• Gary Oldman – cleans up well for the King + Roger Daltrey, Elaine Paige, Pat Barker

    Actor Gary Oldman, the greasy, flatulent spy boss of the losers and rejects in Slow Horses, makes an unlikely knight of the realm in King Charles’ Birthday Honours. Though his prolific and highly successful, award-strewn career as one of the highest-grossing actors of all time, does deserve recognition.  Despite a stellar career – in Harry Potter; Tinker, Tailor; The Dark Knight Trilogy; Darkest Hour as Winston Churchill –  he has managed to remain low key.  Born
  • Iran 1501, Reza Pahlavi, Trump indecisive

    ‘This attack is about raw power, not about regional stability or better outcomes for everyone.”   ‘While there won’t be many Arab tears shed for Iran, that does not amount to support for Israel.’‘Israel seized an opening to strike. The hard part may be closing it.’‘Israel is not building a better tomorrow, it is destroying whatever could threaten it. If in the meantime the war distracts from the horrifying civilian toll in Gaza and derail
  • Israel – testing Iran’s resolve ++ USA/Iran ++ Israel chart 4.16 pm

    Israel has struck out at Iran as Washington continued to attempt a negotiated agreement with Teheran in the face of possible nuclear escalation. The attack hit Iran’s missile bases and killed the military chief of staff, Hossein Salami, commander of the powerful Revolutionary Guards as well as several top nuclear scientists. Tr Uranus square the Israel Mars in Leo exactly now always did look like an explosion point and it repeats in December 2025 and March 2026, so the red alert will
  • Israel – testing Iran’s resolve ++ USA/Iran

    Israel has struck out at Iran as Washington continued to attempt a negotiated agreement with Teheran in the face of possible nuclear escalation. The attack hit Iran’s missile bases and killed the military chief of staff, Hossein Salami, commander of the powerful Revolutionary Guards as well as several top nuclear scientists. Tr Uranus square the Israel Mars in Leo exactly now always did look like an explosion point and it repeats in December 2025 and March 2026, so the red alert will
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  • Ahmedabad plane crash – Mars Uranus Algol

    A London-bound Air India Boeing has crashed today into residential buildings with 242 people on board just after take-off at Ahmedabad at 8.08 am UTC today with no survivors and many dead from a doctors’ hostel. {Maybe one plane survivor miraculously.]The approaching Mars square Uranus, exact this Sunday, is explosive, accident-prone and frequently present when there are equipment malfunctions and usually in effect in advance of the exact aspect. With Algol throwing its shadow into the mix
  • Full Moon Triggers Irish Anti-Immigrant Riots

    By Christeen Skinner 1000 years ago, a small settlement was established in the area now known as the town of Ballymena, in Northern Ireland. In December 1937, precise date unknown, the town was granted borough status. In recent times the people of this Northern Irish town have welcomed immigrants from many nations. Last weekend and […]
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  • Brian Wilson – Gemini light and dark ++ Sly Stone

    Brian Wilson’s songs – Surfin’ USA, California Girls, I Get Around, Good Vibrations and God Only Knows – have become classics with music reviewers describing him as ‘one of pop music’s true geniuses.’ ‘His 1966 masterpiece Pet Sounds remains a benchmark in pop culture, blending classical harmonic theory with melodious songcraft, baroque orchestrations and an audacious sound palette.’ He has died at 82 after a life of professional highs a
  • Rachel Reeves – hopeful words, cool reception

    Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ much vaunted spending review has led to accusations of spend now, pay later with investment in infrastructure like nuclear power stations. Boosts for Health and Defence budgets come at a cost to other departments like the police which is unlikely to go down well with the electorate. Investors are widely expecting that tax increases will be necessary in the autumn Budget given poor growth, rising borrowing costs, and the continued upward pressure on Nato defence bu
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  • Mary Vohryzek – astrology library

    Astrology books, some older and difficult to obtain, are on offer from the library of the late Mary Vohryzek. She was a writer,  teacher and lecturer who translated Elsbeth and Reinhold Ebertin’s “Anatomical Correspondence to Zodiacal Degrees” and wrote the forward to Louise McWhirter’s 1988 book Astrology and stock market forecasting. Marc Penfield has said that when he moved to San Francisco in 1970, she was the first astrologer he met and taught him about Ebertin&
  • China – preparing for a changing of the guard?

