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Magpies were a common sight in my childhood garden hopping round the lawn and were never given a second thought. Only in my twenties did a superstitious friend start to make me wary. One day the unusual sight of a magpie sitting on the back of a sheep (like a tick bird on a rhino) was followed by news of the death of a pet sheep I had hand-reared. Thereafter I became alert to sightings.

  Riding exercise on a friend’s horse one morning I caught sight of a magpie sitting on a tree above the track looking directly at me and later passed a dead cow carcass on the road (not unusual in faming country since they are left out to be uplifted.) The horse a couple of days later fell on the road with its owner riding, caught cattle gangrene from its injuries and died. The vet said he hadn’t seen a horse with that in thirty years. That focussed my interest on a parallel universe.

  Not that magpies are always unlucky though in years following, a magpie flying across the road usually meant delays or accidents ahead.

  The old magpie rhyme – one for sorrow, two for joy, five for silver, six for gold – flitted through my head when I was selling my first flat. On Hampstead Heath as I was dog walking, a congregation (mischief) of magpies was gathered, all six of them. Hmm, I thought and hey presto the sale went through at a much better price than expected. Gold indeed.

  On the good news front as well, my first ever sighting of a Pileated Woodpecker, a sparkling red, white and black dandy, coincided the same day an exceptional career opportunity came in.

 Having become focused on bird meanings I drooped when I saw Green Finches (= illness), beamed with enthusiasm when I saw Herons (= new beginnings) and Hawks (= fly highest so blessings from above, except if you are a rabbit of course).

   Three trips to St Kilda one year, the furthest north-west of Scotland’s islands, next stop North America, would have defeated even Asbolus. Tens of thousands of gannets, fulmars, guillemots, kittiwakes and puffins did not stir up any messages from beyond though I did wonder about the meaning behind being attacked by an enormous Great Skua (known as pirates of the sea) as I crossed its breeding ground.

  Back on the mainland, I embarked on a new relationship. The first Scilly Isles holiday together was blighted by the devastation from a recent storm of hurricane proportions. The second in France was littered with roadkill (I joke not). The roads were awash with squashed badgers, foxes, hedgehogs and rabbits. Passing a pond whereon swam a white swan and a black one I decided that was it – an incompatible if not downright unlucky association.

 Retreating to an alternative healing spa in Big Sur, California to recover my balance, Pelicans were a welcoming sight on the way down. Known as Spirit Animals they represent overcoming heavy emotional burdens. Which about covered that.

  In recent years there have not been many ornithological incidents of note apart from a wonderful velvet brown eagle which flew low across in front of my car the day I bought a house in the South of France.  

 Though there was one meaningful happening from nature. A friend dying of cancer wanted to chase a magnificent, luminous double rainbow up in the mountains so she could see both ends disappearing into the earth. I drove her up and it was a breathtaking sight. She died soon after. It came to mind a year or so later when I caught sight of another double rainbow.  News of the death of a Hawaiian friend was delivered shortly after. His wife later told me in their culture the rainbow bridge was the journey to a happier life on the other side.  

    At present I have an office window which looks out onto bird feeders and a garden with a gaggle of magpies, crows, jays, myriad small birds and the occasional red kite flying over. And the odd roe deer ambling around. Nothing untoward or other worldly. 

  Sceptics will point to coincidence or even hallucinations in the above stories. But most people if they are honest will admit to happenings in their lives which they could not explain but seemed deeply meaningful.

  In a way I don’t care what the explanation is beyond accepting that the world is an odder place than science would have us believe.  

“Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.” Mario Vargas Llosa

“Theory is all very well, but it doesn’t prevent things from existing.” Freud

“The rise of modern science has brought with it increasing acceptance among intellectual elites of a picture of reality that conflicts sharply both with everyday human experience and with beliefs widely shared among the world’s great cultures.”  Edward F Kelly: Beyond Physicalism.

“Each science has a sort of attic into which things are almost automatically pushed that cannot be used at the moment, that do not quite fit …We are constantly putting aside, unused, a wealth of valuable material [which leads to] blocking of scientific progress.” Kohler:

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Asbolus in Greek mythology was a seer who could read omens and portents in the flights and calls of birds. He is said to have led a stampede of centaurs which caused the death of Pholus, and the fatal wounding of the immortal Chiron as Hercules defended himself by firing off poisoned arrows.

