• Sparks to a Flame:  Arson at the PA Governor’s Mansion

    Sparks to a Flame:  Arson at the PA Governor’s Mansion
    By Alex Miller On 13 April 2025, 38-year-old Cody Balmer allegedly scaled an iron security fence at the Pennsylvania Governor’s Residence in Harrisburg, PA, armed with a small sledgehammer and several homemade incendiary devices.  Balmer told police he intended to beat PA Governor Josh Shapiro with the hammer, but, unable to locate him, started a […]
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  • Barack and Michelle – two strong individuals

    Barack and Michelle Obama’s marriage is under scrutiny in the popular media because of her non-appearance at a couple of events with him. Although she has come out recently to defend her right to choose what she does for herself. Standing behind her husband’s political ambitions was a sacrifice for her, requiring she cut back and then give up on her previous legal profession.  Theirs is a Saturnine relationship giving longevity and endurance though cutting back on warmth as duty
  • Edward & Alexandra – elegance and excess

    Britain’s age of excess started as stuffy Queen Victoria died in 1901 and her pleasure-loving son, ‘Dirty Bertie’, King Edward V11 took over as monarch for nine years along with his style-icon Queen Alexandra.  An exhibition devoted to The Edwardians: Age of Elegance will be on display in Buckingham Palace, showing paintings, sculpture, jewellery, furniture, books, photographs and ceramics.  Born 9 November 1841 10.48am London, playboy Edward was not kn
  • Taking the Plunge:  Mr. Trump’s Wild Market Ride

    Taking the Plunge:  Mr. Trump’s Wild Market Ride
    By Alex Miller After the US stock markets closed on Wednesday, 2 April 2025, President Donald Trump announced the imposition of his much-touted “beautiful” tariffs, dubbing the event “Liberation Day.”  Tariffs were applied to virtually every nation on the globe, some as steep as 49%, on all goods imported into the US.  Investor reaction was […]
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  • David Hockney – walking his own road

    David Hockney regarded as among the world’s greatest living artists is opening his biggest ever show in Paris, filling 11 room across four floors. Two years ago, when they started planning the exhibition, “I just thought I probably wouldn’t be here”, he says. “I’m still a smoker, a happy smoker fed up of bossy people telling you what to do.” He is in poor health, having two full-time carers but still paints for four to six hours every day.He was a signif
  • Trump Courts Disaster with “Beautiful” Tariffs

    By Sue Kientz On Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in Washington, DC, President Donald Trump announced new tariffs he planned to levy on countries all over the world.(1) Labeling the occasion “Liberation Day,” the event was treated as a celebration, claiming the United States was at the brink of boundless prosperity. Unfortunately, there was a “catch.” […]
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  • Pluto – adding power to energy

    Pluto is the other half of the story in the final week since it squares the Sun on the 23rd before opposing Mars on the 27th – and will be in effect for a few days before since slow-moving Pluto builds up a head of steam before the exact aspect. From a previous post:Pluto, the planet of transformation, ruler of inexorable and seismic changes, a wrecking ball and a reconstructor, moved into Aquarius in late March 2023 to stay for two decades. On an individual chart it will have an
  • Mars Pluto – testing courage and confidence

    Mars Pluto is hoving back into view aiming for a direct opposition on the 27th; with the Sun squaring Mars and Pluto in the days before. All of which will add up to an aggravated and frustrating finish to what has already been a tumultuous month. The edgy mood will run into the middle of May when the opposition wanes.Mars Pluto hard aspects (conjunction, square, opposition) tend to coincide with ruthless actions or disasters. The Hamas attack of 7 October 2023 had Mars in Libra square Pluto.&nbs
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  • The Great Gatsby – echoing today’s immorality

    The ‘great American novel’ Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is celebrating its 100 anniversary this week. His take on the excesses of the Neptune in Leo Roaring Twenties has become for many a definitive statement on unaccountable elites today. “They were careless people . . . they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other peop
  • Virginia Giuffre & Prince Andrew – both in crisis

      Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s teenage acquisitions, who won a multimillion-pound payout from Prince Andrew after claiming she was trafficked to have sex with him at the age of 17, appears to be in a crisis. She claimed she  had only ‘four days to live’ after suffering kidney failure in the crash despite it being a minor collision and there also appears to be  an alleged breach of a family violence restraining order presumably related to her now sep
  • Israel and Palestine – no end in sight to suffering

