• Station to Station: Canterbury Tales

    Station to Station:  Canterbury Tales
    Alex Miller Geoffrey Chaucer might have called this “The Smith’s Tale.”  On 12 November 2024, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, leader of the 85-million member Anglican Church, resigned his office in response to an outcry about a lack of accountability among church hierarchy.  The indignation and anger were spawned by a Church of England investigation […]
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  • Uranus switching from earth to air

    Uranus will be the fourth outer planet to change sign this coming July which will bring new advances and innovations.Uranus, the lightning god, promoter of freedom, independence, revolutions, scientific inventions, as well as anarchic chaos. Wary of emotional intimacy, at a personal level it can seem cold, unco-operative, belligerent about compromise which Uranus equates with loss of individuality.  Uranus was the sky god married to Gaia the earth mother. He was ultimately castrated by his
  • Uranus Return – coming full cycle

    Uranus, the sky god, is a trailblazer, a catalyst for change and a lightning striker, illuminating what has become stuck and needs a sharp wake up call. Uncompromising and uncooperative, it fights for tolerance and freedom and can be anarchic and lawless as well as an idealist and humanitarian.It moves into Gemini for the first time in 84 years and for some countries this signals a Uranus Return which does appear to coincide with historic markers.  The USA had its first Uranus Return in 186
  • Pluto in Aquarius – through houses and signs

    Pluto, the planet of transformation, ruler of inexorable and seismic changes, a wrecking ball and a reconstructor, is now firmly into Aquarius to stay for two decades. On an individual chart it will have an effect depending on the chart house which it moves through and which planets it aspects. Transiting Pluto through a chart house makes the strongest impact at the start of a house transit so for the moment it will be worth paying attention where a house cusp is in early degrees.  Not
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  • Pluto into Aquarius – how history repeats

    Pluto finally moves into Aquarius for the long haul, having been retrograding across the cusp since last year and now stays permanently until 2043. At best Aquarius is about friendship, fostering social groups, is tolerant of difference and diversity, androgynous and unconcerned about binary gender distinctions, scientific, knowledgeable, interested in pushing back boundaries and exploring the distant past. Its downside can be stubbornness, lack of empathy, a tendency to analyze rather than feel
  • Nordic countries – heighten alert levels

    Nordic countries are on edge with underwater telecoms cables in the Baltic Sea being cut which is regarded as possible sabotage. Swedish citizens being issued with a pamphlet advising the population how to prepare and cope in the event of war or another unexpected crisis. Norwegians are also getting updated advice. And Finland has issued its own fresh advice on “preparing for incidents and crises”, and explains how the government would respond in the event of an armed attack, stressi
  • Neptune Saturn in Aries – hope for better

    Neptune moves into Aries in conjunction with Saturn from April/May 2025 onwards. Below a reprise of earlier posts.Neptune, planet of spirituality, illusion, delusion, deception, creativity and vision moves out of its own sign Pisces, where it has been since 2011, into Aries in 2025 staying till 2038.Looking back on historical events linked to Neptune in Aries:1861 – 1874: Most notably this covered the American Civil War, which arose after the abolition of slavery, which had been banned in
  • Biden’s parting gift to Ukraine

    President Biden’s decision to allow Ukraine to use long-range US missiles to strike inside Russia has provoked a strong response from Moscow.  The Kremlin says it will view such missiles as an attack not from Ukraine, but from the US itself, accusing the outgoing US administration of adding ‘oil to the fire’. There is a flurry of astro-activity for a few days across this New Year with tr Saturn at 14 Pisces opposition the composite Mars on the USA/Russia 1991 relation
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  • Josh Brolin – Mars Pluto and the will to survive

    A Mars Pluto family legacy could have cut actor Josh Brolin’s life short as he started on drugs aged nine and was an alcoholic over the next four decades. He emerged with distinction in the Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men (2007) and was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in the biopic Milk (2008). More recently he has gained recognition for playing Thanos, the destroyer of worlds, in Marvel’s Avengers franchise and in Dune.  His destructive childhood was down t
  • Denzel Washington – a commanding presence ++ Steve Jobs, Kevin Costner, Alex Salmond etc

    Denzel Washington steals the show in Gladiator II in the supporting role of Macrinus, the villainous slave turned slave owner aiming for power and status. Glowing reviews hint he is at the top of his game, having been crowned recently as the best actor of the 21st century by The New York Times.He was born 28 December 1954 12.09am Mount Vernon, New Year and credits a stint in a military prep school for keeping him away from Oakland gang life. A 50 year career replete with memorable stage and Shak
  • Denzel Washington – a commanding presence

