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NASCAR is facing a lawsuit brought by two race teams, 23XI (co-owned) by Michael Jordan) and Front Row Motorsports. What is the astrology for NASCAR?
Hi Marjorie,
Thank you for giving an update on Obamacare. I totally forgot that Moldova held an EU referendum vote yesterday. Surprisingly, the public opinion polls and surveys were wrong. Many predicted this would pass quite comfortably but, so far, it’s coming down to the wire.
Right now, France 24 is reporting that the “Yes” vote currently stands at 50.03% while the “No” vote is at 49.97%. Many Moldovan citizens living in diaspora (especially here in the United States) appeared to be voting “Yes” but many Moldovans still living in Moldova voted “No”
President Maia Sandu believes Vladimir Putin and the Russian Federation might be responsible for election interference – using social media as a means to promulgate misinformation. Of course, I know there is a very large ethnic Russian minority in Moldova and there is the de-facto breakaway state of Transnistria (which is fully backed by the Russian Federation and where ethnic Russians make up 29% of the population, the largest of the plurality of ethnic groups there). So, Sandu’s suspicions may have merit.
I was wondering if you had any astrological thoughts or insights to share about what Moldova, Transnistria, and the EU referendum.
Hi Marjorie,
There’s been a lot of discussion about the uncertain future of women’s reproductive rights here in the United States and I know you have written about this topic many times.
However, aside from abortion and women’s reproductive rights, Obamacare is another social right that appears to be hanging by a thread at the moment. In fact, there has actually been less discussion about Obamacare this election.
Many people don’t seem to realize that Obamacare and women’s reproductive rights tie closely together.
For example, according to the Center for American Progress as well as the National Women’s Law Center, many women here in the U.S. depend health insurance plans through Obamacare to receive affordable birth control drugs, mammograms, maternity care, gynecological care, and so much more. Both sources discussed how catastrophic it would be for millions of American women if Obamacare were to be axed.
It’s estimated that over 24 million Americans now receive health insurance plans through Obamacare and many receive government subsidies (for those with modest incomes).
Anyway, I was wondering if you wouldn’t mind taking another look at the future of Obamacare given that the outcome of our upcoming Presidential election seems more uncertain than ever. There is a real possibility that Trump and Republicans could win this November.
Early voting in some of the key battleground states like Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina, and Georgia appear to be going in the Republicans’ favor at the moment.
There was an op-ed that was published in The Washington Post a few weeks ago that mentioned Trump said that if he were to get reelected, he would likely keep Obamacare in place at this point until he could find something “better” to replace it with. It’s possible Trump knows the backlash it would cause if he tried to get rid of it again…but I still remain skeptical.
By the way, I want to thank you Marjorie and everyone else who offered their best wishes to me during Hurricane Milton. My parents and I are ok; we were vert fortune that Hurricane Milton didn’t cause any damage in the part of Florida where we reside. However, I do feel terrible for everyone who was effected in the Tampa Bay Area and the I-4 Corridor region. Milton caused a lot of flooding (even in areas that were designated as safe zones). I hope the victims receive the resources they desperately need.
Obamacare 23 March 2010 is not looking too secure over the next two or three years with its early Aries Sun opposition Saturn square Pluto opposition Moon catching the undermining tr Neptune Saturn hard aspects as they move into Aries. Plus a frustrating, blocked tr Pluto opposition Mars till late 2025. 2027 might have a glimmering of better luck.
@Marjorie,
Thank you for the response. Well, I guess I can take solace in that you didn’t mention anything terminal for Obamacare. I guess it’s going to go through the same saga it went through in the past
Marjorie,
There is an interesting article on DJ Blessed Madonna on BBC’s website. Maybe the astrology is interesting as well.
A topic unlike others I have asked about in the past. There are two corporate entities that came to my attention recently, both of which were the darling of the markets till fairly recently, both of which started facing trouble in September and which is ongoing.
Northvolt, the European attempt at developing and delivering large batteries for use in electric vehicles, has faced financial pressures since August September this year, laying off about 1600 employees in Sweden alone starting this week. I was unable to find a date for its founding, but it was started in 2015 as SV Energy by two Tesla employees and took its current name in 2017.
