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
Why now? The outpouring of #metoo allegations of sexual abuse and harassment in the USA and UK feels like a game-changing moment, although it is in danger of saturating a public more inclined to look the other way. It’ll only take a couple of false allegations to be exposed to run the risk … Read more
Just a quickie on explorer adventurers. What is extraordinary looking at eight charts of the most famous modern and a couple of older ones is the absence of earth signs. Ranulph Fiennes, the transglobe explorer, 7 March 1944, has none at all – he’s a Pisces Sun, Mercury with five Air and three … Read more
Serena Williams married Alexis Ohanian, the American-Armenian co-founder of Reddit, father of her baby, yesterday in the early evening in New Orleans. Who’d get married on a Mars Pluto square? Doesn’t augur well for the road ahead. The wedding was glitzy enough, indeed seriously overdone, in the style of superstar hitches as befits … Read more
The Brexit bullet having been fired is due to hit its target on 29 March 2019 at 11pm London time, which may (or may not) see a divorce decree absolute, given the amount of foot-shuffling going on. But it’s what Theresa May is rigidly clinging onto, at least for today. It would make sense … Read more
Prince Charles is celebrating his 69th birthday today – along with Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre, and politician and best-selling writer of the original House of Cards, Michael Dobbs. All have an intense and determined Scorpio Sun and an adventurous Jupiter (Mars) in Sagittarius opposition Uranus but these energies will play out differently … Read more
A bloodless coup in Zimbabwe has effectively corralled the ageing President Robert Mugabe and his profligate wife Grace, who was being lined up as successor. Emmerson Mnangagwa, whose firing as vice-president precipitated the army takeover, told Mugabe that the party was “not personal property for you and your wife to do as … Read more
Jelena Dokic, the former World No 4 tennis player, has revealed in her autobiography Unbreakable how her coach father beat her to the point of unconsciousness when she lost matches, drove her almost to the point of suicide and made her sign all her winnings over to him. Questions are being raised about … Read more