 The minor planet which bears its name, orbiting between Jupiter and Neptune, was discovered on 5 April 1995.

 Asbolus, Divination and Alternative Realities is the latest in a fascinating series of books by Ben Belinsky, on the astrological influence of the centaurs in which he lays out lucidly the meaning of their mythological narratives.

“In Chiron’s case it is – wounding and healing. Nessus – violation and betrayal. Pholus – the ecstasy of intoxication and helps deprogram from abusive cults. Chariklo  – from unbearable situations to eventual transcendence.”  Asbolus – augury and divination, the world of alternative realities and probabilities.

  In the first third of the book the author, a practising astrologer with a Jungian background and a degree in Comparative Religion, explores theories of divination. How the ability to forecast ahead can be related to findings in quantum mechanics where reality is seen as a wave of probabilities; and to our experience of time and timelines.

  I would have to confess I gave up a long time ago trying to fathom out the whys of divination whether astrological, or psychic or sensing a parallel between natural sightings and future events. But there is a good deal of reassuring backup about a notion of multiple probable realities from quantum mechanics which makes sense of the underpinnings of astrology. Asbolus, the seer, has ‘a particular state of consciousness that can read symbolic realities. And how that symbol will manifest in physical reality.’

  Seers in the traditional sense do not figure in the impressive array of chart examples in the book from the worlds of:

Science fiction – Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Mary Woolstonecraft Shelley, Ursula Le Guin, Jorge Luis Borges, Douglas Adams, William Burroughs.

Creative writers and composers – Richard Strauss, T.S. Eliot, Erik Satie, Salvador Dali, Stravinsky, Frida Kahlo.

Film – Alfred Hitchcock, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, Steven Spielberg, Christopher Nolan.

Philosophy – Marquis de Sade, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Foucault.

Quantum Physics – Max Planck, Einstein, Schrodinger, Heisenberg.

Chess – Boris Spassky, Bobby Fischer, Anatoly Karpov,  Garry Karpov.

  Asbolus appears to lend an ability to think symbolically, to imagine different realities.

  This e-book is a thought-provoking dip into a complex new character in the astrological lexicon. The heightened intuition that Asbolus gives may well be a factor behind the illustrious creative names above who changed the culture in different ways by plugging into the zeitgeist to predict what would catch the public interest.  And to the physicists, chess players and philosophers who successfully juggled with uncertainty and multiple possibilities to sense the underlying pattern.

 I must confess to a slight sense of disappointment since although I am not psychic there were periods in my life when bird sightings did appear to coincide with outer happenings . Asbolus is not prominent in my chart apart from being in my 9^th house of communication. Though on the Solar Arc Directions for this year, Asbolus does conjunct my Sun and it appears notably in my 21^st writer’s Harmonic. And at its discovery was sitting on my Ascendant – but that is all a stretch. Next post for fun I will run through past bird sightings and related/synchronous events.

Available on Amazon or from Ben’s website – https://moonletter.co.uk/e-books/#asbolus

Middlemarch by George Eliot has been voted the best novel of all time in a Guardian poll of writers, academics and critics. A 900-page portrait of 19th-century provincial life it is not embraced with the same enthusiasm as Austen, Bronte or Dickens but Virgina Woolf declared it “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people”; and Martin Amis called it “a novel without weaknesses”.

 Unlike Austen it does not lead up the golden staircase to an enchanted marriage, indeed it focuses on two unhappy ones. Dorothea, an intellectual 19 year old, a passionate reformer, hitches herself to a dull and wizened scholarly clergyman only to fall in love with a young writer. An equally idealistic young doctor is seduced into marriage by a frivolous, spendthrift wife and sees his research dreams crumble.  Plus myriad other sub-plots. It was published in instalments in 1871 and 1872.

  A reviewer said: “ This is a novel about what it means to be good. It is a celebration of the quiet heroism of unremarkable lives, all those who “rest in unvisited tombs” as the melancholy last line has it.”

 George Eliot, born Mary Ann Evans, 22 November 1819 5am Nuneaton, England, was not considered attractive as a child and therefore unlikely to marry so was better educated than most girls; latterly she soaked in classical literature in the library of the grand house where her father was estate manager. She wrote under a masculine pseudonym to escape the taint of ‘silly women’ novelists and to avoid focus on her unconventional (in Victorian times) open relationship with a married man.

