Graham Ibell
The Footprints of Gemini - revelations of a ...

In this short piece, using Gemini as a case study, I explore how the essence of a Zodiac sign’s symbol - the twins for Gemini, the lion for Leo etc - can reveal itself so significantly in a biography. And I put my support behind the Sun as not only the key overseeing of individuation but of humanity’s spiritual evolution.

The Footprints of Gemini - revelations of a Zodiac symbol
Graham Ibell
Comet ZTF

Comet ZTF, first appear only in the Northern Hemisphere earlier in the year, has recently moved in the part of the heavens visible from much of the Southern. In this short post I share a little on its location in the evening skies and some thoughts and links on comets in astrology.

Comet ZTF
Graham Ibell
Madge Hill, Outsider Artist: an astrological ...

From my recent time in Switzerland I became acquainted with a genre of art referred to as ‘Outsider Art’, or Art Brut. I found the works confronting, exciting, compelling, intriguing, sometimes beautiful, and almost always touching. Given the number of these artists creating out of mental torture from within asylums or psychiatric institutions after often excruciating starts to their lives  I was fascinated by implications: who defines ‘normal’ or ‘inside’ (as opposed to ‘outside’)? Is the impulse (and therefore perhaps all art?) Self-generated ‘healing’ or self-soothing? If so, could it lead to ‘cure’? How might the average person, less troubled than these, learn from this? What might we learn from their horoscopes?

Madge Hill, Outsider Artist: an astrological exploration
Graham Ibell
A proposed birth chart for Klaus Schwab, ...

After a lot of research and exploration I have come up with a birth time for Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum from a short list of key biographical dates. I invite you to work with the chart and offer feedback as to how you find it works.

A proposed birth chart for Klaus Schwab, Founder of the World Economic Forum
Graham Ibell
Transmission Gully road revisited
Transmission Gully road revisited

Peace Initiatives

Parihaka - Has Its Time Come?

Parihaka - Has Its Time Come?

Today marks the 137th anniversary of the invasion by government troops of the Maori settlement of Parihaka, in Taranaki, New Zealand. A community established in 1865, towards the end of the second Taranaki land war, it consisted of people from all over Taranaki and beyond who were dispossessed of their land. It attracted those who chose to come together to live in an intentionally peaceful community to resist further land confiscation. Since then this small, physically isolated village has become a potent symbol of peaceful resistance in the face of aggressive domination. It could be considered a profound New Zealand equivalent of the more widely-known Gandhian non-violent action against oppression.

In this long post I explore the fascinating astrology of this terrible event, and the current possibilities for redemption.