New Zealand is facing a raft of domestic discontent with economic woes top of the list – the rich poor gap, unemployment, housing shortages amongst others as well as environmental issues. The 17 January 1853 12am chart does have tr Saturn moving through the financial 2nd till 2018 which would indicate shortage of … Read more
There’s a thought-provoking piece in the Guardian today by Emily Bell, a digital shining light, which begins with the Mark Twain thought that ‘A lie can travel halfway round the world before the truth is putting on its shoes.’ In the age of viral amplification on the net, that old trope has taken on a … Read more
An upcoming referendum in Italy on constitutional reform could prove an even greater shock to EU stability than Brexit, according to commentators. Italy is the eurozone’s most vulnerable region with bank stocks plunging by a third after the UK’s vote last week. PM Matteo Renzi has wagered his job on the outcome of the … Read more
Kingston on Hull, a port in the north east of England sat at the top of the league table recently for ‘low wage, high welfare’. But there is now a 10 year master plan to bring in new business investment and Hull is to be City of Culture in 2017 which it is … Read more
Apologies to non-Brits for the boring minutiae of internal elections. Just to add to previous posts. Boris’s Neptune clearly caught up with him as he exits the Tory leadership race. He has coming up a confident tr Pluto trine his Jupiter but also sextile Neptune. That Jupiter Neptune opposition tends to send him off into cloud … Read more
The tragi-comedy of the UK political car crash continues with the Opposition Leader Jeremy Corbyn, having resoundingly lost a vote of confidence from the Parliamentary Labour Party, then refusing to go. Is he mad or is it just another facet of Pluto in Capricorn hauling down the old structures? The electorate are a … Read more
Interesting point about difficulties showing up on a chart. For example FTSE 250 heading downhill fast is all ‘the fault’ of Brexit. It would still have had lousy influences if Remain had won. It’s a question to which there is no easy answer. Recently I did a personal chart which showed heavy tr Pluto to … Read more
Contemplating the UK’s about-to-self-destruct-financial -services industry on Brexit, a thought struck me. Pluto moved into Capricorn in 2008 whose purpose is to bring about a complete transformation of the way governments are run and money is handled at a macro-economic level. The Lehman Brothers/sub-prime/banking collapse happened in 2007/08, sending countries globally into a downward … Read more
UK politics is in meltdown with the Tory leader/prime minister on his way out the door and the opposition leader, Jeremy Corbyn, facing mass resignations from his shadow cabinet and open mutiny for his lack-lustre campaigning. Just one more thought on the UK chart. The September Virgo Solar Eclipse at the same degree … Read more
The continental media, especially German and French, are putting the blame for the Brexit debacle squarely at the feet of the EU bureaucracy and saying it’s a wake-up call. Whether that will sink into the feather-bedded, gold-plate-pensioned civil service mentality is questionable. What is showing on the EU chart at the moment … Read more