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Hi Marjorie
Pease look at Prince Haakon of Norway’s chart July 20 1973 & his wife Marit born on August 19 1973. They were married on August 25 2001. Marius Hoiby was born on January 13 1997. Marius now has criminal charges! All 3 were born in Norway. I have read that Leo & cancer signs are not good for marriage?
Marjorie, can you look at Enrique Tarrio and Stewart Rhodes? They both got very long sentences for their part in the US insurrection of 2021–they were militia & Proud Boys leaders. The possibility of their getting pardons from Trump & release from prison along with the burn down the government, deport the immigrants concerns me.
I appreciate what you do! Thank you!
Hello. As Pluto enters Aquarius, I have delved into the life of Aquarian, Simone Weil, born in 1909 (not Simone Veil). What an incredible life. Would you please consider looking at her chart? I’m guessing she had an interesting 8th and 12th. Is her chart getting any Astro “hits” now? Thank you.
Hadn’t realised the exciting(?) day of Pluto moving into Aquarius once and for all has finally rolled around with it occurring tonight.
I can’t find a post about its Ingress chart.
I note where I live, in the UK, it has Mars on Asc / Pluto on Desc – which seems ominous.
Is there anything to be gained by looking at some locations around the world?
Getting round to it. Nordic tremors first
Hi Marjorie,
Would you consider looking into the questions being raised on Western aid to Africa vs perpetuating “colonial tropes”. Bob Geldof, the producer behind Live Aid and Band-Aid whose song “Do they know it’s Christmas” fundraised for relief efforts for the Ethiopian famine in the early 1980s. More recently though he has been coming under fire for apparently bolstering a “white saviour complex” (https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/bob-geldof-live-aid-white-saviour-just-for-one-day-jc7zhrr2g) and negative colonial tropes from the likes of Ed Sheeran (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2k03qz5jqno). Does the astrology point to a healthy balance between the two in the near future?
Hi Marjorie,
Would you mind taking a look at what’s happening in the state of Manipur in India? Firstpost and Tribune India are reporting mass demonstrations and violent riots in the city of Imphal. Homes of BJP officials and politicians have been ransacked and fires, cars being overturned, and looting has been taking place according to other news sources. A curfew has been imposed and the internet has been suspended in the Indian state of Maniupur.
I asked my friend who lives in the state of Tamil Nadu what about the situation in Manipur and I’m still waiting for his response.
I know violence broke out in Manipur last year too. From my understanding, last year’s violence was the result of clashes between two ethnic groups: the Meitei People and the Kuki-Zo People. I wonder if the same thing is happening now.
So, now looking to emigrate. An astrocartography session is unaffordable. Why are these sessions priced so much higher that basic Astro? Is the casting that sophisticated that it warrants such a high price tag? I gather that I need to look at entire family placements for best locations. Should I look at any similarities between the three charts? Look for stelliums and decide based on that? Any free resources for relocation?
Thanks in advance.
Your best bet would be a zoom session having sent in the family data beforehand. Then the astrologer can be looking at the astro-maps across the board and discuss them.
But having done many family/couple astrocartography sessions, one problem is that one place suits one person and not another. So needs to be a compromise.
Anyone remember the British sitcom ‘Yes Minister’? I keep thinking of this with Elon Musk’s new government department for efficiency. In Yes Minister they did the same, they set up a new department to reduce government spending & waste, the Department for Administrative Affairs…. the joke being that they invested millions of pounds, hired 1000’s of extra staff and created more paperwork and costs, all in the name of reducing goverment paperwork and spending.
I swear we are living through a sitcom right now.
@Belle
“Yes Minister” and “Yes Prime Minister” were quite simply the best way to understand politics and the tensions between the Civil Service (the blob) who run the country and the politicians who come and go through a revolving door. It was simply genius.
@Belle, my favorites growing up, likely a big reason I got interested in politics in other countries, too.
I’ve just heard one astrologer say that next year all the outers will move from feminine to masculine signs. I wonder what will it all mean. He mentioned a few things.
@Gnarly Dude, a great observation. It’s also worth noting that marketing people with their generational divide see 1995 as the first year of Gen Z. Gen Zers are now (in)famous for abandoning the idea of very “corporate” work culture and being hard to manage. Personally, as someone who remembers working in the 1990’s, I don’t necessarily think they work less, they are just working smarter.
Just trying to fathom things based on first principles of what signs/planets stand for. I know Marjorie has done a number of articles on what the planets did historically in particular signs and those are really useful because they allow us to check what the energies involved are. The hardest thing about trying to predict is the signs/planets have too many meanings to choose from but they typically have an underlying energy that pervades.
Whatever is coming, I don’t think say 2027 will look any much like 2024. I’m assuming the energy will become more positive and optimistic with the preponderance of Aries, Gemini and Aqua – which I acknowledge is very hard to see how that happens looking at the world today. The current Capricorn/Pisces/Taurus energies are far more about keeping oneself safe and being careful and avoiding risks – being forced to change out of necessity than opportunity.
Just a bit of abstract thought about the upcoming astro changeover. It feels like another aspect of Pluto in Capricorn has been pushing things to the limit with work becoming the be-all and end-all for some people I along with money. Everybody seems so focused on goals and targets and achievement in a way they weren’t a decade and a half ago.
But Aquarius isn’t interested in working to acquire. Work just pays the bills and gives itself the freedom to do whatever unique thing it wants to be. With Aqua being cerebral, I suspect ideology is going to start to become the vote winner in politics which it wasn’t this time around. Aqua wants to highlight the parts Capricorn missed and provide solutions.
I’m convinced, based on what we saw around 1996* we are going to be talking about very different things in a couple of years. Of course some of the stuff from today will still be making news but there will be a refocus. I don’t quite know what to expect with Aquarius and Gemini taking over for Pluto and Uranus. Neptune in Aries is also a bit of a mystery even though the Uranus in Aries period was the intro of smartphones and how that changed our relationship to the web and e.g. rise of facebook, swipe dating, buying everything online etc.
* the changeover of uranus/neptune from capricorn to aqua; and pluto from scorpio to sag.
