Entries Tagged as 'Poetry'
Aspects for the week beginning 24 January 2021
Amanda Gorman “When day comes, we step out of the shade aflame and unafraid. The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.” Heroine of the week was 22-year old poet Amanda Gorman who gave […]
Categories: Poetry
Aspects for the week beginning 7 June 2020
George Floyd (1973 – 2020) Black Lives Matter I, Too I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I’ll be at the table When company comes. Nobody’ll dare Say to me, “Eat in […]
Aspects for the week beginning 1 December 2019
Clive James (1939 – 2019) Polymath Clive James died this week at the age of 80, after a very long illness. He was known for his acerbic wit, and produced a prolific quantity of books in his lifetime. He wrote regular newspaper columns, and was in his heyday a regular personality on our television screens. […]
Categories: Celebrities · Fixed Stars · Obituary · Poetry
Aspects for the week beginning 7 January 2018
Karma Chameleon No. 1 Emily Bronte/Kate Bush Emily Bronte was in the news this week, so that’s my opportunity to launch the first in a new occasional series “Karma Chameleons”! She is in the news because it is the bicentenary of the year of her birth. A row has erupted about the appointment of supermodel […]
Categories: Celebrities · Karmic · Poetry
Aspects for the week beginning 7 May 2017
“The Pre-Raphaelites – Lizzie Siddal” This is the fourth in my series about the Pre-Raphaelites. In no particular order, the others are:- 11/9/2009: “The Pre-Raphaelites – A Soul Group” 14/10/2012: “The Pre-Raphaelites – John Ruskin” 12/1/2013: “The Pre-Raphaelites – Dante Gabriel Rossetti” As you can see, the last one was four years ago! But I […]
Categories: Art · Poetry · Soul Groups
Aspects for the week beginning 26 March 2017
Westminster Terror On Wednesday, Westminster Bridge was the scene of a terrorist incident and Parliament and its surrounding buildings were in lockdown. A British born man, Khalid Masood, drove into passersby then tried to enter the gates of Parliament, and stabbed a policeman to death. Five people died in total, including the perpetrator, and fifty […]
Aspects for the week beginning 13 November 2016
Leonard Cohen (1934 – 2016) “But let’s not talk of love or chains and things we can’t untie Your eyes are soft with sorrow Hey, that’s no way to say goodbye” Poet and singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen died this week, providing an emotional distraction from the election of Donald Trump to the U.S. Presidency. Though he […]
Categories: Astrological Appreciation · Obituary · Poetry · Uncategorized
Aspects for the week beginning 16 October 2016
Bob Dylan “Flashing for the warriors whose strength is not to fight Flashing for the refugees on the unarmed road of flight An’ for each an’ ev’ry underdog soldier in the night An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing” ~ Bob Dylan What took them so long to award Bob Dylan the Nobel […]
Categories: Astrological Appreciation · Celebrities · Poetry
Aspect for the week beginning 14 February 2016 – Mars sextile North Node
Happy Valentine’s Day Unending Love I seem to have loved you in numberless forms numberless times, In life after life, in age after age forever. My spell-bound heart has made and re-made the necklace of songs That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms In life after […]
Aspects for the week beginning 29 March 2015
Colour and the Zodiac Signs It’s uncanny how often people come to consultation wearing their Soul colour (of their Sun sign) or their Physical colour (of their Ascendant), often down to the specific shade of their portion of the sign. I have always been interested in colour, being mildly synaesthetic since childhood: I always saw […]
Categories: Colour Healing · Poetry