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The mind-numbing stories from Gaza of a starving, traumatized population in mid winter, described by an Oxfam director as “apocalyptic” with no help in sight from an international community seemingly incapable of taking action is a sobering indictment of the times. The Israeli liberal newspaper Haaretz, now sanctioned by the Netanyahu government, relates stories from IDF soldiers about civilians, even children, being treated as combatants. ‘The regime of arbitrary, even competitive killing, was described as “the wild west on steroids”. Hospitals and refugee camps are being bombed, aid convoys are being blocked. The independent Famine Review Committee (FRC), warned there is a “strong likelihood that famine is imminent in areas” of the northern Gaza Strip with warnings that “starvation, malnutrition, and excess mortality due to malnutrition and disease, are rapidly increasing.” in north Gaza.

  Gaza stays in mind where other atrocities like the Sudan, Myanamar, even Tibet fade, partly because they are further away and because they seem beyond help. But Gaza is a western-created problem instigated initially by the USA and Britain.

The incoming Trump administration is unlikely to improve matters for the Palestinians given son-in-law Jared Kushner’s suggestions earlier this year about moving Gaza residents into the desert and possibly into Egypt and salivating over the prospect of Gaza’s ‘very valuable’ seafront property. And there being no constructive steps taken to preventing West Bank Israeli settlers expanding their territory illegally and driving Palestinians out of their homes.  

 The Palestine Declaration of Independence, 15 November 1988 Algiers, with its Mars at one degree Aries square Saturn at zero Capricorn conjunct Uranus – is being heavily undermined by tr Neptune Saturn in hard aspect from early 2025 through till 2027; with the Solar Arc Sun conjunct the Saturn and square Mars  between 2025 and 2027. Disappointments and setbacks of considerable magnitude.

  Hamas, largely destroyed, though the bitterness will breed problems down the line, 14 December 1987, has the Solar Arc Mars conjunct the Sun exactly now – with the SA Mars Pluto moving across the Hamas Sun Saturn for the next three/four years for a dead-halt, scary, totally trapped phase.

 Hezbollah, 16 February 1985, has its Mars at 10 degrees Aries in line of the recent October Solar Eclipse and the late March 2025 one putting them in  a combative mood. Tr Uranus opposition Saturn and square the Hezbollah Sun all through 2025 suggests a tumultuous year. Though they may be pushing confidently ahead nonetheless in patches with tr Pluto conjunct their Jupiter. 2027/28 see their Solar Arc Sun conjunct their Mars and SA Pluto conjunct their Uranus which will be an almighty clash and turnaround so nothing settling soon on that front.

  The same goes for Israel which is facing years of challenge, stress and jeopardy ahead. Tr Uranus is now for the final time in a disruptive conjunction to the Israel 8^th house Taurus Sun picking up a couple of days ago and running till mid March 2025, followed by tr Uranus square the Israel 10^th house Mars late April to mid May 2025, the latter bringing a shock, sudden explosive turn of events with resulting insecurity and perhaps over hasty reactions.

 Through 2026/27 tr Pluto will square the Israel 10^th house Leo Moon putting pressure on the ruling classes from a mutinous population. The Solar Arc Mars square Pluto late 2025/26 will be blocked, high-risk, with no obvious way forward. That is mirrored in the Solar Arc Midheaven conjunct Neptune creating indecision and confusion about future direction around 2026/27.  The Solar Arc Neptune is opposition Uranus for a highly-strung 2025 and then in a dented-hopes conjunction to Jupiter by 2028. Tr Neptune Saturn square the Venus will make for international unpopularity and financial repercussions in  2026/27. The Bank of Israel is showing panic and losses through 2025 and beyond.

 Then into the early 2030s both tr Pluto and the Solar Arc Sun will start to exert pressure on the Israel 10^th house Pluto and then Saturn. Nothing that looks like peace anytime soon.

  The Israel/USA chart was never as seamlessly well matched as events might suggest with a fractious, differing-agendas composite Sun Uranus square Saturn plus an over-hopeful Jupiter Neptune conjunction. That latter will be undermined by tr Neptune Saturn opposition the Jupiter Neptune in 20925 and more in 2026 so some of the shine may come off.