    Murmurs that Xi Jinping’s one-man-rule is showing signs of coming to an end may be wishful thinking though there are ominous hints of failure and concern on various charts in particular the Bank of China. Xi Jinping, 15 June 1953, has his Mars at zero degrees Cancer sinking under the weight of tr Neptune Saturn now and into 2026. His 3rd Term chart, 23 October 2022 has Jupiter at zero degrees Aries which is equally being undermined by tr Neptune Saturn. His First Presidency chart
  • Trump v Los Angeles

    By Alex Miller On June 6, 2025, US President Donald Trump ordered the deployment of 2000 members of the National Guard to Los Angeles, California, to quell protests against his immigration policies.  The deployment, while legal, was a rare instance of the federal government usurping an authority normally reserved to state governors, with both California […]
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  • Frederick Forsyth – an old style adventurer

    Frederick Forsyth, author of The Day of the Jackal and The Odessa File, whose former life as a spy and war reporter informed his meticulously researched and hugely successful  thrillers that sold more than 75 million copies, has died aged 86. An old style adventurer he sashayed from a teenage desire to be a matador into reporting for the BBC and Reuters from East Berlin at the height of the Cold War and Biafra during the civil war – and spying for MI6. By his early thirties, he w
  • Los Angeles – the eye of the storm ++ California ++ Trump relocated

    The Los Angeles riots against Trump’s draconian measures on immigration which put the country on a war footing are being seen as a seminal moment. He sent in the National Guard for the first time in decades to suppress citizens on domestic soil against the wishes of a state’s governor, using a rarely invoked anti-foreign invasion law. And Pete Hegseth, defence secretary, even threatened to send in the marines to quell the unrest over raids against suspected illegal migrants. Cri
  • Erica Jong – fear of growing up

    Erica Jong, an icon of second wave feminism wrote an autobiographical novel Fear of Flying which made her famous in 1973. Her candid depiction of women’s sexual desires was shocking at the time, boosting its sales to 20m copies. John Updike compared it to The Catcher in the Rye and Portnoy’s Complaint.  Her daughter Molly Jong-Fast has written a poignantly sad, insightful and strangely witty memoir about her mother, now suffering from dementia, and her own disjointed childhood.&
  • BY JOVE! The Meaning of the Astrological Jupiter

    A review of astrologer Liz Greene’s latest book By Arlan Wise Liz Greene continues her work into the 21st century complete with her brand of wisdom, dry wit, and clarity of teaching.  She begins this book, which is a transcription of three seminars she gave in 2021, stating that Jupiter is not the “Great Benefic” […]
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  • Ana de Armas – cruising along in style

    Idle chatter has actor Tom Cruise romancing actress Ana de Armas as they have been seen multiple times together recently and gushed about each other’s talents in interviews. Though sources say they’re “just friends” who are working on projects together.   An uncomplimentary piece in the Telegraph raises eyebrows about how De Armas, whose cv of past movies is replete with duds and no-hopers, has come to attract hype about being the next big thing.  Her most
  • Greta Thunberg – charging into danger

    Greta Thunberg, the young Swedish climate change activist, now on a mission to bring aid and highlight the plight of Palestinians in Gaza, is sailing into what will be a confrontation with the IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) today or tomorrow. She is travelling with 12 pro-Palestinian activists, including a French member of the European parliament of Palestinian descent. Some of the activists on board have been criticised for their past remarks against Israel.  The World Food Programme has sai
  • Nigel Farage – undone by a burqa

    Farage’s Reform Party has followed its usual pattern of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory by losing a major donor and strategist just as they looked like becoming a force to be reckoned with on the political scene. Admittedly it was over an issue which would gain general support as a new Reform MP asked the Prime minister whether he would consider banning the burqa. Though it led to Zia Yusuf, a Muslim businessman, resigning as Reform Party chairman as a result.    Richar
  • Trump and Musk – a playground slanging match

    Will the Musk fallout do damage? Trump in the past has made up with enemies before; and in addition has brushed off allegations and accusations of bad behaviour that would have sunk most politicians. There is no doubt this noisy parting of the ways has spread confusion and alarm this month since the Inauguration chart is dismayed with tr Uranus opposition the Sun/Neptune midpoint and the Neptune/Pluto midpoint from June 18 to July 6. Ebertin describes the first as sudden upsets, nervousness
  • Goebbels – did not believe his own lies

    The Nazi Minister of Propaganda or the Hexenmeister, chief sorcerer of lies, Joseph Goebbels, is the subject of a new film. It spotlights his strained relationship with Hitler despite his reputation as a devoted follower and shows the misgivings that quite senior Nazis had until late in the war. Behind the theatrical display of ecstatic loyalty there were considerable fears about Hitler’s strategies. ‘It was Goebbels’s job to soothe their concerns, to create a subhuman identity
  • Massive Ukrainian Drone Strike in Russia

