Céline Dion is to make comeback with series of concerts in Paris after a neurological condition called stiff-person syndrome stopped her touring after it was diagnosed in 2022. The condition, which affects between one and two people in every million, causes severe muscle stiffness and spasms. Though she has said she did suffer from symptoms for years before that.
She announced her return with an illuminated message on the Eiffel Tower. Her last big appearance was her powerful performance of Édith Piaf’s Hymne à l’amour from the lower deck of the Eiffel Tower in the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics. Her return to performing suggests that she has managed the condition enough to handle the rigours of a season at a single concert venue, though not an international tour. Her concerts will be spaced out, taking place on Wednesdays and Saturdays from September 12 to October 14 this year.
Born 30 March 1968 12.15pm Charlemagne, PQ Canada, she has a determined, self-reliant Sun Saturn in Aries on her Midheaven with a late Aries Moon conjunct an ambitious Mars in Taurus also in her 10th. Her musical Venus Mercury in Pisces on the cusp of the international 9th house is opposition the constantly changing Uranus Pluto conjunction in Virgo. Her Jupiter in flamboyant Leo in her 2nd will be lucky with money and it squares creative Neptune in Scorpio.
She also has a yod of Uranus sextile Neptune inconjunct her Moon which will make her emotionally fragile and disorganised.
Saturn rules her 6th house of health and given its position beside the Sun and Midheaven hints at workaholic tendencies and an inability to relax.
Tr Jupiter will move across her Ascendant from July of this year onwards bringing a new cycle of enthusiasm and renewed confidence. Though several of her midpoints have undermining transits this year and her Solar Returns no matter where located look challenging.
But tr Pluto is moving out of her 6th house as of this year where it has been since 2012, so that will lift pressures off her health. And tr Saturn is heading for her Midheaven across the summer and again next year, so she will want to be out pushing her ambitions forward as before.
She evidently spends much time at her home in Las Vegas or did before she paused her career. Her chart relocated there puts Neptune in her 6th and Uranus Pluto in her 4th – not ideal as a restful or health-giving environment. But good for career.
An unlikely quartet of Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey have come together in an effort not only to broker a Middle East ceasefire but also to discuss ways of curbing the dominance of Iran and Israel after the war. It may also draw in other Gulf countries if their desalination and power plants continue to be attacked.
Looking across a range of charts what is obvious is that any negotiated settlement reached in the near future – hopefully before this August’s helpful, hopeful, problem-solving eclipse – will not be the end of it. Aggravation and hostilities will break out again in a couple of years towards the end of this decade and a couple of years beyond.
The Israel/Iran 1501 relationship chart shows this April as truly devastating with tr Uranus opposition the composite Neptune. With a slipping and sliding 2027; and a major upset and further rift in 2028 as tr Uranus squares the composite Sun and much worse in 2030/31 with tr Neptune square the outright dislike/warlike Saturn Mars conjunction.
Saudi Arabia, 15 January 1902 3.45am Riyadh, will be facing a blockage along with fear and frustration in 2029 to 2032 as the SA Mars is conjunct their Pluto and opposition Uranus; with a hint before then in 2028 of an opportunistic push which could produce luck but could also go the other way as the SA Uranus square their Sin Jupiter.
Saudi Arabia’s relations with Israel will be high tension this year, evasive and deceitful in 2027; and finding the constant jockeying for the upper hand comes unstuck 2028 to 2031 as tr Neptune undermines their composite Jupiter opposition Pluto. Iran/Saudi – on a downward slide now till 2029, worse in 2030 through more disappointing than aggressive.
Egypt, 14 March 1922 10.43pm Cairo, will be on high alert in 2028 with tr Uranus square its Uranus and opposition its Mars; with SA Uranus square its Sun in 2028 and logjammed by 2029 with SA Sun conjunct Plito. Its relations with Israel with be tense in the extreme and likely to erupt in 2028/29 with tr Uranus square the Neptune Saturn (Moon). Relations with Iran will be jangled and jolted through this year with tr Uranus square the composite Venus, Mars, Uranus into 2027. But it is 2029 when the really serious tensions will be hard to resolve with tr Pluto square the Saturn and tr Uranus square the Pluto.