    Denzel Washington steals the show in Gladiator II in the supporting role of Macrinus, the villainous slave turned slave owner aiming for power and status. Glowing reviews hint he is at the top of his game, having been crowned recently as the best actor of the 21st century by The New York Times.He was born 28 December 1954 12.09am Mount Vernon, New Year and credits a stint in a military prep school for keeping him away from Oakland gang life. A 50 year career replete with memorable stage and Shak
  • Anti-social media in for a wakeup call

    In the tower of babel created by social media, complex thinking fell down a rabbit hole. Unhinged and threatening Twitter pile-ons ramp up extremist views. Fair-minded resolutions about not living in a comforting echo chamber of confirming views have been battered into extinction.  One commentator writes; “The future of social media looks increasingly segregated for users’ safety, like rival fans at football. X for the rightwing and the raging; centrists and policy nerds on Blue
  • Trump goes full tonto with choices ++ Don Jnr & J.D. Vance ++ Tulsi Gabbard

    Caveat emptor (buyer beware) must be ringing through many Republican politicians’ heads. The electorate may be forgiven for their disinterest in anything beyond the dollar in their pocket. But senators and congresspersons don’t have that excuse for their wholehearted support for Trump, knowing full well his – ahem – idiosyncrasies and his mental deterioration from last time round. Now that he has gone full tonto (= crazy) with appointments that might seem extreme in
  • Trump goes full tonto with choices ++ Don Jnr & J.D. Vance

    Caveat emptor (buyer beware) must be ringing through many Republican politicians’ heads. The electorate may be forgiven for their disinterest in anything beyond the dollar in their pocket. But senators and congresspersons don’t have that excuse for their wholehearted support for Trump, knowing full well his – ahem – idiosyncrasies and his mental deterioration from last time round. Now that he has gone full tonto (= crazy) with appointments that might seem extreme in
  • Trump goes full tonto with choices

    Caveat emptor (buyer beware) must be ringing through many Republican politicians’ heads. The electorate may be forgiven for their disinterest in anything beyond the dollar in their pocket. But senators and congresspersons don’t have that excuse for their wholehearted support for Trump, knowing full well his – ahem – idiosyncrasies and his mental deterioration from last time round. Now that he has gone full tonto (= crazy) with appointments that might seem extreme in
  • Timothy West – destined to find a life partner

    Timothy West, one of Britain’s most respected and versatile actors, has died at the age of 90. Renowned for his Shakespearean performances on stage as well as a wide range of television roles, in recent years he had success with his wife of six decades Prunella Scales filming Great Canal Journeys, despite her advancing Alzheimers.  He was born 20 October 1934 6pm (from memory) Bradford, England, into an acting family and had a hard-working, enthusiastic Libra Sun conjunct Jupiter in h
  • Frank Auerbach – his art was his entire existence

    Frank Auerbach, known for his encrusted canvases, a Holocaust orphan, who lived a monkish, solitary life in Camden, London has died aged 93. Seven days a week, 10 hours a day, for decades, he painted and said “I’ve certainly never been lonely by myself. I’m far more likely to be lonely in the company of people who haven’t understood.” He said he had no choice in his career. “If I hadn’t become a painter I would die.” He was born 29 April 1931
  • Astrology Basics

    Astrology Basics
    Lynne Hyde Astrology has been a part of life since the 2nd millennium BC. It is the earliest organized and recorded system of human understanding. It suggests that there is a relationship between the celestial bodies, human lives and events on earth. The moment of the first breath taken at birth is looked up in […]
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  • Asteroid Basics

    Asteroid Basics
    Alex Miller Why use asteroids?  To paraphrase George Mallory, the British mountaineer who was queried about his desire to climb Everest:  “Because they’re there.”  Astrology’s guiding principle of “As Above, So Below” establishes the correlation between celestial patterns and events here on terra firma.  And if that works for planets, and it seems to, then […]
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  • Conclave – money and power jostle for supremacy

    Despite the drift away from institutionalised religion it continues to fascinate with Robert Harris’s spellbinding Conclave about the election of a new pope now out as a movie with Ralph Fiennes starring. Reviews are good – “A self-contained and intricate story that uses God’s representatives on Earth to show us at our most human, filled with jealousy, betrayal, forever jostling for power.”  “What Conclave suggests – is that the church is a bus
  • Somewhere Over the Rayne Beau

    Somewhere Over the Rayne Beau
    Alex Miller In the summer of 2024, the story of Rayne Beau (pronounced “rainbow”) the cat became an internet sensation, addressed on Instagram, Reddit and TikTok, as well as more traditional news outlets like the New York Post, The Guardian and public radio.  Everybody likes feel-good stories and happy endings; add the pet angle, and […]
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  • Susan Sarandon – running into an astro storm

