• Gaza – the end of times with no respite

    The mind-numbing stories from Gaza of a starving, traumatized population in mid winter, described by an Oxfam director as “apocalyptic” with no help in sight from an international community seemingly incapable of taking action is a sobering indictment of the times. The Israeli liberal newspaper Haaretz, now sanctioned by the Netanyahu government, relates stories from IDF soldiers about civilians, even children, being treated as combatants. ‘The regime of arbitrary, even competi
  • Blakey Lively & Justin Baldoni – Virgo Scorpio clash

    The fallout from the doomed domestic violence movie It Ends with Us rolls on with Blake Lively making accusations against her former co-star/director Justin Baldoni, filing a legal complaint claiming sexual harassment and making allegations of a coordinated PR effort to damage her reputation. What is astro-intriguing are two coincidences.  One is that she was born 25 August 1987 5.07am Tarzana, California. That makes her a Sun Mars in Virgo conjunction, the same as Dorothy Parker, Pete
  • Blake Lively & Justin Baldoni – Virgo Scorpio clash

    The fallout from the doomed domestic violence movie It Ends with Us rolls on with Blake Lively making accusations against her former co-star/director Justin Baldoni, filing a legal complaint claiming sexual harassment and making allegations of a coordinated PR effort to damage her reputation. What is astro-intriguing are two coincidences.  One is that she was born 25 August 1987 5.07am Tarzana, California. That makes her a Sun Mars in Virgo conjunction, the same as Dorothy Parker, Pete
  • Elon Musk – he who pays the piper ++ J.D. Vance

    The battle of the egos between Elon Musk and Trump has not so far incurred any noticeable damage to their bro-romance. Though Musk’s $250 million contribution to the Trump campaign with an eye to more in the future no doubt plays a part. The recent kerfuffle over the spending deal had led some to conclude that Musk could be used as a effective weapon to pressure Congress and be a scapegoat for any backlash. Musk born 28 June 1971 7.30 am (biography) Pretoria, South Africa, has a Cance
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  • Elon Musk – he who pays the piper

    The battle of the egos between Elon Musk and Trump has not so far incurred any noticeable damage to their bro-romance. Though Musk’s $250 million contribution to the Trump campaign with an eye to more in the future no doubt plays a part. The recent kerfuffle over the spending deal had led some to conclude that Musk could be used as a effective weapon to pressure Congress and be a scapegoat for any backlash. Musk born 28 June 1971 7.30 am (biography) Pretoria, South Africa, has a Cance
  • Peter Sellers – another Sun Mars in Virgo

    Peter Sellers renowned for his comic skills in the “Pink Panther” series, as well as “The Mouse that Roared“, “Dr. Strangelove” and most notably in Being There is admired in a recent biography. Though reviews suggest it skips over what a monster he was in reality. He married four times; had four children, including one illegitimate daughter he never met. Once during a marital fight, he tried to kill a puppy. Haunted by death he took drugs to enhance sex and ab
  • Mexico – on Trump’s blacklist + China, EU, UK

    Mexico in the full line of Trump’s wrath over immigrants and drugs could not be more star-crossed if their meeting was ruled by Kali, the goddess of destruction. Mexico, 15 September 1810 11 pm Dolores Hidalgo, has Trump’s Uranus sitting on its Ascendant, causing disruptions to its image, and square its 10th house Pluto shaking up its control on power and direction. His underhand 12th house Pluto is square the Mexico Uranus on the cusp of their work and health 6th. His Neptune i
  • Station to Station: The Abundant Life Christian School Shooting

    Station to Station:  The Abundant Life Christian School Shooting
    Alex Miller Sadly, while school shootings are not in short supply in the US, the incident on December 16, 2024 at a private religious school in Madison, Wisconsin does stand out in the crowd, notable for its all-female cast of characters.  Suspected shooter Natalie “Samantha” Rupnow, 15, apparently took her own life after murdering a […]
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  • Capricorn Ingress – tough climb ahead

    The Capricorn Ingress tomorrow – the Winter Solstice in the northern hemisphere –  has a sparsely aspected Sun square Neptune Scheat and the Aries North Node. Uranus still close to Algol is sextile Neptune Scheat.  There is a Mutable Grand Cross of Jupiter opposition Mercury square a Virgo Moon opposition Saturn for a highly-strung, overly-impressionable, scattered, changeable, up-and-down mood as fast-changing events shift the focus in several directions at once. The
  • Russia – approaching the witching hour