Turkey, 29 October 2023 8.30pm, Ankara, is panicky in 2027 with failure looming (which could be for a variety of reasons), with confusion and drift in 2027 with SA Sun opposition Neptune; and hugely unsettled towards 2030 with tr Uranus square Uranus, tr Neptune square Pluto and SA Mars square Saturn.
Relations between Turkey/Israel are seriously at odds 2028 to 2031. With Iran there’ll be disappointment and confusion as well as rifts this year and a major upset and possible turnaround come 2030.
Both the United Arab Emirates and Qatar founded in 1971 are having to cope with tr Uranus opposition their Neptune and conjunct Saturn this year and next which will be nerve-wracked and for both tr Uranus moves in to hard aspect their respective Sun in 2027/28 so a phase of major upsets. Qatar looks seriously aggravated and stuck in a conflict across 2030/31 with tr Pluto conjunct its Mars. UAE looks in meltdown come 2031/32 with its Solar Arc Pluto opposing its Saturn and conjunct Neptune.
Relations between Qatar and Iran – undermined this year and under major pressure; tensions erupting in 2028 and more tussles for the upper hand. Qatar and Israel in a morass this year with a faint hope for improvement from August onwards; intense in 2027; worsening in the early 2030s.
The UAE and Israel are at daggers drawn with hostilities rising in 2027/28; and panicked in 2029. USA/Iran – 2027 to 2031 increasing tensions.
It is a volatile region and always has been, plus these countries individually have their own internal problems so some of the above astrology may refer to those. But there seems to be a pattern which certainly fits the Israel charts ongoing wrangles well into the 2030s.
The pieces of the global chess board are shifting around dramatically with Ukraine signing a 10 year defence agreement with Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Ukraine has grown into one of the world’s leading producers of cutting-edge, battle-tested drone interceptors that are cheap and effective. In return Zelensky is seeking high-end air-defence missiles that Kyiv needs to counter Russia’s attacks. Last week Zelenskyy said that Ukraine was looking into whether it could play a role in restoring security in the strait of Hormuz. And he wants to build long-term ties with Middle Eastern countries in the energy sector, investment and sharing battlefield experience.
The initial Ukraine Invasion Declaration chart from 23 February 2022 9pm will move into a new phase after an almighty upheaval come August this year onwards as tr Uranus is square the Sun. Though the intense and destructive do-or-die challenges from the conjunction of Mars and Pluto won’t recede till well after mid 2027, once the Solar Arc Mars moves over the Pluto.
The Ukraine chart, 24 August 1991 2.31pm Kyiv, will shift into a different gear as tr Uranus moves into Gemini in late April and squares the Virgo Sun. With hints from the recent February Aquarius and August Leo Solar Eclipses connecting with their Aquarius Moon opposition Jupiter, Mercury, Venus that there might be odd rays of sunshine through the continuing upset. Like all the ex-Soviet countries born during the triple conjunction in Capricorn, Ukraine will be facing major changes come 2028 onwards as tr Neptune moves to square their Uranus etc. So the aftermath will not be settled with a deadlock come 2031 from SA Pluto square Mars – but that may not be connected to this Russia standoff.
Zelensky’s Term chart, 20 May 2019 10 am Kyiv, is in a rapidly changing year. Try Uranus is exactly conjunct the Sun at the moment till early April which suggests a new direction; with even more radical change from tr Pluto square the Uranus Venus in the second half of the year. The Mars is being undermined this year by tr Neptune through this October which suggest failure of one hope or project.
Zelensky himself, 25 January 1978 2pm Krivoj Rog, Ukraine is rattled at the moment with tr Uranus square his Saturn till early April; followed by the highly pressured tr Pluto conjunct his Sun Venus now till late June and again into 2027.
