• Midpoints – tracking the connections

      Midpoints add a layer of understanding to the complexities of the birth chart and come in handy when birth times are suspect and houses difficult to establish with accuracy. Transits to midpoints fill in gaps when standard transits lack vital information. In Donald Trump’s case where the natal chart is backed by his birth certificate, the midpoints still shine a spotlight, magnifying certain elements of his temperament and character. His 12th house Pluto is an indicator of
  • India Pakistan ahead – stressed Mars

    India and Pakistan share the same start date after the bloody partition in the late 1940s though with different times for their state’s foundation. But both have Mars at zero degrees Cancer which will be rattled by tr Saturn and Neptune late this month to the end of February, which suggests a setback, flare up and high anxiety. In India’s case with a 2nd house Mars there may be financial implications  with confusion about which is the best direction to take and what friends
  • Buddhist Walk for Peace – a catalyst for change?

    A group of Buddhist monks are over halfway along a 2,300-mile Walk for Peace from Texas to Washington DC, seeking to raise awareness of “peace, loving kindness and compassion”.  There are 18 monks, two of whom are following a Buddhist practice of never lying down during the three-month journey. One was injured in a car accident, had a leg amputated and is continuing by wheelchair. They stop at the capitol of each state they pass through, frequently drawing crowds of thousands of
  • Donald I, King of Greenland?

    By Alex Miller With asteroid Donn (15 Cancer) conjoined Jupiter (19 Cancer), arbiter of foreign policy and international relations, since late September 2025, it’s no surprise to find US President Donald Trump immersed in such matters (Jupiter also has affinities with immigration and aggrandizement, and Trump’s recent focus has extended to mass deportation and his […]
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  • Hugh Laurie – from buffoon to Blofeld

    Hugh Laurie is on top career form with two hit series on TV this week. He makes a surprise return as the ‘worst man in the world’ arms’ dealer Roper in the Night Manager 2 and as the nuclear inspector in Tehran on Apple TV. By any reckoning he has had the most extraordinary and varied career starting with the hapless Bertie Wooster alongside Stephen Fry,  the idiot Prince in Blackadder, onto a straight role as the grumpy genius Dr House which made him the highest earning t
  • Media porn – Mars split from Venus

     As anxieties soar about the state of the globe, the entertainment world amuses and distracts with the latest hit Heated Rivalry about two gay Canadian hockey players. Based on a best-selling trilogy of novels by Canadian Rachel Reid, a lifelong hockey fan who worried about homophobia in the sport, it has created a storm in its television adaptation. Described as “balls-to-the-wall erotic programming. While not hardcore porn, the show does go well beyond suggestion, with plenty o
  • New Zealand – hauling out of difficulties

    New Zealand has been on a long haul post-Covid with a punishing Pluto trail through its domestic 4th house across its Sun Mars in late Capricorn and square its Pluto which has now finished. Tr Pluto is moving to square the 6th house Uranus from mid February 2026 to late 2027 which suggests a definite shift out of a rut. It may be turbulent, bringing upheavals and forced change but it will pull away from an extraordinarily difficult past few years.17 January 1853 12 am Wellington NZ is the chart
  • The New Moon’s Energetic News: Capricorn –18 January 2026

    by Lynne Hyde The days have felt long and sloppy, yet they have been tricky, tedious and quick-moving. This Mutable Sagittarian Fire cycle with all its slippery slopes, filled with twists and turns, seems to have lasted forever. The ruling planet Jupiter’s expansive ways have overly stretched the fabric of our lives, and we are […]
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  • Julio Iglesias – a fateful accident

    Super-star singer of yesteryear Julio Iglesias is being investigated by Spanish judiciary over sexual assault allegations by two former workers.  He has been a household name in Spain since the 1960s and was established as a star in the English-speaking entertainment industry with his million selling 1984 album, which included the single “To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before“. He also covered “The Air That I Breathe.”   Born 23 September 1943 11.30 am M
  • EU ahead – forced into a radical rethink

      The EU is facing a troubled few years ahead with dashed hopes on the financial front, underhand secrets and dirty dealings exploding into the open, and severe perhaps existential challenges at the end of the decade. On the 31 December 1957 11pm Brussels chart, tr Pluto will square the 2nd house Neptune  through 2026/27 which will bring confusion, indecision and uncertainty – maybe even scandals since the EU Jupiter is conjunct the Neptune.  In 2026 as well the Solar A
  • Massive Protest in Iran

