October 2009

Halloween is My Favourite Day

29 October 2009

I love Halloween. As a child it was my favourite time apart from Christmas and in some ways it still is. It was exciting dressing up and going out in the night with a group of other kids, collecting tons of repulsive sweets that would rot our teeth. (If Candy Corn isn’t the work of [...]

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Saturn Square Pluto: the last quarter

16 October 2009

At the end of this month Saturn will enter Libra and immediately square Pluto in Capricorn. To get some sense of what this might bring it may be helpful to look at it as a part of a larger cycle. All planets have cycles in which they go around the zodiac and return to their [...]

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Words are Important – Use Them Well

3 October 2009

When I saw the first BBC news report of the death of Natalie Portman, the young girl who died immediately following vaccination with Cervarix, the anti-papillomavirus vaccine, what really jarred, apart from the tragedy of it, was this: The reporter talked about the ‘vaccine that protects against cervical cancer. Wherever this topic comes up in [...]

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