    All eyes are on Russia with the upcoming Saturn Neptune conjunction, a marker of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, of Stalin’s death in 1953 and the break up of the USSR in 1990. If the same astro-pattern holds good then Saturn overtaking Neptune will be the crucial period which means mid 2026 to early 2027. That coincides with flags on several of the related charts. The Russia 8 December 1991 7.45pm Moscow chart, has a ‘shocking’, explosive, insecure Solar Arc Mars conj
  • Rudolf the Red-Nosed Rock Chunk

    Rudolf the Red-Nosed Rock Chunk
    Alex Miller OK, actually, there are no visible red noses on this bit of space debris, but it does seem to have an affinity with persons instrumental in the development and dissemination of an American holiday classic, celebrating its 60th year in 2024. We all know the tale of Rudolph – a misfit reindeer, rejected […]
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  • Dominique Pelicot – France pondering misogyny ++ Fred West chart

      The grisly trial in France  of Dominique Pelicot and fifty others accused of raping his drugged wife Dominique over nine years has ended with guilty verdicts all round. It only came to light when videos were discovered on his computer by police investigating another crime. His wife has been given universal acclaim for her courage in coming forward publicly to back up the accusations. I am not altogether convinced by the birth data from wiki and would have expected it being Franc
  • Dominique Pelicot – France pondering misogyny

      The grisly trial in France  of Dominique Pelicot and fifty others accused of raping his drugged wife Dominique over nine years has ended with guilty verdicts all round. It only came to light when videos were discovered on his computer by police investigating another crime. His wife has been given universal acclaim for her courage in coming forward publicly to back up the accusations. I am not altogether convinced by the birth data from wiki and would have expected it being Franc
  • Canada 2025 – facing Trump’s threat

    Canada is in political turmoil as Trump, the great disruptor, throws a spoiler into the mix with his promised 25% tariff on all goods and services, causing the Deputy Prime Minister to resign saying that Justin Trudeau was not up to the job of confronting aggressive “America-first” economic nationalism.  Trudeau’s popularity was already plummeting and the blunt accusations from Chrystia Freeland, long seen as an ally, may well the tipping point which pushes him out. Though
  • Matt and Luke Goss – sibling split

    Matt Goss is back in the UK after an 11 year solo Vegas residency talking sadly of the estrangement from his twin brother Luke, formerly part of the teen sensation Bros in the late 1980s. They were the biggest band in Britain, peroxide bombshells in leather jackets with eight Top 10 singles. Then they split acrimoniously since apparently, Luke was jealous that Matt got more attention. They reformed for a 2016 London concert, the subject of a documentary in which the brothers scream at one anothe
  • Sara Sharif – a child care calamity

    The horror story of Sara Sharif’s life was laid bare in court with her father and stepmother finally found guilty of her murder after years of abuse and torture. The judge described the 10-year-old was as “a very courageous little girl with an unquenchable spirit” who loved to sing and dance. A postmortem found she had 71 external injuries, including bruises, burns, and human bite marks. She also had at least 25 fractures, including to the hyoid bone in her neck and 11 to her s
  • China 2025- even the mighty dragon will blink

    China has run into a setback of considerable proportions as of now with similar financial concerns as elsewhere ahead.  The China 1 January 1912 chart has the Progressed Mars opposition the Sun at the moment which will throw obstacles in its path to progress; with jolts and upsets in later March to May 2025; followed by a devastating Solar Arc Pluto square Neptune in 2026/27 alongside an insecure, explosive SA Uranus conjunct Mars. So it will have a bumpy ride as it adjusts to the new era.&
  • Bashar Bashed, Assad So Sad

    Bashar Bashed, Assad So Sad
    Alex Miller On Sunday, 8 December 2024, Syrian dictator-president Bashar al-Assad was ousted from power when rebel forces took over the capital of Damascus, effectively ending a civil war that had raged in the country since 2011.  A militant Islamist group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), led by Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, was the tip of the […]
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  • UK 2025- economic hit before improvements ++ Cabinet disarray

      The UK is facing a crunch point of its own with the 8th house Mars about to be detonated by Solar Arc Uranus over the coming few months. The 8th house rules international and business finances as well as deeper transformations. In the past when the UK Mars was under pressure it also accompanied significant disasters – train crashes, ferry sinkings, subway fires and the like. Uranus Mars tends to suggest a shock or an experience that feels like a collision. Tr Uranus is also in
  • UK 2025- economic hit before improvements

      The UK is facing a crunch point of its own with the 8th house Mars about to be detonated by Solar Arc Uranus over the coming few months. The 8th house rules international and business finances as well as deeper transformations. In the past when the UK Mars was under pressure it also accompanied significant disasters – train crashes, ferry sinkings, subway fires and the like. Uranus Mars tends to suggest a shock or an experience that feels like a collision. Tr Uranus is also in
  • Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences awarded for New Insights on the Differences in Prosperity between Nations

    Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences awarded for New Insights on the Differences in Prosperity between Nations
    Sue Kientz The 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity”(1) to three university professors and authors whose work is deeply focused on comparing the successes of different types of governments and theorizing on what works best for […]
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  • USA 2025 – a Cancerian moment of truth

    An elemental shift from Earth Water to Air Fire in 2025 and beyond will pose challenges for the USA’s stellium in Cancer. Cancer dislikes letting go, tends to airbrush the past, gets overly defensive when criticized, tends to be conservative and traditional in outlook and views detached Aquarius as a liberally-minded rebel and a threat to family togetherness.  In Sun sign astrology, Pluto into Aquarius will be moving through Cancer’s 8th house of economy and finances. Saturn Nep
  • Dorothy Parker – a mean, sad Virgo ++ quotes ++ husband ++ South Korea’s Lady Macbeth

    Dorothy Parker, the original Queen of Mean, with acerbic one liners that went down in history, eventually ended up in Hollywood. A new biography which relates her later years shows her as a brilliant wit and wasted talent, as she never overcame her addiction to carousing and alcohol.  Behind the piercing wit she was sad, at times suicidal. But despite her best self-destructive efforts she lived to be 73. She was born 22 August 1893  at 9.50pm West End, New Jersey. Her mother died when
  • Dorothy Parker – a mean, sad Virgo ++ quotes ++ husband

    Dorothy Parker, the original Queen of Mean, with acerbic one liners that went down in history, eventually ended up in Hollywood. A new biography which relates her later years shows her as a brilliant wit and wasted talent, as she never overcame her addiction to carousing and alcohol.  Behind the piercing wit she was sad, at times suicidal. But despite her best self-destructive efforts she lived to be 73. She was born 22 August 1893  at 9.50pm West End, New Jersey. Her mother died when
  • Dorothy Parker – a mean, sad Virgo ++ quotes

    Dorothy Parker, the original Queen of Mean, with acerbic one liners that went down in history, eventually ended up in Hollywood. A new biography which relates her later years shows her as a brilliant wit and wasted talent, as she never overcame her addiction to carousing and alcohol.  Behind the piercing wit she was sad, at times suicidal. But despite her best self-destructive efforts she lived to be 73. She was born 22 August 1893  at 9.50pm West End, New Jersey. Her mother died when
  • Dorothy Parker – a mean, sad Virgo

    Dorothy Parker, the original Queen of Mean, with acerbic one liners that went down in history, eventually ended up in Hollywood. A new biography which relates her later years shows her as a brilliant wit and wasted talent, as she never overcame her addiction to carousing and alcohol.  Behind the piercing wit she was sad, at times suicidal. But despite her best self-destructive efforts she lived to be 73. She was born 22 August 1893  at 9.50pm West End, New Jersey. Her mother died when
  • 2025 – Earth Water changes to Air Fire

    An inauspicious start to 2025 with a logjammed Mars opposition Pluto on January 3rd bringing high tensions in the days before will put a damper on New Year celebrations. Though nothing will stay the same for long in a fast-moving, ever-changing year. Astro-details for the year ahead. Pluto is now firmly into Aquarius, staying till 2043/44, with whatever social changes that will bring; with Mars making another aggravated opposition to Pluto in late April and a square in time for the Septembe
  • Nobel Peace Prize Awarded for Continuing Efforts to Free World of Nuclear Weapons

    Nobel Peace Prize Awarded for Continuing Efforts to Free World of Nuclear Weapons
    Sue Kientz The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to an organization of survivors of nuclear bomb blasts, specifically the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear attacks and Pacific atomic bomb tests of the mid-20th Century. The group advocates for the support of these survivors, in Japan referred to as hibakusha, and its members seek to […]
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  • Prince Andrew – down in the woods today ++ Andrew and Queen Elizabeth, a Neptunian fog

    ‘The gift that keeps on giving’ in the portly form of Prince Andrew must be delighting the anti-monarchy lobby with more revelations this time about a Chinese spy, once an invitee to an Andrew birthday party in recent years, now banned from entry to the UK as a security risk. He was evidently a close confident of the prince who was seeking investors in China. Letters and texts revealed in an inquiry showed the Chinese authorities regarded access to Windsor as a prize.   The
  • Prince Andrew – down in the woods today

