Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.5.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Astroinform with Marjorie Orr - Star4cast Marjorie Orr - Top International Astrologer ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://star4cast.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Astrology of Today's News](https://star4cast.com/astrology-of-todays-news/) - [Astro Comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-39/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar and in Search. - [King Charles - setting sail for the new world](https://star4cast.com/king-charles-setting-sail-for-the-new-world/) - King Charles embarking on his state visit with Trump on Monday is facing what is described as “high risk, high stakes and high opportunity” and a tough test given his health. The trip will involve addressing Congress and a state dinner; a visit to the 9/11 Memorial and a reception in New York followed by - [USA Turning 250: Lisa Mendes Podcast with me](https://star4cast.com/usa-turning-250-lisa-mendes-podcast/) - A Lisa Mendes podcast with me on the USA becoming 250 and other astrological and global topics. Lisa is the author of Oracle of the Elements (geomancy) and The Cosmology of Astrology and editor of The New Astrology of Towns & Cities. Website - https://astroinsights.blog/podcast/ Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/astro-insights-celestial-cycles-the-cultural-zeitgeist/id1805199349?i=1000761018909 Spotify - https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/astroinsightspod/episodes/The-US-Turns-250-with-Marjorie-Orr-e3hqcku/a-acjau65 YouTube – - [Uranus - last to join the party](https://star4cast.com/uranus-last-to-join-the-party/) - Uranus moving into Gemini this Sunday is the final piece of the new era jigsaw. All four outer planets are now firmly established on their new track. The move from Water Earth (Pluto Capricorn, Uranus Taurus, Neptune Saturn Pisces) to Air Fire (Pluto Aquarius, Uranus Gemini, Neptune Saturn Aries) is complete. Stephen Arroyo describes - [Moon Mother - the emotional imprint](https://star4cast.com/moon-mother-the-emotional-imprint/) - For good or ill and somewhere in between mother is the first relationship in life which stamps an emotional pattern and expectations on the adult life to come. Mommie Dearest is the latest book from Martin Sebastian Moritz, author of The Mysterious 8th House. Insightful, thought-provoking, filled with compassionate wisdom and illuminated by psychological - [Amanda Knox - fated not to be believed ++ Woodward, Chamberlain, Lees](https://star4cast.com/amanda-knox-fated-not-to-be-believed/) - Amanda Knox for ever associated with the murder of Meredith Kercher though twice found innocent has landed in the UK on a promotional tour for her latest documentary Mouth of the Wolf settling scores with the Italian prosecutor who got it wrong. What is uncomfortable about her story is not only her tone-deafness to - [Pluto - personal and political](https://star4cast.com/pluto-personal-and-political/) - Slow moving, heavyweight Pluto is now firmly on track to make its influence felt until 2043. Nothing happens instantly with Pluto so the Fixed signs most affected – Taurus (career/life’s direction), Leo (relationships), Scorpio (home/family), Aquarius (personal identity) - are still coming to terms with the changes imposed on their lives since 2024. Other signs - [Michael Jackson - the sanitised story](https://star4cast.com/michael-jackson-the-sanitised-story/) - The Michael Jackson biopic has attracted acerbic reviews for its portrayal of him as a 20th-century Jesus who, as a child performer is told by his saintly mother, Katherine that he has been gifted with a “special light” from Jehovah. Soon he will become the embodiment of the Bible verse from Matthew, “Suffer little children, - [Israel - what went wrong?](https://star4cast.com/israel-what-went-wrong/) - What went wrong in Israel? Professor Omer Bartov was born on a kibbutz, grew up in Tel Aviv and served in the Israel Defence Forces during the Yom Kippur War. He went on to become an expert on the German army and the Holocaust, before turning his attention to his native country. In Israel: What - [Queen Elizabeth - a fixed point in changing world](https://star4cast.com/queen-elizabeth-a-fixed-point-in-changing-world/) - Tributes to the late Queen Elizabeth 11 on what would have been her 100th birthday evoked rose-coloured memories of steadier times when she seemed the bedrock of the country. Having vowed her life in service at her coronation she ploughed the same furrow for nearly 70 years. Born 21 April 1926 2.40 am London. - [Desmond Morris - honouring our ancestors](https://star4cast.com/desmond-morris-honouring-our-ancestors/) - Desmond Morris, zoologist behind bestselling studies of human behaviour from The Naked Ape and popular tv shows like Zootime, has died. He approached humans as just another species, sharing primate lineage, behaviour, rituals and family groupings with other apes and monkeys, calling man a ‘risen ape’ rather than a ‘fallen angel’, and declaring religion ‘a - [Ruby Rose - creative and complicated](https://star4cast.com/ruby-rose-creative-and-complicated/) - Ruby Rose, an Australian actress, television presenter, and model, prominent in Orange Is the New Black and Batwoman has claimed she was sexually assaulted by Katy Perry twenty years ago. Representatives for Perry slammed the allegations as ‘dangerous reckless lies’, adding that Rose ‘has a well-documented history of making serious public allegations on social media - [Lebanon - collateral damage](https://star4cast.com/lebanon-collateral-damage/) - Trump blithely announced a ceasefire in Lebanon despite neither Netanyahu or Hezbollah indicating they were in a mood to lay down arms. It was a precondition for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz and presumably a platform for Trump to proclaim victory. Israel wants Hezbollah permanently disarmed and Hezbollah wants a withdrawal of all - [Astro Comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-38/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar and in Search. - [Tim Curry - a prolific talent reaches 80](https://star4cast.com/tim-curry-a-prolific-talent-reaches-80/) - Tim Curry renowned for his breakout role in The Rocky Horror Picture Show and subsequent Broadway musical stage productions, followed by a prolific, wide-ranging and award winning career on stage, screen and music, is 80 tomorrow. He was born 19 April 1946 12 noon (from memory) Grappenhall, England, the son of a Methodist Royal Navy - [Paolo Zampolli - model's boss to global envoy](https://star4cast.com/paolo-zambolli-models-boss-to-global-envoy/) - Paolo Zampolli, a New York socialite and former modelling agent who claimed he introduced Melania to Trump has become a globetrotting White House envoy, cutting deals with J.D.Vance in Hungary to sell nuclear energy and earlier pushing Boeing planes in Uzbekistan. In 1996, Zampolli sponsored Melania’s immigration to the United States via a H-1B - [Keir Starmer - clinging on grimly for now](https://star4cast.com/keir-starmer-clinging-on-grimly-for-now/) - The betting odds on Starmer’s exit shorten as he is accused of misleading the House of Commons by saying Mandelson has passed security clearances when it emerged that the Foreign Office overrode a ‘don’t go there’ notice. Sir Olly Robbins, head of the FO, has been forced to resign with Starmer stoutly denying all knowledge - [Jude Law - getting inside Putin's skin](https://star4cast.com/jude-law-getting-inside-putins-skin/) - The improbably good looking Jude Law is the unlikely casting but surprisingly good fit as Putin in The Wizard of the Kremlin due out this month. An adaptation of Giuliano da Empoli’s satirical novel about the political insanity of post-Soviet Russia, it concentrates on the break-up of the Soviet Union, Putin’s arrival, the Sochi Winter - [Mars Saturn - take care; Trump nadir](https://star4cast.com/mars-saturn-take-care-trump-nadir/) - Mars Saturn approaching an exact conjunction on 19/20 April requires a degree of caution at a personal level since it can be accident-prone or at least attract infuriating delays and difficulties. Mars, especially in Aries is headstrong and when it runs into rigid Saturn the resulting blocked action can result in bad temper if not - [Hungary - opting for a new path ahead](https://star4cast.com/hungary-opting-for-a-new-path-ahead/) - Peter Magyar has won the Hungary election decisively despite fears of Russian interference and a questionable visit by USA VP J.D. Vance. The Hungary country charts are a better guide to the result than the individuals concerned. Hungary, 22 December 1872 Budapest, has tr Pluto opposition Uranus exactly now for a major turnaround. The Solar - [Trump on the wrong crusade ++ J.D. Vance ++ Trump's messianic delusion](https://star4cast.com/trump-on-the-wrong-crusade/) - With a mystifying voter support from the religiously-minded and launching a war with high flown claims about morality and invocations about the historic ‘Crusades’ (mainly failures) it seems counter-productive for Trump to fall out with the Pope and the Catholic Church. As with so much else it makes no sense. But the Vatican are - [Mother Mary Trump - a key to the chaos](https://star4cast.com/mother-mary-trump-a-key-to-the-chaos/) - The clue to Donald Trump’s dysfunctional emotional makeup may lie more with his mother than father. Conventional wisdom has it he takes after Fred, his profiteering, racist, property developer, Lutheran father of German extraction. Fred, 11 October 1905, did have his Libra Sun conjunct DT’s 2nd house Jupiter and Fred’s Jupiter fell in - [Paula White - defying belief](https://star4cast.com/paula-white-defying-belief/) - Trump’s spiritual adviser in the White House faith office – a bizarre concept at best – televangelist Paula White – speaks in tongues, has been accused by a Catholic theologian of blasphemy for comparing Trump to Jesus Christ, and has also been accused of an alleged cash-for-blessings scheme. Even rightwing Christians describe her as “100% - [Melania - throwing a rock into the pond](https://star4cast.com/melania-throwing-a-rock-into-the-pond/) - Melania Trump making a surprise plea for Epstein survivors to be given a congressional hearing and denying categorically that she had much contact with Epstein has sparked confusion about why she has spoken out, given that her husband was trying to distance himself from the scandal. Commentators suggested she might be trying to get ahead - [Astro Comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-37/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in search. - [UK and EU - shift with pull away from volatile US](https://star4cast.com/uk-and-eu-shift-with-pull-away-from-volatile-us/) - As old alliances are shattered, new ones are being cobbled together and not only in the Middle East. UK PM Keir Starmer is pursuing a "closer partnership" with the European Union, because of global volatility and economic pressures. He aims to strengthen ties on trade, security, and energy The prospect will give Daily - [Benjamin Netanyahu -victim turned victimiser ++ "severe strategic failure"](https://star4cast.com/benjamin-netanyahu-victim-turned-victimiser/) - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest serving prime minister, took up the reins of his most recent and turbulent term in late 2022 as Israel faced a historic moment with a Nodal Return and Uranus in Taurus conjunct its Taurus Sun. I wrote at the time that Israel had “turned its face against progress and doubled down - [April - Mars makes an entrance](https://star4cast.com/april-mars-makes-an-entrance/) - The world holds its breath after Pakistan brokered an unlikely pause in the Middle East conflict with the Trump bunker proclaiming mission accomplished. GW Bush declared the same years ago and the Iraq War dragged on for another 8 years. April was always going to be a fractious month with Mars moving into fiery - [Trump - shipwrecked in sand and sea](https://star4cast.com/trump-shipwrecked-in-sand-and-sea/) - Desperately seeking a chink of daylight if not peace and sanity in the