I’m just going to add that this whole concept of “growth” being the focus of politicians also seems very Pluto in Capricorn. As far as I can understand it is their solution to avoiding raising taxes. With Aquarius squaring Taurus/Scorpio – and being interested in doing things for everybody rather than me/us; I wonder how this may change.
Interesting GD, because a local council district adjacent to my own had introduced a trial 4 day working week, in defiance of the former Tory government for 15 months now. The new government has now dropped its objections to the move, giving the go ahead for other councils to adopt the policy. The Guardian reports:
The trial, involving about 450 desk staff plus refuse collectors, found:
Staff turnover fell by 39%, helping save £371,500 in a year, mostly on agency staff costs.
Regular household planning applications were decided about a week and a half earlier.
Approximately 15% more major planning application decisions were completed within the correct timescale.
The time taken to process changes to housing benefit and council tax benefit claims fell.
‘…workers on four-day weeks were happier and the council found it easier to employ permanent workers in “hard-to-fill roles”, which was why the experiment had saved the council hundreds of thousands of pounds.’
That’s amazing. Work-life balance – I can remember that being preached by business at least 20 years ago, perhaps in the 1990s and yet it has surely got worse for many. The standard 9-5 working day has evaporated and Sunday trading (which was introduced in 1994) just makes it all that bit worse. I guess that is what we should expect as the big planets get round to Aquarius/Pisces where social cohesion is more important and boundaries worse.
I wonder if Saturn in Aries may reset some of the boundaries of individuals. I know that when it was last there it made a big difference for me because Aries is in my 12th. Of course Neptune moves into Aries at the same time which might weaken matters. Will be really interesting to see how those two energies work.
Yes, it’s going to be educational. Neptune in Pisces is driving us all nuts with all its fanaticism and conspiracism trumping (if you’ll forgive the word) reason and expertise. When the conjunction occurred in Capricorn, we saw the edifices and totalitarianism of the former Eastern Bloc fall spectacularly. This time, the conjunction takes place at 0 degrees of Aries – that’s raw Aries ‘Me’ energy. Many fighters have this degree of Aries. Conor McGregor, who is currently the defendant in a civil rape case has Mars here for example and it is more than apparent in his entitled, aggressive, violent behaviour and when Saturn/Neptune lands on that in the next year or so, I wonder if Karma will come knocking, because he has thus far been able to get away with such behaviour. The conjunction will be on my 7th/8th house cusp.
A very interesting discussion, VF and GD, thanks for firing up my curiousity! I’ve been wondering about the ‘discovery’ charts for the outer planets. Neptune’s is dated 24 September, 1846 when Neptune was in Aquarius, conjunct Saturn and sextile Pluto in Aries. Uranus was in Aries, Jupiter in Gemini, and the Sun 0 Libra. Perhaps this fiery and airy line-up then is relevant to what’s coming up with Pluto in Aquarius, Uranus in Gemini, and Saturn and Neptune in Aries?
Discovery ‘coincided’ with anesthesia, demonstrated in public in the autumn of 1846. Dissolving boundaries between conscious and unconscious is one of Neptune’s gifts, and arguably one of it’s curses too. VF’s mention of the Berlin Wall also caught my attention, as there’s a German series now on Walter Presents called Berlin Wall. I watched some of it yesterday, having had little idea of the state of Eastern Germany back then. Or how many young people longed for that boundary to be destroyed. Ditto, sadly, the rise of the neo-Nazis in East Germany at that time.
Berlin Wall is generally seen as marking the fall of Communism – although it had been crumbling for a few years and would need a few more to fully break apart.
It’s worth noting that Marx and Engels were writing their stuff around the time Neptune was discovered – the Communist Manifesto published in 1848. It’s not hard to see a relationship between the theory of communism being about sharing and Pisces/Neptune and Aquarius.
There is always the danger with Pisces of becoming the victim and Neptune in Pisces has led to many people using their sob stories to attentio without taking any responsibility for their part in it or taking control of the situation. I’d expect Saturn in Aries to rectify that; I’m just not sure how Neptune in Aries at the same time is going to affect matters.
Hi Jane, yes it’s certainly informative looking at the discovery charts and the historical events which occurred alongside those discoveries. That of Neptune sees the foundation of the oil industries, Uranus in 1781 sees the beginning of electricity, the first use of gas for lighting (Prometheus, bringer of light there!) and the Industrial Revolution. Pluto in 1930 sees the atom split, Naziism sweeping Europe and the build-up to WW2 with all of its turmoil and upheaval. The evacuees all have Pluto in Cancer, as did the children who tragically died in concentration camps.
Regarding the Uranus/Pluto trine, I wonder about trines, because I’m not convinced that trines are altogether a positive thing. For example, a bevy of trines can have the potential to upset the balance of Fire, Earth, Air and Water, giving too much emphasis to a particular element. As with an individual, an Air chart can be too ideological. As we approach Uranus’s ingress into Gemini, it’s an interesting synchronicity that Google’s new AI chat app is named ‘Gemini’. Recently a young man committed suicide after falling in love with the chatbot. A report I read today told of problems with some of the ‘behaviour’ of the bot in a disturbing incident where the AI began to threaten the user, telling him he was useless and to take his own life. Sinister stuff, which Science Fiction writers have explored endlessly in anticipation of our new AI era.
Speaking of discovery charts, I’ve been looking at the discoveries of the minor bodies, for instance Ceres was discovered on January 1st 1801, when Uranus was 0 Libra, the very same day as the ‘Act of Union’ came into force following the abolition of the Irish Parliament. Thomas Jefferson became the new US president, the first to be inaugurated in Washington, the Napoleonic wars were in full force with the Battle of Copenhagen and in March that year the assassination of Russian Tsar Paul I took place under a retrograde Saturn in Leo in square to Neptune in Scorpio.
VF, A passing thought on trines not being great. My impression in mundane/countries astrology is that so called soft aspects often work like hard. So they can be more turbulent than you might imagine.
Thanks Marjorie, yes I thought that was the case in mundane.
Marjorie, would there be anything to add to your post from May 2023 about Martha Stewart? Her Netflix docu just recently released was very interesting! (Her relationships, the court case). Would also be curious to see her chart synastry with Snoop Dogg also who she has been working with in recent years.
