Astrology of Today’s News

Ben-Gvir, the Israeli minister in charge of police and prisons caused outrage within and outside the country with his behaviour towards the Gaza flotilla activists. He is the unacceptable face of Israel’s extremist fringe to whom Netanyahu handed the keys in an act of expediency to save his own political skin.

The IDF and Shin Bet, the domestic security agency, have become alarmed by Ben-Gvir’s success in politicising the Israel police, replacing independent commanders with loyalists who tolerate settler violence in the West Bank and crack down on anti-government protesters. He praises those who use lethal force and has fired commanders who have shown restraint. The far right increasingly views the army as an instrument for a messianic purpose: the permanent possession of biblical land in the West Bank.

 Matthew Gould, former UK ambassador to Israel, writes in The Times: “The real danger of Ben-Gvir is not that he is an eccentric anomaly who will eventually be rejected by the immune system of a robust democracy; the deeper tragedy is that he is winning the argument among a substantial minority of young Israelis and that the demographic shift is on his side.”

  Born 6 May 1976 in Tel Aviv into a moderate household of Iraqi-Kurdish Jewish descent, he was radicalised as a teenager during the first intifada and was unusually exempted from mandatory military service, having been deemed him too dangerous and politically extreme to be trusted with a weapon or uniform. He has at least eight criminal convictions. He draws his support from two main groups: lower-income “Mizrahi” Jews of Middle Eastern or North African descent, who have long felt ignored by Tel Aviv’s secular elite; and Generation Z Israelis, who have grown up knowing only conflict.

‘Ben-Gvir and Smotrich are fascists who are dismantling the judiciary, eroding civil liberties, destroying Israel’s international standing and dragging the country toward an irreversible, apartheid-style single state.’

  This is all background to an overlooked side of Uranus, which astrologers tend to laud as one of their own kind but can have an unsavoury negative end to its spectrum.

 Ben Gvir is a Sun, South Node, Jupiter and Venus in Taurus so a heavyweight personality; with a can-be-cruel Mars Saturn conjunction in Cancer. He also most significantly has a yod from Neptune sextile Pluto inconjunct Jupiter, South Node and Sun  – such a yod tends to over-confidence and egotism, me-and mine to a manic degree. And its reaction point which is highly sensitive to the workings of the yod is Uranus in Scorpio which sits in opposition. When he was brought into Netanyahu’s cabinet in late 2022 tr Uranus was exactly conjunct his Taurus Sun.

 His Uranus is being upended throughout this year and 2027 till the end with tr Pluto square, which will be a marker for what comes next, shifting his life onto a different trajectory. Uranus being a trickster planet it is never clear whether that will bring sudden advance or collapse.

 2027 could bring failure for him with his Solar Arc Mars square his Neptune; but he could bounce back with a vengeance by 2029 when tr Pluto squares his Jupiter; which is when Israel and the Middle East looks even more stressed.

  Uranus was also in effect on the Israel chart when he was pulled into the mainstream by Netanyahu’s 2022 election victory. I wrote at the time: Israel – on a dark road backwards 30th December 2022. “Israel facing a historic moment on its path with a Nodal Return and a liberating Uranus (approaching a) conjunction to its Taurus Sun has turned its face against progress and doubled down on the worst of the past.  Benjamin Netanyahu, still facing charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust, was sworn in yesterday as prime minister, heading the most right-wing administration in the country’s history, made up of Jewish ultranationalist and religious parties.”

  Uranus, the liberator?  North Node, the way to salvation? Or the opposite.

See also : Israel – what went wrong? 22nd April 2026

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 The other Uranus which tends to get overlooked is sprinkled across Donald Trump’s path. A spotlight is usually turned on his Geminian sleight-of-hands or his bombastic Mars in Leo and heartless Mars/Saturn midpoint on his 12^th house dirty-dealing-behind-the-scenes Pluto. Yet he has Uranus conjunct his North Node in his 10^th and was elected this time round in 2024 with tr Uranus crossing his Midheaven. The previous 2016 election victory occurred, amongst a bounty of Jupiterian aspects, as his Solar Arc Uranus was approaching the conjunction to his Mars and the SA North Node to his Ascendant. His ‘Uranian destiny’ was emerging into the open. This time round, when he has been running even more amok than before, his Inauguration chart has Uranus in the 1st.

