Astrology of Today’s News

The Sagrada Familia, Barcelona’s iconic landmark, was celebrated by Pope Leo on the 100^th anniversary of the architect Antoni Gaudi’s death. A manically ambitious project it is the tallest church in the world and still not complete.

 Gaudi’s weird and wonderful designs adorn many houses in the Catalan capital but none stranger than the cathedral. “Like a babbling visionary speaking in tongues, Gaudí jumbled the grammar of architecture into the strange glossolalia of his dreams. He translated stone and ceramic, wrought iron, stained glass and wood into fairytale confections that have an almost hallucinatory force.”

  His inspiration came from a sickly childhood where he sat and watched nature – beetles, shell spirals, the shapes of trees and animal skeletons, undulating waves, animal skeletons were his models. He was also a committed Catalan nationalist and believed architecture could mirror nature and also social ideologies. His refusal to follow architectural conventions was in part an act of defiance.

 He was born 25 June 1852 9.30 am Reus, Spain into a family of coppersmiths which also informed his designs. In his late 20s, having been rejected over a marriage proposal, he took to celibacy and moved way from society into an obsession with Roman Catholicism. His spiritual fervour sent him on extended fasts which were damaging to his health; and when he was knocked down in a street accident aged 74, he was so shabbily dressed he was thought to be a vagrant.

  The apse crypt of the cathedral was begun on 19 March 1882 although Gaudi did not come into the project until a year later at which point he changed the design radically. When he died in 1926, the basilica was between 15 and 25 percent complete and work continued with a hiatus during the Spanish Civil War.

  He was a Sun Cancer conjunct a Cancer North Node (tying him into the spirit of the times) trine Jupiter in Scorpio trine Neptune in Pisces in his 7^th house of partnerships.  Cancer is a creative sign with a good sense of design and taste. Neptune in his 7^th hints at a lack of commitment to marriage and close relationships. A Water Grand Trine added to his creativity but would tend to lock him in a bubble of his inner imagination which at times cut him off from reality. His Neptune was also on the focal point of a yod inconjunct a hidden 12^th house Venus sextile a Libra Moon, exacerbating his tendency to live in an ivory tower of his fantasies and dreams.

  His Grand Trine was turned into a talented Kite by Neptune opposition Mars in Virgo on his Ascendant which would give him a yearning for publicity and attention and added to a confident Jupiter would help to keep him moving forward with enough support to fund his projects.   

  His 9^th house which rules religious beliefs had a rebellious and intense Pluto Uranus conjunction in Taurus with Uranus conjunct Saturn. So he would hold inflexible if wayward beliefs.

 The Sagrada Familia was started 19 March 1882 with a New Moon in Pisces (conjunct the unfortunate Scheat) but also sextile an ambitious and enduring, and uber-expansive Jupiter Pluto in Taurus (and Algol). Saturn and Neptune were also in Taurus. A combination of Neptune’s ethereal dreams and down-to-earth, enduring Taurean practicality made it happen,  albeit slowly. When Gaudi took up the reins in November 1883, tr Pluto was just into Gemini on his Midheaven with Saturn conjunct – starting a prodigiously long and difficult project which lasted for the remaining four decades plus of his life.

Oligarchs owning vast tranches of the US media is Orwellian since they control the narrative that inform swathes of the electorate. Larry Ellison owns Paramount and CBS, soon possibly Tik Tok and CNN. Jeff Bezos the Washington Post. Mark Zuckerburg Facebook and Instagram. Lachlan Murdoch Fox News. Musk Twitter/X.

 Ellison, 17 August 1944, a New Moon and Pluto in Leo, with Venus, Mercury, Mars in Virgo square Uranus in Gemini, looks to be going from strength to strength with only a few blips ahead, most notably around the turn of the decade.

CBS, 27 January 1927, will have a few upbeat moments this year with tr Uranus square the Jupiter but will be pressured with tr Pluto conjunct the Sun in 2027/28, alongside an uncertain Solar Arc Neptune conjunct Saturn; followed by a collision-type shock in 2028 from Solar Arc Sun conjunct the Mars.