Middle East fiasco, a few astro-thoughts. Relocating Trump’s chart to Teheran puts the Fixed star Antares on the Ascendant. Known as martial in its inclinations, it can cause destructiveness and makes the individual rash, headstrong and destructive to themselves by their own - [Audrey Hepburn - forged in the fires of WW11](https://star4cast.com/audrey-hepburn-forged-in-the-fires-of-ww11/) - Audrey Hepburn, one of the Hollywood greats, Oscar-winner renowned for Roman Holiday, Funny Face and My Fair Lady, a film and fashion icon, is the subject of her son’s full biography of her, three decades after her death. Elegant, beautiful, delicate, she radiated charm and vulnerability, though her life story was anything but cossetted. Intimate - [Blake Lively & Harry - the risks of going to law](https://star4cast.com/blake-lively-harry-the-risks-of-going-to-law/) - Two Virgos, two lawsuits with hints of judicial scepticism arising out of both, which could prove ruinously expensive. The judge in actress Blake Lively’s claims of sexual harassment while on set with Justin Baldoni, has dismissed ten out of the thirteen claims she made, saying actors need to be able to experiment. The case with - [Artemis 11 crew - Fixed and Mars Pluto](https://star4cast.com/artemis-11-crew-fixed-and-mars-pluto/) - How do you face extreme levels of danger and manage to handle relationships in a claustrophobic capsule. For 99.9% of the population the prospect would send them running for the hills. Astronauts are a rare breed. In this instance two astrological themes are marked in the Artemis 11 crew. The first is the proliferation - [A merry go round of dogs and cats](https://star4cast.com/a-merry-go-round-of-dogs-and-cats/) - Pet astrology is fun and works better than you might expect even if you can only find a rough approximation of their sun sign. Pedigree or breeder friends, even better, can proffer, the exact time. Tashi, small fluffball Lahsa apso, 17 September 2025 8.15pm Aberdeen, has a busy, busy 6th house Virgo Sun and - [USA - when will the pendulum swing?](https://star4cast.com/usa-when-will-the-pendulum-swing/) - When will the US stand up for the edicts of its founding fathers of whom it used to be so proud, who laid down the constitution defending democracy and created the institutions which have stood the test of 250 years? Trump’s relationship with the USA in essence is chained together with a composite Sun - [Artemis 11 - flying to the Moon and back - Victor Glover, Taurus pilot](https://star4cast.com/artemis-11-flying-to-the-moon-and-back/) - Nasa has launched four astronauts on a 1mn km flight around the Moon and back, the next step in the US space agency’s plans to establish a long-term presence on the lunar surface. The 10-day mission will take humans further into space than ever before, and is designed to test many of the technologies that - [Astro Comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-36/) - Please add below. Older posts in Search or in News on top bar. Latest addition to the household who is a welcome distraction from calamities and catastrophes elsewhere. All she worries about is who is going to steal her carrot. If life could be so simple for the rest of us? - [April - messages from the universe](https://star4cast.com/april-messages-from-the-universe/) - On the threshold of the new era with Uranus poised to be the final piece of the jigsaw to fall into place in late April as it moves into Gemini, there are several minor planet conjunctions to help or hinder the way ahead. Mercury in Pisces will conjunct Nessus on April 9th. Usually associated with - [King Charles greeting the other 'king'](https://star4cast.com/king-charles-greeting-the-other-king/) - King Charles is expected to be welcomed by Trump to a US state visit on April 27 to 30, assuming fate and the Iranian fiasco do not upset best laid plans. The Royals are used to smiling politely through gritted teeth when on duty no matter what their personal feelings are. Assuming it goes ahead - [Celine Dion - pushing past adversity](https://star4cast.com/celine-dion-pushing-past-adversity/) - Céline Dion is to make comeback with series of concerts in Paris after a neurological condition called stiff-person syndrome stopped her touring after it was diagnosed in 2022. The condition, which affects between one and two people in every million, causes severe muscle stiffness and spasms. Though she has said she did suffer from symptoms - [Middle East - the old hostilities will linger](https://star4cast.com/middle-east-the-old-hostilities-will-linger/) - An unlikely quartet of Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey have come together in an effort not only to broker a Middle East ceasefire but also to discuss ways of curbing the dominance of Iran and Israel after the war. It may also draw in other Gulf countries if their desalination and power plants continue - [Big tech - a watershed moment all round ++ Larry Ellison, Oracle](https://star4cast.com/big-tech-a-watershed-moment-all-round/) - A public reckoning has arrived for big tech with two US juries finding they were liable for products that inflict harm on young people. A jury in New Mexico ordered Meta to pay $375m in damages on Tuesday over claims that its products led to child sexual exploitation, among other harms. The following day, a - [Ukraine - Zelensky seeks Gulf alliances](https://star4cast.com/ukraine-zelensky-seeks-gulf-alliances/) - The pieces of the global chess board are shifting around dramatically with Ukraine signing a 10 year defence agreement with Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Ukraine has grown into one of the world’s leading producers of cutting-edge, battle-tested drone interceptors that are cheap and effective. In return Zelensky is seeking high-end air-defence missiles that Kyiv - [Tiger Woods - driven, determined, accident prone](https://star4cast.com/tiger-woods-drive-determined-accident-prone/) - Tiger Woods has had yet another crash, after rolling his car when he hit a truck at speed. He was released on bail following his arrest on charges of driving under the influence, not of alcohol which tested clear, but of drugs. He has been recovering from rupturing an Achilles tendon in March 2025 and - [Vance and Rubio - fall back team, mission impossible ++ Curtis Yarvin](https://star4cast.com/vance-and-rubio-fall-back-team-mission-impossible/) - J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio have been sent in to negotiate peace with Iran with explanations running from - 1) Trump needing someone to blame when it does not work; 2) Kushner and Witkoff, the first team, being either incapable of understanding the technicalities of a nuclear deal or according to the Iranians being deliberately - [Valerie Perrine - a wild child star of yesteryear](https://star4cast.com/valerie-perrine-a-wild-child-star-of-yesteryear/) - Valerie Perrine, the Las Vegas showgirl who fell into acting and gave memorable award-winning performances in Lenny playing his stripper girlfriend and Superman as Lex Luthor’s moll has died. The 1970s were her peak and while she continued to act afterwards never gained the same heights. Her life featured a few high risk moments: - [Alan Ritchson - channelling his Mars](https://star4cast.com/alan-ritchson-channelling-his-mars/) - Alan Ritchson, the epitome of a hard-man has earned him success in TV’s Reacher, now out for the fourth season. A recent squall with a neighbour which hit the headlines has fizzled out after police said he acted in self-defence. In the past he has admitted to being bi-polar and prone to depression but appears - [Questions and Astro Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-and-astro-comments/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar and in search. - [Solar Eclipse - repeating Gulf War 1](https://star4cast.com/solar-eclipse-repeating-gulf-war-1/) - Pondering on how the recent eclipse provided a backdrop for the present conflagration in the Middle East, the previous ones in this 18.5 year Saros cycle are significant if not cheering. Though it would have to be said in addition to problems there were also positive outcomes. Last time in 2008 oversaw the financial - [Maria Vorontsova - Putin for a father](https://star4cast.com/maria-vorontsova-putin-for-a-father/) - Maria Vorontsova, a Russian pediatric endocrinologist is the elder child of Vladimir Putin. She was married to a Dutch businessman and living in the Netherlands, until calls for her expulsion in 2014 after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down by pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine. She now lives in Moscow and is married to an - [Oil - Plutonic riches from the underworld](https://star4cast.com/oil-plutonic-riches-from-the-underworld/) - The first ever oil strike – 28 August 1859 4pm Titusville, PA, USA. It has an 8th house Sun Moon Mercury in practical, earthy Virgo and a Saturn Mars Venus in money-oriented Leo also in the 8th. So six planets in the deeply buried 8th house which has connections with business finance. Neptune - [Middle East mayhem - and so it goes on](https://star4cast.com/middle-east-mayhem-and-so-it-goes-on/) - Achieving an outright victory in a war that increasingly seems unwinnable may spur Netanyahu onwards. But Trump, as ever, gets spooked by the markets plunging, with his smash n’ grab raid turning into an expensive stalemate, costing US lives and threatening the economy. A former head of Iran research for Israel’s defence intelligence agency, - [Opus Dei - hypocrisy unveiled ++ Robert Hanssen](https://star4cast.com/opus-dei-hypocrisy-unveiled/) - Another crack in the right-wing conspiracy to dominate American culture comes with the escalating fallout from an expose of the religious sect Opus Dei – now sitting on Pope Leo’s desk for action. Its close association with Heritage Foundation (Project 25) Kevin Roberts and conservative activist Leonard Leo who has led the Republican mission to - [Taylor Frankie Paul - a powderkeg chart](https://star4cast.com/taylor-frankie-paul-a-powderkeg-chart/) - A cautionary tale about reality TV, social media influencers and religion in an arena way off my radar. Taylor Frankie Paul with 6 million TikTok followers, known for her comedy, dance and mothering content, lately featured in The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, whose "messy" reputation has become part of her brand has been - [Chuck Norris - violence was his vocation](https://star4cast.com/chuck-norris-violence-was-his-vocation/) - Actor Chuck Norris during a near-60-year acting career became ‘a pop culture emblem of alpha-male indestructibility.’ His films - Forced Vengeance, Hellbound, An Eye for an Eye, A Force of One, Silent Rage, were what they said they were. After the movies he moved into television in the 1990s with Walker, Texas Ranger. He has - [Jenni Murray - a woman of importance](https://star4cast.com/jenni-murray-a-woman-of-importance/) - Jenni Murray, the doyenne of BBC’s Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour for 33 years has died. Described as “humorous yet headmistressy, she was capable of switching from razor-sharp interrogation to flirtatious whimsicality and was equally at home presenting features on female genital mutilation as on home furnishings.” She interviewed all the major political figures of her - [Cesar Chavez - toppled off his pedestal ++ Dolores Huerta](https://star4cast.com/cesar-chavez-toppled-off-his-pedestal/) - US civil rights leader Cesar Chavez, who rose to become a secular saint for many for his advocacy of the rights of farm workers has been exposed in a New York Times report as a flawed hero for his abuse of women and underage girls. In his later years he became increasingly paranoid and autocratic. - [Roger Casement - a complicated man](https://star4cast.com/roger-casement-a-complicated-man/) - Roger Casement, a hero of the Irish resistance to the UK or a traitor or a sexual exploiter of young boys many of them African, is the subject of a new biography. In A Rebel and a Traitor, Rory Carroll explores the tortured soul of Roger Casement — the British diplomat turned Irish revolutionary who - [Astro comments and questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-35/) - Please add below. Older posts under News n top bar or in Search. - [American Round up 2 - Kent, Kushner, Witkoff](https://star4cast.com/american-round-up-2-kent-kushner-witkoff/) - The cracks are widening on the US domestic front as the Iran foray sinks deeper in the mire with Israel relentlessly knocking out the top Iranian leadership, unpleasant types admittedly, but ones who might well have made a deal to stop the deadly tit-for-tat. Joe Kent, the top US counterterrorism official has resigned over the - [American round up - Rubio, Vance and Carney](https://star4cast.com/american-round-up-rubio-vance-and-carney/) - Cometh the moment, cometh the man. What did we ever do to deserve this? The toddler tyrant flailing in all directions, setting off bushfires without thought of the consequences, used as a patsy by Netanyahu and others, but amped up with his own delusional sense of invincibility. After the Donaldonian apocalypse, what next? Secretary of - [Len Deighton - the Cold War brought him success](https://star4cast.com/len-deighton-the-cold-war-brought-him-success/) - Len Deighton, one of the masters of the spy novel has died aged 97. His Ipcress File later made into a movie with Michael Caine as Harry Palmer became an instant hit coinciding as it did with the troubled zeitgeist - the building of the Berlin Wall, the uncovering of Soviet moles and heightening cold - [Oscars - Jupiter crowns the winners](https://star4cast.com/oscars-jupiter-crowns-the-winners/) - Jupiter came up with the goods at last night’s Oscars with Michael B Jordan taking Best Actor for Sinners and Paul Thomas Anderson a raft of awards including best movie for One Battle After Another. Michael B Jordan, 9 February 1987 8.14pm Orange, California, has a Sun Aquarius in his 5th house and an exact - [War - broken campaign promises, Pope censure](https://star4cast.com/war-broken-campaign-promises-pope-censure/) - Random thoughts on Trump’s cluster-catastrophe in the Middle East. With transiting Uranus square the Israel Mars until April 5th it always looked unlikely to be a speedy Venezuelan swan-in, smash n’ grab. Despite cheer-leading from the White House there is a creeping realisation of the weakness of their self-created (why bother to forward plan?) situation - [Kelly McGillis - turning trauma to healing](https://star4cast.com/kelly-mcgillis-turning-trauma-to-healing/) - Kelly McGillis, once a Hollywood golden girl with top billing in Top Gun, Witness and The Accused, has settled into a contented life away from the glitter after coming to terms with several massively traumatic events in childhood and her adult life. She now works full-time at a drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre ‘It's just - [Jessie Buckley - distracted by a cat story](https://star4cast.com/jessie-buckley-distracted-by-a-cat-story/) - Jessie Buckley has been hyped as the favourite to win Best Actress in today’s Oscars for her performance as the grief-stricken Agnes Hathaway (Shakespeare’s wife) in Hamnet. But a recent interview in which she said she had insisted her boyfriend get rid of his cats before she moved in has set off a backlash. - [Spring equinox - rebirth into chaos and old hurts](https://star4cast.com/spring-equinox-rebirth-into-chaos-and-old-hurts/) - The Spring Equinox, a time of rebirth in the northern hemisphere, comes on 20th March as the Sun enters Aries beginning a new astrological cycle. It coincides with Nowruz, the Iranian New Year. The four Cardinal Ingresses of the year - Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn – are held to be significant in the quarter - [USA - coming to terms with Neptune](https://star4cast.com/usa-coming-to-terms-with-neptune/) - Standing back from the apocalyptic panic of the moment egged on by a sensationalist media and general population jitters, it is as well to remember that the cauldron of history is and always has been constantly bubbling. What seems insupportable now has been worse before and life moved one. Astrology does give broad sweep - [Hungary's Orban - low polls but powerful friends](https://star4cast.com/orban-low-polls-but-powerful-friends/) - With Hungary’s election approaching and Viktor Orban behind in the polls it is claimed that Russia has launched a secret disinformation campaign to help him win, depicting his main rival Peter Magyar, as an EU puppet. According to the media the plot has echoes of Moscow’s large-scale hybrid warfare campaign, which ultimately failed to swing - [Astro Comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-34/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in Search. - [Being right or losing the capacity to think](https://star4cast.com/being-right-or-losing-the-capacity-to-think/) - Nuance, complex thinking and the capacity to embrace paradox all seem to have got lost in a febrile mood of tribal identity and entrenched beliefs whether political, religious or other that now damps down intelligent debate. Disagreement ends in howl round. Maybe ‘twas always this or blame it on the can-be-fanatical and not-open-to-evidence Uranus Neptune - [Democrat hopefuls - dreaming on a star](https://star4cast.com/dem-hopefuls-dreaming-on-a-star/) - Democratic hopefuls for 2028 are normally a matter for internal consumption but since the world deserves better, a brief run round follows. To be remembered - astrology is a fairly imperfect instrument for making absolute political predictions. Though can be a reasonable guide so worth keeping in mind. J. B. Pritzker, 19 January 1965 1.01.pm - [Iran - new leader, IRGC, Putin and Trump Org](https://star4cast.com/iran-new-leader-irgc-putin-and-trump-org/) - Mojtaba Khamenei has been named successor in Iran despite him having little theological background and reservations about the Leadership being handed down the family line. Born 8 September 1969 Teheran (wiki), if accurate, makes him a Sun Virgo conjunct Pluto square Mars in Sagittarius – not dissimilar to Hassan Nasrullah, the former Hezbollah chief, assassinated - [Gerry Adams - Northern Ireland's troubled past](https://star4cast.com/gerry-adams-northern-irelands-troubled-past/) - A civil court case against the former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has opened at the High Court in London. Three IRA bomb victims are seeking a ruling that he is personally liable for decisions to plant car bombs in London and Manchester in 1973 and 1996 and are suing him for a nominal £1 - [Meghan - high price when fame goes sour](https://star4cast.com/meghan-high-price-when-fame-goes-sour/) - Meghan Markle’s flower sprinkled hostess show has been dropped by Netflix after low ratings with brave words about the virtues of going it alone. Showbusiness and the public arena is no place for the faint-hearted when the best efforts of PR puffs and a loyal fan base don’t produce the numbers. She does have - [Gavin Newsom - logjammed in 2028 ++ Talarico](https://star4cast.com/gavin-newsom-logjammed-in-2028-talarico/) - Gavin Newsom, handsome, articulate and fighting back with wit and punch, is apparently the Democratic hope for 2028. Born 20 October 1967 5.13 am San Francisco, with his father a state appeals court judge, he took a degree in political science, went into the wine business and then into local politics as Mayor of San - [Cillian Murphy - what lies behind the eyes](https://star4cast.com/cillian-murphy-what-lies-behind-the-eyes/) - The wondrous Cillian Murphy is back as the war-damaged gypsy gangster Tommy Shelby in a one-off film The Immortal Man bringing the six series of TV Peaky Blinders into World War 11. Nearly 50, he says he has been playing the role for a quarter of his life. Lauded also for his Oscar-winning role as - [Middle East tinderbox - thoughts from afar](https://star4cast.com/middle-east-tinderbox-thoughts-from-afar/) - Trying to get a cohesive sense of where the present Middle Eastern debacle is heading is not easy. Qatar says the crisis will bring world economies down as oil runs out. There are ominous reports from the fear-mongering Daily Mail that Russia is feeding Iran info on where to bomb US warships. Other more - [Liza Minnelli - not for the faint hearted](https://star4cast.com/liza-minnelli-not-for-the-faint-hearted/) - Liza Minelli has written a ‘rip-roaring new memoir’ Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! about her extraordinary and damaged upbringing with her mother Judy Garland from whom she inherited an addictive streak and an inclination to fall for gay men. Garland battled serious addiction and mental health problems, having been pumped full of slimming, - [Panchi Kun - melting a million hearts](https://star4cast.com/panchi-kun-melting-a-million-hearts/) - Panchi Kun, a Macaque baby monkey abandoned by his mother was given an orangutan stuffed-toy by zoo staff as a comforter and became a viral hit on the net. Zoo visits shot up and tearful Instagram fans across the globe cheered him on as he eventually became socialized and accepted into the Macaque tribe. He - [Middle East - past oil crises and Saturn Pluto](https://star4cast.com/middle-east-past-crises-and-saturn-pluto/) - After initial consternation about the Middle Eastern conflagration and the closing of the Straits of Hormuz which control a fifth of the world’s oil and seaborne gas supply there are slivers of not exactly hope but possible ways out of the disaster without setting off World War 111. There are still those who reckon - [Neil Sedaka - musical Pisces plus Neptune](https://star4cast.com/neil-sedaka-musical-pisces-plus-neptune/) - Another musical icon gone with the passing of Neil Sedaka at 86. He started as a teen idol in the 1950s and his hits are still played today - Stupid Cupid,(Is This The Way To) Amarillo, Oh! Carol, Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen and Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, Solitaire, Love Will Keep Us Together. - [Middle East - sand storms not subsiding soon ++ Trump midpoints, Caine, Wiles](https://star4cast.com/middle-east-sand-storms-not-subsiding-soon/) - Shock and awe and the world holds its breath. One theory is that Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman leant on Trump to go ahead, since most of the Middle Eastern countries dislike the Islamic Republic and see it as a destabilising force. Will it pull the region minus Iran together? Or will it cause a - [Astro Comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-33/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in Search. - [Woke - Saturn in Aries and self-reliance](https://star4cast.com/woke-saturn-in-aries-and-self-reliance/) - Woke or stay awake has been in use since the late 19th century as an invocation to stand against racial prejudice and discrimination. Over time, woke came to be used to refer to a broader awareness of social inequalities such as sexism and denial of LGBTQ rights and became the shorthand for the US Left - [Iran v Israel/USA - the Middle East in turmoil](https://star4cast.com/iran-v-israel-usa-the-middle-east-in-turmoil/) - A joint US-Israel strike on Iran set off explosions in Teheran shortly after 9.30am, and other hits were reported across the country in several cities. Iran retaliated with attacks on US air bases across the Middle East in Kuwait, Bahrein, Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The violent escalation took place with Mars in late Aquarius - [Tracy Emin - howl of agony](https://star4cast.com/tracy-emin-howl-of-agony/) - Social history versus art might well be the title of Tate Modern’s Tracy Emin A Second Life retrospective. 