The positive outcomes for a Uranian type: social visionary, a lifestyle changer, freedom fighter, trailblazer, crusader for a cause, radical reformer, light bearer for the truth, a mould-breaker.

Negative outcomes: Disruptive, wilfully out of tune with the established order, law-unto-himself, explosive when faced with obstacles, unpredictable, nervy, bluntly outspoken, lawless, socially defiant, wilful, has a tendency to make irrevocable rifts in community, creating chaos for its own sake.  

 When Aquarius does not display an idealistic humanitarian face the tendency is to blame Saturn its co-ruler. But in reality Uranus the other co-ruler can be just as damaging in a different way.

 The other Uranus which has always puzzled me is Prince Andrew’s 1^st house Uranus in Leo on the apex of a yod inconjunct Mercury sextile Saturn. Contrary, wilful, lawless, rebellious (in terms of personal conduct) – definitely. A trailblazer, original thinker, a catalyst for change – not so much except for the catalyst in that he ‘unwittingly’ caused damage to the monarchy and became weaponised in the fight for victims of Epstein.   

  Interestingly his life was jolted against his will into a ‘fated’ life change (as is often the way with yods) when Queen Elizabeth 11 died as tr Uranus was square his apex Uranus. In addition to losing a mother, he also lost his sole protector against allegations.

  Obviously a chart has many components and Uranus is only one but it can be regressive rather than progressive. Just as revolutions (Uranus Pluto) can on occasion with the best of intentions pull down repressive regimes, they can end up with worse as anarchy takes over.

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Donald Trump Jnr picked a Sun Uranus conjunction for his second marriage to socialite Bettina Anderson, officially registered on May 21st and celebrating in a party in the Bahamas this weekend, so private even his father will not attend ‘due to security concerns.’

 Uranus would not be everyone’s choice for a wedding date since it emphasises freedom and independence but since Don Jr’s birth chart has his Sun/Moon midpoint conjunct Uranus (not always a recipe for settled marriages) it may not be so surprising.

  If his birth time of 5.20pm is sound then Bettina’s Uranus is conjunct his Descendant on the cusp of his 7^th house of relationships which is equally mystifying.

  He was born 31 December 1977 5.20pm (from memory) in West Palm Beach, Florida, and has a charming Sun Venus in Capricorn with his Sun in a controlling square to Pluto in his 4^th house of home, family and childhood. He also has a family-connected Virgo Moon on the cusp of his 4^th house. Plus an excitable, uncompromising Mars in Leo square Uranus in his romantic 5^th house. He was previously married for 13 years and had five children; with a failed engagement thereafter before settling on Bettina.

 She was born 9 December 1986 in Palm Beach and is a restless, independent-minded Sun Uranus and Saturn in Sagittarius. Her charismatic Venus Pluto conjunction in Scorpio fall in Don Jr’s 5^th for a highly social connection though in square to his Mars and conjunct his Uranus it will make for high-octane moments. Her Mars Jupiter in his 9^th will waken up his thinking and his outlook. Her Neptune is conjunct his Venus and Descendant for a starry-eyed connection – initially, though disappointment may follow.

 Their relationship chart is eye-curling with a hard-edged, chained-together by circumstances Saturn Pluto conjunction sextile an evasive Sun Neptune conjunction inconjunct Mars. Certainly it will feel fated with a yod and be a driven combination with materialistic Mars in Taurus leading. But it won’t be easy to handle for sure.

 There was one media report (not confirmed) that Trump father in law was deliberately ducking the happy event. Her Uranus clashing with his Moon opposition Sun will not make it an entirely compatible relationship. And their relationship chart with a composite Sun Pluto conjunction opposition Uranus will make it a disruptive connection and constantly unsettled.

