83 thoughts on “Questions and Facts for context”

  1. Just an observation rather than a request, but with Neptune, North Node and Mercury coming together with Scheat at the end of Pisces brought to mind the continuing saga of Prince Andrew. The Beeb says:

    Dutch company Startupbootcamp (SBC) had held talks about buying Prince Andrew’s Pitch@Palace network, a sale that could have provided him with a multi-million pound financial lifeline.

    But sources close to SBC say despite an announcement of an intended takeover, and talk of possible funding from Bahrain, nothing has been signed and no transactions have been carried out.

    It comes as Prince Andrew’s finances have been under intense scrutiny, with questions about how he can afford to live in his Royal Lodge mansion after he was cut off financially by King Charles.

    Personally speaking, I do wish Charles had taken a firmer hand with Andrew, but then he has had cancer treatment and likely doesn’t have the energy. But imo Andrew continues to cause problems for the family and I doubt this will be the end of it.

  2. After yesterday’s debacle at the Whitehouse involving the Trump administration and Zelensky the European members of NATO are meeting tomorrow in London. This is all tying in with the astrology as Venus has just stationed direct at 10 Aries and is going retrograde on Sunday March 2025. This happening directly on NATO’s natal Mars/Venus conjunction at 10/11 Aries and on the UK Labour government’s North Node at 11 Aries. Venus becomes a Morning Star again after its conjunction with the Sun at 2 Aries on 23 March 2025 before making a series of double conjunctions (one retrograde and one direct) with Neptune, the North Node and Saturn. There is an upcoming Mercury retrograde as well which begins on the 10th March 2025 at 9 Aries. This period seems loaded with significance as the Venus and Mercury do not clear their shadows until mid May. The first conjunction of Venus with the NN on 3 April 2025 seems particularly significant as Neptune will have just entered Aries a few days before and will be on the world point. The sequence of conjunctions is retrograde Sun, Neptune, NN, Saturn then direct NN, Saturn Neptune. Saturn will conjoin the North Node on 14 April before its second conjunction with a direct Venus on 25 April 2025. The latter coincides with a potent Pluto/Mars opposition at 3 Aquarius/3 Leo.

    Anyone care to unpick the astrology. One assumes Neptune will be dissolving old structures as it completes its cycle in Pisces and Saturn will be trying to maintain them. The fact Venus final conjunction in the sequence is with Neptune in a new sign and at the start of a new Neptune cycle does not bode well for the old order. This is particularly the case as there is a Pluto/Mars opposition in the mix. I can’t see any progress until Saturn itself reaches Aries in July 2025 when people might be looking at new structures.

    • And just to complicate matters there is also a Solar Eclipse at 8 Aries on 29 March 2025 which occurs just 18 hours before Neptune enter Aries.

    • I think NATO’s Venus/Mars will be hit by the March 29th at 8 Aries eclipse as well, Hugh which will ne significant. A realignment of some kind.

  3. To my great surprise, the UK House of Commons is scheduled to hold a debate about rejoining the European Union as a full member (they may not want us back!). Any chance of looking at this and shedding some light on it? Thanks

      • I received an email from Pariliament yesterday as I’m subscribed to the events listings. My impression is it may not go anywhere as the debate is not whether there should be another referendum, but whether we should rejoin; the concept of another referendum is not mentioned. I’m not sure Starmer is prepared to risk the division that would follow a decision without first going to the Electorate in some way. I’ve since found out the time: 16:30 GMT.

    • Starmer has previously said, as recently as a month ago, that we will not be rejoining the EU in his lifetime (by which I take to be while he is PM).

      After the 5 years malaise and division of trying to Brexit, it’s political suicide to rejoin unless there is something like a 75% desire to do so among the population. I suspect even 70% would be too low.

      This is probably just one of those petitions which has reached 100,000 signatures and therefore has to be debated in the House.. But debated doesn’t mean it will go anywhere.

      That said, there may be some kind of willingness to find a trade deal. I think Starmer (and maybe Reeves) have been suggesting that.