  As an adult she mixed in London in literary and social reformist circles being anti-orthodox religion and keenly aware of the split between the haves and the have-nots.  In her late thirties she started to write popular fiction as opposed to philosophical and political essays and became a favourite of Queen Victoria’s despite her scandalous reputation.

  She had an intense Scorpio Sun trine a formidably strong and determined if bleak Saturn Pluto, Chiron, Scheat conjunction in Pisces in her creative 5^th house. Her Mercury in Sagittarius was conjunct an inventive and highly strung Uranus Neptune also in Sagittarius all three square Saturn Pluto so she must have had bouts of melancholy. What would keep her optimism afloat was a lively opinionated Mars in Leo in her communication/publishing 9^th house opposition Jupiter in humanitarian Aquarius, and trine Venus in Sagittarius. She also had an inspirational Fire Grand Trine of Mars trine Venus trine an independent-minded Aries North Node.

  Her Sun/Moon midpoint was conjunct Neptune and square Saturn Pluto Chiron Scheat so she was hardly designed for a conventional marriage. Latterly after her long time partner died, she did marry a man 21 years younger than himself, who attempted suicide on their honeymoon and she died some months later from kidney disease.

 Middlemarch, her second last novel came out in the first instalment on 1 December 1871 when tr Uranus Jupiter were moving through her 9^th house of publishing; and oddly tr Pluto was exactly conjunct her Solar Arc Pluto and square her Solar Arc Neptune Uranus.  Despite being inordinately difficult,  her Pluto Saturn Chiron Scheat square Neptune Uranus must have been what made her great and enduring.

 Her Harmonic charts are notable with marked creative 5^th and 7^th and humanitarian 9^th harmonics; as well as the masterly 11H, writers 21H and world-wide reputation 22H.

 An extraordinary woman for her time.

     Kevin Warsh has been confirmed by the US Senate as chair of the Federal Reserve, one of the most powerful roles in the federal government that holds enormous sway over the economy.

At a 54-45 Senate vote it was most divisive confirmation vote for the position in history. He will officially step into the role on 14 May, when the term of outgoing Fed chair, Jerome Powell ends, taking over as the central bank faces immense pressure from the Trump administration to lower rates, even as inflation climbs and war in the Middle East continues.  Analysts say he faces “a hellishly difficult task” to protect the independence of the Bank from political pressure.

  Born 13 April 1970 in New York,  he has a determined though stressed Sun Aries inconjunct Pluto which in turn is trine a redoubtable Mars in Taurus. He also has an up-and-down Jupiter in Scorpio opposition Saturn in Taurus with Mercury Venus also in Taurus. Plus an edgy Uranus inconjunct Saturn. A Taurus stellium will suit him for a financial career and he’ll certainly be stubborn. But he’ll find problems settling into a steady direction with two central inconjuncts.

  He is an odd playmate for Trump since KW’s Pluto squares DT’s Sun and Moon so he may resist some of the pressure; KW’s Uranus is conjunct DT’s Neptune and square his Mercury for miscommunications; KW’s Saturn squares DT’s Pluto for cooperation on major issues but also given to obduracy on both sides; and KW’s Mars squares DT’s Mars and sits on DT’s Midheaven which could help him progress Trump’s ambitions but it could just as easily turn competitive.

 Their relationship chart has an unstable composite Sun inconjunct an enthusiastic Jupiter and is showing signs of disturbance through early this June and again mid December to spring 2027 as tr Uranus squares the composite Pluto. Plus a phase of panicky confusion August to late December this year with tr Pluto square the composite Neptune.

 The US Federal Reserve chart, 16 November 1914 9am Washington, DC, is in a worrisome droop at the moment with the SA Neptune exactly conjunct the Sun; with jolting shocks and insecurity mid June to early July and again late this year with tr Uranus square the Mars. With a final disappointing and disorientating tr Neptune square the Saturn Pluto early November 2026 to late January 2027. Major arguments will brew through 2027/28 with tr Pluto square the Mercury and Moon.

  Chiron moving into Taurus on June 19^th to stay until 2033 will shift the culture though in subtle ways which may not be immediately obvious.

  The recent Chiron in Aries since 2018 would turn a focus on problems of identity with a compensatory emphasis/over-emphasis on “I am”. Which fits both Donald Trump in his 1^st Term and Boris Johnson dancing to the “I am the greatest” fanfare, which is a cover up for “I am an empty shell with no idea who I am inside” pseudo-identity. The aftermath and ongoing divorce from the EU over Brexit as the UK faced up to going-it-alone could also be part of it. The rise of populism which is essentially a selfish movement. #MeToo Movement = I will not be overlooked.  At a stretch, the echo chamber/divisive syndrome also can be put down to people clinging desperately to the like-me tribe in order to shore up a shaky sense of self-esteem and identity.

