• 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
  • Aquarius ladies – fighting for their beliefs

    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
  • 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
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  • 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
  • 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
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  • 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
  • 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

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