The two UK bye-elections that were supposed to be the test to prove whether Jeremy Corbyn should stay or go as leader have ended in one catastrophic loss and a half-hearted win. But he says he’s not going, so that’s that presumably. For the time being.

The Labour Party 26 Feb 1900 chart does seem to be fairly accurate given that this week’s Pisces Solar Eclipse is conjunct the Pisces Sun; and tr Neptune is heading to square the Uranus opposition Pluto from early March, on and off till late 2018; with tr Saturn also opposition Neptune this year. 2019 looks devastatingly bad with Solar Arc Mars conjunct Neptune, so the implosion of the party looks likely to continue.

2018 always did look more likely to be his crisis point. And on his relationship chart with the Labour Party tr Pluto will present a huge challenge to the ties-that-bind as it squares the Sun from March 2018 till late 2019; with tr Uranus in a jolting opposition to the composite Saturn as well in 2018. But this chart also has a Pluto square Mars, mirroring his own natal chart with a Fixed sign Mars Pluto square, so he won’t dislodge easily or harmoniously.

A ‘binding’ curse was laid on Donald Trump by witchcraft followers in the USA, to rein him in and prevent him from harming any living soul. It will be practiced monthly, with the first at midnight on Feb 24^th. There is a tradition of such white magic rituals; and Gerald Gardner writes of a Cone of Power ceremony at the outbreak of the Battle of Britain (Hitler’s attempt to invade England) towards midnight on Lammas Eve 31 July 1940 to hex him into failing, which he duly did. Gardner also mentions similar ceremonies to cause the Spanish Armada (setting out to invade England) to fail in 1588, which was indeed devastated and largely destroyed by a major storm. How much of this is urban legend and retrospective pleading is moot, but intriguing all the same.

The Trump curse has an afflicted/focal point Pluto in the 3^rd which is definitely a heavy word being uttered; and Mercury is sextile Saturn and widely sextile Mars Uranus so even more excitable utterances; and two days before the Neptunian Pisces Eclipse with the North Node conjunct the MC located to Washington, DC.

It is – coincidentally or otherwise – just two days before tr Uranus moves to 22 degrees, starting a series of disruptive transits to Trump’s midpoints and Saturn Venus lasting several months.

The 1940 binding curse on Hitler also had a heavily aspected Mercury on the midpoint of Uranus trine Neptune; plus an approaching Sun Pluto conjunction. These were challenging times with the Jupiter Saturn conjunct in Taurus and Uranus also in Taurus. Tr Pluto was just past the conjunction to the UK’s 10^th house Jupiter in Leo by less than a degree, so Hitler’s hopes of dashing UK morale were never going to work. And tr Pluto was also moving to conjunct Hitler’s Leo Midheaven starting to chip away at his dominance; with the tr Jupiter Saturn about to conjunct his Venus Mars in Taurus.

There’s no date for any curse on the Spanish Armada but it set out on 8 August 1588 JC when there was again a heavily aspected Mercury trine Saturn, sextiling onto Mars. Neptune oddly enough was at 2 Leo, the same degree as tr Pluto for the Battle of Britain.

Often the ‘power’ of curses lies as much in the susceptibility of the recipient to believe in supernatural powers. So kind of depends on how superstitious Trump is. With Pluto in his 12^th he may well be.

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French actress Isabelle Huppert is up for an Oscar for her starring role in Elle, a well-reviewed rape revenge movie. Born 16 March 1953 2.40am Paris, she’s hugely prolific, having appeared in 100 movies, French and international, including The Piano Teacher, with multiple awards to her credit.

She has a 3^rd house Sun Mercury in Pisces and an Aries Moon; with a 4^th house Mars in Aries conjunct Venus in Taurus opposition Neptune Saturn on her midheaven – so she’s feisty, intelligent, well designed for a varied filmic career. Her Jupiter in Taurus in the performing 5^th is in a confident square to an iconic and influential 8^th house Pluto.

Tr Pluto is trine her Jupiter at the moment boosting her morale and suggesting success, though Emma Stone and La La Land are the front runners. Though anything could happen. Certainly she’ll stay on a roll for the next two years.

In the age of parody nothing surprises. Although Pamela Anderson, the busty darling of Baywatch and Playboy Playmate of the Month, hitching her wagon to freedom fighter Julian Assange, still trapped in the Ecuador Embassy in London, is quite a mind-boggling sight.

‘He’s wonderful,’ she gushed in an interview. ‘I always thought I’d make a good First Lady. If I had to pick a world leader to stand beside it’d be Julian Assange.’ ‘He’s a hero and no crime has been committed.’