    By Alex Miller On 1 June 2025 more than 100 Ukrainian drones struck at air bases deep in Russia, targeting long-range bombers with nuclear capacity, in an attempt to cripple Moscow’s ability to prosecute the war on Ukraine, now in its third year.  Code-named “Spider Web,” the attacks, eighteen months in the planning, were carried […]
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  • Juno, Neptune, Trump and Universal Tariffs

    by Lianne McCafferty On May 30, 2025, President Trump announced tariffs on steel and aluminium imports would double. This was just after the US Court of International Trade found his recent global tariffs to be illegal, but which is seemingly now paused pending a presidential appeal. In 2025, Juno forms three waning trines (120 degrees) […]
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  • Trump Tariffs Terminated

    By Alex Miller April’s Solar Eclipse squared (90 degrees, a challenge or stressor) US President Donald Trump’s natal Mercury is the gift that keeps on giving, for anyone determined to block his agenda.  On Wednesday 28 May 2025, the US Federal Trade Court, a body which decides civil law disputes over such things as trade […]
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  • Ellie Simmonds – a miracle-making Scorpio

    Ellie Simmonds, the retired Paralympian swimmer, winner of gold medals at three Olympics, who suffers from dwarfism, has opened up a discussion on disabled babies in a documentary  Should I Have Children?  Her previous 2023 documentary Finding My Secret Family on tracking down her birth mother who had given her up for adoption when she was two weeks old, overwhelmed by her condition, won a Bafta.  Born 11 November 1994 in Manchester, she was lucky enough to be given to loving and
  • Emmanuel and Brigitte – the odd couple

    A Macron marital spat or a jovial moment of horseplay?  An unguarded moment before exiting the French presidential plane in Vietnam invited a good many mischievous comments, when Brigitte appeared to strike Emmanuel in the face. She declined to take his hand on descending the stairs a minute later and his clenched fist and jaw hinted at a tense mood.  Their 24 year age gap has always attracted raised eyebrows, especially since she met him as a teacher and mother of three when he was 15
  • Pluto generations carry the spirit of their time

     The Pluto generations differ from each other and can be gauged against the events of those times. There will be additional factors since for example the mid 1960s Pluto in Virgo had the rebellious, reforming, status-quo-upsetting Uranus Pluto conjunction.Way back when, the Pluto in Gemini generation also had Neptune in Gemini to contend with. So not all simple. Of them all I have always thought Pluto through Cancer was the most difficult (damaging) at an emotional level.   P
  • Bill Belichick – an eyebrow-raising romance

    Bill Belichick, regarded as one of the greatest American football head coaches has the gossip columns entranced with his May-December romance with Jordon Hudson, a former cheerleader and beauty queen. He is 73 and she is 24 and they have been dating for almost two years. What intrigues onlookers is that she seems to be the one with her hands on the reins of control. He was born 16 April 1952 3pm Nashville, Tennessee, and has an intense and lucky 8th house Sun Jupiter in Aries opposition Nep
  • Denzel Washington – a creative Capricorn

    Actor and director Denzel Washington in Cannes to collect a Palme D’Or  reacted angrily to an over-eager paparazzi on the red carpet, catching unwanted headlines. Normally regarded as steady and self-controlled, he’s had an award-strewn career and a long marriage. Recently he’s been best known for The Equalizer trilogy (2014–2023) and Gladiator II (2024) but what brought him to prominence .were his evocative roles in Cry Freedom (1987) and Malcolm X (1992).The New Yo
  • Malcolm X – a dream born out of rage

    Malcolm X, a celebrated though controversial figure within African-American and Muslim American communities for his pursuit of racial justice was born 100 years ago. He was a divisive force in the civil right movement, preaching racism and violence and was assassinated when he was only 40 in the midst of the febrile 1960s which also saw the killings of JFK, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King.  He was born on 19 May 1925 at 10.25pm Omaha, Nebraska, (birth certificate) with a Baptist minis
  • Yuri Grigorovich – a tyrannical focus on beauty

    Yuri Grigorovich, known as the greatest living choreographer in the world of ballet, for his leadership of the Bolshoi from 1964 for thirty years, has died. He was a tough operator who was accused of being a tyrant but was clearly talented and able to put his stamp on Soviet ballet as it came to prominence as the showpiece of the classical dance world. Born 2 January 1927, he started dancing young but was too short in stature to become a leading man. What is wonderful about his chart i
  • BBC, Lineker and Israel – another blunder

