Wimbledon 2015 – Week 1 Here we go again!  This is the fortnight where I try to keep up with the spectacle that is Wimbledon, sometimes hitting the mark and sometimes missing.  But it’s great fun (for me).  I am starting, as usual, with the top four men’s and women’s seeds, and thereafter will update […]

Categories: Sport · Wimbledon

Cancerian Totems and Archetypes Happy Summer Solstice!  The Sun goes into Cancer today (21st) at 16.38 Hrs. in the U.K.  As the Geminian totems and archetypes were well-received, I intend to make this a regular feature and to look today at some of the animal totems and Archetypes for the sign of Cancer.  So this […]

Categories: Animal Totems · Archetypes

Benedict Cumberbatch What a year it has been for Benedict Cumberbatch!  Ups and downs (mainly ups) culminating yesterday in the announcement that he had a newborn son, and a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list. His Birth Chart He has a strong chart, with many interesting features.  His Ascendant in Libra (he was born […]

Categories: Celebrities · Film

Charles Kennedy (1959 – 2015) Several years ago, I attended a Lib Dem rally in Cambridge (2005 election campaign), while Charles Kennedy was still leader of the Party.  Seemed like a nice chap…And so say all of us, it seems. I wrote about him prior to the election, in March: “The Ashcroft poll this week […]

Categories: Astrological Appreciation · Obituary

FIFA At the risk of a boycott, I find myself writing about Fifa and Sepp Blatter this morning!  This subject has dominated the headlines since Wednesday, and I cannot ignore it.  On Wednesday 14 Fifa officials were arrested on charges of corruption, and the Swiss opened investigations on the awarding of the World Cup franchise […]

Categories: Sport

Ireland All eyes have been on Ireland this week, from a historic visit by Prince Charles, to a groundbreaking referendum. Ireland chart The 1949 chart for Ireland (in the year the Republic was proclaimed) is dominated by Aries (Mars/North Node/Sun/Venus), and you have to take a closer look to get a feel of the Emerald […]

Categories: News

Gemini Totems and Archetypes The Sun goes into Gemini this week on  Thursday (21st) at 8.45 a.m. in the U.K.  I intend to look today at some of the animal totems and Archetypes for this birth sign. I will start with the Animal Totems of this sign.  Although the traditional emblem of the sign is […]

Categories: Animal Totems · Archetypes

So…all the pundits were wrong, and we did not get a hung parliament.  Between them, the Conservatives and the Scottish National Party carved up the political map of the U.K.  There are a lot of people out there deeply disappointed and worried about the future of our country, and my feeling is that the shock […]

Categories: Astrology

UK General Election 2015 There’s no doubt about it, the astrology is reflecting the polls at the moment!  Undistinguished leading politicians have undistinguished transits, and there is a T-square this Election week (Saturn opposite Mercury and square Neptune), depicting another hung parliament situation. People are having to search themselves to determine what they really believe […]

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Princess Charlotte born 2nd May 2015, at 8.34 am All eyes are on the young royal family at the moment, with a baby girl being born to Prince William and his wife Kate yesterday morning.  They have recently been given a house on the Sandringham Estate, which is in our county of Norfolk, to enable […]

Categories: The Royals