Born 1 July 1967 4am Ladysmith, Canada, she’s an activist herself for animal rights, against fur, supports AIDS victims and campaigns for the legalisation of cannabis.

She is a Sun Cancer square Saturn in Aries. Her Aries Moon opposes Mars in Libra is the performing 5^th house square Mercury in Cancer, so she’s good at fighting her corner verbally.

Assange is also a Sun and Mercury in Cancer; with his Venus conjunct her Gemini Ascendant; and his Scorpio Moon falls in her romantic 5^th – so there are good cross overs. Though her Uranus opposes her Saturn which isn’t so great. His Mars in Aquarius is conjunct her MC which can throw energy into joint projects or turn competitive at some point with ego-clashes.

Her Sun falls in his 8^th making for a deep connection with her Venus in Leo is conjunct his Midheaven, adding a touch of flamboyance to his career; and perhaps helping him with his PR image.

Their relationship chart has the composite Venus trine Neptune, sextile Pluto – so a hint of passion, ethereal, living in fantasy land with overtones of delusions of grandeur. It’ll be unsettled by tr Uranus square Venus from April onwards. The composite Sun is square Uranus Jupiter which is adventurous and opportunistic, but on a definite damper from tr Saturn in hard aspect in 2018/19. Plus a ferocious and could-turn-hostile composite Pluto square Mars which will get triggered July to October this year.

The Ecuador election which could see Assange ejected from the London embassy has gone to such a tight result, that an April run-off is now planned. At that point tr Saturn will square Assange’s Pluto all month which looks blocked and discouraged, retrograding to oppose his Venus in June; and repeating both aspects later in the year. So not too happy for him.

Khloe Kardashian, youngest of the brash, publicity-seeking TV Reality family, is embarking on the happy-ever-after-staircase with plans for an autumn wedding to Tristan Thompson, a Canadian pro basketball player. She’s known him for six months which is a lifetime compared to her previous marriage to LA basketball player Lamar Odom, whom she hurtled up the aisle only a month after meeting. That ended in tears after four years, with him subsequently collapsing near death from a drug overdose in a Nevada brothel. Her mother Kris is evidently salivating over the prospect of a splashy TV extravaganza wedding feste to boost ratings. Prior to all this Khloe suffered severe brain damage in a car crash when she was 16.

Born 27 June 1984 10.55pm Los Angeles (ADB) she has a party-loving 5^th house Sun Venus Mercury in Cancer in an indulgent opposition to Jupiter. All that fluff and frivolity are weighted down by Sun trine Pluto in Libra and Saturn Mars in Scorpio; with Venus trine Saturn Mars – so accident-prone, angry, resentful, probably quite masochistic, certainly got a taste in difficult partners. Her restless Gemini Moon opposes Neptune, so she’ll not always be clear what she really wants. And her Neptune opposes her Sun/Moon midpoint, the marriage significator, which says much the same, suggesting relationships start in a euphoric glow and end in disappointment.

Tristan Thompson, 13 March 1991, is a Sun Pisces with an Aquarius Moon, which fits well with her Cancer Sun Venus and Gemini Moon; his Venus in upfront Aries opposes her Pluto for a streak of passion and possessiveness; his Uranus Neptune oppose her Venus (and Sun) which isn’t ideal, since he won’t like being tied down. The relationship chart has a controlling/possessive/transformational composite Sun opposition Pluto; a nurturing Moon opposition Jupiter; and a hot but not always sensitive Venus square Mars. It doesn’t really look like a soulmate/love-of-a-lifetime match from either the synastry or the relationship chart. But at least it isn’t as Neptunian as her relationship chart with Lamar Odom, which had a composite Moon opposition Neptune square Venus – drugs and disappointment.

At the moment her Progressed Moon is moving through her 7^th which is often a time when individuals feel propelled to find a committed partnership. Tr Jupiter is moving through her 8^th house which is also positive for finding new emotional depth and bringing beneficial changes. One can only wish her better luck this time round, if she makes it to the fall nuptials and beyond.

Bad boy, singer, songwriter, dancer Chris Brown has been ordered to stay away from his ex-girlfriend, model Karrueche Tran after she claims he threatened to kill her. Brown has been in and out of court since pleading guilty to an attack on Rihanna in 2009 after which he had counselling for domestic violence and anger management counselling; and was also treated for bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and past substance abuse. Last year, he was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon after a stand-off with police. He is due to start a 33-date headline tour of North American arenas with 50 Cent and other stars on 31 March.