    • it is just a debate in response to a petition that gathered 123000 signatures. petitions count for 0 in the uk, much like any protest.

  4. OK, smart people in Washington say the incident at WH with Z was orchestrated by J.D. Vance to offer Trump a way out of a bad deal Russia didn’t want… But hear me out: The French already had a counter offer for Ukraine. Macron has his blind spots, but as stated elsewhere, he is likely the best strategian in World politics right now. He is also the same age as Zelensky – they are born 2 months apart 1977-78 – so finds common ground.

    There is actually a solid class of 1977 natives in politics: Marcron, EU head of Foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas, Giorgia Meloni, our Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen who I may not agree with on internal politics, but is brilliant.

    • It was quite clear to me that the whole episode was indeed orchestrated to humiliate Zelensky and try to force him to resign. Both Russia and the US want him out of the way. He stood his ground with dignity and indeed has so far succeeded in uniting Europe behind him. Curious to know what Macron has up his sleeve.

      • I agree, this was a pre-meditated and confected attack by Trump/Vance. Either Trump has a better offer from Putin on the rare Earth minerals in occupied Ukraine, or he is angling for a more favourable deal from Zelensky. This could be the beginning of the end for the Trump regime. As transit Uranus approaches Trump’s MC, squares his Mars very soon and transiting Jupiter conjuncts his natal Uranus (inflating the energies beyond any control) we may see more of this sort of shocking disruptive behaviour. With transiting Saturn squaring his Moon & South Node conjunction (and with that his Sun and North Node conjunction), this not a good time for a politician to take risks with his public image. Perhaps his cozying up to Putin will finally cast him as a traitor to the US: he’s playing a dangerous game and his hubris is a profound weakness.

      • I don’t think it was pre-meditated. Seems more likely to me that Trump has got used to having everything his own way after the resounding election victory and was expecting to steam roller Z into accepting whatever deal he’s given. The situation was probably made worse by how Starmer (and I think Macron) had flattered Trump’s ego and avoided confrontation – not that I’m criticising them just observing.

        Zelensky, an Aqua Sun/Moon comes in and rubs up both Trump and Vance’s Leo planets the wrong way. Z has Saturn on Trump’s Mars/Asc and I seem to recall his Sun/Moon is opposite Trump’s Pluto / Vance’s Sun-Venus.

        I’m not criticising Z but they took offense to how he came dressed. Trump/Vance are all about image – Aqua men don’t care about impressing people in the same egotistical way. Vance with his Libra moon saw that as disrespect and his Scorpio Mars then spat resentment at Zelensky having campaigned for the Democrats. It probably wasn’t helped by Z using the Ukrainan word “kostume” which means suit in response to a question from MTG’s boyfriend.

        Once they started arguing, it became who can shout loudest. It was unpleasant to watch to say the least. I actually can’t watch a second time.

        • Have you seen how co-president Musk dresses for official WH events?? Or what Kanye West wore to WH whilst visiting Trump? There are photos of Churchill at WH during WW2 not wearing a suit. Consensus is that it was staged because Vance rarely speaks (and in 2022, he publicly and emphatically stated that he did not care at all about what happened to Ukraine at all ) and because TASS was allowed to be part of the WH press pool for the first time.

        • GD-the reporter who dissed Z for not wearing a suit is Marjorie Taylor Greene’s boyfriend. Hope this helps to clarify.

        • Believe me, GD, Scorpio Mars doesn’t really do anything without some kind of plotting and scheming in advance, especially when it’s operating in the political sphere. I doubt Vance’s rather weak Libra Moon with its one aspect to Venus was particularly overwhelmed by the aesthetics, since his Mars is stronger in Scorpio and far more visceral. Plus, it squares his 12th house, behind-the-scenes Leo Sun/Venus. Mars in Scorpio, when working negatively instinctively knows how to poke the wounds of another individual in order to inflict pain. Vance’s Mars is also right on his IC, his 4th house cusp – he feels at home, behaving as he did.