CNN, 1 June 1980, will also have some lucky breaks this year with tr Uranus square the Jupiter alongside a few ripples of unease from tricky hard aspects to several Solar Arc planets but would seem to be roaring ahead by 2029 with SA Jupiter opposition the Pluto at a time of considerable change with tr Uranus conjunct their Gemini Sun.

 The Washington Post, 6 December 1877, is confused and undermined in 2026/27 with tr Pluto square the Neptune; and in a long drawn out phase of considerable challenges and setbacks from SA Mars square the Pluto in 2024 and moving on to conjunct the Uranus in 2029; with disappointments (financial and other) along the way.

 Jeff Bezos, 12 January 1964, is similarly afflicted by Neptunian and Saturnine woes right through till the turn of the decade – which may be because of his other interests not progressing to plan.

Fox News, 7 October 1996, the Trump cheer-channel, is floundering this year with tr Saturn opposition the Sun and tr Neptune square the Saturn; with more disappointments ahead in 2029/30 financially and otherwise.

 Fox owner Lachlan Murdoch, 8 September 1971 9pm London, UK, will be jangled this year by his Solar Arc Uranus opposition his financial Saturn with tr Uranus continuing to rock his boat in 2027/28 conjunct his Saturn. But his greatest test comes across the turn of the decade into the early 2030s with a tranche of unfavourable Solar Arcs.

 The New York Times, 18 September 1851, is having a high-tension year of change till the end of 2026 with tr Pluto square its Saturn Uranus conjunction; with some uncertainty in 2027; but it will be 2030/31 when it faces its greatest test. The owner, AG Sulzberger, 5 August 1980, will be similarly afflicted around 2031/32.

  Facebook, 4 February 2004, and Twitter, 21 May 2006, both with planets in mid Aquarius will be feeling the winds of change at storm force bellowing at the end of this decade into the early 2030s.

  There do seem to be challenges across the board in four or five years and on. At that point tr Neptune will be in an undermining, directionless square to the USA Cancer Sun and tr Saturn Uranus will be heading for the USA Mars for a period of setbacks and high tension.

George Orwell: “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

“The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.”

 The much vaunted peace deal is being trumpeted as agreed from Washington and regarded as a “truce of convenience” elsewhere. No one expects it to be closure.

 Analysts were downbeat: “The biggest mistake is for people to think this is the final deal.”

“We were in a lose-lose dynamic, and if they had continued [with the war], the alternative would be just worse for both sides.” 

“They think they can work with the government in place now. If you go for total surrender you empower the ultra-hardliners in Iran and that leads to a worse situation. This is a deal for long-term stability.”

 The US-Iran agreement will “stop the bleeding. But it is not going to heal the wound.”

“It’s a very weak deal for the US considering what the stated objectives were at the beginning.”

     Some analysts question whether the deal will even make it to the next phase, citing Trump’s plan to end the Israeli-Hamas war in Gaza, which is still deadlocked, and there is a risk the Israeli-Hizbollah conflict in Lebanon will undermine the overall agreement with Iran.

 If the US escalated strikes as Trump had threatened, Tehran — battered but not defeated — would retaliate against America’s allies in the Gulf and further exacerbate the energy crisis. If the status quo remained, the global economy would be hit harder. Iran will gradually reopen the strait while clearing mines, without charging fees for shipping for the duration of that period.

  The agreement was announced on 14 June 2026 at 9.15pm by the Pakistan PM, perhaps from Islamabad.  That was just before the Gemini New Moon; with the keeping-up-appearances Venus Jupiter conjunction. Uranus trine Pluto sextile Neptune is in place; with Uranus in that curious conjunction to Sedna (= betrayal and survival after trauma) whose meaning may become clearer down the road. Plus an un-integrated, untethered Mars in Taurus.

