Marjorie Orr featuring: Astrology of Today’s News

Aaron Rodgers regarded as one of the greatest and most talented US football quarterbacks of all time is to retire after 22 seasons during which he recouped nearly $400 million in fees. He says after he gives up the game he will not go into media work but disappear.  Born 2 December 1983 at 2.50pm … Read more

Canada fielding economic assaults and threats of a takeover from the Trump Administration is now facing the possibility that a separatist movement may further complicate Mark Carney’s year. The Alberta’s premier Danielle Smith said she would hold a public vote on 19th October to decide whether to pursue a referendum for the province to separate … Read more

Stephen Colbert, the US comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host, best known recently for The Late Show has been retired by CBS network. They say despite its success the show lost heavily financially. There was speculation that it was tied to a settlement agreement which gave Donald Trump $16 million over a … Read more

Enduring star Kylie, initially written off as a two-dimensional “singing budgie” is still going strong with 80 million records sold and is now subject of a Netflix documentary.   Her projected image of bright and eternally cheerful, described by Nick Cave as “the definition of joy”, made her seem shallow. But like many Geminians she … Read more

At 93 Joan Collins was the belle of the ball at the Cannes Film Festival, strutting her stuff in an eye-catching white ballgown. Still working, she is promoting her latest film  opposite Isabella Rossellini, in the upcoming biographical film, The Bitter End. She plays Wallis Simpson in the latter days of her life after the … Read more

Saturn Neptune conjunctions come round three times every century and have a past association with epidemics, some more damaging than others. Anxiety about hantavirus on board a cruise ship and now ebola in the Congo spreading to Uganda is causing unease with the Saturn Neptune conjunction having moved from Pisces into Aries, still in orb. … Read more

Magpies were a common sight in my childhood garden hopping round the lawn and were never given a second thought. Only in my twenties did a superstitious friend start to make me wary. One day the unusual sight of a magpie sitting on the back of a sheep (like a tick bird on a rhino) … Read more

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Asbolus in Greek mythology was a seer who could read omens and portents in the flights and calls of birds. He is said to have led a stampede of centaurs which caused the death of Pholus, and the fatal wounding of the immortal Chiron as Hercules defended himself by firing off poisoned arrows.  The minor … Read more

Middlemarch by George Eliot has been voted the best novel of all time in a Guardian poll of writers, academics and critics. A 900-page portrait of 19th-century provincial life it is not embraced with the same enthusiasm as Austen, Bronte or Dickens but Virgina Woolf declared it “one of the few English novels written for … Read more