Thank you for all your hard work Marjorie!
Someone who knows Vedic astrology (jyotish), can you explain to me what are Vara Vela, Kala Vela, Kala Ratri and Rahu Kala and how are they calculated? Thank you!
It’ll be interesting to see what, if any, the Taurus Full Moon has. At 24 Taurus it is conjunct Uranus, and close to sensitive degrees in a number of charts including England Edgar, Israel, and the US Confederation, 15 November, 1777.
Oops! ‘what effect, if any”….
Algol is near this full moon too! Taurus signifies personal money, with Scorpio signifying others people’s money – the UK News today is not very good for our economy!
” On Nov. 12, the Russian parliament voted to ban “childfree propaganda” in the latest wave of government-sponsored restrictions. The sole exception, at the request of the Russian Orthodox Church, was made for monks, who are allowed to promote celibacy. Everyone else in Russia now must want to have children or pay a fine if they don’t. ”
From the newsletter published by The Kiev Independent.
And you thought The Big Orange Man would be difficult to live with…
Dear Marjorie
NYT is reporting Project 2025 is alive and well and moving into position with the transition team. Could you please take a second look at it?
The insanity that is going on in the US right now is truly a lot to process.
Thanks very much for your work
Marjorie I like this page. Interesting articles. Your horoscopes are always insightful filled with detail yet pragmatic. Thanks for your hard work.
Just read about the death of a Russian chef called Alexei Zimin (not reported as suspicious).
Would love to see/hear more about his chart.
The Guardian describes him as ‘ “much more than just his literary and culinary talents.”
“He cooked, he sang, he wrote, he spoke – he embodied life itself, a zest for life. Intelligent, witty, joyful.’
Another quote here:“He engaged in everything – from writing to culinary arts – and did it all with remarkable success. His approach was deeply humanistic, driven by joy and a genuine care for people. Outwardly, he was just as warm and joyful.”
Born in Dubna, 13th December 1971 (can’t find a birth time, sorry).
Is it Neptune in Pisces that has brought about so much information about narcissism? There’s been an explosion of information online. I was raised by a narcissist who drinks Trump’s kool aid and then I married a narcissist but I never really understood the pathology (and was able to start healing from it) until around Trump’s first administration. I wonder if Neptune in Aries will help people to finally be done with these narcissists through awareness and then shunning.
Trump was a bit of a damp squib, wasn’t it? Nothing has happened so far. The sky didn’t fall down? And also the elections went ahead without UFOs or catastrophic events as predicted by some. What is the projection for Trump’s leadership? I am imagining trying to balance all of those extreme left wing policies and political correctness may help ease things. The vocal and angel-ised left and the silenced and demonised right wasn’t helping, was it? Trump seems to be a sanitised version since the last whirl we had with him? What has happened to Biden, where has he been wheeled to on his castors? I imagine a scene like the Budapest Soviet Statue Park where they warehouse all these awful dinosaurs like Obama, Sunak, Biden, Harris. Macron, Netanyhu, Sisi et al….Here’s hopin’! Do give us, particularly economy, a prediction under Trump.
Instead of smirking you could try Search. 6 November is the most recent post on the subject
To Bea, or not to troll? That is the question. Whether tis more noble to go over to X with this ordure.
I don’t remember anyone predicting anti-Trump ufos, but perhaps I wasn’t paying enough attention.
VF- I think it could be linked to this intriguing news, reported in the Hindustan Times on 4th September!
“Donald Trump has claimed that he would release classified files if he is re-elected to the White House. Speaking to podcaster Lex Fridman, the former president promised that if he is elected in 2024, he will release footage of UFOs, classified documents on former president John F Kennedy, and the so-called “Epstein files.”
“I’ll do that. I would do that. I’d love to do that. I have to do that,” Trump said.
“They also are pushing me on Kennedy. And I did release a lot, but I had people come to me and beg me not to do it. But I’ll be doing that very early on. But I would do that,” he added”
Nice. Love it. I think she was trying to start something.
Solaia—I’m an astrology novice but I would say Neptune in Pisces has been the defining and most difficult period of my life thus far. I dealt with intense acute health challenges during my college years in the 90’s which was rough, but Nep in Pisces opposite my Moon has been next level debilitating and rough. Also, it’s been hard to deal with the rise of social media and the over sharing that has come with it. I never joined Facebook. I’m looking forward to the shift in Aries personally. And a part of me does want the US to form separate confederations but I don’t know how that can work given that there are red and purple counties within blue states. I’ve traveled extensively to the South and in many ways they won the Civil War. The lasting impact of the brutality of slavery obviously remains. Maybe us separating is for the best —energetically. If not, we need a robust truth and reconciliation period.
Sorry to hear about your Neptune-opp-Moon experience. I’ll be catching this myself in 4 years from now.
Neptune 90 Moon transit here. Wouldn’t wish it on anyone, health wise I mean.
Looking back on my transits, I see I had this transit during my lowest point health-wise too! How incredible.
Trump is not in cognitive decline. He’s just a batsh*t crazy fascist. He knows exactly what he’s doing. He will next take control of all media. Looks like his Jupiter-Uranus luck never runs out.
Marjorie, the astrology of two ‘Teds’ in the news might make for interesting (separate) pieces:
John Thune (b. January 7, 1961) was elected Senate Majority Leader. Rick Scott was the MAGA choice. Thune denied Trump’s stolen election claims in 2020. Hope this vote can put to rest my friends’ fears that Trump will rule like a Nazi.
@JAS
Thune is only one person
The SCOTUS has given Trump immunity and what challenges occur it will only be after Trump has committed some crime.
Thune has the power to move Senate members against Trump’s worst decisions and power grabs. Let’s hope he can sway members away from allowing Matt Gaetz to be Attorney General. My delight in hearing of Thune’s win was thwarted once I heard Gaetz is nominated for AG. But Gaetz will have much opposition, even with Republicans.
Trump is going to bypass the Senate so Thune and anyone who opposes Trump’s nominees will be irrelevant.
Also Trump has announced he’ll bypass security clearances, another concern when you look at the nomination of sex trafficker/pervert Gaetz (which signals Trump’s intent to persue full-on his plans for revenge and retribution against his opponents) and the exceptionally unqualified Russian asset Tulsi Gabbard, with no intelligence experience as Director of National Intelligence.
