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Back in July 2019 you did a piece on Michael Sheen. Any chance of a revisit in light of the new TV show, where he is using £1m of his own money to help people in debt with spiralling credit charges? Thanks
The collision of the oil tanker and cargo carrier, off the coast of Hull, UK, this morning occurred at 9.50am. It would be interesting to know the astrocartography of this incident.
SA Uranus on the 8th house UK Mars at the moment, which Marjorie flagged up in her 2025 review, of course.
I just want to know if there is a chance of the sodium cyanide and aviation fuel spreading up to the North Sea around Whitby, Scarborough and Redcar way. My hopes and prayers to all in Humberside. My husband and I used to go birdwatching around the Humber estuary.
The UK 8th house Mars tends to produce major accidents and disasters – sometimes several in a row – when it is triggered. The UK nodes are also being stoked up.
Another astrologer:
Transit Neptune will be on the IC of the Sibly chart? —–> ‘Ideals, chaos, lies, undermining etc. around the foundation.’
Also apparently: Chiron return as well.
There’s an astrologer I like to read who I think made a fair bit of absolute rubbish predictions, and the first thing I see this morning she said is that when Neptune went into Pisces, that was the beginning of the psychosis about climate – now Neptune is in the last degree of Pisces and about to enter Aries, and there is psychosis about a war.
But then she goes on to say that based on oldest the natal chart of Ukraine from Campion, there will be peace in Uraine on 16 March 2026:
* secondary-progressed Moon conjunct secondary Sun on secondary MC (invites people to read Luminaries by Greene & Sasportas, as these are ‘big momeonts of change in a life’
* secondary-progressed Venus (peace), transit Saturn (stop) and transit Neptune (deception) are opposed to Mars (war) – ‘Not even Mars can handle that much opposition.”
* secondary-progressed ascendant is opposed to Venus – ‘not everyone will be happy with this peace’
* transit Pluto (ruler of the 7th = public enemies) will no longer be around the Sun within 1° orb.
* transit Uranus is on natal ascendant, ‘so a completely different (unconventional) beginning is made’. ‘Won’t be very quiet.’
* transit ruler of the 11th (Uranus) goes to 1st, ‘so the politics of Ukraine will also change completely’.
Make of that what you will.
BTW, she says war started when Pluto was on the MC and that lies and deception will be brought to the surface.
I think I’ve mentioned it once before, and don’t know if any of you read the interview in The Telegraph, but maybe Trinny (an Aquarius) & Susannah (a Gemini) could be a nice idea for a life and synastry overview. The interview is with Susannah. It talks, obviously, about at one point she might have become a countess, but, more important, the emphasis is on her ADHD (and that of her daughter), her alcoholism and how it’s genetic and that she told her daughters one of them might get it, about how she’s had loads of therapy, but it didn’t work, because she is emotionally closed off, about he wealth in youth and now, but also mentions Trinny and the tragic death of her husband. Of course, there was also talk about What Not to Wear and how it would never get made today, in this era of correctness.
Trinny was also in the news, with loads of pages reporting she doesn’t own her home, despite her cosmetics business doing really well (Susannah wanted to invest, but her husband thought it was not a good idea; now she repents).
And the other day thinking about the papacy, and how in one of his documentaries, if I remember correctly, Diarmaid MacCulloch (Scorpio) basically said it came to be as a way of Roman nobility to continue its existence, I thought maybe a comparative post about TV historians we love might be a good idea. So apart from MacCulloch, we’d have the son-in-law of a famous duchy, Dan Snow (Sagittarius), Lucy Worsley (Sagittarius), Suzannah Lipscomb (Sagittarius). Don’t know if there’s anyone else there at the moment. And, whoa, didn’t know these three were all Sagis!
Google reminds me there is also Tracy Borman (Capricorn), the royal expert Kate Williams (Sagittarius!), Dan Jones (Leo), Bettany Hughes (no date, it seems just May 1967).
And don’t forget about David Starkey.
It’s the 150th anniversary of Piscean composer Maurice Ravel’s birth in 1875 today and having listened to his music this week, I was wondering if you could look at his chart, Marjorie. He never married and there have been questions about whether he might have been Gay, but it appears he had no intimate partner, instead he was wedded to his work, but apparently “fell into a horrible despair” when his mother, Marie Delouart died in 1917. Thank you.
I double that request! I was always interested in Ravel as a supreme orchestrator and connoisseur of musical instruments, so thus my interest and support in this regard.
I was wondering if you could do a reading on the relationship between Eisenhower and Stalin during WW2. During his time as President, it was also the time of Radio Free Europe, which was used to encourage rebellion among the citizens of countries that had been taken over by Russia. This was always followed by promises that Uncle Sam would give them all the assistance needed. Which in one instance that I know of turned out to not be true and had dire consequences. In any case it would be interesting to compare the Eisenhower / Stalin relationship with that of Trump and Putin. Personally I have always been suspicious of Eisenhower.
Look into the Lend Lease Program. We gave them a lot that we never got back. “Lend Lease to the Soviet Union. Assisting the Soviet war effort American Lend-Lease eventually transferred over $11 billion dollars of goods to Soviet Russia—roughly the equivalent of $250 billion today”
Fractious and evasive, leading ultimately to dislike and disappointment.
Good general, easily pushed around prez-esp vis a vis the iran coup-operation ajax.
My late mother knew Eisenhower during WWII and had no respect, and even had great contempt, for him. I remember her telling me what a stupid man he was, without offering any specifics.
I always wondered what was behind that. She wasn’t always the best judge of people, however, making me wonder now if there was a personal element to her comments. She had even more contempt for Mamie, but adored the Roosevelts.