23andMe was founded in 2006 by, among others, the then wife of Sergey Brin, Google’s co-founder, who was herself a Yale educated biologist. In September this year, the entire board of the company, except its founder and CEO, resigned en masse, over plans to take the company private. That must surely count as quite a drastic change in the company’s fortune.
I know this is a long shot, but do you see any astrological patterns in both these companies getting into financial hot waters at about the same time? Unfortunately I could not find either their founding dates or the cities they were founded in. But I was wondering if there was an outer planet or Nodal movement that would explain this.
Also, as Solaia is based in Scandanavia, any updates from how Northvolt’s issues and complications are perceived locally there would be of interest to me.
Little Rocket Man now fighting for Russia in Ukraine?
“North Korea has shipped 1,500 soldiers to Russia for training, South Korea’s spy agency said on Friday, describing the move as the first step in the secretive state’s military involvement in Moscow’s war against Ukraine.
The hermit nation transported its special forces fighters on seven Russian ships earlier in October, South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) said in a press release on Friday. Those units had previously been personally inspected by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the agency added. ”
I suppose they need real-life combat experience. Shooting at SKorea is so…yesterday.
I usually do not like to link Astrology to criminality, but there has been something very disturbing going on in Finland lately – there were 31 homicides committed from the beginning of June to end of September, up from just 6 the year before. And the number for the whole year, 75, had already topped last year. October hasn’t been any better. We’ve had 4 (!) relationship related homicides either committed or coming to light after short period this week alone. Most notably, a much older partner killed Janne Puhakka, an ex-professional hockey player and the first player in Finnish top level to come out as gay after Janne had ended their relationship. This shook people, because Janne had co-written a memoir that resonated with many young people struggling with their identity in sports and was also one of the contestants in 2nd season of the Finnish version of “The Traitors”, and had reached the final as a traitor.
I would hesitate to look at individual astrology, but relationship related violence has undoubtedly a lot to do with the Solar Eclipse. Wonder if something similar is seen elsewhere, too.
Solaia, Looking at the Finland chart – 6 December 1917 3pm – the Solar Arc Mars has been opposing the Finland Pluto recently which might be part of the explanation.
This interesting rumour from one of the journalists on X/Twitter.
“The word is that Rishi Sunak is preparing to resign as an MP… I understand that Penny Mordaunt has been eyeing the position and spending quite a bit of time in Rishi’s constituency.”
I think Tories will have another leadership contest before the next GE.
One Direction singer, Liam Payne, has died at 31 after a 40 metre fall from his hotel in Argentina
I a bit of an odd request. What about a chart for the assisted dying vote? It would be interesting to see if there is any omen stars or not.
Post December 19 2023 under Euthanasia covered some of it. Will look tomorrow for UK indicators.
Thomas Tuchel, 29 August 1973, has been announced as the new England manager on an 18 month initial contract. Like Gareth Southgate, 3 September 1970, he’s a Virgo. Both men have Mars square Jupiter – Southgate, Mars 0 Leo square Jupiter 2 Scorpio. Tuchel Mars 6 Taurus, square Jupiter 3 Aquarius. Variations on a theme?!
@Anony Mouse, yes, honestly, seems like s story that about 12 disgruntled people in Academia would care about. Republicans certainly aren’t amplifying it, because either they are even bigger cheats themselves or the story flies straight above their heads.
We have a Finns party politician here in Finland who was found out to have copied chunks of her Master thesis written before the digital inspection was available. She ended up becoming a presidential candidate and obtaining 7 % of the vote in a race where popular incumbent got was elected on first round, and MEP with 4th highest amount of votes in a National race.
@Solaia
Respectfully, I imagine it’s more than a dozen academics who are concerned about Kamala Harris’s plagiarism.
Commenters here certainly are doing their best to dismiss Harris’s plagiarism either by diminishing it, obfuscating, or disparaging the man who revealed it.