    By Alex Miller with Sue Kientz The mounting unrest in Iran, where millions have been demonstrating in the streets since 28 December, has escalated from its origins as a protest over record-high inflation, food prices, and currency depreciation, evolving into a broader movement demanding an end to the current regime, which has been in place […]
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  • Leaves from a Financial Astrologer’s Notebook: 2026 in Preview

    By Christeen Skinner The Earth, Moon and Sun are aligned and unusually close as the new year begins. Emotions could run high and recent news from Venezuela and Iran should not surprise. 2026 is set to be a year of turbulence. From the Sun’s entry into Aquarius on January 20th, through to 26th, I anticipate […]
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  • Jerome Powell – refusing to bow the knee

     Jerome Powell, head of the US Federal Reserve,  has said the criminal investigation into him is a pretext. “The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the president.” Trump has repeatedly attacked Powell, calling him a “stubborn mule” and a “numbskull” for declining to cut borrowing costs more aggres
  • Charlie Dalin – a legendary endurance test ++ women solo sailors with Pluto

    Away from tawdry politics, meltdown neurosis about the state of the world and flim flam celebrities, there is the inspiring and remarkable tale of Charlie Dalin, a French offshore sailor. Having been diagnosed with gastrointestinal cancer, he decided against the odds to compete in and won the Vendée Globe yacht race around the world last year. He took 64 days plus a few hours, beating the previous record by 9 days while taking immunotherapy pills.It is the world’s toughest solo, non
  • Charlie Dalin – a legendary endurance test

    Away from tawdry politics, meltdown neurosis about the state of the world and flim flam celebrities, there is the inspiring and remarkable tale of Charlie Dalin, a French offshore sailor. Having been diagnosed with gastrointestinal cancer, he decided against the odds to compete in and won the Vendée Globe yacht race around the world last year. He took 64 days plus a few hours, beating the previous record by 9 days while taking immunotherapy pills.It is the world’s toughest solo, non
  • Trump’s trusty wingmen – unravelling by 2028

      The two Trump henchmen, son-in-law Jared Kushner and son Donald Jnr, will be a better guide ahead since neither is likely to be tossed aside as other high-level appointees might be when/if they fall out of favour.   Donald Jnr, 31 December 1977, starts a long trail of transiting Neptune undermining his Venus in Capricorn from this June onwards and moving on to square his Sun in 2029/30. None of which looks successful or confident. His Solar Arc Uranus will conjunct his Venus for
  • Astrological prediction – optimism v pessimism

      Bias in astrological prediction is all-too-common and to a degree understandable but a hazard to keep in mind and avoid where possible. Since astrology points to a spectrum of possible and potential developments, there can never be absolute certainty about a definite outcome. There will be a range of likelihoods though the ‘mood music’ of the times can usually be described with a degree of accuracy.  ‘Difficult’ aspects often occur side by side with &lsqu
  • Iran on the brink – will people power win?

    Iran is in turmoil with widespread demonstrations which have happened before and been crushed with gunfire, arrests, imprisonment and torture but this time there is a sense that “it is different”. The 49 year repressive, theocratic dictatorship of the ‘beards’ under the present Ayatollah Khamenei may be crumbling and their collapse, analysts say, would be as consequential as the fall of the Berlin Wall.   Support is rallying round Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of
  • Australia – waving Saturn goodbye for now ++ AU settlement 1788 ++ Melbourne midnight chart

    Australia’s 2026 opened with catastrophic bushfires in Victoria and a climb down from PM Anthony Albanese in agreeing to a royal commission into last month’s shooting at Bondi Beach which targeted a Jewish festival and left 15 people dead. He had previously argued that reforms on gun ownership and hate speech, steps to tackle antisemitism and a review into intelligence and law enforcement agencies offered the quickest response. But following weeks of public pressure, he reversed his
  • Australia – waving Saturn goodbye for now ++ AU settlement 1788

    Australia’s 2026 opened with catastrophic bushfires in Victoria and a climb down from PM Anthony Albanese in agreeing to a royal commission into last month’s shooting at Bondi Beach which targeted a Jewish festival and left 15 people dead. He had previously argued that reforms on gun ownership and hate speech, steps to tackle antisemitism and a review into intelligence and law enforcement agencies offered the quickest response. But following weeks of public pressure, he reversed his
  • Australia – waving Saturn goodbye for now

