UPDATE:  My personal nemesis last September was my critical mass with the taxman, as many of you know.  Since then business has stabilised with a three/four percent profit on last year.   Many people helped me out at that time, and I want to repay them.  So I'm asking regular readers for ideas.  Daily forecasts by subscription?  Weekly email personal forecasts?  E-books on micro payments?  Ideas welcome. UPDATE  FINISHED   The symbols for the planets are a mixture of circle, crescent, cross, line and dot --with the exception of Chiron, for which a "k" rising out of a circle or heart is used, looking like a key.  I prefer to stick with tradition, and I use the upwardly turned crescent on top of the cross on top of the circle.  The circle stands for soul, complete and unique, the crescent for spirit, open to the universal energy, and the cross for matter and the material world.  Chiron is the wounded healer, so it makes sense to me that to join soul and spirit, we must do it through matter.  Look at the house and aspects of Chiron in your chart.  Stop being fluffy in this area and deal with challenges in ...

I sort of gave up on conspiracy theories a few years ago, preferring instead to see things as a combination of synchronicity and incompetence.  That's not to say that I think 9/11 was carried out by a bunch of cave dweling fanatics, or that I believe the spin of day to day governance.  The thing that changed it for me was when I realised that the internet, and the giant sprawling interface that it has become, was random.  It wasn't planned or predicted except by the sci-fi and cyber punk writers, it isn't 'controlled' by any group or party, it is an independent entity.  With so many rogue servers it is impossible to close down.  We have Artifical Intelligence.  To my mind the internet is a precursor of what is about to suddenly develop - a world wide web, but of consciousness and empathy and compassion and intuition as opposed to share deals, porn and spam.  Because if these things aren't part of the human future, what kind of future will it be?  And it's now that will be seen as the moment, now being the first eight months of 2010.  At least, that's my interpreatation of the current astrological ...

Because the Earth is tilted at twenty-three and a half degrees, the Ascendant's duration in each zodiac sign differs according to the latitude and longitude that you were born at.  In the UK, the signs of Leo to Scorpio dominate on the Ascendant, with Virgo and Libra taking nearly three hours to rise each whilst the opposite signs of Pisces and Aries take less than an hour each.  In the southern hemisphere, the reverse is true in that the signs of Pisces and Aries are the most common in Australia and New Zealand.  It could be argued that this is why most Aussie's are seen in the UK as either headbangers (Aries rising) or alcoholics (Pisces rising).  But the opposite is true once again in the UK.  Northern Europeans are either anal (Virgo rising) or indecisive (Libra rising).  The Ascendant, or rising sign ...

Something for the weekend... In the fair city of Bath where I am privileged to live, some naughty naughty people have been breaking the law.  A group of anonymous people have been going around the city at night planting carrots, courgetts, apples and other produce in the local parks and flower beds, and in the hundreds of empty homes there are here.  Geurilla gardening indeed, and obviously I have no idea who's involved. Probably the same people that sewed the planters outside the local police station with an illegal herb.   Go and buy packets of carrot seeds and drop them as you walk.  Free food.  Can you tell it's 5.30 in the morning and I'm only half awake and I'm off to a show?