Francoise Hardy, an iconic and influential figure in French pop music and fashion has died. Known for singing melancholic sentimental ballads, she remains one of France’s best-selling singers. Described as the ‘anti-Bardot’, she was feted by David Bowie and Bob Dylan though she was known for her shyness, disenchantment with celebrity life and self-deprecatory attitude, attributed to her lifelong struggles with anxiety and insecurity.
She had a serious interest in astrology, studying with Andrew Barbault, and writing several books on the subject. She once said “We are all conditioned by a lot of things — genetic, affective, social, geographical and the situation of the solar system at the moment of birth.” Her later years were blighted by ill health after a lymphatic cancer diagnosis in 2004 and she only recovered thanks to a pioneering new form of radiation.
She was born 17 January 1944 9.30pm during the Nazi occupation of Paris with an air raid ongoing and was brought up by a single mother and an unpleasant grandmother. She had a 5th house Capricorn Sun which designed her for performing despite her anxieties; with her Sun on the focal point of a yod inconjunct Jupiter in Leo in the 12th sextile Saturn in Gemini in her 10th. A yod apex Sun would make her self-conscious despite its 5th house position, giving her low self-esteem and trouble establishing a strong sense of identity.
Her Jupiter in the 12th would give her a craving for peace and seclusion. Her 2nd house Libra Moon was trine her well-organised 10th house Saturn and sextile Jupiter giving her a semblance of balance. She also had an excitable, volatile Mars Uranus in Gemini conjunct her Midheaven trine Neptune, sextile Pluto North Node in Leo – that mini-Grand Trine hinted at the dangers around the time of her birth as well as her strong connection to the spirit of the age (Pluto North Node) as an influencer.
Uranus on the Midheaven certainly suits her astrological aptitude and Andre Barbault’s Libra New Moon and Jupiter all trined her MC; with his Libra North Node exactly conjunct her Moon. It would not be an easy relationship since there was a composite Mars Pluto conjunction square Uranus opposition Venus – but it would have a tremendous impact on her life.
As she dies tr Jupiter is approaching her Midheaven and about to move across her 10th house bringing her back into public attention – as is surprisingly often the case.
Hunter Biden has been found guilty on all three felony counts relating to buying a handgun while being a user of crack cocaine. Whether it will have much effect on the election seems undecided though it will take a personal toll on the president, who is already under scrutiny for his advancing years. Sentencing will be within 120 days. It will have the (minor) advantage of undermining accusations of political rigging of Trump’s trial. Republicans will be turning their gaze next on Hunter’s business affairs with his tax evasion charges still pending.
What seemed odd about the trial having skimmed the headlines was the way in which the ladies in his life, his former wife and daughter and his sister-in-law with whom he had an affair (and her sister), appeared to do his case considerable damage.
Hunter, born 4 February 1970 1.46pm Wilmington, Delaware, has a friendly, keen-on-travel 9th house Sun Venus in Aquarius; with a sociable Jupiter in Scorpio in his 5th in an up-and-down opposition to Saturn in Taurus. An ambitious, go-getting Mars in Aries in his 10th opposes a volatile, excitement-seeking Uranus in his 4th. He has a Capricorn Moon conjunct Mercury on the cusp of his 8th trine a 4th house Pluto.
A turbulent childhood home with a double-messaging Pluto and Uranus in his 4th – over controlling and constantly changing – with an intense 8th house Moon and a prone-to-mood-swings Jupiter opposition Saturn does not make for a stable temperament. And he has a yod onto Saturn in Taurus inconjunct Neptune sextile Uranus which requires maturity and self-discipline to function well otherwise it is self-defeating.
The car crash when he was two which killed his mother and sister and left his brother Beau Hunter with multiple broken bones gave him a fractured skull and severe traumatic brain injuries. He recovered to graduate from college, take a law degree and go into banking.
Children are one of Joe Biden’s driving forces with his Taurus Moon in the 5th, almost as if he looks to them for nurturing. Despite both Beau and Hunter being Sun Aquarius and not an intuitive fit with father Joe’s multiple Scorpio planets, he has/had an easy Jupiterian connection with both. His relationship chart with Hunter has a composite Moon Jupiter connection; and with Beau a composite Jupiter Pluto conjunction trine Sun. Plus a few less easy aspects as well admittedly.
