Entries Tagged as 'Archive'
Review of the Year 2017
For those who like Retrospectives – Selections from the blogs… January 29th: John Hurt (1940 – 2017) Actor John Hurt died on Friday, he of that beautiful, craggy, vulnerable face which never failed to move me. As an Aquarian, I always felt he had an aura of untouchability too. His birth chart is very […]
Categories: Archive · Historical
My Ten Year Blog
2007 I began this blog on 30th January 2007, so am celebrating tomorrow! The blogs were very short when they started out, and I only aimed for a brief description of the week’s aspects. At first, I was not relating the blog to celebrities or world events. I think the humour was on good form […]
Categories: Archive · Historical
Aspects for the week beginning 27 December 2015
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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Aspects for the week beginning 29 December 2013
What did we learn from 2013? January 13th: (from the blog) Andrew Marr Andrew Marr needs to be appreciated this morning for his services to this blog. Andrew, who suffered a stroke last Tuesday, is the presenter of “the Andrew Marr show” which has been broadcast on Sunday mornings since September 2005. …Andrew has a […]
Aspects for the week beginning 14 April 2013
Margaret Thatcher – Personal Life (1925 – 2013) This is the second of two blogs about Margaret Thatcher, with a more personal slant. Speaking to people this week, it seems that whatever they thought during the Thatcher years, they still think about her. Twenty years since we were under her rule we have had a […]
The Thatcher Years (1979 -1990) – An Astrological History
The Thatcher Years (1979-1990) This is the first of two blogs concentrating on Margaret Thatcher who died this week. Broadly, here I focus on her political career, while the second will focus more on her personal life. She entered politics as M.P. for Finchley in 1959, and was brought in to Edward Heath’s cabinet in […]
Tony Blair and the 10th Anniversary of the Iraq War – An Astrological Look
Many of my friends marched in London hoping to prevent the Iraq War, and I did write a letter to Tony Blair which he ignored. I never bought into the Weapons of Mass Destruction idea! I have to document the 10th Anniversary which occurs on Wednesday 20th, because I believe the Iraq War was a […]
2011 – An Astrological Retrospective
Selections from the blog: January 16th: There were floods all over the globe last week: in Australia, Brazil and Sri Lanka, creating unexpected devastation. I wonder if this presages the entry of Neptune into its own water sign of Pisces in April this year. 23rd: With Jupiter jumping ship from Pisces and into the fire […]
The Nodal Axis: The South Node and Where We Come From
Here is a blog I wrote recently, which first appeared in an illustrated version on U.S. Astrologer Joyce Mason’s website The Radical Virgo as a guest blog on 14 March 2011. It is being reproduced here for my own readers, for new readers, and as a resource and reference under my Karmic and Archive categories. […]
Categories: Archetypes · Archive · Karmic
Interview – A Vintage look at Lana Wooster
My mother-in-law recently unearthed a magazine interview from 1978 when I was writing a regular column for “Good Life” magazine. I was prepared to cringe throughout the re- reading of it but will let it pass except for a slight airbrushing of my throwaway opening comments, to include the concept that over time you learn more and more to […]
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