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Writer Jane Austen is having a moment with the 250^th anniversary of her birth this year causing a flutter of excitement amongst her fans. Author of Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park and others, she stands head and shoulders above other novelists having stood the test of time with constant revival TV and film renderings of her works. ‘Her use of social commentary, realism, wit, and irony have earned her acclaim amongst critics and scholars.’

 She was born 16 December 1775 11.45pm Basingstoke, England, with a rector father into a genteel though poor family. She started writing in childhood and never left her family, dying at 41 a spinster, having had little success or money from her books.

  She had a home-loving 4^th house Sagittarius Sun square Neptune on her Virgo Ascendant. Her Mercury in Sagittarius in her communicative 3^rd would give her a quick witted mind and ability to get her ideas across especially since it opposed Uranus and Jupiter in her 9^th house of ideas and publishing. Her Moon Saturn in Libra opposition a 7^th house Chiron hinted at a less than vibrant emotional life, especially since they also squared a frustrated, trapped, utterly determined Mars Pluto in Capricorn on the cusp of her 5^th house.  A Libra Moon conjunct Saturn square Mars Pluto might suggest health problems.

 What intrigued me about Austen’s chart is that modern-day novelist Iris Murdoch, 15 July 1919 8am Dublin, Ireland, also has a Mars Pluto conjunction, in her case in Cancer. She was a professor of philosophy, influenced by Sartre and had a skill for black comedy – “Under The Net,” “A Severed Head.” Very different from Austen but with the same driving determination which started her writing as a child, she wrote 26 novels, four plays, four books on philosophy and one book of poetry and had a long and happy marriage, dying ultimately of Alzheimers in her late 70s.

  Her Sun Jupiter in Cancer were in her creative 12^th house along with Neptune; and her 11^th house Mars Pluto was in a Water Grand Trine to Uranus and her IC. With her Uranus opposition Venus. With her Cancer Sun inconjunct an Aquarius Moon and her Venus in aspect to Mars Pluto and Uranus she would not be emotionally at ease – perhaps the wound out of which her writing came. Both she and Austen had their Chiron in Aries which can be a sign of a pioneer, one who leads the way as a compensation for feeling powerless or wounded in a the area of identity.

  It got me searching amongst other women writers and how many have afflicted Mars – Emily Dickinson, the influential American poet, 10 December 1839 4.50am Amherst, MA was another Sun Sagittarius with a Mars Pluto conjunction in Aries in her ‘entertaining’ 5^th house with her Mars Pluto sextile Uranus inconjunct a 10^th house Saturn.

 Charlotte Bronte was a Sun Taurus with her 10^th house Mars square Pluto and opposition Neptune with her Mars also trine Moon Saturn conjunct in Aquarius. Her sister Emily a Sun Leo had her Mars in Virgo opposition Saturn square Uranus.

 Which is not dissimilar to Doris Lessing (The Golden Notebook) with her Mars Saturn in Virgo sextile Pluto. Also Chiron in Aries as had PD James, the crime writer who also had a Mars in Scorpio North Node trine Pluto trine Uranus with Uranus opposition Saturn,

 Talent comes at a cost.

Add On: Poet Christina Rossetti, 5 December 1830 3.10 am London, was another Mars Pluto conjunction in her case in Aries in her 6^th house trine Venus Sun in Sagittarius; and her Saturn was inconjunct Mars Pluto sextile Uranus in a stressed yod. She had major health problems, spells of depression and a religious crisis.

 Fairly similar was poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 6 March 1806 7pm, Killoe, England, she had a Mars Pluto Sun Mercury conjunction in Pisces in her 6^th with her Libra Moon inconjunct Mars Pluto.

 Enid Blyton had an 8^th house Pluto square Mars Jupiter. Anita Brookner a Mars sextile Pluto Sun inconjunct Saturn. Arundati Roy – Sun Mars square Pluto Uranus.

 Agatha Christie had a tough chart with Saturn square Neptune Pluto and her Virgo Sun was square Mars – but no Mars Pluto.

