Marjorie Orr featuring: Astrology of Today’s News

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Audrey Hepburn – forged in the fires of WW11

Audrey Hepburn, one of the Hollywood greats, Oscar-winner renowned for Roman Holiday, Funny Face and My Fair Lady, a film and fashion icon, is the subject of her son’s full biography of her, three decades after her death.  Elegant, beautiful, delicate, she radiated charm and vulnerability, though her life story was anything but cossetted. Intimate … Read more

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Trump – shipwrecked in sand and sea

 Desperately seeking a chink of daylight if not peace and sanity in the Middle East fiasco, a few astro-thoughts.  Relocating Trump’s chart to Teheran puts the Fixed star Antares on the Ascendant. Known as martial in its inclinations, it can cause destructiveness and makes the individual rash, headstrong and destructive to themselves by their own … Read more

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Blake Lively & Harry – the risks of going to law

Two Virgos, two lawsuits with hints of judicial scepticism arising out of both, which could prove ruinously expensive.  The judge in actress Blake Lively’s claims of sexual harassment while on set with Justin Baldoni, has dismissed ten out of the thirteen claims she made, saying actors need to be able to experiment. The case with … Read more

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Artemis 11 crew – Fixed and Mars Pluto

How do you face extreme levels of danger and manage to handle relationships in a claustrophobic capsule. For 99.9% of the population the prospect would send them running for the hills. Astronauts are a rare breed.   In this instance two astrological themes are marked in the Artemis 11 crew. The first is the proliferation … Read more

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USA – when will the pendulum swing?

 When will the US stand up for the edicts of its founding fathers of whom it used to be so proud, who laid down the constitution defending democracy and created the institutions which have stood the test of 250 years?   Trump’s relationship with the USA in essence is chained together with a composite Sun … Read more

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A merry go round of dogs and cats

  Pet astrology is fun and works better than you might expect even if you can only find a rough approximation of their sun sign. Pedigree or breeder friends, even better, can proffer, the exact time. Tashi, small fluffball Lahsa apso, 17 September 2025 8.15pm Aberdeen, has a busy, busy 6th house Virgo Sun and … Read more

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Artemis 11 – flying to the Moon and back – Victor Glover, Taurus pilot

Nasa has launched four astronauts on a 1mn km flight around the Moon and back, the next step in the US space agency’s plans to establish a long-term presence on the lunar surface. The 10-day mission will take humans further into space than ever before, and is designed to test many of the technologies that … Read more

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Astro Comments and Questions

Please add below. Older posts in Search or in News on top bar. Latest addition to the household who is a welcome distraction from calamities and catastrophes elsewhere. All she worries about is who is going to steal her carrot. If life could be so simple for the rest of us?

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April – messages from the universe

On the threshold of the new era with Uranus poised to be the final piece of the jigsaw to fall into place in late April as it moves into Gemini, there are several minor planet conjunctions to help or hinder the way ahead.  Mercury in Pisces will conjunct Nessus on April 9th. Usually associated with … Read more

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King Charles greeting the other ‘king’

King Charles is expected to be welcomed by Trump to a US state visit on April 27 to 30, assuming fate and the Iranian fiasco do not upset best laid plans.  The Royals are used to smiling politely through gritted teeth when on duty no matter what their personal feelings are. Assuming it goes ahead … Read more

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