• 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
  • Thousands of Trump-Musk Firings Reversed by Judges

    Thousands of Trump-Musk Firings Reversed by Judges
    By Sue Kientz Millions of Americans have been asking for weeks now, what can stop Donald Trump from dismantling the U.S. government? Agency by agency, he and fellow billionaire Elon Musk have managed to fire thousands of federal employees each week from the beginning of February onward. Early in this period it was FBI employees […]
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  • NHS UK – embarking on yet another cure

    A major reversal of an unpopular 2013 shake-up of the UK National Health Service carried out by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition is aimed to “cut bureaucracy” and bring management of the health service “back into democratic control”. Keir Starmer said “abolishing the biggest quango in the world” by getting rid of NHS England  would free up cash for doctors, nurses and frontline services, and speed up improvements in the NHS. The merger is expec
  • Nigel Farage – another chaos maker

      Nigel Farage in a classic shoot-in-the-foot manoeuvre has managed to stir up a fight that could wreck his Reform Party’s chances of making inroads into the Tory vote and providing a viable alternative. Rupert Lowe MP is the latest of his cronies to fall foul of his anger with a spectacular hissy fit being thrown, police called over hurtful words by Lowe, who appears to have been cancelled without due process. All of Lowe’s staff apparently deny the allegations of bullying made
  • Portugal – struggling with uncertain times

    Portugal is facing its third snap election in three years after the prime minister lost a confidence vote after being accused of corruption. Concerns about immigration and a steep rise in the cost of living have helped boost the chances of the far-Right Chega party. This despite the fact that new arrivals have helped to deliver the hoped-for economic bounce.  Portugal is the poorest country among Western European nations on a GDP per head basis despite recent increases. Along with Spain it
  • Oil Tanker crash – UK 8th house red alert

    A collision between a Portuguese-flagged cargo ship carrying toxic chemicals and a US oil tanker carrying jet fuel for the US military in the North Sea off the coast of northern England could “devastate” wildlife. Leaking oil and fuel from the ships could endanger species including threatened seabird colonies, grey seals, harbour porpoises, fish, and minke whales. The area houses significant colonies of wintering waders and migrating birds. It is not yet clear how the collision occur
  • Dylan Mulvaney – Moon + yod, managing contradictions

    Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney is publishing her memoir Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer which documents her life before and after her transition via journal entries, reflects on her rise to fame and delves into some of her controversies. Her partnership with Bud Light beer in 2023 resulted in a drop in sales, customers and shareholder value. She was born into a devout Catholic family on 29 December 1996 10.10 am San Diego, California, and started her career as a stage actor. Sh
  • Canada – fending off the predator ++ Mark Carney into the hot seat ++ Sworn In

    Canada has responded to Trump’s deranged demands for obeisance by pulling together in a show of national unity with the political landscape turning turtle. Trudeau’s Liberals, sagging in popularity until recently, have seen a sharp rise in popularity, partly because of Trudeau’s impending exit and also because his possible successors are seen as better defenders against their rabid neighbour.  There is a suggestion that the Royal Proclamation of 11 October 1763 would be a
  • Canada – fending off the predator ++ Mark Carney into the hot seat

    Canada has responded to Trump’s deranged demands for obeisance by pulling together in a show of national unity with the political landscape turning turtle. Trudeau’s Liberals, sagging in popularity until recently, have seen a sharp rise in popularity, partly because of Trudeau’s impending exit and also because his possible successors are seen as better defenders against their rabid neighbour.  There is a suggestion that the Royal Proclamation of 11 October 1763 would be a
  • Canada – fending off the predator

    Canada has responded to Trump’s deranged demands for obeisance by pulling together in a show of national unity with the political landscape turning turtle. Trudeau’s Liberals, sagging in popularity until recently, have seen a sharp rise in popularity, partly because of Trudeau’s impending exit and also because his possible successors are seen as better defenders against their rabid neighbour.  There is a suggestion that the Royal Proclamation of 11 October 1763 would be a
  • Maurice Ravel – a singleminded Pisces New Moon

    Maurice Ravel, the French composer, best known for Ravel’s Bolero and Daphnis and Chloe, who wrote opera, ballet and orchestral works, was born 150 years ago. He was born 7 March 1875 10pm Ciboure, France, with an engineer and inventor father and an illiterate/illegitimate, free-thinker of a mother to whom he was close. His interest in music started when he was young and after music college, his experimental approach incorporating modern elements did not meet with approval by the cons
  • Angelica Huston – a Cancer Virgo stalwart