Born 5 May 1989 12.30pm Tappahannock, Virginia (astrotheme), he had a prison officer father, and later his divorced mother had a violently abusive boyfriend. He certainly has a heavy chart with a Taurus New Moon opposition Pluto, so very Fixed, stubborn, controlling. He’s also got Mars in excitable Cancer opposition a chaotic, highly-strung, not always rational triple conjunction of Uranus Neptune Saturn in Capricorn.

If his birth time is accurate then his saving grace is his career with a 10^th house Sun Moon Venus and Mercury in Gemini. But he’s certainly combustible and on a knife edge with his temper.

His ex-girlfriend Karrueche Tran, 17 May 1988 LA, is another Sun and Jupiter in Taurus with her Sun square Mars in Aquarius, so she’s no shrinking violet herself. Her Venus in Cancer is conjunct his Mars and opposition Uranus Saturn Neptune in Capricorn; with her Jupiter opposition Pluto. They are not that dissimilar.

Which was the problem with Rihanna, 20 Feb 1988, who is a Sun Pisces but with a fearsomely volcanic Mars in Sagittarius conjunct Uranus Saturn (Neptune) in Capricorn.

His relationship chart with Karrueche Tran has an enthusiastic composite Sun Jupiter conjunction; but the composite Pluto is opposition the Sun/Mars midpoint; with Mars trine Uranus Saturn. So plenty of sparks flying.

His relationship chart with Rihanna was if anything even more volcanic with a composite Sun opposition Mars square Uranus Saturn (Neptune).

In both cases the composite Moon is probably conjunct Venus, which is nurturing. Maybe he’s trying to re-enact his mother with the aggressive boyfriend.

His 7^th Harmonic is strong which is creative though also can be addictive and not too mentally stable.

At the moment he’s got Solar Arc Pluto opposition his Jupiter, perhaps sending him over the top, thinking rules don’t apply to him; but a depressing year ahead with tr Neptune conjunct his Sun/Neptune and Sun/Saturn midpoints.

Best-selling author of teenage novels Helen Bailey died in tragic and horrific circumstances, calculatingly killed by her fiancé. She had already suffered an shattering loss when her previous husband was drowned in Barbados; wrote her way out of her grief with a book called When Bad Things Happen in Good Bikinis; and thought she’d found happiness again with IT expert Ian Stewart, a widower with two children. He secretly doped her for months with sleeping pills; then smothered her and dumped her body in a cess pit under the house they had bought together. She was reported as missing in April last year with her pet daschund, whose body was found beside her, and for three months Stewart ciphoned money out of her account. He’s now been found guilty of her murder.

Born 22 August 1964 she was a last degree Leo Sun square Jupiter in Taurus and opposition Saturn in Pisces so she would have problems with finding balance, being up and down, and low in self-esteem at times. She had an emotional and passionately enthusiastic Venus Mars in Cancer trine Neptune in Scorpio, sextile Uranus Pluto Mercury in Virgo – so creative, slightly chaotic, highly strung. Her Moon was in Aquarius, perhaps opposition her Sun, so never quite sure what she wanted.

Her Mars Venus were square her Neptune/Pluto and Uranus/Neptune midpoints – certainly good in fantasy-land and fiction, less so in reality. And with her Neptune square her Mars/Pluto and Venus/Pluto probably didn’t have a strong sense of danger or good judgement about romantic attachments.

Tr Pluto was opposition her Venus and Mars when she thought she’d found true love again. Around the time of her death tr Saturn was just finishing the square to her Virgo planets; and tr Uranus was opposition her Solar Arc Sun and conjunct her Solar Arc Saturn, so maybe she was starting to have an inkling that all wasn’t as rosy as she’d hoped.

The police are now re-investigating the death of Stewart’s first wife which was signed off as natural causes from an epileptic fit, when only he was present.

What a sad and brutal story; and all for greed since she changed her will in his favour leaving her £4 million estate to him.

There is a warning from the UN this week of the risk of catastrophic flooding in Syria from the Tabqa dam, which has been deliberately sabotaged by ISIS and further damaged by US-led coalition air strikes.

This follows grave warnings last year about a dam north of Mosul in Iraq that is on the verge of collapse. If it does, it could kill as many as a million and a half people. Temporary repairs have been done, but according to an environmental expert they are just going to delay the disaster. “It is just a matter of time. It will be worse than throwing a nuclear bomb on Iraq,” he said. “It is akin to putting a Band-Aid on a gunshot wound and pretending that everything is going to be all right”.

