Marjorie Orr featuring: Astrology of Today’s News

A Lisa Mendes podcast with me on the USA becoming 250 and other astrological and global topics.  Lisa is the author of Oracle of the Elements (geomancy) and The Cosmology of Astrology and editor of The New Astrology of Towns & Cities. Website – https://astroinsights.blog/podcast/ Apple – https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/astro-insights-celestial-cycles-the-cultural-zeitgeist/id1805199349?i=1000761018909 Spotify – https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/astroinsightspod/episodes/The-US-Turns-250-with-Marjorie-Orr-e3hqcku/a-acjau65 YouTube –

Uranus moving into Gemini this Sunday is the final piece of the new era jigsaw. All four outer planets are now firmly established on their new track. The move from Water Earth (Pluto Capricorn, Uranus Taurus, Neptune Saturn Pisces) to Air Fire (Pluto Aquarius, Uranus Gemini, Neptune Saturn Aries) is complete.    Stephen Arroyo describes … Read more

For good or ill and somewhere in between mother is the first relationship in life which stamps an emotional pattern and expectations on the adult life to come.   Mommie Dearest is the latest book from Martin Sebastian Moritz, author of The Mysterious 8th House. Insightful, thought-provoking, filled with compassionate wisdom and illuminated by psychological … Read more

Slow moving, heavyweight Pluto is now firmly on track to make its influence felt until 2043. Nothing happens instantly with Pluto so the Fixed signs most affected – Taurus (career/life’s direction), Leo (relationships), Scorpio (home/family), Aquarius (personal identity) – are still coming to terms with the changes imposed on their lives since 2024. Other signs … Read more

The Michael Jackson biopic has attracted acerbic reviews for its portrayal of him as a 20th-century Jesus who, as a child performer is told by his saintly mother, Katherine that he has been gifted with a “special light” from Jehovah. Soon he will become the embodiment of the Bible verse from Matthew, “Suffer little children, … Read more

What went wrong in Israel? Professor Omer Bartov was born on a kibbutz, grew up in Tel Aviv and served in the Israel Defence Forces during the Yom Kippur War. He went on to become an expert on the German army and the Holocaust, before turning his attention to his native country. In Israel: What … Read more

Tributes to the late Queen Elizabeth 11 on what would have been her 100th birthday evoked rose-coloured memories of steadier times when she seemed the bedrock of the country. Having vowed her life in service  at her coronation she ploughed the same furrow for nearly 70 years.   Born 21 April 1926 2.40 am London. … Read more

Amanda Knox for ever associated with the murder of Meredith Kercher though twice found innocent has landed in the UK on a promotional tour for her latest documentary Mouth of the Wolf settling scores with the Italian prosecutor who got it wrong.   What is uncomfortable about her story is not only her tone-deafness to … Read more

Desmond Morris, zoologist behind bestselling studies of human behaviour from The Naked Ape and popular tv shows like Zootime, has died.  He approached humans as just another species, sharing primate lineage, behaviour, rituals and family groupings with other apes and monkeys, calling man a ‘risen ape’ rather than a ‘fallen angel’, and declaring religion ‘a … Read more

Ruby Rose, an Australian actress, television presenter, and model, prominent in Orange Is the New Black and Batwoman has claimed she was sexually assaulted by Katy Perry twenty years ago. Representatives for Perry slammed the allegations as ‘dangerous reckless lies’, adding that Rose ‘has a well-documented history of making serious public allegations on social media … Read more