Actor Bill Paxton, best known for his role in the sci-fi classic Aliens, The Terminator, Apollo 13, True Lies, Titanic and the TV mini-series Hatfields and McCoys, has died aged 61 of a post-surgical stroke after a heart operation. Born 17 May 1955 in Fort Worth Texas, he was a Sun Taurus square Pluto … Read more
The Neptune Pluto in Gemini conjunction of the late 19th Century spawned the brutal megalomaniacs who wreaked destruction in the 20th century – most notably Hitler and Mao Tse Tung, with Stalin being born earlier with Neptune and Pluto in Taurus. But Neptune Pluto also has a supernatural streak, a yearning … Read more
A ‘binding’ curse was laid on Donald Trump by witchcraft followers in the USA, to rein him in and prevent him from harming any living soul. It will be practiced monthly, with the first at midnight on Feb 24th. There is a tradition of such white magic rituals; and Gerald Gardner writes … Read more
French actress Isabelle Huppert is up for an Oscar for her starring role in Elle, a well-reviewed rape revenge movie. Born 16 March 1953 2.40am Paris, she’s hugely prolific, having appeared in 100 movies, French and international, including The Piano Teacher, with multiple awards to her credit. She has a 3rd house Sun Mercury … Read more
Bad boy, singer, songwriter, dancer Chris Brown has been ordered to stay away from his ex-girlfriend, model Karrueche Tran after she claims he threatened to kill her. Brown has been in and out of court since pleading guilty to an attack on Rihanna in 2009 after which he had counselling for domestic … Read more
Best-selling author of teenage novels Helen Bailey died in tragic and horrific circumstances, calculatingly killed by her fiancé. She had already suffered an shattering loss when her previous husband was drowned in Barbados; wrote her way out of her grief with a book called When Bad Things Happen in Good Bikinis; and thought she’d … Read more
The Oscars 2017 kicks off at 5.30pm, 26 February, Los Angeles, on an overly excitable day with a deeply buried, intense 8th house Uranus Mars in Aries opposition Jupiter square a grandstanding Pluto in the 5th, so bubbling with underground anger and the possibility of disruption. In addition Mars Uranus are trine … Read more
Algeria largely missed the Arab Spring, partly because they’d already had their uprising two decades before which was a searing experience. Although an Islamic country, the government, under a lifetime president, has a policy of keeping the radical elements at bay. There is close military co-operation with Russia who supplies arms and equipment, … Read more
There is concern in the Middle East about an eventual Saudi Arabia war with Iran. Though as one commentator pointed out ‘it is already happening.’ The two countries are killing each other’s proxies, advisors and troops, in Yemen, Syria, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia’s Shiite Eastern Province. If it were to come – via miscalculation … Read more
The problem with Eclipses, of which there are at least four per year (2 Solar, 2 Lunar), is that you end up drowning in data especially when you track back historical events connected to any one particular eclipse cycle or degree. However two things are clear. One is that specific eclipses do seem … Read more