American politics do bring out passionate responses, especially three weeks before they go to the polls.
Fascinating re: indifference to the Finns politician and her plagiarism.
Perhaps she would serve as a useful comparison to both Claudine Gay and Harris astrologically?
I’d guess the majority of voters haven’t been to college/university, particularly the older generations, and therefore have no particular moral viewpoint on plagiarism.
Even those who have, probably don’t think it is that big of a deal other than their lecturers told them it is. It’s probably perceived as a victimless crime with no major benefit.
The only time plagiarism really becomes notable to most is when JK Rowling, Dan Brown or anyone else gets sued for whether they stole the idea which led to their bestselling book/film series.
If plagiarism were called “cheating to pass a test” – I suspect more people would feel strongly about.
You can have the same idea, but not write word for word. Though Warner Bros went after anyone who wrote about children sorcerors or magicians as though JK Rowling had invented it. She hadn’t as there had been many children’s books in the past that explored down similar avenues.
Georgette Heyer who wrote period romance novels, was completely incensed when she found out that Barbara Cartland had copied her word for word in one of her novels. Heyer didn’t do anything legally but she did let Cartland know in no uncertain terms what she thought if her. And Barbara never didn’t again.
My personal opinion of Barbara Cartland that as she was a socialite who wrote nine books a year, it us very unlikely that she wrote most of them. I suspect she hired others to write them. Hence she needed to have nine books published every year in order to make enough money. The real writers wouldn’t have been paid much.
Her fans would of course dispute this. But writing takes a lot more dedication than she could have possibly given it.
.
@PC, with all due respect, Claudine Gay was brought down more by her ham-handed handling of the Israel-Gaza protests at Harvard, her poor responses to “gotcha” questions from Republican congressmen at a Capitol Hill hearing as well as her relative newness on the job. The plagiarism charges were, I think, the final straw for a Black woman who may also have been held to a higher standard. So, multiple causes for her ouster, but the questionable handling of the protests and the lawyerly hearing responses resulted also in the ousters of the female presidents of the University Pennsylvania and most recently of Columbia University. The Republicans secured three “scalps” from the presidents of three prestigious universities that were perceived to be liberal bastions. I would guess politics rather than plagiarism was more at play at all three cases.
Sir General Mike Jackson, high profile British army chief, has died from cancer today. Born into a military family on 21 April 1944 with a zero degree Sun conjunct Mercury in Aries, he was probably always destined for a career in combat.
*21 March 1944
I just saw that. Loved his smoker’s old-fashioned RP.
Hi, Not sure if anyone else has come across this article.
But even more clear evidence that trump is extremely unwell. What was to be a Q&A resulted in 40 minutes of him swaying to music. He really looked like he had a medical turn.
Could be after effects from long covid, old age, dementia. Now he’s described himself as the “father of IVF” for American women. The same pattern of glorification was used by Hitler, legally, during his planned ascension. Megalomania.
Something’s not right upstairs for him.
It might be helpful to know, an audience member suffered a medical emergency. Instead of continuing the program, he paused & put on music to keep everyone calm and let the paramedics do their job.
Oh for heaven’s sake PC, I really wouldn’t use this website to post blatant pro trump blather and expect it not go unchecked. Trump used that medical emergency to stop the town hall questions that he couldn’t be bothered answering. He has never stepped up in his life and never will. Knock it off.
Can you look at budget day 30th Oct.
It has tr Mercury at 25 Scorpio, quite close to the 1801 UK Neptune at 19 Scorpio in the second house. Opposing is tr Uranus at 25 Taurus conjunct Algol. So the UK financial houses are activated.
Tr Mars is at 28 Cancer opposite Tr Pluto at 29 Cap. They’re sending squares to the tr Mercury and Uranus (Grand Cross).
It seems stressful for budgets to have malefics squaring and opposing Mercury in the 2nd house.
For Liz Truss’s mini budget on 23 Sept 2022, tr Uranus was at 18 Taurus, exactly opposite the UK Neptune in the 2nd house. So the financial houses were activated. Tr Saturn was at 19 Aquarius, squaring both the UK Neptune and tr Uranus. Mars was at 19 Gemini.