I understand that Thune has agreed to Trump’s plan to avoid Senate confirmation and accepted Trump’s demands to allow unconfirmed recess appointments.
My worst fears confirmed.
@Nicole Sours Larson, Republicans are Republicaning, but I actually think they will challenge Gabbard nomination. Gaetz, they ultimately have a hold of.
What I find interesting is that people still seem to think DJT has this fight in him. I will say he hasn’t, based on what I saw yesterday when he visited WH. He seemed to have all the air sucked out of him.
Another thing I’ve noticed in the news: Unlike 2016 when we got early reports from Trump World on him being on phone almost 24/7 hustling, nothing of the kind seems to be happening this time around. He is having his scheduled calls with World leaders.
Therefore, my reading on Republican leadership’s behavior is that they are buying time. They must know, or at least sense, DJT is declining and will sit nomination rounds out.
Thune won because Mitch McConnel whipped the vote for him. That means Thune has a lot of old school Republican friends – enough to win the Senate Majority Leader position in the Trump era.
Constitutionally, Congress is more powerful than the President. They control money, the ability to make war and the ability to make treaties. It’s just that since the Johnson era, they’ve deferred to the President. That can change.
He was one of the Republican senators (only Republicans attended) who visited Russia on the 4th of July, so perhaps he’s Putin’s choice.
“I would pin point tr Pluto opposition the US North Node in Leo in 2027/28 as being the critical turning point. 9/11 happened when tr Neptune was exactly opposition the US leadership Leo North Node which dented US pride – and this may be the point where the future trajectory is decided.” (Post on Trump, 6 November).
It may be premature to surmise, but looking into the 2030s are there any indications as to whether the US will “reunify” or Balkanise into separate countries? I’m asking out of interest in the astrology first and foremost, following on from some views where the UK could find itself in 2036 (Royal Commerce, 5 November).
@JB
After this election I believe thar this country will Balkanize
Given that along with the Supreme Court continuing to weaken the ability of the federal government to regulate the environment and Trump posed to defund agencies like the EPA and Department of Education more responsibly will be left up to states to create their own rules and regulations.
May be worth noting that the Pluto return of the signing of the Constitution (14 Aquarius) appears to be in Spring 2032.
Republicans almost control enough state legislatures to call a Constitutional Convention so maybe that is how the Pluto return of the Constitution will manifest.
@Roderick, honestly, won’t see this happening, if not for other, then economic reasons. Most Red States are heavily dependant on Federal funding.
@Roderick
Calling a Constitutional Convention appears to be fashionable in quite a number of countries, it is one of the most effective ways to change the route for a country to follow, mostly for the worst.
It is a favoured ploy used by dictators or worse one party directives to gain control of a country by eliminating the possible checks and balances offered by an active opposition. A sinister way to undermine democracy, however there is no doubt that sometimes it is necessary to amend and update the Constitution.
@ Solaia
The people in red states are self-deluded mainly by religion and have no concept of facts or science or reality.
It’s all about belief and fairy tales.
I grew up in Mississippi and now I live in Alabama.
Both states’ budgets are almost 50% funded by federal money but these people are still squawk about state’s rights.
Northern Alabama is booming mainly due to Redstone Arsenal and now Trump wants to move the Space Force from Colorado Springs to Huntsville, but these rednecks still hate the federal government.
The cognitive dissonance is nuts.
The right-wing red states so dependent on federal money for survival who want to impose their religious agenda on everyone also don’t recognize that the bulk of that federal money comes from progressive blue states who are not going to tolerate the imposition of a Christian Nationalist ideology or Project 2025 agenda. California alone is the fifth largest economy in the world. We will go it alone and take our money with us — probably in company with at least the western block of blue states and possibly more — rather than have a hostile ideological way of life rammed down our throats via a constitutional convention.
Apropos of nothing, which planet would best embody the concept of buyer’s remorse? Saturn? Neptune? Or both of them, sat together on a bench?
Or would it be Pluto, with one last withering glance through the train window as he leaves the station?
@JB, I’d say Saturn and Neptune. Neptune will first enter Aries April 18th next year. There will be two retrogrades to Pisces, but these will clear before midterms 2026.
I can’t, also, stress enough how vital Neptune entering Pisces was in the rise of the populist right in Europe. Here in Finland, then True Finns (they later changed the English name to simply Finns) gained went from 5 to 39 seats out of 200 just days after the first Neptune in Pisces entrance.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the Neptune in Aries brought an entirely different kind of energy.
Manchester United have yet another manager – Reuben Amorim 27 Jan 1985, Lisbon Portugal (no time). I’d be interested in his prospects.
Please explain Stephen miller
Could you take a look at Gary Lineker as he moves on from the BBC? He’s seemed to clash with them as he’s voiced his opinions in the last few years.
Lineker is quite an interesting person, much more savvy than people might think. He co-founded Goalhanger Productions which is the UKs largest podcasting company, and produces the UK’s No.1 Podcast ‘The Rest is History’, amongst others. Its been wildly successful. Its not like he needs MOTD anymore.
I would also be interested in whats happening in his astrology for him to have been so successful in so many different fields – Football, Broadcasting, Production, Crisps (joke!). When on the face of it he seems like a simple, yet affable & ordinary bloke.
The same managers/marketing people who ‘developed’ David Beckham started with Lineker. Apparently they had been looking for a very specific type of footballer with the personality, appearance and I suppose malleability to develop into a brand. At the time, we kept hearing about Lineker’s first wife Michelle Cockayne which was unusual then, but obviously the domestic element was required to round him out as a ‘nice guy’. Beckham turned out to be their golden goose, which they recognised the moment they saw him.
Hi Marjorie
Pease look at Prince Haakon of Norway’s chart July 20 1973 & his wife Marit born on August 19 1973. They were married on August 25 2001. Marius Hoiby was born on January 13 1997. Marius now has criminal charges! All 3 were born in Norway. I have read that Leo & cancer signs are not good for marriage?
