Marjorie Orr featuring: Astrology of Today’s News

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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 … Read more

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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 … Read more

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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 … Read more

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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 … Read more

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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 … Read more

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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 … Read more

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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 … Read more

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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). … Read more

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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 … Read more

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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 … Read more

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