PIETY | Techno-Notice

DAN THE MAN HAS a plan… But do we think he can?  No phone, PC, TV or Xbox for seven days to raise money for the UK Autism Foundation and prove wrong his network of incredulous technophiles!  Roguemusic.co.uk finds out more! After posing my plan, of going one week without my phone, to my facebook [...]

ASTROLOGY | Technical Difficulties

Today the Sun joins a retrograde Mercury in Virgo, so I’d like to wish a very happy birthday to any Virgo natives reading this, it should be an interesting month for you all! Be patient however, birthday cards may very well get lost in the post. Or that new phone may need to be sent [...]

ASTROLOGY | Spring-on Mars

Welcome to the Equinox! Today is officially the first day of spring! When day and night are of equal length, which also marks the beginning of another astrological year with the sun slipping from dreamy Pisces into the more focused sign of Aries. Mars, ruler of Aries, goes direct after months of retrograde motion too. [...]

ASTROLOGY | Back and Forth. (Again!)

  How’s the current Mercury Retrograde treating you all?… That bad, eh? Have you noticed how Mr. Iceland bank person was reticent when it came to signing that compensation document? He’s now changed his mind! In true retrograde (Rx) fashion. I think perhaps he should have waited until this current phase was over, lest he [...]

THINK TANK | The Moaning of Life

“Just before a baby is born, an angel shows it everything there is to knowand learn on Earth. Then at the moment of birth, the angel touches the infant’s upper lip, and the child forgets everything. We spend the rest of our lives remembering” Or so the story goes according to www.themeaningoflife.org THERE ARE MANY [...]

ASTROLOGY | Let Me See Your WAR Face!

Mars changed zodiac sign last Friday, moving from Cancer into Leo.  Rogue’s astrologer guides us through the twists and turns of the months ahead! Yes, the god of war has dried himself off and is back in more familiar territory – albeit still feeling slightly washed-up but happier nevertheless to be ashore once again, basking [...]

Don’t forget your CHIP & PIN!

Lunch time, Monday 11 May 2009, for all its routine niceties; Red Leicester and tomato sandwich, salt ‘n’ vinegar crisps and a water, came with a hint of realisation. Not something you can sprinkle on sliced, fried potato, bag-up and win a prize for, mind. But certainly a familiar flavour of months passed. I’d wandered [...]

Rogue astrology vol.4 – Fish McNuggets

Rogue’s astrologer, Dan returns to see us through the final slice of the astrological year! Thursday 19th Feb 2009 – Welcoming Pisces! In terms of the zodiac, today is the beginning of a new month. Indeed the astro-geeks calendar would read ‘Thursday the 1st of Pisces’.  Happy Birthday to any fishes celebrating their birthday today (and hereafter) and [...]

Rogue astrology vol.3 2009 – From out of the rubble

Lets face it, just because a season is supposedly ‘Jolly’ by default it doesn’t guarantee it will be. Of course, you know this. So we all did hopefully try and make the best of wrapping up this frightful year’s end; given all the trauma of the last quarter. Its fast becoming a cliche to even [...]

Mercury Retrograde – Retrospective

Our occasional astrology columnist Mysterious Dan returns with a celestial insight into what lies ahead for the coming months. 24 September – 16 October 2008, Libra In spite of the pervading sense of ‘bad press’ astrology’s yearly hat-trick begets, these tri-annual celestial sojourns can be most enlightening to the earnest astrologer and an eye opener [...]