Cilla Black and her Soul Group I have hugely enjoyed the three part TV biopic about Cilla Black.  The actress Sheridan Smith who has portrayed her has drawn superlatives for her performance.  She has completely brought her subject to life, brought out her essence, seeming more Cilla than Cilla herself. The screenplay was engaging and […]

Categories: Celebrities · Karmic · Soul Groups

“In the land of Gods and Monsters I was an Angel… No one’s gonna take my soul away I’m living like Jim Morrison” ~ Song by Lana del Ray Peaches Honeyblossom Geldof-Cohen This week it was announced that Peaches Geldof did have heroin in her system when she died last month.  Fresh faced Peaches  departed […]

Categories: Archetypes · Historical · Karmic · Obituary

The forthcoming Cardinal Cross in April has left Astrologers scrabbling about for some good news.  The shift of the North Node into Libra is one such nugget, as to have had both the North Node and Saturn in Scorpio these last 18 months has been karma-intensive to say the least.  North Node in Libra is […]

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Over the last week images of the devastation in Tacloban in the Philippines have dominated our screens. Typhoon Haiyan Some of the astrological signatures of this typhoon were Moon conjunct Pluto in Capricorn squaring Uranus (coming quite close to the exact square between Uranus and Pluto), and Sun conjunct Saturn.  Also of significance may be […]

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Future Lives It is nearly two years since I wrote my introduction to this subject, “Future Lives – A Literary Trail” (link below).  Time now to update my journey, in which I share a few personal stories and look at some of life’s themes, which I hope you will find thought-provoking, may resonate with some, […]

Categories: Future Lives · Karmic

Saatchi vs Lawson We were forced into the prurient act of seeing what seemed like a public near-strangling by Charles Saatchi, when pictures of Charles Saatchi at the throat of his wife Nigella Lawson outside a London restaurant  were displayed all over the media last month.  This morning it was announced that he is to […]

Categories: Celebrities · Karmic · Synastry

Whistleblowers Whistleblowing seems to come at great personal cost, and the conviction needs to be great to even contemplate it.  Are today’s big-time whistleblowers born, and not made?  Do they knowingly sacrifice their personal lives for a bigger cause? Edward Snowden Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee, who has blown the lid on the PRISM […]

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“Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by this sun of York” Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet Now that we have stared into the reconstruction of Richard III’s face thanks to the finding of his skull, he has become a modern celebrity, and […]

Categories: Astro Archaeology · Karmic

Hilary Mantel wins again Was Hilary Mantel deserving of a second (or third) prize for her Tudor novels?  Don’t ask me, for I am constitutionally incapable of reading fiction (let alone gargantuan works), but ironically I did manage to finish a work of fiction this week (my first in years): “The Ladies Paradise”, by Emile […]

Categories: Book Review · Karmic

Moral Goodness In a week where former heroes were revealed to be something they were not, I have been wondering how you can see a person’s moral worth, and whether it is revealed in the birth chart. Barack Obama When I was reading Barack Obama’s books on the train commute several years ago now, it […]

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