    Australia’s 2026 opened with catastrophic bushfires in Victoria and a climb down from PM Anthony Albanese in agreeing to a royal commission into last month’s shooting at Bondi Beach which targeted a Jewish festival and left 15 people dead. He had previously argued that reforms on gun ownership and hate speech, steps to tackle antisemitism and a review into intelligence and law enforcement agencies offered the quickest response. But following weeks of public pressure, he reversed his
  • Canada 2026 – arguments and eruptions

    Prospects for Canada ahead point to intense, heated, at times bitter discussions ongoing from mid February 2026 on and off till late 2027 as tr Pluto opposes the Mercury. With tensions erupting from August 2026 into 2027 as tr Uranus in the financial 2nd squares the Mars on the cusp of the 6th house of employment, health and government workers. Relations with the USA, never great at the best of times, will have sinking moments and stressful times ahead which will run on into 2027 but nothin
  • Minneapolis shooting – twisting the truth

    The outrage over the Minneapolis shooting of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, a prize-winning poet and a hobby guitarist, by an immigration agent is likely to fester. Conflicting versions of the actualite have the Trump camp labelling her a domestic terrorist while city leaders claim she was there as a legal observer and onlookers say she was trying to get out of the way.It occurred on 7 January at 9.30am in Minneapolis with the overly excitable, exact Sun, Venus, Mars conjuncti
  • European Nations Rally to Ukraine

    By Alex Miller The Sun/Venus/Mars conjunction has done it again!  Manifestations of this Celestial Triple Threat have been wide and varied over the course of their extended sojourn together in the heavens, but rarely has the outcome been more welcome than in an agreement reached on January 6th, whereby France and the UK have committed […]
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  • Chevy Chase – blowing the chance to be better

    Actor Chevy Chase a once-loved, huge comedy star of the 1980s whose career sank under the weight of his addiction issues and reputation for rudeness is featured in a documentary made with his blessing titled I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not. Which just goes to show that the lack of self-awareness which damaged his standing is much as it ever was.   He was born 8 October 1943 8.19 am Manhattan, New York, and tells of an abusive upbringing in a much-remarried, upper c
  • Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen – spies and traitors

    Aldrich Ames, the most damaging CIA traitor in agency history who reportedly caused the deaths of at least 10 recruited CIA or allied intelligence agents, by handing their names to the Soviets for money, has died after 30 years in prison. He said financial troubles were partly what led him to spy as well as his acquired knack of compartmentalising his thinking after being in the spy and counterspy business for 31 years, usually as a State Department official while working undercover as a CIA ope
  • Katherine Ryan – a Cancerian dynamo

    Katherine Ryan, Canadian comedian, is continuing her roll of UK successes with First Born Daughter on Sky Comedy. Provocative and ballsy, she flaunts a feminine image, unusually for a stand up comedienne, with no holds barred on stories of her early sexual adventures and mistake of a first marriage. She is now settled with four children in the UK where her career took off. Born 30 June 1983 6.28pm Sarnia, Ontario, she has an 8th house Sun Mars conjunction in Cancer trine a mischievous Jupit
  • Trump over-reach – flying too near the sun ++ promises turning to dust ++ Exxon ‘uninvestable’

    “Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.”  Samuel Beckett“Follow me, or get out of my way.” George S. Patton“Tossing your rope before building a loop don’t ketch the calf.”  Cowboy proverb  Getting a handle on Trump’s vainglorious swagger about picking off Cuba, Mexico, Greenland, Colombia and attempting to reduce this blitzkrieg of a year-opener to manageable astrological proportions could hone down to Pluto Jupiter.
  • Trump over-reach – flying too near the sun ++ promises turning to dust

    “Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.”  Samuel Beckett“Follow me, or get out of my way.” George S. Patton“Tossing your rope before building a loop don’t ketch the calf.”  Cowboy proverb  Getting a handle on Trump’s vainglorious swagger about picking off Cuba, Mexico, Greenland, Colombia and attempting to reduce this blitzkrieg of a year-opener to manageable astrological proportions could hone down to Pluto Jupiter.
  • Trump over-reach – flying too near the sun

    “Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.”  Samuel Beckett“Follow me, or get out of my way.” George S. Patton“Tossing your rope before building a loop don’t ketch the calf.”  Cowboy proverb  Getting a handle on Trump’s vainglorious swagger about picking off Cuba, Mexico, Greenland, Colombia and attempting to reduce this blitzkrieg of a year-opener to manageable astrological proportions could hone down to Pluto Jupiter.
  • Heavenly Headlines – January