    ‘The gift that keeps on giving’ in the portly form of Prince Andrew must be delighting the anti-monarchy lobby with more revelations this time about a Chinese spy, once an invitee to an Andrew birthday party in recent years, now banned from entry to the UK as a security risk. He was evidently a close confident of the prince who was seeking investors in China. Letters and texts revealed in an inquiry showed the Chinese authorities regarded access to Windsor as a prize.   The
  • Literature Nobel Awarded for “poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”*

    Literature Nobel Awarded for “poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”*
    Sue Kientz The 2024 Literature Nobel Prize has been awarded to a single individual, novelist Han Kang, who is the first Nobel Laureate in Literature from South Korea, as well as the first Asian woman so honored.(1) Kang has written a number of works over her two-decade career, most notably The Vegetarian (2007), Human Acts […]
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  • Selena Gomez – Mars Pluto strong woman

    Selena Gomez, singer, actress and businesswoman, is on a roll with two Golden Globe nominations this week for the operatic musical Emilia Pérez and the other for TV’s Only Murders in the Building. This year she also joined the billionaire celebrity rich list, amassing a $1.3bn (£1bn) fortune, mainly from her Rare Beauty make-up company. And has just announced her engagement to record producer Benny Blanco, which happy news she shared with her 423 million Instagram followers.&n
  • Lily Phillips – social media sinks to the depths ++ Bonnie Blue

    A tawdry modern tale of warped social media fandom features a 23 year old OnlyFans and porn star Lily Phillips who catapulted to the TikTok viral stratosphere in October after having sex with 101 men in a single day.  Born 23 July 2001 in England, she made it to Sheffield University but dropped out when she started in the adult entertainment industry. She has made a reputed £2 million from OnlyFans. A story I would normally avoid except her chart is worth a glimpse. A Sun Leo opp
  • Lily Phillips – social media sinks to the depths

    A tawdry modern tale of warped social media fandom features a 23 year old OnlyFans and porn star Lily Phillips who catapulted to the TikTok viral stratosphere in October after having sex with 101 men in a single day.  Born 23 July 2001 in England, she made it to Sheffield University but dropped out when she started in the adult entertainment industry. She has made a reputed £2 million from OnlyFans. A story I would normally avoid except her chart is worth a glimpse. A Sun Leo opp
  • Jay-Z – fighting off damaging allegations

    Guilty of raping a minor or a brazen shakedown for cash? The media frenzy around allegations against Jay-z, furiously denied, have so far muddied the water and drawn Jennifer Lopez, once part of a Diddy Coombs twosome into the story. It appears to be a civil not criminal complaint with the accuser staying out of the limelight. Jay-Z, 4 December 1969, no birth time, had a downbeat tr Saturn square his Sagittarius Sun when the story surfaced. 2025 sees some emotional upsets with tr Uranus opp
  • Chemistry Nobel Awarded for Protein Design and Structure Prediction

    Chemistry Nobel Awarded for Protein Design and Structure Prediction
    Sue Kientz The 2024 Chemistry Nobel Prize, awarded for groundbreaking discoveries in understanding the structure and folding order of protein structures, is another win for Artificial Intelligence, the second for this year. Those honored from Physiology/Medicine, Physics, and now Chemistry, are truly working on the absolute cutting edge of their fields, lifting the veil on […]
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  • Luigi Mangione – anger, obstinacy and Pisces ++ Anders Brevik chart

    Luigi Mangione arrested for the shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson appears to have been born 6 May 1998 in Pennsylvania. Lauded by some as a folk hero for standing up against an avaricious health care system, he has been condemned by others. His writings glorified Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, a domestic terrorist who believed that killing was justifiable in pursuit of his campaign against advancing technology and the destruction of the natural environment.Mangione’s grandfat
  • Luigi Mangione – anger, obstinacy and Pisces

    Luigi Mangione arrested for the shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson appears to have been born 6 May 1998 in Pennsylvania. Lauded by some as a folk hero for standing up against an avaricious health care system, he has been condemned by others. His writings glorified Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, a domestic terrorist who believed that killing was justifiable in pursuit of his campaign against advancing technology and the destruction of the natural environment.Mangione’s grandfat
  • January 6 – rerunning old battles

    Trump is threatening the January 6 Capitol Hill riot investigation committee members with prison in the same breath as he insists he will pardon the convicted lawbreakers. This is the rapidest look at four relevant charts. Liz Cheney, 28 July 1966 11.57pm Washington, DC, with tr Neptune conjunct her Saturn throughout 2025 won’t be anything but uncertain and discouraged in the immediate future. Though her Solar Arc Jupiter conjunct her Pluto and then Uranus late 2026 and 2027 looks lik
  • Asma Assad – Taurus Algol profiteer