    Gary Lineker, the former footballer and  highest-paid on-air BBC star, presenter of Match of the Day for 26 years, will leave this weekend without a payoff. He apologised after it emerged he had reposted a pro-Palestine video on Instagram that criticised Zionism and included an illustration of a rat,  which was a Nazi anti-semitic trope. Two years ago he was temporarily suspended over comments he made criticising the Conservative government’s asylum policy. And earlier this
  • Scottie Scheffler – Mars in Gemini outpaces rivals

    Scottie Scheffler, winner of the USA PGA Championship and world number one, is another Mars in Gemini. Born 21 June 1996 in New Jersey, he started golfing at 3 and never looked back. His parents were not rich and had to borrow $50,000 to join him to the Royal Oaks Country Club in Dallas when he was only 7 or 8 years old. (See average costs below).He is a Sun Cancer square Saturn in self-reliant Aries; with his Sun on the focal point of a yod inconjunct Pluto sextile Neptune, making him seriously
  • Joe Biden – cancer diagnosis raises questions

    Joe Biden has been diagnosed with aggressive advanced prostate cancer which has metastasised to his bones with puzzled medical experts saying ‘For even with the most aggressive form, it is a five to seven year journey without treatment before it becomes metastatic.’ ‘Meaning it would be malpractice for this patient to show up and first be diagnosed with metastatic disease in May 2025.’ ‘Last summer, White House Physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor swore to the America
  • 12th house – being true to the inner self

      The 12th like the 8th house is not well understood or well written about in traditional astrology – dismal pointers to prisons, hospitals, forced seclusion used to be the norm.Below random thoughts from various posts over the years show a different picture.  Michael Gauquelin’s statistical research of successful people found that the 12th along with the 9th houses were the peak zones of intensity and not the 1st and 10th as tradition would assume. He proposed a new system
  • Eurovision – a Jupiter Pluto in Leo extravaganza

    Eurovision last night bombarded eyes and ears with what has become standard fare – ‘over emphatic, super colourful, gaudily camp’ in the words of the Telegraph’s insightful music critic. ‘ Eurovision has become a world unto itself, sealed off from the rest of popular culture, a camp and over-stressed absurdist magnification of particularly gaudy pop genres with everything dialled up to the max.’ ‘Austria won with 24-year-old JJ delivering his cinematical
  • Duncan Campbell – crime was his passion

    Duncan Campbell, the renowned Guardian crime reporter, writer and broadcaster whose work highlighted police corruption, the shortcomings in the justice system and miscarriages of justice, has died aged 80. He reported on high-profile criminal cases of recent decades, including the Rosemary West trial and the Hatton Garden heist.  Born 15 December 1944, no birth time, in Edinburgh, he  developed a fascination with crime during his days playing football against a prison side. At Universi
  • Trump Wants Fancy Plane as Americans Face Want

    By Sue Kientz President Donald Trump’s continuing insistence he will accept a huge, luxurious 747 airliner, a 13-year-old hand-me-down from the Qatari royal family, as a replacement for Air Force One, became top news this past week(1) as transiting Venus (7 Aries) (representing in material terms high value items, luxury, riches, things that cost too much) was square (90 degrees, a real challenge) his Mercury (8 […]
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  • Barry and Diane – drawn together by destiny

    Barry Diller, the super-successful businessman, left a trail of hits from “Roots” at ABC, to Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Terms of Endearment and Beverly Hills Cop from his time as CEO of Paramount Cheers, before moving onto Fox and The Simpsons and thence into a blizzard of influential, money-making companies. At 83 he has published an autobiography Who Knew? in which he reveals he thought he was gay until aged 33 when he met fashion designer Diane von Furs
  • Algeria and France – historical bitterness

    France and Algeria are at a standoff with diplomats on each side being sent home after France recognised Moroccan sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara. Though shadowing any present-day dispute is the bitter history between the two countries extending back almost two centuries, culminating in the brutal 1954-1962 war for Algeria’s independence from colonial France. In 1830 the French invaded and captured Algiers with methods which reached genocidal proportions. A combinati
  • Anthony Fauci – loved and hated

    The vilification of Anthony Fauci, pre-pandemic a highly respected research scientist and adviser to seven presidents, arose because he refused to bend the knee to Trump’s downplaying of the risks of the Covid virus and Trump’s promotion of unproven treatments. An analysis released by the Commonwealth Fund last week found the Covid vaccine shots saved 3.2 million lives in the U.S. alone and prevented 18.5 million hospitalizations. Fauci is still being attacked by Marjorie Taylor Gree
  • Bruce Springsteen – lost land of hope and dreams

