• Opus Dei – hypocrisy unveiled

     Another crack in the right-wing conspiracy to dominate American culture comes with the escalating fallout from an expose of the religious sect Opus Dei – now sitting on Pope Leo’s desk for action.  Its close association with Heritage Foundation (Project 25) Kevin Roberts and conservative activist Leonard Leo who has led the Republican mission to install the rightwing majority in the supreme court and finances groups signed on to Project 2025, make it a key element in Trump
  • Chuck Norris – violence was his vocation

    Actor Chuck Norris during a near-60-year acting career became ‘a pop culture emblem of alpha-male indestructibility.’  His films – Forced Vengeance, Hellbound, An Eye for an Eye, A Force of One, Silent Rage,were what they said they were. After the movies he moved into television in the 1990s with Walker, Texas Ranger. He has died aged 86. He was born 10 March 1940 3am Ryan, Oklahoma, with a WW11 veteran father who took to drink. His older brother was killed in Vietnam
  • Jenni Murray – a woman of importance

    Jenni Murray, the doyenne of BBC’s Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour for 33 years has died. Described as “humorous yet headmistressy, she was capable of switching from razor-sharp interrogation to flirtatious whimsicality and was equally at home presenting features on female genital mutilation as on home furnishings.” She interviewed all the major political figures of her time but there were complaints that she turned the show into ‘Feminist’s Hour.’ Bor
  • Cesar Chavez – toppled off his pedestal ++ Dolores Huerta

    US civil rights leader Cesar Chavez, who rose to become a secular saint for many for his advocacy of the rights of farm workers has been exposed in a New York Times report as a flawed hero for his abuse of women and underage girls. In his later years he became increasingly paranoid and autocratic. He died in 1993 at age 66.Born 31 March 1927 3pm Yuma, Arikona into a Mexican family, he had an intense 8th house Aries Sun in a controlling square to Pluto in Cancer, and trine Saturn in Sagittarius i
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  • Cesar Chavez – toppled off his pedestal

    US civil rights leader Cesar Chavez, who rose to become a secular saint for many for his advocacy of the rights of farm workers has been exposed in a New York Times report as a flawed hero for his abuse of women and underage girls. In his later years he became increasingly paranoid and autocratic. He died in 1993 at age 66.Born 31 March 1927 3pm Yuma, Arikona into a Mexican family, he had an intense 8th house Aries Sun in a controlling square to Pluto in Cancer, and trine Saturn in Sagittarius i
  • Roger Casement – a complicated man

    Roger Casement, a hero of the Irish resistance to the UK or a traitor or a sexual exploiter of young boys many of them African, is the subject of a new biography. In A Rebel and a Traitor, Rory Carroll explores the tortured soul of Roger Casement — the British diplomat turned Irish revolutionary who was hanged at Pentonville in 1916.  He started as a national hero in Britain, exposing the slave economy and institutionalised savagery in the Belgian Congo while serving as a consular off
  • American Round up 2 – Kent, Kushner, Witkoff

    The cracks are widening on the US domestic front as the Iran sinks deeper in the mire with Israel relentlessly knocking out the top Iranian leadership, unpleasant types admittedly, but ones who might well have made a deal to stop the deadly tit-for-tat. Joe Kent, the top US counterterrorism official has resigned over the war, urging the president to “reverse course”. He said that Iran posed “no imminent threat” to the US and claimed the administration “started
  • The New Moon’s Energetic News:  Pisces – 18 March 2026

    The New Moon’s Energetic News:  Pisces – 18 March 2026
    by Lynne Hyde The eclipse season has passed. We are left with bombed buildings lying in mounds of grey ash, piled high in the streets of the Mideast; and smoke plumes, etched like inky, black exclamation points of despair, striking the aching skies above. Roofs are ripped off, like tops of cheap metal cans, from […]
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  • Len Deighton – the Cold War brought him success

    Len Deighton, one of the masters of the spy novel has died aged 97. His Ipcress File later made into a movie with Michael Caine as Harry Palmer became an instant hit coinciding as it did with the troubled zeitgeist – the building of the Berlin Wall, the uncovering of Soviet moles and heightening cold war tensions. It was pitched as “anti-Bond” with a wise-cracking hero, not from the officer class.  Deighton himself was born 18 February 1929 in London, with parents who were
  • American round up – Rubio, Vance and Carney