    The fall of the House of Assad has turned the spotlight back on the mafia state in Syria which crushed dissent for decades, killed countless hundreds of thousands and wrecked a country rich in natural resources, with an ancient history and a strategic position on the Mediterranean. Hafez Assad, 6 October 1930, described as “a cold and calculated political and security operative” – a Mars, Pluto, Jupiter in Cancer trine Venus in Scorpio which was opposition Algol; with a Li
  • Physics Nobel Awarded for Machine Learning Tools

    Physics Nobel Awarded for Machine Learning Tools
    Sue Kientz The Astrology News Service’s week examining the 2024 Nobel Prize winners continues with the Physics prize, the first Nobel to honor achievements in the topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Specifically, the two honorees in Physics both developed tools now used in machine learning. Physics Nobel Winners Neither John Hopfield nor Gary Hinton was […]
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  • Revolutionaries – Robespierre to Mandela ++ Collins, Gandhi

    “Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.” T.E. Lawrence.With revolution in the air, a look at the charts of leaders who led the charge. Maximilien Robespierre was the flag bearer for the French Revolution, though he only lasted two years after the storming of the Bastille to face death by guillotine as
  • Revolutionaries – Robespierre to Mandela

    With revolution in the air, a look at the charts of leaders who led the charge. Maximilien Robespierre was the flag bearer for the French Revolution, though he only lasted two years after the storming of the Bastille to face death by guillotine as he had condemned the aristocracy before him in the “Reign of Terror”. The revolutionary years did not last long with Napoleon Bonaparte taking over just after the turn of the century. Robespierre born 6 May 1758 2am Arras France, had a
  • Physiology/Medicine Nobel Awarded for MicroRNA Discovery

    Physiology/Medicine Nobel Awarded for MicroRNA Discovery
    Sue Kientz This week the 2024 Nobel Prizes are being awarded on Tuesday, December 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death in 1896. The prizes are always presented on December 10th each year in Stockholm, Sweden, except for the Nobel Peace Prize, which is bestowed in Oslo, Norway. Beginning in early October each year, when […]
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  • Assad falls – a shift in the great power game

    The tectonic plates in the great power game are shifting on cue with the outer planet transitions and an October Solar Eclipse pointing to a time of completion and separation from the past.  The fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is marked in the date of the original military coup which brought his repressive father to power on 13 November 1970. That happened with Neptune at zero degrees Sagittarius and Pluto at 29 Virgo. The Assad Dynasty born on a change, dies on a change, albeit a
  • Nigel Farage – trailblazer or chaos creator

    The collapse of the old left-right political battleground in the UK has led to Reform stepping up as a viable alternative with a recent polls giving Reform (24%) the edge on Labour (23%) with Tories just ahead (26%). Even Morgan McSweeney, the PM’s chief of staff, said it is unclear who Labour’s main opponents will be come 2029.  [Major caveats include polls being notoriously unreliable; and Starmer et al may not make it for a full term.]  However Nigel Farage for all his o
  • How Asteroids Are Named

    How Asteroids Are Named
    Sue Kientz For years, most of celebrity naming of asteroids was done by a woman in the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (a NASA center). This is because many asteroids are discovered by automation. Often there is no one person who finds them; they are found during “earth threat” […]
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  • USA healthcare – next term turmoil

    The street shooting of Brian Thompson CEO of UnitedHealth Group, the largest insurance provider in the US, has brought into focus consumer rage against the trillion dollar healthcare business. Social media is awash with Americans’ dire experiences at the hands of health insurance companies and outrage at the large profits that they generate. United Healthcare is one of the biggest companies in the world, valued on the market at $539bn and is renowned as one of the worst for rejecting claim
  • Romania – alarm at election interference

    Romania’s constitutional court has annulled the result of the first round of voting in the presidential election after it was won by Calin Georgescu, an almost unknown far-right Nato-sceptic who has previously praised Vladimir Putin. The decision came after suggestions that  he benefitted from a mass influence operation, assumed to be Russian, to interfere with the result of the vote. Born 26 March 1962 in Bucharest, he is a far-right politician and prominent conspiracy theorist,
  • Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Asteroid!

    Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Asteroid!
    Alex Miller Whizzing about the sun in its nearly five-year cycle, asteroid Santa hasn’t yet been imaged closely, so we can’t be sure it isn’t being pulled in its orbit by eight tiny reindeer.  But the odds are against it.  However, what we do know about this rock chunk’s relationship to the jolly old elf […]
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