The Ukraine/Saudi and Ukraine/Qatar relationship charts are volatile with a composite Mars square Pluto for one and Mars trine Saturn for the other – so well -suited to defence/military cooperation but for the same reason could be problematic if alliances swung in other directions. Both charts look to be on edge and highly charged through this year.
A public reckoning has arrived for big tech with two US juries finding they were liable for products that inflict harm on young people. A jury in New Mexico ordered Meta to pay $375m in damages on Tuesday over claims that its products led to child sexual exploitation, among other harms. The following day, a jury in California ordered Meta and YouTube to pay $6m over claims that both companies deliberately designed addictive products to hook young users.
These cases were the first to go to court and soon will be followed by more trials from two coordinated groups of more than 2,000 plaintiffs, including families, school districts and state attorneys general, who have brought lawsuits against Meta, parent company of Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, YouTube, TikTok and Snap and Google, owner of YouTube,
‘With two unprecedented trial defeats, big tech firms face crisis akin to that faced by cigarette makers in the 1990s.’
All of the relevant charts look to be facing major challenges ahead.
Meta, 28 October 2021, has a Scorpio Sun at 5 degrees square Saturn at 7 degrees which will be forced into a painful three year period of having to leave old practices behind with tr Pluto square the Sun this year and next; and then conjunct Saturn in 2027/28. 2028 also has a car-crash Solar Arc Mars conjunct Sun.
The Facebook IPO, 18 May 2012 11.31 am New York, looks seriously rattled now with tr Uranus conjunct the Sun and nerve-stretched from June onwards with tranches of unwanted publicity as tr Uranus starts to square the Neptune and then the opposition to Mars, running on for several years. The Solar Arc Saturn is opposition the Midheaven at the moment as it is pulled up short and tr Pluto will take up the cudgels through 2027/2028 forcing a change of direction. With a moving yod of the natal Mars sextile Solar Arc Saturn inconjunct Uranus – so paralysed at what will be a game-changing period.
Mark Zuckerburg, 14 May 1984 2.39 pm White Plains, New York, will feel as if he has been holed below the waterline with his Solar Arc Mars conjunct his 4th house Neptune later this year and through 2027, giving him an unaccustomed sense of panicky failure. 2027 looks high uncertain and consumed with anxiety as his SA Neptune squares his Saturn; and 2028 will seem him in a total upheaval as his SA Pluto is conjunct his Uranus.
Google, owner of Youtube, 4 September 1998, was facing an upset from the recent Aquarius Solar Eclipse opposing its Venus with Solar Arc Neptune approaching the opposition to its financial Venus as well within months. It will feel the cold winds of hardship and deprivation from tr Pluto square its Saturn, especially August to December this year; as well as a major upheaval from August on and off into 2027 from tr Uranus opposition its Pluto.
Youtube, 14 February 2005, is in no better shape with a panicky/high anxiety Solar Arc Neptune conjunct Uranus now; the recent Eclipse conjunct its late Aquarius Sun Mercury for a crisis and forced changes. 2027 will have the panicky-failure tr Neptune square its Mars with a jolting tr Uranus square Uranus – and a hugely uncertain 2029 with SA Saturn opposition Neptune.
My goodness, it is not often that all the related charts are so starkly clear that a watershed moment has arrived. The new era is finally beginning to make its mark.
FROM CJ
1) Elon Musk’s Grok AI has now been banned in Germany and being fined 100k euros daily due to his digital sex abuse imagery he allows on X. I’m sure Musk can afford that, however, it’s setting up a precedent in the EU of countries turning and hinting at what is to come.
2) Disneyland has just cancelled their billion dollar deal with Sam Altman’s Open AI, and have now shut down Sora and people are beginning to wonder if the AI bubble is looming.
Also, after Open AI’s deal with the pentagon, it has reportedly lost around 1.5 million users.
3) France, Germany and Denmark are leading the way by ditching Bill Gate’s Microsoft for Linux operating systems due to concerns of privacy and data harvesting.