It could also have contributed to the focus on wounds around masculinity and concepts like the “manosphere”, “toxic masculinity.”

 Melanie Reinhart also mentions ‘life changing initiatory illness, which includes sickness in our sense of self.’

Chiron in Taurus has a tendency to undermine a sense of feeling solid or safe. Issues around wealth and money. Tendency to take everything literally not symbolically. Identify with our wounded instincts which would have the advantage of making our mistreatment of the earth be taken personally and acted on. Healthy relationship with the body.  Live by our own values. Creative transformation of emotional energy which would otherwise to be turned to vengeance. Helps others in their creative endeavours.

 One problem looking back on earlier instances of Chiron in Taurus is extrapolating what can be ascribed to Chiron rather than other influences of the time.

Chiron in Aries 1968 to 1976

It started with booming post-war expansion but into the early 1970s there was a shift into high inflation and high unemployment. The collapse of the Bretton Woods monetary system in 1971 and the 1973 oil crisis, led to Western economies faced severe industrial unrest and stagnant growth.

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon. First Human Heart Transplant. The precursor to the modern internet sent its first message.

The early 1970s saw the wind-down of the Vietnam War, and Nixon Visits China ending decades of Sino-American isolation and reshaping the Cold War.

There were pioneering environmental campaigns.

 Watergate, Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland and Munich Olympics Massacre.

Chiron in Taurus 1976 to 1983

The late 1970s saw increased geopolitical tensions and energy crises. The Camp David Accords were signed, brokering peace between Egypt and Israel. In Guyana, over 900 members of the Peoples Temple cult died in the Jonestown massacre.

The Iranian Revolution began, leading to the hostage crisis.  Margaret Thatcher became the first female UK Prime Minister. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, and the Three Mile Island nuclear accident occurred in the US.

The first Apple Computer was sold.

The early 1980s saw the intensification of the Cold War, the birth of the PC and MTV era, the onset of the AIDS epidemic, and major political shifts under Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.

Chiron in Taurus 1927 to 1933

The peak and sudden collapse of post-WWI economic prosperity, Wall Street Crash, the Great Depression.

Penicillin Discovered, the world’s first antibiotic. The first electronic television.  Aviation firsts. Pluto Discovered. Neutron discovered (reshaping nuclear physics.

Independence for Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.

Stalin consolidates power. Political extremism in Europe, and massive infrastructure achievements. Japan invaded Manchuria.

 The previous Chiron in Taurus 1876 to 1883 fell in the middle of the two decade Long Depression from 1870 to 1890.

 History is constantly churning no matter what is going on in the celestial sphere though from the above there seems to be a pattern of economic peaks and then troughs; plus significant scientific advances especially in medicine. And in the recent two Chiron in Taurus increasing campaigns for environmental protection.  

Nul points for Russell Brand’s latest book How to Become a Christian in Seven Days from reviewers who have taken great delight in ridiculing the first offering from Tucker Carlson’s new publishing outfit.  

“With its lewd jokes and word-vomit prose, the comedian’s account of his conversion is enough to put anyone off Christianity.” His “disturbing memoir is an offence against God.”

“The paranoid, pseudy gospel of Russell Brand … is an unbelievable slog.”

 “Writers are often advised to write like they speak. Brand should neither write like he speaks, nor, let’s face it, speak like he speaks …. Brand has swallowed a dictionary, and it is not coming out again via his mouth.”

 “Read aloud, Brand’s ravings would make him hard to distinguish from your average madman droning into a microphone about the end times while brandishing a cardboard sign outside a provincial shopping centre.” Why was he ever taken seriously?”

“He exhibits pressure of speech fuelled by a flight of ideas. Both are characteristic of the hypomanic phase of bipolar disorder, which Brand says he has suffered from, and both can characterise cocaine use, with which he says he has also been familiar. It is not a good frame of mind in which to write a book.”

Brand, born 4 June 1975 midnight Basildon, England, was once a darling of the left, and deemed amongst the world’s top 50 thinkers, before he descended into anti-vaxxer conspiracy land populated by shadowy global elites and vested interests. His conversion to christianity came a few months after he was accused of sexual assault, rape and emotional abuse, all denied. The trial starts this October.  