Sorry! Mars and Pluto arn’t squaring Marcury and Uranus, they’re sending sextiles/trines.
So maybe it’ll be fine.
We can only hope, Candy.
With recent revelations of plagiarism, Kamala Harris now joins the ranks of Harvard’s Claudine Gay. How might their charts compare, I wonder?
Lovely image of grass, like frozen fireworks.
@PC: tempest in a teacup? from the washington post “Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign Tuesday rejected claims that she and a co-author had plagiarized a handful of passages in a 2009 book on fighting crime, arguing that the allegations amounted to a partisan attempt to weaponize a 15-year-old work.” “Rightwing operatives are getting desperate as they see the bipartisan coalition of support Vice President Harris is building to win this election, as Trump retreats to a conservative echo chamber refusing to face questions about his lies,” campaign spokesman James Singer said in a statement. “This is a book that’s been out for 15 years, and the Vice President clearly cited sources and statistics in footnotes and endnotes throughout.”
I don’t know if the Washington post is biased, partisan or ill informed but they certainly seem to be attempting to diminish what occurred.
Harris and her co-author passed off the language as their own, copying multiple paragraphs virtually verbatim. Including an entire wikipedia article, fabricating a source, inventing a page number.
The 27 instances found are more than a handful, that’s for certain.
I’m quite sure whether it happened yesterday or fifteen years ago, plagiarism is plagiarism.
Please cite exact information to support your claims, with any astrological insights that are insightful.
Thank you
Beth: see above, regarding my original astrological query, I’m seeking insight, suggesting a topic for the questions and comments section of Marjorie’s blog.
Marjorie previously wrote a piece including Claudine Gay, who’s since been undone by plagiarism.
Free speech – limits on individual rights 14th December 2023
For more information on the Harris claims, check out the blog of:
Doz. Dr. Stefan Weber,
Plagiarism allegation against Kamala Harris
Marjorie, agree that a survey of individuals charged with plagiarism (and their charts at the time) might be interesting. Joe Biden, for example, withdrew from his presidential campaign in 1987 soon after he was accused of plagiarism.
@all mind bangers: nothing being done about Drompf’s nonstop lies. What’s worse to be a presidential candidate, an honest liar or a corrupt, convicted liar?
Agree w/Beth for astro citations.
Soapboxing is making the floors too slippery.
@PC, let’s get our priorities right first please. Trump: “I’ll use the military against liberal voters”, meanwhile Harris is accused of plagiarizing. By the way dr. Stefan Weber (Sun-Pluto quadrat) has been known to try to discredit people. His own mentor, Professor Peter Bruck told the newspaper that Dr Weber had gone from serving as “a useful tracker” and “transformed into an illegitimate detractor”.
@Anony Mouse
Disparaging Dr. Weber rather than his scholarship, is an interesting priority to make.
@PC, with reference to @Anony Mouse’s response to you which issue concerns you most, i.e serious red flag among others?
What is Starmer’s chart Marjorie? I’ve heard a few people say they think he is not up to it and will step down? I don’t know much about politics to be honest, but he seems to be picking up a mass of hot potatoes on immigration and riots about it. He also is inheriting a lot of wars that all seem to be going nowhere that previous have ignited and left him. Starmer seems to be getting up and announcing things and trying to smooth things over. I’m just curious why so many are saying he will step down.
If you put Keir Starmer into search you’ll find some thoughts.
Recently I came across a composite chart of a long married couple, where there were unaspected planets (Pluto and Uranus) in the 4th and 5th houses. What do unaspected planets mean in a composite chart? I found it additionally peculiar that their synastry was especially heavy with nearly exact quadrats.
NASCAR is facing a lawsuit brought by two race teams, 23XI (co-owned) by Michael Jordan) and Front Row Motorsports. What is the astrology for NASCAR?
Hi Marjorie,
Thank you for giving an update on Obamacare. I totally forgot that Moldova held an EU referendum vote yesterday. Surprisingly, the public opinion polls and surveys were wrong. Many predicted this would pass quite comfortably but, so far, it’s coming down to the wire.