    The Sun, Venus, Mercury and Mars all in earthy Capricorn with Jupiter across in Cancer will make for a lively start to the New Year after the Full Moon on the 3rd has passed. Capricorn is known for indulgence and seeking out pleasure as well as being money minded and status conscious. Gradually after midmonth a transition to airy, chatty, detached Aquarius starts with Venus in the lead. Fun with friends and in group activities will be on the agenda though intense,  blocked and controll
  • May Britt – targeted by US racial prejudice

    May Britt, the blonde Swedish actress who in her Hollywood heyday starred in War and Peace, The Young Lions and The Blue Angel but found her career ended when she married entertainer Sammy Davis Jnr has died at 91. At that time nearly half of American states banned interracial marriage, which were not legalised nationwide until a 1967 Supreme Court decision. Even J.F.K was alarmed at their presence at a 1963 White House reception because he feared a political backlash if he was viewed as en
  • Bulgarians Protest Government, Forcing Resignations

    By Sue Kientz With all that’s going on in the world, you may have missed the startling news last month, that in Europe, just a few weeks of peaceful protest in Bulgaria caused its Prime Minister and his entire government to resign in response. The reason so many took to the streets was the release […]
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  • David Bowie – a Capricorn rebel

    David Bowie has been graced with a documentary about his final years a decade after his death in January 2016 from liver cancer. Regarded as one of the most influential musicians ever, he constantly reinvented himself, being dubbed the “chameleon of rock”. And he influenced more musical genres than any other rock star, from glam rock, folk rock and hard rock, to electronic, industrial rock and synth-pop, to hip hop and indie rock as well as fashion. He “brought sophistication t
  • Venezuela – the spoils of war may turn sour

    With a midheaven on his Gemini Sun Trump gave the order to extract Maduro at 10.46pm on January 2nd. When the mission landed at 2.01 am the midheaven was conjunct his secretive, duplicitous and double-dealing 12th house Pluto. The swampy and ill-starred Neptune Saturn Scheat in late Pisces was prominent in both; and Uranus conjunct the destructive Fixed star Algol was also in play.  His intention is to take over the country’s oil production for America’s benefit and to control t
  • Trump Takes Over Venezuela

    By Sue Kientz In the early hours of January 3, 2026,(1) U.S. military forces descended on Caracas, Venezuela, in an operation ordered by U.S. President Donald Trump to capture and remove Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, along with his wife. The strike comes after months of pressure from Trump on Maduro, with Trump accusing Maduro of […]
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  • Venezuela – a US smash and grab mission ++ Oil chart

      The US has attacked Venezuela and captured President Nicolas Maduro and his wife.  Attorney General Pam Bondi says he has been indicted in New York on drugs and weapons charges and  Secretary of State Marco Rubio anticipates no further action against Venezuela. Reports say that Maduro earlier this week wanted to reach a deal with Trump, which would have given him immunity from prosecution, allowed him to keep his vast wealth and significantly would allow the US to access Venezue
  • Venezuela – a US smash and grab mission

      The US has attacked Venezuela and captured President Nicolas Maduro and his wife.  Attorney General Pam Bondi says he has been indicted in New York on drugs and weapons charges and  Secretary of State Marco Rubio anticipates no further action against Venezuela. Reports say that Maduro earlier this week wanted to reach a deal with Trump, which would have given him immunity from prosecution, allowed him to keep his vast wealth and significantly would allow the US to access Venezue
  • Epstein, the end – another smokescreen

    In death as in life and the aftermath Jeffrey Epstein has/had an intriguing way of casting a sinister and lingering smokescreen over events. His misdeeds earned him a brief holiday-camp prison sentence. His legacy has left a swirling cloud of suspicion but as yet only the hapless (and unpleasant) Ghislaine has been nailed. And his death in odd circumstances has led to myriad conspiracy theories – was it suicide or murder or is he not dead at all? I am allergic to conspiracy theories,
  • China 2026 – banking panic

    China having pushed the Trump-tariff offensive to one side without blinking, is surrounding Taiwan in a simulation blockade and talking up China’s future role in global governance. Xi’s third five-year term of office expires in 2027 and he has given no hint that he has any intention to step down. The policy ahead seems to be relying on its export-led growth model in steel making and toy manufacturing and also future technologies, such as robotics and artificial intelligence.But
  • Swiss Bar Fire on New Year’s Eve Kills Dozens