    Israel’s miliary occupation of Gaza, intended to encourage a mass exodus of the local population, and to pressure Hamas to release the remaining 59 captives, 24 of whom are believed to be alive, has been pushed down the news agenda. Against the protests of hostage families, the ceasefire brokered by Trump’s emissary is fading into memory. The far-right factions in Netanyahu’s cabinet, on whom his political survival depends, oppose moving to the second phase of the ceasefire and
  • Trump tariffs – sound the trumpets for a disaster? ++ Howard Lutnick ++ April 9th starting pistol sounds

    Trump’s grandstanding ‘liberation day’ as he launched a trade war with tariffs for all the world like a gameshow host has fulfilled one of his aims, namely drawing the attention of the world to him.  He timed his bombshell announcement unwittingly with astrological precision at 4pm Washington, DC time. The destructive Fixed Star Algol was exactly conjunct the Midheaven; and the shipwreck Scheat plus unrealistic Neptune were on the cusp of the financial 8th. There was a con
  • Trump tariffs – sound the trumpets for a disaster? ++ Howard Lutnick

    Trump’s grandstanding ‘liberation day’ as he launched a trade war with tariffs for all the world like a gameshow host has fulfilled one of his aims, namely drawing the attention of the world to him.  He timed his bombshell announcement unwittingly with astrological precision at 4pm Washington, DC time. The destructive Fixed Star Algol was exactly conjunct the Midheaven; and the shipwreck Scheat plus unrealistic Neptune were on the cusp of the financial 8th. There was a con
  • Trump tariffs – sound the trumpets for a disaster?

    Trump’s grandstanding ‘liberation day’ as he launched a trade war with tariffs for all the world like a gameshow host has fulfilled one of his aims, namely drawing the attention of the world to him.  He timed his bombshell announcement unwittingly with astrological precision at 4pm Washington, DC time. The destructive Fixed Star Algol was exactly conjunct the Midheaven; and the shipwreck Scheat plus unrealistic Neptune were on the cusp of the financial 8th. There was a con
  • Celebrating Casanova’s 300th Birthday

    Celebrating Casanova’s 300th Birthday
    By Sue Kientz Part of the fun of astrology is looking at the birth charts of historical figures from long ago and peering into their secrets. With someone like Giacomo Casanova, the notorious Venetian lover, writer, adventurer, conman, astrologer, alchemist, and pseudo-magician who traveled all over Europe in the 18th Century, you must be an […]
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  • Val Kilmer – a talented and troubled soul

     Actor Val Kilmer, renowned for Top Gun and Batman Forever, has died after a long battle with throat cancer. He gained a reputation as “temperamental, intense, a perfectionist and sometimes egotistical.” Numerous spats with directors and co-stars, plus a series of flops, dented his later career. Batman director Joel Schumacher called Kilmer “the most psychologically troubled human being I’ve ever worked with”.And after the notoriously troubled production o
  • Corey Booker leads a Democrat pushback

    Democrat Corey Booker has broken the record for the longest speech in US Senate history after speaking for more than 25 hours without a bathroom break to deliver a marathon protest of the policies of Trump. He said the threats to American democracy were “grave and urgent”. Born 27 April 1969 1.10 am Washington, DC (from memory) he is a determined Taurus Sun conjunct Saturn in late Aries in his communication 3rd house. His Saturn is further emphasized being on the focal point of
  • Questions & Relevant Facts

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  • Peter Thiel – right-wing with a mind of his own

    Peter Thiel, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist, net worth stood  US$16.2 billion, a co-founder of PayPal, gave money to the Trump 2016 campaign but not this one. He is an elusive character, describing himself as a conservative libertarian. He has  criticized economically-liberal attitudes towards free trade and big tech, is pro stricter border control, restrictive immigration policy, funds for veterans, and anti-interventionist foreign policy, among other things.
  • Canada Goes to the Polls

    Canada Goes to the Polls
    By Laurien Rueger Only nine days after being sworn in, Canada’s new prime minister Mark Carney called a federal election for April 28, 2025. (1) Political pundits are calling this one of the most consequential elections in Canadian history. The unofficial ballot box question is, “Which party leader will be the best prime minister to […]
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  • Stock Markets in shock as tariffs loom

    Stock markets across the world fell heavily after Trump suggested that new tariffs he is expected to announce this week would hit “all countries”. An explanatory piece in the FT pointed out he is driven by realpolitik which is practical, not moral or ideological. “If Trump thinks tariffs will help him, he won’t care who they’ll hurt.” On this theory, the dollar has to weaken to support re-industrialisation. He also reckons that “burden sharing betwe
  • Marine Le Pen – knocked off course ++ La France in turmoil, Bardella etc

    Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, has been banned from standing for office for five years and sentenced to jail after being convicted of embezzling EU funds. She was handed a four-year jail sentence, of which two years are suspended, would only begin once no further legal recourse after appeals remains. She was also fined €100,000. The court ruling is likely to block Le Pen from running in the 2027 presidential election, for which she was one of the favourites.  Born 5 August
  • Marine Le Pen – knocked off course

    Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, has been banned from standing for office for five years and sentenced to jail after being convicted of embezzling EU funds. She was handed a four-year jail sentence, of which two years are suspended, would only begin once no further legal recourse after appeals remains. She was also fined €100,000. The court ruling is likely to block Le Pen from running in the 2027 presidential election, for which she was one of the favourites.  Born 5 August
  • Pete Hegseth: Should he stay or should he go?

    Pete Hegseth: Should he stay or should he go?
    By Sue Kientz This hit song title by The Clash, slightly rephrased, is haunting Washington in the wake of “Signal-gate,” the scandal that surfaced March 24, 2025, of 18 top-level Trump appointees, many in his cabinet, who were caught texting about a military strike on the Houthis on commercial app Signal.(1) This stunning break in […]
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  • Richard Chamberlain – a screen icon of yesteryear

    Actor Richard Chamberlain, once renowned as the “king of the mini-series” for his leading roles in Shogun and The Thorn Birds, as well as in the 1960s medical drama Dr Kildare has died aged 90, a day before his birthday.   He was born 31 March 1934 6.20pm Los Angeles with an alcoholic, emotionally abusive father. Often seen squiring beautiful women at premieres he finally came out as gay in 2003 and talked of the relief he felt at not having to hide his sexuality any more.&
  • Myanmar Earthquake Rocks Southeast Asia

    Myanmar Earthquake Rocks Southeast Asia
    By Rod Chang A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck Myanmar at 12:50 PM local time on 28 March 2025 near Mandalay, Myanmar’s second largest city. Even in Bangkok, a thousand kilometers away, buildings collapsed. The news and images of the collapsed buildings were very frightening for many people. From an astrological perspective, the fact that this […]
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  • Greenland – united against intimidation – Vance and Usha out of sorts

    On Greenland: Trump: “It’s an island that we need. And we’re going to have to have it.”JD Vance: “I think Greenland understands that the United States should own it. And if Denmark and the EU don’t understand it, we have to explain it to them. We need Greenland for international security.”Greenland, a former Danish colony, is a semi-autonomous territory within the kingdom of Denmark and its foreign and security policies are run by Copenhagen. Trump argue
  • Myanamar & Thailand – earthquake disaster

      The Aries Solar Eclipse of March 29th is certainly living up to its turbulent Saros Series with a major 7.7 magnitude earthquake hitting Myanamar and Thailand with many dead and injured.  It is the strongest quake to hit Thailand since the 1839 Ava Earthquake, of 8.3 in magnitude. The Partial Solar Eclipse of 29th March located to Mandalay has Venus, Saturn, North Node and Scheat all on the chart axis conjunct the Descendant. The previous Lunar Eclipse has Mars conjunct the
  • Prince Harry – charity woes

    Sentebale, the Lesotho charity[ founded in 2006 to help children and adolescents struggling to come to terms with their HIV and AIDS diagnosis has been torn apart by a rancorous dispute between the chairman, a Zimbabwean lawyer, Dr Sophie Chandauka, and the founders Prince Harry and Prince Seeiso of Lesotho and the board of trustees. It was initially set up in April 2006 in honour of Princess Diana. On a quick skip through the tabloids it would seem to be
  • The New Moon’s Energetic News: Aries

    The New Moon’s Energetic News: Aries
     by Lynne Hyde We have not had all five outer planets change Signs within one year of each other for over three centuries. That time is explosively upon us again, unfolding right now in this wild year of 2025.  Pluto entered Aquarius last November, four months ago. Neptune will enter Aries Sunday, March 30th. Uranus […]
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  • RIP George Foreman

    RIP George Foreman
    by Alex Miller Former World Heavyweight Champion George Foreman passed away in Houston, Texas on 21 March 2025, mourned by boxing fans across the globe.  Foreman was a staple of 1970s professional boxing, winning the title in 1973, in a stunning smackdown of undefeated Joe Frazier.  He held the title for just a year, retiring […]
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  • Adolescence – Stephen Graham v Andrew Tate

