituary
Aspects for the week beginning 10 January 2016
Leo Tolstoy With a series of the epic novel War and Peace currently under way on the BBC, I thought I would look at the chart of its writer Leo Tolstoy to see how his chart reflects the themes of his work. I should say at the outset that we had an abridged copy at […]
Categories: Astrology · Historical
Aspects for the week beginning 3 January 2016
“I told them how I manifest things – by writing a letter to the universe at the start of every year. In the letter, I thank the universe for helping me accomplish several specific goals, even though they hadn’t happened yet.” ~ Laura Lynne Jackson, from “The Light Between Us” Highlights and Lowlights of 2016 […]