The transiting Pluto in Aquarius square Mars in Taurus at one degree hits Joe Biden’s Moon exactly as the sentence was decided.
Jill Biden looks less enamoured of Hunter despite her supportive show in court with a composite Sun square Saturn and a Venus Mars opposition Neptune – cool, critical, disappointed, irritated. Her Pluto opposes Hunter and Beau’s Aquarius Sun so she’d be firmly in control.
Beau born exactly a year and a day before his brother, 3 February 1969, no birth time, who died after a long illness with a brain tumour in 2015, which may have been associated with his military service in Iraq, always seemed the brighter son. He shared his brother’s challenging Saturn on the focal point of a yod inconjunct Pluto sextile Mars Neptune but obviously rose to the challenge to cope with it.
Hunter is now labouring under tr Pluto moving through his 8th house for many years ahead which even if it does not involve prison time will be tough going. A hint of Dante’s purgatorio – a longish phase of cleansing of the sins. Tr Saturn is also moving across his 10th house which often coincides with success but it is also a time when chickens come home to roost and mistakes have to be faced – as Richard Nixon found out.
You can’t blame people for their relatives and partisan point scoring is a bore – but it still does seem an amazingly tawdry tale dragged into public view. There is something very wrong in the land of the free and a Cancerian family-cherishing, god-bothering land at that, when the (as yet) only two contenders fall so miserably short of the national image.
France was always due for an almighty upheaval this year running alongside panic and confusion as Emmanuel Macron calls a surprise election in the face of considerable losses in the French sector to the far-right in the EU election (overall the centre-right was the winner). All of which coincides with high-stress turbulence on Macron’s Presidency charts – with the astrology being satisfyingly precise, even if all else looks like chaos.
Transiting Neptune is opposing France’s final degree Virgo Sun and square Emmanuel Macron’s final degree Sagittarius Sun from May 3rd to early this September, then on and off until January 2026 – leading to a sinking feeling and a fair amount of dither and muddle. In addition France’s revolutionary Uranus opposition Pluto square Mars in Scorpio is taking a fair pounding from a highly insecure and volatile tr Uranus opposition the France Mars running into and over the 30 June/7 July election and again into early 2024; with the Solar Arc Sun in an unstable square the France Pluto and Uranus over coming months into early 2025.
It will be a roller coaster ride for France and elsewhere. Early July is already on red alert for the Trump trial sentence and the GOP Convention with the approaching Uranus Mars Algol conjunction on the 15th. And the Paris Olympics opening on July 26th.
Macron’s initial Presidency chart, 14 May 2017, has a destabilising Solar Arc Pluto exactly square the Uranus to within four minutes of a degree as he made his shock decision. And his 2nd Term chart, 13 May 2022 has tr Uranus conjunct the Sun and square Saturn now for another massive jolt.
He will remain president until 2027 but lost his party’s parliamentary majority in the 2022 elections. His dramatic move is seen as a huge gamble, which could result in more losses and potentially hand right-wing Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella more power. The president has presented it as an existential choice for French voters: do you really want to be governed by the far right? Most analysts predict that the far-right party may emerge with more MPs, but will probably not win enough seats to give it a majority, meaning the next parliament may be even more ineffective than the current one.
One analyst suggested “It could be that he is looking at a neutralising “cohabitation effect”. If – for example, Bardella were offered the job of prime minister, two and a half years in government may be just enough time to render the far right unpopular too.”
Macron never did look the right man at the right time for the last election with tr Saturn heading downwards through his lower-profile, less successful First Quadrant – and presently sitting at the nadir. Plus tr Neptune square his Sun and Mercury now into early 2026 will find him disappointed, confused, indecisive, not winning.
Marine Le Pen, 5 August 1968 11.20am Neuilly Sur Seine, who has cleaned up her party’s image in recent years, pulling away from its former racist, anti-Semitic slant, looks seriously rattled at the moment but jubilant from 8th July onwards with tr Uranus square her Sun/Jupiter midpoint into early August, repeating both successful effects in October and disaster in November. Both pluses and minuses run into spring 2025. September to late November she has the trapped, frustrating tr Pluto opposition her Mars – so not everything is going her way. She has a hard, challenging chart with a Leo Sun and a tough Saturnine yod inconjunct Pluto Uranus in Virgo sextile Neptune and her Saturn in a hard-edged square to Mars in final degree Cancer.