 The Mars moves by transit into Gemini to collide with Uranus, trine Pluto and sextile Neptune around July 3^rd and 4^th, which looks an over heated moment, before the more positive Half Grand Sextile around July 17^th when Jupiter in Leo opposes Pluto and is trine/sextile Neptune and Uranus. So there may be a smidgeon of trouble in early July before (hopefully) a better result.

 Trump’s Solar Return for the coming year from now onwards is less upbeat than his 2025 Solar Return which had a successful/confident Jupiter in the 10^th and an ambitious Sun conjunct Midheaven, with a grandstanding, chest-beating Pluto in the 5^th; and an explosive Uranus in the 9^th square Mars. Though Mars in the 12^th might have given a hint about blocks on the road to progress.

 From this birthday this month for a year ahead, he has Mars in his 6^th house of health which could suggest problems; with Uranus in the 7^th hinting at ruptured relationships; and a mentally pressured Pluto in the 3^rd.

  His Solar Return for 2028 looks trapped.

 Netanyahu and Israel both with planets at 4 degrees Cardinal being undermined by tr Neptune in hard aspect will be less than delirious by the turn of events through until August.

ADD ON:  If accurate the deal was signed in the US at 5.30pm, which gives a Leo Midheaven exactly conjunct Trump’s Mars opposition Chariklo of eternal suffering square bulldozer Mars in Taurus on the Descendant. Plus a divisive Uranus (Sedna) in the 7^th as well – with a muted Saturn Neptune in the grandstanding 5^th. A hidden 8^th house New Moon in Gemini. Not many conclusions to be drawn at this stage.  Wait and see.

The money men are grinning like Cheshire cats and Elon Musk salivating in being the world’ richest man as the Space X IPO was three times subscribed and Musk became the world’s first trillionaire.

 The FT remarked acerbically: “The bankers convinced investors to believe in a sci-fi strategy, overlook steep losses and hand full control to Elon Musk.” “As a strict business proposition it is still a very long way from justifying the $2tn-plus price tag.”

 The SpaceX IPO opened on 12 June 2026 at 9.30am New York, with Uranus conjunct Sedna trine Pluto sextile Neptune. Very much of the new innovative era though with that sugary sweet Jupiter Venus conjunction in Cancer which I would not rate for its financial acumen.

 The meaning of the Uranus-Sedna conjunction is obscure joining innovation to betrayal/past trauma and the will to survive. Various interpretations on the net tend to be high flown and overly positive. It remains to be seen how it will manifest.

 SpaceX, 14 March 2002, with its Jupiter at 5 degrees Cancer being undermined by tr Neptune square in 2027 as well as damped down by Solar Arc Saturn conjunct in 2028, followed by a devastating tr Pluto conjunct the Neptune in 2029/30, may find it difficult to match the heady excitement of the IPO.

 Elon Musk, 28 June 1971 7.30am Pretoria, South Africa, (biography) will be rattled by tr Uranus conjunct his Saturn ( opposition his Neptune) in early 2027 and undermined by tr Neptune square his Cancer Sun in 2027. With a more disastrous Solar Arc Pluto square his Mars in 2027/28 bringing high hopes to a grinding halt for a while, with more setbacks in 2029/30.

  He lives permanently on the edge so he may react differently to certain aspects but it does not look like a smooth path up the golden staircase to Mars and beyond.

Is history about to repeat itself with another Great Depression is the question posed by an illuminating book about the 1873 crash.  A Times review comments: “The most striking thing about 1873 is that it feels uncannily like 2026. The railway mania has returned as artificial intelligence. Elsewhere, too, the scenery looks familiar: populist revolts against financial elites; mounting suspicion that globalisation has been kinder to some than to others; debtor nations discovering the limits of sovereignty; and old ethnic hatreds acquiring new economic justifications.”

   May 9 1873 saw a major stock market crash, starting in Vienna and spreading to the Americas and initiating decades of global deflation. 

