Every religion in the world has in its history legends of flood.  Archeologists know that about 10,600 years ago the land bridge linking the UK to Europe was suddenly flooded, creating the islands of Britain.  There are a number of theories suggesting that remnants of a highly evolved culture arrived here about 8,000 years ago, established hill top settlements and arranged geometric patterns on the landscape in stone and straight line, for whatever reason, and that civilisation evolved from the Atlantic fringes east as opposed to from Mesopotamia west.  I've spent decades working with this, it makes sense to me.

Early morning, loading for today's show in Glastonbury.  The full Moon, along with Mars, is setting in the west, and what a Moon!  Truly spectacular.  Although we're not the only planet with a Moon, we are the only planet that the Moon can be seen from the planet's surface.  And the full Moon is exactly the same size as the Sun, hence the capacity for eclipses.  The Sun is about 360 times larger than the Moon, but it is also about 360 times further from the Earth than the Moon.  Co-incidence of course (?), after all God doesn't play dice with the universe, does s/he?

Astrological compatability.  'I'm a Gemini, you're a Capricorn - we don't get on'.  Utter drivel.  First and foremost, every chart therefore every person's tastes are different, there is no common factor.  But - here's some rules of thumb.  The sign opposite your Ascendant is often the one you get on best with.  The sign that Venus, and to a lesser extent Juno are in your chart show signs that you generally get on with.  The sign that Saturn is in your chart shows the sign you normally don't get on with, unless there's a multiple of a seven year gap between you.  And here's the secret weapon in synastry - if your Moons are in the same sign, you will feel the same things at the same time and enjoy similar experiences and sensations, and both go up and down in mood swings at the same time as each other.  Moon sign compatability is much more important than Sun sign compatability, because the Sun is about your individualty whereas the Moon shows how you get on with people at the emotional level.  UPDATE 16.45  Just watched the full Moon rising in the East, in the space of ten minutes it ...

Full Moon in Leo conjunct Mars in just under forty eight hours - words that would make most sane people run for the hills.  Feisty, fiery, provocative, boisterous, loud, impulsive, rash, headstrong, arrogant, haughty, dynamic, decisive, projective with a real pull between the creative and the communal, between the child within and the adult without.  There is a lot of raw anger out there now, and will be for the next two days, so don't be like all the rest and give in to mindless rage or insensitivity in your urge to get ahead.  If you can ride the wave of anger/power you can become so sharp and so flexible at the same time that you can get in anywhere like a homoeopathic laser and do what needs to be done dispassionatly and incisively and deal with the consequences later.  And there will be consequences, be sure of that.  So at this full Moon, either act as though it's life or death, or step back and wait the fury out.

There's a big Sun/Mars opposition up there now, and what I'm seeing both personally and from others is that certain people, notable those with a lot of Aries, Leo, Taurus and (strangely) Aquarius are getting really feisty.  Mars retrograde in Leo can be assertive and projective but not know where this steps into being aggressive or confrontational.  And opposite the Sun brings the capacity for shooting oneself in the foot through impulsive and premature action strongly to the fore.  Increasingly I'm finding that it's sometimes best to just look people in the eye, smile, and hold one's peace.  Very accident prone times.....  the positive thing about this is that it is brief, transitory and without complications.  There's nothing psychological or neurotic now, it's purely action and unsubtlety.

In Iraq, they hang their war criminals.  In the UK, they hang them out to dry.  Over the coming three days, there's a fiesty and fiery Sun opposite Mars in the skies, bringing the potential for a great deal of short term volatility, especially at the end of this week.  I note that both Goldsmith and Blair, the attorney general and prime minister at the time of the Iraq invasion, are giving evidence to the Iraq inquiry at the end of this week.  I also note that the Sun/Mars opposition falls exactly on top of Tony Blair's Moon at eleven degrees Aquarius.  I suspect that he will be castigated and villifed in the short term, but with his Mars on his Gemini Ascendant will talk his way out of it all, and then emigrate to the Gulf states, or Florida, anywhere he can live quietly.  Long term, his chart shows his normal evasiveness and ability to blame everyone except himself, probably why he's turning Catholic so he can absolve himself of guilt.  Short term, he's about to get trashed.  However, the chart of Lady Macbeth Cherie Blair is more indicative of challenge, it will be very interesting indeed ...

