Marjorie Orr featuring: Astrology of Today’s News

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Alexander Fleming – a Neptune Saturn legend

Sir Alexander Fleming, the Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the antibiotic penicillin which was described as the “single greatest victory ever achieved over disease”, was born on 6 August 1881 at 2am Darvel, Scotland. He was knighted for his scientific achievements and was named in Time magazine’s list of the 100 Most … Read more

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Morlok quads – a uniquely difficult life ++Dionne quintuplets

Sarah, the last of the Morlok quadruplets, who entertained audiences with her three sisters as a child but grew up with a nightmare father, has died aged 95. Her mother was expecting twins and went into labour a month early, delivering four identical girls born from a single egg which was considered a medical miracle … Read more

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Sarah, the Duchess – less than noble

Sarah, Duchess of York, has been given an excoriating trouncing in Andrew Lownie’s book with endless tales of obscenely profligate spending with a guilt-free disregard for her inability to pay, debts racking up – and worse supposedly charitable ventures not paying out to the needy whose cause her public appearances were supposedly promoting.   She … Read more

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Astrology – adding Sun to Rising and Moon

There are Sun sign devotees, and I have known a few, who can intuit birthdays and personality characteristics with astonishing accuracy. If astrology were that simple, life would be easier for the aspiring astrologer who instead of focusing on one shining star is forced to juggle with the effect of Rising signs and Moon signs, … Read more

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Andrew – the Royal dilemma intensifies ++ Prince George chart ++ over-forgiving mother

Prince Andrew emerges, as expected, as an unpleasant human being from the Andrew Lownie’s Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York – sex obsessed and boorish, with an prurient, adolescent sense of humour, crassly arrogant, rude to staff and unsurprisingly lonely. Journalist Petronella Wyatt said he reminded her of Princess Margaret, ‘who … Read more

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Singapore – wealth and scary neighbours

Singapore is celebrating 60 years as an independent sovereign nation and republic on August 9th. Highly developed and extremely wealthy, it is a major aviation, financial, and maritime shipping hub.  It ranks highly in key social indicators: education, healthcare, quality of life, personal safety, infrastructure, and housing, with a home-ownership rate of 88 percent. Singaporeans … Read more

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Comets – fleeting messages from beyond

Comets in Astrology is a fascinating dive into an under researched topic but not for the faint of heart. The author Rod Chang having been asked eleven years ago where the icy celestial bodies that orbit the Sun known as comets, which appear periodically and erratically in the heavens, fit in with astrology, he decided … Read more

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Liam Neeson + Pamela Anderson – a Jupiterian zing

Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson are an unlikely romantic duo but are providing a cheering distraction with musings on their new found togetherness.  The 58-year-old Baywatch star and the 73-year-old Academy Award nominee held hands during interviews to promote their new comedy The Naked Gun, a sequel and reboot to the Leslie Nielsen-starring series of … Read more

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Gwyneth Paltrow – yesterday’s influencer

Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop appears to have gurgled in a southerly direction with the winds of change blowing. A Pluto in Capricorn creature it started with a newsletter in 2008, was incorporated in the UK in 2011 and went stratospheric. As well as promoting bizarre oddities like vagina eggs, coffee enemas and $15,000 sex toys, it … Read more

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