Author: MANDI LOCKLEY

  • Gary Oldman – From Sid Vicious to Winston Churchill via Count Dracula

    Gary Oldman – From Sid Vicious to Winston Churchill via Count Dracula

    This is Gary Oldman’s time, receiving universal praise for his role as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour and picking up Best Actor awards at the Oscars, Golden Globes and BAFTAs, to name just a few. Darkest Hour tells how World War II British Prime Minister Churchill changed history by making the decision, with the odds stacked against…

  • Weinstein and the Anaretic Degree

    Weinstein and the Anaretic Degree

    The film industry was rocked by allegations in the New York Times on 5th October 2017 that producer and studio executive Harvey Weinstein had been sexually harassing young women, mostly actresses, for decades. Following the first wave of accusations, on October 8th, he was fired from his own business, The Weinstein Company. He was also…

  • Working with Eclipses

    Working with Eclipses

    You might have noticed that there was a total Solar Eclipse recently across the USA! It certainly got a lot of attention, not least amongst the online astrology community, where it was the subject of many predictions, most of them related to the US President. But did you know that there are at least two…

  • Synastry – shining a light on the Sun

    Synastry – shining a light on the Sun

    Have you ever wondered why you get along easily with some people, but struggle to find a rapport with others? In astrology, the study of relationship compatibility is called synastry, or chart comparison. The Sun in our chart represents our source of energy and how we use it. By sign, house position and aspect, the…

  • What is astrology?

    What is astrology?

    Any astrologer will tell you that a horoscope can be drawn up for absolutely anything, births, deaths, weddings, funerals, natural disasters, the founding of a new company, the time the polls opened on the day of a general election, even the opening of a packet of crisps. Each of these horoscopes will have something useful…

  • Emotional Maturity: The Secondary Progressed Moon Cycle

    Emotional Maturity: The Secondary Progressed Moon Cycle

    When we look at the night sky, the most beautiful and magical thing we see is surely our Moon. Night by night we follow its phases from dark and new to bright and full, then back again, as it revolves around our Earth. Its ebb and flow cycle of approximately 27-28 days informs the tides,…