    Cometh the moment, cometh the man. What did we ever do to deserve this? The toddler tyrant flailing in all directions, setting off bushfires without thought of the consequences, used as a patsy by Netanyahu and others, but amped up with his own delusional sense of invincibility. After the Donaldonian apocalypse, what next? Secretary of State Marco Rubio, stepping up in this Middle Eastern fiasco, is unlikely to find it a launching pad for the 2028 election. 28 May 1971 Miami Florida. Across
  • Oscars – Jupiter crowns the winners

     Jupiter came up with the goods at last night’s Oscars with Michael B Jordan taking Best Actor for Sinners and Paul Thomas Anderson a raft of awards including best movie for One Battle After Another.Michael B Jordan, 9 February 1987 8.14pm Orange, California, has a Sun Aquarius in his 5th house and an exact Jupiter in Pisces square Uranus. The transiting Sun was exactly conjunct his Jupiter and square his Uranus and conjunct his Mercury/Node midpoint at the Oscars. Tr Jupiter is movin
  • War – broken campaign promises, Pope censure

    Random thoughts on Trump’s cluster-catastrophe in the Middle East. With transiting Uranus square the Israel Mars until April 5th it always looked unlikely to be a speedy Venezuelan swan-in, smash n’ grab. Despite cheer-leading from the White House there is a creeping realisation of the weakness of their self-created (why bother to forward plan?) situation which from April 6th to end of the month shows up on the Inauguration (Trump Term) chart as akin to an epileptic spasm, with sudde
  • Asteroid America in the Natal Chart of Donald Trump

    by Ana Andrade Asteroid America (916) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, discovered on 7 August 1913 by the Russian astronomer Grigory Nikolaevich Neujmin at the Simeiz Observatory. The asteroid was named after the continent America. (1) For the purposes of this article, asteroid America […]
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  • Kelly McGillis – turning trauma to healing

    Kelly McGillis, once a Hollywood golden girl with top billing in Top Gun, Witness and The Accused, has settled into a contented life away from the glitter after coming to terms with several massively traumatic events in childhood and her adult life. She now works full-time at a drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre ‘It’s just an amazing gift to see people come in hopeless and to be given some hope,’ she said. She also teaches acting in New Jersey and pursues domestic rural pur
  • Jessie Buckley – distracted by a cat story

    Jessie Buckley has been hyped as the favourite to win Best Actress in today’s Oscars for her performance as the grief-stricken Agnes Hathaway (Shakespeare’s wife) in Hamnet. But a recent interview in which she said she had insisted her boyfriend get rid of his cats before she moved in has set off a backlash.   It echoes the confected social media firestorm over the other favourite Timothee Chalamet’s comments saying he does not want to work in ballet or opera as &lsqu
  • Spring equinox – rebirth into chaos and old hurts

    The Spring Equinox, a time of rebirth in the northern hemisphere, comes on 20th March as the Sun enters Aries beginning a new astrological cycle. It coincides with Nowruz, the Iranian New Year.  The four Cardinal Ingresses of the year – Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn – are held to be significant in the quarter year which follows. This Spring Solstice sees the Aries Sun close to Neptune Saturn offering an array of possibilities. Neptune, the compassionate healer softenin
  • USA – coming to terms with Neptune

    Standing back from the apocalyptic panic of the moment egged on by a sensationalist media and general population jitters, it is as well to remember that the cauldron of history is and always has been constantly bubbling. What seems insupportable now has been worse before and life moved one.  Astrology does give broad sweep indicators – viz. recently the UK jolted and jangled through Uranus in Taurus impacting its wide Fixed Grand Cross and managed to rollick through five prime ministe
  • UK Parliament Shake-up

    By Alex Miller On Background:  On 10 March 2026, the United Kingdom’s House of Commons, Parliament’s Lower Chamber, voted to oust the remaining hereditary peers from the House of Lords.  The step completes a process begun in 1999 by Prime Minister Tony Blair, whose administration ejected most of the 750 Dukes, Earls and Viscounts who […]
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  • Hungary’s Orban – low polls but powerful friends

    With Hungary’s election approaching and Viktor Orban behind in the polls it is claimed that Russia has launched a secret disinformation campaign to help him win, depicting his main rival Peter Magyar, as an EU puppet. According to the media the plot has echoes of Moscow’s large-scale hybrid warfare campaign, which ultimately failed to swing Moldova’s parliamentary elections last year in favour of pro-Russian candidates. Orbán, the longest-serving leader in the EU, h
  • Leaves From a Financial Astrologer’s Notebook:  Eclipse Season