Well I thought he might have come to an arrangement with Stalin to look the other way when Russia took over countries like Hungary. Which is what Trump is doing with Russia.
During Watergate, my next door
neighbour was extremely scathing about Nixon, whom he had known at College. He constantly called him a crook. And I believed him.
Thank you. I take it that there is no similarity between Eisenhower/Stalin and Trump / Putin.
Very interesting. In a minor way I have equated it with the way Elon Musk has attempted to oust Nigel Farage from his own party after Farage refused to have anything to do with Tommy Robinson. Wonder if Musk has anything to do with Rupert Lowe, who has been suspended pending allegations of bullying staff and assaulting the treasurer. ( Lowe basically attempted a coup.) Of course he (Musk) might have nothing to do with it. But very coincidental. If you can’t get rid of your enemy one way, you’ll rid of him in another. Farage needs to watch his back.
The Canadians online keep referencing the wars of 1775 and 1812 in their current battles with the US, so Canadian identity was formed long before they got dominion status in 1861.
I wonder if the correct start of Canada is The Royal Proclamation of 1763. It contains the first legal recognition of First Nations rights, as well as incorporating Quebec into British North America, and these threads have continued in Canada ever since.
Royal Proclamations are only valid when they are published in The Gazette. Though the Royal Proclamation was signed on 7th Oct 1763, it wasn’t published till 11th Oct 1763. Here it is: thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/10356/page/1
It was sent by post to subscribers, it was not for sale in shops – so time of receipt would be morning – 7 a.m.?
Anyway, I cast the horoscope for 11th Oct 1763, 7 a.m. London.
It has 19 Libra 24 rising conjunct the Sun at 17 Libra 43, sextile Moon at 16 Sag 58, and Jupiter at 16 Gem 36 (opposing the Moon and trining the Sun). I think it describes Canada really well – the politeness from Libra and their friendliness from Sag. The trine from Jupiter giving them prosperity and harmony.
Tension comes from Mars at 11 Virgo squaring the Moon and Jupiter.
The whole chart is under pressure at the moment from tr Saturn which is squaring the Moon and Jupiter, opposing the Mars and quincunxing the Sun and Ascendant.
It seems that the much-announced Agatha Christie adaptation of Towards Zero with Anjelica Huston finally saw the light of day. There is a brief, 3-minute, interview with Anjelica on the BBC’s website. I looked Anjelica up here on the blog, and it seems that you haven’t written about her. So if she is of any interest, I’d like to see her profile. We have her exact time of birth (even quoted on Wikipedia!). Thank you!
ha!…. I also looked up Angelica Huston’s chart… here and online.
She has always fascinated me… such striking looks and an interesting life.
Hello. Question re: big three of sun, moon and ASC placements. If someone has the same lineup as a known public figure, can that celebrity’s experiences be similar to one’s own trajectory irrespective of having different outer planets? Will there be parallels in terms of talents and abilities, perhaps? Sort of having a similar energy pattern-vibe? Thanks.
Not easy to match all 3 since moon and ascendent data are birth time specific. I have come across one chart that I’d very similar to my own. But with differing Sun, MC and Moon the outcome is very different. Same ascendent and same year. Same 6th house Jupiter Uranus. But I don’t like to sing. Those born within weeks from my chart again will have differing outcomes. Though I do enjoy doing what they did but I never did want to do those things as my career. Like I mentioned before, an almost astro twin of mine mentioned here was a mass shooting murderer’s chart. The vibe, I did like archery, but horrible at it.
Thanks Callie. My inspiration was David Bowie. He and my son have the same Cap sun degree and they both share Leo Moon and Aq ASC. Outwardly, my son does have a similar personality to Bowie-non-conforming, rebellious, creative, etc.. Cheers!
Something to note during the month of March, would could be something or nothing. Due to the amount of planets bunched into Pisces, early Aquarius and early Aries (with Venus Rx), certain VOC periods will last longer – such as the next one in Leo. But further to that, using the traditional Hellenistic technique, which regards a VOC as continuing into the next sign until it perfects it’s next major aspect – IF the planet it previously aspected is more than 30 degrees away (I hope I’ve explained that well enough).
These hellenistic VOCs don’t happen too often – a few times a year I think, tops (usually). But this year there are a few just in March alone. So the VOC Moon in Leo on the 10th of March, which will already be long enough, will be drawn out until the 13th March. We’ll then have:
VOC in Libra/Scorpio 16th – 19th March
VOC in Pisces/Aries 25th – 27th March
VOC in Aries/Tau 30th March – 1st April
Then that’s it until New Year’s Eve
With the new Trump administratiion making so many rapid changes and so many talks and negotiations going on with Ukraine at the moment, I just though it might be worth bearing these periods in mind. Any thoughts?
@Tara, I think the March 10th and 16-19th VOCs might be significant in that March tends to be a big month in Russia’s history. Also, many, if not most, current Kremlin leaders have planets late Libra.
That is interesting, thank you. We shall see what comes up on the 10th – though the maxim “a week is a long time in politics” has never felt more true
“But further to that, using the traditional Hellenistic technique, which regards a VOC as continuing into the next sign until it perfects it’s next major aspect – IF the planet it previously aspected is more than 30 degrees away (I hope I’ve explained that well enough).”
You might have explained it well, but I have a better question: where do we easily find a Hellenistic VOC ephemeris online? Or elsewhere?
It is funny that e.g. Vedic doesn’t really believe in VOC. An opposite view.
Online – Astro-Seek has all the VOC Moon info you could want, but there’s nothing else this year for hellenistic VOC other than what I’ve put above.
