Astrology of Today’s News

A “cruel and incompetent” administration guilty of “institutional obstinacy” is the conclusion about the UK Post Office fiasco which saw hundreds of postmasters mistakenly blamed for losses and bankrupted, sacked or jailed which in reality were due to a faulty Horizon IT system. The judge remarked that the evidence he heard from the Post Office side were akin to ‘flat earth’ assertions.  That was more than three years ago – and not all those wrongly accused have been either exonerated or compensated.

 (From a 2021 post): Calling the fraud convictions of innocent post office subpostmasters a miscarriage of justice hardly covers the years of criminal malfeasance on the part of the overpaid bosses who seemingly knew the fault lay in the accounting computer system installed in 1999. The latest ruling has set aside 39 convictions as unsafe, which had led to prison for some, others lost their homes, were shunned by their communities, and a number died before their names were cleared – lives ruined for fifteen years. The Post Office prosecuted a total of 736 people, many more of whom are now expected to go to the courts to have their own convictions quashed.

The judges said: “Post Office Limited’s failures of investigation and disclosure were so egregious as to make the prosecution of any of the ‘Horizon cases’ an affront to the conscience of the court.” 58 million has already been paid to 550 subpostmasters who won group litigation in 2019 and many more are to come so the total could exceed £300 million in payouts. The Post Office spent £32million to deny any fault before capitulating and since the Government owns 100 per cent of the shares taxpayers will fund the compensation payments.

 2024 – Now a new ITV drama has finally triggered public outrage about the monstrous injustice which has been dragging on for two decades.  Only now does the Metropolitan Police say it is investigating criminality within the Post Office, potential fraud and misconduct in public office. Two of the offending/malfunctioning computer firm Fujitsu’s expert witnesses in the trials are already under investigation for perjury and perverting the course of justice.

  There are calls for the bosses to be penalised, notably Paula Vennells, the former chief executive from 2012 to 2019, who was awarded a CBE in 2019 for services to the Post Office (in 2019??) and received bonuses of more than £2.2 million she received as part of her £4.5 million earnings during her seven-year tenure.

 Though more to the point there needs to be rapid change of the law to allow for compensation in full to be paid to those wrongly accused – 20 years ago!! – which is being dragged out by jobsworth prats in the Post Office, civil service and legal profession

   Vennells born 21 February 1959, is a Boris-on-steroids-whirlwind with a Pisces Sun Mercury opposition Pluto square Jupiter opposition Mars in Gemini. And an impulsive Yod of Saturn sextile Neptune inconjunct Mars.

 Fujitsu, 20 June 1935, Kawasaki, Japan,  is a Sun Gemini with Neptune in Virgo opposition Saturn in Pisces – and two yods onto Saturn in Pisces and Mars in Libra.  The same kind of jitterbug, edgy energy as Vennells.

  Alice Perkins, 24 May 1949, wife of Jack Straw, was chairman between 2011 and 2015 and in a position to demand the situation be properly investigated but didn’t. She has four planets spreads out through Gemini – Sun, Venus, Mercury and Uranus; with an ultra-determined Mars in Taurus square Pluto.

 Moya Greene, 10 June 1954, was CEO from 2010 when 150 postmasters were prosecuted. She was the highest paid UK Civil Servant in 2010, with a basic salary of £498,000 and her total compensation for 2012/13 was reported by the Royal Mail as £3.7 million. She is another Gemini with her Sun in a super-ambitious trine to Neptune and sextile Pluto; with an opportunistic Mars opposition Jupiter tied into Saturn in Scorpio.

Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, is also coming in for heavy criticism since he was postal affairs minister between 2010 and 2012 in the coalition government. Born 25 December 1965, he’s a Sun Capricorn with Saturn in Pisces opposition Uranus Pluto in Virgo. He is looking jammed up this year and next with tr Pluto conjunct his Mars and worse in 2026/27.

Julian Assange is facing a final chance to prevent his extradition to the US in a two day London hearing on 20-21 February to consider his appeal. He is wanted on criminal charges on 18 counts, including one under a spying act. Wikileaks released hundreds of thousands of secret classified files and diplomatic cables in 2010 which prosecutors say imperilled the lives of agents named in the leaked material. His supporters say he is an anti-establishment hero who has been victimised because he exposed U.S. wrongdoing, and that his prosecution is an assault on journalism and free speech. He spent seven years holed up in Ecuador’s embassy in London and has been held in a UK prison since 2019.