    By Christeen Skinner Eclipses mark the ending of one chapter and the opening of another. Coming so soon after the Saturn and Neptune conjunction on the World Axis, the cosmic signals were clear that the world was entering a new age – as it did after the last such conjunction, which coincided with the fall […]
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  • Being right or losing the capacity to think

    Nuance, complex thinking and the capacity to embrace paradox all seem to have got lost in a febrile mood of tribal identity and entrenched belief whether political, religious or other that now damps down intelligent debate. Disagreement ends in howl round. Maybe ‘twas always this or blame it on the can-be-fanatical and not-open-to-evidence Uranus Neptune conjunction that launched the world wide web in 1991. Religion, various, rearing its head does not help either.  We are now moving i
  • Democrat hopefuls – dreaming on a star

    Democratic hopefuls for 2028 are normally a matter for internal consumption but since the world deserves better, a brief run round follows. To be remembered – astrology is a fairly imperfect instrument for making absolute political predictions. Though can be a reasonable guide so worth keeping in mind. J. B. Pritzker, 19 January 1965 1.01.pm Palo Alto, California, Governor of Illinois, and part of the Hyatt Hotel family, originally a financier himself, has a final degree Capricorn Sun
  • Iran – new leader, IRGC, Putin and Trump Org

    Mojtaba Khamenei has been named successor in Iran despite him having little theological background and reservations about the Leadership being handed down the family line. Born 8 September 1969 Teheran (wiki), if accurate, makes him a Sun Virgo conjunct Pluto square Mars in Sagittarius – not dissimilar to Hassan Nasrullah, the former Hezbollah chief, assassinated in 2024,born 31 August 1960. On this data he looks undermined late March to late April and at considerable risk late A
  • Gerry Adams – Northern Ireland’s troubled past

    A civil court case against the former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has opened at the High Court in London.  Three IRA bomb victims are seeking a ruling that he is personally liable for decisions to plant car bombs in London and Manchester in 1973 and 1996 and are suing him for a nominal £1 in damages for “vindicatory purposes”. He has stated he had “no direct or indirect” involvement and has repeatedly denied ever being in the IRA.Gerry Adams, 6 October
  • From Venus in Pisces to Venus in Aries: A Shift in Expression

    by Ana Andrade Venus has recently moved from Pisces into Aries. Venus, the planet associated with love, relationships, harmony, and women, was previously in Pisces, the Sign of her exaltation. Exaltation represents an essential dignity in traditional astrology, a condition in which the planet can express its nature with relative ease and comfort. By contrast, […]
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  • President Trump: The Force is with him, for now

    By Sue Kientz About a week ago on February 28, 2026, Iran was attacked for not being fast enough to make a deal with the President of the United States.(1) President Trump wanted a nuclear deal that he liked, something better than the nuclear deal that former President Obama signed with Iran and other allies […]
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  • Meghan – high price when fame goes sour

     Meghan Markle’s flower sprinkled hostess show has been dropped by Netflix after low ratings with brave words about the virtues of going it alone. Showbusiness and the public arena is no place for the faint-hearted when the best efforts of PR puffs and a loyal fan base don’t produce the numbers.  She does have upbeat Jupiter moving through her 1st house to keep her spirits up from this June onwards for a few months followed by Jupiter through her 2nd house till late 2027 br
  • Gavin Newsom – logjammed in 2028 ++ Talarico

    Gavin Newsom, handsome, articulate and fighting back with wit and punch, is apparently the Democratic hope for 2028. Born 20 October 1967 5.13 am San Francisco, with his father a state appeals court judge, he took a degree in political science, went into the wine business and then into local politics as Mayor of San Fran for two terms and then Governor, now on his second term. He has a Libra Sun close to the USA Saturn in Libra which in the USA’s case should but clearly doesn&rsq
  • Cillian Murphy – what lies behind the eyes

    The wondrous Cillian Murphy is back as the war-damaged gypsy gangster Tommy Shelby in a one-off film The Immortal Man bringing the six series of TV Peaky Blinders into World War 11. Nearly 50, he says he has been playing the role for a quarter of his life. Lauded also for his Oscar-winning role as the lead in Oppenheimer (2023) and reputedly the best thing in Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk (2017), he has had a quality career. Born 25 May 1976 in Cork, Ireland, with no birth time, the son
  • Four Oscars and an Awards Ceremony

    By Alex Miller The 98th annual Academy Awards ceremony commences at 4 PM PDT on 15 March 2026 in Los Angeles, California, honoring films released in 2025.  Fully twenty performers are nominated in four acting categories, and speculation about who will win is always at fever pitch as the day approaches.  Astrology can give us […]
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