I don’t practise vedic astrology, I’m afraid I can’t comment on that.
Dear Marjorie
Are there indications of UK martial involvement in Ukraine and if so what might transpire? Thank you if you have time to look
My apologies – Dorothy Dunnett was born at 02:30
Dear Marjorie –
Thank you for your steadfastly informative, generous site.
If it interests you, an entry on Dorothy Dunnett would be greatly appreciated.
25 August, 1923 Dunfermline, Scotland
Her Lymond Chronicles got me through November & December of last year. Astrology pops up in her novels.
Many thanks
Something else…Inga Arvad born 6/Oct/1913, former Miss Denmark, journalist, one of few scandinavians to interview Hitler,JFK and her fell in love hard (there were tapes!!), suspected spy for Nazis during WW3, filmwriter for MGM, engaged to Brit MP…is there nothing this Libra girl could not do?
New era, not much change.
Today I read in The Daily Mail that Sir Lindsay Hoyle’s expenses reveal he blew more than £180,000 (€218,000 or $228,000 with today’s rates) of taxpayers’ cash on flights in two years.
Comments:
“Absolutely disgraceful. Trough”
“How utterly ridiculous. How many other speakers from other countries have racked up similar obscene levels of expenses? In 2 years. I’ll tell you. None.”
“All of parliaments inhabitants, be it Westminster or devolved circuses treat the population like fools. It is time that it is stopped.”
Marjorie,
As an experienced astrologer, human, someone who is well-versed in therapy, after all these years of interaction with humans, can you offer some insights into hypocrisy and how to deal with it?
Personally know and noticed so many couples/families split up after last child born of/to relationship is a Pisces. Five couples off the top my head. Sometimes the breakup of the union after the birth of the Pisces child is intense-violence or drama involved. I know Pisces can be obviously about endings. Has anyone else noticed this as a pattern amongst people you know? Thanks.
I’ve observed Pisces to be overly-dramatic, do-or-die lash-outs. Flip coin is that they spend far too much time rescuing those who are better off left alone.
Interesting…thank you.
That was my Piscean mother when she was younger, larry! Love her dearly, but she couldn’t stop rescuing really quite dreadful people who would then treat her badly. However, she did eventually realise the futility of it and moved on to rescuing cats, a far more healthy pursuit.
Maybe it was Neptune (dissolving, disappearing).
@ Amelia Pettyfor
Can it be connected with the time of conception, they would be conceived during the summer, holiday time, perhaps not planned or conceived during a relaxed phase during a relationship.
Hi. Possibly. I’m thinking these relationships were Neptunian in nature and folks couldn’t see the reality. With one couple, both were drug addicted and then they broke up almost immediately after the birth of their Pisces daughter. The mother became sober but the father sadly overdosed.
@Amelia Pettyfor, your observation is a very interesting notion to contemplate. After reading that and thinking about all the Pisces I have or had in my family they actually are/were the last child, in my instance all females, and yes the relationship of their parents ended.
Interesting idea for sure!! Now makes me really curious about others I may know as such but not know their dynamic.
In the State visit post, the Queen-Donald Trump composite chart has a planet on the midheaven. It’s little upward sticks with a tail. It is at 28 Aquarius. I’ve tried finding that symbol but haven’t seen it. What is that planet? Thanks for the information.
@Lumiere
I have looked for a fork with four prongs and a squigle on the right, I think it is an asteroid but which one is still to be identified.
Asteroid Lilith – on Janus software
Thank you.
A similar symbol is the symbol for Apollon, a kind of mixture between a symbol for Jupiter and Gemini.
We learn something new every day. Lillith does not seem to be available on Solarfire.
Kudos to Janus for being regularly updated. SolarFire has been announcing for year a new, imminent release, yet it never materializes.
But what I mind about Janus is that I cannot turn off out-of-sign aspects and set up the orbs separately for Sun and Moon only and for other planets. Which is something I can in SolarFire.
Was it ever discussed about how Trump and Canada would mix in an annexation? I read again the recent Canada posting…sure, there are twisted nerves but nothing popped out regarding a Trump takeover of Canada, same manner as Russia stole Crimea.
Or…do I need a new reading prescription?
Thanks.
I really hope that does not happen. He thinks himself a king, but Canada already has a king. I may go live in King Charles dominion if I have to deal with Kings. The Gaza video showed him all in Gold. If he knew anything about the bible at all he would know it was like the Golden Calf. Crazy times here in the USA.
Can relocation charts indicate that a given location is a better or worse place to live or visit for an individual?
Yes look up astrocartography .
I’ve asked Marjorie about this on my plans to leave the US and move to France and/or Germany. Germany was not as upbeat and supportive yet France was way better, still not without hiccups. I speak both languages but the larger disruption now might be my age.
Dear Marjorie, I wonder whether you could write a piece on Friedrich Merz. I have heard only two or three speeches from him and he strikes me as having more substance than either Messrs Trump, Starmer and Macron.
Merz is arranging for German car manufacturers to start building tanks instead of cars. So it could be quite interesting for Marjorie to give her take on him.
Much ado about the asset value of the “mineral reserves” in Ukraine. In context, the original surveys were performed by the Soviet Union. Long ago.
The Sovs never developed the assets.
Point to consider: what if those locations are all bogus? And…there really are no such assets? Maybe just…old car battery dumps?
This is in response to another’s posting about Venus retrograde.
@larryc, this would be funny. That said, Zelensky’s father is a computer scientist who used work in mining industry. In fact, I think pretty much his whole family is somehow involved in this, given they have been in Kryvyi Rih, an iron orw mining town, for generations. I would say he’d been much more relaxed if he suspected the calculations were off and he knew they were to gain by getting an over evaluated offer.
