Baba Ram Dass (1931 – 2019) “Be Here Now” ~ Baba Ram Dass Spiritual teacher Baba Ram Dass (Richard Alpert) died this week.  He was part of the consciousness-raising movement of the 1960s, together with Timothy Leary, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Birth Chart Ram Dass had 0 planets in the Air signs, relying on […]

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Clive James (1939 – 2019) Polymath Clive James died this week at the age of 80, after a very long illness.  He was known for his acerbic wit, and produced a prolific quantity of books in his lifetime.  He wrote regular newspaper columns, and was in his heyday a regular personality on our television screens.  […]

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James Le Mesurier “To save one life is to save all of humanity” ~ motto of the White Helmets James Le Mesurier, the British Co-Founder of the White Helmets, has died at the age of 48 tragically from an apparent suicide. White Helmets The organization known as the White Helmets was founded in 2014, emerging […]

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Ginger Baker “When the city of Atlantis stood serene above the sea, Long time before our time when the world was free, Those were the days.” ~ Those Were The Days, co-written by Ginger Baker and Mike Taylor, from “Wheels of Fire” 1968 Outstanding drummer Ginger Baker died last Sunday.  He didn’t like the term […]

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Peter Fonda (1940 – 2019) “Head out on the highway Looking for adventure In whatever comes our way …Born to be wild” ~ Steppenwolf, theme song for Easy Rider Going back to the 1960s today, in tribute to Peter Fonda, who died this week.  He is bound to the iconic role he played in “Easy […]

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Toni Morrison (1931 – 2019) “My project is an effort to avert the critical gaze from the racial object to the racial subject; from the described and imagined to the describers and imaginers; from the serving to the served” ~ Toni Morrison We have lost a colossus of the literary world this week, but one […]

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To my readers: It’s a short blog today, due to the fact that I have dislocated my shoulder. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible! Doris Day (1922 – 2019) Can’t let this week pass without paying tribute to Doris Day, who passed on Monday.  My mother used to take me to the […]

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“The Convoluted Universe”, Books 1 – 5 by Dolores Cannon (1931 – 2014) Book Review Dolores Cannon was an American past life therapist, who died in 2014.  I have just finished reading the fifth of her enormous volumes entitled “The Convoluted Universe.”  The content will seem bizarre to many, but I just found them wonderfully […]

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Scott Walker (1943 – 2019) Scott Walker, frontman in the Walker Brothers in the 1960s and later hailed as a creative genius in a solo career, passed away on 22nd March, from cancer.  He was charismatic, but fought shy of fame, and his musical career went through distinctly marked phases. Birth Chart Scott Walker had […]

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Fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld died last week, from complications of pancreatic cancer.  He certainly created a unique and unforgettable style and image for his own person, as well as the creativity in his work, and continuing the line set by Coco Chanel.  In the Guardian Obituary by Veronica Horwell, she says “He had a genius […]

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