• Gina Lollobrigida – a tempestuous temptress

    Gina Lollobrigida, sultry and prolific actress, a post-war international sex symbol acclaimed as one of the world’s most beautiful women has died at 95. Known as “La Lollo”, the “temptress of the Tiber”, she made a film a month in the 1950s and by the 1970s was setting up a second career as a highly-thought-of photographer.  She did not respond well to criticism and became litigious at the drop of a hat, which didn’t stop her insulting her compatriot Soph
  • Egypt – a benchmark for the Middle East ahead

     The hotch up in the Middle East has left no one happy with lingering anxieties about future flare ups. Egypt, 14 March 1922 10.43pm Cairo, will be directionless this year with uncertainty lingering through 2027 with tr Neptune opposition the MC and Saturn; but it is 2028 that looks explosive and insecure with tr Uranus square their Uranus and opposition Mars; and under considerable pressure and stuck in 2029 with Solar Arc Sun conjunct the 7th house (friends and enemies) Pluto. 
  • Prince William – a Neptunian mid life crisis

    Prince William celebrated his 44th birthday with a happy snapshot of himself in Welsh Guards uniform with daughter Charlotte.  It will be a less tense and withdrawn year ahead than from his birthday in 2025 when Catherine was still emerging from her illness. But he still has the tail end of tr Neptune square his Sun Moon conjunction which has been running since early 2025. Neptune will continue to square his Cancer Moon exactly now and on and off till early 2028. It can be undermining or co
  • Chiron in Taurus – fitness and finances

    Chiron has now dipped a toe in Taurus for the first time in forty years and after a retrograde this autumn and winter, will be there until 2033.Attaching a meaning to its years is tricky since life is continually churning through highs and lows and it may affect cultural trends rather than actual events. It is possible to look at Chiron in Aries of the recent past since 2018 as one when there was a crisis of self-worth and identity. The culture seemed to emphasis tribal identity as a way of bind
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  • Solstice – Cancer Sun plus two yods

    The Solstice Ingress of the Sun into Cancer on Sunday June 21st occurs with the hoping-for-improvements Saturn Neptune conjunction almost out of orb and the new-era hoping-for-change Uranus trine Pluto sextile Neptune in place. Mars in heavyweight Taurus is sextile Jupiter in late Cancer for an enthusiastic and energetic lift, perhaps from the sporting arena. Though Mars conjunct Algol hints at undercurrents of trouble. What is more problematic are two yods – one of Sun sextile the So
  • J.D. Vance – an outlandish faith

    Fathoming the byzantine thinking processes of pro-Trump religious zealots may or may not be aided by reading VP J.D.Vance’s latest book Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith. Described by a Times review as “part rant, part sermon, a contradictory, self-righteous, angry, humourless and slightly sinister mess of a book.”  With divorced parents and a drug addict mother, he was brought up in part by his grandparents, with his grandmother holding to fervent beliefs, including
  • Andy Burnham – to Capricorn the crown for now

    Andy Burnham won by a surprisingly large margin for Labour in the Makersfield bye-election with Reform firmly put in their place and Restore nowhere. While the SNP lost in Aberdeen South to the Tories, mainly as a vote against Net Zero killing off the oil industry and the Murrell fraud scandal. UK politics continues to stumble along a winding path.   Burnham, 7 January 1970 Liverpool, England, is a New Moon conjunct Venus in earthy and ambitious Capricorn sextile a softly-softly Mars i
  • Trump Inks Iran “Deal”

    Trump Inks Iran “Deal”
    By Alex Miller On Background:  February 2026:  Iran’s old regime is crumbling, worn down by massive internal popular protests, decades of severe international sanctions, an embargo on selling oil, and dire economic/financial stress, due in part to billions in frozen assets. June 2026:  Iran has a new, younger, more radical leadership, lifted sanctions, restored assets […]
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  • Virginia Woolf – a visionary Aquarius

    Virginia Woolf, long appreciated in high literary circles and hailed as a feminist activist, is becoming appreciated by a younger audience with recent adaptations of her work, including a movie of her novel Night and Day. It is released this week starring Haley Bennett, Timothy Spall, Jennifer Saunders, Jack Whitehall and Lily Allen, and focuses on a female astronomer trying to gain admission to the University of Cambridge to read maths and battling academia’s anti-women attitudes (women s
  • Knicks Become Champions with Assists from Venus and Jupiter

    Knicks Become Champions with Assists from Venus and Jupiter
    By Cesar Love The New York Knickerbockers’ incredible post-season run, which included 13 consecutive wins, a record comeback game, and the 2025-26 NBA championship, occurred under the blessings of the Venus-Jupiter conjunction. The birth chart of the New York Knicks (born June 6, 1946) (1) includes a natal conjunction (0 degrees) between Venus (16 Cancer) […]
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  • Antoni Gaudi – a dream in stone