30 years ago her installation “My Bed” shot her to a tabloid fame and then gradually to national treasure though retaining her reputation as a “swearing, sexually aggressive provocateur.” Her initial foray into conceptual art was - [Saturn Neptune - marching to different drumbeats](https://star4cast.com/saturn-neptune-marching-to-different-drumbeats/) - With the Saturn Neptune conjunction omnipresent in the celestial sphere and bringing to prominence individuals who have it writ large in their charts it seemed worthwhile looking across the spectrum of ways it can be lived out. It has been given a litany of meanings from social reformer to artist, to neurotic, to a - [UK elections - lacking heartfelt choices](https://star4cast.com/uk-elections-lacking-heartfelt-choices/) - A three-way wild card byelection between Reform, the Greens and Labour in south-east Manchester today will add to Keir Starmer’s woes with the pressure continuing to mount towards the more significant May 7 local byelections. A delightful cartoon this morning has a voter asking whether she could vote “off menu” which largely sums up - [Storm clouds over UK's green and pleasant land](https://star4cast.com/storm-clouds-over-uks-green-and-pleasant-land/) - The UK ruling classes, political and Royal, have been holed below the waterline, in a moment that must be history changing with the King’s brother and the Labour Party/present government’s high mandarin both hauled in by the police. The left can’t call foul on the monarchy since they are equally in the frame. Reading - [Andrew relocated - and Mandelson](https://star4cast.com/andrew-relocated-and-mandelson/) - The worst Royal crisis since the abdication of King Edward in late 1936 is probably an exaggeration since Andrew is 8th in line to the throne (at present). But there were significant and relatively similar though stronger influences then – both tr Pluto and Solar Arc Pluto were bearing down on the 10th house - [Mexico - cartel wreaking vengeance](https://star4cast.com/mexico-cartel-wreaking-vengeance/) - Mexico is under siege as members of the Jalisco Cartel, one of the most powerful and feared criminal organisations in the country, have unleashed a wave of violence across 20 Mexican states in retaliation to the killing of their leader "El Mencho". He died in custody shortly after being captured by Mexican special forces. As - [Alysa Liu - skating a singular path](https://star4cast.com/alysa-liu-skating-a-singular-path/) - American figure skater Alysa Liu won the Olympic gold in both women's singles and in the team event in show-stopping style. After missing out on medals in the previous Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022 she retired from the sport citing burnout but returned in better form than ever last year. She was a prodigy who - [Astro comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-32/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar and in Search - [Eric Dane - a sad goodbye](https://star4cast.com/eric-dane-a-sad-goodbye/) - Actor Eric Dane, best known for Gray’s Anatomy and recently Euphoria has died aged at 53 from ALS. He was was initially only contracted to appear in one episode of the medical series but starred in a further 138, revolutionising the show along the way. A struggle with prescription drug addiction led to his plane - [Fire Horse Year - a turbulent history](https://star4cast.com/fire-horse-year-a-turbulent-history/) - Fire Horse year in Chinese astrology brings dynamic energy and bold change. Experts say it will bring an intense mood with fast-paced change on a personal and global level. But the heightened energy needs to be managed wisely - slowing down before making major decisions, staying grounded, and cultivating emotional steadiness will be vital. - [UK - a right royal mess](https://star4cast.com/uk-a-right-royal-mess/) - The UK blinks as the former Prince Andrew is taken into custody with King Charles saying the law must take its course and the police talking about possible misconduct in public office charges, while cautioning about publication of anything that might lead to contempt of court charges. On the UK chart, the 10th - [Gisele Pelicot - refusing the misery label](https://star4cast.com/gisele-pelicot-refusing-the-misery-label/) - Gisele Pelicot, an ordinary housewife, drugged by her husband and raped by an estimated 72 men over a decade, became ‘a figure of astonishing power’ when she insisted on an open trial and has now written an inspiring memoir A Hymn to Life. After her husband was arrested for upskirting, the police having seized his - [Antonia Romeo - a high-octane Libra](https://star4cast.com/antonia-romeo-a-super-charged-libra/) - In the meltdown that is Keir Starmer’s jinxed rule, yet another furore is unfolding. His replacement for the ousted senior civil servants, forced to carry the can for past missteps, turns out to bring baggage of her own to the party. None of which matters a jot in the wider world but Antonia Romeo’s chart - [Jesse Jackson - a super-charged orator](https://star4cast.com/jesse-jackson-a-super-charged-orator/) - Jesse Jackson, civil rights activist who became the US’s first black presidential candidate has died. He played a leading role in virtually every campaign for civil rights, sexual and racial equality, and economic and social justice. One of America’s best known public figures, he was called the “conscience of the nation” and “the great unifier”. - [Robert Duvall - a Hollywood titan](https://star4cast.com/robert-duvall-a-hollywood-titan/) - Veteran actor Robert Duvall has died after a long and memorable career where he often played secondary characters but usually was the one remembered for his steely performance. He had notable roles in To Kill a Mockingbird, M*A*S*H, The Conversation and Network but reached his pinnacle as the self-effacing consigliere in The Godfather, alongside Brando - [Glyphs - see names in search](https://star4cast.com/glyphs-see-names-in-search/) - Chariklo Psyche Nessus Eris Juno True Black Moon Lilith (as opposed to mean Lilith which is marginally different) - [Black Moon Lilith - living wild and free](https://star4cast.com/black-moon-lilith-living-wild-and-free/) - Lilith Untamed, a Guide to the Astrological Black Moon, by Christina Rodenbeck, is a richly detailed look at yet another addition to the astrological lexicon. Signifying the untamed, wilder, anti-social elements of human temperament, the author relates it to Adam’s first wife in paradise who refused to accept the inferior role, and to the - [King Charles - family and cash woes](https://star4cast.com/king-charles-family-and-cash-woes/) - Family and finances are the two vexations of Charles’ early reign, apart from his health scare. Calls for brother Andrew to be held accountable before the law for his enmeshed relationship with Epstein over women and in many ways more seriously – handing over inside financial information from his time as trade envoy are a - [Washington Post & Bezos - dimming the light](https://star4cast.com/washington-post-bezos-darkening-of-the-light/) - Does Jeff Bezos have a sense of irony? Democracy Dies in Darkness proudly proclaims the Washington Post masthead as he takes a machete to the staff, culling hundreds of journalists, axing half its foreign bureau (including the war reporter in Ukraine). It has been described as “the biggest one-day wipeout of journalists in a generation”. - [See saw charts - two halves trying to be whole ++ more examples](https://star4cast.com/see-saw-charts-two-halves-trying-to-be-whole/) - See saw charts are evidently one of the rarer configurations, indicating complex, not always stable temperaments who are constantly dancing between opposing sides of themselves, trying to find a balance and a way of integrating their inner incompatibility. They are constantly pulled between alternatives and two distinct, often competing sides of their personality. Sometimes they - [Alexei Navalny - driven by a vision](https://star4cast.com/alexi-navalny-driven-by-a-vision/) - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was killed two years ago in a Siberian penal colony using a poison developed from a dart frog toxin, UK and European allies have said. There is no innocent explanation for the toxin, called epibatidine, being found in samples taken from Navalny's body, the UK Foreign Office said. He - [Astro Comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-31/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar and in Search - [Cuba - the bell is tolling](https://star4cast.com/cuba-the-bell-is-tolling/) - Cuba, already on its knees after decades of communist rule, is facing collapse as Trump has cut off vital Venezuelan oil supplies and strong-armed the Mexican government to do likewise. According to reports, people are starving, many living in extreme poverty without even one meal a day. Daily power cuts commonly last 20 - [Scotland - Neptune in Pisces dream subsides](https://star4cast.com/scotland-neptune-in-pisces-dreams-subside/) - Another Neptune in Pisces dream dies as former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell and husband of Nicola Sturgeon faces a charge of embezzling £459,000 from the party over 12 years. He is accused of illicitly purchasing items including luxury goods, jewellery, cosmetics, two cars and a motorhome. He made no plea during an initial appearance - [Galileo - condemned for being right](https://star4cast.com/galileo-condemned-for-being-right/) - Galileo Galilei, the Italian astronomer known as the "father of modern science", stood trial for the second time on 13 February 1633 for the heresy of proclaiming that the Earth revolves around the Sun. He had revolutionized astronomy using an improved telescope to discover Jupiter's moons, Venus's phases, and lunar craters but his support for - [Wuthering Heights - dark and destructive](https://star4cast.com/wuthering-heights-dark-and-destructive/) - Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte's classic novel has been given a 'hyper-sexualised' makeover in a new Jacob Elordi/Margot Robbie film. The provocative scenes in question are erotic, with much moaning and writhing though they are not explicit. One reviewer pointed out the passionate Heathcliff Cathy love affair had been interpreted in different ways at different times, - [Eclipses 2026 - new era getting underway](https://star4cast.com/eclipses-2026-new-era-getting-underway/) - The Solar Eclipse on 17 February 2026 at 28 degrees Aquarius is square Uranus so will bring sudden surprises, perhaps opportunities but certainly a change of direction. Uranus also square Mars for an uncompromising mood and over-reactions. A positive Mercury trine Jupiter. And the exact Saturn Neptune conjunction in Aries sextile Pluto. The path of - [Bad Bunny - catching the mood of the moment](https://star4cast.com/bad-bunny-catching-the-mood-of-the-moment/) - Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny smashed the record for the most watched Super Bowl Halftime Show in Santa Clara, California with a historic 135.4 million views. And became the first musician to perform entirely in Spanish at a Super Bowl. Benito Martínez Ocasio has been Spotify’s top annual streaming artist four times and has helped - [Lindsey Vonn - super human self-confidence](https://star4cast.com/lyndsey-vonn-super-human-self-confidence/) - American downhill skier Lindsey Vonn was airlifted to hospital in Switzerland on Friday after crashing in the final World Cup race before the Games. Despite her ligament injury she is still "very hopeful" she can compete at the Winter Olympics in on Sunday. Her belief in herself is unshakable. In her early career she won four World - [Rudolf Steiner - a complicated legacy](https://star4cast.com/rudolf-steiner-a-complicated-legacy/) - Rudolf Steiner, founder of an esoteric spiritual movement, a philosopher, social reformer and educationalist, has attracted devoted followers as well as critics for his racist, antisemitic and pseudo-scientific beliefs (according to mainstream academics). His Waldorf inspired schools opened in Stuttgart in 1919 and have spread across Europe and the USA. Recently there have been scandals - [US ship of state - on stormy seas](https://star4cast.com/us-ship-of-state-on-stormy-seas/) - When behind-the-scenes political aides become the focus of media attention it usually spells trouble ahead. They fall on their swords or are pushed; and then spill the beans. The UK is following a well-trodden path with Morgan McSweeney exiting stage left carrying the can for Starmer. In the US, Trump-inspirer Stephen Miller has recently found - [Uranus in Taurus - echoes of the past ++ more innovations + Uranus against the biology - trans and gender debate](https://star4cast.com/uranus-in-taurus-echoes-of-the-past/) - Trailblazing, sky-ruler