Madame Zombra

Not just an eclipse

Hello, ducks! Not to take anything away from the total solar eclipse April 8 this year, but we have other astrological events coming as well. And I’ll be taking one of these topics per column and expounding … er, explaining more about its effects on your Sun Sign and occurrences in general. You’ll recall Pluto […]

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Beat Pluto to the punch

Pluto, from NASA’s website (with copyright free images for general usage) – visit this fascinating photo archive soon. Ordinarily, I don’t advise a pugilistic approach to problems. But in the case of Pluto’s very recent shift into Aquarius from Capricorn, and all of the collected astrological lore about it being the planet of Destruction and

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Excellent advice

“Astrology is a fact, in most instances. But astrological aspects are but signs, symbols. No influence is of greater value or of greater help than the will of an individual…. Do not attempt to be guided by, but use the astrological influences as the means to meet or to overcome the faults and failures, or

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Why astrology?

People have frequently asked me why I study astrology (at my advanced age, they imply) or what led me to do so in the first place. My answer is always some variation on the refrain: “I wanted to understand why people act as they do, or think the way they do.” And that answer has

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Monday Musings

Hello, duckies! It’s your favorite ancient astrologer, Madame Zombra, clicking in at a different time and date. Not just to confuse you – no, indeed, that will happen soon enough as our little friend Mercury goes retrograde on (appropriately enough) December 13 – but to try a different tack. (And be of good cheer –

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