    Actress Susan Sarandon, 35 years into a prolifically successful career, has found herself backlisted for remarks made last year at a pro-Palestinian rally. She later apologized but was dropped by her agent and reckons she’ll never be employed in a big budget Hollywood movie again. Leaving aside the rights and wrongs of what she said, her astrology shows up an unwelcome turning point in her life.  Born 4 October 1946 2.25 pm New York, she has a dreamy, sympathetic and intense Sun
  • Henry V111 – leaving his mark on history

    The momentous rift between England’s King Henry V111 and Rome in 1534 is an integral part of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, first televised a decade ago and now dramatising a much praised follow up – Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light. Focusing on his adviser Thomas Cromwell, a Putney blacksmith’s boy risen to high office, closely involved in the break with the Vatican, the latest BBC offering covers the final stages of Cromwell’s life before his execution. Henry&
  • Beckett, Frankl, Fromm – living with uncertainty

    “To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.” Samuel Beckett  The panicky uncertainty of this time of celestial transition was in place before recent US election results with many/most stumbling through a fog of unknowing with rising levels of anxiety. How to cope when it is not clear what the future holds is often more difficult that facing up to reality-based hardship.“Where I am, I don’t know, I’ll never know, in the silenc
  • Anglican Church & Vatican – unholy mess ++ Welby’s illusions blasted by the Eclipses ++ Paula Vennells

    Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, is profuse in his apologies about not nailing down child abusing barrister John Smyth when his offences became known a decade ago.  His  “horrific” and violent abuse of more than 100 children and young men was covered up within the Church of England for decades, according to the conclusion of a damning report.Smyth QC, who died aged 77 in Cape Town in 2018, was accused of attacking boys at his Winchester home who he had met at a Chris
  • Anglican Church & Vatican – unholy mess ++ Welby’s illusions blasted by the Eclipses

    Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, is profuse in his apologies about not nailing down child abusing barrister John Smyth when his offences became known a decade ago.  His  “horrific” and violent abuse of more than 100 children and young men was covered up within the Church of England for decades, according to the conclusion of a damning report.Smyth QC, who died aged 77 in Cape Town in 2018, was accused of attacking boys at his Winchester home who he had met at a Chris
  • Anglican Church & Vatican – unholy mess

    Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, is profuse in his apologies about not nailing down child abusing barrister John Smyth when his offences became known a decade ago.  His  “horrific” and violent abuse of more than 100 children and young men was covered up within the Church of England for decades, according to the conclusion of a damning report.Smyth QC, who died aged 77 in Cape Town in 2018, was accused of attacking boys at his Winchester home who he had met at a Chris
  • The Jackal – Jupiter in the 10th firing squad

    Eddie Redmayne is receiving positive reviews for his performance as the reptilian assassin in a remake of Frederick Forsyth’s best selling The Day of the Jackal. The previous 1973 Fred Zinneman movie based on the book about the attempted assassination of French President Charles De Gaulle had Edward Fox in the lead. This version ‘swaps the French political intrigue — for a modern world of dark-web activity and high-tech communications, all the while retaining its old-school sus
  • Ukraine – the long road to freedom or not ++ a resistant Keir Starmer

    Ukraine now nearly at the end of three years intense and exhausting conflict with Russian invading forces will be at the sharp end of Trump decisions as he takes up the reins. The Ukraine, 24 August 1991 2.31pm chart, has ups and downs ahead. On the bright side tr Uranus square the Jupiter this April 2025 will bring some relief. But tr Uranus moving through the Ukraine 4th (which started this upheaval) to square the Virgo Sun from July onwards hints at more disruptions and unrest. Tr Pluto
  • Ukraine – the long road to freedom or not

    Ukraine now nearly at the end of three years intense and exhausting conflict with Russian invading forces will be at the sharp end of Trump decisions as he takes up the reins. The Ukraine, 24 August 1991 2.31pm chart, has ups and downs ahead. On the bright side tr Uranus square the Jupiter this April 2025 will bring some relief. But tr Uranus moving through the Ukraine 4th (which started this upheaval) to square the Virgo Sun from July onwards hints at more disruptions and unrest. Tr Pluto
  • US 2024 Election Postmortem

    US 2024 Election Postmortem
    Alex Miller On November 5, 2024, Americans voted to return Donald J. Trump, a convicted felon awaiting sentencing on 34 criminal counts, to the White House, electing him as the 47th President of the United States.  Shockwaves could be felt planetwide, as allies feared the rightward shift and adversaries applauded a second bite of the […]
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  • Trump wins the game – with swamps ahead ++ Inauguration chart 2025 ++ UK Starmer seriously at odds ++ Limits to Trump’s choices ahead