 He was born 3 July 1971 3pm Townsville, QLD, Australia and has an 8^th house Cancer Sun square Uranus with a hope-for-a-better-society (and neurotic) Neptune opposition Saturn with Neptune in a scandal-prone, unstable conjunction with Jupiter. He also has an obdurately stubborn 4th house Mars in Aquarius conjunct his campaigning Aquarius North Node and a hidden Scorpio Moon – not easy at an emotional level.

 Tr Uranus will square his 4^th house Mars through this April which could suggest a domestic shock upheaval. And his SA Uranus is conjunct his Neptune within months which is highly strung and nervy. His SA Sun is square his Saturn on the degree within weeks and exact in 10 months which will be discouraging. Tr Neptune is also opposing his Pluto from April which will make him feel disempowered.

  He looks trapped and frustrated this year and next from tr Pluto square his Sun/Mars midpoint with the one stoke of luck coming from August this year from tr Uranus opposition his Jupiter (repeating into 2025). 2025 also had another lucky-break from tr Pluto square his Jupiter/Uranus midpoint into 2026 – so whatever happens he’s fighting on.

  London was a bad choice of a stop-over for him since it puts Pluto on his IC and Mars in his 8^th – both trapped and infuriated.  New York or DC have Sun in the 4^th which might be more settled. Not great for health with Uranus Pluto in the 6^th. But might oddly enough be more amiable.

  Is there a magic lever which allows some individuals to switch from negative to positive and transform the energies of their chart to develop themselves and their life? Conversely why do some refuse to change, running endlessly on the same hamster wheel until eventually they fall off seemingly having learnt nothing at all?  

  Profound questions to heap on the unworthy shoulders of Prince Andrew but he does stir up thoughts of the seven deadly sins and old style preacher condemnation. Stubborness, pride, envy, wrath, sloth, avarice, gluttony and lust – and round and round he goes.

  One key factor in his chart is his yod with a focal point Uranus in his 1^st inconjunct Saturn sextile Mercury. Tierney is worth quoting in full – “If mismanaged this yod suggests sudden repercussions coming from the environment that radically alter the individual’s lifestyle and often against his will. This turning point can be brought about due to the individual’s intolerance of convention, his excitable yet disruptive behaviour, his active rebellion against the norm or even his lawlessness.”

 His focal point Uranus was given a sharp elbow last year by that momentous tr Uranus conjunct North Node at 18 degrees Taurus which repeated at the Queen Elizabeth’s death (see post 17^th June 2022). If anything was a wake up call that was it but it passed by without him blinking.

 The other developmental factor in a chart is the North Node, though many ignore it and remain firmly rooted in their unevolved South Node. His 2^nd house Virgo North Node suggests a tendency to be overly dependent (sliding back into 8th house of other people’s money), be self-pitying and escapist. His redemption would come through service to others.  He  should not expect to grow through other people’s efforts and money but to learn resilience and independence. He needs to pay his own way.

  He does have a 7^th house Pisces Sun opposition Pluto and a 4^th house Scorpio Moon, both of which will tend to make him hang on for control but both are capable of insight and personal growth which seems to escape him.

  His 5^th Harmonic is strongly aspected which can bring strength and capability. But the downside has a tendency to be sensationalist and self-indulgent. His 9^th and 18^th are heavily marked as well. 9H can be humanitarian but is also money-seeking and can be frivolous, immoral and irresponsible if not evolved. 18H can bring a character twist that is unfortunate. His self-defeating, self-inflicted disaster 16h is also notable.

  He seems to pick the negative of all the aspects which if turned the right way up could  put him on the road if  not to righteousness at least to a fulfilled life.

 His yod has been triggered since last year with tr Uranus square his natal Uranus and also by SA Saturn conjunct Mercury on one leg. His Progressed Mars will also conjunct his Mercury in 2025 giving his yod another almighty shunt; and his SA Neptune will conjunct his Saturn on the other leg in 2026. Life will offer him insights throughout, though whether he is capable of grasping the lesson is a different story.