Vladimir Putin is plagued with a failing economy, a Ukraine invasion not going his way, with Trump not delivering on a Kiev submission and significant discontent internally. Mobile internet has been intermittently disrupted or shut down entirely, causing Russian businesses to lose billions of roubles, with higher taxes and rising inflation, and the cost of groceries and household bills soaring. 

 According to sources he will not give in over the Ukraine until he has taken Donbas but military analysts say at the current pace of advance, it could take years to fully capture the Donbas, despite what his generals are telling him.

  Kyiv has reduced its dependence on Washington, while stepping up its own military production. The unblocking of a €90bn EU loan and deepening military and intelligence sharing ties with European allies have further diminished US leverage over Ukraine.

 There is no sense, despite unease at home, that Putin will be toppled imminently; and Russian attacks appear to be stepping up on Ukraine this weekend which fits with the brutal Mars in Taurus square Pluto, exact next Tuesday.

  Pin-pointing an exact exit date for any leader is not simple with multiple factors to consider. But 2027 looks most likely.

 The Russia 8 November 1917 chart has a highly insecure, rattled tr Uranus square the Mars early this June, again over the New Year and in spring 2027. Then in April 2027 is hit with a double whammy of meltdown-confusion tr Pluto opposition the Neptune alongside a power and influence-undermining tr Neptune square the Pluto. Both of which continue on and off into 2028.

 The Russia 8 November 1991 chart is labouring mightily under tr Pluto conjunct the Saturn bringing hardship all this year; with an explosive Solar Arc Mars conjunct the Uranus exact in five months. Again the same sense of confusion and devastation in 2027 as in the other Russia chart with tr Neptune square the Pluto; plus more insecurity from shocks with tr Uranus opposition the Mars in 2027.

  His 5^th Term Presidency chart from 7 May 2024 looks to be failing significantly with tr Neptune conjunct the Mars late April to mid May 2027, September 2027 and March 2028.

 His initial Presidency chart from 31 December 1999, which would be expected to flag up an exit is floundering this year; and unstable; with tr Pluto conjunct Neptune and Solar Arc Uranus square Pluto; with a blocked SA Pluto conjunct the Sun in 2027.

His natal chart, assuming 7 October 1952 is sound, has an ominous Progressed Mars still in orb of being conjunct his Noth Node and aiming to oppose his Pluto in 2027 which will exacerbate his sense of being totally trapped.

 His relationship charts with both Russian charts:

Russia 1917 – has been under acute pressure since the Ukraine invasion with tensions erupting through this year and next.

Russia 1991 – discontented with emotional reactions intensifying in 2027.

  The winds of change – sidelining Trump and Putin, both hoist by their own miscalculations.

“Numerology is the ancient esoteric belief that numbers carry energetic vibrations and represent a mystical connection between digits and metaphysical phenomena or human life. It is primarily used for self-discovery, understanding your life’s purpose, and mapping out the major cycles of your life.”

  Different paths can lead to one goal though it is not always easy or possible to merge one belief system on top of the other. I have known biorhythms even solar flares coincide with astrological aspects so they came to the same conclusion from different routes. But they are separate disciplines.

  Where numerology is helpful is with harmonic charts, which are drawn up to make less obvious aspects visible.  The creative 5^th harmonic of the builder relates to the 360 degree zodiac wheel divided by 5 giving 72 degree aspects. The creative 7^th harmonic can be spiritual. Like all astrology there are pluses and minuses. The 9^th harmonic can be humanitarian or money-grabbing (Bernie Madoff etc).

The below is a list that Vendla, a numerologist, gave me years ago which is helpful. Number 12 does fit with Pisces and/or 12^th house. Number 8 fits Scorpio. Number 11could describe some Aquarian traits. Number 3 which house is Gemini’s natural home also. But the others not so much in terms of signs’ zodiac order.

The zodiac runs from Number 1 Aries, 2 Taurus, 3 Gemini, 4 Cancer, 5 Leo, 6 Virgo, 7 Libra, 8 Scorpio, 9 Sagittarius, 10 Capricorn, 11 Aquarius, 12 Pisces.