    By Alex Miller 2026 got off to a tragic start in Crans-Montana, a Swiss ski resort, where a New Year celebration took a deadly turn, sparking a fire that killed upwards of 40 people, with an additional 115 wounded.  At about 1:30 AM CET, patrons at Le Constellation, a popular regional bar in Switzerland’s Sierre […]
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  • Switzerland fire – Solar eclipse pointers

    The Switzerland night club fire has claimed at least 40 lives with over a hundred injured, many with third degree burns, though it could take days or even weeks to be sure of the numbers.  It broke out at 1.30am in Crans, Switzerland, on January 2026 with Jupiter in Cancer conjunct the Midheaven (as was the case for 9/11) indicating the expansive planet’s propensity for turning up at disasters as well as successes. There was a high vitality Sun, Mars, Venus in Capricorn which suited a
  • Tiger Woods – a sporting challenge

    Tiger Woods has turned 50 still recovering from multiple injuries sustained in two car crashes, and a recently  ruptured Achilles tendon plus his seventh back surgery last year to replace a disk in his lower back that caused pain and mobility issues. He hasn’t said whether he intends to play on the Senior PGA Tour. Last month he said he had only recently started putting and chipping and wasn’t close to being able to take full swings. In the 2021 car crash, he had multiple &
  • Timothee Chalamet – a man of the moment

    Timothee Chalamet, the French-American actor is omnipresent starting the year with a well-reviewed Bob Dylan biopic and finishing up with an Oscar-worthy Marty Supreme based in the life of Marty Mauser, a showman in the high-octane world of competitive table tennis. The character is described as ‘a shameless, entitled, arrogant, selfish and juvenile Wheaties box aspirant’ which the film director says is close to Chalamet’s personality. Currently squiring Kylie Jenner, he has al
  • Israel and the Middle East – rolling turmoil

      The endless turmoil of the Middle East rolls on as Iran escalates tensions with threats of nuclear responses and Israel maintains conflicts on several fronts with Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria, and Hamas in Gaza – and allows/promotes 19 new West Bank settlements. Netanyahu is in Mar-a-Lago for Trump talks as the US administration is becoming increasingly frustrated with slow progress towards Phase 11 of the Gaza peacefire which involves disarming Hamas and putting in an internation
  • Sex Kitten Brigitte Bardot Dead at 91

    By Alex Miller One-time global sex symbol Brigitte Bardot passed away on 28 December 2025 at her Saint-Tropez home in France, at the age of 91.  In her heyday of the ‘50s and ‘60s, Bardot was acknowledged as the epitome of feminine pulchritude and sex appeal, making some four dozen films, often scantily clad.  Bardot […]
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  • Brigitte Bardot – freedom to offend

    France is in mourning as the legendary Brigitte Bardot dies  at 91. With eerie timing she leaves the stage as Neptune slides out of Pisces, as many female icons have done before at the changing of the sign. France with a final degree Virgo Sun is also dissolving under tr Neptune and Scheat in opposition to its Sun exactly now.  Bardot brought raw sexuality to the screen and her life with multiple well publicised affairs. Paris Match described her as “immoral, from head to toe&rdq
  • Russia 2026 – Uranus Mars flare ups ahead

    “History does not repeat itself but often rhymes.”Actually it can repeat , though on occasion it provides a new slant on old patterns. Russia on the verge of a Saturn Neptune conjunction which oversaw the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 (in first half Leo) and again when Stalin died in 1953 with Saturn Neptune conjunct in late Libra shows no obviously signs of an imminent convulsion. But hopes are running high of a shift in direction. The Russia 8 December 1991 7.45pm chart does po
  • Holly & Adam wedding – empty seats ++ Caroline Peaty ++ Brooklyn and David

    “I have always thought of Christmas time… as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.” Charles Dickens.   Except when celebrity families fall out with new spouses opening up rifts with the previous generation, seized on with glee by the tabloid press. Olympian swimmer Adam Peaty today married Holly Ramsay daughter of the restaurateur Gordon Ramsay, with his family not present after a much publicised split. In attendance were David and Victoria
  • Holly & Adam wedding – empty seats ++ Caroline Peaty

    “I have always thought of Christmas time… as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.” Charles Dickens.   Except when celebrity families fall out with new spouses opening up rifts with the previous generation, seized on with glee by the tabloid press. Olympian swimmer Adam Peaty today married Holly Ramsay daughter of the restaurateur Gordon Ramsay, with his family not present after a much publicised split. In attendance were David and Victoria

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