• Russell Brand – washing away the past

    Russell Brand, broadcaster, comedian and actor, who was baptized in the River Thames last year proclaiming it was an opportunity to leave the past behind, has been charged with two further offences including one count of rape and a charge of sexual assault relating to two women. He has previously pleaded not guilty to five charges including two counts of rape, two counts of sexual assault and one count of indecent assault in relation to four women. He is due in court on 20 January 2026 in relati
  • Chris Rea – luck and adversity

    Chris Rea, English rock and blues singer-songwriter known for his distinctive gravelly voice and slide guitar playing and for Driving Home for Christmas has died. He preferred to see himself as “an ordinary bloke from the grass roots, with a craggy, lived-in face, singing about life”.  He was born 4 March 1951 in Middlesborough and what leaps out of his chart is a mix of hardship with rolling crises alongside soaring confidence and good luck.  Throughout his life he had ser
  • Neptune round up – pluses and minuses

    Neptune, planet of bliss and brutality, creativity and duplicity, is nearing the final stretches of its fourteen year home run in its own sign Pisces. Previous such phases oversaw great epic poetry from several cultures – Persian, Tamil, Hindi, Provencal Troubadours, T’ang Dynasty, German; as well as the establishment of major hospitals.  Mathematics also figured – Fibonacci and Isaac Newton were both at their peak under a Neptune in Pisces. Exploration flourished –
  • Age of Pisces – divine love and inhumane cruelty

    Christianity is the world’s leading religion with Islam a close second. Both beliefs came into effect during the 2000- year Age of Pisces. Jesus, whom adherents see as the Son of God who rose from the dead after his crucifixion and was the messiah (Christ) prophesied in the Old Testament.  He was born supposedly around the turn of the new millenia, with the bright star guiding the wise men to his birth being taken by some as the Jupiter Saturn conjunction of 7 BC. But there are a legi
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  • David Walliams – super successful, then not

    David Walliams, one of the UK’s most successful children’s authors, with 40 books to his credit that have sold 60 million copies and £100m in sales, widely used in schools and translated into 55 languages has been dropped by his publisher, HarperCollins, for alleged inappropriate behaviour towards young women. He has been a successful TV personality and comedian as well, though in 2022 reports emerged that he had made derogatory remarks about contestants on Britain’s Got
  • Brown University shooting – after effects linger

    The shooting of an MIT physics professor at his home two days after two economics students were gunned down at Brown University, Rhode Island  has ended with the suspected gunman found dead from self-inflicted gunshot wounds.  The assumption is that the shooter, Carlos Valente, 22 January 1977, Torres Novas, Portugal, had been a fellow student years before of Nuno Loureiro, the professor he killed, but their paths had diverged since then with one successful, the other not. Valente had
  • Viola Ford Fletcher – reliving the Tulsa Massacre

    The last survivor of the Tulsa Massacre, the single worst incident of racial violence in American history which occurred in 1921, has died aged 111. Viola Ford Fletcher gave evidence to Congress in 2021 on the 100th anniversary of the white supremacist attack on a prosperous Black community known as Black Wall Street, destroying hundreds of Black-owned businesses, churches and homes. 10,000 were left homeless and bodies were tossed into the muddy Arkansas River or dumped into mass graves, making
  • Ban on female mutilation dubbed neocolonial

    Inconceivable and witless even by today’s standards of reality-twisting – the Journal for Medical Ethics no less has printed a 9000 word essay from global academics proclaiming that objections to female genital mutilation are misplaced. It claims that laws banning FGM are “stigmatising” towards migrant communities and global efforts to end FGM are based on “racialised stereotypes” and “western sensationalism”. Neo-colonial is bandied about; with a
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  • Bill Clinton – a selective spotlight

    Leaving aside the Trump-friendly redactions and omissions in the latest partial Epstein file dump, Bill Clinton does not come out of it well – and not just because it is a skewed hit job on the Democrats. Born 19 August 1946 8.51am Hope, Arizona, he has a Leo Sun square an intense and pleasure-seeking 8th house Taurus Moon. His late Leo Sun is conjunct Alphard Sun which is said to convey power and authority but tending to suffer through own acts and from enemies. Loss of honour. Other
  • Fate and freewill – can you avoid your destiny?

    Can you sidestep fate? Is the course of events in our life predetermined? The imponderable question for astrologers.   In Greek mythology, the Moirai or  Fates, were three sisters – the spinner, the allotter and the inevitable. Freewill was not an ancient concept. But the modern mind rejects a pre-ordained ‘destiny’ as a concept. In so far as it is considered at all, the general view is that individuals make their own choices.  Below is a collection of rando
  • Happy Holidays from ANS!

