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• Aquarius males – breaking with cultural norms

  22-11-2024 16:28 via star4cast.com
  Robert Burns, the Scots poet personifies the humanitarian, egalitarian streak in Aquarius. His poem extolling the virtues of the ordinary man over fools in silks – “a man’s a man for a’ that” – made him popular in early communist Russia. He was born 25 January 1759 7am Ayr, Scotland, which (if accurate) made him a Sun, Venus, Mars in Aquarius with Neptune in the 8th and a rebellious Uranus square Pluto. His other resonant thought was that all humanity was
  
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• Bjork – a trailblazer in music and nature

  22-11-2024 15:22 via star4cast.com
  Bjork, the Icelandic singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, and actress, noted for her distinct voice, three-octave vocal range, and avant-garde style has a sound installation at the Centre Pompidou in Paris called “Nature Manifesto,” as part of a forum on biodiversity. She has been campaigning against industrial salmon farming, talks about being a guardian of Iceland’s wilderness and how young people will make real change.“after plagues and pandemicsthere will be
  
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• Usha Vance – an ultra-determined Capricorn

  22-11-2024 13:55 via star4cast.com
  Usha Vance, wife of the vice-president elect J.D.Vance, has an upscale legal background having served as a law clerk after her graduation for multiple federal judges, including Chief Justice John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh. She met her husband at Yale Law School, with a friend calling their relationship “extremely unlikely, almost opposites of personality”. They were hitched in an interfaith marriage ceremony in June 2014. She is a practicing Hindu, and her husband an Evangelical-ra
  
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• Trump Presidential Cabinet Picks Stir Controversy

  21-11-2024 23:04 via astrologynewsservice.com
  
  Sue Kientz Last Wednesday, November 13, 2024, barely a week after Donald Trump dramatically recaptured the presidency, the first salvos of his incoming administration and its promise to “shake up government” were fired as transiting Moon in late Aries began squaring Pluto at the end of Capricorn and Mars in early Leo and opposing oft […]
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• Jordan Peterson – down a rabbit hole

  21-11-2024 14:25 via star4cast.com
  Jordan Peterson, the controversial Canadian psychology professor who became a love-hate figure for his anti-political correctness views, condemnation of academic “safe spaces” and his refusal to use transgender preferred pronouns, has a new book out with the unlikely title of We Who Wrestle With God.  According to the Times review it is is “unreadable, rambling, hectoring and mad” – “a bizarre study of the Bible featuring Jiminy Cricket, Harry Potter and
  
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• Aquarius ladies – fighting for their beliefs

  21-11-2024 13:20 via star4cast.com
  Aquarius as the thinker, the activist and the humanitarian. Simone Weil, the French philosopher and political activist, ticked most of the boxes.  She assisted in the trade union movement, sided with the anarchists and worked later as a labourer to better understand the working class. Latterly she became more mystical. She was born 3 February 1909 5 am in Paris, and had her 2nd house Aquarius Sun on the focal point of a yod inconjunct an influential Jupiter in the crusading and communi
  
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• Station to Station: Canterbury Tales

  20-11-2024 15:56 via astrologynewsservice.com
  
  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

  20-11-2024 15:54 via star4cast.com
  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
  
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• Uranus Return – coming full cycle

  20-11-2024 15:36 via star4cast.com
  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
  
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• Pluto in Aquarius – through houses and signs

  19-11-2024 15:53 via star4cast.com
  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

  19-11-2024 15:02 via star4cast.com
  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
  
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• Nordic countries – heighten alert levels

  19-11-2024 13:45 via star4cast.com
  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
  
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• Neptune Saturn in Aries – hope for better

  18-11-2024 16:04 via star4cast.com
  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
  
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• Biden’s parting gift to Ukraine

  18-11-2024 11:33 via star4cast.com
  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

  17-11-2024 15:42 via star4cast.com
  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
  
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• Denzel Washington – a commanding presence ++ Steve Jobs, Kevin Costner, Alex Salmond etc

  15-11-2024 15:54 via star4cast.com
  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
  
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• Denzel Washington – a commanding presence

  15-11-2024 15:54 via star4cast.com
  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
  
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• Anti-social media in for a wakeup call

  15-11-2024 14:09 via star4cast.com
  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
  
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• Trump goes full tonto with choices ++ Don Jnr & J.D. Vance ++ Tulsi Gabbard

  14-11-2024 16:14 via star4cast.com
  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
  
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• Trump goes full tonto with choices ++ Don Jnr & J.D. Vance

  14-11-2024 16:14 via star4cast.com
  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
  
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• Trump goes full tonto with choices

  14-11-2024 16:14 via star4cast.com
  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
  
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• Timothy West – destined to find a life partner

  13-11-2024 15:43 via star4cast.com
  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
  
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• Frank Auerbach – his art was his entire existence

  13-11-2024 13:39 via star4cast.com
  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
  
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• Astrology Basics

  12-11-2024 20:26 via astrologynewsservice.com
  
  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

  12-11-2024 18:02 via astrologynewsservice.com
  
  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

  12-11-2024 15:59 via star4cast.com
  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
  
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• Somewhere Over the Rayne Beau

  12-11-2024 15:04 via astrologynewsservice.com
  
  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

  11-11-2024 15:21 via star4cast.com
  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
  
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• Henry V111 – leaving his mark on history

  11-11-2024 14:10 via star4cast.com
  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&
  
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• Beckett, Frankl, Fromm – living with uncertainty

  10-11-2024 14:17 via star4cast.com
  “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
  
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