 Trump is fairly well-chained together with Israel with a composite Saturn Pluto conjunction in the relationship chart. There will be a few cool moments in March/April 2025 with major jolt and perhaps eruption in May 2025 and again January to mid March 2026. That could be a difference of opinion or a joint reaction to an outside disruption.

  The most intractable conflict of the 20^th Century seems destined to drag on.

The Dalai Lama XIV evidently once remarked, “If a problem is fixable, then there is no need to worry. If it’s not fixable, then there is no help in worrying”.

  Normally I would agree but in this instance it is deeply depressing. A Palestinian was quoted recently as saying only the leaders wanted to fight – the ordinary people just wanted to get on with their lives. Much the same in Northern Ireland and it partly took the mothers standing up to say enough before peace talks got under way – with substantial input from the USA. Much the same as the end of the Russia invasion of Afghanistan when a Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers stood up and made their voices heard.

The fallout from the doomed domestic violence movie It Ends with Us rolls on with Blake Lively making accusations against her former co-star/director Justin Baldoni, filing a legal complaint claiming sexual harassment and making allegations of a coordinated PR effort to damage her reputation.

 What is astro-intriguing are two coincidences.  One is that she was born 25 August 1987 5.07am Tarzana, California. That makes her a Sun Mars in Virgo conjunction, the same as Dorothy Parker, Peter Sellers and the wife of the Korean president. A synchronous month for Sun Mars in Virgos. Blake Lively does have a reputation for ‘mean girl behaviour.’ See previous post below.

  More than that, her stellium in Virgo of Sun, Mars, Venus, Mercury, Moon = earthy, highly-strung, critical and hard-working – sits across from  Baldoni’s Scorpio stellium. He was born 24 January 1984 8.30pm Los Angeles and has Pluto, Moon, Mars, Saturn in Scorpio square an Aquarius Sun.

 An overload of Virgo and the same of Scorpio might seem an uncomfortable combination given Virgo’s propensity, especially amongst the female of the species, to be self-sufficient. Scorpio needs intense closeness, almost enmeshment, which would put many Virgo’s need-space hackles on edge.  What makes it marginally odder here is that Blake Lively’s husband of 10 years Ryan Reynolds, 23 October 1976 4.30 am Canada, also has a stellium in Scorpio of Sun, Moon, Uranus, Mars like Baldoni in his 2^nd house.

  Baldoni seems a touch more full-on so he will take control to a different level than Reynolds whose Moon Uranus will give him an inclination at least some of the time to want space and freedom to suit himself. Baldoni may be a Sun Aquarius but his instincts and relationships with women will all be driven by his fiercely possessive, controlling Moon, Mars, Pluto in Scorpio. At some level he is deeply frightened of women so needs to keep them submissive – and a Sun Mars in Virgo is not a one to give way without an argument.

  Her Pluto in Scorpio hooks into both. A karmic magnet.

 Now that I look, Principal Photography on the movie started 5 May 2023 in NJ with a Scorpio Full Moon in place which seems fitting. The Scorpio Moon was close to the Scorpio South Node for an early morning start.

Previous post: Blake Lively & Ryan Reynolds – Virgo Scorpio overload 16th August 2024

The battle of the egos between Elon Musk and Trump has not so far incurred any noticeable damage to their bro-romance. Though Musk’s $250 million contribution to the Trump campaign with an eye to more in the future no doubt plays a part. The recent kerfuffle over the spending deal had led some to conclude that Musk could be used as a effective weapon to pressure Congress and be a scapegoat for any backlash.

 Musk born 28 June 1971 7.30 am (biography) Pretoria, South Africa, has a Cancer Sun exactly conjunct the USA Jupiter and square his Uranus. He has a neurotic and changeable Saturn in Gemini opposition Neptune in Sagittarius and Jupiter in Scorpio; with his scandal-prone, overly-hopeful Jupiter Neptune in an influential, lucky sextile to Pluto. Plus an inordinately stubborn Mars and North Node in Aquarius in his financial 8^th which is square his 5^th house Jupiter (on this birth time).