 The rise of 20^th century fascism is credited to Italian ‘Il Duce’ Benito Mussolini, who is noted as an inspiration behind Adolf Hitler’s plans for Germany with the Nazi Party. Mussolini is the subject of an 8 part television drama starting tonight based on Antonio Scurati’s bestselling novel following his path from the founding of Fasci Italiani in 1919, to prime minister from 1922 to 1925, before becoming a fascist dictator. His rule ended in 1943 and he was executed in 1945.

  He regarded himself as an intellectual and after he moved away from an early Marxist socialist approach he studied Friedrich Nietzsche amongst others, becoming convinced that ‘overthrowing decadent liberal democracy and capitalism by the use of violence’ was necessary. He admired Plato’s The Republic, which promoted ideas such as rule by an elite promoting the state as the ultimate end, opposition to democracy, protecting the class system, rejection of egalitarianism, promoting the militarisation of a nation by creating a class of warriors. Biological racism was less prominent in Italian Fascism than in National Socialism, though it had a strong racist undercurrent.

  Born 29 July 1883 2pm Predappio, Italy, the son of a militant socialist blacksmith father and named Benito after a Mexican revolutionary, he had a knowledgeable and ‘visionary’ 9^th house Leo Sun and Mercury with a sociable Venus conjunct Jupiter in Cancer also in his 9th. His freedom-loving, rebellious Uranus in his 10^th was in an innovative trine to Neptune in Taurus in his 7^th.  His 7^th house was packed with a tough minded, argumentative and volatile Pluto, Chiron, Saturn, Moon and Mars there so he would have a powerful effect on other people.

 He is described as having ‘an imposing physicality and rhetorical power’ speaking directly to the populace in his rallies making them feel heard. Like a true Leo he was a consummate actor turning the political arena into a theatre and casting himself as its star. In 1922 his take-over of the Italian government was a blatant bluff when he and his thuggish private militia confronted the king and government without any electoral support or the military strength to defeat the army. He chanced his arm and won.

       His chart is not as overtly brutal as Hitler’s who had an unpleasant Venus Mars in Taurus square Saturn, but Mussolini’s ‘serial killer’ 18^th harmonic was strong.

 Mussolini’s superficially charming Jupiter Venus in Cancer was conjunct the Italy 17 March 1861 12 am Turin, South Node with his formidable collection of Pluto, Saturn, Moon, Mars falling in the Italy 7^th conjunct the Italy revolutionary Uranus.  When he became PM in 1922 tr Neptune in Leo was conjunct the Italy Jupiter for a moment of delusional optimism. Tr Pluto was half way through Cancer which was the most destructive of the early 20^th century influences starting as WW1 began and extending to the late 1930s.

  Mussolini’s Leo Sun was conjunct Hitler’s Midheaven so he would be a shining light for him in what came afterwards. Though they were hardly temperamentally compatible with a composite Neptune Mars Pluto trine Uranus in their relationship chart – ego-clashing, hostile, argumentative.

 When Mussolini was executed in 1945 tr Pluto in Leo was just across the conjunction to his Sun with tr Pluto conjunct his Solar Arc Moon Saturn which was also crossing his Sun for a savage moment in his destiny.

Who said ? – “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”

ADD ON: Of other 20^th Century dictators of whom there were an unholy bunch – three like Hitler came out of the Neptune Pluto in Gemini conjunction of the late 19th century – Mao Tse Tung, General Franco and Tito of Yugoslavia.

  Historically Neptune Pluto is associated with megalomaniacs and brutal dictators from Attila the Hun onwards.

 Joseph Stalin, 18 December 1878, no birth time, was born just before when Neptune and Pluto were both in Taurus; with his Pluto exactly conjunct Algol in a ruthless opposition to vengeful Mars in Scorpio. His Sagittarius Sun Venus were square Saturn and Scheat in Pisces; and his Libra Moon may have been conjunct Vindemiatrix (the widowmaker). Fire Earth – a bulldozer.

 Mao Tse Tung, 26 December 1893 7.30am Siangtan, China had his Neptune Pluto in Gemini in a yod sextile North Node inconjunct – a reformer, lawless, defiant, a wrecker of the past, intolerant. He had a 12^th house Capricorn Sun with a Fixed Grand Cross of Mars in Scorpio opposition Jupiter square Venus opposition a Leo Moon.

