Debates and Orations Last week’s North Node conjunction with Mars (Warriorship) was expressed in the debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney in the race for the Presidency.  Jonathan Freedland writing in the Guardian, wrote that in the British political arena, as in the U.S. battle, the underdog won this week: “Ed Miliband, meanwhile, won […]

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5 October 2012, 20.34 Hrs in the U.K. “He who would valiant be ’gainst all disaster, Let him in constancy follow the Master. There’s no discouragement shall make him once relent His first avowed intent to be a pilgrim.” ~ John Bunyan My choice of quotation for Saturn in Scorpio may seem a bit stark, […]

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The Uranus-Pluto square The tone of this week will be dominated by our efforts to get to grips with the second phase of the Uranus-Pluto square (which lasts until 2015).  This square re-occurs on Wednesday, having initially become exact on 24 June this year.  I have written a separate blog about this: http://www.lanawooster.co.uk/blog/2012/09/uranus-square-pluto-phase-2/   Hillsborough […]

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Parkinson’s Disease Louise L Hay: (Probable Cause) – “Fear and an intense desire to control everything and everyone” I have not specialized in medical astrology in my 42 years of following the stars, but as health is crucial to the quality of our life, I have paid attention.  And now that I am retired, even […]

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Aspects After a quiet week, which astrological financial guru Raymond Merriman described as “the calm before the storm”, we have a challenging week emanating from the Uranus-Pluto square, with this time Venus becoming enmeshed.  That means relationships will be coming under the hammer, especially those already under strain.  Taureans and Librans may feel they are […]

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A Guide for getting through the Olympics  If you are a fan, just watch it If your spouse isn’t a fan, get a separate telly If you are an aspect-watcher bear in mind that on the opening ceremony Chiron is on the Ascendant, which indicates either that the event is a healer (buoying up hope) […]

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Leo New Moon Mandala painted by Sarah Berry Line Mandala from Mandala Colouring Book by Barry Stevens available at http://www.mandalas.freeserve.co.uk/colouringinbook.html This is the ninth piece in an occasional series written about the expertise of each Sun Sign. I am still looking for the Capricorn who can write a guide to Ambition, but at this point […]

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Is there ever such a thing as an accident, karmically speaking? The moment I pressed a pencil into the re-set button of my computer on the day Uranus went retrograde (don’t do it, dear reader) I set off a chain of events…It happened as I had tried three times to print a birth chart, and my computer froze each […]

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When Uranus (ruler of computers) went retrograde, I managed to break my computer. It is currently at my brother- in-law’s. Today we have mercury (ruler of communications) turning retrograde, well known for disrespecting communications. I am hoping to be able to communicate the aspects for the week ahead later today, or tomorrow, but if not, […]

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Cancer New Moon Mandala painted by Sarah Berry Line Mandala from Mandala Colouring Book by Barry Stevens available at http://www.mandalas.freeserve.co.uk/colouringinbook.html This is the eighth piece in an occasional series written about the expertise of each Sun Sign. I am still looking for the Capricorn who can write a guide to Ambition, and a Libran who […]

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