• Greenland – united against intimidation – Vance and Usha out of sorts

    On Greenland: Trump: “It’s an island that we need. And we’re going to have to have it.”JD Vance: “I think Greenland understands that the United States should own it. And if Denmark and the EU don’t understand it, we have to explain it to them. We need Greenland for international security.”Greenland, a former Danish colony, is a semi-autonomous territory within the kingdom of Denmark and its foreign and security policies are run by Copenhagen. Trump argue
  • Pope Francis Dead at 88

    Pope Francis Dead at 88
    By Alex Miller At 7:35 AM CEST on Monday, 21 April 2025, the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had passed away.  The Pontiff had spent weeks in a local hospital struggling with double pneumonia and other respiratory complaints, but had recently returned to the Vatican, and had given the Easter blessing to crowds of the […]
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  • Sparks to a Flame:  Arson at the PA Governor’s Mansion

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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