Tr Uranus moving into Gemini will alter his trajectory considerably -initially with a lucky break from tr Uranus opposition his Jupiter in May and late in the year, though since it is tied into his Neptune it could blow up a scandal caused by his instability through midyear and into 2026 as it moves to conjunct his Saturn. By 2026 his Solar Arc Pluto will square his Mars for a dead-halt, high-risk, enraging meltdown. By 2027/28 tr Neptune will be undermining his Sun by square.

His relationship chart with Trump for all the protestations to the contrary is feeling the strain with a rattled tr Uranus opposition the composite Mars now till mid March 2025; plus an uncertain tr Neptune square the composite Saturn now till early February, and then square the composite Sun in March 2025 and again late October to January 2026. March to early July 2025 and again on and off throughout 2026 tr Pluto will square their composite Neptune for major confusion and panic.

  The UK is also in Musk’s sights though for the opposite reason as he warbles on about “Britain is going full Stalin” and opining that “Civil war is inevitable”. He is also promising to give £100 million to Nigel Farage’s Reform Party.

 Musk’s relationship chart  with the UK hints at distrust, competitiveness, dislike and irritation with a composite Sun conjunct Mars opposition Mercury Uranus; with Sun Uranus square Saturn. There will be ripples of discontent in late March through April 2025 and tr Neptune thereafter opposition the composite Mercury and conjunct the Mars from April onwards for several years will be accompanying a further deterioration in relations.

 His relationship chart with Farage has a composite Sun opposition Neptune which suggests a degree of delusion (misplaced idealism) leading to disappointment.

Strange times – a weird trailblazer/Pied Piper.

Add On: There’s an undercurrent of serious dislike on the J.D. Vance/Musk relationship chart with a power struggling Mars square Pluto. It would not come into play in any major way until 2027 – by which time Musk may well be out of the park.

Peter Sellers renowned for his comic skills in the “Pink Panther” series, as well as “The Mouse that Roared“, “Dr. Strangelove” and most notably in Being There is admired in a recent biography. Though reviews suggest it skips over what a monster he was in reality. He married four times; had four children, including one illegitimate daughter he never met. Once during a marital fight, he tried to kill a puppy. Haunted by death he took drugs to enhance sex and abused his friends, even writing his children out of his will. In the industry he was known as impossibly difficult and “basically not a nice man.”

 He was born 8 September 1925 6am (memory) Southsea, England, the only child of variety-show troupers and grew up in theatrical boarding houses. He was close to his overbearing mother. He started in vaudeville, and moved into variety shows, radio The Goon Show and into the movies.

  John Mortimer once described him as “a man who stood empty, waiting to be inhabited by other people”. Which he played to perfection in Being There as Chauncey Gardiner, a simple gardener who copies behaviour glimpsed on television screens.

  His Sun Mars in Virgo (like Dorothy Parker) sat at one angle of a Half Grand Sextile with a pushily confident Jupiter in Capricorn opposition Pluto, sextile/trine Saturn in Scorpio. Talented, arrogant, stubborn, sharp-tongued. His Taurus Moon was square a 12^th house Neptune Mercury, trine his Sun Mars and on one leg of a yod sextile Uranus inconjunct Venus – he’d be indulgent, stubborn, addictive-prone, escapist, head-in-the-clouds, evasive.

 He had a second yod onto a defiant, lawless Uranus in his 7th house of relationships inconjunct Neptune sextile Venus – consistency and commitment were never his strong point. Though such a Uranus can have the capacity to act as a catalyst because of its intolerance of convention and tendency to cause disruptions. He had planets in all three Water signs and all three Earth signs – too wide for Grand Trines but still giving him a balance of creative and practical energy.

 Sellers always sticks in mind from a comment in an astrology  book about harmonics about his 13H chart. 13 in numerology is ascribed to breakthrough genius – which would mirror his Uranus on a yod – but is also associated with not having a strong sense of identity.  His 13H has a Sun, Moon, Saturn conjunction square Jupiter – essentially depressed but given to highs as well. There was also a Pluto Uranus opposition Midheaven square Mars combining his disruptive streak with more than a touch of cruelty.