Uranus has been moving through earthy, rooted Taurus since 2018 and will exit in April. Past experience of this hybrid mix which recurs every 84 years has been a focus on trade and money, climate and natural disasters and inventions. During this recent phase there has been an escalation in high-impact climate disasters - [Anaretic - kill the old to initiate the new](https://star4cast.com/anaretic-kill-the-old-to-initiate-the-new/) - "I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast." Audre Lorde Standing on the brink can be scary evoking images of cliff edges or even trepidation about being on the threshold of what is unfamiliar. With the four outer planets hovering in that critical phase of transition between what has been - [Astro Comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-30/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar and in Search - [Norway Royals - caught in the Epstein web](https://star4cast.com/norway-royals-caught-in-the-epstein-web/) - The long ripple of contamination from Epstein has entangled Norway’s Crown Princess Mette Marit with newly released emails suggesting she was still in contact with him just months before his suicide. She is already on the ropes with the trial starting of her son Marius Borg Hoiby, born before her marriage to Crown Prince - [August Solar Eclipse - prospect of relief](https://star4cast.com/august-solar-eclipse-prospect-of-relief/) - A ray of sunshine breaking through the dark clouds will come with this coming August’s Total Solar Eclipse at 20 degrees Leo. [Sorry not tomorrow.] The 10 South Saros series points to a time of breaking out of a negative situation which has seemed hopeless into a more positive space with more options available. - [Robert Burns - an Aquarius trailblazer](https://star4cast.com/robert-burns-an-aquarius-trailblazer/) - Robert Burns is celebrated every year on the anniversary of his birth on January 25th with suppers, haggis, bagpipes, accordions and renditions of his best known songs - "A Red, Red Rose", "A Man's a Man for A' That", "To a Louse", "To a Mouse", "Tam o' Shanter", "Halloween" and "Ae Fond Kiss". Hogmanay the - [ICE deaths - Trump bad answer to right questions ++ Alex Pretti revised DOB](https://star4cast.com/ice-deaths-trump-bad-answer-to-right-questions/) - The ICE shooting of two civilians this month has shown up cracks in the support for White House methods of handling the immigration problem. Greg Bovino, Commander from Border Patrol has been moved out of the front line. Born 27 March 1970 in California, he is a defiant, uncompromising Sun Aries opposition Uranus with a - [Ed Miliband - Uranus in overdrive](https://star4cast.com/ed-miliband-uranus-in-overdrive/) - Ed Miliband is UK Secretary for Energy, dubbed ‘Red Ed’ by his brother David when he beat him by a hair breadth in the 2010 Labour Party leadership elections, courtesy of backing from trade unions. Ed's Net Zero policies are divisive, with criticisms of higher running costs and Tony Blair saying they are doomed to - [Solar Eclipse - homing in on Washington DC ++ Ukraine](https://star4cast.com/solar-eclipse-homing-in-on-washington-dc/) - At the risk of overdosing on Trump and raising tensions further - there is an astrological hotspot approaching which connects the February 17th Solar Eclipse at 28 degrees Aquarius square Uranus to many of the White House acolytes The eclipsed New Moon relocated to Washington DC sits exactly on the Ascendant, hinting that even more - [Psyche - an asteroid looking for a soulmate](https://star4cast.com/psyche-an-asteroid-looking-for-a-soulmate/) - Mention love and rom-com fans go weak at the knees, their eyes glazing over. But the myth of Psyche, the mortal wife of Cupid, points to the heroic journey demanded before she can come together with her soulmate. She has to undergo trials and tribulations on the path to true love which can only be - [Starmer - lying down with the dragon](https://star4cast.com/starmer-lying-down-with-the-dragon/) - Starmer’s much lauded visit to China to thaw the ice age of relations and embrace Xi Jinping without managing to address China’s human rights abuses or fears of surveillance on UK territory has left analysts perplexed. Meagre gifts bestowed by Beijing were visa-free travel for visits of less than 30 days; stemming the flow of - [Saturn Pluto - seriously determined](https://star4cast.com/saturn-pluto-seriously-determined/) - Saturn Pluto evokes thoughts of war, hardship and deprivation but it has an often overlooked ability to create. Associated with the magician it can wield power for good as well as ill. Liz Greene talks of the obsessiveness, intense frustration and self-destructive quality of Saturn–Pluto contacts in a chart — purification through ordeal by - [Astro comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-29/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar and in Search. - [Iran - convenient distraction from woes at home](https://star4cast.com/iran-convenient-distraction-from-woes-at-home/) - Deflecting from domestic unrest and failures into foreign forays is standard for unpopular political leaders but having been voted in on an avoiding-military entanglements-abroad platform, Trump’s latest broadside against Iran is unlikely to appeal to his MAGA voters. A build-up of US military forces in the Gulf with a naval fleet headed by the Aircraft - [Mars Saturn - a difficult combo but with benefits ++ Daniel Craig, Greg Bovino, Katie Price](https://star4cast.com/mars-saturn-a-difficult-combo-but-with-benefits/) - Mars, in mythology the god of war, fiery, competitive, pro-active, high vitality and aggressive, in aspect to slow-moving, cold-hearted, judgmental, stickler-for-rules Saturn is an awkward combination. Whether in natal charts, synastry, composites or in outer events it tends to accompany troubling experiences. Mars says ‘I want’ ‘I am’ ‘I intend to do’ and - [Mark Tully - understanding India](https://star4cast.com/mark-tully-understanding-india/) - Mark Tully, the BBC “voice of India” over sixty years, garnered respect with his impartial and knowledgeable reporting from within his adoptive home. Rajiv Gandhi evidently refused to believe rumours of his mother Indira Gandhi’s assassination in 1984 until Tully confirmed it on the radio. The affection for him transcended political affiliation. He was given - [Alex Honnold - Mars Jupiter flying high ++ steeplejack Fred Dibnah](https://star4cast.com/alex-honnold-mars-jupiter-flying-high/) - Alex Honnold, an American rock climber, has succeeded in a free solo climb of the Taipei 101 tower in Taiwan, the tallest urban free solo climb in history. He rose to worldwide fame in 2017 when he became the first person to free solo a full route on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, a - [The Astrologer's Universe - an invaluable primer](https://star4cast.com/the-astrologers-universe-an-invaluable-primer/) - “It is a plain fact that astrology is a pack of lies in a literal sense … each and every horoscope … is an attack on the probity of science.” On the frontispiece of an invaluable primer about astrology by Geoffrey Cornelius and Maggie Hyde are listed the lame and sometimes mendacious brickbats thrown at - [UK politics - Labour struggling to plan ahead ++ LP 1900 chart no more cheerful](https://star4cast.com/uk-politics-labour-struggling-to-plan-ahead/) - As Keir Starmer sinks into a grey haze of his own making, and Andy Burnham, mayor of Greater Manchester, looms as a credible replacement, the question is whether a leadership change would make much difference to the Labour Party’s fortunes ahead. Keir Starmer’s Leadership chart, 4 April 2020 10.45am London is looking at its most - [Trump unhinged - when will the elastic snap? ++ Nero chart ++ TACO as markets fall ++ Kent State shootings and Vietnam: Pluto on Leo North Node ++ Stephen Miller = Caligula](https://star4cast.com/trump-unhinged-when-will-the-elastic-snap/) - The media are scathing across the board about Trump’s descent into ‘power addiction’. “Nato’s future lies in the hands of a modern Caligula.” ” Can we not all finally see the evidence of a seriously diseased mind?” “There is no point in dancing around this. The most powerful man in the world is as mad - [Princess Eugenie - another Neptune in the 4th](https://star4cast.com/princess-eugenie-another-neptune-in-the-4th/) - Princess Eugenie, younger daughter of the former Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, is said to be distancing herself from her parents over the fallout from their association with Jeffrey Epstein. She is a co-founder and director of the Anti-Slavery Collective and has been active in speaking out against human trafficking and violence against women. She - [Beckham family pile-up - Pluto at play ++Neptune in 4th](https://star4cast.com/beckham-family-pile-up-pluto-at-play/) - ‘Don’t complain, don’t explain’ does not apparently appeal to the Beckham family as a rule to live by. Yet more toe-curling brickbats have emerged with an Instagram (where else??) post by son Brooklyn slinging mud in various directions mainly at mother Victoria. It would be tasteful to throw a veil over the gripes and swipes - [Midpoints - tracking the connections ++ USA and 2025 Inauguration](https://star4cast.com/midpoints-tracking-the-connections/) - Midpoints add a layer of understanding to the complexities of the birth chart and come in handy when birth times are suspect and houses difficult to establish with accuracy. Transits to midpoints fill in gaps when standard transits lack vital information. In Donald Trump’s case where the natal chart is backed by his birth - [Astro comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-28/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in Search - [India Pakistan ahead - stressed Mars](https://star4cast.com/india-pakistan-ahead-stressed-mars/) - India and Pakistan share the same start date after the bloody partition in the late 1940s though with different times for their state’s foundation. But both have Mars at zero degrees Cancer which will be rattled by tr Saturn and Neptune late this month to the end of February, which suggests a setback, flare up - [Buddhist Walk for Peace - a catalyst for change?](https://star4cast.com/buddhist-walk-for-peace-a-catalyst-for-change/) - A group of Buddhist monks are over halfway along a 2,300-mile Walk for Peace from Texas to Washington DC, seeking to raise awareness of “peace, loving kindness and compassion”. There are 18 monks, two of whom are following a Buddhist practice of never lying down during the three-month journey. One was injured in a car - [Hugh Laurie - from buffoon to Blofeld](https://star4cast.com/hugh-laurie-from-buffoon-to-blofeld/) - Hugh Laurie is on top career form with two hit series on TV this week. He makes a surprise return as the ‘worst man in the world’ arms’ dealer Roper in the Night Manager 2 and as the nuclear inspector in Tehran on Apple TV. By any reckoning he has had the most extraordinary and - [Media porn - Mars split from Venus](https://star4cast.com/media-porn-mars-split-from-venus/) - As anxieties soar about the state of the globe, the entertainment world amuses and distracts with the latest hit Heated Rivalry about two gay Canadian hockey players. Based on a best-selling trilogy of novels by Canadian Rachel Reid, a lifelong hockey fan who worried about homophobia in the sport, it has created a storm in - [New Zealand - hauling out of difficulties](https://star4cast.com/new-zealand-hauling-out-of-difficulties/) - New Zealand has been on a long haul post-Covid with a punishing Pluto trail through its domestic 4th house across its Sun Mars in late Capricorn and square its Pluto which has now finished. Tr Pluto is moving to square the 6th house Uranus from mid February 2026 to late 2027 which suggests a definite - [Julio Iglesias - a fateful accident](https://star4cast.com/julio-iglesias-a-fateful-accident/) - Super-star singer of yesteryear Julio Iglesias is being investigated by Spanish judiciary over sexual assault allegations by two former workers. He has been a household name in Spain since the 1960s and was established as a star in the English-speaking entertainment