    Donald Trump is the unquestioned winner of the election with Jupiter crossing his 10th house natal Uranus and transiting Uranus conjunct his Midheaven pushing him across the line. His success comes despite a raft of imponderables ahead. His Solar Arc Neptune is conjunct his South Node exactly now, then conjunct his Moon in 2025 and opposition his Sun in 2026. And tr Neptune will square two of his Mercury midpoints throughout 2025. So word salads are likely to turn into word soup. Neptune does no
  • Trump wins the game – with swamps ahead ++ Inauguration chart 2025 ++ UK Starmer seriously at odds

    Donald Trump is the unquestioned winner of the election with Jupiter crossing his 10th house natal Uranus and transiting Uranus conjunct his Midheaven pushing him across the line. His success comes despite a raft of imponderables ahead. His Solar Arc Neptune is conjunct his South Node exactly now, then conjunct his Moon in 2025 and opposition his Sun in 2026. And tr Neptune will square two of his Mercury midpoints throughout 2025. So word salads are likely to turn into word soup. Neptune does no
  • Trump wins the game – with swamps ahead ++ Inauguration chart 2025

    Donald Trump is the unquestioned winner of the election with Jupiter crossing his 10th house natal Uranus and transiting Uranus conjunct his Midheaven pushing him across the line. His success comes despite a raft of imponderables ahead. His Solar Arc Neptune is conjunct his South Node exactly now, then conjunct his Moon in 2025 and opposition his Sun in 2026. And tr Neptune will square two of his Mercury midpoints throughout 2025. So word salads are likely to turn into word soup. Neptune does no
  • Trump wins the game – with swamps ahead

    Donald Trump is the unquestioned winner of the election with Jupiter crossing his 10th house natal Uranus and transiting Uranus conjunct his Midheaven pushing him across the line. His success comes despite a raft of imponderables ahead. His Solar Arc Neptune is conjunct his South Node exactly now, then conjunct his Moon in 2025 and opposition his Sun in 2026. And tr Neptune will square two of his Mercury midpoints throughout 2025. So word salads are likely to turn into word soup. Neptune does no
  • Dwarf Planet Basics

    Dwarf Planet Basics
    Sue Kientz The largest of the trans-Neptunian Dwarf Planets in the outer Kuiper Belt and beyond are the POWER PLAYERS of our solar system. Their position outside the “social sphere” of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, means the large dwarfs, when in relationship with personal planets, represent strong desires for influence, power, control, ability to […]
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  • Clint Eastwood & Michael Caine – going strong

    Clint Eastwood at 94 has just released his latest movie with a sterling record as a director, grossing over a billion dollars, with three of his biggest hits coming in the last decade. And Michael Caine, British actor, at 91, with an equally prolific output of 160 films during a seventy year career, now retired, has come out with his third memoir titled Don’t Look Back You’ll Trip Over.Eastwood born 31 May 1930 5.35 pm San Francisco, California has the signature depression/innov
  • Royal commerce – giving hostages to fortune ++ Prince George ++ England Republic 1649

    The relationship between monarch and country has always been troublesome (with scandals aplenty) though less so in recent centuries in the UK with the growth of democracy.   Queen Elizabeth’s relationship chart with the UK had a powerfully confident Jupiter Pluto conjunction suggesting a strong and successful association. There were two yods onto a Leo Moon and Neptune respectively pointing to a relationship which bound the destiny of monarch and country together – with pom
  • Royal commerce – giving hostages to fortune ++ Prince George

    The relationship between monarch and country has always been troublesome (with scandals aplenty) though less so in recent centuries in the UK with the growth of democracy.   Queen Elizabeth’s relationship chart with the UK had a powerfully confident Jupiter Pluto conjunction suggesting a strong and successful association. There were two yods onto a Leo Moon and Neptune respectively pointing to a relationship which bound the destiny of monarch and country together – with pom
  • Royal commerce – giving hostages to fortune

    The relationship between monarch and country has always been troublesome (with scandals aplenty) though less so in recent centuries in the UK with the growth of democracy.   Queen Elizabeth’s relationship chart with the UK had a powerfully confident Jupiter Pluto conjunction suggesting a strong and successful association. There were two yods onto a Leo Moon and Neptune respectively pointing to a relationship which bound the destiny of monarch and country together – with pom
  • Quincy Jones – a musical phenomenon