Josip Tito of Yugoslavia, 7 May 1892 10 am Croatia – a Sun Taurus with Neptune Pluto in Gemini trine Mars in Aquarius with Mars square Uranus.

General Franco of Spain, 4 December 1892 12.30am – a Sagittarius Sun opposition Pluto, Neptune, Moon in Gemini square Mars in Pisces.

N.B. The birth dates above may be iffy.

The ultimate stress test of Donald Trump’s trade war tariffs will be in the effect on the US economy. Described by the FT as an “absurdity” it is regarded as a pointless self-inflicted injury which will raise prices for American families and deliver a shock to North American and world economies. “They are being used as a coercive tool to further Trump’s domestic political agenda and extract concessions from American neighbours that may be beyond their power to give.”

  There is a backlash from business groups and some Republicans warning that the new tariffs  would push up prices for ordinary Americans and cause chaos in supply chains. “The president is right to focus on major problems like our broken border and the scourge of fentanyl, but the imposition of tariffs . . . won’t solve these problems” said John Murphy, senior vice-president of the US Chamber of Commerce, the US’s largest business group. 

  The US Federal Reserve Bank, 16 November 1914 9 am Washington, is under greater pressure than it has seen for decades as tr Neptune Saturn squares the Saturn Pluto at one degree Cancer from May 2025 onwards till early 2027 which will be panicky and uncertain. With added shocks and insecurity from tr Uranus opposition the Mars from June 2026 into 2027. 2026/27 also have tr Pluto square the Uranus/Neptune midpoint which tends to be associated with calamities and catastrophes.

  Trump won’t care about other stock markets but the UK FTSE, 3 January 1984 10 am London rather ominously has its Solar Arc Saturn moving to dampen its high-flying Jupiter Neptune within weeks on the same degree and then on for several years – so not a progressive phase.

  Equally the German DAX, 1 July 1998, is unnerved this month with tr Pluto conjunct the Neptune and square Saturn, returning later in the year; with an unsettled 2026.

 The Bank of Canada, 11 March 1935, isn’t showing much before a jangled 2026. The Toronto Stock Exchange is pressured through this year and next.

Relations between Canada and the USA are not surprisingly under heavy pressure this year and worse in 2026 with tr Pluto square the composite Saturn and then tr Neptune Saturn square the composite Neptune.  

 Relations between Canada and the UK are confused and undermined at the moment and throughout 2025 with tr Pluto conjunct the composite Neptune – and worse in 2026 and on for a few years. With tr Neptune opposition the composite Saturn and then conjunct the Sun Pluto. Not an amiable end to the decade.

American democracy is a failed experiment according to blogger Curis Yarvin, an inaugural-gala invitee due to his “outsize influence over the Trumpian right.” He founded the anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic philosophical movement known as the Dark Enlightenment or neo-reactionary movement in which he argues that the present system should be replaced by an accountable monarchy, similar to the governance structure of corporations. He “sees liberalism as creating a Matrix-like totalitarian system” and his thinking has influenced some prominent Silicon Valley investors and Republican politicians amongst them  Steve Bannon and VP JD Vance.

 Born 25 June 1973 in New York he has an angry, ruthless, ultra-determined Mars in upfront Aries opposition Pluto square a Cancer Sun and Saturn in late Gemini opposition North Node – tough, driven, lacking in empathy (to put it mildly). His unconventional, mould-breaking Uranus is trine Jupiter on one side and trine Saturn on the other and widely square Venus and Mercury in Cancer.

 His North Node in Capricorn is probably significant – looking for a father figure.

 Tr Neptune and tr Saturn moving into Aries will bring losses and disappointment his way from this May/June onwards as they start to hard aspect his Cardinal Grand Cross first opposing his Pluto and in 2026 moving to hard aspect his Mars and Sun.