Marjorie, can you look at Enrique Tarrio and Stewart Rhodes? They both got very long sentences for their part in the US insurrection of 2021–they were militia & Proud Boys leaders. The possibility of their getting pardons from Trump & release from prison along with the burn down the government, deport the immigrants concerns me.
I appreciate what you do! Thank you!
Hello. As Pluto enters Aquarius, I have delved into the life of Aquarian, Simone Weil, born in 1909 (not Simone Veil). What an incredible life. Would you please consider looking at her chart? I’m guessing she had an interesting 8th and 12th. Is her chart getting any Astro “hits” now? Thank you.
Hadn’t realised the exciting(?) day of Pluto moving into Aquarius once and for all has finally rolled around with it occurring tonight.
I can’t find a post about its Ingress chart.
I note where I live, in the UK, it has Mars on Asc / Pluto on Desc – which seems ominous.
Is there anything to be gained by looking at some locations around the world?
Getting round to it. Nordic tremors first
Hi Marjorie,
Would you consider looking into the questions being raised on Western aid to Africa vs perpetuating “colonial tropes”. Bob Geldof, the producer behind Live Aid and Band-Aid whose song “Do they know it’s Christmas” fundraised for relief efforts for the Ethiopian famine in the early 1980s. More recently though he has been coming under fire for apparently bolstering a “white saviour complex” (https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/bob-geldof-live-aid-white-saviour-just-for-one-day-jc7zhrr2g) and negative colonial tropes from the likes of Ed Sheeran (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2k03qz5jqno). Does the astrology point to a healthy balance between the two in the near future?
Hi Marjorie,
Would you mind taking a look at what’s happening in the state of Manipur in India? Firstpost and Tribune India are reporting mass demonstrations and violent riots in the city of Imphal. Homes of BJP officials and politicians have been ransacked and fires, cars being overturned, and looting has been taking place according to other news sources. A curfew has been imposed and the internet has been suspended in the Indian state of Maniupur.
I asked my friend who lives in the state of Tamil Nadu what about the situation in Manipur and I’m still waiting for his response.
I know violence broke out in Manipur last year too. From my understanding, last year’s violence was the result of clashes between two ethnic groups: the Meitei People and the Kuki-Zo People. I wonder if the same thing is happening now.
So, now looking to emigrate. An astrocartography session is unaffordable. Why are these sessions priced so much higher that basic Astro? Is the casting that sophisticated that it warrants such a high price tag? I gather that I need to look at entire family placements for best locations. Should I look at any similarities between the three charts? Look for stelliums and decide based on that? Any free resources for relocation?
Thanks in advance.
Your best bet would be a zoom session having sent in the family data beforehand. Then the astrologer can be looking at the astro-maps across the board and discuss them.
But having done many family/couple astrocartography sessions, one problem is that one place suits one person and not another. So needs to be a compromise.
Anyone remember the British sitcom ‘Yes Minister’? I keep thinking of this with Elon Musk’s new government department for efficiency. In Yes Minister they did the same, they set up a new department to reduce government spending & waste, the Department for Administrative Affairs…. the joke being that they invested millions of pounds, hired 1000’s of extra staff and created more paperwork and costs, all in the name of reducing goverment paperwork and spending.
I swear we are living through a sitcom right now.
@Belle
“Yes Minister” and “Yes Prime Minister” were quite simply the best way to understand politics and the tensions between the Civil Service (the blob) who run the country and the politicians who come and go through a revolving door. It was simply genius.
@Belle, my favorites growing up, likely a big reason I got interested in politics in other countries, too.
I’ve just heard one astrologer say that next year all the outers will move from feminine to masculine signs. I wonder what will it all mean. He mentioned a few things.
@Gnarly Dude, a great observation. It’s also worth noting that marketing people with their generational divide see 1995 as the first year of Gen Z. Gen Zers are now (in)famous for abandoning the idea of very “corporate” work culture and being hard to manage. Personally, as someone who remembers working in the 1990’s, I don’t necessarily think they work less, they are just working smarter.
Just trying to fathom things based on first principles of what signs/planets stand for. I know Marjorie has done a number of articles on what the planets did historically in particular signs and those are really useful because they allow us to check what the energies involved are. The hardest thing about trying to predict is the signs/planets have too many meanings to choose from but they typically have an underlying energy that pervades.
Whatever is coming, I don’t think say 2027 will look any much like 2024. I’m assuming the energy will become more positive and optimistic with the preponderance of Aries, Gemini and Aqua – which I acknowledge is very hard to see how that happens looking at the world today. The current Capricorn/Pisces/Taurus energies are far more about keeping oneself safe and being careful and avoiding risks – being forced to change out of necessity than opportunity.
Just a bit of abstract thought about the upcoming astro changeover. It feels like another aspect of Pluto in Capricorn has been pushing things to the limit with work becoming the be-all and end-all for some people I along with money. Everybody seems so focused on goals and targets and achievement in a way they weren’t a decade and a half ago.
But Aquarius isn’t interested in working to acquire. Work just pays the bills and gives itself the freedom to do whatever unique thing it wants to be. With Aqua being cerebral, I suspect ideology is going to start to become the vote winner in politics which it wasn’t this time around. Aqua wants to highlight the parts Capricorn missed and provide solutions.
I’m convinced, based on what we saw around 1996* we are going to be talking about very different things in a couple of years. Of course some of the stuff from today will still be making news but there will be a refocus. I don’t quite know what to expect with Aquarius and Gemini taking over for Pluto and Uranus. Neptune in Aries is also a bit of a mystery even though the Uranus in Aries period was the intro of smartphones and how that changed our relationship to the web and e.g. rise of facebook, swipe dating, buying everything online etc.
* the changeover of uranus/neptune from capricorn to aqua; and pluto from scorpio to sag.
I’m just going to add that this whole concept of “growth” being the focus of politicians also seems very Pluto in Capricorn. As far as I can understand it is their solution to avoiding raising taxes. With Aquarius squaring Taurus/Scorpio – and being interested in doing things for everybody rather than me/us; I wonder how this may change.
Interesting GD, because a local council district adjacent to my own had introduced a trial 4 day working week, in defiance of the former Tory government for 15 months now. The new government has now dropped its objections to the move, giving the go ahead for other councils to adopt the policy. The Guardian reports:
The trial, involving about 450 desk staff plus refuse collectors, found:
Staff turnover fell by 39%, helping save £371,500 in a year, mostly on agency staff costs.
