-“The H-Files”- What Ails Pippin?

Cast on the day of Venus and in the hour of the Moon, the chart, like my nativity, has Cancer on the Ascendant. I am signified in this chart by a waning, peregrine and fallen 5th house Moon, which applies to a waxing partile square with my own natal Sun. The Moon’s situation seemed to perfectly describe my feelings at the time; my growing concern about the beloved dog, his status as the ‘third child’ in the household and my secret and unspoken fear that he had cancer and that he would die.[1] Pluto, setting on the cusp of the 7th seemed to drown the chart in darkness, and I must admit, I really didn’t want to look at the horary at all.

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The Root of Earth

She stands at twilight, a shadow within shadows, dusk edging its way like a hooded assassin over the medieval city of Kashgar. The thousand tiles of a thousand roofs create a mosaic of gently smouldering umber embroidered with knots of gossiping birds, and she gathers herself, peering down into the skeins of narrow, tangled streets that wrap around the town.

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New Moon in Aquarius Natures Challenge

The Sun is at its weakest in the sign of Aquarius, being close to earth, low in the sky in the northern hemisphere, and in the sign opposite its sign of rulership Leo. In the ancient Egyptian funerary text, The Book of Gates, which describes the passage of the Sun through the hours of darkness it spends beneath the earth, the administering of cool refreshment might also be linked to the symbolism of Aquarius, as the Sun is prepared for new life through the cleansing of all that has gone before.

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Christmas Cards

Oh, star of wonder, star of night,Star with royal beauty bright.Westward leading, still proceeding,Guide us with thy perfect light. The concept of a “Guiding Star” was always highly attractive to me, even as a small child… “We Three Kings” was always my absolute favourite hymn, belted out with gusto every christmas from the age of […]

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