France does not look overly enamoured with her this year through till February 2025 with tr Neptune opposition the composite Mars.
Her young protege Jordan Bardella, 13 September 1995 3.42pm Drancy, France, a Sun Venus in late Virgo opposition Saturn, sextile Pluto and trine Uranus Neptune in Capricorn is rapidly rising in prominence despite being only 28. He has the same mix of positive and negative as Le Pen this year with extreme frustration mid July to early September with tr Puto square his Mars/Node midpoint; and then a successful phase at the same time as tripping over setbacks September to late November this year.
Much has been made of the supposed alliance between Le Pen and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, 15 January 1977 6.30pm Rome. But Meloni’s Capricorn Sun clashes badly with Le Pen’s yod apex Saturn and her Mars in Cancer; and Meloni’s Saturn is conjunct Le Pen’s Sun. Not much sisterly cooperation there. 2026/27 look splitting apart years.
Le Pen’s relationship with Bardella has a super-successful (when pulling together) composite Jupiter Pluto conjunction. But their togetherness will hit a few bumps on the road ahead from this July 8th on and off into early 2025; with moments of chill as tr Saturn opposes the composite Sun on and off into January 2025 – with considerable upheavals and maybe a parting of the ways come 2026/27.
The Republican Convention to anoint Trump or not falls between 15th and 18th July in Milwaukee – and they could not have chosen a more incendiary moment. It opens on an explosive Mars Uranus Algol conjunction in Taurus which by day 2 will be opposition the Scorpio Moon.
This also coincides with the Solar Arc Saturn conjunct Mars exact to the minute of a degree on the USA chart which usually accompanies a considerable setback, can be accident-prone and highly aggravated. And as if that was not enough on the Sibly chart it is also when the Solar Arc Mars is conjunct the USA Aquarius Moon, rousing passions within the electorate to boiling point.
It also opens with the Sun in last decan Cancer moving, in the three days following, across the USA’s fanatical, manipulative, beyond-stubborn and hostile Mercury opposition Pluto.
On Trump’s chart the tr Uranus Mars is exactly square his Mars in Leo – which for a normal human being might look like an almighty shock putting severe strain on their heart. But with Trump who knows? He will be discouraged and pushing boulders uphill with tr Pluto opposition his Saturn/Pluto midpoint and confused with tr Neptune square his Mercury/Node midpoint which could indicate disappointments within a community. Though tr Jupiter is still sailing across his 10th house keeping him in the headlines and spotlight.
Joe Biden looks rattled over the Republican Convention with tr Uranus square his Mars/Saturn midpoint – though that might be other matters out on the global scene involving military decisions. Or indeed an accident-prone phase for him personally. That influence runs till early August.
The Democratic Convention, 19 August 2024 in Chicago, will be memorable enough but nothing like as earth-quaking as the Republican one. It opens on a Full Moon in Aquarius opposition Sun Mercury and square Uranus – which despite the Fixed signs could hint at change. Tr Uranus will at that point be exactly opposition Biden’s Scorpio Sun. There is also Saturn in Pisces opposition Venus square an enthusiastic Jupiter Mars in Gemini – so the mood will blow enthusiastic and chilly. Plus a yod of Sun inconjunct Pluto sextile Neptune which arguably suggests an uneasy mood of not knowing how to hold to a steady course.
In addition to tr Uranus opposing Biden’s Sun, it also opposes his Mercury/Uranus midpoint and tr Neptune opposes his Mercury/Pluto midpoint = nervy, irritable, confused. Tr Pluto is square his Venus/Neptune midpoint which Ebertin describes as ‘tragic loss, painful renunciation’ though his interpretations can tend to the overly dramatic – but he is not exactly upbeat for sure. And tr Pluto is reversing back to square his Sun/Neptune midpoint from September 2nd till late November = slumped, disappointing, a tragic illusion.
Kamala Harris looks rattled over the Rep Convention and not exactly delirious over the Dem Convention with tr Saturn opposition her Venus in Virgo.
Talk about nerve-wracking! And I don’t even live in the USA.
Two weddings amongst the wealthy elite caught varying oohs and aahs over the past week. The young Duke of Westminster worth a cool £10 billion married his elegant bridge with the Prince of Wales as usher yesterday. And last weekend Rupert Murdoch, worth circa $20 million USD, got hitched for a fifth time.