Right now, France 24 is reporting that the “Yes” vote currently stands at 50.03% while the “No” vote is at 49.97%. Many Moldovan citizens living in diaspora (especially here in the United States) appeared to be voting “Yes” but many Moldovans still living in Moldova voted “No”
President Maia Sandu believes Vladimir Putin and the Russian Federation might be responsible for election interference – using social media as a means to promulgate misinformation. Of course, I know there is a very large ethnic Russian minority in Moldova and there is the de-facto breakaway state of Transnistria (which is fully backed by the Russian Federation and where ethnic Russians make up 29% of the population, the largest of the plurality of ethnic groups there). So, Sandu’s suspicions may have merit.
I was wondering if you had any astrological thoughts or insights to share about what Moldova, Transnistria, and the EU referendum.
Hi Marjorie,
There’s been a lot of discussion about the uncertain future of women’s reproductive rights here in the United States and I know you have written about this topic many times.
However, aside from abortion and women’s reproductive rights, Obamacare is another social right that appears to be hanging by a thread at the moment. In fact, there has actually been less discussion about Obamacare this election.
Many people don’t seem to realize that Obamacare and women’s reproductive rights tie closely together.
For example, according to the Center for American Progress as well as the National Women’s Law Center, many women here in the U.S. depend health insurance plans through Obamacare to receive affordable birth control drugs, mammograms, maternity care, gynecological care, and so much more. Both sources discussed how catastrophic it would be for millions of American women if Obamacare were to be axed.
It’s estimated that over 24 million Americans now receive health insurance plans through Obamacare and many receive government subsidies (for those with modest incomes).
Anyway, I was wondering if you wouldn’t mind taking another look at the future of Obamacare given that the outcome of our upcoming Presidential election seems more uncertain than ever. There is a real possibility that Trump and Republicans could win this November.
Early voting in some of the key battleground states like Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina, and Georgia appear to be going in the Republicans’ favor at the moment.
There was an op-ed that was published in The Washington Post a few weeks ago that mentioned Trump said that if he were to get reelected, he would likely keep Obamacare in place at this point until he could find something “better” to replace it with. It’s possible Trump knows the backlash it would cause if he tried to get rid of it again…but I still remain skeptical.
By the way, I want to thank you Marjorie and everyone else who offered their best wishes to me during Hurricane Milton. My parents and I are ok; we were vert fortune that Hurricane Milton didn’t cause any damage in the part of Florida where we reside. However, I do feel terrible for everyone who was effected in the Tampa Bay Area and the I-4 Corridor region. Milton caused a lot of flooding (even in areas that were designated as safe zones). I hope the victims receive the resources they desperately need.
Obamacare 23 March 2010 is not looking too secure over the next two or three years with its early Aries Sun opposition Saturn square Pluto opposition Moon catching the undermining tr Neptune Saturn hard aspects as they move into Aries. Plus a frustrating, blocked tr Pluto opposition Mars till late 2025. 2027 might have a glimmering of better luck.
@Marjorie,
Thank you for the response. Well, I guess I can take solace in that you didn’t mention anything terminal for Obamacare. I guess it’s going to go through the same saga it went through in the past
Marjorie,
There is an interesting article on DJ Blessed Madonna on BBC’s website. Maybe the astrology is interesting as well.
A topic unlike others I have asked about in the past. There are two corporate entities that came to my attention recently, both of which were the darling of the markets till fairly recently, both of which started facing trouble in September and which is ongoing.
Northvolt, the European attempt at developing and delivering large batteries for use in electric vehicles, has faced financial pressures since August September this year, laying off about 1600 employees in Sweden alone starting this week. I was unable to find a date for its founding, but it was started in 2015 as SV Energy by two Tesla employees and took its current name in 2017.
23andMe was founded in 2006 by, among others, the then wife of Sergey Brin, Google’s co-founder, who was herself a Yale educated biologist. In September this year, the entire board of the company, except its founder and CEO, resigned en masse, over plans to take the company private. That must surely count as quite a drastic change in the company’s fortune.