Numerology meanings:

1: The pioneer; Originality, innovation, ambition, determination. Also loneliness, egotistical, vain, dominating.
2: Cooperation, sensitivity, kindness, harmony. An entertainer at heart or at least artistically oriented (painting, music, writing). Also: Irresolute, deceitful, gossiping.
3: Charm, ambition, determination, artistic and verbal skills. Also cold, can be deceitful.
4: A fated number. Forever contradicting and in opposition to authorities. May have to start over and over again. Practical skills, organisation, strength, courage and perseverance. Also: Intolerance, dogmatism, ruthlessness.
5: Always on-the-go. Inventive, freedom-lover, fast-thinking, “sexy”. Also: Lack of concentration, irresponsibility, sensationalistic, self-indulgent, deceitful, “the player”.
6: “The Cancer number”; Sweetness, parenting, protecting home and family. The flipside is conventionality, stubbornness, unyielding, want of domination.
7: Seven is traditionally regarded as a spiritual number, endowed with a different kind of imagination, often artistic skills. Need peace. Perfectionism. A seeking soul. Also: too sceptical, too critical, sarcastic, cold, self-centred, attracted to alcohol/ drugs and occultism.
8: A fated number. “Karmic debt”. Soul wounds, bad luck or loss may follow this number, which also gives an abundance of strength and stubbornness in the face of difficulties. The road to success is often bumpy and hard, and if it comes easy, or at all, it will not necessarily bring happiness.
9: Strength, determination, the humanitarian. A philanthropic or artistic attitude to life is required, because if lacking, the number will “fail” to work constructively and could bring forward aspects such as frivolousness, immorality and irresponsibility.
10: “The wheel of Fortune”. Contains the innovation and creativity of the number 1, but even if 10 stands for prosperity and abundance, it also contains the seed of both rise and fall, of the good and the bad.
11: So called Master Number, which means that it is a difficult number to live up to. The positive aspect of number 11 is idealistic and inspired imagination. The negative aspects are fanatism and also dishonesty, greed, self-indulgency and even perversion. From a different position, 11 warns against hidden trials, disloyalty and betrayal from others.
12: The sacrifice. Being sacrificed or becoming a victim to other persons’ (or entities’) plans, ambitions or intrigues. 12 warns against being a victim of circumstances or dragged into other people’s affairs where you will be the one suffering the consequences. 12 may also make a conscious sacrifice. Also: Creativity, writers.

Aaron Rodgers regarded as one of the greatest and most talented US football quarterbacks of all time is to retire after 22 seasons during which he recouped nearly $400 million in fees. He says after he gives up the game he will not go into media work but disappear.

 Born 2 December 1983 at 2.50pm Chico, California, he is a supporter of Robert F Kennedy Jnr and a conspiracy theorist. During a February 2024 appearance on the conspiracy-focused Look Into It podcast hosted by Eddie Bravo, he claimed numerous conspiracy theories on medicine, immigration, and John F. Kennedy. Amongst them he claimed that AIDS and COVID were created by the government for the sake of pharmaceutical industry profits.

  His Sagittarius Sun conjunct Uranus (and the pugnacious Antares) all fall in his 8^th house along with Mercury Neptune in Sagittarius on the cusp of his 9^th. His Sun is sextile a hard-working Mars in Libra; with his Venus in Libra in an emotionally intense conjunction with Pluto. His Saturn and Moon in his 7^th house in Scorpio are both unaspected. An unintegrated Moon tends to be emotionally disorganized; and an untethered Saturn can be a loner, craving solitude who tends not to have his weaknesses tested and to lack consistent planning in ordering his life.

It does not immediately leap out as a sportsman’s chart but the birth time is recorded as birth certificate. The 8^th house as well as his unmoored Moon and Saturn may give rise to his florid conspiracy theories.

Canada fielding economic assaults and threats of a takeover from the Trump Administration is now facing the possibility that a separatist movement may further complicate Mark Carney’s year. The Alberta’s premier Danielle Smith said she would hold a public vote on 19^th October to decide whether to pursue a referendum for the province to separate from Canada. It would not directly trigger separation but would be the first step if successful towards holding a binding referendum.