  What is for certain is that the other senior Royals will finally decide enough is enough. From April onwards there are signs of upheavals between him and Prince Edward, Camilla, King Charles in June and Princess Anne across July plus Prince William all the way through. That coincides with tr Uranus in his 10th opposition his 4^th house Scorpio Moon – a change of life’s direction, involving a house move and significant changes within the family. His SA Pluto conjunct hid 4^th house Neptune exact late 2024 also hints at home and family muddles.

  Throughout it all he’ll bluster and bull**** with two Jupiter midpoints giving him that edge of confidence/arrogance that assumes he is entitled to special treatment.

  It remains to be seen whether tr Saturn through his 8^th for two years through 2025/2026 when he is thrown back on his own resources financially and emotionally will drill some sense into him.

Helpful suggestions.

Places to settle – Moon on his IC eastern Europe down through Egypt, maybe Durban in South Africa.

Jupiter IC  – Kazakhstan, an area he knows well.

Sun IC – Myanamar, Phillippines,  Darwin in central Australia.

The US Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether Colorado can ban Donald Trump from the presidential ballot, setting the stage for a potentially landmark legal decision that will have implications for the 2024 US election. The court’s move will put the spotlight on its nine justices, three of whom were appointed by the former president when he was in office. The court has been wary of intervening in the multiple lawsuits now facing Trump, however, and judges have repeatedly ruled against him in cases linked to the 2020 election.

 The ruling in Colorado was the first time the 14th Amendment has been used to bar a presidential candidate. The amendment was adopted in 1868 following the American Civil War and was intended to prevent officials from the Confederacy of breakaway states from holding public office again. It has been invoked so rarely that the Supreme Court has never been called upon to interpret it.

     The Colorado case is not the only Trump-related case likely heading to the Supreme Court. The highest court will probably separately consider the question of whether Trump is “absolutely immune” from federal prosecution for crimes allegedly committed while he was in the White House. Trump has argued that this presidential immunity protects him from prosecution. He is facing 91 criminal charges across four cases, including two prosecutions being led by special counsel Jack Smith.

   The Supreme Court’s reputation in the eyes of voters is already damaged by adverse publicity concerning Clarence Thomas’s financial connections to rich friends and his wife’s pro-Trump advocacy.

   This February is working up to be a troubled month with Pluto, the Sun and Mercury in Aquarius with Mars joining in to form a high-octane, aggravated conjunction with Pluto on the 14^th and Venus moving into Aquarius two days later with an emotionally intense conjunction to Pluto on the 17^th. Feelings will run high around mid month.

 The Supreme Court, 2 February 1790 is a Sun Pluto in Aquarius so will be sensitive to the mood. Its chart is on high-alert and edgy at the moment with tr Uranus opposition the Sun/Mars conjunction till mid March and rattled, tripping over setbacks and feeling unpopular 16 to 23 February. It will be sighing with relief in the weeks after mid March; though not entirely, with a disappointed or unpopular tr Neptune conjunct the Venus early March to early April (and returning early October to early February 2025 across the election and Inauguration). It will be moving through catastrophe territory from April 7^th this year till late month.

  The relationship chart between SCOTUS and the USA does indicate a tussle for the upper hand and over who has the last word from February till early April 2024 and again off and on through the year and through 2025. The Supreme Court’s arrogance will be on the show and be tested.

  Senior Justice John Roberts is in a state of agitation about or with the Supreme Court with tr Pluto opposition their composite Uranus from late February onwards and tr Uranus opposition the composite Pluto from late April.

  Donald Trump does have good luck running alongside less favourable influences and, given the plethora of legal cases he is fending off, it is impossible to work out what refers to which. Tr Uranus will aspect two of his Jupiter midpoints now till mid March and again from then till early April 2024.  But he also has tr Pluto opposition his Saturn/Pluto midpoint late February to early April (again late May to early July, and throughout January 2025) which suggests a tough struggle to make any progress, can be destructive, loss of possessions (that could be his NY legal case for fraud which may remove his business licence and land him with punitive fines.) He also has tr Neptune opposition his Mars/Jupiter midpoint early March to early April (and again early October to early February 2025) = feeling inferior, a failure, plans without hope of realization.