Mexico in the full line of Trump’s wrath over immigrants and drugs could not be more star-crossed if their meeting was ruled by Kali, the goddess of destruction.

 Mexico, 15 September 1810 11 pm Dolores Hidalgo, has Trump’s Uranus sitting on its Ascendant, causing disruptions to its image, and square its 10^th house Pluto shaking up its control on power and direction. His underhand 12^th house Pluto is square the Mexico Uranus on the cusp of their work and health 6^th. His Neptune is conjunct the Mexico North Node for a slippery chemistry that is tricky to pin down. Both Trump and Mexico have a flamboyant Mars in Leo.

 The DT/Mexico relationship chart has an explosive composite Mars, Mercury, Uranus conjunction square Pluto = monumentally hostile. Tr Uranus will be square the Mars, Mercury, Uranus and opposing the Pluto throughout 2025 through till April 2026 – hurricane force storm.  Plut an uncertain and undermining tr Neptune and Saturn opposition the composite Saturn from mid 2025 into 2026. And more beyond.

 Claudia Sheinbaum, the Mexico President, 24 June 1962, is equally a fractious and intransigent adversary for Trump with her uncompromising Uranus in Leo conjunct DT’s Mars square her Mars in stubborn Taurus. Her Fixed T Square of Venus North Node in Leo opposition Saturn square Neptune collides with his 12^th house Pluto.  The Mexico chart with tr Pluto square the Taurus Moon through this coming January and throughout the year will bring intense reactions; with an insecure, jolting tr Uranus square the Mexico Mars from later this month till mid March 2025. Then tr Uranus moving into Gemini mid 2025 starts a longish run of panic and tensions right through the Trump administration as it is conjunct the Mexico Jupiter opposition the Neptune and Saturn.

   China is also in line for the Trump tariff assault and his relationship chart with China 1912 will be undermined as tr Neptune Saturn in Aries are conjunct the composite Sun from mid 2025 into 2026; with a highly strung tr Uranus square the composite Neptune from before mid 2025 as well into 2026.

 Trump’s relationship with the EU will be no better – latest demand is for 5% on EU defence spending – and that relationship chart has tr Saturn Uranus conjunct the composite Sun and opposition Mercury and then Saturn in the coming few years.

 DT’s relationship chart with the UK is equally holed below the water line with tr Saturn Neptune conjunct the composite Sun and then square Mars in 2026/27. DT’s relationship with Starmer if anything is worse with tr Pluto opposing the composite Sun Mars through this January and throughout 2025 as well.

 The outer planet shift is working in mysterious ways causing rifts in many relationships as Trump, the chaos-bringer, sows his seeds of disruption. In some instances though it takes an effort to admit it he may not be altogether wrong.

The Capricorn Ingress tomorrow – the Winter Solstice in the northern hemisphere –  has a sparsely aspected Sun square Neptune Scheat and the Aries North Node. Uranus still close to Algol is sextile Neptune Scheat.

  There is a Mutable Grand Cross of Jupiter opposition Mercury square a Virgo Moon opposition Saturn for a highly-strung, overly-impressionable, scattered, changeable, up-and-down mood as fast-changing events shift the focus in several directions at once.

 The dominant factor is the Mars in Leo opposition Pluto sitting across a disjointed chart – perhaps the rogue factor that creates chaos in different areas. The Mutable Grand Cross certainly has the capacity to act like a windmill in a hurricane spinning in all directions at once.

   The frustrating, trapped, high-risk Mars opposition Pluto will be most obvious in effect down through central North America on a North South line through Denver Colorado. It runs approx between 103 west and 108 west covering Saskatchewan, Prince Albert, Regina in Canada, down through Colorado to New Mexico and west Mexico in the south. India will also get another dose of Mars Pluto in reverse.

The Sun will be at the midheaven putting Moscow in the spotlight – as well as the Middle East as the Sun MC travels due south.

