Marjorie Orr featuring: Astrology of Today’s News

  Ivanka and Jared Kushner have triggered a revolt in Albania with a planned 10,000 room luxury sea-side complex on a wildlife site. The ‘flamingo revolution’ is rapidly widening since bulldozers began clearing clusters of forest and ancient dunes which are important habitats for flamingos, monk seals and loggerhead sea turtles, a major migratory route … Read more

Keir Starmer resigned this morning, starting his speech at 9.33am which gives an 11 degree Taurus Midheaven exactly conjunct the UK’s 8th house Mars; and an Ascendant of 23 Leo conjunct the UK’s 11th house ( = the legislature) Saturn. Time will tell exactly what transpires but that looks to be shaking the UK at … Read more

 The hotch up in the Middle East has left no one happy with lingering anxieties about future flare ups.  Egypt, 14 March 1922 10.43pm Cairo, will be directionless this year with uncertainty lingering through 2027 with tr Neptune opposition the MC and Saturn; but it is 2028 that looks explosive and insecure with tr Uranus … Read more

Prince William celebrated his 44th birthday with a happy snapshot of himself in Welsh Guards uniform with daughter Charlotte.  It will be a less tense and withdrawn year ahead than from his birthday in 2025 when Catherine was still emerging from her illness. But he still has the tail end of tr Neptune square his … Read more

Chiron has now dipped a toe in Taurus for the first time in forty years and after a retrograde this autumn and winter, will be there until 2033. Attaching a meaning to its years is tricky since life is continually churning through highs and lows and it may affect cultural trends rather than actual events. … Read more

The Solstice Ingress of the Sun into Cancer on Sunday June 21st occurs with the hoping-for-improvements Saturn Neptune conjunction almost out of orb and the new-era hoping-for-change Uranus trine Pluto sextile Neptune in place. Mars in heavyweight Taurus is sextile Jupiter in late Cancer for an enthusiastic and energetic lift, perhaps from the sporting arena. … Read more

Fathoming the byzantine thinking processes of pro-Trump religious zealots may or may not be aided by reading VP J.D.Vance’s latest book Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith. Described by a Times review as “part rant, part sermon, a contradictory, self-righteous, angry, humourless and slightly sinister mess of a book.”   With divorced parents and … Read more

Andy Burnham won by a surprisingly large margin for Labour in the Makersfield bye-election with Reform firmly put in their place and Restore nowhere. While the SNP lost in Aberdeen South to the Tories, mainly as a vote against Net Zero killing off the oil industry and the Murrell fraud scandal. UK politics continues to … Read more

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Virginia Woolf, long appreciated in high literary circles and hailed as a feminist activist, is becoming appreciated by a younger audience with recent adaptations of her work, including a movie of her novel Night and Day. It is released this week starring Haley Bennett, Timothy Spall, Jennifer Saunders, Jack Whitehall and Lily Allen, and focuses … Read more