Is the USA heading for civil war? The inflammatory Steve Bannon is drawing comparisons with 1860 when the election of Abraham Lincoln led to the southern states seceding and the civil war followed a few months later. More serious and … Read more
Brazil, the world’s fourth largest democracy, is on the brink of electing a far-right, pro-gun, dictatorship-praising populist as its president tomorrow. Haaretz writes: ‘Mix up fascist geopolitics, Pat Robertson’s LGBT hate, Bannon’s nationalism and Putin’s shills and you get Jair Bolsonaro, who’s nostalgic for the U.S.-backed dictatorship that tortured and killed thousands of … Read more
Irish singer Sinead O’Connor has announced she’s become a Muslim, having previously been ordained as a priest in an independent Catholic group. She’s had serious mental health issues throughout her life, including suicide attempts. She was born 8 December 1966 7.37am (unverified) Dublin, Ireland, to parents who split and she lived with her … Read more
River Phoenix, a rising talent became a casualty of Hollywood and a cultish upbringing when he overdosed aged 23, 25 years ago next week. What made it all the more tragic was that he had purported to uphold clean living and vegetarianism. He was born 23 August 1970 12.03 pm Madras Station, Oregon, … Read more
The Conservative Party continues to tear itself apart like a nest of hyenas over Brexit with no end in sight to the blood-letting and vicious in-fighting. The 12 November 1867 Conservative Party chart, which I’ve never found that informative, does have some indications of strain as tr Pluto moves in sextile and trine … Read more
A lost Stanley Kubrick screenplay has come to light in the possession of a schoolchild friend and music composer for five of his movies Gerald Fried. Fried said in an interview that Kubrick, famously known as tight and a control-freak, didn’t pay him for his first score. Kubrick is known as possibly the … Read more
The actress Selma Blair – Hellboy, Mothers and Daughters, Mom and Dad – has announced she’s suffering from multiple sclerosis. She’s had symptoms for 15 years of falling, dropping things and foggy memory but was only diagnosed recently. Born 23 June 1972 8.30am (unverified) New York, she has a friendly 11th house Cancer … Read more
Radical UK cleric and hate preacher Anjem Choudary has been freed after serving half of his jail sentence for promoting the Islamic State, under the Terrorism Act. Counter-terrorism chiefs spent two decades trying to bring him, to trial, blaming him and the organisations he helped to run, for radicalising young men and women. … Read more
The financial crash started with the sub-prime mortgage crisis building through 2007, exacerbated by major banks risky lending practices over-leveraging bad debt, which resulted in the Lehman Brothers collapse on 15 September 2008. Pluto moved into Capricorn for the first time in January 2008 setting the scene for what followed, zig zagging back into … Read more
I feel remiss in not digging out more pearls of astro-wisdom about the unsolvable Brexit conundrum. Only a couple of thoughts to add from last month’s post (below). The referendum chart 24 June 2016 had an over-hopeful, delusional Jupiter opposition Neptune in a suspicious, doubting, paranoid square to Saturn in self-righteous Sagittarius. Tr Saturn … Read more