Not surprisingly both wedding charts are reasonably similar with a super-successful, super-confident Jupiter in Gemini trine Pluto; an affectionate, superficially sociable Sun Venus, though in a workmanlike square to Saturn. Both intriguingly have Chiron close to Mars hinting at a marriage ahead of compulsive doing – non-stop-go. As well as a tendency to attract anger from others.
Rupert Murdoch, 11 March 1931 11.55pm Melbourne, Australia has his Sun/Moon midpoint conjunct his Venus so he will head for love like a moth to a flame. His Venus falls in his 2nd so one might wonder about the financial complications and attractions thereof. He also has Jupiter and Pluto in his 7th so close relationships will be both easy to attract and difficult to maintain harmoniously.
The young Duke of Westminster, Hugh Grosvenor, 29 January 1991, London, no birth time, inherited when his father died in his mid sixties from a heart attack in 2016. He is a Sun Aquarius opposition Jupiter, with his Saturn, like Murdoch born sixty years before, in Capricorn. In Westminster’s case his Saturn is conjunct his North Node for a heavy burden of material wealth to bear. His wedding chart also has Neptune in Pisces square the Moon (Cancer/Gemini depending on when the vows were taken) which is not ideal domestically – unrealistic, vague, disappointing.
The Moon on Murdoch’s wedding chart is in Aries (probably late afternoon LA wedding) conjunct the Aries North Node – good for public relations.
Bread and circuses for the masses.
Add On: A wiki birth date has appeared for Olivia, now Duchess of Westminster, 1 September 1992, born into a wealthy banking family.
If accurate, she is a Sun and Jupiter in Virgo, not conjunct, but both trine a Uranus Neptune conjunction in Capricorn – she is into sustainable/ethical food – very Virgo and Gen Z. Her Saturn is in knowledgeable/scientific; and Mercury is square an intense Pluto. Her Venus in sociable Libra has been enlivened by a romantic tr Pluto trine over last year and this.
Her husband is also of the inventive, inspired, can-be-dogmatic Uranus Neptune generation and both of them have Mars in argumentative Gemini. Her Moon is Scorpio and his Cancer/Leo.
Their relationship chart has a close composite Sun Pluto conjunction with a (perhaps) well aspected composite Moon square a passionate Venus opposition Mars. The composite Saturn is square Mercury and trine Mars – so their marriage understandably will be a weighty affair involving more practicalities and business than most.
The mysterious disappearance of popular tv doctor Michael Mosley on Wednesday on a Greek island bears similarities to a previous incident five years ago when a holidaymaker was never found, possibly lost at sea after a coastal walk.
Michael Mosley, 22 March 1957, Kolkata, India, is a Sun Mercury in Aries trine Uranus and sextile Mars in Gemini so go-ahead, likes excitement, communicative. His Sun Mercury sextile Mars are on the legs of a yod inconjunct his Neptune which in turn is square Uranus – idealistic, escapist, a dreamer, fervent in his beliefs. He has another yod of Pluto sextile Neptune inconjunct his Sun Mercury giving him a liking for an audience.
His Sagittarius Moon is close to his Saturn and maybe trine his Pluto and square Jupiter – he went to boarding school at 7, then Oxford, started in banking, took a medical degree, studied psychiatry then left to become a BBC trainee producer.
His North Node is in Scorpio.
What is noteworthy is that his Progressed Mars is sextile his Progressed Mercury and both are inconjunct his natal Saturn – which sounds obscure but sometimes these progressed or transiting yods can be influential. Mars inconjunct Saturn certainly suggests an accident of sorts.
Add On: Not all details are clear but it looks likely that he climbed a steep slope to the top of a hill on rough terrain in searing heat before stumbling around as he came down; and then died either from a fall or heat exhaustion/dehydration close to a beach resort.
He was a risk-taker in his career, turning himself into a guinea pig for self-experiments on TV and radio – he ingested tapeworms for a documentary and then swallowed a camera to examine them wriggling around in his gut. Similarly he tried vaping, magic mushrooms, leeches and snake venom, all in the name of TV science.
