All families have tensions running below the surface which it often takes a shift in the dynamics, like a new marriage partner, to open up fissures that were always there but not challenged by circumstances before. Most notably Harry’s Pluto in Scorpio is conjunct William’s Midheaven and Jupiter and trine William’s New Moon in … Read more
The iconic John Malkovitch steps up as the Vatican replacement for Jude Law in Paolo Sorrentino’s The New Pope now about to launch onto tv screens. His brooding intensity, inscrutable face and gravelly voice make a sharp contrast to Jude Law’s maverick Young Pope, who remains in season two and slowly emerges from a … Read more
Sultan Qaboos, the Arab world’s longest serving leader has died. Educated in England and Sandhurst he returned to house arrest under his father’s mediaeval rule in 1966 and subsequently overthrew him in a bloodless coup. He then brought in a policy of modernization, oversaw a rise in living standards and development in the country, unified … Read more
(Cartoon: The Times Peter Brookes) Moving ahead it’s tricky to see how the young-ish couple will move back from the debacle since there’s been such a deluge of criticism heaped on them. But there again Sophie Wessex and others recovered from mishaps in the past and went on to be accepted. Harry is a hot-head … Read more
The gloves are off as the media launches a full-scale attack on the Sussexes for their disrespect of the Queen. Their self-centred and ill-thought-through demand, thrown into the public domain without consultation, to have their cake and eat it at a time when the monarch and consort are both well into their nineties won’t … Read more
Seberg, out in UK cinemas this Friday, isn’t a straight biopic about Jean Seberg, the actress once described as “the golden sunflower girl” from the Midwest who went on to become the darling of the French New Wave cinema after Jean-Luc Godard immortalized her in Breathless. Its focus is her deadly entanglement with the … Read more
Adele having left a failed marriage has also shed three stone (42 pounds) to be a lithe shadow of her former self. Despite the usual snowflakey howls of fat-shaming about making comment, she does look much better and happier. Born 5 May 1988 8.19 am London, she’s a Sun Jupiter in indulgent Taurus opposition Pluto … Read more
Another same-day headliner with surprisingly similar astro-patterns to Sinaga is investment manager Neil Woodford. His company made heavy losses which trapped hundreds of thousands of investors without access to their cash and shrunk their capital by a considerable margin. Despite that he and his partner took out £13.8 million in the months before the … Read more
A churchgoing PhD student has been named as the world’s worst serial rapist. Reynhard Sinaga, 36, preyed on at least 195 young men and incapacitated his mainly heterosexual victims with the date rape drug GHB before filming his attacks. He was convicted of 159 attacks, including 136 rapes, eight attempted rapes and 15 indecent assaults … Read more
April 4th is the headline day for announcing the new Labour leader to replace Jeremy Corbyn. There are five contenders so far with another likely. None have birth times so the usual caveats with missing info. Rebecca Long Bailey, the Corbyn-clone candidate yet to announce but likely, born 22 September 1979, is a … Read more