Astrology

The reading notes for today’s reading are below. For the full reading, you’re welcome to watch the video here. Significator runes: Fehu (1st rune, wealth, cattle, sending energy, abundance, life force) and Laetitia (joy, intuition, imagination, portends good fortune, happiness) Cards: 5 of Cups, Temperance, The Fool Patterns: new beginnings (Fehu – 1 numerology, 5…

The enigma that is Nick Cave – post-punk, gothic rock, profane and religious – is having a moment with a documentary  about him – Veiled Worlds – coinciding with the tv version of his novel The Death of Bunny Munro. Known musically for his obsessions with death, religion, love, and violence, he has had an…

  Mobland, the gritty drama about warring crime families in London now filming season 2, appears to be strained on set as well as on screen. Stories have emerged that Helen Mirren’s professional and disciplined approach clashes with Tom Hardy’s lateness and swaggering attitude.   Creative types tend to be volatile but interesting to see…

Mystical Insights is a compendium of information that includes a weekly forecast, current astrological information, a section on herbalism, correspondences, and recommendations for working magick, as well as weekday rune and tarot readings that help you navigate the week ahead. Inside this addition: The Forecast General Astrological Outlook Daily Readings Current Astrological Information As Above,…

Venturing down the rabbit hole to plumb Trump’s motivations is a doomed task with Venezuela the most immediate mystery. Damaging the fentanyl trade is a worthy cause except that would mean targeting Mexico not further south; and even cocaine mainly sourced out of Colombia comes into the USA from other places. Oil is a possibility…

Frank Gehry, the Canadian–American architect who made magic with crumpled titanium and fish curves in buildings like the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, has died. He was inspired by pop art, what he called ‘cheapskate aesthetic’, to create buildings that were almost art, almost sculpture – and at times an assemblage of a hardware store. His…

The Eurovision Song Contest is brewing up for a turbulent winter as Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands and Slovenia have already indicated they will boycott it after Israel was cleared to compete. Ireland’s RTÉ said it felt that its “participation remains unconscionable given the appalling loss of lives in Gaza and the humanitarian crisis there which…

Brigitte Bardot has stepped out of seclusion in St Tropez to voice a documentary about her life in aid of her animal rescue charity. Propelled to dizzy heights as one of the best known symbols of the sexual revolution in the 1950s and 60s, she withdrew after 47 films, having had enough of global stardom…

Fred Astaire, the “greatest popular-music dancer of all time”, whose uncanny sense of rhythm, creativity, effortless presentation, and tireless perfectionism delighted audiences through almost eight decades, was born the same year as Noel Coward. But despite both sharing Neptune Pluto in Gemini opposition Saturn in Sagittarius, a Gemini Moon and Jupiter in Scorpio, they were…

Noël Coward’s comedy Fallen Angels was so shocking to bourgeois morality a hundred years ago it was nearly banned. Now restaged in London as a period piece about two “girls behaving badly” on a champagne-fuelled night, bemoaning their stale marriages to golfing husbands and lusting after a Frenchman both regard as the great love of…

Actress Sydney Sweeney’s unglamorous choice of a role playing Christy Martin, the first great female American boxer, a working-class lesbian and survivor of domestic violence, appears not to have gone down well in the US. Whether that is due to the subject matter or Sweeney’s divisive reputation as a Maga supporter isn’t clear, though the…