All of which is reflected in his Sun Mercury in Aries trine Uranus, sextile Mars in Gemini. It strikes me looking at his chart that the only earth planet is Jupiter in Virgo so he probably was not overly practical or grounded, despite being a doctor. His Aries Sun would thrive on action, more so allied with the adventurous Uranus Mars. Uranus square Neptune is inspired and inventive but not renowned for common sense or listening to advice. Plus he had a yod onto Neptune inconjunct his Sun Mercury sextile Mars which is idealistic and healing but also escapist, craving seclusion and peace, which may be why he thought the view from the hilltop was worth the slog without taking into consideration the physical toll.
Looking at his midpoints: his Saturn which seems central to the tragedy sits opposition his Sun/Pluto midpoint which is being triggered by his Progressed Mars – and that certainly is an accident/disaster signature. His Sun is also exactly opposition his Neptune/Pluto midpoint which backs up a dreamy, not always realistic temperament.
Trump’s legal woes just lightened with the Florida judge Aileen Cannon, whom he appointed, kicking his classified documents case down the road, possibly past the election. And the Georgia appeals court has halted the election subversion conspiracy case to inquire into the relationship between the DA Fani Willis and the special prosecutor.
‘The appeals court’s decision underscores Trump’s series of successes in his long-running strategy to put prosecutors on the defensive, attack them in the public sphere and challenge them in court.’
Aileen Cannon, 1 February 1981, Cali, Colombia (net source says from public record), is a Sun Aquarius with an ultra-determined and can-be-ruthless Mars in Aquarius trine Pluto, sextile Neptune; and Jupiter Saturn conjunct in Libra.
What is of note is that tr Uranus will square her Mars 16th of this month to early July and again late October, across the November election and for a final time in spring 2025. Tr Uranus hitting Mars can be a shock of sorts, bringing insecurity and the likelihood of over reactions. She also has her Solar Arc Mars opposition her Saturn now which is usually a stumbling block. October to early February 2025 tr Neptune squares her Mercury/Pluto midpoint (= cunning, falsehood). (NB, assuming birth date is accurate).
Her relationship chart with Trump has a fated yod of Pluto sextile Neptune inconjunct Mercury (same as with Jared Kushner, born three weeks earlier). Tr Saturn is blocking Pluto on one leg of the yod in the second half of this August and again late January 2025.
Fani Willis, the Georgia DA, 27 October 1971, a Scorpio with Mercury Venus also in Scorpio; plus Saturn in Gemini opposition Neptune Jupiter in Sagittarius, also has her Mars at the same degree in late Aquarius as Judge Cannon. Or indeed depending on her birth time it could be a degree earlier so is catching the tr Uranus square exactly now as her Trump case is delayed. That shock influence repeats in late October through to December and again in spring 2025. She is looking defeated till early September.
Her relationship chart with Trump has a competitive composite Sun square Mars which is being seriously rattled by tr Uranus in hard aspect in late this month and through July, again October/November this year. And undermined with tr Neptune square the composite Saturn from May till early September and again in spring 2025.
There is something seriously wrong with sections of the US judiciary from several different directions. Shades of hanging chads in 2000 and banana republic decisions.
Amanda Knox is still fighting legal battles in Italy 17 years after she was wrongly accused of murdering Merdeith Kercher. She was initially convicted and jailed for four years, then faced five trials before she was acquitted in 2015. She has lost an attempt to overturn her slander conviction for blaming the wrong man immediately after the murder. Her three-year sentence has been upheld for which she has served time and she has been ordered to pay costs to wrongly accused man.
Her plea was that she had been “tricked” and “slapped” by Italian police after the murder and that they had forced her to accuse an innocent man of the killing during a lengthy night-time interrogation without a lawyer and a translator. She said “I was forced to submit, I was too confused and exhausted to resist,” she said, adding: “I’m very sorry I was not strong enough to have resisted the police pressure. I was scared, tricked and mistreated. I gave the testimony in a moment of existential crisis.” She wrote the following day: “In regards to this ‘confession’ that I made last night, I want to make it clear that I’m very doubtful of the verity of my statements because they were made under the pressures of stress, shock and extreme exhaustion.”