Mark Twain reputedly defined a mine as a hole in the ground with a liar on top. 😀
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How do the eclipses factor in?
Venus, a planet of diplomacy, is retro. Doesn’t bode well for a peace deal. Here’s a quick overview of the don’ts:
[*] Avoid Major Decisions: “decisions made now might be regretted later”.
[*] Steer Clear of New Relationships: “The energy is more suited for reflection and reassessment rather than new beginnings.”
[*] Avoid Major Purchases: “Hold off on making major purchases, especially those related to beauty or aesthetics. You might find that your tastes or preferences change once Venus goes direct.”
[*] Skip Cosmetic Procedures: “Avoid getting any significant cosmetic procedures done. The results might not be as you expect, and you could end up regretting them.”
[*] Don’t Rush into Commitments: “Be cautious about making any formal commitments, such as engagements or marriages. The energy of Venus retrograde can cloud your judgment, leading to decisions that may not stand the test of time.”
@El Aznar in your opinion does a natal venus retrograde native have the same or similar qualities by default?
I don’t think so. I never really found an explanation about retrograde natal planets I like and that I could remember. I think there was something somewhere around here not to long ago when we discussed it, but I forgot.
Also remember that a retrograde can become direct through progressions.
O. K., Jennifer, I turned to Vedic astrologers, and found at least a part of an explanation.
Retrograde Venus, and Venus is a planet of marriage, can result in unusual alliances, an unconventional view of alliances or when in relationships, not knowing how to express love well.
Venus is also a planet of femininity – when retrograde, women don’t know how to express their feminine side. They can become overtly masculine or forget to dress feminine and be feminine.
A dangerous thing is to hunt for homosexuality in a chart, but as I understood, a retrograde Venus can be found in such male charts, because they want something different from their relationships and the concept of women in their life is different.
Venus rules the water element, and the human body is composed of over 85% water. Water is emotions, taste, happiness and peace – retrograde Venus can create problems with all these. The sacral, swadhishthana, chakra can also be blocked.
I also wonder if how we were shown love from birth is a factor in ‘not knowing how to express love well’? I thought a baby’s default setting at birth is love, so the Venus R would have had to unlearn it? Another train of thought is that if Venus expresses love outwardly to others, somehow Venus R was necessary for the native to learn how to love inwardly him/herself. Hmm….!. Interesting, and you’re right that there isn’t much out there.
It’s good if it’s just a train of thought. I’d be very wary of trying to psychoengineer a child based on his or her birth chart. I might try to find it if I get the inspiration and time, but I know that a birth chart of a newborn or a small child (2 years) was a special service offered by one student of Hamaker’s. It is a very tricky and sensitive area. I also think I saw that the mother–daughter relationship was another category, service, and I think it was a two- or maybe three-times appointment. That’s how complex it was to decipher. And it was obviously a bit pricey.
You need a real master in astrology to do it, if you want it done right, but also a person who is a supreme knower of human psychology and a benevolent, kind being.
It was more around the train of thought that says we choose to be born when we do and our chart shows us what we are here to work on. Almost as if whilst we are free to choose the method and timing , certain aspects give us the themes we are here to work on.
El Aznar, Not sure why reading a baby’s birth chart is psycho engineering. The virtue of it is to give the parent a sense of the child’s personality thereby hopefully helping the parent to allow him/her to unfold as an individual – not as the parent wants or thinks they should be.
It can also be very helpful to do mother child chemistry since it can flag up where personality differences could cause problems. And some of these can be random chance – one has a Fire Moon the other has a Water Moon for example. As well as the parent handing on generational patterns on the child.
What I think the problem there is, Marjorie, and I think you’ve had questions here from mothers who saw “scary” aspectes in their child’s chart and were freaked out about it, that you never really fully know how an aspect might manifest. For example, I seem to recall a mother here, and maybe my memory is playing tricks with me, who saw a red-flag Moon–Pluto aspect in her child’s chart and feared her child would see her as frightful, or something like that. Which she didn’t want to be.
But then I think that if you try to plug one hole, you might open seven new ones.
There is something missing that we cannot seem to grasp and which can end up with unforeseen consequences, and of the worse kind.
In a way it reminds me of those parents who try to engineer a child prodigy, such as e.g. that story of those two sisters from the UK who the father tried to make genius mathematicians (and one ended up being one and is now a professor in Israel), but he created so much damage in the process. Not every case is so pronounced, but there is a risk.
This also reminds me of when people seek to see a synastry immediately after meeting someone or seeing it for a prospective partner. Somewhere I once read an opinion, and I think I agree, that first you need to give it some time for the dynamics to develop, and then go and see someone to explain them to you and see what can be done about it.
EA, I am not sure what the problem is. If the child has ‘scary’ aspects and the mother wants to know how to handle it – it could (hopefully) bring some self-awareness on her part. Moon Pluto – she’s too possessive/controlling of which she may be unaware. Moon Saturn – she’s too detached presumably because of her own childhood experience of mother. Moon Mars – she blocks her child’s assertiveness and anger. All aspects are on a spectrum but that does not mean there will not be a nugget of truth about the sign/aspect involved.
Back in July 2019 you did a piece on Michael Sheen. Any chance of a revisit in light of the new TV show, where he is using £1m of his own money to help people in debt with spiralling credit charges? Thanks
The collision of the oil tanker and cargo carrier, off the coast of Hull, UK, this morning occurred at 9.50am. It would be interesting to know the astrocartography of this incident.