 Whether his midnight birth was 12.01 am or 11.59pm, he has similar house placings. His Gemini Sun is opposition a 10^th house Neptune conjunct the pugnacious Fixed star Antares. Astrology King describes Neptune conjunct Antares as shrewd, cunning, unbalanced and mentally unsound, secretive but apparently candid, dishonest, untruthful, strange religious ideas amongst other attributes.

 I would incline towards a 12.15am and after birth time since it gives an Aquarius Ascendant; and an Aries Moon conjunct Mars opposition an 8^th house Pluto. His childhood was troubled with split parents, a sick mother, difficulties with his stepfather, drugs in his teens and a father who introduced him to prostitutes in Thailand.

 Uranus falls in his 9^th house of spiritual/religious beliefs which would incline him towards oddball theories fuelled by his deep seated fears from an 8^th house Pluto opposition Mars.  He is a prime candidate with that placing for a ‘big brother is watching you’ mindset – and now that he has flipped into religion a demonic Satan fills the bill. It would be sad if he did not insist on strutting endless hours on the public stage.

 Melanie Rheinhart remarks of Chiron in the 3^rd which he has – that while it has produced great thinkers, it can also bring a fear of the mind disintegrating or ‘subject to storms of incomprehensible activity.’

 He is not facing an easy road ahead with tr Neptune conjunct his Moon, then opposing his Pluto and conjunct his Mars through the next few years.

 Also born on 4 June 1975 is Angelina Jolie.

Trump en route to tackle the dragon in Beijing for the first US state visit in ten years, accompanied by tech leaders including Elon Musk and Tim Cook, is expected to tackle the Iran question, Taiwan, trade, AI and drugs.

 There are fears that his inability to find closure over the Strait of Hormuz impasse which China also wants opened may weaken US support for Taiwan.

 Trump’s chart relocated to Beijing is hardly inspiring with a tough-slog Saturn in the 6^th; an unsettled Uranus in the 4^th so unsettled foundations under his feet; his bellicose Mars Pluto straddling the Descendant – and as ever a money-oriented Jupiter in the 8^th though elusive Neptune is also in the 8^th.

 His relationship chart with Xi Jinping (both Sun Geminis) has a power-struggling, tussle-for-the-upper-hand Jupiter Pluto conjunction with an overdose of slippery and superficial Neptunian friendliness. On the midpoints there is a tr Pluto opposition the Mars/Jupiter midpoint at the moment which can be successful though also opportunistic. Where it will run into trouble is late June right through till November with tensions erupting and disappointments.

 If Trump’s take off time of 2.37pm Washington, DC, represents the start of the visit – it has a grandstanding Pluto in the 5^th (= distraction tactic); a superficially charming Venus in the 10^th; a needs-support Moon in the 7^th plus unreliable Neptune and chilly Saturn also in the 7th house of relationships. A hidden Mars in the financial 8^th squares Jupiter so echoing his relationship with Xi Jinping. There may be attempts to do financial deals out of sight.

 Xi Jinping has his own troubles to finesse with his 3^rd Term chart, 23 October 2022, labouring under a blocked Solar Arc Pluto square the Sun and Venus now and on for several months. Plus a fairly catastrophic feel from the Bank of China chart, 1 December 1948, as both tr Neptune and Solar Arc Neptune hard aspect the Mars Jupiter bringing financial calamities and disappointment through this year; with more tensions piling on from this August to the end of the year.

Melania is ducking out of this trip and with tr Pluto square her Taurus Sun she is under considerable pressure, until late this June and again on and off till late 2027. Her midpoints are also stressed through the same period. She will be jolted and jangled by tr Uranus conjunct her Mars this August through October and again in 2027. It must be odd being in the inner circle and watching Trump in a constant state of bile and vituperation about everyone and everything. Their relationship will by upending in some way in the first half of this June, and again mid December into spring 2027 as tr Uranus squares their composite Pluto; with a sinking sense of confusion early August to late December 2026.

Add ON: Xi Jinping played to Trump‘s ego with a display of imperial pomp rarely afforded a US leader but with an ominous warning about Taiwan and the risk of war between the US and China. Xi opened with a loaded reference to the so-called ‘Thucydides Trap’, which appeared to go over Trump’s head though it has been a phrase in circulation in the US over the past decade. It refers to the war between Athens and Sparta, with the danger of conflict when an established power feels threatened by a rising civilization. In the Thucydides example of the Peloponnesian War it changed the ancient Greek world. Athens lost its dominance, was economically devastated and never regained its pre-war prosperity.

