• BBC, Bashir & Diana – another sorry tale

    The BBC already wilting under the Trump faked-misspeak brouhaha is facing another deluge of righteous criticism with the publication of Dianarama by Andy Webb, a former BBC TV reporter. Uncovering the truth about Martin Bashir’s tactics in persuading Princess Diana to speak out on Panorama in 1995 has taken decades. It triggered her divorce from Prince Charles, stoked her paranoia and left her isolated, propelling her towards the events which would ultimately kill her in Paris two years la
  • 2026 – look forwards with fortitude

     Out with the old and in with the new holds a special resonance this New Year with the prospect a new era unfolding. Pluto in Aquarius since 2023 will be joined by Neptune fully into Aries from late January (till 2038) and Saturn close behind in Aries in February (till 2028); and finally Uranus into Gemini in April for a seven year run. So the much vaunted, enlightened and progressive Pluto trine Uranus sextile Saturn Neptune will be in play, highlighted in the Eclipses covering the second
  • All the best for now and moving forward

    Merry crackers and festive fun to those who are celebrating en famille. For those who are not, enjoy a relaxing feet-up. In the past many of my best end-of-the-year memories are sitting peacefully in front of the TV/fire and reflecting how great it was not to be tangled up in family tensions.  All the best for 2026 – a year when the new era finally gets together. More to followMarjorieThe post All the best for now and moving forward first appeared on Astroinform with Marjorie Orr - St
  • 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
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  • 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 Sinks Chiefs Dynasty as Mahomes Suffers Season-Ending Injury

    By Cesar Love The Kansas City Chiefs (b. 8/14/1959) built themselves a mini kingdom, winning nine consecutive AFC division titles and three of the last seven Super Bowls, yet they are having a difficult 2025 season under a Neptune transit.  Still, they had a chance to reach the playoffs, until the planets dealt a cruel […]
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  • 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
  • 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

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