 Trump’s relationship chart with the Supreme Court will be badly rattled and oddly relieved at the same time come late April to mid May with tr Uranus conjunct the composite Saturn and trine the Jupiter (those three weeks are highlighted across a few of the related charts) – and again very aggravated in July 2024 when tr Uranus squares the composite Mars and is conjunct the Venus.

   America fighting its soul.

On the 11am start time I use it puts Mars in the legal 9^th which the SA Saturn is now within less than a degree of being conjunct which will be a considerable jolt/setback/collision. Even on Sibley it has Neptune in the 9^th which is square the US Mars so the SA Saturn will reverberate with its Neptune as well.  

David Soul, half of the iconic Starksy & Hutch team with Paul Glaser which dominated the screens five decades ago and sent female fans wild, has died. Four years of being a global heartthrob ended and he never regained his former glory, though reportedly he disliked fame and wanted to be taken seriously.

  He was born 28 August 1943 2.55am Chicago into a strictly religious, abusive home which left him with a volcanic temper and alcohol problems  which wrecked several of his five marriages. He was also a musician and singer. His Hollywood career post-Hutch involved a string of dud ventures and he moved to the UK in the 1990s to start a new and successful career on the West End stage in shows including Blood Brothers, with occasional excursions onto tv.

 He had a 2^nd house Virgo Sun conjunct Chiron which was square a volatile, short-fused Mars Uranus in Gemini. His attention-seeking and probably arrogant 1^st house Moon, Pluto Jupiter in Leo was also sextile his Mars Uranus.  

  His chart is all left-hand/eastern hemisphere making him self-motivated and individualistic. Ironic for someone whose greatest claim to fame was being part of a duo.   His 10^th harmonic of highs and lows is particularly marked.

  Paul Glaser, 25 March 1943 3.25pm Cambridge, MA, an 8^th house Sun Aries tied into a Half Grand Sextile from a 12^th house Pluto in Leo opposition Mars, sextile/trine Sun and Saturn Uranus in his 10^th; with a Leo Ascendant conjunct Chiron. He and his family suffered a horrific tragedy when his wife was given a blood transfusion infected by HIV just after giving birth which was then passed onto their baby daughter and their son in utero. Their daughter died aged seven and his wife died in 1994.

 Paul Glaser’s Sun is conjunct David Soul’s Midheaven so a good career combo mirrored in their relationship chart by a workmanlike composite Sun Saturn conjunction.

French actor Alain Delon the leading screen sex symbol in the 1960s/70s and 80s with a colourful and scandal-prone not-so-private life is finishing his days embroiled in conflict with two of his children. His early years were not auspicious with parents who abandoned him, an education which finished at 14 because of his disruptive behaviour, and an early CV including working in a butcher’s shop, the navy for three years, then waiter, porter, secretary and sales assistant. Only after hooking up with an actress did he land at Cannes Film Festival  aged 21, was offered two contracts and the rest is history. He became one of Europe’s most prominent and successful actors and made a few Hollywood movies, at one point being considered for the lead in Lawrence of Arabia.

  He was born 8 November 1935 3.25 am Sceaux, France with divorced parents who put him into foster care and when the foster parents died he was handed back which evidently did not work out. His chart like his life is both lucky and impossibly difficult with two yods and a Water Grand Trine, formed into a Kite with Mars on his IC being the driving planet – the aggravations of his childhood may have pushed him on but they never left him. Now that I look there is a third, admittedly obscure, yod of his Scorpio Sun sextile North Node inconjunct his Chiron.

 He had a 2^nd house Scorpio Sun which later turned him into an astute businessman with a mega-fortune and it was in a creative Water Grand Trine to his Cancer Midheaven and trine Saturn in Pisces. He had a controlling and influential 10^th house Pluto trine Jupiter in Scorpio also in his 2^nd house. The two yods were Venus sextile Jupiter inconjunct Uranus on the cusp of his 8^th house and Pluto sextile Venus inconjunct Saturn.  

  When he got his first break into movies in 1956 at Cannes tr Uranus in Cancer was conjunct his 10^th house Pluto tugging on one leg of a yod and sextile Venus on the other leg. Not only did it turn his career upside down in a good way it also activated one of his yods, which usually need an unexpected turn of events to produce a new direction. His Solar Arc Midheaven was also conjunct his Pluto and SA Uranus and trined his lucky Jupiter on the other yod – so the planets aligned.