 It was started in 431 BC as tr Pluto was in late stage Capricorn about to enter Aquarius and Neptune was just into Aries and the war did not finish until 404 BC when tr Pluto was moving into Pisces and Neptune just into Gemini along with Uranus. The astrological similarities are striking.

  Not I hasten to add that there is any indication of a world-shaking US-China conflict ahead.

A cheerful prediction from the renowned French astrologer the late Andre Barbault about a basket of good fortune approaching this July.

The new-era Pluto in Aquarius trine Uranus in Gemini sextile Neptune in Aries, all at four degrees, will be embraced by Jupiter at 4 degrees Leo to form a lucky Half Grand Sextile around the 20^th July.

 He predicted the 2020 pandemic as a cyclical low and regarded the 2026 Saturn-Neptune conjunction as a reflowering, with the late-July 2026 basket configuration as its crescendo.

 According to Barbault, nine whole “ascending planetary cycles” – as he refers to them – will occur concurrently in 2026, ushering in a new “Golden Era” for humanity with societies becoming more humanistic and poverty contained.

 He did have a particularly rosy view of this time – “The peculiarity of the turning point of 2026-2030 is represented by the centrality of the Saturn-Neptune conjunction at the beginning of Aries… Nucleus of convergence of the verb Neptunian, vital priority reinforced by the concurrence of deep Saturnian foundations… We are faced with the possibility of a change such as to make the terms “change” or “upheaval” seem too weak to define the breadth of what could transform in the known world.”

  His record in prediction is good, pointing to the crises of the communist regimes in 1989-1990 and the rapid ascent of China and of other Asian countries between 2010 and 2025.

  I am not familiar with his cycle theory and while the new age of enlightenment and humanitarianism seems like a distant dream at the moment – we can always travel hopefully. And the August Solar Eclipse does point to frustrating problems finding a solution and thus reducing tension.

 A fun thought in dreary times.

Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, the New York congresswoman, is talked up as a presidential hopeful from the ranks of the struggling Democratic Party. She is described as ‘progressive, left-wing and left-wing populist’ and she certainly has the chart of an activist.

 Born 13 October 1989 11.50am New York, she has an assertive and ambitious 10^th house Mars and Sun in Libra in her 10^th; with her Mars in an impulsive square to Jupiter opposition a hope-to-improve-society Saturn Neptune in Capricorn. Her Jupiter is also in a confident trine to Pluto.

  Her Mercury in Libra close to her Midheaven from the rhetorical 9^th opposes her upfront Aries Moon and squares Uranus making her doubly outspoken on issues that concern her. Plus she has a devoted-to-a-cause Aquarius North Node in her communication 3^rd house. Her main objective is to get her message across.

  Her Jupiter in Cancer connects to the US Cancer Sun but her brusquely assertive Mars squares the US Sun so she will rub many up the wrong way.

In 2028 her Solar Arc Midheaven will conjunct her Pluto which is usually not favourable; and although tr Jupiter is moving across her 10^th for a hint of success, she also has tr Neptune opposition her Midheaven, again not career supportive.

 By 2033 tr Neptune will be opposition her focal point Mars for a sense of disappointment.

 Being part of the triple conjunction in Capricorn generation she will be labouring under tr Neptune in square Uranus, Saturn, Neptune through till 2030. After that tr Pluto in Aquarius will conjunct her Solar Arc Uranus Neptune Saturn right through the 2030s. So a tough furrow to plough with many sinkholes to get across. She will continue to rise towards a peak starting around 2040 onwards with tr Saturn crossing her midheaven and on.   

  From an across-the-ocean standpoint several things are against her. The UK may have voted in Maggie Thatcher but it had a history of three great queens, so females were not an anomaly. The USA has not. Secondly political gravity is  tilted to the right politically in the US so any hint of what is slammed as ‘socialist’ or even ‘communist’ which in Europe would be regarded as centrist, becomes a no-hoper.  

  It is what Rahm Emmanuel referred to after the last election when he said the Democrats had been talking to themselves and not listening to the electorate. Political success is about realpolitik and pragmatism. Zealous idealists tend not to fit the bill.