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Trump on the wrong crusade
With a mystifying voter support from the religiously-minded and launching a war with high flown claims about morality and invocations about the historic ‘Crusades’ (mainly failures) it seems counter-productive for Trump to fall out with the Pope and the Catholic Church. As with so much else it makes no sense. But the Vatican are … Read more
UK and EU – shift with pull away from volatile US
As old alliances are shattered, new ones are being cobbled together and not only in the Middle East. UK PM Keir Starmer is pursuing a “closer partnership” with the European Union, because of global volatility and economic pressures. He aims to strengthen ties on trade, security, and energy The prospect will give Daily … Read more
April – Mars makes an entrance
The world holds its breath after Pakistan brokered an unlikely pause in the Middle East conflict with the Trump bunker proclaiming mission accomplished. GW Bush declared the same years ago and the Iraq War dragged on for another 8 years. April was always going to be a fractious month with Mars moving into fiery … Read more
Benjamin Netanyahu -victim turned victimiser ++ “severe strategic failure”
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest serving prime minister, took up the reins of his most recent and turbulent term in late 2022 as Israel faced a historic moment with a Nodal Return and Uranus in Taurus conjunct its Taurus Sun. I wrote at the time that Israel had “turned its face against progress and doubled down … Read more
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
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
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
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
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