          • I beg your pardon, his Scorpio Mars squares 12the house Venus in Leo, while his Saturn in Scorpio squares his 12th house Sun.

  5. Marco Rubio, Trump’s Secretary of State, looked mortified by the Trump/Vance disrespectful treatment of Zelensky. He has his own kiss-up to Trump issues, but I’m not sure he’s feeling great about what he’s gotten himself into. Can you see how long he might last in the position?

      • Well, Rubio did his usual surrender monkey sycophant thing and said Trump is great, America first, yadda yadda, this after he’s been very hawkish on Russia over most of his career. It would also be interesting to see Rubio’s chart (alas with no time) moved to Russia or vis a vis Putin.

  7. Professional astrologers Louise Edington and Kathy Biehl have done a deep dive on Trump’s visit to Russia on 4th of July, 1987. Very interesting vis a vis his 9th house transits and also Chiron. Highly recommend. It’s on Cosmic Owl Astrology channel on YouTube for 2/28.

  9. Horrific treatment of Zelenskyy by Vance and Trump today in Washington. Don’t think I have ever seen a Leader treated more despicably. I actually feel completely gutted, so goodness knows how Ukraine must feel.

    • “White House says news conference with Zelensky is canceled”

      Guess there’ll be no signing of any agreement. All or nothing.

      President Zelensky probably feels this was the most likely outcome. And the war continues.

      Leading into astro events this spring…not in T’s favor.

    • Horrific indeed. Noting here that Marjorie said back in 2024, “Trump’s astrocartography puts his Mars close to the Midheaven located to Kiev; and for J.D. Vance it puts his Mars in vengeful Scorpio on his Ascendant – so for both it is an area which arouses their anger. (Though VP’s don’t matter when it comes to foreign policy decisions.)”

      Well, VPs don’t usually matter in foreign policy, but clearly Vance was brought in to be vent his vengeful Scorpio in an utterly disgusting show of ignorance and disrespect. Trump and Vance should both be ashamed of themselves but of course neither has any shame.

    • Historian Kevin M. Kruse compared this to middle school. The bully, his sidekick and scared boys standing behind. Marco Rubio, who is weak, but not a souless ghoul, looked like he wanted to to be teleported.

    • It is a ritual humiliation. I refuse to watch it as well. I hope Zelensky stands his ground and lets Macron help him. It was probably performative on DJT and Vance, and the intended audience was not in the country.

      We knew he was a bully.

  10. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has an article in the Telegraph comparing the MAGA movement to Mao’s cultural revolution.

    Young people (the equivalent of Musk’s 19-yr-olds) were encouraged to attack China’s civil service which was deemed to be the deep state because it was inherited from the the Nationalists who had inherited it from the Qing dynasty. Posters said things like “World in great disorder: excellent situation!” and “Without destruction, there can be no construction”.

    When people dissented, they were told to “eat bitterness”, much like MAGA folk tell people to “Cry harder”.

    Can you please look at the astrology of the cultural revolution to see if there are similarities with the present.

    • Yes and no. The Uranus Pluto conjunction in Virgo was around in the mid 1960s which is only around in much much milder form now with an approaching Uranus trine Pluto. But Uranus in Trump’s chart is a key .

      See previous post: – Uranus – blowing up the past. 21st February 2025

  11. IKEA has been done in the Polish courts today for woke. They lost a case forcing the trans onto Polish Catholics and sacking them for quoting The Bible online about not accepting the forcing of left wing extremism. The Krakow courts have upheld that “The workplace should be neutral of all propaganda and coersion”. Interesting that mainstream opinion is now being upheld. Not that people hate anything or anybody different, but having it forced onto citizens and refusing to allow people to have a different opinion.

  12. I just listened to Finnish podcast featuring Tero Kuittinen, the first stock analyst in a NY firm who moved Nokia to “sell” in 2008. He is now in market entry consulting, and has extensive networks to financial press. The guy is very frank, and says that the likely scenario with Trump’s intended tariffs not even counting those to EU (this was recorded maybe a week ago), the US inflation will hit 4 % in two months, a limit where people stop consuming. Now, I think that would coincide with the astrologically sensitive period.