    Bruce Springsteen, the rock’n’roll legend, in what was described as one of the most sustained political attacks from a cultural figure, said at a Manchester concert that Trump is running ‘rogue government’ and ‘siding with dictators’. In a series of blistering speeches on stage he targeted a ‘corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration’ and called the president “unfit” for office. He pleaded with the audience to “Raise your
  • Andrew Norfolk – he made a difference

    “Journalism exists to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.”Andrew Norfolk, the Times investigative reporter, whose expose of sexual grooming of underage girls by men of mainly Pakistani heritage in Rotherham and Rochdale in England sparked a national inquiry, has died.He said recently: “This story is an example of why newspapers matter. When all else failed a very brave person (a Rotherham social worker) placed their trust in journalism. Those documents I was hand
  • Trump & the Jett Set

    By Alex Miller US President Donald Trump is always stirring controversy – with his Sun (22 Gemini) closely conjunct Uranus (17 Gemini), planet of disruption, shocks, surprises and the unexpected, it just comes naturally to him.  And with Uranus in the sky right now (26 Taurus) squared (90 degrees) his Ascendant (29 Leo), the point […]
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  • Jose Mujica – from terrorism to trailblazer

    José “Pepe” Mujica, Uruguay’s former president, who started as a Marxist-Leninist guerrilla fighter and later became a groundbreaking social liberal has died at the age of 89. Some refer to him as Latin America’s Nelson Mandela because of his 13 years in jail. Others point to his legalising of marijuana, same sex marriage and abortion. But mainly he was famous for his frugal lifestyle, living in a tiny house on a rural smallholding, and giving away 90% of his salar
  • Astrology Books – the building blocks

    Learning astrology is a long drawn out process and it requires starting with the basics.Books I found useful at the start:Margaret Hone 1953 Modern Textbook of Astrology, out of print but some available second hand.Sakoian & Acker – The Astrologers Handbook. Planets in signs and houses and in aspect.Robert Hand – Transits.Bil Tierney: Dynamics of Aspect Analysis – excellent on major configurations, yods, unaspected planets.Martin Schulman: Karmic Astrology – the Moon&
  • Halle Berry – beguiling looks, chaotic life

    The radiantly beautiful Halle Berry, a constant presence on the screen for 25 years, with an erratic romantic life, has raised eyebrows with an over-exposed outfit for the Met Gala and celebrating Mother’s Day with an Instagram post of herself naked in bed with her musician lover.  Her charm and luminous looks along with a fair few successes have obscured just how rumbustious her personal life has been – with several very short lived marriages, descriptions of abusive relationsh
  • ICE – the thorny problem of immigration

    The historic Alien Enemies Act, used only three times since its adoption in 1798, during war time, has been resurrected as an excuse for the Trump administration to arrest and deport undocumented immigrants. The present acting direction of ICE, the immigration enforcement agency, Todd Lyons said he would like the agency to implement a system of trucks that rounds up immigrants for deportation in a system “Like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings”. “We need to get better at tr
  • Jack Draper – Mars makes sportsman warriors

    Jack Draper, the UK tennis No 1, has admitted that “I get out of bed and I feel so angry some days” after smashing his racket during his recent win. “I’ve got to lose points, so I’ve got to go through those emotional ups and downs.” “It’s sometimes difficult to always be perfect.” Mars is what gives a competitive drive and it hates to lose so flare ups are difficult to avoid though some professionals manage better than others. Drape
  • Diana – an enduring myth

    The cultural obsession with Princess Diana, still ongoing nearly three decades after her death, is the subject of a new book – Dianaworld. Author Edward White gives ‘a deeply-researched account of the public fascination from royalists, republicans, lookalikes and sex workers and approaches Diana’s story through the people who saw themselves in her – the doppelgangers, opportunists and superfans who found parallels between the princess’s life of extraordinary privile
  • Stephen Miller – the dream is not delivering

    Stephen Miller, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff, has stirred up another dust storm suggesting the Trump administration is considering whether it can suspend habeas corpus, the right of an individual to challenge their detention in court. Trump has repeatedly asserted the U.S. is facing an “invasion” requiring the deportation of undocumented migrants under the Alien Enemies Act, a law that would allow the deportation of noncitizens with little to no due process. Stephen Miller h

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