• 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
  • 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
  • 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
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  • 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
  • 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
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  • 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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  • Middle East tinderbox – thoughts from afar

      Trying to get a cohesive sense of where the present Middle Eastern debacle is heading is not easy. Qatar says the crisis will bring world economies down as oil runs out. There are ominous reports from the fear-mongering Daily Mail that Russia is feeding Iran info on where to bomb US warships. Other more substantial indicators are that Trump is trying to persuade the Kurds to move in on the ground which analysts say would open a Pandora’s box, risking fragmenting Iraq as well as Iran
  • Trump to DHS Sec Noem:  “You’re Fired!”

    By Alex Miller On Background:  On Thursday, 5 March 2026, US President Donald Trump exited Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem from her job, with a social media post.  Trump softened the blow by implying she was being promoted to Envoy of the Shield of the Americas, a hemispheric security council that Trump made […]
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  • Liza Minnelli – not for the faint hearted

    Liza Minelli has written a ‘rip-roaring new memoir’ Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! about her extraordinary and damaged upbringing with her mother Judy Garland from whom she inherited an addictive streak and an inclination to fall for gay men.  Garland battled serious addiction and mental health problems, having been pumped full of slimming, stimulating and sleeping drugs by the MGM studio system – and, Minnelli believes, by Garland’s own mother – from the early
  • Middle East – past oil crises and Saturn Pluto

      After initial consternation about the Middle Eastern conflagration and the closing of the Straits of Hormuz which control a fifth of the world’s oil and seaborne gas supply there are slivers of not exactly hope but possible ways out of the disaster without setting off World War 111. There are still those who reckon there will be the ‘worst oil supply crisis of the modern age, outstripping even the Arab oil embargo of 1973 or the first Gulf War in 1990.’ Balanced aga
  • Neil Sedaka – musical Pisces plus Neptune

    Another musical icon gone with the passing of Neil Sedaka at 86. He started as a teen idol in the 1950s and his hits are still played today – Stupid Cupid,(Is This The Way To) Amarillo, Oh! Carol, Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen and Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, Solitaire, Love Will Keep Us Together. He blamed the success of the Beatles in the 1960s for pushing him off centre stage but he resurrected his career and was still performing into his 80s.    He was born 13 March 1939 in New
  • Peru: One Day Without a President

    by Ana Andrade Over the past decade, Peru has experienced a prolonged cycle of presidential instability.  Yet the most recent event presents an especially striking symbolic convergence: the removal of the president occurred on 17 February 2026, the very day of a Solar Eclipse. In mundane astrology (1), Solar Eclipses have long been associated with […]
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