    Hilarious or scary tidbits on Trump here and there: Apparently, Trump is targeting Denmark, because the former Queen snubbed him in 1992. Also, since the casters are guys in their 20’s, he has to explain the hold portraying Trump as a business guru in tv for 10 years has to people in their 40’s and 50’s.

  13. Gene Hackman has tragically passed, along with his wife and dog at home. Foul play isn’t suspected.

    30 January 1930 at 07:45, in San Bernadino, California.

    As much as Marjorie’s words about Neptune taking away icons on its ingresses echo in my ear, the timing of this couldn’t have been, well, more raw.

  14. Marjorie, could you please take a look at Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut? He was born in White Plains, NY, August 3, 1973, though I don’t know where to look for a time of birth.

    Along with Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Jasmine Crockett of Texas, he’s been one of the few effective voices in Congress speaking out against the Trump/Musk/Republican rampage, issuing daily two-minute videos. He gained national prominence after the Sandy Hook massacre and became a loud voice for gun control.

    Does he have a future in leadership in the US?

    Thanks so much!

  15. According to The Independent, one of Musk’s hackers at DOGE is the grandson of a KGB spy. This kid goes by the nickname, “Big Balls,” and his last name is Corsitine. I think he’s 19. Would you please check out his entire family? Thank you.

    • @Amelia Pettyfor, I don’t think any of the DOGE boys full date of birth is publicly accessable.

      Edward Coristine’s grandfather would have been Valery Martynov, a double agent “burned” by Aldrich Ames and double defector Yurchenko and executed in 1987, when Glasnost was at full swing. Wikipedia does not list his DOB, either. Anyhow, Coristine would have never met his grandfather and it’s possible even his mother’s memories are shaky, since she would have likely been a child at the time.

    • Krebs on Security did an extensive write up on this person as to the websites he owned and what he was doing before he came to his new position. You would probably find it interesting.

  16. Are there any indications in Nigel Farage’s chart that he may now be on the wrong side of UK public opinion re Trump, Russia and Ukraine? Many thanks!

  17. Dear Marjorie,
    In the context of your book The Astrological History of the World I wondered if you had ever come across any links between the astronomical alignments of planets as is happening this week and significant world events?
    Regards,
    Susan

  18. Noting the knock on effect of Trump’s Uranian tear up has pushed Keir Starmer to change direction on last year’s Manifesto and increase defence spending / cut international aid. This week’s New Moon in Pisces falling directly opposite his Virgo Sun-Pluto as he travels to Washington.

    • Interesting spot GD! The fishy stellium swims below the horizon for the UK New Moon, with Uranus at the descendant suggesting what changes for alliances I wonder….. I’m also wondering about the square to Jupiter (General, King, religious leader?). Also, at 9 Gemini, the Watcher of the East, Aldebaran, one of the four Royal Stars of Persia. Said to be a star of great energy, and sometimes war-like.

  19. Marjorie,

    Would you be able to look at all the recent plane disasters/near disasters in the US? Is there some astrological thing going on? Thank you.

  20. Hello everyone. “https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c4gm41lq6rlt”

    “A senior Ukrainian official tells the BBC that the US and Ukraine have agreed the terms of an agreement that relates to critical minerals and other resources. We have indeed agreed it with a number of good amendments and see it as a positive outcome, the official says.”

    The White House is yet to confirm that the deal has been agreed. The BBC has asked for comment from the US side.

    • Larryc,
      Try taking a look at Bulgaria. Itbis the most affordable of all EU countries.You have to live there 5 years before becoming a citizen. While you technically can’t buy property until you are a citizen, most get round this by registering a business, which allows them to buy a house or flat.

  21. Really interesting “Rest is history” podcast about the life of John Dee (Elizabeth I’s astrologer).

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBxAxOvZ9eU

    At about 26 minutes in, they mention that he got the job by visiting Elizabeth and casting her horoscope, that of her sister Mary and that of Philip of Spain’s. Mary’s and Philip’s were negative, which meant Elizabeth would be queen. (The reason Dee approached Elizabeth in the first place was he was certain she would be queen and he needed to secure his job). Incredible how these old astrologers predicted changes of leadership.

