Two revealing examples of Sun opposition Pluto in action hit the headlines this week from two over-exposed personalities who refused to concede defeat, when a tactical withdrawal down a very deep rabbit hole might have seemed sensible. Prince Andrew and Amber Heard both declared war on common sense. Amber Heard with her Sun Taurus … Read more
“The past does not repeat itself. But it is rhyming.” The drumbeats hinting of a rising economic crisis similar to the 1970s are growing louder. High inflation, wars in key commodity-producing regions, declining real wages, slowing economic growth, fears of tightening monetary policy and turbulence in stock markets – were the dominant features of the … Read more
The wondrous and enigmatic Kate Bush has soared to prominence again as her 1985 hit Running Up That Hill featured prominently in Netflix’s Stranger Things and is now the most-streamed song in the world each day on Spotify, earning nearly 8m plays a day. It’s the third time round for this track since it also … Read more
Britney Spears pledged her troth for the third time yesterday to her long-time, twelve year younger boyfriend Sam Asghari at a glitzy Los Angeles do. Reports indicate evening and the wedding pics have his watch at 7.45 so I’m assuming circa 7pm. There was a Gemini Sun in a sensible trine to Saturn and trine … Read more
Sun sign astrology has in recent years been the despised poor relation of ‘proper’ serious astrology and widely assumed to have been a popular media invention from the 1930s. Sceptics sneer that not every twelfth person can be the same but how the zodiac sign interpretations are any different from the psychological test definitions of … Read more
In a rare flash of humour a Russian government spokesman remarked “Our diplomacy has yet to master teleportation,” when Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was blocked from flying to Serbia because of the surrounding countries closing their airspace. Serbia is totally dependent on Russian oil and gas, has not joined western sanctions against Moscow and been … Read more
The No Confidence vote against Boris Johnson will be held at 6pm tonight, over fifty Tory MPs having stuck their oar in with enough-already letters – the requisite 15%. Mercury is exactly conjunct the destructive Fixed star Algol trine Pluto and square Saturn so the mood will be heavy. The Virgo Moon was exactly square … Read more
Rock-star executive Sheryl Sandberg is to leave Meta after 14 years as CEO during which she turned Facebook from a place to keep up with friends into a commercial juggernaut. When she arrived in 2008, FB was making $500 million in sales ‘from a ragbag of money-making experiments, none of which showed staying power.’ Last … Read more
TS Eliot, renowned as the greatest 20th Century poet has imbedded lines from his masterpieces, The Waste Land and Four Quartets into common consciousness. “Humankind cannot bear very much reality.” “April is the cruellest month.” “I will show you fear in a handful of dust.” Yet the muddle of his private life left … Read more
The Queen’s great-grandchildren are making the most of a family jubilee with Louis’s balcony antics taking the edge off the formality. Even the Sussex minis are across, with Lilibet, celebrating her first birthday, meeting her namesake for the first time. Of Kate and William’s three, Prince George the eldest with the heaviest burden to bear … Read more