    By Alex Miller As 2025 draws to a close, people the world over are celebrating holidays, from Christmas to Hannukah, Kwanza to Yule, most focused in one way or another on the Winter Solstice in the northern hemisphere.  As the time of greatest darkness, but heralding the gradual return of the light, the Winter Solstice […]
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  • Carlos Alcaraz – Uranus throws a thunderbolt

    Carlos Alcaraz, ranked No 1 in men’s tennis single, has astonished the sporting world by splitting from his coach Juan Carlos Ferrero who has nurtured him since 2018 through all six of his Grand Slam titles. There are no clear reasons given and Ferrero clearly did not want the separation. Alcaraz, born 5 May 2003 3am Murcia, Spain, comes from a tennis playing family, with some suggestions his father may have been behind the split. Alcaraz has a quick witted 3rd house Taurus Sun and Me
  • Winter Solstice – look back, look forward

    The Winter Solstice marking the ingress of the Sun into Capricorn on December 21st in the northern hemisphere is the shortest day and longest night. Since prehistoric times it has been a significant time of year in many cultures, marked by festivals and rites. Ancient monuments such as Newgrange, Stonehenge, and Cahokia Woodhenge are aligned with the sunrise or sunset on the winter solstice. Capricorn associated with Janus, the Roman god, is two faced – not duplicitous, but looking ba
  • Susie Wiles – tripping over niceties

    Susie Wiles, Trump’s chief of staff, has been wrong-footed when her bizarrely outspoken comments about senior members of the administration were published in Vanity Fair. Her lame excuse was she thought her conversations were for a book, and didn’t expect the writer to quote her so extensively. Despite rapid denials and the usual obfuscations from the White House, the conversations appear to be on the record. Vance she dubbed a conspiracy theorist whose conversion to MAGA was politic
  • The New Moon’s Energetic News:  Sagittarius

    By Lynne Hyde We are leaving the intense time of Scorpio and its insistent message of death. Friends around us have come to our doors with new ailing health diagnoses; neighbors are missing who used to be seen daily in their yards; and precious, beloved relatives have had the last sip of life slip out […]
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  • Shooting at Brown University

    By Sue Kientz Another American school shooting has tragically happened, this time at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, on December 13, 2005. At approximately 4:05 p.m.(1) during an economics class review, a masked perpetrator in dark clothes entered the room and shot at 11 students, killing two and injuring nine. As of this writing, […]
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  • Rob Reiner – Hollywood in shock ++ Trump delusional narcissism

      Renowned and popular director and actor Rob Reiner has been killed along with his wife, mother of his four children, in a suspected double homicide in Hollywood. He came to prominence as Mike “Meathead” on the CBS sitcom All in the Family in the 1970s, and appeared in Sleepless in Seattle, The First Wives Club, Primary Colors and The Wolf of Wall Street amongst others. He also directed When Harry Met Sally, A Few Good Men and The Shawshank Redemption amongst many others. 
  • Rob Reiner – Hollywood in shock

      Renowned and popular director and actor Rob Reiner has been killed along with his wife, mother of his four children, in a suspected double homicide in Hollywood. He came to prominence as Mike “Meathead” on the CBS sitcom All in the Family in the 1970s, and appeared in Sleepless in Seattle, The First Wives Club, Primary Colors and The Wolf of Wall Street amongst others. He also directed When Harry Met Sally, A Few Good Men and The Shawshank Redemption amongst many others. 
  • U.S. & Venezuela:  On the Path to War?

    By Alex Miller On 10 December 2025, the Trump administration upped its ante in the brewing conflict with Venezuela, when US Coast Guard forces seized an oil tanker in the Caribbean, ostensibly to disrupt illicit sales of sanctioned oil from both Venezuela and Iran.  Tensions between Washington and Caracas have escalated in the wake of […]
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  • Bondi Beach shooting – Jewish festival attacked ++ Nessus for vengeance and collective trauma

    At least 15 are dead from a shooting on Bondi beach, Australia when 1000 people were in attendance to mark the start of Hanukkah. The shooting occurred around 6.40 pm December 14th with explosive Uranus and destructive Algol in the 12th house  and Mars in excitable Sagittarius on the cusp of the subterranean 8th.  ** The asteroid Centaur Nessus was exactly on the Midheaven. According to Ben Belinsky while it is usually associated with deceit it also has a positive role, making us
  • Bondi Beach shooting – Jewish festival attacked

