Entries Tagged as 'Historical'
Aspects for the week beginning 20 January 2019
Mary Queen of Scots The new film released in the U.K. this week on Friday 18th January about Mary Queen of Scots looks intriguing, and stars two modern stars of the screen. The film is based on a biography of Mary Queen of Scots by John Guy, “Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary […]
Categories: Celebrities · Film · Historical
Aspects for the week beginning 2 December 2018
George H.W. Bush (1924 – 2018) Another former president of the United States of America died this week: the elder Bush. Contemplating his life takes us nostalgically back to an era when progress seemed to be happening in the world… George Herbert Walker Bush was well prepared for his role as president, having built his […]
Categories: Historical · Obituary
Aspects for the week beginning 12 August 2018
Richard III – A Reprise Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet I last wrote about Richard III in February 2013 when the findings from his unearthing in the Leicester car park were televised. So I think an update now would not be too self-indulgent. I wrote at […]
Categories: Guest Posts · Historical · Karmic
Aspects for the week beginning 20 May 2018
Michael Curry “Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is as strong as death, passion as fierce as the grave, its flashes of flashes of fire, a raging flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it out” ~ Song of Solomon I am […]
Categories: Historical · The Royals
Aspects for the week beginning 13 May 2018
Uranus Enters Taurus “It’s been a long time, a long time coming But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will” ~ Sam Cooke [Sun in Aquarius] This week’s arrival of Uranus in Taurus on Tuesday 15th May has been widely broadcast of late, and it probably hasn’t escaped your notice, especially if […]
Categories: Astrology · Celebrities · Historical · The Royals
Aspects for the week beginning 8 April 2018
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (1936 – 2018) Winnie Mandela, the second wife of Nelson Mandela, died this week on Monday, 2nd April. She played a vital role in the fight against apartheid in South Africa, and in freeing her husband after his lengthy period of imprisonment for nearly three decades from 1962 to 1990. She managed to […]
Categories: Historical · Obituary
Aspects for the week beginning 4 February 2018
Natalie Wood A Neptunian Mystery The beautiful actress Natalie Wood died in 1981 from drowning, while on a boat trip at Thanksgiving. The only other people on the boat were her husband actor Robert Wagner, the actor Christopher Walken (who had been filming “Brainstorm” with her) and the skipper Dennis Davern. At the time, her […]
Categories: Celebrities · Historical
Review of the Year 2017
For those who like Retrospectives – Selections from the blogs… January 29th: John Hurt (1940 – 2017) Actor John Hurt died on Friday, he of that beautiful, craggy, vulnerable face which never failed to move me. As an Aquarian, I always felt he had an aura of untouchability too. His birth chart is very […]
Categories: Archive · Historical
Aspects for the week beginning 10 December 2017
Christine Keeler (1942 – 2017) 1960s Model Christine Keeler, who died this week, was a link to, or influenced the destiny of, some notable figures of her era. She occupied a central role in “The Profumo Affair”, which was unprecedented for its time in being the first major “sleaze” scandal involving politicians. Such scandals became […]
Categories: Historical · Obituary · Soul Groups
Aspects for the week beginning 1 October 2017
Lord Lucan Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan This week one of the greatest mysteries of modern times came to some sort of closure, with the death of Lady Lucan. It wasn’t exactly a whodunnit, even though there was a murder involved, the perpetrator being fairly conclusively identified. No, it was more of a […]
Categories: Historical · Obituary