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What wll tomorrow bring, I wonder?  That's what I said yesterday.  I truly couldn't have guessed - something wonderful.  I will share this with you all, tomorrow morning 9 am UK time plus minus half an hour.

On the road big time, twenty seven readings in three days so far, another nine tomorrow.  It keeps me up to speed with the current zeitgest for people, those I see are a kind of snapshot of the world. And the weirdness of it all - Thursday, ten readings, seven of them Capricorns, three of them double Capricorns, one triple.  Then today - eleven readings, six of them with Venus either square or opposite Mars.  What's all that about?  And what will tomorrow bring?

A big, big thank you to Helen and Jan from Inspired Events for hosting me last night, it all went so well....  What was really weird was the sudden realisation halfway through my lecture that amongst the 30-40 people in attendance were at least four or five clients whom I knew the charts of really well, but didn't know anything about them or what they looked like.  Nice to meet you afterwards.  It was videoed successfully (thanks Christo) and I will get it transcribed digitally shortly.  And this morning there's a different feel to the place.  The Sun, Venus, the Moon and Jupiter have all changed sign withing the last forty eight hours, we seem to be collectively past some type of nodal or cuspal point in recent days, and it's a different ball game now.  And speaking of madness (?), what about that crazy story today about the American weapons manufacturer with extensive contracts to supply both the US and the UK military with guns?  Turns out that on every weapon they've supplied over the last twenty years they've inscribed into the metal links to verses of the bible.  I think that's a highly commendable action, that it's totally ...

To paraphrase the great god McKenna, human history represents such a break with the biological systems of organisation that preceded it, that it must a response to some kind of attractor or magnet that lies ahead in the temporal dimensions.  Never before has a species evolved that can laugh at itself or kill itself, and there's never been a species that can anticipate futures.  The boundaries of what in the past has been 'normal' space/time are beginning to fragment, we are being called forward to a point of individual and communal knowing that our ancestors have dreamt of for thousands of years, and it's our privilege to see this time, to make it happen, and to go on and beyond the old boundaries of existence and consciousness.  Everyone is their own shaman now.  And I'm rambling, and signing off before someone knocks me down for not doing any astrology....

Tomorrow night, one night only, I'm going to cut loose a little bit.  I'm going to summarise that we are all born psychic and conditioned out of this psychic sensitivity by a convention bought about by a society wide proscription on the different, individual and unconventional, and that as a result of this millennia long pressure we're about to emerge, as a species, into a dimension of life not previously experienced.  I'll talk about how astrology gives us evolution's timetable, from Neanderthal to 2012, and the acceleration of population, technology and spirituality and the likely outcome.  The history of Astrology from 3,500 BC through to modern day.  How Astrology works - in simple English.  What an Astrologer does, should do and definitely should not do.  How to wind up any sign of the zodiac.  A run through all twelve signs, suggesting dates that ...

Big thank you to the honest burghers of Lewes who came to the show yesterday, more of the same today please.  I only see less than ten percent of my clients face to face, so the shows provide the ideal opportunity to engage in a way that's normally not possible.  Today?  Today is the last full day of Jupiter in Aquarius untl the year 2021, I for one will be delighted once it's left and moved into Pisces.  In response to questions:  unaspected planets often suggest a side of ones character at odds wih the rest of your nature,a part of you that is alone, although not necessarily lonely, with the exception of the unaspected Sun, which is a different story.  Progreesions deal with the growth of the soul from within, whilst transits relate to external phenomena.  Solar returns are useful in fine tuning and yearly themes, but too much information can cloud the issue....  More?

Basic astrology this morning folks, it's six am and I'm preparing for the first show of the year, in Lewes, the town famous for burning effigies of the pope every year.  Each planet represents a specific energy - one planet shows the way you assert and project yourself, another planet shows how you regulate and structure your efforts, yet another planet shows how you communicate.  The sign of the zodiac that the planet is in when you're born shows the way that the planetary energy in question comes through in you - it's the way you behave.  The house of the zodiac that the planet in question was in when you were born shows the way that the planetary energy manifests itself in the eyes of the outside world - i.e. the way you're seen as behavng.  And the lines of different length and dfferent colour that connect some planets with others are the apects, showing the ways that planetary energies affect each other, for both positive and for challenging.  Planets are energies, the signs show how those energies come through in you, the houses show how that planetary energy comes through in the eyes of the outside world and ...