 ‘The railway was to the 19th century what artificial intelligence is to ours: a transformative technology wrapped in a speculative fever. Like all manias, it attracted visionaries and charlatans in roughly equal measure. The rails connected continents; they also connected every suburban fantasist to a stockbroker.’ The stock market accordingly rose 300 per cent in three years. When the reckoning came in May 1873, bank shares fell 45 per cent in a single day.

  It set the stage for twenty years of deflation, and a legacy of aggrieved populism. The US abandoned Reconstruction, European powers staged an economic takeover of the heavily indebted Ottoman Empire. There was a revival of antisemitic movements in Europe that blamed ‘Jewish finance’ for the disaster.

 The author Liaquat Ahamed, a Pulitzer-prize winner is praised for his ability “to make financial history read like a Trollopean saga rejigged by Michael Lewis. He understands that economics is never really about economics. It is rather about the prestige and power coveted by plutocrats and parvenus; it is a theatre of cupidity, self-importance and self-delusion.”

  9 May 1873 saw Uranus just into Leo opposition Saturn in Aquarius square Neptune in late Aries. Saturn Uranus in hard aspect is often a red flag for a financial reversal; and a focal point Neptune would help to inflate the dreams and delusions. The Taurus Sun was conjunct Pluto and conjunct an exact Taurus North Node Algol conjunction squaring into a flamboyant, given-to-excess Jupiter in Leo. Present influences are not nearly as stark.

The Wall Street Crash of 24 October 1929 came as Neptune was in early Virgo, having left Leo, hallmark of the” Roaring Twenties” in the July of that year.  Tr Saturn was approaching a square to the Uranus but not till the following year. By 1931 there was an exceptionally tough Saturn in Capricorn opposition Pluto and square Uranus for a time of great turmoil and hardship. Mars in Scorpio was exactly conjunct the South Node and exactly opposition Chiron on the day of the crash itself. The previous Solar Eclipse from May 1929 was a New Moon in Taurus conjunct North Node and Jupiter (Algol) all square Neptune in inflated Leo setting the scene for the financial balloon to burst five months later.

 The Lehman Brothers collapse of 15 September 2008 which set off the recent crash came as Pluto was poised on the cusp of Capricorn, having dipped a toe in earlier in 2008, was retrograding into Sagittarius on the day and then back into the long haul through Capricorn from late November that year. Saturn was moving to oppose Uranus; and Neptune was conjunct the Aquarius North Node and Chiron.

 The Dotcom bubble bust of 13 March 2000 occurred with an exact Jupiter in Taurus square Neptune which is another indicator of high hopes getting dashed; and Saturn in Taurus was aiming to square the Uranus soon after.

  Pluto and Neptune at the moment have made the transition into a new sign and there is no Saturn opposition Uranus or Jupiter square Neptune in the near future. So cross fingers.

David Hockney, the painter, the best liked and most successful despite critics’ misgivings, has died. His 13-room 2017 retrospective at Tate Britain attracted half a million visitors, with more at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York the following year. His 1972 Portrait of an Artist (Pool With Two Figures) sold at auction in New York for $90.3m, the most expensive painting ever sold by a living artist.

  His tendency to use garish colours and almost graphic-art techniques upset the traditionalists.  But he once said: “People want meaning in life. That’s a desperate need, and images can help. Unfortunately there is within modern art a contempt for people . . . I do want to make a picture that has meaning for a lot of people. I think the idea of making pictures for 25 people in the art world is crazy and ridiculous.”

  He always worked as it suited him, no matter what the reception. One review described his work as ‘touching, tender, ribald, raunchy, innovative, annoying.’ Another said ‘Whether or not Hockney is a great artist, he is a great cultural figure.’

  Born 9 July 1937, Bradford, England, he was a Sun Mercury in Cancer with Pluto also in Cancer, all three trine a determined Mars in Scorpio; with a rebellious Mars opposition Uranus; and Pluto in a confident/successful opposition to Jupiter in Capricorn. His Sun trine Mars, sextiles onto Neptune which is turn is in a creative trine to Uranus. And he has a self-reliant Saturn in Aries.