SA Uranus on the 8th house UK Mars at the moment, which Marjorie flagged up in her 2025 review, of course.
I just want to know if there is a chance of the sodium cyanide and aviation fuel spreading up to the North Sea around Whitby, Scarborough and Redcar way. My hopes and prayers to all in Humberside. My husband and I used to go birdwatching around the Humber estuary.
The UK 8th house Mars tends to produce major accidents and disasters – sometimes several in a row – when it is triggered. The UK nodes are also being stoked up.
Another astrologer:
Transit Neptune will be on the IC of the Sibly chart? —–> ‘Ideals, chaos, lies, undermining etc. around the foundation.’
Also apparently: Chiron return as well.
There’s an astrologer I like to read who I think made a fair bit of absolute rubbish predictions, and the first thing I see this morning she said is that when Neptune went into Pisces, that was the beginning of the psychosis about climate – now Neptune is in the last degree of Pisces and about to enter Aries, and there is psychosis about a war.
But then she goes on to say that based on oldest the natal chart of Ukraine from Campion, there will be peace in Uraine on 16 March 2026:
* secondary-progressed Moon conjunct secondary Sun on secondary MC (invites people to read Luminaries by Greene & Sasportas, as these are ‘big momeonts of change in a life’
* secondary-progressed Venus (peace), transit Saturn (stop) and transit Neptune (deception) are opposed to Mars (war) – ‘Not even Mars can handle that much opposition.”
* secondary-progressed ascendant is opposed to Venus – ‘not everyone will be happy with this peace’
* transit Pluto (ruler of the 7th = public enemies) will no longer be around the Sun within 1° orb.
* transit Uranus is on natal ascendant, ‘so a completely different (unconventional) beginning is made’. ‘Won’t be very quiet.’
* transit ruler of the 11th (Uranus) goes to 1st, ‘so the politics of Ukraine will also change completely’.
Make of that what you will.
BTW, she says war started when Pluto was on the MC and that lies and deception will be brought to the surface.
I think I’ve mentioned it once before, and don’t know if any of you read the interview in The Telegraph, but maybe Trinny (an Aquarius) & Susannah (a Gemini) could be a nice idea for a life and synastry overview. The interview is with Susannah. It talks, obviously, about at one point she might have become a countess, but, more important, the emphasis is on her ADHD (and that of her daughter), her alcoholism and how it’s genetic and that she told her daughters one of them might get it, about how she’s had loads of therapy, but it didn’t work, because she is emotionally closed off, about he wealth in youth and now, but also mentions Trinny and the tragic death of her husband. Of course, there was also talk about What Not to Wear and how it would never get made today, in this era of correctness.
Trinny was also in the news, with loads of pages reporting she doesn’t own her home, despite her cosmetics business doing really well (Susannah wanted to invest, but her husband thought it was not a good idea; now she repents).
And the other day thinking about the papacy, and how in one of his documentaries, if I remember correctly, Diarmaid MacCulloch (Scorpio) basically said it came to be as a way of Roman nobility to continue its existence, I thought maybe a comparative post about TV historians we love might be a good idea. So apart from MacCulloch, we’d have the son-in-law of a famous duchy, Dan Snow (Sagittarius), Lucy Worsley (Sagittarius), Suzannah Lipscomb (Sagittarius). Don’t know if there’s anyone else there at the moment. And, whoa, didn’t know these three were all Sagis!
Google reminds me there is also Tracy Borman (Capricorn), the royal expert Kate Williams (Sagittarius!), Dan Jones (Leo), Bettany Hughes (no date, it seems just May 1967).
And don’t forget about David Starkey.
It’s the 150th anniversary of Piscean composer Maurice Ravel’s birth in 1875 today and having listened to his music this week, I was wondering if you could look at his chart, Marjorie. He never married and there have been questions about whether he might have been Gay, but it appears he had no intimate partner, instead he was wedded to his work, but apparently “fell into a horrible despair” when his mother, Marie Delouart died in 1917. Thank you.
I double that request! I was always interested in Ravel as a supreme orchestrator and connoisseur of musical instruments, so thus my interest and support in this regard.
I was wondering if you could do a reading on the relationship between Eisenhower and Stalin during WW2. During his time as President, it was also the time of Radio Free Europe, which was used to encourage rebellion among the citizens of countries that had been taken over by Russia. This was always followed by promises that Uncle Sam would give them all the assistance needed. Which in one instance that I know of turned out to not be true and had dire consequences. In any case it would be interesting to compare the Eisenhower / Stalin relationship with that of Trump and Putin. Personally I have always been suspicious of Eisenhower.
Look into the Lend Lease Program. We gave them a lot that we never got back. “Lend Lease to the Soviet Union. Assisting the Soviet war effort American Lend-Lease eventually transferred over $11 billion dollars of goods to Soviet Russia—roughly the equivalent of $250 billion today”
Here is the link.
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/lend-lease-eastern-front#:~:text=Lend%20Lease%20to%20the%20Soviet,equivalent%20of%20%24250%20billion%20today.
Thank you very much for the link!
Fractious and evasive, leading ultimately to dislike and disappointment.
Good general, easily pushed around prez-esp vis a vis the iran coup-operation ajax.
My late mother knew Eisenhower during WWII and had no respect, and even had great contempt, for him. I remember her telling me what a stupid man he was, without offering any specifics.
I always wondered what was behind that. She wasn’t always the best judge of people, however, making me wonder now if there was a personal element to her comments. She had even more contempt for Mamie, but adored the Roosevelts.