 His relationship with Trump will run into a swamp of confusion by 2026 with a few glitches before then. See:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/curtis-yarvin-trump

 Kevin Roberts, President of the Heritage Foundation, 24 June 1974 Lafayette, Louisiana, another Sun Cancer conjunct Saturn square Pluto. Soon after Roberts joined Heritage in late 2021, the organization established the controversial Project 2025, an expansive plan to overhaul the government under the new Republican administration. He looks rattled this June with tr Uranus conjunct his Venus in Taurus and more so when tr Neptune squares his Sun in July August 2025; and worse in 2026 with tr Saturn joining in And it’s a long slide thereafter until tr Neptune clears the square to his Saturn by early 2029. 2028/2029 will be trapped and scary for him. The Trump term will not bring him into the promised land.

  Elon Musk who appears to have a free hand to run riot through government departments will feel the full weight of tr Uranus moving into Gemini in July 2025 as it collides with his can-be-neurotic Saturn opposition Neptune. Even before then tr Uranus will oppose his Jupiter in May, probably bringing a surge of over-confidence as it lights up his natal Jupiter Neptune conjunction – only to bring him crashing down as tr Uranus is opposition his Neptune in July and conjunct his Saturn in August (and so on into 2026). It won’t do much for his mental balance. By 2026 tr Neptune Saturn are square his Cancer Sun for losses and disappointment.

 What gives with all these way out Cancerians??

  There is not a huge amount of point in looking at their relationships with Trump since he has a track record of falling out with even fervent supporters. But for what it is worth – Mitch McConnell and DT are on a downer through 2025, with a serious low point in May/June. With Mike Johnson and Chuck Schummer there will be differences and discouragement with DT through 2025, with 2026 ramping up the aggravation between them.

  Points to watch this year from the Inauguration chart – late July the Progressed Moon will square the Mars on the IC exactly for angry clashes. Towards early November the controlling Sun Pluto conjunction will have moved by Solar Arc Directions to exact; and the unloved/unpopular Saturn Venus (financial restrictions) conjunction also will be together.  

Add On: Russell Vought, March 26, 1976, a political analyst, self-described Christian nationalist, who has played a significant role in Project 2025, an initiative led by the Heritage Foundation that aims to reshape the federal government.

He is a Sun Aries opposition Pluto square Mars in Cancer so not unlike Yarvin. He’ll have some successes and cheering moments but tr Neptune Saturn square his 3 degree Mars in Cancer in 2026/27 will be failure-ridden, undermining, panicky and that will slide on for several years.

Neptune leaving a sign oversees the deaths of prominent musical and film icons. But it also ushers in new creative and political talent. As Neptune prepared to exit Taurus in the late 1880s, painters Georgia O’Keefe and Marcel Duchamp were born as was war poet Rupert Brooke, architect Le Corbusier, and actors Chico Marx and Boris Karloff. Amongst leaders were Chiang Kai-shek, David Ben Gurion, Field Marshal Montgomery and the Norwegian Quisling.

 Amongst other notables was Nobel Prize–winning physicist Erwin Schrodinger, the Austrian who developed fundamental results in quantum theory. Born 12 August 1887 Vienna, no birth time, he had a Leo Sun conjunct a leadership North Node with a final degree Neptune in Taurus conjunct Pluto and inconjunct Jupiter. Plus a disciplined, hard-edged Mars Saturn conjunction in Cancer. His Neptune Pluto would mark him out as ambitious and Pluto trine Uranus as an original thinker. His Mars Saturn may also depending on houses have marked him out for a destructive attitude towards relationships.

His Venus widely conjunct Uranus and trine Pluto would make for a passionate though unpredictable and changeable emotional temperament. According to wiki he “always kept a number of relationships going at once – and made no secret of his fascination with preadolescent girls”. He fathered children with at least two students.

His 13^th harmonic, the mark of a breakthrough genius,  was notable with a revolutionary Uranus opposition Pluto connected to Sun and Venus as well as a Jupiterian yod. His leaving-a-legacy 17H was also well aspected.