  His love life was a constantly revolving carousel though he said Romy Schnieder, an early romance, was the love of his life. Born 23 September 1938 10.05pm Vienna, her New Moon in Libra was conjunct his Venus and her Venus in Scorpio was conjunct his Sun. She subsequently married and divorced stage director Harry Meyer who hanged himself later and she lost her only son, aged 14, when he fell out the window of her Paris home. Her own death the following year was a possible suicide or overdose.

  There were scandals aplenty for Delon including his bodyguard being found murdered in a rubbish dump with revelations about sex parties involving celebrities and members of the French government, including future president Georges Pompidou. A Corsican crime boss, a friend of Delon, was suspected of involvement in the murder.

 A novelesque life which would not be easy for his children who all appear to be squabbling amongst themselves and over his live-in companion for 18 years. Which sounds par for the course in wealthy families but I am more interested in what comes down the generations psychologically.

Anthony Delon, 30 September 1964 1.41 pm Los Angeles, CA, an actor, is a Sun Libra with a tricky inter-generational 8^th house Moon Mars in Leo and Venus in Leo square Neptune opposition Jupiter. His Chiron is opposition his father’s Neptune and his father’s Sun is conjunct his Neptune – so at least an evasive interface. And he has a boiling reservoir of anger and resentment from those 8^th house planets.

  Anouchka Delon, 25 November 1990 12.36pm Douchy, France, supposedly her father’s favourite, has Mars in her 4^th house opposition Sun Venus Midheaven in Sagittarius so her experience of her father would make her particularly aware of his Mars on his IC – home would be heated. And her father’s driving Mars is square her Uranus Neptune in Capricorn – so not be an easy chemistry.

  Even less so Alain-Fabien Delon, 18 March 1994 2.17 pm Gien, France, who has a 9^th house Pisces Sun trine a 4^th house Pluto with a troublesome Mars Saturn Mercury in Pisces in his 8^th. Like his elder brother he has inherited some of the family’s calamity-prone tendencies. A third brother died of a heroin overdose.

  The sins of the father visited on the children and he carried the burden of what went before him as well.  A strikingly beautiful face and talent running alongside or maybe emerging from emotional damage.

The Epstein Files have been released and are being absorbed with most media outlets saying there are no new bombshell revelations though the reputational damage for Prince Andrew is stacking up.

  Bill Clinton also has a starring role and both he and Hillary are moving into a heavy-stress two years ahead whether over this predicament or for other reasons.

  Bill Clinton, 19 August 1948 8.51am Hope, AR, has his Solar Arc Sun square his Pluto now for a major road block in his life. Tr Uranus will conjunct his 8^th house Taurus Moon from mid March for an emotional upset. Then tr Pluto will start to square his Saturn in Leo from April on and off till January 2026 which will be a discouraging slog. Plus a disruptive, upsetting tr Uranus square his 26 Leo Sun from this July which will produce a jolting change and that repeats into 2025.

    His relationship with Hillary will have fractious moments in March and will be undermined by tr Neptune opposition the composite Sun Mercury from May onwards into 2025.

  His relationship chart with Epstein – who does appear to have left damaging ripples behind even after his exit – hints at more anxiety and worry to come this year.

  Hillary, 26 October 1947 6.45pm Chicago, IL, has her Solar Arc Pluto conjunct her Sun in effect now and through most of 2024 which is logjammed, exacerbated by her SA Mars following close behind making 2024/25 miserable, tormented and trapped.

 Her relationship with Epstein was always a tug of war with both fighting for the upper hand and is aggravated this year.

  Hill and Bill’s relationship was never overly close, being more designed for business than cosy togetherness. The relationship chart has a composite Sun square Uranus hinting at a need for space for two independent types. Bill’s Leo Sun is square Hill’s 4^th house Saturn and his Saturn is square her Sun. His Taurus Moon is conjunct her North Node and square her Saturn Mars Pluto. Her Pisces Moon is square his Uranus.

