“I want to tell people that dreams are possible. Perhaps my dream will unleash other dreams.” “Great dreams never come off first time. I tried, I failed, I fell, I picked myself up again, I rebuilt myself.” So said Frenchman Thomas Coville who has just smashed the round-the-world unassisted solo sailing record, at his … Read more
The UK has tr Jupiter moving through the 1st house until November 2017 and several Jupiter midpoints being triggered throughout the year so the mood will be surprisingly upbeat. Tr Uranus is opposition the Jupiter/MC now and through January, being joined by tr Pluto trine Jupiter/Pluto in Jan, mid July to early Sept, late … Read more
Actress and writer Carrie Fisher, best known as the original Star Wars Princess Leia and daughter of Debbie Reynolds and the late Eddie Fisher, is in intensive care after a heart attack. Her bitingly funny screenplay Postcards from the Edge was about her relationship with her actress mother growing up in a Hollywood family; … Read more
Leslie Kenton was the guru of health and beauty in the 1970/80s when she was a lynchpin of Harpers & Queens magazine, extolling the virtues of raw food and juice diets long before they became commonplace. She lived an alternative lifestyle, often dressed in white flowing robes, had four children by four different fathers, … Read more
Poland seems to be rolling backwards in terms of democratic rights which is giving Brussels yet another headache and pulling demonstrators out onto the street. They are protesting about government plans to restrict journalists’ access to parliament. And the outgoing president of Poland’s highest constitutional court has accused the ruling right-wing Law … Read more
The bitingly-funny television and food critic AA Gill died a week ago from cancer leaving a gap for many Sunday newspaper readers for whom his eviscerations of actors, directors and restaurants were the week’s highlight. Those on the receiving end would laugh ruefully (mainly) since despite, his fierce sarcasm, he was much loved. He … Read more
Kellyanne Conway, the first woman to lead a successful US Presidential campaign as manager and strategist for Donald Trump, was born 20 January 1967. She has quite a chart with an ambitious (probably) Capricorn Sun opposition Jupiter square a combative Mars in Libra. She’s also got (possibly) two Grand Trines. A definite Water Grand … Read more
Crime writer Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution which was the short story turned drama that turned her from a success into a phenomenon in 1953 has been remade for the BBC’s Christmas schedule. She is the best-selling writer of all time with 80 detective novels. Only the Bible has sold more … Read more
Jude Law who was the unexpected lead for Paolo Sorrentino’s sumptuous 10-part television drama The Young Pope rose to the challenge and inhabited the part to the manner born. He played a young American laid-back, smoking, cherry-coke drinking primate who turned out to have hardline views on the key issues for the Vatican. As … Read more
Assuming that Brexit, Trump, the popularity of Le Pen in France, the re-emergence of nationalist Russia and the crumbling of the EU, and separatist movements like the SNP which was a forerunner to Brexit, are less a cause and more a symptom of the times, it seems worth looking at what’s coming. Below is from … Read more