So Saturn is now retro, Mercury is going forward, the eclipse has happened, and now we wait for Jupiter to move into Pisces in a few days time.  Much has changed and is changing.  One thing I've found is that people's ability to be ahead of time ever so slightly, to be able to predict numbers, there has and continues to be temporal distortion.  In months to come the last few days will be seen as the trigger point for a number of new developments, and the next few days are excellent for throwing fishing lines into the future

Retrograde - when a planet is retrograde it is because from the earth we see it as moving slower than us against the backdrop of the stars, and it appears to be slipping backwards until we get further round the Sun and start catching it up.  If you have retrograde planets in your chart, look at the nature of the planet, its sign, house and aspects, and then translate its normal meaning into an internal  observation rather than an external projection.  Retrogrades make you look within for answers as opposed to without.  And with Saturn going retrograde yesterday, and Mercury stopping going retrograde later today, this 36 hour period that we're approaching the end of is a brief window of different perpsective.  The fact that both Mercury and Saturn are square to each other, and that Pluto is involved as well, suggests that in the immediate short term the quality of communication and information available shoud be viewed with a degree of caution.  Not everything today will be the way it is presented to be.  UPDATE:  here is a story to bring tears of joy to your eyes...

Bar Mars and Saturn, every planet in the heavens is close to the Sun.  The Sun, Venus and north node are together, as are Jupiter, Chiron and Neptune, and as are Mercury, the Moon and Pluto.  Three triple conjunctions, the day before an eclipse.  Monumentous times, from my astrological perspective, I feel as though I'm right in the middle of the alchemist's crucible and anything is possible.  And it's still Mercury retrograde, I feel as though no matter what I do I can't get anything like as much done as I want to.  I feel right on the inside edge of an opaque bubble, as though I'm about to burst through into  - what?  I'm excited, exhilarated, scared.  I'm anticipatory, expectant and hopeful.  And still the snow falls - five/six inches in the last twenty hours.  I love this winter, it's a proper one.  I email people in Melbourne and Adelaide, where it is seriously, seriously hot, and I'm not jealous at all.  Most of all I love the cyclical rhythm of nature, and I love this planet.  Everything always comes around.  And - if and when you can, spare a thought and even a candle for Haiti, suffering for ...

The coming eclipse starts over Chad, strengthens over Kenya, peaks over the tip of India and Sri Lanka, begins to fade over Burma and dissipates over eastern China.  As another astrologer from Canada so accurately pointed out a week ago, a new way of looking at eclipses is to look at the area of your chart that the eclipsed Sun or Moon falls in and consider the dark stuff in this region.  Where there is normally light there is shadow, and we can see the dark stuff that we are often blind to.  If you're the phobic or superficial type then this comes as a neurotic and psychological shock, but if you're looking to become more integrated and holistic then the opportunity to embrace and assimilate shadow should be welcomed.  And in regard to the many enquiries I've had about readings similar to my Obama article, it took me a full (inspired!) day to research and write the 3,600 words, and were I to do this for clients this length of time would be reflected in the fee.  It takes me nine hours to think and write stuff, and two hours to think and speak/record stuff.  But the writing is ...

Serious predictions - one way of seeing our lives in 2020. Personal transport will be being phased out, replaced by satellite controlled electric pods that you dial up for, enter the postcode of your destination whether it is Asda or Edinburgh and off you go at a automatically controlled speed taking the easiest route, giving predictable arrival times.  Using anti crash technology, we'll travel in road trains, saving electric.  Air travel will be curtailed, with planes only flying when full of people and produce.  Large manufacturing will be exported by ship globally using mile high kites catching the trade winds.  Food will be produced locally using polytunnels, greenhouses and solar.  ‘Travel' to the ‘workplace' will be old fashioned, with the majority of non physical work being done remotely using web conferencing and laptop from home.  Power grid systems will change as we rely less on coal and oil and instead turn to wind ...

You want serious astrology?  Tough, hard hitting astrology?  I've just loaded the article on Barack Obama for free.  3,600 words of REAL astrology.  Enjoy, and then tell me I'm going soft.  UPDATE I'm dealing with lots of people doing the headless chicken.  It's Mercury retrograde folks, just in the last few days it's as though there's one hundred and one things demanding attention so nothing gets done.  Turn the phone off, switch off the emails and focus, just don't make decisions for another week or so.  The wise person bides their time.