This week’s watery Pisces Solar Eclipse conjunct Neptune sits on the Descendant located to Al-Raqqah (Tabqa) and even more closely conjunct for Mosul. And the Lunar Eclipse earlier this month had Saturn conjunct Ascendant and Mars on the IC for both Al-Raqqah and Mosul. The August 2017 Solar Eclipse has Pluto conjunct MC for this location as well with Uranus conjunct Ascendant opposition Jupiter Descendant.

There are no dates for the Tabqa dam, but the Mosul Dam started construction 25 Jan 1981 and opened 7 July 1986. Both those charts look highly stressed through 2017; and the 1986 chart looks completely devastated by 2018, with Solar Arc Neptune square Pluto – which could trigger earlier.

Usually when significant events occur there are planets close to the chart angles located to that region.

Trump’s first month has been mercifully crisis-free. Of a global variety, I mean. Which given the internal chaos of his administration and appointments (and lack of them), and conflicting foreign policy utterances is a huge blessing. One commentator wrote that there is “an unprecedented degree of policy incoherence on virtually every major issue the country faces.” Trump chops and changes his opinions; and his senior cabinet lieutenants then go out into a concerned world to contradict what he’s said. The State Department has been kept out of the loop on key decisions like the Yemen raid, the travel ban, dropping a commitment to a two-state solution in Israel/Palestine. Tillerson hasn’t attended meetings with three foreign Prime Ministers and hasn’t been given, as he was promised, free choice of his staff.

Trump is, as another commentator said, not listening to the grown-ups in his political team – Tillerson (State), Mattis (Pentagon), Pompeo (CIA), John Kelly (Homeland Security). The job that pulls everything together is the National Security Adviser, now named as HR McMaster. Across the board he is well thought of but he won’t be able to succeed as long as Bannon and Kushner continue to run their own foreign policies and Trump continues to go whimsically off message.

McMaster, 24 July 1962, is a Sun North Node in Leo opposition Saturn; with Jupiter in Pisces opposition Pluto Venus in Virgo square Mars in Gemini; with Mars trine Saturn and square Pluto – leadership qualities, serious, confident, at times scattered with a Mutable focal point Mars, and evidently not afraid to tell his superiors what they don’t want to hear.

His relationship with Trump is fiery with a composite Sun Mercury Mars and Mars conjunct Uranus square Neptune. It looks stressed and enraged between them from now till mid March with tr Pluto opposition the composite Mars, returning on and off till late 2018; with high-tension upheavals mid March to mid April; and constant humps and bumps the month after – and that runs on to early 2018 and beyond. So not much of a honeymoon period.

Trying to disentangle the top relationships to get a sense of the general shape of coming events isn’t easy. There are always personal and interdepartmental rivalries; and sometimes potentially hostile relationships can be forged into a workable partnership if they are facing an external hostile situation.

Trump: Feb 27th to March 19 tr Uranus at 22 degrees squares his Mars/Uranus midpoint so he’ll be more argumentative and self-willed even than usual, fighting against restrictions, accident prone.

From March 19 to April 4 tr Uranus squares his Saturn and his Mars/Node which is tense, irritable, again kicking against limitations to his freedom, and can be stressful on the health front; quarrels within community.

April 4^th to April 23^rd tr Uranus squares his Sun/Mars and Mercury/Pluto midpoints – reckless, impulsive, bad-tempered, overtaxing strength; and fanatical, again overtaxing strength in some cases leading to a breakdown.

April 24 to May 10 tr Uranus squares his Venus and Moon/Asc – nervy, feeling unloved.

Plus April 6^th to May 17^th tr Neptune is opposition his Jupiter/Pluto – disappointment, undermining of confidence and power, deception and cheating.

So nothing restful for him or the USA/world; and that’s even before the late August Solar Eclipse on his Mars; and his Solar Arc Uranus conjunct his Mars which will be within a degree of exact from three months from now; and exact in 15 months time. Even for someone who likes running on high stress, he’ll need the constitution of an ox to handle these influences.

March, April and May spark up on virtually all the top cabinet charts and relationship charts as agitated and undermining, and on the midpoints of the Term chart, so it doesn’t look as if anything is going to settle down soon.

I’ll return to individual relationship charts as they become newsworthy. The Trump/Bannon partnership looks to be hitting muddles and miscommunications from March 9^th onwards; and is really on the skids from mid May to late July as tr Neptune opposes their composite Sun Saturn.