    Angelica Huston, happy to be cast as a character actress is still going strong in her late seventies, appearing in the recent TV adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Toward Zero. She has had a long and impressive career with an Oscar for Prizzi’s Honor, and has worked with all the top directors including Francis Ford Coppola, Woody Allen and Wes Anderson. She was born 8 July 1951 6.29 pm Beverley Hills, California, with a larger-than-life director father in John Huston and a  mo
  • Friedrich Merz – stepping into a minefield

    Friederich Merz, a Sun Scorpio with an exceptionally Fixed chart, almost certain to step up as German Chancellor heading a coalition, has a tougher temperament than the departing Olaf Scholz, a Gemini Sun trine Jupiter.He has announced a political deal to raise hundreds of billions of euros in extra spending on defence to counter Trump’s withdrawal from Ukraine; and to plough money into Germany’s failing infrastructure. Born 11 November 1955 Briton, Germany, no birth time, he ha
  • Meghan as ever – not feeling the love

    ‘With Love, Meghan’ Netflix’s latest offering from the Sussex household has been met with less than rapturous reviews. One critic said the “tone-deaf lifestyle show vibrates with vacuous joylessness – packed with useless information.” It has an 11 per cent rating from Rotten Tomatoes and 2.6 out of 10 from IMDb. The Hollywood bible magazine Variety said the series was ‘a Montecito ego trip not worth taking’. While the first documentary Harry &
  • Carl Dean, Mr Dolly Parton – an odd pairing

    Carl Dean, the famously reclusive husband of Dolly Parton, who maintained a steadfast presence behind the scenes for almost six decades, has died aged 82. Their long separations because of her successful career raised media comments but she insisted they were a contented and faithful twosome.   She was born 19 January 1948 8.25 pm Little River, Tennessee, with a charming, attention-seeking, ambitious and  entertaining Sun Venus in Capricorn in her performing 5th house opposition a
  • A look back and a look ahead

    A look back and a look ahead
    By Sue Kientz A look back at Friday, February 28: The Zelenskyy meeting at the White House(1) is a study in the interrelationships of planets and people: Saturn (20 Pisces) the planet of slowing things down and attitudes trending negative, with the Moon (19 Pisces), heightening emotions and in view of the American people (both […]
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  • Jack Vettriano – a Scorpio talent for unease

    Jack Vettriano, the Scottish painter who was often dismissed as kitsch and derivative but became one of Britain’s most successful artists has died. Often compared to Edward Hopper and Walter Sickert because of his subject matter, after his sudden breakthrough in 1988 he painted prolifically. He was born into a mining village left school early and wandered for a few years career-wise before going to college and starting to paint without success in the early years. After his rise to pro
  • Cuba – sun, cigars and crisis

    Cuba has been reinstated to the list of state sponsors of terrorism by the US government and has been punished for the communist regime’s human trafficking of Cuban doctors. The so-called Cuban Medical Brigades have a history of six decades of labor exploitation, human rights abuses and in some cases cover-up of military operations. The doctors involved sent by Cuba sometimes against their will, get little to no compensation for their services—as opposed to medical international aid
  • Mars Station Sparks Oval Office Fireworks

    Mars Station Sparks Oval Office Fireworks
    by Alex Miller On Friday, 28 February 2025, a photo op at the White House between US President Donald Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy descended into a shouting match, with Trump and Vice President JD Vance tag-teaming the embattled leader of a war-torn ally, berating and accusing him of disrespect and ingratitude.  The seven-minute […]
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  • Royals state visits – grit teeth and carry on

      In a grovelling attempt to curry favour with Trump, Keir Starmer produced a rabbit of the hat in the form of a personal letter from King Charles. It not only suggested a second state visit, untypical for a returning president, but also a pre-Balmoral knees up to discuss same. It worked. Monarchs are used to their ‘soft power’ being utilized if politics demand it, when glazed smiles and gritted teeth are the order of the day. Queen Elizabeth 11 entertained many controversi
  • Boris Spassky – master of the chess board

    Boris Spassky, the Russian chess grandmaster who against his wishes became embroiled in a Cold War east-west tussle with American player Bobby Fischer, has died. He was born 30 January 1937 in Leningrad, no birth time, with a military father, school teacher mother and a sister who won the Soviet draughts championship four times. He learnt to play chess on a train while he was being evacuated from Leningrad in 1942 and practised for five hours a day. When he was ten he beat the Soviet champi
  • White House fireworks – all heat, no light ++ who has paid most for Ukraine

    Is there method in the madness?  Or was the Zelensky fiasco in the White House a rapid pull back after a hard word from Putin pointing out that a US/Ukraine mineral deal (lighting up Trump’s greed) would effectively rule out any future Kremlin attacks and incursions?    Trump, the disruptor, is obvious but whether the wrecking ball has a coherent long term strategy to replace what is being subverted is not remotely clear. On the global plane, his real enemy is China so cosyi
  • White House fireworks – all heat, no light

    Is there method in the madness?  Or was the Zelensky fiasco in the White House a rapid pull back after a hard word from Putin pointing out that a US/Ukraine mineral deal (lighting up Trump’s greed) would effectively rule out any future Kremlin attacks and incursions?    Trump, the disruptor, is obvious but whether the wrecking ball has a coherent long term strategy to replace what is being subverted is not remotely clear. On the global plane, his real enemy is China so cosyi
  • Trump, Musk, & Mars Retrograde: hold your fire!