    Quincy Jones, one of the American popular musical greats renowned as a brilliant creator and composer as well as an entrepreneur, has died at 91. He raised many singers to a different level including Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon and Aretha Franklin and propelled Oprah Winfrey and Will Smith to fame and fortune. He was born in Chicago on March 14, 1933 at 8.40pm into  grinding poverty during the Depression with his grandmother trapping and cooking rats when food was scarce
  • Royal finances – lifting the lid

    Even staunch Royalists are wincing over the recent investigation into King Charles and Prince William’s opaque financial affairs which details how their estates take money off hospitals, the military, prisons and firefighters. Both Royals pay income tax (since the 1990s though refuse to say how much) but not capital gains and corporation tax. Hints from 25 years back that greater transparency was needed have clearly been ignored.The feudal-sounding duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall, owned
  • Spain floods – Pluto eclipsed sends a message ++ King Felipe

    Spain is in shock after its worst flooding in decades after a year’s worth of rain fell in a matter of hours onto drought- hardened ground. The death toll is well over 200 and rising. It is Europe’s worst flood-related disaster since 1967 when at least 500 people died in Portugal. Spanish troops have been drafted in to help, with questions being asked about why the extreme red weather alert was not communicated to residents sooner. The Spain, 22 November 1975 12.45pm chart had t
  • Spain floods – Pluto eclipsed sends a message

    Spain is in shock after its worst flooding in decades after a year’s worth of rain fell in a matter of hours onto drought- hardened ground. The death toll is well over 200 and rising. It is Europe’s worst flood-related disaster since 1967 when at least 500 people died in Portugal. Spanish troops have been drafted in to help, with questions being asked about why the extreme red weather alert was not communicated to residents sooner. The Spain, 22 November 1975 12.45pm chart had t
  • Prince Andrew – forced to walk a lone road

    A quick catch up on the ongoing Prince Andrew saga of will-he won’t-he be forced to move out of his palatial 37 room Royal Lodge which even his late mother thought he would have to exit. An updated biography of Robert Hardman claims King Charles has finally removed his £1 million annual allowance and ceased to fund his personal security staff. Andrew was born 19 February 1960 3.38pm London with a Pisces Sun opposition Pluto and a 4th house Scorpio Moon, so letting go is not his
  • Kemi Badenoch – new opposition leader ++ Tamworth + Starmer and Farage

    Kemi Badenoch has been voted as leader of the UK Tory Party in opposition. With a background in IT, she was born in London, 2 January 1980 but grew up in Nigeria, returning when she was 16 and becoming an MP in 2017. Her Leadership chart, 2 November 2024 11.05 am approx, is challenging to put it mildly with the blocked, power-struggling Mars opposition Pluto falling across the financial 2nd/8th houses; and a jolting Uranus opposition both Mercury and a Scorpio Moon. Plus a superficially cha
  • Kemi Badenoch – new opposition leader

    Kemi Badenoch has been voted as leader of the UK Tory Party in opposition. With a background in IT, she was born in London, 2 January 1980 but grew up in Nigeria, returning when she was 16 and becoming an MP in 2017. Her Leadership chart, 2 November 2024 11.05 am approx, is challenging to put it mildly with the blocked, power-struggling Mars opposition Pluto falling across the financial 2nd/8th houses; and a jolting Uranus opposition both Mercury and a Scorpio Moon. Plus a superficially cha
  • Mars Pluto – I want versus Letting go

     Mars at odds with Pluto will be the unwelcome spirit of the times until next April as Mars retrogrades and then advances across the zodiac from Pluto moving out of Capricorn into Aquarius. The first exact opposition is tomorrow, with another on January 3rd and finally April 27th 2025.  Understanding the nature of this most intractable opposition may offer clues about how best to negotiate the challenges ahead. Mars Pluto operates in three arenas. Firstly in personal and event cha
  • Rodney Alcala & Anna Kendrick – kill v cure

    Rodney Alcala, known as The Dating Game Killer, is the subject of a true crime film made of his murderous career. He was found guilty of eight murders between 1971 and 1979, is suspected of killing more than 100 women and girls and died in 2021 on death row. The actress Anna Kendrick who directed the film also played Cheryl, a contestant on the dating show who refused to go out with Alcala because she thought he was creepy.  Anna Kendrick has donated her fee from hit Netflix film Woman
  • THE NEW MOON’S ENERGETIC NEWS: SCORPIO

    THE NEW MOON’S ENERGETIC NEWS: SCORPIO
    We have moved through the tricky ‘eye of the needle’ in fall’s Libra Eclipse season that has passed and trembled with uncertainty. Now the terracotta leaves glow magnificently and steadily in the northern hemisphere, where I sit in awe witnessing the unending beauty of life transitioning. Winter is coming and the leaves are fearlessly falling, […]
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