Well I thought he might have come to an arrangement with Stalin to look the other way when Russia took over countries like Hungary. Which is what Trump is doing with Russia.
During Watergate, my next door
neighbour was extremely scathing about Nixon, whom he had known at College. He constantly called him a crook. And I believed him.
Thank you. I take it that there is no similarity between Eisenhower/Stalin and Trump / Putin.
Heather Cox Richardson is a US historian and political commentator who writes an almost daily blog. Her post from yesterday (https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-5-2025?utm_source=substack&publication_id=20533&post_id=158498602&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=bv941&triedRedirect=true), had a disturbing suggestion that the Trump administration is deliberately trying to crash the economy so that the oligarchs can scoop up deals at rock-bottom prices from desperate businesses/individuals. Just wondering how the astrology correlates with this.
Very interesting. In a minor way I have equated it with the way Elon Musk has attempted to oust Nigel Farage from his own party after Farage refused to have anything to do with Tommy Robinson. Wonder if Musk has anything to do with Rupert Lowe, who has been suspended pending allegations of bullying staff and assaulting the treasurer. ( Lowe basically attempted a coup.) Of course he (Musk) might have nothing to do with it. But very coincidental. If you can’t get rid of your enemy one way, you’ll rid of him in another. Farage needs to watch his back.
The Canadians online keep referencing the wars of 1775 and 1812 in their current battles with the US, so Canadian identity was formed long before they got dominion status in 1861.
I wonder if the correct start of Canada is The Royal Proclamation of 1763. It contains the first legal recognition of First Nations rights, as well as incorporating Quebec into British North America, and these threads have continued in Canada ever since.
Royal Proclamations are only valid when they are published in The Gazette. Though the Royal Proclamation was signed on 7th Oct 1763, it wasn’t published till 11th Oct 1763. Here it is: thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/10356/page/1
It was sent by post to subscribers, it was not for sale in shops – so time of receipt would be morning – 7 a.m.?
Anyway, I cast the horoscope for 11th Oct 1763, 7 a.m. London.
It has 19 Libra 24 rising conjunct the Sun at 17 Libra 43, sextile Moon at 16 Sag 58, and Jupiter at 16 Gem 36 (opposing the Moon and trining the Sun). I think it describes Canada really well – the politeness from Libra and their friendliness from Sag. The trine from Jupiter giving them prosperity and harmony.
Tension comes from Mars at 11 Virgo squaring the Moon and Jupiter.
The whole chart is under pressure at the moment from tr Saturn which is squaring the Moon and Jupiter, opposing the Mars and quincunxing the Sun and Ascendant.
It seems that the much-announced Agatha Christie adaptation of Towards Zero with Anjelica Huston finally saw the light of day. There is a brief, 3-minute, interview with Anjelica on the BBC’s website. I looked Anjelica up here on the blog, and it seems that you haven’t written about her. So if she is of any interest, I’d like to see her profile. We have her exact time of birth (even quoted on Wikipedia!). Thank you!
ha!…. I also looked up Angelica Huston’s chart… here and online.
She has always fascinated me… such striking looks and an interesting life.
Hello. Question re: big three of sun, moon and ASC placements. If someone has the same lineup as a known public figure, can that celebrity’s experiences be similar to one’s own trajectory irrespective of having different outer planets? Will there be parallels in terms of talents and abilities, perhaps? Sort of having a similar energy pattern-vibe? Thanks.
Not easy to match all 3 since moon and ascendent data are birth time specific. I have come across one chart that I’d very similar to my own. But with differing Sun, MC and Moon the outcome is very different. Same ascendent and same year. Same 6th house Jupiter Uranus. But I don’t like to sing. Those born within weeks from my chart again will have differing outcomes. Though I do enjoy doing what they did but I never did want to do those things as my career. Like I mentioned before, an almost astro twin of mine mentioned here was a mass shooting murderer’s chart. The vibe, I did like archery, but horrible at it.
Thanks Callie. My inspiration was David Bowie. He and my son have the same Cap sun degree and they both share Leo Moon and Aq ASC. Outwardly, my son does have a similar personality to Bowie-non-conforming, rebellious, creative, etc.. Cheers!
Something to note during the month of March, would could be something or nothing. Due to the amount of planets bunched into Pisces, early Aquarius and early Aries (with Venus Rx), certain VOC periods will last longer – such as the next one in Leo. But further to that, using the traditional Hellenistic technique, which regards a VOC as continuing into the next sign until it perfects it’s next major aspect – IF the planet it previously aspected is more than 30 degrees away (I hope I’ve explained that well enough).
These hellenistic VOCs don’t happen too often – a few times a year I think, tops (usually). But this year there are a few just in March alone. So the VOC Moon in Leo on the 10th of March, which will already be long enough, will be drawn out until the 13th March. We’ll then have:
VOC in Libra/Scorpio 16th – 19th March
VOC in Pisces/Aries 25th – 27th March
VOC in Aries/Tau 30th March – 1st April
Then that’s it until New Year’s Eve
With the new Trump administratiion making so many rapid changes and so many talks and negotiations going on with Ukraine at the moment, I just though it might be worth bearing these periods in mind. Any thoughts?
@Tara, I think the March 10th and 16-19th VOCs might be significant in that March tends to be a big month in Russia’s history. Also, many, if not most, current Kremlin leaders have planets late Libra.
That is interesting, thank you. We shall see what comes up on the 10th – though the maxim “a week is a long time in politics” has never felt more true
“But further to that, using the traditional Hellenistic technique, which regards a VOC as continuing into the next sign until it perfects it’s next major aspect – IF the planet it previously aspected is more than 30 degrees away (I hope I’ve explained that well enough).”
