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Solar Eclipse – repeating Gulf War 1
Pondering on how the recent eclipse provided a backdrop for the present conflagration in the Middle East, the previous ones in this 18.5 year Saros cycle are significant if not cheering. Though it would have to be said in addition to problems there were also positive outcomes. Last time in 2008 oversaw the financial … Read more
Maria Vorontsova – Putin for a father
Maria Vorontsova, a Russian pediatric endocrinologist is the elder child of Vladimir Putin. She was married to a Dutch businessman and living in the Netherlands, until calls for her expulsion in 2014 after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down by pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine. She now lives in Moscow and is married to an … Read more
Oil – Plutonic riches from the underworld
The first ever oil strike – 28 August 1859 4pm Titusville, PA, USA. It has an 8th house Sun Moon Mercury in practical, earthy Virgo and a Saturn Mars Venus in money-oriented Leo also in the 8th. So six planets in the deeply buried 8th house which has connections with business finance. Neptune … Read more
Middle East mayhem – and so it goes on
Achieving an outright victory in a war that increasingly seems unwinnable may spur Netanyahu onwards. But Trump, as ever, gets spooked by the markets plunging, with his smash n’ grab raid turning into an expensive stalemate, costing US lives and threatening the economy. A former head of Iran research for Israel’s defence intelligence agency, … Read more
Taylor Frankie Paul – a powderkeg chart
A cautionary tale about reality TV, social media influencers and religion in an arena way off my radar. Taylor Frankie Paul with 6 million TikTok followers, known for her comedy, dance and mothering content, lately featured in The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, whose “messy” reputation has become part of her brand has been … Read more
Chuck Norris – violence was his vocation
Actor Chuck Norris during a near-60-year acting career became ‘a pop culture emblem of alpha-male indestructibility.’ His films – Forced Vengeance, Hellbound, An Eye for an Eye, A Force of One, Silent Rage, were what they said they were. After the movies he moved into television in the 1990s with Walker, Texas Ranger. He has … Read more
Jenni Murray – a woman of importance
Jenni Murray, the doyenne of BBC’s Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour for 33 years has died. Described as “humorous yet headmistressy, she was capable of switching from razor-sharp interrogation to flirtatious whimsicality and was equally at home presenting features on female genital mutilation as on home furnishings.” She interviewed all the major political figures of her … Read more
Opus Dei – hypocrisy unveiled ++ Robert Hanssen
Another crack in the right-wing conspiracy to dominate American culture comes with the escalating fallout from an expose of the religious sect Opus Dei – now sitting on Pope Leo’s desk for action. Its close association with Heritage Foundation (Project 25) Kevin Roberts and conservative activist Leonard Leo who has led the Republican mission to … Read more
Cesar Chavez – toppled off his pedestal ++ Dolores Huerta
US civil rights leader Cesar Chavez, who rose to become a secular saint for many for his advocacy of the rights of farm workers has been exposed in a New York Times report as a flawed hero for his abuse of women and underage girls. In his later years he became increasingly paranoid and autocratic. … Read more