Regular household planning applications were decided about a week and a half earlier.
Approximately 15% more major planning application decisions were completed within the correct timescale.
The time taken to process changes to housing benefit and council tax benefit claims fell.
‘…workers on four-day weeks were happier and the council found it easier to employ permanent workers in “hard-to-fill roles”, which was why the experiment had saved the council hundreds of thousands of pounds.’
That’s amazing. Work-life balance – I can remember that being preached by business at least 20 years ago, perhaps in the 1990s and yet it has surely got worse for many. The standard 9-5 working day has evaporated and Sunday trading (which was introduced in 1994) just makes it all that bit worse. I guess that is what we should expect as the big planets get round to Aquarius/Pisces where social cohesion is more important and boundaries worse.
I wonder if Saturn in Aries may reset some of the boundaries of individuals. I know that when it was last there it made a big difference for me because Aries is in my 12th. Of course Neptune moves into Aries at the same time which might weaken matters. Will be really interesting to see how those two energies work.
Yes, it’s going to be educational. Neptune in Pisces is driving us all nuts with all its fanaticism and conspiracism trumping (if you’ll forgive the word) reason and expertise. When the conjunction occurred in Capricorn, we saw the edifices and totalitarianism of the former Eastern Bloc fall spectacularly. This time, the conjunction takes place at 0 degrees of Aries – that’s raw Aries ‘Me’ energy. Many fighters have this degree of Aries. Conor McGregor, who is currently the defendant in a civil rape case has Mars here for example and it is more than apparent in his entitled, aggressive, violent behaviour and when Saturn/Neptune lands on that in the next year or so, I wonder if Karma will come knocking, because he has thus far been able to get away with such behaviour. The conjunction will be on my 7th/8th house cusp.
A very interesting discussion, VF and GD, thanks for firing up my curiousity! I’ve been wondering about the ‘discovery’ charts for the outer planets. Neptune’s is dated 24 September, 1846 when Neptune was in Aquarius, conjunct Saturn and sextile Pluto in Aries. Uranus was in Aries, Jupiter in Gemini, and the Sun 0 Libra. Perhaps this fiery and airy line-up then is relevant to what’s coming up with Pluto in Aquarius, Uranus in Gemini, and Saturn and Neptune in Aries?
Discovery ‘coincided’ with anesthesia, demonstrated in public in the autumn of 1846. Dissolving boundaries between conscious and unconscious is one of Neptune’s gifts, and arguably one of it’s curses too. VF’s mention of the Berlin Wall also caught my attention, as there’s a German series now on Walter Presents called Berlin Wall. I watched some of it yesterday, having had little idea of the state of Eastern Germany back then. Or how many young people longed for that boundary to be destroyed. Ditto, sadly, the rise of the neo-Nazis in East Germany at that time.
Berlin Wall is generally seen as marking the fall of Communism – although it had been crumbling for a few years and would need a few more to fully break apart.
It’s worth noting that Marx and Engels were writing their stuff around the time Neptune was discovered – the Communist Manifesto published in 1848. It’s not hard to see a relationship between the theory of communism being about sharing and Pisces/Neptune and Aquarius.
There is always the danger with Pisces of becoming the victim and Neptune in Pisces has led to many people using their sob stories to attentio without taking any responsibility for their part in it or taking control of the situation. I’d expect Saturn in Aries to rectify that; I’m just not sure how Neptune in Aries at the same time is going to affect matters.
Hi Jane, yes it’s certainly informative looking at the discovery charts and the historical events which occurred alongside those discoveries. That of Neptune sees the foundation of the oil industries, Uranus in 1781 sees the beginning of electricity, the first use of gas for lighting (Prometheus, bringer of light there!) and the Industrial Revolution. Pluto in 1930 sees the atom split, Naziism sweeping Europe and the build-up to WW2 with all of its turmoil and upheaval. The evacuees all have Pluto in Cancer, as did the children who tragically died in concentration camps.
Regarding the Uranus/Pluto trine, I wonder about trines, because I’m not convinced that trines are altogether a positive thing. For example, a bevy of trines can have the potential to upset the balance of Fire, Earth, Air and Water, giving too much emphasis to a particular element. As with an individual, an Air chart can be too ideological. As we approach Uranus’s ingress into Gemini, it’s an interesting synchronicity that Google’s new AI chat app is named ‘Gemini’. Recently a young man committed suicide after falling in love with the chatbot. A report I read today told of problems with some of the ‘behaviour’ of the bot in a disturbing incident where the AI began to threaten the user, telling him he was useless and to take his own life. Sinister stuff, which Science Fiction writers have explored endlessly in anticipation of our new AI era.
Speaking of discovery charts, I’ve been looking at the discoveries of the minor bodies, for instance Ceres was discovered on January 1st 1801, when Uranus was 0 Libra, the very same day as the ‘Act of Union’ came into force following the abolition of the Irish Parliament. Thomas Jefferson became the new US president, the first to be inaugurated in Washington, the Napoleonic wars were in full force with the Battle of Copenhagen and in March that year the assassination of Russian Tsar Paul I took place under a retrograde Saturn in Leo in square to Neptune in Scorpio.
VF, A passing thought on trines not being great. My impression in mundane/countries astrology is that so called soft aspects often work like hard. So they can be more turbulent than you might imagine.
Thanks Marjorie, yes I thought that was the case in mundane.
Marjorie, would there be anything to add to your post from May 2023 about Martha Stewart? Her Netflix docu just recently released was very interesting! (Her relationships, the court case). Would also be curious to see her chart synastry with Snoop Dogg also who she has been working with in recent years.
Thank you for all your hard work Marjorie!
Someone who knows Vedic astrology (jyotish), can you explain to me what are Vara Vela, Kala Vela, Kala Ratri and Rahu Kala and how are they calculated? Thank you!
It’ll be interesting to see what, if any, the Taurus Full Moon has. At 24 Taurus it is conjunct Uranus, and close to sensitive degrees in a number of charts including England Edgar, Israel, and the US Confederation, 15 November, 1777.