    Trump, Musk, & Mars Retrograde: hold your fire!
    By Sue Kientz Since December 7, 2024, planet Mars has appeared to move backwards (or retrograde) in the night skies, an illusion that happens when Earth, which moves faster than Mars, passes between the Sun and Mars, and Earth’s forward motion makes Mars look like it’s drifting the other way. Those who study astrology, however, […]
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  • Andrew & Tristan Tate – friends in high places

    Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan, accused of rape, human trafficking and money laundering, have been freed from travel restrictions in Romania after several White House officials took an interest in their case. Though the president denies all knowledge. They have joint US-UK citizenship and face separate, unrelated allegations of rape and human trafficking in the UK, and civil suits in the US and UK.The brothers have millions of followers by championing hyper-masculinity in a subculture
  • Washington Post – speaking truth to power ??

    ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness’ still sits as an ironic indictment on the masthead of the Washington Post – the paper that broke the Watergate story and unseated a corrupt president – as oligarch-owner Jeff Bezos dramatically undermines standards. He has issued an edict that curtails what the Opinion section can print prompting the top opinion editor to resign. Pre the election for the first time ever the WP did not support the Democratic candidate on Bezos’ instructio
  • Gene Hackman – dogged, determined, talented

    Veteran actor Gene Hackman has died aged 95, having retired from movies two decades ago and turned his hand to co-writing three historical fiction novels. Renowned for The French Connection, Unforgiven, Mississippi Burning, Superman, A Bridge Too Far, Enemy of the State, amongst many others he was prolific over an award-strewn, four decade career on screen.  He was born January 30, 1930 7.45 am San Bernadino, California, and had ambitions to be an actor at a young age though he volunteered
  • Roberta Flack Dead at 88

    Roberta Flack Dead at 88
    by Alex Miller American singer and pianist Roberta Flack passed away February 24, 2025, just weeks after her 88th birthday.  A notable figure in 1970s popular music whose style bridged R&B, jazz and folk, Flack contributed such well-known hits as “Killing Me Softly with His Song,” “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” “Feel […]
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  • UN, WHO, NATO, ICC – upending the global order

    ‘The day the UN died’ was the headline as the USA voted with Russia and China at the United Nations to avoid condemnation of the Kremlin over the blood-soaked Ukraine invasion – ‘as if Ukraine’s calamity was a natural disaster for which no-one could be blamed.’ Ripples of unease are running round various international bodies as Trump tears up the global order. The UN, 24 October 19845 4.40 pm Washington, DC, is under major pressure for change as tr P
  • John Dee – astrologer to Elizabeth 1

    John Dee, an astronomer, occultist, alchemist, mathematician and astrologer to Elizabeth 1, evidently predicted her rise to the throne to replace her sister the blighted Queen Mary.  That may have been a lucky guess from a psychic seeking to make his way in the world or astute political intuition but he did end up on the right side of history when the forlorn Mary deserted by her younger husband Philip of Spain died a mere five years after her coronation and Elizabeth succeeded her. Jo
  • Roberta Flack – a voice to remember

    Another musical icon has departed to join the heavenly choirs. Roberta Flack’s The First Time Ever I Saw His Face and Killing Me Softly from the 1970s have gone down as all-time classics and she is described as having ‘one of the loveliest voices pop music has ever heard.’ ‘There was something almost supernatural about Flack’s singing.’  She was born 10 February 1937 6.30am Black Mountain, North Carolina, and took to music early, singing in church choirs
  • Eclipses, Sun & Moon 2025 – Aries and Virgo ++ Starbucks + Macron/Trump ++ Washington, DC

    The first eclipse of the year is a Total Lunar Eclipse on 14 March at 23 degrees Virgo/Pisces with the Sun conjunct Saturn and Neptune which suggests a fair amount of anxiety and illusory thinking from Saturn Neptune. With a harder-edged, explosive, perhaps military, Sun Saturn trine Mars sextile Uranus.  On the astrocartography, the generally unfavourable Pluto MC line runs through Ukraine and all points south which does not look hopeful.The Partial Solar Eclipse of 29 March at 8 degrees A

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