I know this is a long shot, but do you see any astrological patterns in both these companies getting into financial hot waters at about the same time? Unfortunately I could not find either their founding dates or the cities they were founded in. But I was wondering if there was an outer planet or Nodal movement that would explain this.
Also, as Solaia is based in Scandanavia, any updates from how Northvolt’s issues and complications are perceived locally there would be of interest to me.
Little Rocket Man now fighting for Russia in Ukraine?
“North Korea has shipped 1,500 soldiers to Russia for training, South Korea’s spy agency said on Friday, describing the move as the first step in the secretive state’s military involvement in Moscow’s war against Ukraine.
The hermit nation transported its special forces fighters on seven Russian ships earlier in October, South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) said in a press release on Friday. Those units had previously been personally inspected by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the agency added. ”
“https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/18/asia/ukraine-north-korea-12000-troops-intl/index.html”
I suppose they need real-life combat experience. Shooting at SKorea is so…yesterday.
I usually do not like to link Astrology to criminality, but there has been something very disturbing going on in Finland lately – there were 31 homicides committed from the beginning of June to end of September, up from just 6 the year before. And the number for the whole year, 75, had already topped last year. October hasn’t been any better. We’ve had 4 (!) relationship related homicides either committed or coming to light after short period this week alone. Most notably, a much older partner killed Janne Puhakka, an ex-professional hockey player and the first player in Finnish top level to come out as gay after Janne had ended their relationship. This shook people, because Janne had co-written a memoir that resonated with many young people struggling with their identity in sports and was also one of the contestants in 2nd season of the Finnish version of “The Traitors”, and had reached the final as a traitor.
I would hesitate to look at individual astrology, but relationship related violence has undoubtedly a lot to do with the Solar Eclipse. Wonder if something similar is seen elsewhere, too.
Solaia, Looking at the Finland chart – 6 December 1917 3pm – the Solar Arc Mars has been opposing the Finland Pluto recently which might be part of the explanation.
Mitzi Gaynor, born September 4th, 1931 at 10:35 a.m. in Chicago Illinois, has passed away at age 93. She was born Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber into a show business family She performed well into her ’80s in New York city! If it’s okay, I thought I would share the thoughtful article about her life. Thanks Marjorie https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/movies/mitzi-gaynor-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.S04.7a-B.t2oS–IErlS0&smid=url-share
Loved her in South Pacific!
This interesting rumour from one of the journalists on X/Twitter.
“The word is that Rishi Sunak is preparing to resign as an MP… I understand that Penny Mordaunt has been eyeing the position and spending quite a bit of time in Rishi’s constituency.”
I think Tories will have another leadership contest before the next GE.
One Direction singer, Liam Payne, has died at 31 after a 40 metre fall from his hotel in Argentina
I a bit of an odd request. What about a chart for the assisted dying vote? It would be interesting to see if there is any omen stars or not.
Post December 19 2023 under Euthanasia covered some of it. Will look tomorrow for UK indicators.
Thomas Tuchel, 29 August 1973, has been announced as the new England manager on an 18 month initial contract. Like Gareth Southgate, 3 September 1970, he’s a Virgo. Both men have Mars square Jupiter – Southgate, Mars 0 Leo square Jupiter 2 Scorpio. Tuchel Mars 6 Taurus, square Jupiter 3 Aquarius. Variations on a theme?!
@Anony Mouse, yes, honestly, seems like s story that about 12 disgruntled people in Academia would care about. Republicans certainly aren’t amplifying it, because either they are even bigger cheats themselves or the story flies straight above their heads.
We have a Finns party politician here in Finland who was found out to have copied chunks of her Master thesis written before the digital inspection was available. She ended up becoming a presidential candidate and obtaining 7 % of the vote in a race where popular incumbent got was elected on first round, and MEP with 4th highest amount of votes in a National race.
@Solaia
Respectfully, I imagine it’s more than a dozen academics who are concerned about Kamala Harris’s plagiarism.