She was born 9 July 1987 2.47am Seattle, Washington, and has a Cancer Sun trine Pluto; with Pluto square Mars in Leo and an 8th house Neptune opposition Venus Mercury in Cancer in her 2nd square North Node in Aries. Her Mars square Pluto would tend to attract her into high-drama and high-risk situations which her 8th house Neptune opposition Mercury would not handle well, tending to split off into confusion. Plus she has no Earth planets so will not be practical or grounded.
Her relocation chart to Perugia is not startlingly bad though it does put Uranus on her IC opposition Chiron on her MC. Melanie Rhinehart remarks of Chiron opposition Uranus is that it heightens the need for freedom and can bring problems with authority figures.
Given her 7th house Uranus and her Sun/Moon midpoint being conjunct her Libra South Node one might argue that relationships would be where she met her greatest challenge, one way or another.
It always was an odd case and she reacted very bizarrely at the time – but for all that ifs and buts the Italian police acted appallingly badly and nothing should be allowed to stand from any interrogation done under these circumstances.
Not that she looks like prevailing with tr Pluto opposition her Mars this year and next which is frustratingly trapped. With tr Pluto having a few more years before it exits her legal 9th.
Add On:
From an old post during the original trials:
‘What is intriguing is the North Node cross over between Knox and Sollecito whom she’d only known for two weeks before the murder. His Aries Sun is exactly conjunct her Aries Moon’s North Node – a fated connexion indeed.
Even more so is Knox with Rudy Guede, the Ivory Coast drifter (26 Dec 1986) who is now serving time for the murder after a fast track trial though he now claims his innocence and is appealing. His Sun Neptune in Capricorn is closely square Knox’s NNode and her Cancer Sun is exactly square his Aries NNode. And his Sun Neptune is closely square Sollecito’s Sun. Destinies that criss crossed.
Knox’s relationship chart with Sollecito has a Venus conjunct NNode opposition Pluto which is passionate and her relationship chart with Guede has a Yod of Venus sextile Pluto quincunx NNode. Both would certainly fit with the idea of ‘sex games. On the night of the murder (2 Nov 2007) the Scorpio Sun was conjunct the composite Venus on the Knox/Sollecito relationship chart; and conjunct the composite Pluto on the Knox/Guede relationship chart. Whatever happened that night and who did it – there are certainly astrological pointers to a very fated connection between all three of them.’
And the synastry between Meredith Kercher and Knox is also startling with Meredith’s Sun Neptune in Capricorn falling in Knox’s 8th house and her Mars in Scorpio conjunct Knox’s Pluto.
What an unholy entanglement of fated connections.
Extra thought – Knox’s Mars square Pluto is one of those never-let-go-grievances traits. Think Angelina Jolie. No matter how justified, there comes a point where moving on and accepting that life is sometimes unfair is sensible.
The upcoming EU elections according to the polls point to a populist victory, with the Greens are set to be the biggest losers. Nearly half of the parliament’s 720 seats could be held by populist right-wing parties, with the parties led by Italy’s Giorgia Meloni and France’s Marine Le Pen doing well.
NB. Polls to be treated with a bucket of salt.
What is clear looking at the EU chart of 31 December 1957 11pm Brussels, is that the years between 2021 to 2026 are the most critical in its history. It might not be too much to say it is when the bloc is fighting for its soul.
There are two key configurations in the EU chart – one is an 8th house Taurus Moon opposition Neptune square Uranus opposition Venus – fixed, not flexible, secretive, overly optimistic on the cash front. The other is a 12th house Pluto square Mars in argumentative Sagittarius in the 3rd – which could suggest corruption or dirty dealings between the scenes. Both of the above point to a distinct dislike of change and transparency.
Not only has tr Uranus been rattling the Fixed Moon, Uranus and then Venus since 2020/21. The Solar Arc Mars square Solar Arc Pluto has been colliding with the EU Fixed planets since 2020/21as well – with the SA Pluto aiming to oppose the 8th house Moon through 2025 which will bring exceptional economic pressures to bear, exacerbated when SA Mars is conjunct the speculative 5th house Venus in 2026.
And to cap it all tr Uranus into Gemini will start to rattle up the 12th house Pluto square Mars through 2026/27 for a time of aggravation, high-tension, risk and perhaps secrets being dragged out into the open. Tr Pluto is also square the 2nd house Neptune in 2026/27 for financial panics.
On a cursory glance Le Pen will be one foot forward one foot back this year and into turbulent possibly cataclysmic times in 2026/27.