Oops! ‘what effect, if any”….
Algol is near this full moon too! Taurus signifies personal money, with Scorpio signifying others people’s money – the UK News today is not very good for our economy!
” On Nov. 12, the Russian parliament voted to ban “childfree propaganda” in the latest wave of government-sponsored restrictions. The sole exception, at the request of the Russian Orthodox Church, was made for monks, who are allowed to promote celibacy. Everyone else in Russia now must want to have children or pay a fine if they don’t. ”
From the newsletter published by The Kiev Independent.
And you thought The Big Orange Man would be difficult to live with…
Dear Marjorie
NYT is reporting Project 2025 is alive and well and moving into position with the transition team. Could you please take a second look at it?
The insanity that is going on in the US right now is truly a lot to process.
Thanks very much for your work
Marjorie I like this page. Interesting articles. Your horoscopes are always insightful filled with detail yet pragmatic. Thanks for your hard work.
Just read about the death of a Russian chef called Alexei Zimin (not reported as suspicious).
Would love to see/hear more about his chart.
The Guardian describes him as ‘ “much more than just his literary and culinary talents.”
“He cooked, he sang, he wrote, he spoke – he embodied life itself, a zest for life. Intelligent, witty, joyful.’
Another quote here:“He engaged in everything – from writing to culinary arts – and did it all with remarkable success. His approach was deeply humanistic, driven by joy and a genuine care for people. Outwardly, he was just as warm and joyful.”
Born in Dubna, 13th December 1971 (can’t find a birth time, sorry).
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/09/books/review/her-lotus-year-paul-french.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Z04.pFu5.03hxViajITJO&smid=url-share. Hi Marjorie, I found this article about a book written about Wallis Simpson by Paul French fascinating and I thought that you perhaps would as well. Thank you
Is it Neptune in Pisces that has brought about so much information about narcissism? There’s been an explosion of information online. I was raised by a narcissist who drinks Trump’s kool aid and then I married a narcissist but I never really understood the pathology (and was able to start healing from it) until around Trump’s first administration. I wonder if Neptune in Aries will help people to finally be done with these narcissists through awareness and then shunning.
Trump was a bit of a damp squib, wasn’t it? Nothing has happened so far. The sky didn’t fall down? And also the elections went ahead without UFOs or catastrophic events as predicted by some. What is the projection for Trump’s leadership? I am imagining trying to balance all of those extreme left wing policies and political correctness may help ease things. The vocal and angel-ised left and the silenced and demonised right wasn’t helping, was it? Trump seems to be a sanitised version since the last whirl we had with him? What has happened to Biden, where has he been wheeled to on his castors? I imagine a scene like the Budapest Soviet Statue Park where they warehouse all these awful dinosaurs like Obama, Sunak, Biden, Harris. Macron, Netanyhu, Sisi et al….Here’s hopin’! Do give us, particularly economy, a prediction under Trump.
Instead of smirking you could try Search. 6 November is the most recent post on the subject
To Bea, or not to troll? That is the question. Whether tis more noble to go over to X with this ordure.
I don’t remember anyone predicting anti-Trump ufos, but perhaps I wasn’t paying enough attention.
VF- I think it could be linked to this intriguing news, reported in the Hindustan Times on 4th September!
“Donald Trump has claimed that he would release classified files if he is re-elected to the White House. Speaking to podcaster Lex Fridman, the former president promised that if he is elected in 2024, he will release footage of UFOs, classified documents on former president John F Kennedy, and the so-called “Epstein files.”
“I’ll do that. I would do that. I’d love to do that. I have to do that,” Trump said.
“They also are pushing me on Kennedy. And I did release a lot, but I had people come to me and beg me not to do it. But I’ll be doing that very early on. But I would do that,” he added”
Nice. Love it. I think she was trying to start something.
Solaia—I’m an astrology novice but I would say Neptune in Pisces has been the defining and most difficult period of my life thus far. I dealt with intense acute health challenges during my college years in the 90’s which was rough, but Nep in Pisces opposite my Moon has been next level debilitating and rough. Also, it’s been hard to deal with the rise of social media and the over sharing that has come with it. I never joined Facebook. I’m looking forward to the shift in Aries personally. And a part of me does want the US to form separate confederations but I don’t know how that can work given that there are red and purple counties within blue states. I’ve traveled extensively to the South and in many ways they won the Civil War. The lasting impact of the brutality of slavery obviously remains. Maybe us separating is for the best —energetically. If not, we need a robust truth and reconciliation period.
Sorry to hear about your Neptune-opp-Moon experience. I’ll be catching this myself in 4 years from now.
Neptune 90 Moon transit here. Wouldn’t wish it on anyone, health wise I mean.
Looking back on my transits, I see I had this transit during my lowest point health-wise too! How incredible.
Trump is not in cognitive decline. He’s just a batsh*t crazy fascist. He knows exactly what he’s doing. He will next take control of all media. Looks like his Jupiter-Uranus luck never runs out.
Marjorie, the astrology of two ‘Teds’ in the news might make for interesting (separate) pieces:
Ted Turner, the colorful billionaire entrepreneur, is featured in a new docuseries streaming this week – https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/12/entertainment/ted-turner-docuseries-call-me-ted/index.html
Ted Olson, the prominent conservative lawyer who argued very high profile cases before the Supreme Court, has died – https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/13/politics/lawyer-ted-olson-dies/index.html
John Thune (b. January 7, 1961) was elected Senate Majority Leader. Rick Scott was the MAGA choice. Thune denied Trump’s stolen election claims in 2020. Hope this vote can put to rest my friends’ fears that Trump will rule like a Nazi.
@JAS
Thune is only one person
The SCOTUS has given Trump immunity and what challenges occur it will only be after Trump has committed some crime.
Thune has the power to move Senate members against Trump’s worst decisions and power grabs. Let’s hope he can sway members away from allowing Matt Gaetz to be Attorney General. My delight in hearing of Thune’s win was thwarted once I heard Gaetz is nominated for AG. But Gaetz will have much opposition, even with Republicans.
Trump is going to bypass the Senate so Thune and anyone who opposes Trump’s nominees will be irrelevant.