Commenters here certainly are doing their best to dismiss Harris’s plagiarism either by diminishing it, obfuscating, or disparaging the man who revealed it.
American politics do bring out passionate responses, especially three weeks before they go to the polls.
Fascinating re: indifference to the Finns politician and her plagiarism.
Perhaps she would serve as a useful comparison to both Claudine Gay and Harris astrologically?
I’d guess the majority of voters haven’t been to college/university, particularly the older generations, and therefore have no particular moral viewpoint on plagiarism.
Even those who have, probably don’t think it is that big of a deal other than their lecturers told them it is. It’s probably perceived as a victimless crime with no major benefit.
The only time plagiarism really becomes notable to most is when JK Rowling, Dan Brown or anyone else gets sued for whether they stole the idea which led to their bestselling book/film series.
If plagiarism were called “cheating to pass a test” – I suspect more people would feel strongly about.
You can have the same idea, but not write word for word. Though Warner Bros went after anyone who wrote about children sorcerors or magicians as though JK Rowling had invented it. She hadn’t as there had been many children’s books in the past that explored down similar avenues.
Georgette Heyer who wrote period romance novels, was completely incensed when she found out that Barbara Cartland had copied her word for word in one of her novels. Heyer didn’t do anything legally but she did let Cartland know in no uncertain terms what she thought if her. And Barbara never didn’t again.
My personal opinion of Barbara Cartland that as she was a socialite who wrote nine books a year, it us very unlikely that she wrote most of them. I suspect she hired others to write them. Hence she needed to have nine books published every year in order to make enough money. The real writers wouldn’t have been paid much.
Her fans would of course dispute this. But writing takes a lot more dedication than she could have possibly given it.
.
@PC, with all due respect, Claudine Gay was brought down more by her ham-handed handling of the Israel-Gaza protests at Harvard, her poor responses to “gotcha” questions from Republican congressmen at a Capitol Hill hearing as well as her relative newness on the job. The plagiarism charges were, I think, the final straw for a Black woman who may also have been held to a higher standard. So, multiple causes for her ouster, but the questionable handling of the protests and the lawyerly hearing responses resulted also in the ousters of the female presidents of the University Pennsylvania and most recently of Columbia University. The Republicans secured three “scalps” from the presidents of three prestigious universities that were perceived to be liberal bastions. I would guess politics rather than plagiarism was more at play at all three cases.
Sir General Mike Jackson, high profile British army chief, has died from cancer today. Born into a military family on 21 April 1944 with a zero degree Sun conjunct Mercury in Aries, he was probably always destined for a career in combat.
*21 March 1944
I just saw that. Loved his smoker’s old-fashioned RP.
Hi, Not sure if anyone else has come across this article.
But even more clear evidence that trump is extremely unwell. What was to be a Q&A resulted in 40 minutes of him swaying to music. He really looked like he had a medical turn.
https://www.salon.com/2024/10/15/trump-appears-lost-alarm-after-town-hall-abruptly-turns-into-bizarre-musical-event/
Could be after effects from long covid, old age, dementia. Now he’s described himself as the “father of IVF” for American women. The same pattern of glorification was used by Hitler, legally, during his planned ascension. Megalomania.
Something’s not right upstairs for him.
It might be helpful to know, an audience member suffered a medical emergency. Instead of continuing the program, he paused & put on music to keep everyone calm and let the paramedics do their job.
Oh for heaven’s sake PC, I really wouldn’t use this website to post blatant pro trump blather and expect it not go unchecked. Trump used that medical emergency to stop the town hall questions that he couldn’t be bothered answering. He has never stepped up in his life and never will. Knock it off.
Can you look at budget day 30th Oct.
It has tr Mercury at 25 Scorpio, quite close to the 1801 UK Neptune at 19 Scorpio in the second house. Opposing is tr Uranus at 25 Taurus conjunct Algol. So the UK financial houses are activated.
Tr Mars is at 28 Cancer opposite Tr Pluto at 29 Cap. They’re sending squares to the tr Mercury and Uranus (Grand Cross).
