Writing Corner

When you are starting a business, or you already have an established one, defining what is your brand is something that may be on your mind. Where is your YOU in your business? If you are an entrepreneur that’s even more true, because your business is your brainchild, carrying forth your ‘Astro DNA’. As I […]

 “Oh, it’s such a perfect day, I’m glad I spent it with you” – Lou Reid  Introduction Over time many aspects of astrology have piqued my interest. In the early years the house systems kept me busy for months and at one time antiscia became an obsession. During the past few years I have turned

It is a too early to say that I am able to grasp the idea of astrology or that I am ready to formulate any specific definition concerning astrology, as this Universal Art involves so wide realms and so many different layers that it would evidently take a  number of lifetimes to feel at home

Empowerment. With my traditional chart ruler, Mars, involved in all sorts of astrological shenanigans right through this year, including a major Neptune transit, significant progressions and assorted return activity, I seem to have become keenly sensitised to the concept and to encounter it wherever I turn. I notice it has become a modern watchword for

Nu-metal is one of the genres in the metal music scene. It emerged in the mid 90s and conquered the scene until the very early 2000s. As its name “nu” indicates, nu-metal is admitted as a new style of metal which evolved from the old-school. Nu-metal keeps aggressive and loud sounds as the old-school, but

Let’s start off with this fundamental question: What makes us truly happy? “Happy” may not even be what we are looking for, and be totally over-rated for that matter. How about content then? I am not talking about those exceptional moments on that wedding day, birth of a child or having won, inherited or awarded

If we were to observe the soul in the family by honouring its stories and by not running away from its shadow, then we might not feel so inescapably determined by family influences.  Strongly influenced by developmental psychology, we assume we are ineluctably who we are because of the family in which we grew up.

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable[i] – T.S. Eliot From an outer perspective time is experienced in a linear fashion, moving from the present into the future, having come from the past

When I was asked to write an article for the Writing Corner I wondered what I would write as I did not feel particularly inspired to write about any particular person at that time.  Then on Friday 30th August I was shocked and saddened to hear of Seamus Heaney’s death. I felt intrigued by this man

The table of dignities and debilities is a technique which allows astrologers to assess the strength or performance of planets in signs. It has been around for a very long time. Its origins even predate Claudius Ptolemy (90 AD – 168 AD) but the version of the table he proposed in his landmark text Tetrabiblos