    The Sagrada Familia, Barcelona’s iconic landmark, was celebrated by Pope Leo on the 100th anniversary of the architect Antoni Gaudi’s death. A manically ambitious project it is the tallest church in the world and still not complete. Gaudi’s weird and wonderful designs adorn many houses in the Catalan capital but none stranger than the cathedral. “Like a babbling visionary speaking in tongues, Gaudí jumbled the grammar of architecture into the strange glossolal
  • US News Media – who holds the purse strings

    Oligarchs owning vast tranches of the US media is Orwellian since they control the narrative that inform swathes of the electorate. Larry Ellison owns Paramount and CBS, soon possibly Tik Tok and CNN. Jeff Bezos the Washington Post. Mark Zuckerburg Facebook and Instagram. Lachlan Murdoch Fox News. Musk Twitter/X. Ellison, 17 August 1944, a New Moon and Pluto in Leo, with Venus, Mercury, Mars in Virgo square Uranus in Gemini, looks to be going from strength to strength with only a few blips
  • US Iran peace deal – weak but necessary ++ DC signing

     The much vaunted peace deal is being trumpeted as agreed from Washington and regarded as a “truce of convenience” elsewhere. No one expects it to be closure. Analysts were downbeat: “The biggest mistake is for people to think this is the final deal.”“We were in a lose-lose dynamic, and if they had continued [with the war], the alternative would be just worse for both sides.” “They think they can work with the government in place now. If y
  • US Iran peace deal – weak but necessary

     The much vaunted peace deal is being trumpeted as agreed from Washington and regarded as a “truce of convenience” elsewhere. No one expects it to be closure. Analysts were downbeat: “The biggest mistake is for people to think this is the final deal.”“We were in a lose-lose dynamic, and if they had continued [with the war], the alternative would be just worse for both sides.” “They think they can work with the government in place now. If y
  • Elon Musk Becomes World’s First Trillionaire

    Elon Musk Becomes World’s First Trillionaire
    By Alex Miller It was bound to happen, sooner or later.  And with a conjunction of planets Venus and Jupiter currently dominating the heavens, that time was now.  With the valuation of his SpaceX company’s NASDAQ IPO on 12 June 2026, Tesla founder Elon Musk’s net worth is now estimated at $1.1 trillion. Venus, Jupiter […]
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  • The New Moon’s Energetic News:  Gemini – 14 June 2026

    The New Moon’s Energetic News:  Gemini – 14 June 2026
    By Lynne Hyde The “unexpected” guest that brought “unexpected” events has been knocking on the doors of our lives since May twenty-second when the Sun joined Uranus, in the Sign of Gemini, for the first time in eighty- four years. Have you noticed that there are more twists and turns around every corner and that […]
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  • SpaceX IPO -wishing and hoping

    The money men are grinning like Cheshire cats and Elon Musk salivating in being the world’ richest man as the Space X IPO was three times subscribed and Musk became the world’s first trillionaire. The FT remarked acerbically: “The bankers convinced investors to believe in a sci-fi strategy, overlook steep losses and hand full control to Elon Musk.” “As a strict business proposition it is still a very long way from justifying the $2tn-plus price tag.” 
  • Great Depressions – history rhyming

    Is history about to repeat itself with another Great Depression is the question posed by an illuminating book about the 1873 crash.  A Times review comments: “The most striking thing about 1873 is that it feels uncannily like 2026. The railway mania has returned as artificial intelligence. Elsewhere, too, the scenery looks familiar: populist revolts against financial elites; mounting suspicion that globalisation has been kinder to some than to others; debtor nations discovering the li
  • Great Depressions -history rhyming

    Is history about to repeat itself with another Great Depression is the question posed by an illuminating book about the 1873 crash.  A Times review comments: “The most striking thing about 1873 is that it feels uncannily like 2026. The railway mania has returned as artificial intelligence. Elsewhere, too, the scenery looks familiar: populist revolts against financial elites; mounting suspicion that globalisation has been kinder to some than to others; debtor nations discovering the li
  • David Hockney – he did it his way

    David Hockney, the painter, the best liked and most successful despite critics’ misgivings, has died. His 13-room 2017 retrospective at Tate Britain attracted half a million visitors, with more at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York the following year. His 1972 Portrait of an Artist (Pool With Two Figures) sold at auction in New York for $90.3m, the most expensive painting ever sold by a living artist.  His tendency to use garish colours and almost graphic-art te
  • Kinahan Cartel – global players