4) Peter Thiel and Alex Karp’s company, Palantir, is under deep scrutiny and being investigated by officials reviewing a Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) deal and looking at it’s dealings with the NHS.
The Green Party’s Zack Polansky has also been loud about removing Palantir out of our infrastructure and NHS.
ADD ON: Larry Ellison, 17 August 1944, current chairman of Oracle, in contrast looks upbeat now with his Solar Arc Jupiter square his Sun this year; and tr Uranus moving to square his Jupiter from the middle of this year into 2027. He does admittedly have his Solar Arc Mars opposition his Uranus across this year which suggests a shock; and minor career setbacks now and on and off till late 2027 plus a calamitous midpoint this May but he will be buffered by positive aspects. Where his chart shows more obvious strain is in 2028/29 with tr Neptune square his Saturn but even then he has a Jupiterian boost to compensate. 2031 has his Solar Arc Saturn conjunct his Neptune which will be problematic.
Oracle, 16 June 1977, is showing more signs of stress – with tr Pluto starting to hard aspect its Fixed T square of Mars Venus opposition Uranus square Saturn picking up in 2027 and running through till 2031/32. That suggests massive pressures to change causing hardship and frustration as well as turbulence. There may also be a jolt in 2027 from SA Mars conjunct the Sun.
Tiger Woods has had yet another crash, after rolling his car when he hit a truck at speed. He was released on bail following his arrest on charges of driving under the influence, not of alcohol which tested clear, but of drugs. He has been recovering from rupturing an Achilles tendon in March 2025 and back surgery in October, as well as a massive amount of injury from a 2021 car crash which left him fortunate to be alive. In 2017 he was slumped at the wheel of his parked Mercedes-Benz and found to have several legal medications in his system and marijuana’s active ingredient. In 2009 he hit a fire hydrant, a tree and several hedges in a collision outside his home.
Born 30 December 1975 10.50 pm Long Beach, California, he has a 4th house Capricorn Sun in a high-powered square to a super-confident Pluto opposition Jupiter in Aries. His Sagittarius Moon on his IC is in a short-fused opposition to Mars in his 9th. With his over-active Mars in a determined trine to Pluto and in a publicity-attracting opposition to Neptune.
He’s a driven, competitive individual for whom inactivity due to injury and waning powers due to age will be difficult to handle. He does have Pluto moving through his performing 5th house from years ahead so he will be determined to be taken as a person of consequence.
He does not have Mars in his 3rd which might be expected from an overly fast driver but he does have tr Uranus opposition his 3rd house Venus exactly now – so perhaps his complicated emotional life might have been partly a trigger – especially now that I look his Sun/Moon midpoint has been stressed recently.
In the time ahead with his Progressed Moon moving into his financial 2nd house within weeks and staying there for two years plus tr Pluto square his 2nd house Uranus in 2027/28 it suggests his finances won’t be as stable as before and a matter of concern.
His Solar Arc Sun moving through his 6th house of health since 2022 is on final degree Aquarius which caught the recent Solar Eclipse which in a marginally obscure way does suggest a crisis.
Although there is no indication that he is about to sink into seclusion any time soon he will be facing a tricky year ahead with tr Saturn in hard aspect to his Sun, Pluto, Jupiter T- Square through till early 2027 which will be discouraging and face him up to certain realities. Then from 2028 tr Neptune in Aries catches up through till the early 2030s undermining his driving T square which is usually not great for ego, pride and personal glory.
J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio have been sent in to negotiate peace with Iran with explanations running from – 1) Trump needing someone to blame when it does not work; 2) Kushner and Witkoff, the first team, being either incapable of understanding the technicalities of a nuclear deal or according to the Iranians being deliberately obtuse, too close to Israel and never intending to make peace; or 3) Vance is more palatable to the other side since he was against the intervention in the first place and spoke out last year against Israeli ambitions to seize more of the West Bank.