    At least 11 are dead from a shooting on Bondi beach, Australia when 1000 people were in attendance to mark the start of Hanukkah. The shooting occurred at 6pm December 14th with explosive Uranus and destructive Algol on the Ascendant and Mars in excitable Sagittarius in the subterranean 8th.    The publicity-attracting Mars in Sagittarius square Neptune in Pisces on the shooting chart was activating the recent late Virgo Solar Eclipse. That September Eclipse set for Bondi had
  • Australia Bans Children under 16 from using Cell Phone Apps

    By Sue Kientz At midnight on Wednesday, December 10, 2025, all across Australia, children under 16 years of age were locked out of many social media accounts, due to a law passed last year that aims to protect them from online threats and encourage them to spend more time off their cell phones.(1) There is […]
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  • Stanley Baxter – a talent for not being himself

    Stanley Baxter, the comic actor whose female impersonations in his lavish TV spectaculars attracted vast audiences, has died at 99. ‘His breadth of talent was unmatched – satirist, stand-up comedian, singer, dancer, impressionist, wit, poet, panto dame, dramatic actor, writer and choreographer.’ His shows at their height were watch by 14 million viewers and involved often up to 45 costume changes as he mimicked Shirley Bassey, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland and others. Made wit
  • FIFA – shooting themselves in the foot

    Football fans are up in arms about the “scandalous” ticket prices for the 2026 FIFA World Cup tournament in the USA, Canada and Mexico which are seven times more expensive than in the previous one in Qatar for the final. It will cost about £5,225 for a supporter to follow their team through to the final if they were to attend all eight matches in the cheapest ticket category. That rises to about £8,850 in the mid-price range, or £12,357 for the top tier.FIFA, 21 May
  • USA & Russia – not natural allies

    Trump rampages on like a bull on the loose threatening to break up the EU, stop bolstering Europe’s defences, cosy up to Russia and withdraw from NATO. As with many of his wild demands there is a nugget of sense in a sliver of them. Europe does need to step up on the defence front. But there are indications he is not carrying the support of senior Republican lawmakers with him. The Republican-led House and Senate Armed Services Committees weighed confirmed a defense policy bill reaffirming
  • John Candy – smiles hid inner troubles

    John Candy, much beloved star of Uncle Buck, Stripes, Splash , Brewster’s Millions, Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Cool Runnings has had a celebratory documentary made, thirty years after his death. Renowned for being helpful in real life as well as portraying likable and buoyant screen personalities, he had another side to him with self-admitted mental health problems with severe anxiety and panic attacks. He also had an obesity problem as well as an alcohol, cigarette and cocain
  • MI5 and the Titanic – Fixed stars of disruption

    The ghosts of the Irish Troubles continue to prowl with a report on the notorious British spy ‘Stakeknife’, believed to be the senior IRA member Freddie Scappaticci, who was the perpetrator of 14 murders and 15 abductions during the Troubles.The nine-year investigation was critical of the Army and the Security Services (MI5), finding that more lives were probably lost than saved through the operation of Stakeknife, who “committed grotesque, serious crime” including tortur
  • Ian Douglas Hamilton, Martin Parr, Sophie Kinsella

    An assortment of obituaries of dissimilar notables.  Ian Douglas Hamilton, protector of the African elephants, was born 16 August 1942 and dreamed as a child about saving animals. After an Oxford degree in zoology, he became the foremost expert on elephants and was the first to alert the world to the ivory poaching holocaust, bringing about the first global ivory trade ban in 1989. He had a Sun Leo close to his wounded healer Chiron, with a kindly Venus in Cancer sextile Neptune in Vir
  • Leaky Louvre

    By Alex Miller It’s been a difficult autumn for the Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum, hosting up to 10 million guests annually.  In October, brazen thieves used subterfuge to rob the museum in broad daylight, making away with $102 million in French Crown Jewels.  Now, the Louvre has sprung a leak, quite literally. On November […]
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  • Neptune or is it Pluto – inducing tunnel vision ++ WW11 Uranus in Gemini

    What is the astrological signature for blinkers? A narrowing field of vision that only encompasses a handful of talking points. The news is an endless repetition of Trump, Putin, Gaza, Ukraine and a few Royal flim flam distractions. In an individual, a shrinking world can signal depression but this seems to have infected the entire western culture. Uranus in innovative Gemini should have broadened not shrunk our perspective. Pluto in Aquarius in trine had been expected to add another layer
  • Neptune or is it Pluto – inducing tunnel vision