industry with his million selling 1984 album, which included the single "To All - [Charlie Dalin - a legendary endurance test ++ women solo sailors with Pluto](https://star4cast.com/charlie-dalin-a-legendary-endurance-test/) - Away from tawdry politics, meltdown neurosis about the state of the world and flim flam celebrities, there is the inspiring and remarkable tale of Charlie Dalin, a French offshore sailor. Having been diagnosed with gastrointestinal cancer, he decided against the odds to compete in and won the Vendée Globe yacht race around the world last - [EU ahead - forced into a radical rethink](https://star4cast.com/eu-ahead-forced-into-a-radical-rethink/) - The EU is facing a troubled few years ahead with dashed hopes on the financial front, underhand secrets and dirty dealings exploding into the open, and severe perhaps existential challenges at the end of the decade. On the 31 December 1957 11pm Brussels chart, tr Pluto will square the 2nd house Neptune through 2026/27 - [Trump over-reach - flying too near the sun ++ promises turning to dust ++ Exxon 'uninvestable' ++ Greenland massive logistical difficulties](https://star4cast.com/trump-over-reach-flying-too-near-the-sun/) - "Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order." Samuel Beckett “Follow me, or get out of my way.” George S. Patton "Tossing your rope before building a loop don't ketch the calf." Cowboy proverb Getting a handle on Trump’s vainglorious swagger about picking off Cuba, Mexico, Greenland, Colombia and attempting to reduce this blitzkrieg - [Jerome Powell - refusing to bow the knee](https://star4cast.com/jerome-powell-refusing-to-bow-the-knee/) - Jerome Powell, head of the US Federal Reserve, has said the criminal investigation into him is a pretext. “The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the president.” Trump has repeatedly - [Australia - waving Saturn goodbye for now ++ AU settlement 1788 ++ Melbourne midnight chart](https://star4cast.com/australia-waving-saturn-goodbye-for-now/) - Australia’s 2026 opened with catastrophic bushfires in Victoria and a climb down from PM Anthony Albanese in agreeing to a royal commission into last month's shooting at Bondi Beach which targeted a Jewish festival and left 15 people dead. He had previously argued that reforms on gun ownership and hate speech, steps to tackle antisemitism - [Trump's trusty wingmen - unravelling by 2028](https://star4cast.com/trumps-trusty-wingmen-unravelling-by-2028/) - The two Trump henchmen, son-in-law Jared Kushner and son Donald Jnr, will be a better guide ahead since neither is likely to be tossed aside as other high-level appointees might be when/if they fall out of favour. Donald Jnr, 31 December 1977, starts a long trail of transiting Neptune undermining his Venus in - [Astrological prediction - optimism v pessimism](https://star4cast.com/astrological-prediction-optimism-v-pessimism/) - Bias in astrological prediction is all-too-common and to a degree understandable but a hazard to keep in mind and avoid where possible. Since astrology points to a spectrum of possible and potential developments, there can never be absolute certainty about a definite outcome. There will be a range of likelihoods though the ‘mood music’ - [Astro comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-27/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in Search. - [Iran on the brink - will people power win?](https://star4cast.com/iran-on-the-brink-will-people-power-win/) - Iran is in turmoil with widespread demonstrations which have happened before and been crushed with gunfire, arrests, imprisonment and torture but this time there is a sense that “it is different”. The 49 year repressive, theocratic dictatorship of the ‘beards’ under the present Ayatollah Khamenei may be crumbling and their collapse, analysts say, would be - [Canada 2026 - arguments and eruptions](https://star4cast.com/canada-2026-arguments-and-eruptions/) - Prospects for Canada ahead point to intense, heated, at times bitter discussions ongoing from mid February 2026 on and off till late 2027 as tr Pluto opposes the Mercury. With tensions erupting from August 2026 into 2027 as tr Uranus in the financial 2nd squares the Mars on the cusp of the 6th house of - [Minneapolis shooting - twisting the truth](https://star4cast.com/minneapolis-shooting-twisting-the-truth/) - The outrage over the Minneapolis shooting of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, a prize-winning poet and a hobby guitarist, by an immigration agent is likely to fester. Conflicting versions of the actualite have the Trump camp labelling her a domestic terrorist while city leaders claim she was there as a legal observer - [Chevy Chase - blowing the chance to be better](https://star4cast.com/chevy-chase-blowing-the-chance-to-be-better/) - Actor Chevy Chase a once-loved, huge comedy star of the 1980s whose career sank under the weight of his addiction issues and reputation for rudeness is featured in a documentary made with his blessing titled I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not. Which just goes to show that the lack of self-awareness which damaged his standing is - [Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen - spies and traitors](https://star4cast.com/aldrich-ames-robert-hanssen-spies-and-traitors/) - Aldrich Ames, the most damaging CIA traitor in agency history who reportedly caused the deaths of at least 10 recruited CIA or allied intelligence agents, by handing their names to the Soviets for money, has died after 30 years in prison. He said financial troubles were partly what led him to spy as well as - [Katherine Ryan - a Cancerian dynamo](https://star4cast.com/katherine-ryan-a-cancerian-dynamo/) - Katherine Ryan, Canadian comedian, is continuing her roll of UK successes with First Born Daughter on Sky Comedy. Provocative and ballsy, she flaunts a feminine image, unusually for a stand up comedienne, with no holds barred on stories of her early sexual adventures and mistake of a first marriage. She is now settled with four - [Heavenly Headlines - January](https://star4cast.com/heavenly-headlines-january/) - The Sun, Venus, Mercury and Mars all in earthy Capricorn with Jupiter across in Cancer will make for a lively start to the New Year after the Full Moon on the 3rd has passed. Capricorn is known for indulgence and seeking out pleasure as well as being money minded and status conscious. Gradually after midmonth - [USA 2026 - struggling to revision its identity ++ Pluto Jupiter for might-makes-right](https://star4cast.com/usa-2026-struggling-to-revision-its-identity/) - The USA was always going to be undergoing a history-changing phase as two of its chart squares - Sun Saturn and Mars Neptune - collided by Solar Arc. Starting in the summer of 2024 the Solar Arc Saturn was conjunct the USA Mars for a setback and now squares the US Neptune for high - [May Britt - targeted by US racial prejudice](https://star4cast.com/may-britt-targeted-by-us-racial-prejudice/) - May Britt, the blonde Swedish actress who in her Hollywood heyday starred in War and Peace, The Young Lions and The Blue Angel but found her career ended when she married entertainer Sammy Davis Jnr has died at 91. At that time nearly half of American states banned interracial marriage, which were not legalised nationwide - [Astro comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-26/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in Search - [David Bowie - a Capricorn rebel](https://star4cast.com/david-bowie-a-capricorn-rebel/) - David Bowie has been graced with a documentary about his final years a decade after his death in January 2016 from liver cancer. Regarded as one of the most influential musicians ever, he constantly reinvented himself, being dubbed the "chameleon of rock". And he influenced more musical genres than any other rock star, from glam - [Venezuela - the spoils of war may turn sour](https://star4cast.com/venezuela-the-spoils-of-war-may-turn-sour/) - With a midheaven on his Gemini Sun Trump gave the order to extract Maduro at 10.46pm on January 2nd. When the mission landed at 2.01 am the midheaven was conjunct his secretive, duplicitous and double-dealing 12th house Pluto. The swampy and ill-starred Neptune Saturn Scheat in late Pisces was prominent in both; and Uranus conjunct - [Venezuela - a US smash and grab mission ++ Oil chart](https://star4cast.com/venezuela-a-us-smash-and-grab-mission/) - The US has attacked Venezuela and captured President Nicolas Maduro and his wife. Attorney General Pam Bondi says he has been indicted in New York on drugs and weapons charges and Secretary of State Marco Rubio anticipates no further action against Venezuela. Reports say that Maduro earlier this week wanted to reach a deal - [Epstein, the end - another smokescreen](https://star4cast.com/epstein-the-end-another-smokescreen/) - In death as in life and the aftermath Jeffrey Epstein has/had an intriguing way of casting a sinister and lingering smokescreen over events. His misdeeds earned him a brief holiday-camp prison sentence. His legacy has left a swirling cloud of suspicion but as yet only the hapless (and unpleasant) Ghislaine has been nailed. And his - [China 2026 - banking panic](https://star4cast.com/china-2026-banking-panic/) - China having pushed the Trump-tariff offensive to one side without blinking, is surrounding Taiwan in a simulation blockade and talking up China’s future role in global governance. Xi’s third five-year term of office expires in 2027 and he has given no hint that he has any intention to step down. The policy ahead seems to - [Switzerland fire - Solar eclipse pointers](https://star4cast.com/switzerland-fire-solar-eclipse-pointers/) - The Switzerland night club fire has claimed at least 40 lives with over a hundred injured, many with third degree burns, though it could take days or even weeks to be sure of the numbers. It broke out at 1.30am in Crans, Switzerland, on January 2026 with Jupiter in Cancer conjunct the Midheaven (as - [Tiger Woods - a sporting challenge](https://star4cast.com/tiger-woods-a-sporting-challenge/) - Tiger Woods has turned 50 still recovering from multiple injuries sustained in two car crashes, and a recently ruptured Achilles tendon plus his seventh back surgery last year to replace a disk in his lower back that caused pain and mobility issues. He hasn't said whether he intends to play on the Senior PGA Tour. - [Timothee Chalamet - a man of the moment](https://star4cast.com/timothee-chalamet-a-man-of-the-moment/) - Timothee Chalamet, the French-American actor is omnipresent starting the year with a well-reviewed Bob Dylan biopic and finishing up with an Oscar-worthy Marty Supreme based in the life of Marty Mauser, a showman in the high-octane world of competitive table tennis. The character is described as ‘a shameless, entitled, arrogant, selfish and juvenile Wheaties box - [Israel and the Middle East - rolling turmoil](https://star4cast.com/israel-and-the-middle-east-rolling-turmoil/) - The endless turmoil of the Middle East rolls on as Iran escalates tensions with threats of nuclear responses and Israel maintains conflicts on several fronts with Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria, and Hamas in Gaza – and allows/promotes 19 new West Bank settlements. Netanyahu is in Mar-a-Lago for Trump talks as the US administration - [Holly & Adam wedding - empty seats ++ Caroline Peaty ++ Brooklyn and David](https://star4cast.com/holly-adam-wedding-empty-seats/) - “I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.” Charles Dickens. Except when celebrity families fall out with new spouses opening up rifts with the previous generation, seized on with glee by the tabloid press. Olympian swimmer Adam Peaty today married Holly Ramsay daughter of the - [Brigitte Bardot - freedom to offend](https://star4cast.com/brigitte-bardot-freedom-to-offend/) - France is in mourning as the legendary Brigitte Bardot dies at 91. With eerie timing she leaves the stage as Neptune slides out of Pisces, as many female icons have done before at the changing of the sign. France with a final degree Virgo Sun is also dissolving under tr Neptune and Scheat in opposition - [Russia 2026 - Uranus Mars flare ups ahead](https://star4cast.com/russia-2026-uranus-mars-flare-ups-ahead/) - “History does not repeat itself but often rhymes.” Actually it can repeat , though on occasion it provides a new slant on old patterns. Russia on the verge of a Saturn Neptune conjunction which oversaw the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 (in first half Leo) and again when Stalin died in 1953 with Saturn Neptune conjunct - [Astro Comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-25/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar. Or in search. - [UK 2026 - a ship without a captain](https://star4cast.com/uk-2026-a-ship-without-a-captain/) - In a political mire with no clear signs of winners, the UK will be praying for an intervention from fate or anywhere to find a clue for a constructive strategy ahead. Having emerged, frayed at the edges after the jolting, jangling Uranus transit round the UK’s Fixed Grand Cross of Saturn opposition Venus square - [2026 - look forwards with fortitude](https://star4cast.com/2026-look-forwards-with-fortitude/) - Out with the old and in with the new holds a special resonance this New Year with the prospect a new era unfolding. Pluto in Aquarius since 2023 will be joined by Neptune fully into Aries from late January (till 2038) and Saturn close behind in Aries in February (till 2028); and finally Uranus into - [All the best for now and moving forward](https://star4cast.com/all-the-best-for-now-and-moving-forward/) - Merry crackers and festive fun to those who are celebrating en famille. For those who are not, enjoy a relaxing feet-up. In the past many of my best end-of-the-year memories are sitting peacefully in front of the TV/fire and reflecting how great it was not to be tangled up in family tensions. All the - [Russell Brand - washing away the past](https://star4cast.com/russell-brand-washing-away-the-past/) - Russell Brand, broadcaster, comedian and actor, who was baptized in the River Thames last year proclaiming it was an opportunity to leave the past behind, has been charged with two further offences including one count of rape and a charge of sexual assault relating to two women. He has previously pleaded not guilty to five - [Neptune round up - pluses and minuses](https://star4cast.com/neptune-round-up-pluses-and-minuses/) - Neptune, planet of bliss and brutality, creativity and duplicity, is nearing the final stretches of its fourteen year home run in its own sign Pisces. Previous such phases oversaw great epic poetry from several cultures – Persian, Tamil, Hindi, Provencal Troubadours, T’ang Dynasty, German; as well as the establishment of major hospitals. Mathematics also figured - [Chris Rea - luck and adversity](https://star4cast.com/42668-2/) - Chris Rea, English rock and blues singer-songwriter known for his distinctive gravelly voice and slide guitar playing and for Driving Home for Christmas has died. He preferred to see himself as “an ordinary bloke from the grass roots, with a craggy, lived-in face, singing about life”. He was born 4 March 1951 in Middlesborough - [Age of Pisces - divine love and inhumane cruelty](https://star4cast.com/age-of-pisces-divine-love-and-inhumane-cruelty/) - Christianity is the world’s leading religion with Islam a close second. Both beliefs came into effect during the 2000- year Age of Pisces. Jesus, whom adherents see as the Son of God who rose from the dead after his crucifixion and was the messiah (Christ) prophesied in the Old Testament. He was born supposedly around - [David Walliams - super successful, then not](https://star4cast.com/david-walliams-super-successful-then-not/) - David Walliams, one of the UK’s most successful children’s authors, with 40 books to his credit that have sold 60 million copies and £100m in sales, widely used in schools and translated into 55 languages has been dropped by his publisher, HarperCollins, for alleged inappropriate behaviour towards young women. He has been a successful TV - [Fate and freewill - can you avoid your destiny?](https://star4cast.com/fate-and-freewill-the-spinners-of-destiny/) - Can you sidestep fate? Is the course of events in our life predetermined? The imponderable question for astrologers. In Greek mythology, the Moirai or Fates, were three sisters - the spinner, the allotter and the inevitable. Freewill was not an ancient concept. But the modern mind rejects a pre-ordained ‘destiny’ as a concept. In - [Astro comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-24/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in Search - or google. - [Brown University shooting - after effects linger](https://star4cast.com/brown-university-shooting-after-effects-linger/) - The shooting of an MIT physics professor at his home two days after two economics students were gunned down at Brown University, Rhode Island has ended with the suspected gunman found dead from self-inflicted gunshot wounds. The assumption is that the shooter, Carlos Valente, 22 January 1977, Torres Novas, Portugal, had been a fellow - [Viola Ford Fletcher - reliving the Tulsa Massacre](https://star4cast.com/viola-ford-fletcher-reliving-the-tulsa-massacre/) - The last survivor of the Tulsa Massacre, the single worst incident of racial violence in American history which occurred in 1921, has died aged 111. Viola Ford Fletcher gave evidence to Congress in 2021 on the 100th anniversary of the white supremacist attack on a prosperous Black community known as Black Wall Street, destroying hundreds - [Bill Clinton - a selective spotlight](https://star4cast.com/bill-clinton-a-selective-spotlight/) - Leaving aside the Trump-friendly redactions and omissions in the latest partial Epstein file dump, Bill Clinton does not come out of it well – and not just because it is a skewed hit job on the Democrats. Born 19 August 1946 8.51am Hope, Arizona, he has a Leo Sun square an intense and pleasure-seeking 8th - [Ban on female mutilation dubbed neocolonial](https://star4cast.com/ban-on-female-mutilation-dubbed-neocolonial/) - Inconceivable and witless even by today’s standards of reality-twisting – the Journal for Medical Ethics no less has printed a 9000 word essay from global academics proclaiming that objections to female genital mutilation are misplaced. It claims that laws banning FGM are “stigmatising” towards migrant communities and global efforts to end FGM are based on - [Carlos Alcaraz - Uranus throws a thunderbolt](https://star4cast.com/carlos-alcaraz-uranus-throws-a-thunderbolt/) - Carlos Alcaraz, ranked No 1 in men’s tennis single, has astonished the sporting world by splitting from his coach Juan Carlos Ferrero who has nurtured him since 2018 through all six of his Grand Slam titles. There are no clear reasons given and Ferrero clearly did not want the separation. Alcaraz, born 5 May 2003 - [Winter Solstice - look back, look forward](https://star4cast.com/winter-solstice-look-back-look-forward/) - The Winter Solstice marking the ingress of the Sun into Capricorn on December 21st in the northern hemisphere is the shortest day and longest night. Since prehistoric times it has been a significant time of year in many cultures, marked by festivals and rites. Ancient monuments such as Newgrange, Stonehenge, and Cahokia Woodhenge are aligned - [Susie Wiles - tripping over niceties](https://star4cast.com/susie-wiles-tripping-over-niceties/) - Susie Wiles, Trump’s chief of staff, has been wrong-footed when her bizarrely outspoken comments about senior members of the administration were published in Vanity Fair. Her lame excuse was she thought her conversations were for a book, and didn’t expect the writer to quote her so extensively. Despite rapid denials and the usual obfuscations from - [Rob Reiner - Hollywood in shock ++ Trump delusional narcissism](https://star4cast.com/rob-reiner-hollywood-in-shock/) - Renowned and popular director and actor Rob Reiner has been killed along with his wife, mother of his four children, in a suspected double homicide in Hollywood. He came to prominence as Mike "Meathead" on the CBS sitcom All in the Family in the 1970s, and appeared in Sleepless in Seattle, The First Wives - [Bondi Beach shooting - Jewish festival attacked ++ Nessus for vengeance and collective trauma](https://star4cast.com/bondi-beach-shooting-jewish-festival-attacked/) - At least 15 are dead from a shooting on Bondi beach, Australia when 1000 people were in attendance to mark the start of Hanukkah. The shooting occurred around 6.40 pm December 14th with explosive Uranus and destructive Algol in the 12th house and Mars in excitable Sagittarius on the cusp of the subterranean 8th. - [Stanley Baxter - a talent for not being himself](https://star4cast.com/stanley-baxter-a-talent-for-not-being-himself/) - Stanley Baxter, the comic actor whose female impersonations in his lavish TV spectaculars attracted vast audiences, has died at 99. ‘His breadth of talent was unmatched – satirist, stand-up comedian, singer, dancer, impressionist, wit, poet, panto dame, dramatic actor, writer and choreographer.’ His shows at their height were watch by 14 million viewers and involved - [USA & Russia - not natural allies](https://star4cast.com/usa-russia-not-natural-allies/) - Trump rampages on like a bull on the loose threatening to break up the EU, stop bolstering Europe’s defences, cosy up to Russia and withdraw from NATO. As with many of his wild demands there is a nugget of sense in a sliver of them. Europe does need to step up on the defence front. - [Astro comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-23/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar and in Search - [FIFA - shooting themselves in the foot](https://star4cast.com/fifa-shooting-themselves-in-the-foot/) - Football fans are up in arms about the "scandalous" ticket prices for the 2026 FIFA World Cup tournament in the USA, Canada and Mexico which are seven times more expensive than in the previous one in Qatar for the final. It will cost about £5,225 for a supporter to follow their team through to the - [John Candy - smiles hid inner troubles](https://star4cast.com/john-candy-smiles-hid-inner-troubles/) - John Candy, much beloved star of Uncle Buck, Stripes, Splash , Brewster's Millions, Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Cool Runnings has had a celebratory documentary made, thirty years after his death. Renowned for being helpful in real life as well as portraying likable and buoyant screen personalities, he had another side to him with self-admitted - [MI5 and the Titanic - Fixed stars of disruption](https://star4cast.com/mi5-and-the-titanic-fixed-stars-of-disruption/) - The ghosts of the Irish Troubles continue to prowl with a report on the notorious British spy ‘Stakeknife’, believed to be the senior IRA member Freddie Scappaticci, who was the perpetrator of 14 murders and 15 abductions during the Troubles. The nine-year investigation was critical of the Army and the Security Services (MI5), finding that - [Ian Douglas Hamilton, Martin Parr, Sophie Kinsella](https://star4cast.com/ian-douglas-hamilton-martin-parr-sophie-kinsella/) - An assortment of obituaries of dissimilar notables. Ian Douglas Hamilton, protector of the African elephants, was born 16 August 1942 and dreamed as a child about saving animals. After an Oxford degree in zoology, he became the foremost expert on elephants and was the first to alert the world to the ivory poaching holocaust, - [Neptune or is it Pluto - inducing tunnel vision ++ WW11 Uranus in Gemini](https://star4cast.com/neptune-or-is-it-pluto-inducing-tunnel-vision/) - What is the astrological signature for blinkers? A narrowing field of vision that only encompasses a handful of talking points. The news is an endless repetition of Trump, Putin, Gaza, Ukraine and a few Royal flim flam distractions. In an individual, a shrinking world can signal depression but this seems to have infected the entire - [Nick Cave - a tortured Virgo soul](https://star4cast.com/nick-cave-a-tortured-virgo-soul/) - The enigma that is Nick Cave - post-punk, gothic rock, profane and religious – is having a moment with a documentary about him - Veiled Worlds - coinciding with the tv version of his novel The Death of Bunny Munro. Known musically for