 Epstein must have had quite a grip on Bill Clinton with his Pluto conjunct BC’s Sun and square BC’s Moon; and his indulgent Jupiter in Taurus falling in BC’s house house of sexuality and money. EP’s South Node in Leo was conjunct BC’s Pluto and Ep’s Aquarius Sun was opposition BC’s wannabe-important Saturn. Both had/have a can-be-promiscuous Venus Mars conjunction.

Sigh, the rich and famous at play.

A bomb attack in Iran at a ceremony to mark the death of former Revolutionary Guards leader Qassem Soleimani, assassinated by the US in 2020, has left 103 dead and many injured. To date no one has claimed responsibility. It is thought Islamic State (ISIS) are likely to have been behind it. The group claimed the 2022 attack on a Shia shrine in which 13 worshippers were shot dead. Before that a simultaneous attack on the Iranian parliament and the shrine of the late leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, killed 17 people in 2017.

  Following from the Iran post below 31 December 2023, the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei in power since 1989 is the most powerful political authority, head of state, commander-in-chief of its armed forces, and makes the final decisions on the main policies of the government in many fields such as economy, the environment, foreign policy, and national planning. He controls the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government, as well as the military and media.

 His birthdate is questionable perhaps because of calendar issues. I have always worked on 17 July 1939 which has a fearsome Mars at zero Aquarius opposition Pluto (Moon) at zero Leo square Saturn at zero Taurus opposition North Node in Scorpio.  If accurate then it is under poleaxing pressure from tr Pluto hard aspects last year and through 2024 – he is known to have health issues so it may not all be external threats which are putting him under pressure.

  An alternative date offered is 19 April 1939 which has a late Aries Sun square Pluto and Mars in Capricorn in an Earth Grand Trine to Uranus and Neptune. It equally is under challenging influences from tr Pluto opposition Pluto and SA Saturn conjunct the Sun in 2025.

 He took over on 6 August 1989 during the triple conjunction in Capricorn with a Leo Sun square Pluto in Scorpio. That chart is under duress from an undermining SA Neptune opposition the Sun now, SA Saturn square the Pluto in 2025 and SA Saturn opposition the Sun in 2026.

 Ebrahim Raisi, the president in place till 2025, is seen as a possible successor to the Ayatollah when he finally goes. His Term chart looks rattled this coming May by a high-risk situation. And his personal chart, 14 December 1960, has a panicky, undermining SA Neptune opposition his Mars at the moment with an up down few months ahead with luck breaks and upsets.

 Hassan Nasrullah, 31 August 1960, leader of Hezbollah since around 16 February 1992 when the previous chief was killed, is a Sun, Mercury, Pluto in Virgo trine Saturn in Capricorn sextile Neptune.  He looks fairly hemmed in through this year and frustrated, with possibilities of violence from April onward extending through 2025. 2026/27 look his most testing times.

  His leadership chart, assuming 16 February 1992, is showing high tension now to mid March with some lucky breaks and more disruptions from May peaking in July 2024 and on at which point tr Uranus will square the 26 Aquarius Sun. That July period is also when Nasrallah’s relationship chart with Netanyahu is severely rattled.

  All  manner of ifs and buts and iffy data but does back up other hints from elsewhere.

Kristin Scott Thomas, renowned for  Four Weddings and a Funeral and The English Patient and more recently playing the steely Diana Taverner in Mick Herron’s Slow Horses co-starring Gary Oldman, has made her directorial debut with “North Star.” Partly inspired by the death of her father and then her stepfather during her childhood, it has premiered at the Toronto Festival and is due on screens this year.

  She was born 24 May 1960 in Redruth, with a navy pilot father who died in an air crash when she was five, and her stepfather, also a navy pilot, died in a “terrifyingly similar” crash when she was 11. She was educated at private boarding school, worked in a department store and then as an au pair in Paris where she studied acting. Her career has been constant though low key as she prefers, with dozens of films in French and one in Romanian, as well as English.

 What is intriguing about her chart is that it is riddled with quincunxes (150 degree angles). She has a yod of Neptune sextile Jupiter inconjunct a Gemini Sun and Mercury. Another yod comes from Pluto sextile Neptune inconjunct Mars in Aries. Another wide-ish yod of Uranus sextile Mercury is inconjunct Saturn in Capricorn. Mars sextile Sun Mercury inconjunct Neptune.  So Sun, Mars, Saturn and Neptune are all yod focal planets which will have created the need for a massive amount of adjustment in her early adult life to find a track that suited her and to manage the contradictions in her temperament.

