Wimbledon 2013 – Week 2
I am pleased to say that last week’s Wimbledon blogging bore fruit, so I am featuring 8 players again for the second week. Some of the content will be reproduced from last week’s blog, commentary and updates. Serena seems likely to win the Ladies’ trophy, and I am undecided about the men’s, but hope to […]
Categories: Wimbledon
Aspects for the week beginning 23 June 2013
Jupiter in Cancer This week Jupiter enters Cancer, and the forthcoming year will favour Cancerians generally or anyone who has a preponderance of planets in that sign. It is preparing to hook up with the Saturn-Neptune trine to form a Grand Water Trine in the middle of July, which is a real astrological highlight! Jupiter […]
Categories: Book Review
Wimbledon 2013
After predicting the winners these last two years, I will attempt to make it third time lucky. Though it did not win me popularity last year: some felt I should have predicted Andy Murray to win, and resented that I didn’t. Here as starters are the first four seeds from the women’s and men’s players, […]
Categories: Wimbledon
Aspects for the week beginning 16 June 2013
Whistleblowers Whistleblowing seems to come at great personal cost, and the conviction needs to be great to even contemplate it. Are today’s big-time whistleblowers born, and not made? Do they knowingly sacrifice their personal lives for a bigger cause? Edward Snowden Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee, who has blown the lid on the PRISM […]
Aspects for the week beginning 9 June 2013
The Turkish Spring Turkey, a country which holds a crucial position in the world, in relation to the EU and in relation to the Middle East, is at a crossroads now. It has had the same leader at the helm for 10 years, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, democratically elected, but now a rebellion is under way, […]
Categories: News
Aspects for the week beginning 2 June 2013
Liberace and the Making of the “Behind the Candelabra” Film With anti-gay riots in Paris this last week, and the first gay marriage in France at Montpellier, the TV film “Behind the Candelabra” aired on 26th May in U.S. and to be aired on U.K. television on 7th June is a timely reminder of how […]
Aspects for the week beginning 26 May 2013
Uranus-Pluto square – Phase 3 At the time of the Uranus-Pluto square last Monday, a tornado struck the town of Moore near Oklahoma City. Extreme weather is one of the possibilities where the Uranus-Pluto square is at its most intense. Someone asked me recently if I do weather astrology…I make notes, but I don’t research […]
Categories: News
Aspects for the week beginning 19 May 2013
Sir Alan Sugar, The Apprentice and Entrepreneurs On the day when the new series of the Apprentice started, I found myself at a business breakfast club, with 60 seconds to pitch my business, and half expected Sir Alan to appear and tell me I was fired, so much a fan of the programme as I […]
Categories: Astrology
Uranus square Pluto – Phase 3
20 May 2013, 23.02 Hrs in the U.K. This week we face the third square between Uranus and Pluto, on Monday. The first two phases occurred on 24 June and 19 September 2012. The square will now occupy the 11th degree of the signs Aries and Capricorn. If you have planets or angles in this […]
Aspects for the week beginning 12 May 2013
Sir Alex Ferguson About a year ago “bullet man” (a great influence on this blog) quipped that if I wrote about football, this blog would increase its readership. Well with the announcement of Sir Alex Ferguson’s retirement, the time has come! Sir Alex has broken all records in the world English football, including for the […]