    What is the astrological signature for blinkers? A narrowing field of vision that only encompasses a handful of talking points. The news is an endless repetition of Trump, Putin, Gaza, Ukraine and a few Royal flim flam distractions. In an individual, a shrinking world can signal depression but this seems to have infected the entire western culture. Uranus in innovative Gemini should have broadened not shrunk our perspective. Pluto in Aquarius in trine had been expected to add another layer
  • Nick Cave – a tortured Virgo soul

    The enigma that is Nick Cave – post-punk, gothic rock, profane and religious – is having a moment with a documentary  about him – Veiled Worlds– coinciding with the tv version of his novel The Death of Bunny Munro. Known musically for his obsessions with death, religion, love, and violence, he has had an eclectic career with constantly changing themes from the 1970s though he has always been preoccupied with Old Testament notions of good versus evil. The death of one
  • Helen Mirren & Tom Hardy – Leo Virgo friction

      Mobland, the gritty drama about warring crime families in London now filming season 2, appears to be strained on set as well as on screen. Stories have emerged that Helen Mirren’s professional and disciplined approach clashes with Tom Hardy’s lateness and swaggering attitude.  Creative types tend to be volatile but interesting to see the astro-dynamics. She was born 26 July 1945 2am (biography) London and he, 15 September 1977, London. Helen Mirren is a determined Su
  • Venezuela – in Trump’s crosshairs for reasons unknown

    Venturing down the rabbit hole to plumb Trump’s motivations is a doomed task with Venezuela the most immediate mystery. Damaging the fentanyl trade is a worthy cause except that would mean targeting Mexico not further south; and even cocaine mainly sourced out of Colombia comes into the USA from other places. Oil is a possibility since Venezuela has almost a fifth of all known global reserves – but it accounts for less than 1% of world production. Most of Venezuela’s reserves a
  • Frank Gehry – Water Fire and Mars Saturn

    Frank Gehry, the Canadian–American architect who made magic with crumpled titanium and fish curves in buildings like the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, has died. He was inspired by pop art, what he called ‘cheapskate aesthetic’, to create buildings that were almost art, almost sculpture – and at times an assemblage of a hardware store. His increasing use of the computer latterly was used to realise extraordinarily complex and innovative forms. Born 28 February 1929 in
  • Meghan forever loving – with exceptions

    The Montecito car-crash scenario hits another bump on the road with Meghan’s heavily slated, vacuous Christmas special making much of family love and togetherness. With uncanny and tragic timing it coincides with her estranged father in hospital with an amputated leg seriously ill.  He has not seen his daughter since before the 2018 wedding nor her children and has been in poor health in recent years with two heart attacks and a stroke.  Family friction can run deep but she will
  • Eurovision – international ructions

    The Eurovision Song Contest is brewing up for a turbulent winter as Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands and Slovenia have already indicated they will boycott it after Israel was cleared to compete. Ireland’s RTÉ said it felt that its “participation remains unconscionable given the appalling loss of lives in Gaza and the humanitarian crisis there which continues to put the lives of so many civilians at risk.” There were also allegations of unfair voting practices. The fi
  • Brigitte Bardot – rescuing herself

    Brigitte Bardot has stepped out of seclusion in St Tropez to voice a documentary about her life in aid of her animal rescue charity. Propelled to dizzy heights as one of the best known symbols of the sexual revolution in the 1950s and 60s, she withdrew after 47 films, having had enough of global stardom and being a prey for the paparazzi.  “Lovers fell at her feet, from Alain Delon to Serge Gainsbourg, money flowed into her bank account and directors wrote — and changed —
  • Fred Astaire – perfectionist with dazzling feet

    Fred Astaire, the “greatest popular-music dancer of all time”, whose uncanny sense of rhythm, creativity, effortless presentation, and tireless perfectionism delighted audiences through almost eight decades, was born the same year as Noel Coward. But despite both sharing Neptune Pluto in Gemini opposition Saturn in Sagittarius, a Gemini Moon and Jupiter in Scorpio, they were very different temperaments. Coward was all mouth and words with 3rd/9th and Mercury emphasis. While Fred Asta
  • Noel Coward – sharp wit from another era