    Adolescence, a Netflix mini-series, about knife crime, social media, male rage, toxic masculinity and the impact pernicious, misogynistic online influencers like Andrew Tate can have on young men has become a surprise hit. Created by actor Stephen Graham and his wife it follows the case of a 13-year-old boy arrested for killing a female classmate. A reviewer wrote: “Adolescence is a loud wake-up call to parents who are raising children in times of social media… I grew up o
  • Rachel Reeves – facing unpopular choices

    Rachel Reeves, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, is facing flak from all directions as she is poised to make £5 billion welfare cuts and hack back the civil service at a time when inflation is rising, borrowing costs are up, the economy is flatlining and defence costs are rising. She does have tr Uranus square her Aquarius Sun exactly at the moment and moving to square her Mercury in Aquarius from mid May so the over-wrought, excitably irritable mood will roll on. On top of that tr Nept
  • George Foreman, Eddie Jordan, IOC – winning and losing

    A sporting round up with two greats – George Foreman and Eddie Jordan gone and the IOC (Olympic Committee) facing the fall-out from a questionable election result.George Foreman, 10 January 1949, 9.15pm Marshall, Texas, was a heavyweight boxing champion and Olympic gold medallist who in his career had 76 wins and only five losses, one of them  against Muhammad Ali. After retiring he became a minister as well as a successful businessman leaving behind $300 million (£236.24m), mos
  • Heathrow Fire – solar eclipse as forecast

    A fire which knocked out power to Heathrow Airport, the busiest airport in Europe, has raised questions about how well infrastructure is protected in the UK, whether from accidental damage or from deliberate sabotage. What is clear is it fits the pattern of the Solar Arc Uranus conjunct the UK 8th house Mars drawing ever closer. See previous post: Oil Tanker crash – UK 8th house red alert 11th March 2025.  The fire broke out at a sub-station close to Heathrow just after 11 pm on
  • Trump Gets Checked by Chief Justice Roberts

    Trump Gets Checked by Chief Justice Roberts
    By Sue Kientz Now we know what Saturn (22 Pisces), representing tradition, authority, and rule of law, had in store for Donald Trump when it moved exactly square (90 degrees) Trump’s Sun (22 Gemini)(1) on Tuesday, March 18, a position that is symbolically chastising. That’s when Trump was admonished by the top judge in the […]
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  • Turner and Constable – sky and earth

    Turner and Constable were two landscape artists of genius, born within a year of each other, whom art history has been keen to see as rivals. Though they had different subject matter, backgrounds and temperaments and both have gone down as world class talents so any confected conflict is an irrelevance. Turner is best known for his skyscapes and Constable for his idyllic country scenes leading Frank Auerbach to say: “There isn’t a Turner that doesn’t somehow fly and there isn&r
  • THE CAPRICORN INGRESS, WINTER SOLSTICE

    THE CAPRICORN INGRESS, WINTER SOLSTICE
      By Ray Merriman [In honor of International Astrology Day, ANS is pleased to reprint this excerpt from noted financial astrologer Ray Merriman’s “Forecast 2025.” Astrologers use the charts for the seasonal changes to interpret upcoming conditions and challenges in the quarter ahead. Written in September 2024, before the US general election, and first published […]
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  • Trump’s Tainted Touch – SCOTUS, Netanyhu, Fed Reserve ++ Zaporizhzhia

     Neptune may finally be showing its hand as Donald Trump’s miscalculations begin to undermine his bellicose platform. The Nobel Peace prize recedes into the distance as Netanyahu and Putin both short circuit his promise of instant settlements of conflicts and the economy creaks under the boomerang effect of tariffs.  On  a 10.54  am birth time in his personal chart tr Neptune is now entering his 8th house for many years to come, starting off with a conjunction to the sh
  • Trump’s Tainted Touch – SCOTUS, Netanyhu, Fed Reserve

    Neptune may finally be showing its hand as Donald Trump’s miscalculations begin to undermine his bellicose platform. The Nobel Peace prize recedes into the distance as Netanyahu and Putin both short circuit his promise of instant settlements of conflicts and the economy creaks under the boomerang effect of tariffs.  On  a 10.54  am birth time in his personal chart tr Neptune is now entering his 8th house for many years to come, starting off with a conjunction to the shipwrec
  • Mark Carney: Canada’s New Prime Minister