   Cancer Suns usually have a nose for what the public want and can home into the zeitgeist.

  Not surprisingly he as several quintiles and septiles in his chart. His 5^th harmonic has a light, bright, passionately enthusiastic Air Grand Trine of Venus Mars linked to the North Node; and an ambitious, influential Pluto Neptune Sun tie up. His 7^th Harmonic also veers to the superficial and frivolous with Jupiter and Venus linked together with the North Node.  His making-a-mark-on-history 17H is also well aspected with an Air Grand Trine of Saturn Pluto to Venus Mars.

  His Saturn in Aries was conjunct Antares suggesting he took his responsibilities seriously and worked non-stop which gave him an outlet for his combative streak. He smoked against advice till the end.

The Irish Kinahan Cartel bizarrely allied with Iran and Hezbollah have been badly hit with two top level arrests and the seizure of a Kinahan-linked Iranian super-tanker by US special forces. American authorities are now seeking to confiscate the vessel and its €200m cargo of Iranian oil.

  The Kinahan cartel originally developed ties to Iran in the 2000s to use them to launder drug money from the cocaine trade. But a former UK National Crime Agency director said recently “They are a super cartel, involved in state-like activities. Nothing like them has been seen before. They have extraordinary capabilities. They are a group that’s involved in influencing and impacting the global landscape between the superpowers and the Iranian war.” In exchange for their services, the Iranian government are believed to have sought the Kinahans help with targets for attacks in Europe.

  Daniel Kinahan the present boss, has been arrested in Dubai where he has lived freely for a decade and is likely to be sent back to Ireland to stand trial on charges of directing the activities of a criminal organization and maybe a murder or two.  There was a bloody feud with another Dublin-based crime organization, during which eighteen people were murdered in Ireland and Spain. His trusted confidant Sean McGovern has already been sentenced – for a brief 2 years – for directing criminal activities and for one murder.

“That came as a shock both in Scotland and Ireland as the Kinahans were largely seen as totally untouchable and billionaires”

  Despite Daniel Kinahan’s known history little was done until the Emirates started to get edgy about their reputation.  A former F.B.I. agent said “Dubai has never cared too much about people’s reputation, as long as you’re not committing crimes in their country.”

  Christopher Vincent Kinahan, 23 March 1957, started the family’s criminal activities with cheque fraud, then became involved in the heroin trade. Did prison time where he completed degree, learned to speak Spanish and Dutch and on release is suspected of setting up drug routes into Western Europe for Mexican and Colombian cartels, and the Russian mafia. He now lives in Dubai.

 He has an Aries Sun on the focal point of a yod inconjunct an ambitious Pluto sextile Neptune, making him will-driven and a go-getter. His Sun is sextile Mars, trine Uranus and opposition Jupiter, giving him luck and talent, albeit misdirected.  He is having an edgy year (and last year wasn’t that great either) with an undermining tr Neptune conjunct his Sun (and Mercury in 2027); and tr Uranus in an insecure, jolting conjunction to his Mars after the middle of this month until early July and again on and off into spring 2027. Plus a considerable upheaval from tr Pluto opposition his Uranus. The walls may be closing in on him as well.

 Daniel Kinahan, 25 June 1977, his son who appears to run the cartel from Dubai as well as being a legit boxing promoter, is a Cancer Sun, also with a Neptune Pluto sextile yod onto a heavyweight Mars in Taurus, certainly suiting him for boxing promotion but also giving him a ruthless and aggressive approach. An uncompromising can-be-explosive Uranus opposes his focal point Mars making it the sensitive reaction point for the yod. His Uranus opposition Mars also squares onto Saturn in wannabe important Leo which will give him executive abilities but also a mean streak. Like his father he is in an undermining year with tr Neptune square his Sun followed by upheavals in 2027/28 from tr Pluto square his Uranus.

 Sean McGovern, 12 February 1986, Belfast, is an exuberant Sun, Jupiter, Venus in Aquarius with a hard-edged, can-be-cruel Mars Saturn conjunction in Sagittarius. His Sun is significantly square his Mars/Pluto midpoint and his Saturn/Pluto.