 The Capricorn Sun, sign of the mountain goat, is associated with Janus, the two faced god – looking back to the old year and forward to the new.

All eyes are on Russia with the upcoming Saturn Neptune conjunction, a marker of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, of Stalin’s death in 1953 and the break up of the USSR in 1990. If the same astro-pattern holds good then Saturn overtaking Neptune will be the crucial period which means mid 2026 to early 2027.

 That coincides with flags on several of the related charts.

 The Russia 8 December 1991 7.45pm Moscow chart, has a ‘shocking’, explosive, insecure Solar Arc Mars conjunct Uranus mid to late 2026, followed by an equally edgy tr Uranus opposition the Russia Mars in 2027/28.

The Russia 8 November 1917 chart hints at a considerable setback now; a stroke of luck in late 2025 from SA Uranus conjunct the Jupiter; and a similar as above sudden shock tr Uranus square Mars in 2026/27.

 Both charts are showing stress on their respective financial Venuses through 2025/2026.

 Vladimir Putin’s original presidency chart of 31 December 1999 looks due for a major upset late 2025 into early 2026 with Solar Arc Uranus square the Pluto. That could see him topple off his perch (though Kim Jong Un survived through one of these aspects years ago when he very nearly lost control). If that does not do for Putin then the Solar Arc Pluto conjunct the Sun by 2027 could well see him hit the buffers.

 His personal chart, 7 October 1952, is showing alarm at a setback exactly now as Syria’s Assad collapses.

 The Bank of Russia chart 13 July 1990 has been under pressure in the past two years from tr Pluto square the Mars and will continue on edge throughout this year.

  The grisly trial in France  of Dominique Pelicot and fifty others accused of raping his drugged wife Dominique over nine years has ended with guilty verdicts all round. It only came to light when videos were discovered on his computer by police investigating another crime. His wife has been given universal acclaim for her courage in coming forward publicly to back up the accusations.

 I am not altogether convinced by the birth data from wiki and would have expected it being France that birth times might have been available. But on what is given at the moment they were born close together – he 27 November 1952 and she 7 December 1952 – which makes them Sagittarius Suns with Saturn Neptune in Libra square Uranus and a Capricorn Venus. He has an Aries Moon and she a Leo Moon perhaps conjunct Pluto.

  His Venus is close to Chiron which Melanie Rhinehart links with the Psyche Eros love story – of an individual who wishes a relationship without disharmony – which drugs would certainly provide. She remarks “ They may seek out pliable, self-effacing women only to be confronted later on by the full might of an emerging Aphrodite.”

 Gisele has a closer relationship between her Mars and the an Aquarius North Node square Jupiter giving her determination and guts. Her later degree Venus in Capricorn is also more linked to a square to Saturn Neptune.

 But what is most striking in very similar charts are the midpoints. Hers are generally upbeat with her Sun = Jupiter/Uranus and her Jupiter = Mars/North Node. His on the other hand are troubling.

His Sun = Uranus/Neptune and Saturn/Uranus – connected to the elimination of waking consciousness; and self-willed, irritable, prone to violence.

Venus – Sun/Pluto – striving for power through relationships.

Mars = Jupiter/Saturn and Venus/Pluto – a desire to enforce changes ++ rape, a brutal sensuality.

Jupiter = Mars/Pluto – confident in using brutality to achieve aims.

Jupiter = Sun/Neptune and Sun/Saturn – hope for success with no effort.

Saturn = Venus/Mars – ‘abnormal and pathological sex expression’ according to Ebertin.

Pluto = Sun/Jupiter – over confident leading to conflict with authorities.

  If the birth dates are sound the midpoints do make a good deal of sense about the difference between them. 

 Both have Pluto at 23 degrees Leo which is catching the disruptive tr Uranus square exactly as the verdict comes down.

 See previous post: French village – De Sade to Pelicot

15th September 2024

Canada is in political turmoil as Trump, the great disruptor, throws a spoiler into the mix with his promised 25% tariff on all goods and services, causing the Deputy Prime Minister to resign saying that Justin Trudeau was not up to the job of confronting aggressive “America-first” economic nationalism.