Also Trump has announced he’ll bypass security clearances, another concern when you look at the nomination of sex trafficker/pervert Gaetz (which signals Trump’s intent to persue full-on his plans for revenge and retribution against his opponents) and the exceptionally unqualified Russian asset Tulsi Gabbard, with no intelligence experience as Director of National Intelligence.
I understand that Thune has agreed to Trump’s plan to avoid Senate confirmation and accepted Trump’s demands to allow unconfirmed recess appointments.
My worst fears confirmed.
@Nicole Sours Larson, Republicans are Republicaning, but I actually think they will challenge Gabbard nomination. Gaetz, they ultimately have a hold of.
What I find interesting is that people still seem to think DJT has this fight in him. I will say he hasn’t, based on what I saw yesterday when he visited WH. He seemed to have all the air sucked out of him.
Another thing I’ve noticed in the news: Unlike 2016 when we got early reports from Trump World on him being on phone almost 24/7 hustling, nothing of the kind seems to be happening this time around. He is having his scheduled calls with World leaders.
Therefore, my reading on Republican leadership’s behavior is that they are buying time. They must know, or at least sense, DJT is declining and will sit nomination rounds out.
Thune won because Mitch McConnel whipped the vote for him. That means Thune has a lot of old school Republican friends – enough to win the Senate Majority Leader position in the Trump era.
Constitutionally, Congress is more powerful than the President. They control money, the ability to make war and the ability to make treaties. It’s just that since the Johnson era, they’ve deferred to the President. That can change.
He was one of the Republican senators (only Republicans attended) who visited Russia on the 4th of July, so perhaps he’s Putin’s choice.
“I would pin point tr Pluto opposition the US North Node in Leo in 2027/28 as being the critical turning point. 9/11 happened when tr Neptune was exactly opposition the US leadership Leo North Node which dented US pride – and this may be the point where the future trajectory is decided.” (Post on Trump, 6 November).
It may be premature to surmise, but looking into the 2030s are there any indications as to whether the US will “reunify” or Balkanise into separate countries? I’m asking out of interest in the astrology first and foremost, following on from some views where the UK could find itself in 2036 (Royal Commerce, 5 November).
@JB
After this election I believe thar this country will Balkanize
Given that along with the Supreme Court continuing to weaken the ability of the federal government to regulate the environment and Trump posed to defund agencies like the EPA and Department of Education more responsibly will be left up to states to create their own rules and regulations.
May be worth noting that the Pluto return of the signing of the Constitution (14 Aquarius) appears to be in Spring 2032.
Republicans almost control enough state legislatures to call a Constitutional Convention so maybe that is how the Pluto return of the Constitution will manifest.
@Roderick, honestly, won’t see this happening, if not for other, then economic reasons. Most Red States are heavily dependant on Federal funding.
@Roderick
Calling a Constitutional Convention appears to be fashionable in quite a number of countries, it is one of the most effective ways to change the route for a country to follow, mostly for the worst.
It is a favoured ploy used by dictators or worse one party directives to gain control of a country by eliminating the possible checks and balances offered by an active opposition. A sinister way to undermine democracy, however there is no doubt that sometimes it is necessary to amend and update the Constitution.
Good Chatham House article on this very thing here. Ideologically, some matters that are of prime importance to some-open borders, abortion, gender identity, restorative justice-are not paramount to others and can only lead to divorce.https://www.chathamhouse.org/2024/02/could-united-states-be-headed-national-divorce
@ Solaia
The people in red states are self-deluded mainly by religion and have no concept of facts or science or reality.
It’s all about belief and fairy tales.
I grew up in Mississippi and now I live in Alabama.
Both states’ budgets are almost 50% funded by federal money but these people are still squawk about state’s rights.
Northern Alabama is booming mainly due to Redstone Arsenal and now Trump wants to move the Space Force from Colorado Springs to Huntsville, but these rednecks still hate the federal government.
The cognitive dissonance is nuts.
The right-wing red states so dependent on federal money for survival who want to impose their religious agenda on everyone also don’t recognize that the bulk of that federal money comes from progressive blue states who are not going to tolerate the imposition of a Christian Nationalist ideology or Project 2025 agenda. California alone is the fifth largest economy in the world. We will go it alone and take our money with us — probably in company with at least the western block of blue states and possibly more — rather than have a hostile ideological way of life rammed down our throats via a constitutional convention.
Apropos of nothing, which planet would best embody the concept of buyer’s remorse? Saturn? Neptune? Or both of them, sat together on a bench?
Or would it be Pluto, with one last withering glance through the train window as he leaves the station?
@JB, I’d say Saturn and Neptune. Neptune will first enter Aries April 18th next year. There will be two retrogrades to Pisces, but these will clear before midterms 2026.
I can’t, also, stress enough how vital Neptune entering Pisces was in the rise of the populist right in Europe. Here in Finland, then True Finns (they later changed the English name to simply Finns) gained went from 5 to 39 seats out of 200 just days after the first Neptune in Pisces entrance.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the Neptune in Aries brought an entirely different kind of energy.
Manchester United have yet another manager – Reuben Amorim 27 Jan 1985, Lisbon Portugal (no time). I’d be interested in his prospects.
Please explain Stephen miller
Could you take a look at Gary Lineker as he moves on from the BBC? He’s seemed to clash with them as he’s voiced his opinions in the last few years.
Lineker is quite an interesting person, much more savvy than people might think. He co-founded Goalhanger Productions which is the UKs largest podcasting company, and produces the UK’s No.1 Podcast ‘The Rest is History’, amongst others. Its been wildly successful. Its not like he needs MOTD anymore.
I would also be interested in whats happening in his astrology for him to have been so successful in so many different fields – Football, Broadcasting, Production, Crisps (joke!). When on the face of it he seems like a simple, yet affable & ordinary bloke.
The same managers/marketing people who ‘developed’ David Beckham started with Lineker. Apparently they had been looking for a very specific type of footballer with the personality, appearance and I suppose malleability to develop into a brand. At the time, we kept hearing about Lineker’s first wife Michelle Cockayne which was unusual then, but obviously the domestic element was required to round him out as a ‘nice guy’. Beckham turned out to be their golden goose, which they recognised the moment they saw him.