    Mark Carney:  Canada’s New Prime Minister
    by Laurien Rueger Mark Carney, former governor for both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, was sworn in as Canada’s 24th prime minister on March 14th, 2025, in a no-nonsense ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa.(1) Carney will have his hands full dealing not just with a growing trade war with the […]
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  • Paul Gauguin – his image given a makeover ++ Vincent van Gogh

    Paul Gauguin, the French artist renowned for his Tahitian paintings has had his image restored in a new book, based on recently discovered material. Condemned until recently as a French colonialist who spread syphilis to underage girls in the South Seas, it now emerges he never suffered from the disease and was much revered in Polynesia both by the girls he married and the local community for his fight against the corrupt French authorities. He was born 7 June 1848 10 am Paris, amidst the t
  • Paul Gauguin – his image given a makeover

    Paul Gauguin, the French artist renowned for his Tahitian paintings has had his image restored in a new book, based on recently discovered material. Condemned until recently as a French colonialist who spread syphilis to underage girls in the South Seas, it now emerges he never suffered from the disease and was much revered in Polynesia both by the girls he married and the local community for his fight against the corrupt French authorities. He was born 7 June 1848 10 am Paris, amidst the t
  • Cuba After Dark:  Massive Power Outages Plague Caribbean Nation

    Cuba After Dark:  Massive Power Outages Plague Caribbean Nation
    On Friday 14 March 2025, the fourth major power outage in six months struck Cuba, plunging much of the country into darkness with no electrical power for millions.  The outage began at approximately 8:15 PM EDT and has been traced to the failure of a substation in the Havana suburbs, leading to a total blackout […]
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  • Jupiter – has an upside and a downside ++ George Orwell

    Eternally optimistic, luck-bringing Jupiter is given a forensic makeover in Liz Greene’s latest book  – By Jove! The Meaning of the Astrological Jupiter.    She emphasizes Jupiter is a good deal more enigmatic and less predictable than usually portrayed. At best it brings a connection to a meaningful and greater pattern, faith in the future, the courage to pursue a vision and can foster humour and joy.   But a natal Jupiter can also bring a reluctance to take
  • Jupiter – has an upside and a downside

    Eternally optimistic, luck-bringing Jupiter is given a forensic makeover in Liz Greene’s latest book  – By Jove! The Meaning of the Astrological Jupiter.    She emphasizes Jupiter is a good deal more enigmatic and less predictable than usually portrayed. At best it brings a connection to a meaningful and greater pattern, faith in the future, the courage to pursue a vision and can foster humour and joy.   But a natal Jupiter can also bring a reluctance to take
  • Tesla – running out of road ++ SpaceX

    Electrical carmaker Tesla’s share price has dropped 40% since the start of the year, mainly due to a drop in sales over the past year though founder Elon Musk’s close alliance with Trump is hurting the brand and worries about tariffs affecting supply chains are also part of the problem.  Tesla, 1 July 2003,  with Saturn, Mercury, Sun all in Cancer, catching the undermining tr Neptune Saturn in Aries square from 2026 through till 2030 does not look successful. Plus tr Uranus
  • Tesla – running out of road

    Electrical carmaker Tesla’s share price has dropped 40% since the start of the year, mainly due to a drop in sales over the past year though founder Elon Musk’s close alliance with Trump is hurting the brand and worries about tariffs affecting supply chains are also part of the problem.  Tesla, 1 July 2003,  with Saturn, Mercury, Sun all in Cancer, catching the undermining tr Neptune Saturn in Aries square from 2026 through till 2030 does not look successful. Plus tr Uranus
  • Snow White – dragged into tiffs and miffs

       The magic mirror of Snow White has been obscured by a box-office denting series of missteps, plunging the children’s favourite into bumpy terrain with controversies over feminism, racism, dwarfism and unbelievably the Israel-Palestine conflict.  Much appears due to lead actress Rachel Zegler, Golden Globe winner for West Side Story. Admittedly she had to fend off offensive criticism about Snow White being played by a Latina actress, but she did not help herself by launchi
  • Rodrigo Duterte – facing international sanctions

    Rodrigo Duterte, former Philippines president, is now under arrest in the Hague by the International Criminal Court (ICC) charged over his indiscriminate killings without trial during his “war in drugs” while in power.  The official toll stands at 6,000, though activists believe the real figure could run into the tens of thousands. He is the first Asian former head of state to be indicted by the ICC and the first suspect to be flown to The Hague in three years. It is a pivo

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