You might have explained it well, but I have a better question: where do we easily find a Hellenistic VOC ephemeris online? Or elsewhere?
It is funny that e.g. Vedic doesn’t really believe in VOC. An opposite view.
Online – Astro-Seek has all the VOC Moon info you could want, but there’s nothing else this year for hellenistic VOC other than what I’ve put above.
I don’t practise vedic astrology, I’m afraid I can’t comment on that.
Dear Marjorie
Are there indications of UK martial involvement in Ukraine and if so what might transpire? Thank you if you have time to look
My apologies – Dorothy Dunnett was born at 02:30
Dear Marjorie –
Thank you for your steadfastly informative, generous site.
If it interests you, an entry on Dorothy Dunnett would be greatly appreciated.
25 August, 1923 Dunfermline, Scotland
Her Lymond Chronicles got me through November & December of last year. Astrology pops up in her novels.
Many thanks
Something else…Inga Arvad born 6/Oct/1913, former Miss Denmark, journalist, one of few scandinavians to interview Hitler,JFK and her fell in love hard (there were tapes!!), suspected spy for Nazis during WW3, filmwriter for MGM, engaged to Brit MP…is there nothing this Libra girl could not do?
New era, not much change.
Today I read in The Daily Mail that Sir Lindsay Hoyle’s expenses reveal he blew more than £180,000 (€218,000 or $228,000 with today’s rates) of taxpayers’ cash on flights in two years.
Comments:
“Absolutely disgraceful. Trough”
“How utterly ridiculous. How many other speakers from other countries have racked up similar obscene levels of expenses? In 2 years. I’ll tell you. None.”
“All of parliaments inhabitants, be it Westminster or devolved circuses treat the population like fools. It is time that it is stopped.”
Marjorie,
As an experienced astrologer, human, someone who is well-versed in therapy, after all these years of interaction with humans, can you offer some insights into hypocrisy and how to deal with it?
Personally know and noticed so many couples/families split up after last child born of/to relationship is a Pisces. Five couples off the top my head. Sometimes the breakup of the union after the birth of the Pisces child is intense-violence or drama involved. I know Pisces can be obviously about endings. Has anyone else noticed this as a pattern amongst people you know? Thanks.
I’ve observed Pisces to be overly-dramatic, do-or-die lash-outs. Flip coin is that they spend far too much time rescuing those who are better off left alone.
Interesting…thank you.
That was my Piscean mother when she was younger, larry! Love her dearly, but she couldn’t stop rescuing really quite dreadful people who would then treat her badly. However, she did eventually realise the futility of it and moved on to rescuing cats, a far more healthy pursuit.
Maybe it was Neptune (dissolving, disappearing).
@ Amelia Pettyfor
Can it be connected with the time of conception, they would be conceived during the summer, holiday time, perhaps not planned or conceived during a relaxed phase during a relationship.
Hi. Possibly. I’m thinking these relationships were Neptunian in nature and folks couldn’t see the reality. With one couple, both were drug addicted and then they broke up almost immediately after the birth of their Pisces daughter. The mother became sober but the father sadly overdosed.
@Amelia Pettyfor, your observation is a very interesting notion to contemplate. After reading that and thinking about all the Pisces I have or had in my family they actually are/were the last child, in my instance all females, and yes the relationship of their parents ended.
Interesting idea for sure!! Now makes me really curious about others I may know as such but not know their dynamic.
In the State visit post, the Queen-Donald Trump composite chart has a planet on the midheaven. It’s little upward sticks with a tail. It is at 28 Aquarius. I’ve tried finding that symbol but haven’t seen it. What is that planet? Thanks for the information.
@Lumiere
I have looked for a fork with four prongs and a squigle on the right, I think it is an asteroid but which one is still to be identified.
Asteroid Lilith – on Janus software
Thank you.
A similar symbol is the symbol for Apollon, a kind of mixture between a symbol for Jupiter and Gemini.
We learn something new every day. Lillith does not seem to be available on Solarfire.
Kudos to Janus for being regularly updated. SolarFire has been announcing for year a new, imminent release, yet it never materializes.
But what I mind about Janus is that I cannot turn off out-of-sign aspects and set up the orbs separately for Sun and Moon only and for other planets. Which is something I can in SolarFire.
Was it ever discussed about how Trump and Canada would mix in an annexation? I read again the recent Canada posting…sure, there are twisted nerves but nothing popped out regarding a Trump takeover of Canada, same manner as Russia stole Crimea.
Or…do I need a new reading prescription?
Thanks.
I really hope that does not happen. He thinks himself a king, but Canada already has a king. I may go live in King Charles dominion if I have to deal with Kings. The Gaza video showed him all in Gold. If he knew anything about the bible at all he would know it was like the Golden Calf. Crazy times here in the USA.
Can relocation charts indicate that a given location is a better or worse place to live or visit for an individual?
Yes look up astrocartography .
I’ve asked Marjorie about this on my plans to leave the US and move to France and/or Germany. Germany was not as upbeat and supportive yet France was way better, still not without hiccups. I speak both languages but the larger disruption now might be my age.
Dear Marjorie, I wonder whether you could write a piece on Friedrich Merz. I have heard only two or three speeches from him and he strikes me as having more substance than either Messrs Trump, Starmer and Macron.
Merz is arranging for German car manufacturers to start building tanks instead of cars. So it could be quite interesting for Marjorie to give her take on him.
Much ado about the asset value of the “mineral reserves” in Ukraine. In context, the original surveys were performed by the Soviet Union. Long ago.
The Sovs never developed the assets.