  Another late Neptune in Taurus with beyond-bizarre notions from another angle about young sexuality was Kurt Hahn, the once revered headmaster of Gordonstoun where the Royal children, Charles, Andrew and Edward were educated. He believed he could “cure” boys from reaching puberty to maintain the “freshness and charm” of childhood through cold showers and physical exertions. Former students attest that Hahn personally bathed boys and supervised them as they showered, provoking claims that his conduct was “deeply disturbing and inappropriate”. It has now emerged he was forced to retire in 1953 as his mental health disintegrated.

  The effort to stave off puberty it is assumed was an attempt to deny his own adult sexuality of which he was clearly deeply ashamed.

 He was born 5 June 1888 with a Gemini Sun conjunct Chiron square Mars in Virgo; with an ever-optimistic Neptune in late Taurus trine Jupiter; and an experimental Pluto Mercury trine Uranus.  And a Cancer Moon.

  Prince Philip, another Sun Mars Gemini square Jupiter in Virgo (so not dissimilar) was a great supporter but the regime Hahn left behind undoubtedly damaged Prince Charles who described his time there as a prison sentence.

  Hahn was gone when Charles was sent there in 1962 but his ethos hung over the establishment. The Charles’/ Hahn relationship chart was horrific with a perverse, destructive, hostile composite Mars trine Pluto sextile Sun and Mars square Saturn Neptune. Andrew’s relationship with the Hahn approach had marginally more emotional resonances but was still riddled with power and domination issues with a composite Venus trine Pluto trine Mars Jupiter with Venus opposition Uranus and a composite yod of Uranus sextile Jupiter inconjunct Saturn – and look how he turned out.

Last year the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry found that sexual and physical abuse became endemic in the school Hahn founded to promote “honesty, integrity and service”. Lady Smith, its chairwoman, wrote, “a dreadfully abusive and, in some houses, extremely violent culture was allowed to take root.”

  It can’t all be blamed on Neptune in its dying days in a sign but intriguing.

  Trump has moved the Israel-Hamas-Gaza situation on a smidgeon but there are no hopeful indicators moving forward of a long term solution. Netanyahu is caught in a double bind having promised to destroy Hamas but even after 47,000 Palestinians killed and Gaza effectively destroyed, the green headbands were defiantly on display as hostages were released. Trump is pressuring Netanyahu to withdraw troops but his finance minister, the far-right Bezazel Smotrich says he’ll collapse his ruling coalition by withdrawing if he does so. Trump talks of clearing out the 2.2 million remaining Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan but they and other Middle Eastern countries are alarmed about what they regard as ethnic cleansing which could destabilise the region.

The foreign ministers of Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates met on Saturday in Cairo and declared their opposition to any plan to move Palestinians out of Gaza and the West Bank. Saudi Arabia insists on the creation of an “irreversible” path to a Palestinian state.

     There are various schemes floated by the US’s Arab allies such as Egypt and the UAE to create an internationally-backed transitional body backed by the Palestinian Authority to reassert civilian control over the enclave.

Trump and Netanyahu who dislike each other will meet this week with some saying the future shape of the Middle East may hang on it.

 Both Trump and Netanyahu have a bombastic Mars in Leo at the same degree which is being rattled badly by tr Uranus in April/May this year, suggesting a shock surprise resulting in an over- reaction; with a dash of tr Saturn square the composite Uranus to raise tension levels in April 2025. Their composite Neptune at 10 Libra catching the late March Solar Eclipse hints that the dither and confusion may stretch on for another few months. Netanyahu’s relationship chart with MBS of Saudi Arabia is rattled also this coming April as is Trump’s with MBS. General Abdel Al Sisi of Egypt is also in for a turbulent phase in May this year with tr Uranus opposition his Scorpio Sun and square his Pluto. So another toxic hotspot is approaching.

 There are too many charts to cover in detail but the main Middle Eastern country charts all look unsettled especially in 2026/27.

 Hamas is heading for a total dead halt around 2027. Hezbollah will be pushing to restore lost ground in 2025 and in combative mood, having to negotiate a tumultuous year into early 2026; with 2028 bringing fresh clashes.

 The Israel chart gives every indication of being under siege mentality for a decade plus to come, indeed almost worse by the last 2030s when tr Pluto in Aquarius squares the Taurus Sun and opposes the Israel Mars in Leo.

