Marjorie Orr featuring: Astrology of Today’s News

These are excerpts of the current news articles. For a full list and full stories click the News link above.

Mel Brooks – from a vintage crop in 1926

Mel Brooks, actor, filmmaker, comedian, songwriter and playwright, has reached 100 with a lifespan as long as his talents. Winner of an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony, he can look back on a seven decade career with many highs including Blazing Saddles, The Producers, Young Frankenstein and the Elephant Man – and … Read more

0 comments

BBC versus Trump – a worthy opponent

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.” Shakespeare, Hamlet.   From an ill-judged war to a sulphurous green Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC after a $14 million renovation, Trump does not have his troubles to seek.  The one minnow he did not expect to bite back after they admitted their … Read more

0 comments

Larry David – the joker and truth teller

Comedian Larry David is taking aim at 250 years of American history with Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of America on HBO – an eviscerating satirical and occasionally educational series. A different sort of celebration from the man who has “made a killing out of killing sacred cows.” Best known … Read more

2 comments

Frida Kahlo – a talent that became a cult

Frida Kahlo, the artist, who has achieved cult status in the last two decades is the focus of an exhibition at the Tate Modern: The Making of an Icon for the next six months.  Art critics are scathing about the ‘piggybacking or the deadening drumbeat of identity politics’ in the exposition but inevitable given that … Read more

2 comments

Astrocartography – up for grabs or not?

  Astrocartography is an insightful new tool, pioneered by the late Jim Lewis in the 1970s which was based on ancient forms of locational astrology.   The astrology community is up in arms at an unseemly attempt to trademark Astrocartography for sole commercial use by one French and one American astrologer. What has always been … Read more

4 comments

Venezuela – a Saturn Neptune Uranus disaster ++ other great quakes

At least 164 people have been killed and 971 injured in two Venezuela earthquakes which struck at 6.04/5pm La Guaira last night. The 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes which struck within a minute of each other were among the strongest to strike Venezuela in more than a century.  The disaster happened with Mars in late … Read more

3 comments

Astro comments and questions

Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar and in Search

42 comments

Oprah & Whitney – a questionable remembrance

Oprah Winfrey has caused an upset by relating an uncalled for story that showed the late Whitney Houston in a bad light (and herself with halo polished) which has prompted the Houston family to respond with a denial. Evidently she fell on stage, due to bad lighting according to those close and not because she … Read more

13 comments

Andy Burnham – a surprising catalyst for change ++ Corbyn/McDonnell

Odd and ends on Burnham.   Not much can be known with certainty until the day of his elevation which is seemingly in three weeks maybe around July 14th. The explosive Mars Uranus conjunction in Gemini will still be in orb trine Pluto which hints at considerable aggravations ahead. The Jupiter opposition Pluto sextile/trine Uranus … Read more

24 comments

Albania – flaming down Ivanka and Jared

  Ivanka and Jared Kushner have triggered a revolt in Albania with a planned 10,000 room luxury sea-side complex on a wildlife site. The ‘flamingo revolution’ is rapidly widening since bulldozers began clearing clusters of forest and ancient dunes which are important habitats for flamingos, monk seals and loggerhead sea turtles, a major migratory route … Read more

8 comments