Alberta is an oil-rich province, is the largest foreign supplier of oil to the US and home to the world’s third-largest reserve of crude. There are historic differences within Canada between Alberta and the central government, with Danielle Smith regularly blaming Ottawa for political and economic interference.

 Canada, 1 July 1867 12 am Ottawa, does look edgy August to this October with tr Uranus square the Mars but relieved the following year with tr Uranus square the Jupiter. There is little to indicate a break up in immediate years. Tr Neptune will square the Sun Uranus in Cancer by 2029 but that is more of a drift and is repeated elsewhere in the UK and EU. When there might be a chance of major changes would be 2033/34 as tr Saturn Uranus in Cancer are conjunct the Canada Sun Uranus. But that has happened before without a fracture.

 Relations between Alberta and Canada will be unsettled this year and undermined and facing major challenges towards the end of this decade, more so into the early 2030s. So the dissatisfaction will roll on.

 Danielle Smith, 1 April 19071 Calgary, is an excitable, super-ambitious, hot-headed and rebellious Aries Sun opposition Uranus square Mars in Capricorn. That has moved by Solar Arc to hard aspect her overly optimistic Neptune Jupiter in Sagittarius over the next eighteen months. She could score some points but Jupiter Neptune tends to short circuit along the way.  In October tr Saturn in Aries is hovering around her Sun opposition Uranus and square her Mars – so not ideal for a success.

 Alberta, 1 September 1905, with be in the mood to take a risk with tr Uranus conjunct the Jupiter over the October date and then opposition Mars and Square the Virgo Sun in the two or three years after.  There is likely to be unrest. But as above, Canada may not fragment immediately and even in the 2030s there may be other effects of the Saturn Uranus in Cancer conjunction.

 The previous tr Uranus in Cancer conjunct the Canada Sun Uranus around 1950 saw rapid economic expansion and the integration of Newfoundland into the Canadian confederation.

Stephen Colbert, the US comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host, best known recently for The Late Show has been retired by CBS network. They say despite its success the show lost heavily financially. There was speculation that it was tied to a settlement agreement which gave Donald Trump $16 million over a lawsuit with the CBS network parent Paramount Global, then involved in a merger that required approval. “Bribe” was the description bandied about.

Stephen Colbert, born 13 May 1964, no birth time, Washington, DC is an enduring Sun Taurus in a creative opposition to Neptune; with a talented Half Grand Sextile from Saturn opposition Uranus Pluto, sextile/trine Venus North Node in Cancer and a high vitality Mercury, Mars, Jupiter conjunction in Taurus. He does look rattled this year with tr Uranus square his Saturn and then Uranus this July to end of November and again in 2027. Plus tr Pluto square his Mars this year which could be trapped and infuriating but since his Jupiter is close by it may spur him on to make more waves. Though he will also face setbacks in late 2027 from Solar Arc Saturn conjunct his Mars.

  What is less important than his personal chart – since television is a rough business and careers come and go – is his relationship to the USA given the Trump Administration’s war on the media and indeed corrupt judicial tactics of late – which presenters like Colbert would have pointed up.

 He shares Venus at 2 degrees Cancer with the USA 1776 chart with his North Node exactly conjunct. Venus in one of its meanings produces a desire for fairness and social justice. His relationship chart with the USA is highly strung and combative but very locked together in a ‘fated’ yod of Uranus sextile Mars inconjunct Saturn, hinting that there is a necessary connection which will not be easily broken.

  Oddly enough or maybe not his Taurus Sun is exactly conjunct the 1^st house Uranus on the 2025 Inauguration chart which latter can point to a lawless streak.  One of the less edifying sides of Uranus.

  Without a birth time it is difficult to assess whither in terms of Colbert’s career but with his temperament it is unlikely he will fade out of sight.

“Democracy dies in Darkness”.

Enduring star Kylie, initially written off as a two-dimensional “singing budgie” is still going strong with 80 million records sold and is now subject of a Netflix documentary.