Point to consider: what if those locations are all bogus? And…there really are no such assets? Maybe just…old car battery dumps?
This is in response to another’s posting about Venus retrograde.
@larryc, this would be funny. That said, Zelensky’s father is a computer scientist who used work in mining industry. In fact, I think pretty much his whole family is somehow involved in this, given they have been in Kryvyi Rih, an iron orw mining town, for generations. I would say he’d been much more relaxed if he suspected the calculations were off and he knew they were to gain by getting an over evaluated offer.
Mark Twain reputedly defined a mine as a hole in the ground with a liar on top. 😀
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How do the eclipses factor in?
Venus, a planet of diplomacy, is retro. Doesn’t bode well for a peace deal. Here’s a quick overview of the don’ts:
[*] Avoid Major Decisions: “decisions made now might be regretted later”.
[*] Steer Clear of New Relationships: “The energy is more suited for reflection and reassessment rather than new beginnings.”
[*] Avoid Major Purchases: “Hold off on making major purchases, especially those related to beauty or aesthetics. You might find that your tastes or preferences change once Venus goes direct.”
[*] Skip Cosmetic Procedures: “Avoid getting any significant cosmetic procedures done. The results might not be as you expect, and you could end up regretting them.”
[*] Don’t Rush into Commitments: “Be cautious about making any formal commitments, such as engagements or marriages. The energy of Venus retrograde can cloud your judgment, leading to decisions that may not stand the test of time.”
@El Aznar in your opinion does a natal venus retrograde native have the same or similar qualities by default?
I don’t think so. I never really found an explanation about retrograde natal planets I like and that I could remember. I think there was something somewhere around here not to long ago when we discussed it, but I forgot.
Also remember that a retrograde can become direct through progressions.
O. K., Jennifer, I turned to Vedic astrologers, and found at least a part of an explanation.
Retrograde Venus, and Venus is a planet of marriage, can result in unusual alliances, an unconventional view of alliances or when in relationships, not knowing how to express love well.
Venus is also a planet of femininity – when retrograde, women don’t know how to express their feminine side. They can become overtly masculine or forget to dress feminine and be feminine.
A dangerous thing is to hunt for homosexuality in a chart, but as I understood, a retrograde Venus can be found in such male charts, because they want something different from their relationships and the concept of women in their life is different.
Venus rules the water element, and the human body is composed of over 85% water. Water is emotions, taste, happiness and peace – retrograde Venus can create problems with all these. The sacral, swadhishthana, chakra can also be blocked.
I also wonder if how we were shown love from birth is a factor in ‘not knowing how to express love well’? I thought a baby’s default setting at birth is love, so the Venus R would have had to unlearn it? Another train of thought is that if Venus expresses love outwardly to others, somehow Venus R was necessary for the native to learn how to love inwardly him/herself. Hmm….!. Interesting, and you’re right that there isn’t much out there.
It’s good if it’s just a train of thought. I’d be very wary of trying to psychoengineer a child based on his or her birth chart. I might try to find it if I get the inspiration and time, but I know that a birth chart of a newborn or a small child (2 years) was a special service offered by one student of Hamaker’s. It is a very tricky and sensitive area. I also think I saw that the mother–daughter relationship was another category, service, and I think it was a two- or maybe three-times appointment. That’s how complex it was to decipher. And it was obviously a bit pricey.
You need a real master in astrology to do it, if you want it done right, but also a person who is a supreme knower of human psychology and a benevolent, kind being.
It was more around the train of thought that says we choose to be born when we do and our chart shows us what we are here to work on. Almost as if whilst we are free to choose the method and timing , certain aspects give us the themes we are here to work on.
El Aznar, Not sure why reading a baby’s birth chart is psycho engineering. The virtue of it is to give the parent a sense of the child’s personality thereby hopefully helping the parent to allow him/her to unfold as an individual – not as the parent wants or thinks they should be.
It can also be very helpful to do mother child chemistry since it can flag up where personality differences could cause problems. And some of these can be random chance – one has a Fire Moon the other has a Water Moon for example. As well as the parent handing on generational patterns on the child.
What I think the problem there is, Marjorie, and I think you’ve had questions here from mothers who saw “scary” aspectes in their child’s chart and were freaked out about it, that you never really fully know how an aspect might manifest. For example, I seem to recall a mother here, and maybe my memory is playing tricks with me, who saw a red-flag Moon–Pluto aspect in her child’s chart and feared her child would see her as frightful, or something like that. Which she didn’t want to be.
But then I think that if you try to plug one hole, you might open seven new ones.
There is something missing that we cannot seem to grasp and which can end up with unforeseen consequences, and of the worse kind.
In a way it reminds me of those parents who try to engineer a child prodigy, such as e.g. that story of those two sisters from the UK who the father tried to make genius mathematicians (and one ended up being one and is now a professor in Israel), but he created so much damage in the process. Not every case is so pronounced, but there is a risk.
This also reminds me of when people seek to see a synastry immediately after meeting someone or seeing it for a prospective partner. Somewhere I once read an opinion, and I think I agree, that first you need to give it some time for the dynamics to develop, and then go and see someone to explain them to you and see what can be done about it.
EA, I am not sure what the problem is. If the child has ‘scary’ aspects and the mother wants to know how to handle it – it could (hopefully) bring some self-awareness on her part. Moon Pluto – she’s too possessive/controlling of which she may be unaware. Moon Saturn – she’s too detached presumably because of her own childhood experience of mother. Moon Mars – she blocks her child’s assertiveness and anger. All aspects are on a spectrum but that does not mean there will not be a nugget of truth about the sign/aspect involved.