Transition time...six days time Saturn goes retrograde, seven days time there's a near total eclipse and we'll all be able to look at our shadow stuff, eight days time Mercury stops going retrograde, ten days time the Moon and Jupiter together enter Pisces - methinks that the world will be a very different place in two weeks compared to now.  I personally have not enjoyed 2009, and what I'm seeing in many people's charts is that 2009 is continuing until about the 18th January.  I like the idea of Jupiter in Pisces, Its team-up with Neptune and Chiron in Aquarius has brought a lot of over exaggeration and hype and spin into our lives, both collectively and personally, whilst in Pisces Jupiter appeals much more to our empathic, compassionate and benevolent nature as opposed to impersonal community issues.  By the end of January one of the three most challenging astrological periods of 2010 will be over.

I'm involved with Birthday Matcher (here) for a number of different reasons, but one of them is not about putting people sharing the same date and year of birth together for the purpose of relationship.  If you were partnered with your astrological twin, you would soon find that you cancel each other out.  Comments I've had are like 'He/she was nothing like me', or 'They reminded me of who I used to be', or even better 'I'm not like that at all-am I?'  Firstly, there's the idea that you need external stimulus in relationship to ingnite your template, and someone the same will only create stasis.  And secondly, there's the prince and the pauper syndrome, two babies born same moment, same space, but one has a privileged upbringing and the other grows up in the gutter, so their choice of relationship wil be different.  Environment, upbringing and conditioning play a bigger part of early life than the horoscope - the horoscope only really kicks in when you leave home, whether you're fifteen or fifty.  So share your birthday with your partner, but same day AND same year probably won't work.  UPDATE: Imagine meeting your twin, but brought up in ...

Everything seems to be closing in on itself...   The next three new Moons are, in order, eclipsed, conjunct Neptune and conjunct Uranus.  As regular readers know, I've suggested many times that both end May and start August will be highly experiential and possibly life changing for many of us.  And if so, then the coming three new Moons are seen as trigger times.  I don't buy into the doom and gloom scenario but I do feel that fundamental changes in humanity's attitude towards each other, the environment and profit/materialism are imminent - but then, I'm a greenie so i would say that!  Nevertheless, I'm sure most astrologers would agree that these are highly unusual times astrologically, and that this type of intensity only comes every few centuries at the most - and the beautiful thing is that thirteen months from now, this period will be on the wane.  That's no consolation to many of you I know, but hey! - don't shoot the messenger.  When your back is against the wall, you know that everything is in front of you and there's only one way to go - forwards and onwards and outwards.  UPDATE - OK, I'm almost embarrassed to ...

Sometimes Mercury retrograde (M Rx) is experienced most in the week before it actually starts, other times it's felt at its worst during the first half of the Rx period.  Neither rule seems to be applying now.  I don't do predictions per se, it's a mugs game.  But the period of 15-18 January hits so many of the charts i have in my files that there's no way I can safely warn eveyone on my list.  At that time there is a kicking eclipsed full new moon, Mercury stands still on top of Pluto for three days, and also Jupiter leaves Aquarius and enters Pisces for the first time since '98.  This period is likely to be hugely experiential for many, so forewarned is forearmed, and - really  - don't go making big decisions or plans anew in the immediate short term because they won't work out the way your expect.  There's more information to come that will change things, and you won't be aware of the full picture until the end of the month.  From now to the 15th I anticipate a growing sense of frustration at what seems to be a malaise in getting things sorted.  ...

2010 is a year I've been waiting for my entire life.  Ever since I was a kid I knew there was something special about this time, and when I discovered astrology and saw the planetary patterns happening in 2010 I felt vindicated.  This really is the year where - everything changes.  This is the bursting forth anew of a new way, a consciousness shift of the highest order that has been waiting to happen for tens of thousands of years.  Don't get bogged down by petty insecurities, you're seeing the emergence of a whole new way of life that has been promised but never realised until now.  Timings?  There are a few critical times...  See the forecasts page for more details.  UPDATE - evening.  Better late than never, not onlly are there monthly video forecasts available free on the sun sign pages, but now there is also your free annual ...