Author Archives: PhyllisHill

It is not unusual to have strong feelings about a public figure, think of musicians or actors who capture your heart, or politicians who stoke your ire. You don’t know them, but they are in your life. Such was the gentle voice and clear vision of the British podcast creator and presenter, David Knowles, whoContinue reading “Unexpected Death – Pluto”

Each of us is born into history; the birth chart its imprint. Circumstances shape our bodies, ideas, attachments, hopes and fears; so we begin, gradually gaining knowledge and losing innocence. A sense of history grows as we do. About twenty years on, we enter the greater narrative, swept up or muddling through our own trajectory.Continue reading “Four Presidents, one former”

Until 13 March 1781 the farthest planet visible to human eyes was Saturn, which marked the Threshold. Beyond it lay the starry infinite, realm of the the divine. Human beings are restless, curious, and persistent. Picture a small back garden at dusk in the city of Assembly Halls, Bath. The brother, a musician, heads outContinue reading “Uranus: discovery, collaboration, opposition”

Those of us who did not watch Ukrainian sitcoms during the endless machinations of the prior American administration cannot help but be surprised to discover that a popular Ukrainian comic actor (and excellent dancer) – playing an ordinary history teacher, fed up with governmental corruption, vaulted to political office by a stealth video of anContinue reading “Servant of the People: a leader with fewer tanks, if any”

It is impossible to ignore the shattering events in eastern Europe these last few weeks. Vladimir Putin, isolated autocrat animated by a ‘Lost Cause’ narrative, sent in the tanks, missiles and an apparently under prepared army, to subdue a large independent nation with a popular democratically elected government. He had his reasons. They were presentedContinue reading “Out of the Shadow, with Tanks: a tale of two leaders”

“As Above, So Below” …four short words capture the foundational insight of astrology: heavenly activity and human experience are in meaningful relation to each other. The Astrologer studies planetary bodies in motion against a starry backdrop, the astronomy above. Here below, linking those patterns to individual and collective life, forming a coherent narrative, arises byContinue reading “Pluto”

Is that a problem? Mercury, as he was known to the Romans, Hermes to the Greeks, is the messenger of the Gods, a traveler and trickster. All activities of the intellect, of communication, barter and exchange – the list of mercurial activities is long – belong to Mercury. Smallest of the planets, closest to theContinue reading “Mercury Retrograde”

A modest note on meaningful moments: this website was launched 29 September 2021 and while an entirely new form for me, it came when the time was right. Relentless curiosity, a desire to teach and learn nearly everything, to take in the ‘Big Picture,’ is no surprise when one is born with Mercury in Aquarius,Continue reading “29 September”