Vance, 2 August 1984 8.11 am Middletown, Ohio, in his relationship with Trump looks rattled at the moment until early April with tr Uranus square their composite Sun/Mars, Venus/Saturn and Mercury/Pluto midpoints which adds up to aggravation, not feeling the love and running into hard resistance. April 6th to 25th together they look confused and devastated with tr Uranus square their Neptune/North Node midpoint. In June tr Uranus squares his composite Ascendant with Trump which may cause a major upset between them.
On Vance’s personal chart he has his Solar Arc Pluto conjunct his Uranus exactly to a minute of a degree hinting at a radical turn in his life, perhaps not the one he had in mind. Now till early April will be argumentative, insecure, edgy with tr Uranus square his Mars/Node midpoint. Late March to late April tr Neptune square his Solar Arc Midheaven looks the opposite of progressive – muddled, indecisive. In April as well tr Uranus opposition his Neptune/Pluto midpoint won’t be an enjoyable experience with major anxiety and confusion. Mayhem and muddles continue till the first chink of good fortune in the second half of May. Though tr Neptune then moves to square his Jupiter till August which can dent high hopes.
One cosmic black joke is Vance’s Chariklo = eternal suffering through a partner which is catching the August Solar Eclipse, highlighting the pain.
Vance’s relationship with Benjamin Netanyahu has never been good with a teeth-gritting dislike from a composite Mars Saturn conjunction. Again all on a Neptunian slide through most of this year.
Rubio is not having a good year nor a great 2027 with high anxiety this April with losses; dented hopes late April to the end of May with tr Uranus opposing his Jupiter Neptune conjunction – and that extends across midpoints to the Sun into 2027 when it upends his Sun. His relationship with Trump looks irritable and argumentative late April to mid June and beyond. Plus he has the upheaval of tr Uranus square his Pluto in the second half of the year to contend with. He’ll wish to be anywhere other than where he is.
ADD ON: Vance has evidently been influenced by neo-reactionary Curtis Yarvin who spouts extreme views applauding authoritarianism and elitism. He wants to replace American democracy with a techno-monarchy since he sees liberalism as creating a Matrix-like totalitarian system. He has defended the institution of slavery, and has suggested that certain races may be more naturally inclined toward servitude than others; argues that whites have inherently higher IQs than black people and opposes U.S. civil rights programs. He is a notable figure in American conservatism, having influenced people like Steve Bannon, JD Vance, Michael Anton and Peter Thiel.
Born 25 June 1973, New York, he has a toxically-angry and hate-filled Mars in Aries opposition Pluto square a Cancer Sun; with a mixed Fire/Water Grand Trine of Mars trine Neptune trine Mercury in Cancer. And may (depending on birth time) have a yod onto an Aries/Taurus Moon.
He is on a slide until early 2028 with tr Neptune square his Sun and conjunct his Mars – and later this year into January 2027 opposition his Pluto. So sinking into a swamp. Plus a nerve-stretched tr Uranus opposition is Neptune from this August on and off till early 2028. Pre the 2028 election he’ll mount a revved up effort but it will fizzle early on.
Vance’s relationship chart with him is fairly tied together with high enthusiasm for an agenda of domination. Though it will hit a bump or two from this June onwards with tr Uranus square the composite Saturn.
Valerie Perrine, the Las Vegas showgirl who fell into acting and gave memorable award-winning performances in Lenny playing his stripper girlfriend and Superman as Lex Luthor’s moll has died. The 1970s were her peak and while she continued to act afterwards never gained the same heights.
Her life featured a few high risk moments: In 1969 she was due to attend a party in the Hollywood Hills with her then-boyfriend, the celebrity hairstylist Jay Sebring, but after one of her fellow dancers fell ill, she was called upon to work instead. The party was crashed by the so-called Manson Family, and Sebring numbered among their victims. Five years later a flight carrying her to promote Lenny crashed shortly after take-off. She emerged unscathed and returned to the wreck to collect her make up.
She never married but had been engaged early on to a gun collector who died when the pistol he habitually carried fell from his waistband and discharged in a freak accident one month before the couple’s planned wedding.
