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Mama Cass Elliot – a Neptunian mother
Mama Cass Elliot who died fifty years ago had a clear, earthy voice that turned her into one of the central figures of the 1960s music scene with hits that still resonate – Dream a Little Dream of Me, Make Your Own Kind of Music, Lovin’ Spoonful, Do You Believe in Magic, Summer in the … Read more
UK elections – Labour wins, outlook unclear
Big Tory losses in the local elections in England but no Labour landslide seems to be the consensus about what is undoubtedly a resounding defeat for the Tories, the worst since 1998. The political statisticians have been number crunching pointing to a near ten percentage-point swing from the Tories to Labour since December 2019 which … Read more
Tom Selleck – a life in the public eye
Actor Tom Selleck, best known for Magnum PI and Blue Bloods and still going strong at 79 has written his memoir. He’s had a long and prolific career playing cowboys early on before his breakout role in the long running Hawaii Magnum series. His membership of the NRA and right wing politics have raised a … Read more
Neptune through the houses
Neptune, the shape shifter, creative, compassionate, idealistic, ethereal, escapist, evasive, downright dishonest, chillingly cruel, addictive-prone and commitment-phobic is a complex, multi-faceted energy and tricky to pin down. Its’ artistic repertoire tends to focus on music but also the image – photography and films. On the Ascendant Neptune can give ‘bedroom eyes’, an attractive, appealing … Read more
University students – making their voices heard ++ UCLA a tinderbox waiting to blow
University students voicing displeasure with authorities and the status quo is practically a rite of passage from the anti-Vietnam uprisings in the mid 1960s alongside anti-apartheid and pro-civil rights demos when the revolutionary transiting Uranus Pluto conjunction was in place. French students staging mass protests in 1968, involving street fights, demanded democratic and educational reforms, … Read more
Paul Auster – a meaningless life v his astrology ++ dead children obsession
Paul Auster, author of The New York Trilogy and The Music of Chance has died. He acquired a cult-life following from his Kafkaesque novels in which ‘his protagonists would battle their way through surreal events to be confronted by the realisation that life is meaningless, motivation impossible to fathom and human beings’ sense of their … Read more
CJ Sansom – lacking self esteem he still led the way
The writer C J Sansom, creator of the character Matthew Shardlake, the hunchbacked lawyer who solved murder mysteries against the backdrop of the melodramatic turmoil of faith, heresy, high treason and political intrigue of Tudor England, Henry V111 and Thomas Cromwell, has died. His obituaries say he invented the genre of a crime series set … Read more
Celestial timetable – surviving the future
Arab astrologers believed the greatest use of astrology came from insights it gave on the past, putting into context what had gone before. Predictive astrology tends to shine a light ahead and worry about what comes next. The oft repeated self-help mantra ‘Forget the Past, Live in the Present & Ignore the Future’ contains a … Read more
SCOTUS – backlash will be game-changing
The Supreme Court in the USA continues to lose respect and popularity for their abortion rulings and interventions in Trump’s behalf. The overturning of Roe versus Wade may prove to be the second worst decision in their long history and equally as politically damaging as the first. The Dred Scott decision of 6 … Read more