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Earth Day

It was Earth Day yesterday (April 22nd).

A few years ago I established a Facebook page called Green Ideas

The idea was simply to propagate environmental solutions without activism of any kind.

The global polarity we are currently living through does not, it seems to me, render minds receptive to new ideas through challenge.

But the fact remains that ideas are contagious.

I admit to having left Green Ideas to its own devices only posting infrequently myself. But now there are more than 200 members internationally and one member in particular, an actress with whom I had the pleasure of appearing in Our Town, has taken a great interest and has contributed substantially by posting frequently.

Cast and Crew of Our Town @ Palm Beach Dramaworks 2014. Char Plotsky 2nd row, second from right! Private collection.

Big thanks and big love to Char Plotsky!

It remains my view that the bees and the butterflies are in need of help and protection, that renewable energy will come because it must come, and above all we cannot wait for the politicians to catch up.

Please share/join/plant a tree!

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Substack

All kinds of interesting stuff over there!

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New online stuff

As I continue to morph from actor to astrologer, I’ve started two new social media accounts.

One is BlueSky, as I understand it, the thinking person’s alternative to what used to be Twitter – find me there – @colinmcphillamy.bsky.social – short form posts

And then a weekly longer post at substack, find me there: @colinmcphillamy3

Please take a look!

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Interesting Reading

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

1984 by George Orwell

The Space Merchants by Frederic Pohl and C M Kornbluth

Childhood’s End by Arthur C Clarke

Shikasta by Doris Lessing

Quantum Physics for Dummies by Andrew Zimmerman Jones

The Constitution of The United States of America

Each of these titles has something to offer in terms of what is happening on the world stage. To me, the first three seem especially prophetic.

Then we enter the wonderful world of sci-fi. The late Dame Doris Lessing says that sci-fi writers are to literature as illegitimate children are to families.

And I put Quantum physics for Dummies in there because I tried to read it when we did Copenhagen ⎯ Chris Oden, Beth Dimon and I ⎯ I struggled through about 4 pages ⎯ but I did get the incredible insight that a particle can also be a wave, and that has been a comfort ever since.

The Constitution is something I’ve dipped into, and am now resolved to read it properly before it’s too late.

And to these literary offerings I now add my own long form blog at Substack

As posted elsewhere, I’ve been following Richard Hester’s excellent “Posts from the Upper West Side” for quite some time ⎯ this actor blog doesn’t seem quite the right venue for actor/astrologer narrative, but I think Substack could be. Rather than re-post my first entry here ⎯ well, just click the link if you are interested!

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AstroBard

For some time now I’ve been wondering whether to, and if so, how to, combine my twin (I have a Gemini Moon) professional interests, namely astrology and acting.

Image by Betidraws from Pixabay

Well, a lovely opportunity has presented itself, and there’s just no way to say no when the stars line up like this. For the astro-curious transiting Uranus in my 9th, together with progressed Saturn in the 4th were the main players in the deal.

Cutting to the chase, on the 1st and 2nd of March I will join Lindsay Gladstone and Deborah Morgan in presenting a weekend workshop in midtown Manhattan. The theme is Weaving a Better World through the exploration of how storytelling, mythology and the astrology in Shakespeare connect with your personal astrological chart.

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Both Deborah and Lindsay are known to me as highly experienced and accomplished astrologers, I have studied with both of them via The Faculty of Astrological Studies in the UK.

I will be exploring the Shakespeare factor in all this. I’ve mentioned before in this blog how reading Priscilla Costello’s book Shakespeare and the Stars has opened the window on this amazing dimension.

Another book I heartily recommend is Elizabeth Winkler’s Shakespeare was a Woman and Other Heresies. Not only is it a well researched informative volume, it is also delightfully subversive when she comes up against the Shakespeare Establishment.

All that aside here is a brief promo video for actors and astrologers alike as well as storytellers, mythologists and anybody who would enjoy an enchanted sprinkle in NYC at the beginning of March 2025!

Please forward this to anyone who might be interested.

To book a spot, email: Heather.Rocco@gmail.com – bring your birth chart to the workshop – if you don’t have one, include your birth details when you email Heather – that is: Date and Location and Time if you know it.