What is Astrology?

It is astounding how sophisticated different civilisations were in times so ancient they date back 4000 years before Christianity. Mesopotamia (the southern part of present-day Iraq) is said to be where earliest advanced civilisation began.

There is something magical about the Moon. In its crescent phase it has a mysterious ephemeral quality, the most elegant curve scratched finely into the sky. As for the full Moon, its sheer size and luminescence as it hefts itself into the heavens often leaves me speechless. These forces of Nature are so powerful that […]

The Ancients who practised Tarot and Astrology and Kabbalism and dabbled in mythology saw the half-giant half-god Norse character, Loki, as both the Devil and the Fool. In the Celestial Tarot pack by Kay Steventon and Brian Clark, Kay’s illustration for the Devil represents the Greek goat-god Pan brandishing his musical panpipes. Loki as the […]

You might be one of those people who shudder and cringe at the thought of snakes. What is it that is so scary about these reptiles? Well, many things … one moment they’re there, physical; you can reach out and touch them (if you wanted to). But the next instant they have suddenly slipped away, […]