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 […]

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“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 […]

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A Review of 2015 Give some love, or compassion, to 2015 before you move on to the new pastures of 2016.  For the historically minded, or nostalgic among you, selections from the blog this year: January 11th: (from the blog) The Paris Shootings As a million people plan to march through the streets of Paris, […]

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Capricorn Animal Totems and Archetypes The Sun enters Capricorn on Tuesday 22nd December 2015 at 4.48 a.m. in the U.K.  This is the eighth in the series where I look at some of the animal totems and Archetypes for the various signs. Do you, or someone close to you, have Sun, Ascendant or Moon in […]

Categories: Animal Totems · Archetypes

Donald Trump Donald Trump this week was the subject of a huge petition to keep him out of Britain on account of his racist views (last week calling for a ban on Muslims entering the U.S.).  The Guardian headline yesterday was: “Trump takes some heat – but barely misses a beat.” His words also sparked […]

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U.K. Politics So…Parliament voted 397 to 223 in favour of Syrian airstrikes last Wednesday, after an intense day’s debating.  Those of us who are disappointed in the result, will somehow need to divert our spiritual energies into concentrating on an overall peace and the minimization of damage to innocent civilians in Syria. It has been […]

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Epilogue Several years passed… Since then, Sharon had acquired two new acrylic eyes and a denture. She felt like a new woman. 20:20 vision and 20:20 teeth, her daughter said. Every New Year when she met up with her good friend Julie, Julie would start the conversation with “so when are you going to publish […]

Categories: Humour · The Quiet Office

To Strike or Not to Strike, that is the Question It seems likely this week that Parliament will make a decision whether to join the airstrikes in Syria, as David Cameron advocates, or whether to seek an alternative route, as Jeremy Corbyn suggests. The situation regarding Syria is as complicated as ever, with the various […]

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Sagittarian Animal Totems and Archetypes The Sun enters Sagittarius at 15.25 Hrs today.  This is the seventh in the series where I look at some of the animal totems and Archetypes for the various signs. Do you, or someone close to you, have Sun, Ascendant or Moon in Sagittarius? Horses Of course the horse is […]

Categories: Animal Totems · Archetypes · Aspects

Paris Shootings – Part 2 Just when you thought it was safe to hop on the Eurostar and spend a weekend in Paris, things got a whole lot worse, and the prospect seems further away.  There can’t be many people who didn’t spend the weekend thinking about the people of Paris, and racking their brains […]

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