Entries Tagged as 'News'
Aspects for the week beginning 18 May 2014
Local Elections 2014 On Thursday 22nd May the U.K. has local elections, about a year ahead probably of a General Election. Two polls (Guardian/ICM and Lord Ashcroft’s) this week showed the Conservative Party inching ahead, with Labour sliding down, and with UKIP overtaking the LibDems to emerge as the third party of the four. I […]
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Aspects for the week beginning 27 April 2014
Aftermath of the Cardinal Grand Cross Will you remember the Cardinal Grand Cross as a crisis, or a shift, or in other ways? Was our experience as expected, or different from our expectations? Was the magnitude of the event more, or less, significant than anticipated? Globally On a global scale one would expect an event […]
Aspects for the week beginning 6 April 2014
Holby City and Casualty (sound effect) “Nee naw! Nee Naw!” On the New Moon in Aries, Connie Beauchamp transfers from Holby City to Casualty. On the Uranus-Sun conjunction, Holby City had its most shocking storyline ever! The fiancé of Jac Naylor’s baby’s father died. The two hemispheres of my brain have now been able to […]
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Aspects for the week beginning 16 March 2014
Bob Crow (1961-2014) “You don’t get me, I’m part of the Union” ~ The Strawbs, 1973 In one week we lost two irreplaceable left wing highly individualistic public figures. I have written a separate blog for Tony Benn, but felt I should write about Bob Crow too. Both were divisive figures, often demonized, but both […]
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Aspects for the week beginning 9 March 2014
Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 Given the safety of air travel nowadays, the disappearance of this flight is a total mystery. The safety record of that airline (Boeing 777) is excellent. There was no warning of messages from the crew, and it was a sudden event. Oil slicks were found in the Gulf of Thailand, but […]
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Aspects for the week beginning 23 February 2014
Ukraine Events moved very quickly in Independence Square, Kiev, yesterday. President Viktor Yanukovych had been forced to declare an election for May 25th (the balancing trine between Jupiter and Saturn), the previous President Yulia Tymoshenko was released from prison and urged the rioters to carry on, and Yanukovych fled the scene, his whereabouts currently a […]
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Aspects for the week beginning 26 January 2013
Jupiter opposite Pluto This week sees the second pass of Jupiter opposing Pluto (of three altogether), a major opposition which represents the struggle for power. In an individual’s chart, it can represent a huge desire for power and the controversial use of it: Saddam Hussein had it, as did Margaret Thatcher. In our lives, we […]
Aspects for the week beginning 19 January 2014
Monsieur Francois Hollande President Hollande of France has been trying to keep his private life from intruding on his public life, with the alleged revelation of an affair with a French actress going back 2 years. The British media wonder whether the French are traditionally more relaxed about the private lives of their public figures. […]
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Aspects for the week beginning 12 January 2014
Ariel Sharon, War and Peace Ariel Sharon, a hawk in Israeli politics, died yesterday after being in a coma for 8 years. This will inevitably be a very subjective account, because I was born in Israel, and the memories evoked by Sharon’s moments in history were always seen through the lens of a pacifist. He […]
Categories: Medical astrology · News · Obituary
Aspects for the week beginning 29 December 2013
What did we learn from 2013? January 13th: (from the blog) Andrew Marr Andrew Marr needs to be appreciated this morning for his services to this blog. Andrew, who suffered a stroke last Tuesday, is the presenter of “the Andrew Marr show” which has been broadcast on Sunday mornings since September 2005. …Andrew has a […]