Entries Tagged as 'News'
Aspects for the week beginning 1 September 2019
Ruth Davidson On Wednesday last week, Boris Johnson announced the drastic step that he would prorogue parliament, and we were told to expect Ruth Davidson’s resignation the next morning. Ruth Davidson, who has been Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party for the past 8 years, is a unique and capable politician, once hailed as a […]
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Aspects for the week beginning 25 August 2019
Jair Bolsonaro For me the most important event of the week was the burning of the Amazon rainforest and its implications for the planet. The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, bears a huge responsibility for this catastrophic event, and the destabilization of the earth’s ecosystem. Just this lunchtime at the G7 Summit, £18m was pledged […]
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Aspects for the week beginning 4 August 2019
Marianne Williamson “There is no order of difficulty in Miracles” ~ from A Course in Miracles New Age Author In 1992, Marianne Williamson published her commentary on A Course in Miracles “Return to Love” which made this difficult book more accessible to the average reader. This marked her out as a spiritual teacher, and she […]
Categories: Astrological Appreciation · Celebrities · News
Aspects for the week beginning 28 July 2019
New Cabinet For his first outing in the Commons, Johnson had gone back to his more familiar default setting. The Fool. The court jester from whom no one expects the truth, so long as they are entertained. “Pifflepafflewifflewaffle,” he began. ~ John Crace So it is Boris Johnson’s finest hour: he easily achieved 66% of […]
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Aspects for the week beginning 21 July 2019
Britain and Iran This week there was a marked escalation of tension in the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf involving a British oil tanker named Stena Impero being taken by Iran, seemingly in retaliation for the seizing of an Iranian vessel in Gibraltar on 4th July (for carrying oil assumed to be bound […]
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Aspects for the week beginning 23 June 2019
Boris Johnson I was planning to write a piece about the karmic interplay between Boris Johnson and Michael Gove for this Sunday, and then on Thursday Pluto opposed Mars. Thursday 20th June 2019 “So it is reluctantly that I have to report Pluto opposing Mars on Thursday (20th), if you like the major reckoning of […]
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Aspects for the week beginning 16 June 2019
Jo Brand Comedian Jo Brand was under fire this week, for saying throwing milkshake at politicians was too lame, and it should have been acid. Nigel Farage, assuming he was the butt of the “joke” (made on a pre-recorded radio show, Heresy) called for a police investigation. The incident certainly sparked a debate on the […]
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Aspects for the week beginning 9 June 2019
Another short blog, while I master my new physiotherapy exercises! Conservative Party Leadership – Part 3 I cannot believe that I find myself writing again about the Conservative Party leadership contest. Switch off now, if you find the topic agonizing. The contest formally begins tomorrow, Monday 10th. Some candidates pulled out last week, but there […]
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Aspects for the week beginning 2 June 2019
It’s over two weeks since I dislocated my shoulder, and I have an x-ray on Tuesday so I’ll know how the healing is coming along. So I will plough on with the next 5 candidates for the Conservative Party Leadership! Conservative Party Leadership – Part 2 I wrote about five of the candidates last week, […]
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Aspects for the week beginning 26 May 2019
Again, I am still hampered by the dislocated shoulder, which is healing, but am aiming to keeping this short. Conservative Party On Friday morning, Theresa May stood outside 10 Downing Street, behind her lectern, and declared that she had finally come to the end of her rope. Judging by the lack of sympathy around the […]
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