 She said recently in an FT interview: “I suppose I’ve always been quite pro-conflict. I think a lot of people have found me very difficult. Especially when I was a much angrier younger woman.” That would be her Mars in Aries veering around trying to find a balance. And a yod Sun wobbling between ego-centricity and low self-esteem.

  Her Chiron at 2 degrees Pisces is being nurtured by her Solar Arc Jupiter in an exact conjunction at the moment. The festival reviews of North Star were not overwhelmingly positive but perhaps making the movie in itself helped to heal her childhood loss.

 Quincunxes are connected to the 12^th harmonic and hers, not surprisingly, is strongly aspected with a Jupiter opposition Uranus square Mars and a Sun opposition Saturn square Venus. Creative with a life marked by sacrifice. The victim/healer.

For previous post on quincunxes see in Search – 22 August 2023

Hamas’s deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri has been killed in a blast in Lebanon’s capital Beirut where he lived, an event celebrated in Israel though greeted with trepidation internationally lest it sets off a reaction from Hezbollah, also based in Lebanon.

 Al-Souri, 19 August 1966 was a Sun Leo square Neptune in Scorpio opposition a North Node in Taurus – Neptune in its chillingly-cold guise tied into a plotting-and-planning Taurus North Node. Just as tellingly he had a Water Grand Trine of Jupiter Mars in Cancer trine Saturn in Pisces trine Neptune in Scorpio formed into a Kite by Saturn opposition the revolutionary Pluto Uranus.  The Water Grand Trine would detach him from other views of reality than his own and with Uranus Pluto as the driving planet he’d be the ultimate destabiliser and destroyer of the status quo.

  His chart is not as obviously cruel as that of the present leader Yahya Sinwar, believed to be living in a tunnel under Gaza city, born 29 October 1962. He has a destructive, militant Mars North Node in Leo opposition Saturn in Aquarius square Sun Neptune (Moon) in Scorpio. Mars Saturn in traditional astrology had assassination as one of its associations. Add a perverse Neptune into the mix as well as  Scorpio and the potential for wreaking havoc is all there.

  Ismail Haniyeh, political Hamas leader, who lives in some style in Qatar, 29 January 1962 is a Sun, Venus, Saturn Jupiter in Aquarius square Neptune in Scorpio with a Leo North Node.

 Having trawled through several of the Hamas leadership charts as well as Hezbollah, what is striking is the difference between them and the ISIS charts which were slanted towards Pisces either in planets or North Node – driven by a vision so cosmic it became chillingly inhumane. ISIS (remnants thereof) insist their organization is very different from Hamas whose aims are localised to Palestine. ISIS dreamt of a global caliphate.

  This present crop of Hamas militants have smatterings of patriotic Cancer and flamboyant, attention-grabbing Leo. With North Nodes in turbulent, constant-strife Taurus or in leadership Leo. Plus afflicted Mars which drives the anger, cruelty and urge to destroy.

  The Hezbollah chart, 16 February 1985 has an Aquarius Sun square a Taurus North Node opposition Saturn in Scorpio.  The Hamas chart, 14 December 1987, has an explosive mix of fiery Sagittarius planets including the Sun, Uranus, Saturn and a brutal Mars Saturn in Scorpio.

   Not sure whether this is illuminating or not.

  Yahya Sinwar certainly looks an unpleasant type. If he survives, he will be under maximum pressure in 2026 and on with tr Pluto square his Sun and opposition his Saturn with nothing improving in the years following. The Hamas chart, 14 December 1987, also indicates the years 2026/27 will be when it runs into a terminal halt.    

 Khaled Mashaal, 28 May 1956, one of the Hamas leadership in exile in the Arab world, is a Sun Gemini with a formidable Mars at 26 degrees Aquarius opposition Jupiter Pluto (26 Leo) square Saturn (28 Scorpio) – so he will be on red alert during this coming July period of Mars Uranus Algol and on into 2025.

The fallacy that history means progress.

“If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree. ” ― Michael Crichton.

 “A generation which ignores history has no past – and no future.”   Robert A. Heinlein