  Trudeau’s popularity was already plummeting and the blunt accusations from Chrystia Freeland, long seen as an ally, may well the tipping point which pushes him out. Though with his Mars on the cusp of the 8^th opposition Pluto he won’t give up until the absolutely last gasp.  The decision to step down might be made for him in the new year, if the opposition New Democratic party withdraws its support from his minority government.

 A political commentator remarked (which is a thought to take on board), ““Trump has less of an ideological agenda than he does to disrupt, dismantle and upset a stable political system.”

 The Canada chart, 1 July 1867 12am Ottawa, has tr Neptune and Saturn square the late Gemini Moon for a  depressed and discouraged electorate early in 2025 and on this start time Pluto moving into the 11^th is hinting at a change in hopes for the future.  But nothing much else showing in planetary aspects until 2027 when tr Uranus squares the Mars and 2028/9 when tr Neptune squares the Sun Uranus in Cancer which will be unsettling and directionless.

 The Bank of Canada chart, 11 March 1935,  has one marginally upbeat tr Uranus opposition Jupiter later this month to middle March 2025 with more problems brewing in 2026/27 with a jarring tr Uranus square Saturn; and a total road-blocked SA Pluto conjunct Mars.

Trudeau’s relationship with Trump is in bad shape early in 2025 with tr Neptune conjunct the composite Sun and square Saturn.  With Trump’s relationship chart with Canada troubled for longer – with tr Neptune square the Jupiter opposition Pluto Uranus and then Sun and then Venus from now right through the next administration. Undermining and disappointing.

 Justin Trudeau, 25 December 1971 9.27pm Ottawa, has a repeat from last summer of the failure-ridden tr Neptune conjunct his Mars in Pisces this coming March 2025. That coincides with two of his rivals Poilievre and Freeland having ‘lucky’ break’ midpoints so it may point to his departure. Tr Uranus is conjunct his Midheaven for a change of career direction from May 2025 onwards. Tr Neptune then continues on to oppose Trudeau’s Pluto from June and throughout 2026 – so a long slide downhill. He’ll be jangled and jolted by tr Uranus conjunct his 10^th house Saturn from July 2025 onwards. With more disappointment and losses from tr Neptune square his Capricorn Sun in 2026.

 Neither of his two rivals looks particularly upbeat (without birth times) moving ahead in 2025.

 Canada and Trump really is the greatest worry with the Bank of Canada chart hinting at considerable problems ahead.

Matt Goss is back in the UK after an 11 year solo Vegas residency talking sadly of the estrangement from his twin brother Luke, formerly part of the teen sensation Bros in the late 1980s. They were the biggest band in Britain, peroxide bombshells in leather jackets with eight Top 10 singles. Then they split acrimoniously since apparently, Luke was jealous that Matt got more attention. They reformed for a 2016 London concert, the subject of a documentary in which the brothers scream at one another.

 Since they are twins and the birth times are available it is interesting to see what a difference ten minutes can make. Their early life was not easy with their parents splitting up when they were five and they moved house 11 times as children.

 Luke is the elder, born 29 September 1968 6.11 pm Lewisham, England, with a rebellious, independent-minded Sun Uranus in Libra in his 7^th house of relationships. He has a confident, strong-minded Jupiter Pluto conjunction on his Descendant and an intense, secretive Venus on the cusp of his 8^th.

 Matt born 6.21pm has his Jupiter Pluto in his hard-working 6^th – with his Uranus conjunct his Descendant. Neither will find compromise easy with a Sun Uranus conjunction – and both will be keen to be seen as important with Jupiter Pluto conjunct, marginally more so in the case of Luke. Both have problems with identity with a 1^st house Chiron. A yod onto a forced-to-be-self-reliant Saturn in Aries inconjunct Neptune and Jupiter Pluto hints at the need for maturity to make it work well.

  A North Node in Aries also hints at a need to walk an independent road in life.

  Not designed to be a twosome.