 Intractable, unwinnable, the impossible dream – from either side.

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Marianne Faithfull, singer and actress, icon of the Sixties pop counterculture, one time girlfriend of Mick Jagger, has died aged 78. When that affair split, she descended into a drug addiction and homelessness, before reinventing herself with a shattered voice as a great musical interpreter, issuing 13 adventurous albums and became a magnet for film-makers, like Jean Luc Godard and Coppola.   

She was born 29 December 1946 12.30 pm London (memory), the daughter of a high-ranking WW11 British army spy and an Austro-Hungarian baroness involved in resistance activities. She left school at 16 to sing folk songs and dabble in acting and was talent spotted by the Rolling Stones manager.

  She had a go-ahead, impulsive Sun Mars in Capricorn on the focal point of a yod inconjunct Pluto Saturn in Leo in the performing 5^th sextile North Node – full of initiative and courage but lacking common sense and caution. She also notably had a musical and emotionally disorganized Pisces Moon on the focal point of another yod to Saturn Pluto sextile a 6^th house Neptune. An 8^th house intense Mercury in Sagittarius was in an outspoken, rebellious opposition to Uranus.

  She was a curious mix of hard and soft, headstrong and fearful, all capped off by an ultra-charming and seductive Venus Jupiter in Scorpio in her 7^th house of relationships.

 In 1970 after she ended up on the streets, addicted to heroin, tr Uranus in Libra was square her yod focal point Sun Mars and conjunct her 6^th house Neptune – for a catastrophic change in her life. A delicate Neptune in the 6^th is the absolutely wrong placing for someone who played fast and loose with her health. She had hepatitis C presumably from heroin injections and anorexia also in the 1970s, breast cancer, arthritis, a back injury, broken hip, pneumonia, COVID-19 which ended up with her in hospital for three weeks.

 She wrote three books about her life and in 2011 was awarded the Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, one of France’s highest cultural honours.

  Her relationship chart with Mick Jagger, 26 July 1943 2.30 am Dartford, England, had an affectionate Sun, Venus opposition Moon though that also squared Saturn – so it would blow hot and cold as career ambitions took precedence. It would also be volatile and one sided with a composite Mars square Uranus and trine Saturn.

 Her frivolous, sociable and light-hearted Venus Jupiter in Scorpio opposed his Taurus Moon for good feelings and her Pisces Moon opposed his Venus.  His Leo Sun, Jupiter, Pluto conjunct fell in her 4^th and would provide for a while a sense of stability and uplift for her can-be-depressive Saturn Pluto.

Athena Mozzi, Princess Beatrice’s second daughter was born prematurely on 22 January 2025 at 12.57pm by caesarean section. This gives her a 9^th house (much travelled and opinionated) Sun Pluto conjunction in Aquarius with a 5^th house intensely emotional Scorpio Moon. Her career 10^th house is full with a well-organised Saturn conjunct a creative Venus in Pisces and a helpful/healing Neptune which is in a publicity-attracting trine to Mars in Cancer, sextile Uranus. Her intense 8^th house Mercury is in an argumentative opposition to Mars.

 She’ll be quite a character and make an impact, in her mature years having executive abilities.

 Her grandfather Prince Andrew has a Scorpio Moon and her grandmother, mother Beatrice and aunt Princess Eugenie all have 5^th house Moons as well = a tendency to look to children for mothering, rather than the other way round. Her father Edoardo Mozzi, 19 November 1983, has his Saturn in Scorpio conjunct her Moon.  

 Sienna, her older sister, 18 September 2021 11.42pm London has a 4^th house Virgo Sun conjunct Mars with Neptune across the zodiac in her 10^th – argumentative at home and helpful in her career. Her intense 7^th house Pluto is trine her Sun and square Mercury and she has a 5^th house Venus in Scorpio square an 8^th house Saturn and trine her 9^th house Pisces Moon. The grandparental legacy will weigh heavily on her.

