Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, does things in a big way. Presently retrograde in Pisces it tends to do floods, tsunamis and large scale water displacement, leaving humans no option but to go with the flow…

ARIES: As this week’s Pandora’s box of raw feelings come bubbling to the surface for resolution, emotions could turn positively atomic. Complicated too, and you know how that gives you a headache, so forget brat Ram and access your inner adult. Benefits? Emotional rejuvenation and heightened insight.

For anyone suffering from friggatriskaidekaphobia, fear of Friday the 13th, this week’s Mars, Venus and Saturn in Libra bring love to town – the heart’s classic antidote to fear…

‘Never had any trouble with politicians when I was up the Zambezi,’ said Bosworth, observing the sunlight through his beaker of absinthe. ‘Local chieftain soon found a spot for them among his shrunken head collection.’

Danish-born Jakob Leschly, Buddhist teacher and Tibetan translator, embarked on the spiritual nomad’s path at 17, receiving instruction for the next 35 years from the Dalai Lama and a luminary cast of Tibetan lamas, most notably the Dalai Lama’s own spiritual teacher, His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, with whom Jakob studied for sixteen years in India, Nepal and France, and travelling as his attendant in Bhutan.

Knight And Day
I’ll give you the drum – it can sometimes match the labours of Hercules trying to think of anything, anything at all, to write about a movie such as this. It’s not in the least bit interesting. Adopting a zero tolerance approach to the intelligence of their clientele and driven by the insatiable needs of their stars’ egos, the producers have scoured the fathomless depths of celebrity worship to discover that there is no end to the sunken treasure of inane crapola that is the gold standard of popular culture.

ARIES:  Jupiter joining Uranus retrograde in Aries suggests financial surprises of the not entirely delightful kind, making graceful negotiation essential this week – we’re talking the arts of seductive requests, non-sulking compliance and humorous conflict resolution.  And now the egos have landed, keeping yours on a short leash.

ARIES:  While objectivity mightn’t come easily, this week needs Aries focusing on long range preparations for their future.  With all the intense changes happening, it’s especially important to make your home and work bases places of fun and comfort, love and creativity.

It is not the Heartbreak Hotel, but at least it is making an effort in the sadness stakes.
In a shadowy cul-de-sac in an out of the way section of Brunswick Heads squats the Café Down or, more correctly, Café Of A Down. It is surrounded by peeling weatherboard boarding houses and verges of withered grass.

This week celebrates the 75th birthday of Cancerian Nobel Peace Prize winner His Holiness the Dalai Lama, indefatigable advocate of kindness in our warring world and Cancerian Buckminster Fuller who observed:
Either war is obsolete or people are…

ARIES: Uranus the planet of surprises retrograding in Aries this week (followed by Jupiter later in the month) swirls flux and ferment into your world, so give plenty of thought to how you can act wisely on your own behalf – perhaps even using that most primal of prayers: Help!

Love is a torn rag doll abandoned in the gutter of dreams. At least this was the impression Abbotsleigh was giving me as he snuffled into his scrambled eggs. We were having a late breakfast at the Tyagarah Entertainment Centre Wetland Restaurant, only a croissant’s throw from the scene of Abbotsleigh’s disappointment of the night before.