    The Irish Kinahan Cartel bizarrely allied with Iran and Hezbollah have been badly hit with two top level arrests and the seizure of a Kinahan-linked Iranian super-tanker by US special forces. American authorities are now seeking to confiscate the vessel and its €200m cargo of Iranian oil.  The Kinahan cartel originally developed ties to Iran in the 2000s to use them to launder drug money from the cocaine trade. But a former UK National Crime Agency director said recently “They ar
  • “I’ve Fallen Under God’s Spell”: Antonio Banderas’ Emotional Message to Pope Leo XIV

    “I’ve Fallen Under God’s Spell”: Antonio Banderas’ Emotional Message to Pope Leo XIV
    by Ana Andrade On 7 June, the Spanish actor Antonio Banderas delivered a heartfelt message to Pope Leo XIV during the pontiff’s visit to Spain. Banderas highlighted the importance of Spain’s religious traditions, particularly those of Málaga, his hometown, where Holy Week celebrations blend faith, art, and culture. He recalled how the annual processions profoundly […]
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  • UK Defence – Starmer’s double speak ++ Dan Jarvis

    Keir Starmer is under assault from another direction with John Healey, Minister of Defence resigning, saying the planned low-level investment in defence “could make the country less safe.” While making it clear he still supported Labour, Healey pointed up Starmer’s double speak in explaining the dangers the country face while at the same time refusing to fund the necessary protections.Healey, 13 February 1960 is a Sun Aquarius sextile Jupiter in Sagittarius; with a stubborn Mer
  • UK Defence – Starmer’s double speak

    Keir Starmer is under assault from another direction with John Healey, Minister of Defence resigning, saying the planned low-level investment in defence “could make the country less safe.” While making it clear he still supported Labour, Healey pointed up Starmer’s double speak in explaining the dangers the country face while at the same time refusing to fund the necessary protections.Healey, 13 February 1960 is a Sun Aquarius sextile Jupiter in Sagittarius; with a stubborn Mer
  • Emily Damari – 491 days a captive

      Emily Damari, a Hamas captive for 491 days after the October 2023 attack, has been a prominent voice since her release raising awareness for the remaining hostages. Gunshot injuries to her hand and leg remained untreated after she was taken and have subsequently needed multiple surgeries. Born 10 June 1996 in Israel, with a British mother and Israeli father, she was a staff sergeant with Israeli Border Police. In her stories about her time underground in Hamas tunnels she is honest a
  • Trump’s Truce Trounced

    Trump’s Truce Trounced
    By Sue Kientz A series of events in recent days has led to the near shredding of the U.S.-Israel-Iran truce that had more or less held since April. (1) After Israeli attacks on Hezbollah in southern Lebanon early this past weekend, Iran launched long-range missiles at Israel, spurring Israel to counterattack with missiles at Iran. […]
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  • Tommy Robinson – Putin, MAGA helping out

    Tommy Robinson, the face of the UK far-right, anti-immigration rabble has been issuing calls for his supporters to take to the streets across the UK over the knife attack in Belfast.  All of which fits into the previous post: UK – into Uranus Pluto riot season, 3rd June 2026. Social media storms amped up the heat and bad actor activists seized the opportunity for a street brawl. Though there is also genuine concern about lax Ireland border controls and recent immigrants coming in from
  • World Cup football – keeping up appearances

    Football fans will be bunkering down with enthusiasm as the FIFA World Cup kicks off in Mexico, then Toronto, followed by LA this week and continues on till July 19th.  The first match in Mexico City kicks off 90 minutes after the opening ceremony, which is 11.30 am CST.  There is the much touted Venus Jupiter conjunction in Cancer in place until June 25th which is schmaltzy, sugary-sweet, good for fashion and keeping up appearances but inclines to be superficial, wasteful and expensiv
  • Ukraine – hope but not certainty

    Volodymyr Zelenskyy passing through London says he believes the Russian invasion is slowly turning in Ukraine’s favour. “We can’t say Russia is losing this war. But we can say they are losing the initiative.”  Ukrainian drones have been crippling vital supply roads in Crimea, attacking St Petersburg and setting fire to oil terminals, causing severe fuel shortages in certain areas. On the eastern battlefield, Russia’s grinding advance has come to a near halt, lo
  • Donald Trump’s 80th Solar Return:  The Year of Living Crazily?

    Donald Trump’s 80th Solar Return:  The Year of Living Crazily?
    By Alex Miller The Solar Return is an astrologic technique whereby a chart is cast for the moment when the Sun annually reinhabits the zodiacal degree and minute of an individual’s birth.  Analysis of the chart can provide a thumbnail sketch of what to expect in the ensuing year, what challenges, benefits, roadblocks or advances […]
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