  Their charts all have afflicted or overly prominent Mars which makes sense of a high-risk, aggressive lifestyle. And an emphasised Uranus for their lawless streak.

  It is an eye-opener to the holier-than-thou Iranian theocracy and indeed to the ‘high-level’ business skills of the drug dealers to have turned themselves into global players. What a world.

  Syria was also kept afloat for the Assads with a different kind of multi-billion-dollar illicit drug enterprise financial lifeline to circumvent international sanctions, with top officials and military divisions deeply embedded in manufacturing and exporting the drugs throughout the Middle East.

Keir Starmer is under assault from another direction with John Healey, Minister of Defence resigning, saying the planned low-level investment in defence “could make the country less safe.” While making it clear he still supported Labour, Healey pointed up Starmer’s double speak in explaining the dangers the country face while at the same time refusing to fund the necessary protections.

Healey, 13 February 1960 is a Sun Aquarius sextile Jupiter in Sagittarius; with a stubborn Mercury in Pisces opposition Pluto which clashes with Starmer’s Sun, Pluto, Uranus in Virgo opposition Jupiter.  He’s clearly been unhappy for a while with his Solar Arc Neptune conjunct his Saturn and his Solar Arc Pluto conjunct his Pluto last year and the year before.

 His relationship chart with KS has a composite Sun catching the tr Uranus opposition at the moment for a sharp separation; with tr Saturn conjunct the composite Mars for bad feeling.

 Starmer’s leadership chart, 2 April 2020 10.45 am, continues to be under intolerable pressure with tr Pluto into the 8^th in a trapped conjunction to the Mars from mid August onwards; and worse in a destabilising square the Uranus at the moment, repeating on and off into 2027. Plus Solar Arc Pluto Jupiter conjunct the Satun exactly now. Even his elastic must be at the point of snapping.

 The Ministry of Defence chart, 12 March 1964, is showing signs of high anxiety and paralysis at the moment with the Solar Arc Mars opposition the Neptune; with two years of upheaval in 2027/28 with tr Uranus square the Uranus Pluto; followed by a seriously worrying SA Pluto conjunct the Neptune by 2030 for major confusion and meltdown.

ADD ON: Dan Jarvis has been made Minister for Defence with some criticism of him as a former military officer for having accepted the under-funded poisoned chalice. He served in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Iraq, Afghanistan and Northern Ireland before becoming an MP in 2011.

 Born 30 November 1972 in Nottingham, he has an idealistic Sun Neptune in Sagittarius sextile Pluto, with his Pluto in a pushily-confident square to Jupiter and his Sun in a hard-working opposition to Saturn – plus an ultra-determined Mars Venus conjunction in Scorpio. Quite a mix and no pushover.

 His relationship chart with Starmer is highly stressed with a yod of Jupiter sextile Saturn inconjunct Mars – though there is nothing aspecting the yod anytime soon.

 His natal chart will be nerve-stretched from this August with tr Uranus opposition his Neptune through October and again in spring 2027. Tr Uranus then opposes his Sun/Neptune midpoint for much the same and by mid 2027 his Sun so he’s on a rocky ride ahead, which may include another election. This year anyway he has tr Neptune opposition his Pluto late May to end of August and on and off into 2028 which will be unnerving.

  Emily Damari, a Hamas captive for 491 days after the October 2023 attack, has been a prominent voice since her release raising awareness for the remaining hostages. Gunshot injuries to her hand and leg remained untreated after she was taken and have subsequently needed multiple surgeries.

 Born 10 June 1996 in Israel, with a British mother and Israeli father, she was a staff sergeant with Israeli Border Police. In her stories about her time underground in Hamas tunnels she is honest about the psychological toll it took, but her dogged determination not to be broken, including doing 500 daily sit ups despite her injuries, is remarkable.

