Stephen Hawking (1942 – 2018) “Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don’t […]

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Billy Graham (1918 – 2018) “My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.” ~ Billy Graham The Archetypal Evangelist Billy Graham died this week, on Wednesday 21st February.  He was revered by many, but my first impressions of him in the early 1970s were that his rallies were a scary display of […]

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Keith Chegwin Keith Chegwin, a household name in the 1970s and 1980s especially in children’s television, passed away this week from a rare condition called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Birth Chart He had, as you’d expect from such a bouncy character, half his planets in the irrepressible fire element.  His Sun, though in the more restrained […]

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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 […]

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Charles Manson and Charles Bronson I’m not a fan of crime, but I did work for four years in the Criminal Department of a law firm.  What I concluded from that was that many criminals, looking at their history, don’t stand much of a chance from their early life, whether from psychological or sociological reasons.  […]

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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 […]

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Louise L. Hay Louise L. Hay, one of the mothers of the New Age, died last week, virtually on the two year anniversary of the passing of Wayne M. Dyer, another of its leading lights.  To a great extent, Louise was a pioneer of the idea that negative thoughts and experiences can give rise to […]

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Sir Bruce Forsyth (1928 – 2017) Sir Bruce Forsyth, who made the Guinness Book of Records for the longest television career for a male entertainer, died this week, surrounded by his family.  He began his television career in 1954, and began hosting Sunday Night at the London Palladium in 1958, a year after my family […]

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Childbirth Educators “One could almost say that the root of all anguish is an unconscious memory of birth and its terrors” ~ Frederick Leboyer We are now in the province of the Sun in Cancer, a sign which represents birth, incarnation and parenting.  Its ruling planet the Moon represents the Inner Child in our charts.  […]

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Ian Brady (1938 – 2017) Ian Brady, one of the most notorious murderers of 20th Century Britain, died this week.  Together with his accomplice, Myra Hindley, they tortured and killed at least 5 children and buried them on Saddleworth Moor.  The body of one of them, Keith Bennett, has never been found, due to his […]

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