Her approach to acting was casual and she regarded it as an enjoyable social activity. Renowned for her wild parties which ran, she said, on cocaine, she also dropped a reputed 400 doses of LSD.
Born September 3 1943 9.20pm Galveston, Texas, with a military father and former dancer mother she spent most of her childhood in Japan. In her final years, she battled severe health issues from wear-and-tear incurred during her dancing days and was diagnosed with Parkinson’s.
She had a Virgo Sun conjunct Venus on the cusp of her hard-working 6th house which was in a volatile, explosive square to Mars Uranus in Gemini. It would be that which attracted her, consciously or unconsciously, to adrenaline-packed moments on the edge. She had Jupiter North Node in Leo in her performing 5th house giving her confidence and exuberance as well as luck; with her Jupiter in a doubly self-assured conjunction with Pluto. A 7th house Libra Moon looked in need of support though she never married. It was in a cool trine to Saturn. Neptune in her 6th does hint at delicate health which would not appreciate rampant drug use.
When she missed the Manson killing in 1969 by a stroke of destiny, transiting and Solar Arc Jupiter were hard at work sparking off various elements of her chart. Although it would undoubtedly shake her with her Solar Arc Mars square her Neptune.
Her chart is all lower hemisphere apart from her Moon suggesting that she was not exactly career-driven and would be more concerned with her personal life.
Alan Ritchson, the epitome of a hard-man has earned him success in TV’s Reacher, now out for the fourth season. A recent squall with a neighbour which hit the headlines has fizzled out after police said he acted in self-defence. In the past he has admitted to being bi-polar and prone to depression but appears to be a settled husband and father.
What is intriguing is his chart, 28 November 1982 3am Grand Forks, North Dakota, which in one significant way is similar to that of Virginia Guiffre, the Epstein victim, born a few months later. Both have the bleak Saturn Pluto conjunction square Mars suggesting a good deal of risk, unfairness and mistreatment in their lives.
Ritchson has talked about his early modelling days as being akin to ‘legalised sex trafficking’ and left the industry traumatised after being sexually assaulted on a photoshoot with a ‘very famous photographer.’ Even later on when his acting career took off, a business associate threatened to accuse him of sexual assault if he did not sleep with her.
An afflicted Mars can work out in different ways and makes him suited for morally ambiguous, brawler roles, soaking up his anger, though his manic streak evidently leaks out on film sets at times. He will tend to attract strong reactions from others whether he initiates it or not. So finding a constructive outlet will help.
He has an independent-minded Sun Uranus conjunct in Sagittarius with a charming 3rd house Mercury conjunct Venus also in Sagittarius. His Taurus Moon in his 7th will appreciate the stability and security of a close partner. Though his Moon opposition Saturn Pluto which is square a 4th house Mars hints at a chilly, under-supportive and overly disciplined childhood with a military father.
In the immediate future for a few weeks he has Jupiterian bounty of success and rising confidence from two of his midpoints. He is in the midst of his unsettled Uranus Half Return and mid-life crisis this year. And his Sun Uranus is moving by Solar Arc to conjunct his Mars after mid this year and through 2027 which will be a testing time, with his short-fused Mars feeling the strain. Plus his SA Mars is square his Uranus and soon his Sun for much the same effect.
Pondering on how the recent eclipse provided a backdrop for the present conflagration in the Middle East, the previous ones in this 18.5 year Saros cycle are significant if not cheering. Though it would have to be said in addition to problems there were also positive outcomes.
Last time in 2008 oversaw the financial crash.
1990 oversaw the Gulf War 1.
1972 – Watergate, Munich Olympics massacre.
1954 – division of Vietnam which was the forerunner to the debilitating US war. Soviet escalation of the Cold War.
1935 – intensifying aggression leading into WW11. Italy invaded Ethiopia, which created significant international friction. Nuremberg Laws: Nazi Germany passed laws that deprived Jewish people of citizenship and banned marriage between Jews and Germans. Hitler instituted mandatory military service, violating the Treaty of Versailles. Persia/Iran: Persia was formally renamed Iran