 She is a Sun Venus in Gemini with Saturn in self-reliant Aries, the generational Neptune Uranus conjunction; and more significantly Mars Mercury Algol conjunct in Taurus opposition Pluto which will give her courage, resilience and iron resolve. Her Jupiter in Capricorn is exactly square her North/South Node opposition giving her optimism and luck even as her chart also draws her towards danger.

 When she was captured on October 7 2023 tr Pluto was in a devastating conjunction to her Neptune and trine her Mars/Mercury midpoint; with tr Saturn in a high-tension, jolting conjunction to her Solar Arc Uranus. And oddly enough her Solar Arc Sun opposition her Jupiter and square her North Node, putting her unhappily at the centre of the key event of the time.

 During her captivity tr Pluto moved across a trapped, scary, dangerous conjunction to her Mars and when she was freed on 19 June 2025 it was still hovering around that point as it retrograded until early 2026 – as she underwent operations and worried about the friends left in captivity. Tr Uranus was also opposition her Pluto, hinting at a changed situation,  from August 2025 onwards as she became accustomed to her life on the outside. This year tr Pluto has started to conjunct her Uranus for more changed objectives.

  Her chemistry with Israel is robust with her Mars Mercury in Taurus falling in the Israel 8^th house close to its Taurus Sun and square its 10^th house Mars in Leo.

   Her relationship chart with Hamas, 14 December 1987, is understandably stark with composite Saturn opposition Mars square Pluto – hinting at cruelty, extreme dislike and hardship; as well as a fated and life-changing-for-both yod of Neptune Uranus sextile Sun inconjunct Mars.

Tommy Robinson, the face of the UK far-right, anti-immigration rabble has been issuing calls for his supporters to take to the streets across the UK over the knife attack in Belfast.

  All of which fits into the previous post: UK – into Uranus Pluto riot season, 3rd June 2026. Social media storms amped up the heat and bad actor activists seized the opportunity for a street brawl. Though there is also genuine concern about lax Ireland border controls and recent immigrants coming in from war-torn and violent cultures, whose crime rate is considerably higher than the resident population.

 Robinson was recently in Moscow meeting with Elon Musk’s father. He later described Russia as ‘civilized’; and earlier this year in the USA was feted by figures from the Maga right, meeting a Trump administration official at the state department and securing funding from wealthy US backers.

 Born 27 November 1982, Robinson he is a former BNP (fascist party) member and co-founder of the Islamophobic street-protest movement English Defence League, now largely defunct. He has a history of criminal convictions, including  assault, threats, harassment, and fraud and has served five prison terms between 2005 and 2025. He declared bankruptcy in 2021; and in 2024 The Times said that he owed in the region of £2 million to his creditors and was the subject of a HMRC investigation over unpaid taxes.

  He has a curiously hybrid chart with an adventurous and outspoken, fiery Sagittarius Sun, Uranus, Mercury and Venus which sits at odds with a formidable and fearsome Saturn Pluto in Libra square Mars in Capricorn. Undoubtedly driven by toxic levels of anger and hatred he won’t do anything by halves.

  As a figurehead for the present unrest, his chart may give a pointer to what is to come (though admittedly with his chaotic lifestyle it could also involve personal issues). But for what it is worth he is having his rebellious mid life crisis with tr Uranus opposing not only his Uranus but also his Sun picking up this July and running on and off into spring 2027. He will be more excitable and headstrong even than usual; amped up by his Solar Arc Mars square his Sun Uranus this year – which could point either a) to a collision-type shock; or b) to diving into an explosive situation and raising the heat. His Progressed Mars is also square his Jupiter for an opportunistic crusade, sugar-coating his rage with faux moral justifications. Into 2027 his Solar Arc Sun Uranus will conjunct his  Mars which could be the point at which his life blows up, hopefully with no collateral damage on the streets.

On the UK chart, the rebellion/protest-prone tr Uranus square the yod focal point Pluto is exact at the moment to mid this month, repeating mid December to mid January 2027, March to early April 2027. Protests of one sort or another are likely to continue.