Happy news day – a spring Royal wedding up and coming to distract from the drear. The UK chart does look enlivened from late March to late May so the country will be in a jubilant mood. Prince Harry does have tr Jupiter criss-crossing his midheaven in early 2018 so he’ll be … Read more
Tone-deaf, insensitive and suffering from foot-in-mouth disease are the hallmarks of Lena Dunham, actor-writer-director who created and starred in Girls. Proud of her feminist credentials, her most recent blotting of her copybook came from suggesting that an allegation of sexual harassment against a male friend of hers was probably not to be believed. … Read more
Al Franken, the Democratic Junior Senator from Minnesota, has issued another apology after two more women made allegations of inappropriate touching. He said “I’m a warm person; I hug people. I’ve learned from recent stories that in some of those encounters, I crossed a line for some women — and I … Read more
The omnipresent Gwyneth Paltrow, actress, singer, health blogger and red carpet regular, appears to be heading for yet another attempt at romantic commitment. She had two early three years liaisons with Brad Pitt and then Ben Affleck, before marrying Chris Martin and producing two children in their fifteen years together. Since their split … Read more
Zimbabwe is in joyous mood after Robert Mugabe’s resignation. Though why the return of the former vice-president Emmerson Mnangagwa whose ousting led to the coup, to take over the presidency should be taken as an encouraging sign isn’t remotely clear. Nicknamed the Crocodile, he has been a Mugabe’s ally for many years, so … Read more
Justice League, the super-super hero movie is making feeble headway at the box office. With an assembled team of Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Aquaman, and Cyborg, it is one of the most expensive movies every made and will have to retrieve $600 million to break even. Starring Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill it has been trashed … Read more
Royal romance fans are enraptured by tales of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip’s ‘perfect love affair’ as they celebrate their 70th anniversary. But this was no easy marriage. The Queen is a Taurus and Philip a Gemini, which isn’t an intuitively good match, yet in Gunther Sachs’ astrological study this was the … Read more
Charles Manson, the notorious leader of a death cult who directed his followers to commit a string of brutal murders, in the late 1960s has died aged 83 in prison. Born 12 November 1934 4.40pm Cincinnati, Ohio, he had a powerfully persuasive Sun Venus in Scorpio in his 7th house, so would be … Read more
Elon Musk has been talking about his distress at the split up from actress Amber Heard, Johnny Depp’s ex (after a brief match), and with a headlined bi-sexual romantic life prior to that. Musk is a business magnate, engineer and inventor with apocalyptic fears about the future of humanity (see post July 11 … Read more
The inestimable Cillian Murphy is back in the fourth series of BBC TV’s Peaky Blinders, playing the gypsy gangster, Tommy Shelby, head of a Birmingham mafioso family with menacing charisma. The production has created its own sumptuously dark and corrupt world with dynastic anti-heroes at the heart of it. Murphy carries the … Read more