It seems stressful for budgets to have malefics squaring and opposing Mercury in the 2nd house.
For Liz Truss’s mini budget on 23 Sept 2022, tr Uranus was at 18 Taurus, exactly opposite the UK Neptune in the 2nd house. So the financial houses were activated. Tr Saturn was at 19 Aquarius, squaring both the UK Neptune and tr Uranus. Mars was at 19 Gemini.
Sorry! Mars and Pluto arn’t squaring Marcury and Uranus, they’re sending sextiles/trines.
So maybe it’ll be fine.
We can only hope, Candy.
With recent revelations of plagiarism, Kamala Harris now joins the ranks of Harvard’s Claudine Gay. How might their charts compare, I wonder?
Lovely image of grass, like frozen fireworks.
@PC: tempest in a teacup? from the washington post “Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign Tuesday rejected claims that she and a co-author had plagiarized a handful of passages in a 2009 book on fighting crime, arguing that the allegations amounted to a partisan attempt to weaponize a 15-year-old work.” “Rightwing operatives are getting desperate as they see the bipartisan coalition of support Vice President Harris is building to win this election, as Trump retreats to a conservative echo chamber refusing to face questions about his lies,” campaign spokesman James Singer said in a statement. “This is a book that’s been out for 15 years, and the Vice President clearly cited sources and statistics in footnotes and endnotes throughout.”
I don’t know if the Washington post is biased, partisan or ill informed but they certainly seem to be attempting to diminish what occurred.
Harris and her co-author passed off the language as their own, copying multiple paragraphs virtually verbatim. Including an entire wikipedia article, fabricating a source, inventing a page number.
The 27 instances found are more than a handful, that’s for certain.
I’m quite sure whether it happened yesterday or fifteen years ago, plagiarism is plagiarism.
Please cite exact information to support your claims, with any astrological insights that are insightful.
Thank you
Beth: see above, regarding my original astrological query, I’m seeking insight, suggesting a topic for the questions and comments section of Marjorie’s blog.
Marjorie previously wrote a piece including Claudine Gay, who’s since been undone by plagiarism.
Free speech – limits on individual rights 14th December 2023
For more information on the Harris claims, check out the blog of:
Doz. Dr. Stefan Weber,
Plagiarism allegation against Kamala Harris
Marjorie, agree that a survey of individuals charged with plagiarism (and their charts at the time) might be interesting. Joe Biden, for example, withdrew from his presidential campaign in 1987 soon after he was accused of plagiarism.
@all mind bangers: nothing being done about Drompf’s nonstop lies. What’s worse to be a presidential candidate, an honest liar or a corrupt, convicted liar?
Agree w/Beth for astro citations.
Soapboxing is making the floors too slippery.
@PC, let’s get our priorities right first please. Trump: “I’ll use the military against liberal voters”, meanwhile Harris is accused of plagiarizing. By the way dr. Stefan Weber (Sun-Pluto quadrat) has been known to try to discredit people. His own mentor, Professor Peter Bruck told the newspaper that Dr Weber had gone from serving as “a useful tracker” and “transformed into an illegitimate detractor”.
@Anony Mouse
Disparaging Dr. Weber rather than his scholarship, is an interesting priority to make.
@PC, with reference to @Anony Mouse’s response to you which issue concerns you most, i.e serious red flag among others?
What is Starmer’s chart Marjorie? I’ve heard a few people say they think he is not up to it and will step down? I don’t know much about politics to be honest, but he seems to be picking up a mass of hot potatoes on immigration and riots about it. He also is inheriting a lot of wars that all seem to be going nowhere that previous have ignited and left him. Starmer seems to be getting up and announcing things and trying to smooth things over. I’m just curious why so many are saying he will step down.
If you put Keir Starmer into search you’ll find some thoughts.
Recently I came across a composite chart of a long married couple, where there were unaspected planets (Pluto and Uranus) in the 4th and 5th houses. What do unaspected planets mean in a composite chart? I found it additionally peculiar that their synastry was especially heavy with nearly exact quadrats.