  Her projected image of bright and eternally cheerful, described by Nick Cave as “the definition of joy”, made her seem shallow. But like many Geminians she had a darker side to balance the light, as she partnered professionally with Cave, rock’s Prince of Darkness, and fell for the tragic Michael Hutchence, INXS lead singer. Her “refreshingly raw” documentary also reveals her two bouts of cancer which prevented her having children as well as the misery she endured in a decade of misogyny in the 1990s.  

 Born 28 May 1968 11am Melbourne, Australia, she became known in the TV series Neighbours before moving into music.  

 She has a social-butterfly Sun Venus conjunction in Gemini backed up by an energetic Mars Moon also in Gemini square Pluto (Uranus) in Virgo. A self-reliant Saturn in Aries is in a helpful trine to Jupiter in Leo and on the apex of a yod inconjunct Pluto Uranus sextile Neptune. Such a Saturnine yod brings its problems and demands discipline and maturity to work well.

 Michael Hutchence seemed an odd choice although his Aquarius Sun did fall in Kylie’s 7^th house of partnership. And his North Node was conjunct Kylie’s Uranus so he clearly appealed to her rebellious side. But his Saturn Mars in Capricorn trine Pluto, sextile Moon Neptune in Scorpio would make him a walk on the wild side. He eventually moved onto Paula Yates who subsequently died of an accidental heroin overdose and he died by suicide.

 Kylie talks of a connection to him which she has never found again. Their relationship chart had a fated yod of Jupiter sextile Moon inconjunct Mars which may explain why it felt so ‘meant’ though their liaison did not survive for long.

 Kylie’s career has had its highs and lows, which may be hinted at with Procyon on her Cancer Ascendant which can accompany rise and fall – as does her 10^th harmonic which is marked. But her Saturn in Aries has a dogged tenacity especially falling close to her independent-minded North Node in Aries helping her to survive the troughs to rise again.

At 93 Joan Collins was the belle of the ball at the Cannes Film Festival, strutting her stuff in an eye-catching white ballgown. Still working, she is promoting her latest film  opposite Isabella Rossellini, in the upcoming biographical film, The Bitter End. She plays Wallis Simpson in the latter days of her life after the Duke of Windsor died when she fell into the clutches of lawyer Suzanne Blum.

 Joan Collins, born 23 May 1933 3am (?) London, with a dance teacher mother and talent agent father, has a sociable, light-hearted Sun Venus in Gemini square an upbeat and showbizzy Neptune, Mars, Jupiter in her 6^th.  She has an indulgent and hard-working Moon Mercury in Taurus square Saturn; and the generational unsettled and disruptive Uranus in Aries square Pluto.

 She has performed throughout a long career starting at 17, with Dynasty being her most notable part and more recently The Royals.

Collins has been married five times, has three children and four grandchildren. She has been married to her fifth husband Percy Gibson, who is 32 years her junior, since 17 February 2002.

  She is a good match for Wallis Simpson, 19 June 1898 10.30pm Blue Ridge, PA, who was also a social butterfly Sun Venus in Gemini. Though she in addition had Pluto, Mercury, Neptune also in Gemini – more controlling domestically and quite fey as with most of that Neptune Pluto generation.

 When Wallis fell under the control of the malevolent control of the lawyer Suzanne Blum after the Duke’s death, she was frail and eventually succumbed to dementia, living her final years as a recluse. Blum assumed power of attorney, sold her possessions and exploited her. Royal biographer Hugo Vickers called Blum a “Satanic figure … wearing the mantle of good intention to disguise her inner malevolence”.

 Blum, 24 November 1898 Niort France, had a stellium in Sagittarius with Sun, Uranus, Saturn, Venus and Mercury sitting in Wallis Simpson’s 10^th house and opposing WS’s Pluto, Mercury, Neptune, Sun in Gemini. Wallis Simpson came full circle back to a childhood where she felt restricted and disempowered. Their relationship chart had a horrific Sun Venus Jupiter opposition Mercury square Mars Pluto Neptune. Venus Jupiter for sugary sweetness on the surface and Mars Pluto Neptune for terrifying domination.