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Anthony Head – a charming and lucky Pisces
Actor Anthony Head much loved and respected by his peers and public alike for his performances in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Merlin and Ted Lasso as well as the Nescafe Gold Blend commercials which first brought him fame, has died of pneumonia only a few months after his long-time partner. He was born 20 … Read more
Jill Biden memoir – recollections differ
Jill Biden’s memoir has not been greeted with rapture with criticisms of rewriting history and dodging accountability for the 2024 loss. One reviewer went so far as to say :“ For a quick buck and a reputational overhaul she’s selling out her husband by dishing the most intimate, undignified details of his private health struggles.” … Read more
Gambino family – still tangling with the law
Carmine Gotti Agnello grandson of the Gambino crime family boss John Gotti has been arrested on an allegation of domestic assault, weeks before His 15-Month COVID Fraud Sentence Begins. He was convicted after pleading guilty to wire fraud involving the theft of $1.1 million from the Small Business Administration’s Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program and … Read more
Royal Roundup – Peter Phillips, Beatrice, Eugenie
The Royals were out in force for the second wedding of Peter Phillips, Princess Anne’s son. With a light-hearted Venus Jupiter in Cancer in place and the recent disruptive Sun Uranus conjunction and Mars Pluto square both out of orb, it is a more auspicious day than his first wedding. Held on 17 May 2008 … Read more
Artificial Intelligence – lacking practical sense ++ Nasdaq dip on investor concerns
Artificial Intelligence was first used as a term in September 1955 when Uranus was at zero degrees Leo; and consolidated by a New Hampshire academic workshop starting 18 June 1956 when there was a super-charged Jupiter Pluto in Leo square Saturn in Scorpio; and Uranus still at zero Leo in an inventive square to Neptune. … Read more
Neptune Pluto – clairvoyance, mysticism and AI
The merging of Neptune and Pluto in their midpoint over the next three years with Uranus in square could plausibly have several different outcomes. Neptune Pluto in the scientific field in the past has introduced telephones, and advanced electricity, radio waves, X-rays – all intangible, incorporeal inventions. With high tech Uranus adding its trailblazing qualities … Read more
Marilyn Monroe – an enduring icon
Marilyn Monroe, who emerged from a deprived and abusive childhood to become a global sex symbol, was born 100 years ago in a Los Angeles charity ward. She was a top billed actress in the 1950s in high-grossing movies like Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire The Seven Year Itch, Bus Stop, The … Read more
UK – into Uranus Pluto riot season
Right on cue as transiting Uranus squares the UK Pluto, riots break out over the death of a white teenager stabbed by a young Sikh with a ‘religious’ knife, who initially claimed he has been racially attacked. The police handcuffed the dying man bleeding out on the road before sussing they had got it wrong. … Read more
Uranus, Neptune, Pluto – a heady brew
Amidst the astro-excitement of the revitalising effect of the celestial transition into Air Fire signs as opposed to the recent downbeat Water Earth, what has been overlooked is the effect of Neptune, Uranus and Pluto sitting on, or in aspect to, the midpoints of the two others. At present Neptune is conjunct the Uranus/Pluto midpoint … Read more
Erin Brokovich – turning her sights on AI
The indefatigable Erin Brokovich having spent the past three decades fighting massive corporations for environmental pollution which damaged residents’ health has turned her sights on AI data centres. She has started this spring monitoring the aggressive push for AI data centers and increasing nationwide opposition on various grounds, linked to high electricity usage and the … Read more