  22. Could you look at the charts of Joe Orton and Kenneth Haliwell Marjorie? What star-cursed genius pair that met by chance. Like Frank and Rita in Educating Rita, changed places in power and talent. Then that tumultuous end. How could such a meeting and such brilliant plays and such extreme macabre comedy that fitted its time so well, well….How did these two cross paths as Capricorn and Cancer. And how did it sort of magnatise into such a horrific end. The end of the pair of them was so so like the grotequery of Entertaining Mr. Sloane. So chilling, so hilariously outrageously ironic and ugly. I watched Prick Up Your Ears and was fascinated by the fate of such a meeting. I honestly think the film of Entertaining Mr. Sloane is the most outrageous film that was ever made. Even today, especially today, to see something as grotesque and interpretation of actually what is around us in behaviour, but exagggerated to bring it to our attention. Well, it’s genius. But for me that film is breathtaking, a body blow and so utterly bitterly hilarious and so bitingly British. Appreciate if you could look at the astrology of how Orton and Halliwell could have crossed and burned out with almost synchronicity? Love your channel Marjorie. Magic!

  24. Please could you look at Sergey Lavrov’s chart for this year if you have time Marjorie. He was in Saudi for the talks on Ukraine and today was in Turkey. Thank you

    • @Xhane, I briefly dived into this in one of the threads and find this interesting, too. Lavrov’s Sun is on Pisces/Aries cusp, so he will be deeply affected by Neptune/Saturn. And by the wat, I feel deeply sorry for American people for what ever he is negotiating on with Rubio. Rubio is SO out of his league with Lavrov, he is a really smooth operator and makes people feel they have a special relationship with him.

  25. Pep Guardiola might be an interesting case – there was a nice article on BBC I think on the 22 February about his way of football now being obsolete.

  26. Dear Marjorie, I wonder if you could do a piece on the likelihood of East Germany gaining autonomy or even independence. Politically it feels a different state from the former East Germany. I did an analysis on the political makeup of the West German Laender confirming that.

  27. Good afternoon (morning here). Astro assessment of the Germany elections. AfD arrived in 2nd place…so far. Will this materially affect the EU along with calming Mr Trump’s aspirations to annex Ukraine ?

    • BSW (a new party that is socially right-wing/anti-immigration, fiscally left-wing/formed by a former leader of The Left party) lost out on any seats in the Bundestag by just 0.02% of the vote (parties need to get a minimum of 5% of the vote to get any seats in the Bundestag and the BSW got 4.98%).

      The absence of this party means that Merz will likely form a Grand Coalition (GroKo – Grosse Koalition) with the SPD.

      Had the BSW won seats in the Bundestag, the seat shares of the CDU/CSU Union and the SPD would have been lower and the governing coalition would have required at least three parties to form a majority in the Bundestag.

      The next Chancellor will be formally elected by the Bundestag after a coalition agreement is reached, expected to be around Easter.

      But in the meanwhile, Scholz remains Chancellor in a caretaker capacity and will likely act on any topic only after consulting Merz.

      Marjorie, apologies for the non-astrological post. I’m merely attempting to give non-Europeans an understanding of how German elections work.

      • This is an analysis from a poster on Twitter, not my own.

        “At least 53% in every East German state voted for a party (AfD, Die Linke, BSW) that wants better relations with Russia and is at least hesitant if not hostile to military aid to Ukraine.”

        • Unmystic Mom, Linke’s stance has been more pacifist than really soft on Russia. They are socially liberal, and therefore against much of what Putin stands for. Their pacifism might shed really quickly when they realize the US won’t come to their or Ukrainians’ help anymore. They might actually also see upside in fortifying European defence. The older generation in particular was always if not anti-American, not really aligned with certain “establishment”.

