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Texas floods – eclipse alerted watery disaster
The Texas flash floods in the early hours of the 4th July have claimed over a hundred dead, including a number of children at summer camp, with more than 160 people still missing and numbers rising. The previous Lunar Eclipse of March set for Texas has Neptune and (shipwrecking) Scheat on the IC with Moon … Read more
Zionism – an ideal with consequences
Zionism was the dream of Hungarian journalist Theodor Herzl who believed antisemitism could not be defeated or cured, only avoided, and that the only way to avoid it was the establishment of a Jewish state. He argued that the Jewish people should leave Europe for Palestine, their historic homeland. They possessed a nationality; all they … Read more
Richard Burton – talent and torment
Richard Burton regarded as one of the finest actors of his generation was born 100 years ago. His memorable performance as Hamlet in 1964 cemented his promise as “the natural successor to Olivier”. His failure to live up to those expectations disappointed many with his heavy drinking and much-publicised turbulent relationship with Liz Taylor leading … Read more
Norman Tebbit – respected even by leftwingers
Norman Tebbit who has died aged 94, was a highly effective minister for Margaret Thatcher, regarded as a political bruiser and parliamentary thug and was once famously described by Michael Foot as a “semi-housetrained polecat”. He turned out to be a politician of substance, grudgingly admired even by those on the left. Born on 29 … Read more
Cycles of Life – Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
Tracking the staging posts in life through the cycles of the outer planets in square, opposition and for some Returns to their natal position on a birth chart is an interesting exercise. In a long lifespan there will be three Saturn Returns at 29, 58 and 87; a Uranus Return at 84 and before that … Read more
Serbia – Uranus Pluto collides with Saturn
Popular protests against the Serbian regime and its leader Aleksandar Vučić have been met with increasingly brutal repression. What started as student movement has become a broader citizens’ movement which is calling for civil disobedience and demanding a new election. ‘A large section of Serbians have long been uneasy with his “strongman” style of leadership, … Read more
Erin Patterson – down in the woods danger lurks
Erin Patterson has been found guilty of poisoning several of her relatives with wild mushrooms in a trial that has gripped Australia for nine weeks. She prepared a lunch of beef wellington on differently coloured plates allowing her to avoid the tainted food herself – within a week, three former in-laws would be dead, a … Read more
London bombs, Bhopal – Alphard a warning flag
A memorial service is being held for the July 7 2005 London bombings which killed 52 people and injured 800. Four co-ordinated suicide attacks on London’s public transport during the morning rush hour were carried out by Islamist terrorists. The attacks happened when the Solar Arc Mars was square Pluto on the UK 1801 chart … Read more
Jennifer Aniston – healing wounds from the past
Jennifer Aniston is gearing up to play a ‘monster of a stage mother’ in the film version of Jeanette McCurdy’s best selling memoir I’m Glad My Mom Died which details her experiences as a child actress living with a ‘narcissistic’ parent. It will be all the more poignant for Aniston since she had a 15 … Read more