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Mercury Retrograde – Take 2

April 22, 2010

The closure of UK airspace was an extremely symbolic expression of Mercury retrograde in Taurus. This is even more poignant when you remember that the 1801 UK chart has Mars at 11 Taurus and Mercury stationed at 12 Taurus. Today the Moon conjoined Mars and squared Mercury and on Sunday Mercury and Mars will make [...]

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By Claire Chandler

Mercury Retrograde

April 16, 2010

You’ll probably have seen quite a few articles or comments about Mercury going retrograde at the weekend and may be wondering what all the fuss is about. Retrograde just means backwards. All planets have periods where they appear to move backwards across the sky as seen from the Earth. It’s a geocentric phenomenon – that’s [...]

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By Claire Chandler

Countdown to the General Election

March 15, 2010

Started on 10th March, published 15th March. It struck me this morning, as Mars stationed direct, that we are now a maximum of 13 weeks from a general elelection. The next one must take place by June 3rd but most people expect it to take its traditional spot of the first Thursday in May as [...]

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By Claire Chandler

Thoughts for February 2007

February 2, 2007

Orignally published on 7 February 2007 Plus ca change… I had an email from someone with a similar chart to Tony Blair asking if he should shut up shot until the end of the summer. This made me think that I should write something about what this means to ordinary people. What ever the conditions [...]

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By Claire Chandler

June 2001

June 29, 2001

What went on in June 2001 Originally published in May 2001 Week Ending 10th June 2001 This week you may have noticed we had an election in the UK. Mercury also turned retrograde bringing with it, its usual quota of revisions and reassessments; on Tuesday I went to 21st Century Astrologers and we had to [...]

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