    Noël Coward’s comedy Fallen Angels was so shocking to bourgeois morality a hundred years ago it was nearly banned. Now restaged in London as a period piece about two “girls behaving badly” on a champagne-fuelled night, bemoaning their stale marriages to golfing husbands and lusting after a Frenchman both regard as the great love of their lives, it has garnered good reviews. Written when Coward was 23, he had a precocious grasp of the tensions of wedlock, and the trade-off
  • Astrology of a Fixed Game

    by Cesar Love As gamblers turn to astrology to predict the outcomes of games, perhaps they should also look to astrology for clues that games have been fixed. The FBI recently charged a player of the National Basketball Association in connection with altering the outcome of a game for the benefit of gamblers. The game, […]
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  • Sydney Sweeney – a talented but divisive actress

    Actress Sydney Sweeney’s unglamorous choice of a role playing Christy Martin, the first great female American boxer, a working-class lesbian and survivor of domestic violence, appears not to have gone down well in the US. Whether that is due to the subject matter or Sweeney’s divisive reputation as a Maga supporter isn’t clear, though the critics praised her ‘powerful characterisation.’Sydney Sweeney, born September 12, 1997 at 12.42pm Spokane, Washington, has a cre
  • Paddington Bear – Ceres, empathy and food

    Paddington Bear has returned in a new stage musical as a fun Christmas distraction from the drear and gloom elsewhere. Critics love it  – “imaginatively staged, immaculately performed and utterly winning”; “funny, feel-good, family-friendly musical that looks set to run and run”. It brings ” the stowaway bear gorgeously to life”.  Paddington, star of 35 million books, published in 20 countries in over 40 languages, in movies and adaptations for
  • Witkoff, Kushner – money men and politics

    Steve Witkoff’s real estate developer with no diplomatic experience and now, extraordinarily, special envoy to the Middle East and de facto envoy to Vladimir Putin, is off to Moscow with Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner (of ‘Gaza Riviera’ renown) to carve out a Ukraine peace deal – without Ukraine  Kyiv’s allies fear Putin will dangle deals across the negotiating table as allegations of a “pay to play” system which benefits those who do busine
  • Pete Hegseth to Navy Seals: “Kill Them All”

    By Sue Kientz About a week before Thanksgiving, eight Senate Democrats, all U.S. military veterans, released a joint video that inexplicably urged active-duty service personnel to “disobey illegal orders.”(1) They explained that their advice is spelled out in the Uniform Code of Military Justice, but did not explain which orders they were concerned about or […]
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  • Tom Stoppard – a wordsmith par excellence

    Tom Stoppard, one of Britain’s cleverest playwrights has died at the age of 88. His writing was witty and playful, he took ideas seriously and delighted in philosophical and political argument. He was a writer who managed to combine an intellectual’s delight in complexity with an entertainer’s talent for having fun. “Stoppardian” became shorthand for rapid-fire wit, shimmering wordplay and bathetic juxtaposition.’An early success on stage with Rosencrantz and
  • Sudan – added to Trump’s to-do list

    The killing fields of Sudan have become a new Trump initiative after the Saudi leader, Mohammed bin Salman’s recent visit. Wracked by war for two-and-a-half years, Sudan lies in ruins. Previously Trump had written it off as “crazy and out of control.” Now he has pledged to work with Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to end the violence.With nearly 12 million driven from their homes, famine conditions and atrocities a regular occurrence, there is abject despair in
  • Belgium – putting money before morals

    The Belgian PM has put a spanner in the works of using frozen Russian assets to aid Ukraine. He says it would violate international law and would destabilise financial markets. Belgium hosts €183bn, about two-thirds of the Russian assets immobilised in the west, at the Brussels-based central securities depository Euroclear. He warned that Euroclear could be sued by Russians with a claim on the assets, landing the Belgian government with a multibillion euro bill. He also said it would preven
  • Mahmood Zamdani – apologist for Idi Amin

    Mahmood Mamdani, the anthropologist father of Zohran, the newly elected Democratic Mayor of New York, has written a weirdly revisionist history of the brutal dictator Idi Amin. The Mamdani family were Ugandan Asians, ejected by Amin in his purge in the 1970s, though Mahmood had been previously educated in the US and involved in the civil rights movement.  Amin was an admirer of Adolf Hitler and considered one of the most brutal despots in modern world history responsible for hundreds of tho
  • Kennedy cousins – family strife and woes ++ Caroline Kennedy – Chiron and Chariklo

      The Kennedy clan wars are likely to heat up ahead as Jack Schlossberg, only grandson of JFK and Jackie, aims to throw down his hat for a try at a New York Congressional seat in the 2026 Mid Terms and voices trenchant criticism of his cousin the anti-vaxxer health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jnr, describing him as a  “loser” and a “dangerous person”. His sister Tatiana, tragically diagnosed with a rare form of terminal acute myeloid leukaemia after the birt

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