 Edoardo is highly Scorpionic and comes across as a dampening influence whereas Princess Beatrice is the opposite with an excitable, impulsive, noisy Mars in Aries square Moon and trine her Leo Sun. They are quite an odd pair. A touch similar to Andrew (watery, Scorpio Moon) and Sarah (outspoken Libra Sun Mars and an Aries Moon).

Princess Eugenie, 23 March 1990 6.58pm has a hard-working 6^th house Aries Sun with a sociable Venus Moon in Aquarius in her 5^th square Pluto – and a troublesome Uranus Neptune conjunct her IC plus Saturn and Mars in her domestic/family 4^th. She took the brunt of her parents’ failing marriage evidently, hence the unsettled 4^th house.

 Her husband Jack Brooksbank, 3 May 1986 12.15 am London has a home-loving, steady 4th house Taurus Sun with a Pisces Moon trine an influential and controlling 10^th house Pluto and square Venus.

 Their two children are independent-minded and career-oriented. August Brooksbank, 9 February 2021 8.55 am London, has a full 11^th house with Sun Jupiter Venus, Saturn in Aquarius square a volatile Uranus Mars in Taurus. His Capricorn Moon is conjunct Pluto, sextile Neptune and trine Mars – so complicated emotional responses.

 Ernest Brooksbank, 30 May 2023 8.49 am London has a super-strong, lucky, confident successful Jupiter in Taurus in his 10^th conjunct the North Node square Mars in Leo in his 1^st opposition Pluto in Aquarius on his Descendant. His friendly 11^th house Gemini Sun is trine a 4^th house Libra Moon and squares an 8^th house Saturn.  

  Quite a mix.

Natural and man-made disasters often have an eerie significance and are a synchronous forerunner to key changes in a country’s and individual’s destiny.

“Synchronicity is a phenomenon in which people interpret two separate—and seemingly unrelated—experiences as being meaningfully intertwined, even though there is no evidence that one led to the other or that the two events are linked in any other causal way.” 

 It may sound like peasant superstition but it does appear to be a pattern and is worth watching for.

  The Washington plane and helicopter crash at 8.48 pm last night occurred when the Midheaven was at 20 degrees Gemini exactly conjunct Trump’s North Node and Sun and opposition his Moon, with tr Uranus close to his Midheaven and the Aquarius Sun exactly opposition his Pluto. So it was certainly impacting Trump’s chart.

  It was also marked up in the USA’s chart with the Solar Arc Saturn around the same degree Gemini as the plane crash MC conjunct the Mars and moving to square the Neptune over the next eight months to a year – which is accident-prone, destructive and worrisome. With tr Saturn now direct in Pisces heading to square the USA Mars and oppose the USA Neptune in March.

  The London military horses accident of 24 April 2024 8.40 am where a black and a white horse covered in blood galloped through heavy traffic also had a resonance beyond a simple mishap. When it happened there was a Nodal Return of transiting Node conjunct the 7^th house (difficulty in relationship) UK North Node; and tr Pluto was trine the UK Uranus for an upheaval. The Starmer government came in several months later in July which has not been a resounding success and won’t end well.

 A previous run of UK horror disasters in the late 1980s included the Kings Cross Fire on 18 November 1987 when tr Pluto in Scorpio was opposition the 8^th house Mars; and the transiting South Node was conjunct the UK Uranus with an undermining tr Neptune heading to conjunct the UK Sun the following year. Margaret Thatcher hung on till 1990 but was failing badly in her later No 10 years.

 The Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 26 April 1986 happened just before the USSR headed for break up. Tr Pluto in early Scorpio was heading to square the Russia 1917 Neptune and conjunct the Scorpio Sun and square the Russia Saturn by 1989.  That does seem prescient.

  I also vaguely remember connecting the Bhopal chemical factory accident to later events in India. It happened on 3 December 1984 when there was a transiting Nodal Return. Since the India 15 August 1947 12am Delhi chart has the North Node conjunct the Ascendant one might surmise that India’s image and identity were being spotlighted. Tr Neptune moving into the India financial 8^th  pointed to a lost decade economically with a major revival in the 1990s. So Bhopal accompanied the dip before the economic rebirth some years later.

  This is a stretch so any comments welcome.