          This is of course speculative, but if the example of Finnish Left’s quick change in Nato support is anything to go by, there might be quick realignment when people realize we are on our own now.

    • Gene Hackman has died along with his wife and dog. I would appreciate a reading on Gene , one of my favourite actors and his wife Betsy Arawak a pianist.

  28. Marjorie,

    I know you’re not to keen on retrogrades, but if perhaps with a post on the 29 March eclipse (in the Vedic constellation of Uttara Bhadrapada), you could tell us more about the upcoming Mercury (14 March – 7 April) and Venus retrograde (1 March – 12 April). Sun and Moon will fall in the Scorpio navamsha on the day of the eclipse, and, astrologers say, that will add to the intensity of the event.

    Both planets will be combust during March: Venus from 18 to 28 and Mercury from 17 to 31, both in the Vedic constellation of Pisces.

    14 March is lunar eclipse in the Vedic sign of Leo (Uttara Phalguni), and the Sun and Moon are in the final degrees, Vedically, of both Leo and Aquarius. Vedic astrologers say this “creates a powerful transformative quality, with a sense of tipping over from one state into another”.

    • El Azner: 14 March is lunar eclipse in the Vedic sign of Leo (Uttara Phalguni), and the Sun and Moon are in the final degrees, Vedically, of both Leo and Aquarius. Vedic astrologers say this “creates a powerful transformative quality, with a sense of tipping over from one state into another”.

      Coincidentally March 14th is when the current continuing resolution which funds the U.S. government expires.
      Lots of people are expecting an extended shut down because Republicans can’t get their acts together.

      • It is interesting to look at the Sabians for the Moon degrees.

        For the total lunar eclipse, Moon is at the 24th degree of Virgo:

        “PHASE 174 (VIRGO 24°): MARY AND HER LITTLE LAMB.

        KEYNOTE: The need to keep a vibrant and pure simplicity at the core of one’s being as one meets the many tests of existence.”

        Those “tests of existence” sound impactful and apt.

      • For the partial solar eclipse it is at the 9th degree of Aries.

        “PHASE 9 (ARIES 9°): A CRYSTAL GAZER.

        KEYNOTE: The development of an inner realization of organic wholeness.”

        “Situation as a whole” and “concentrated attention”.

        Astrocartography will be revealing too.

  29. M: Thank you so much for all of your work. I was wondering if you could work your magic on the District of Comumbia’s natal chart (September 9, 1791, time unknown).
    Fate seems to want to play a role, as its Sun is 16′ 24′ Virgo and its MC is 17′ 08″ Pisces (approaching Nodes); added to which its ASC is 7′ 45″ Cancer (approaching Jupiter).
    Currently, Mars is just about to turn direct on the MC (appropriate, given the past few weeks) and Saturn has just passed over that angle. The capitol has had such a tumultuous history – physically, that I’d like to not see it return to the horrible times of the 70’s and 80’s.

      • I was making reference to the fact that DC never really recovered from Covid, as everyone continued to work from home and the office buildings were empty — and all the services for city workers (food vendors, retailers, hairstylist, gyms, etc, etc.) have gone without customers and a lot have gone out of business. Now, with Musk/Trump cannabalizing the federal agencies/workers — and threatening to end a lot of office leases. It could really be the dangerous ghost town it was decades ago. There actions, also, threaten the entire DC region’s economy/housing market.

        • Granted Los Angeles is not full of Federal workers but we also have seen empty offices & restaurants & businesses that catered to workers are failing. Lots of shops are sitting empty—both on the large boulevards, shopping areas and malls. San Francisco has been written about extensively but I can tell you Covid made a huge impact here in Los Angeles (city is 3 million people, county is pop of 10 million.)

          the change to doing online work and shopping has changed street life.

          Marjorie, others: what astrological configurations might relate to this?

    • Coffee just kicked in: I mistakenly wrote “time unknown”, but the chart used on Astrotheme has 12AM start, as I believe it was previously decided that would be the day; unlike a lot of other commencements where something is actually signed and 12PM is used when a time is, in fact, unknown.

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