his obsessions with death, religion, love, and violence, he has had an - [Helen Mirren & Tom Hardy - Leo Virgo friction](https://star4cast.com/helen-mirren-tom-hardy-leo-virgo-friction/) - Mobland, the gritty drama about warring crime families in London now filming season 2, appears to be strained on set as well as on screen. Stories have emerged that Helen Mirren’s professional and disciplined approach clashes with Tom Hardy’s lateness and swaggering attitude. Creative types tend to be volatile but interesting to see - [Venezuela - in Trump's crosshairs for reasons unknown](https://star4cast.com/venezuela-in-trumps-crosshairs-for-reasons-unknown/) - Venturing down the rabbit hole to plumb Trump’s motivations is a doomed task with Venezuela the most immediate mystery. Damaging the fentanyl trade is a worthy cause except that would mean targeting Mexico not further south; and even cocaine mainly sourced out of Colombia comes into the USA from other places. Oil is a possibility - [Frank Gehry - Water Fire and Mars Saturn](https://star4cast.com/frank-gehry-water-fire-and-mars-saturn/) - Frank Gehry, the Canadian–American architect who made magic with crumpled titanium and fish curves in buildings like the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, has died. He was inspired by pop art, what he called ‘cheapskate aesthetic’, to create buildings that were almost art, almost sculpture – and at times an assemblage of a hardware store. His - [Astro-comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-22/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in Search. - [Meghan forever loving - with exceptions](https://star4cast.com/meghan-forever-loving-with-exceptions/) - The Montecito car-crash scenario hits another bump on the road with Meghan’s heavily slated, vacuous Christmas special making much of family love and togetherness. With uncanny and tragic timing it coincides with her estranged father in hospital with an amputated leg seriously ill. He has not seen his daughter since before the 2018 wedding nor - [Eurovision - international ructions](https://star4cast.com/eurovision-international-ructions/) - The Eurovision Song Contest is brewing up for a turbulent winter as Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands and Slovenia have already indicated they will boycott it after Israel was cleared to compete. Ireland's RTÉ said it felt that its "participation remains unconscionable given the appalling loss of lives in Gaza and the humanitarian crisis there which - [Brigitte Bardot - rescuing herself](https://star4cast.com/brigitte-bardot-rescuing-herself/) - Brigitte Bardot has stepped out of seclusion in St Tropez to voice a documentary about her life in aid of her animal rescue charity. Propelled to dizzy heights as one of the best known symbols of the sexual revolution in the 1950s and 60s, she withdrew after 47 films, having had enough of global stardom - [Fred Astaire - perfectionist with dazzling feet](https://star4cast.com/fred-astaire-perfectionist-with-dazzling-feet/) - Fred Astaire, the "greatest popular-music dancer of all time", whose uncanny sense of rhythm, creativity, effortless presentation, and tireless perfectionism delighted audiences through almost eight decades, was born the same year as Noel Coward. But despite both sharing Neptune Pluto in Gemini opposition Saturn in Sagittarius, a Gemini Moon and Jupiter in Scorpio, they were - [Noel Coward - sharp wit from another era](https://star4cast.com/noel-coward-sharp-wit-from-another-era/) - Noël Coward’s comedy Fallen Angels was so shocking to bourgeois morality a hundred years ago it was nearly banned. Now restaged in London as a period piece about two “girls behaving badly” on a champagne-fuelled night, bemoaning their stale marriages to golfing husbands and lusting after a Frenchman both regard as the great love of - [Sydney Sweeney - a talented but divisive actress](https://star4cast.com/sydney-sweeney-a-talented-but-divisive-actress/) - Actress Sydney Sweeney’s unglamorous choice of a role playing Christy Martin, the first great female American boxer, a working-class lesbian and survivor of domestic violence, appears not to have gone down well in the US. Whether that is due to the subject matter or Sweeney’s divisive reputation as a Maga supporter isn’t clear, though the - [Paddington Bear - Ceres, empathy and food](https://star4cast.com/paddington-bear-ceres-empathy-and-food/) - Paddington Bear has returned in a new stage musical as a fun Christmas distraction from the drear and gloom elsewhere. Critics love it - "imaginatively staged, immaculately performed and utterly winning"; "funny, feel-good, family-friendly musical that looks set to run and run". It brings " the stowaway bear gorgeously to life". Paddington, star of - [Witkoff, Kushner - money men and politics](https://star4cast.com/witkoff-kushner-money-men-and-politics/) - Steve Witkoff’s real estate developer with no diplomatic experience and now, extraordinarily, special envoy to the Middle East and de facto envoy to Vladimir Putin, is off to Moscow with Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner (of ‘Gaza Riviera’ renown) to carve out a Ukraine peace deal - without Ukraine Kyiv’s allies fear Putin will dangle - [Tom Stoppard - a wordsmith par excellence](https://star4cast.com/tom-stoppard-a-wordsmith-par-excellence/) - Tom Stoppard, one of Britain's cleverest playwrights has died at the age of 88. His writing was witty and playful, he took ideas seriously and delighted in philosophical and political argument. He was a writer who managed to combine an intellectual's delight in complexity with an entertainer's talent for having fun. “Stoppardian” became shorthand for - [Sudan - added to Trump's to-do list](https://star4cast.com/sudan-added-to-trumps-to-do-list/) - The killing fields of Sudan have become a new Trump initiative after the Saudi leader, Mohammed bin Salman’s recent visit. Wracked by war for two-and-a-half years, Sudan lies in ruins. Previously Trump had written it off as “crazy and out of control." Now he has pledged to work with Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United - [Belgium - putting money before morals](https://star4cast.com/belgium-putting-money-before-morals/) - The Belgian PM has put a spanner in the works of using frozen Russian assets to aid Ukraine. He says it would violate international law and would destabilise financial markets. Belgium hosts €183bn, about two-thirds of the Russian assets immobilised in the west, at the Brussels-based central securities depository Euroclear. He warned that Euroclear could - [Astro comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-21/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in Search. - [Mahmood Zamdani - apologist for Idi Amin](https://star4cast.com/mahmood-zamdani-apologist-for-idi-amin/) - Mahmood Mamdani, the anthropologist father of Zohran, the newly elected Democratic Mayor of New York, has written a weirdly revisionist history of the brutal dictator Idi Amin. The Mamdani family were Ugandan Asians, ejected by Amin in his purge in the 1970s, though Mahmood had been previously educated in the US and involved in the - [Chariklo - wait without hope ++ discovery chart, more info ++ Caroline Kennedy](https://star4cast.com/chariklo-wait-without-hope/) - Living with never-ending suffering is the myth behind Chariklo, wife of Chiron, who was unable to heal himself from a poisoned arrow. Her task as caregiver was to create a sacred inner space more powerful than the endless challenge she faced – to transform the tragedy of her situation into a spiritual connection. Ben Belinsky - [Kennedy cousins - family strife and woes ++ Caroline Kennedy - Chiron and Chariklo](https://star4cast.com/kennedy-cousins-family-strife-and-woes/) - The Kennedy clan wars are likely to heat up ahead as Jack Schlossberg, only grandson of JFK and Jackie, aims to throw down his hat for a try at a New York Congressional seat in the 2026 Mid Terms and voices trenchant criticism of his cousin the anti-vaxxer health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jnr, - [Hong Kong fire - pointer to coming unrest ++ Hong Kong 1842](https://star4cast.com/hong-kong-fire-pointer-to-coming-unrest/) - Hong Kong is in shock after a huge fire engulfing a high-rise public housing complex killed at least 55 people with nearly 300 missing. Natural and man-made catastrophes happen all the time but they can on occasion (always?) be the forerunner to approaching times of radical change for the country involved. In this instance it - [Jimmy Cliff - an inspirational Leo](https://star4cast.com/jimmy-cliff-an-inspirational-leo/) - Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican singer whose mellifluous voice helped to turn reggae into a global phenomenon, has died aged 81. Best known among mainstream listeners for songs such as "Many Rivers to Cross", "If I Follow My Mind", "You Can Get It If You Really Want", and Johnny Nash's "I Can See Clearly Now" from the - [2028 - a year to ponder](https://star4cast.com/2028-a-year-to-ponder/) - The year 2028 is causing a few flutters of concern with challenging influences coming together though this happens every so often and does not mean the end of times. By mid 2028 Saturn is edging its way into Taurus to square Pluto – Saturn Pluto is associated with hardship and deprivation, often war. The recent - [Ukraine - sinking hope for a just peace ++ West in part to blame](https://star4cast.com/ukraine-sinking-hope-for-a-just-peace/) - Desperate for a win, Trump has thrown a spanner in the works of the Ukraine situation by trying to force through a Putin-friendly deal with no room for manoeuvre. The Invasion Declaration chart, 23 February 2022 at 9pm Moscow, had a ruthless Mars Pluto conjunction which won’t close by Solar Arc for another twenty - [Trump speak - pigs can fly](https://star4cast.com/trump-speak-pigs-can-fly/) - Pity poor Karoline Leavitt, the highly articulate, polished blonde spokesperson for Trump as she is forced to defend his ever more outrageous comments. Describing his ‘Quiet Piggy’ retort to a female journalist asking about Epstein as “frank and honest”, she is rapidly moving into Comical Ali territory. He was Saddam Hussein’s mouthpiece who caused worldwide - [Charles Rennie McIntosh and Margaret Macdonald](https://star4cast.com/charles-rennie-mcintosh-and-margaret-macdonald/) - Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife Margaret MacDonald were later inspirations for Klimt. He was a Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and artist influential on Art Nouveau and Secessionism. She was an artist and designer working with embroidery, gesso panels, leaded glass and repoussé metalwork, her innovative work inspired by Celtic imagery, literature, symbolism, and - [Klimt and da Vinci - still record breakers](https://star4cast.com/klimt-and-da-vinci-still-record-breakers/) - A Gustav Klimt painting, nearly destroyed in a fire in WW11 when looted by the Nazis, has sold for a record-breaking $236.4m. Latterly it had been owned by the Estee Lauder heir. Klimt born 14 July 1862, Vienna, Austria, after a conventional start painting murals, became famous as a "painter of women". ‘Eros, sexuality and - [Dick van Dyke - ever cheerful Sagittarius](https://star4cast.com/dick-van-dyke-ever-cheerful-sagittarius/) - Dick van Dyke, the legendary entertainer and comedian, will be 100 years old in less than a month. His performances on screen and stage over seven decades won him numerous awards and made him a household name with the Dick Van Dyke Show, Mary Poppins and Diagnosis Murder. He has been married twice, with a - [Astro-comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-20/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in Search - [Nessus - cons and how to spot them](https://star4cast.com/nessus-cons-and-how-to-spot-them/) - ‘Nessus, is considered by many as the bad boy of the centaurs, but he also has a positive role, to use William Burroughs’ expression of “wising up the marks” and making us better equipped to deal with the risks and dangers we inevitably face.’ Ben Belinsky’s new ebook gives the lowdown on “Nessus”, the third - [Robert Jay Lifton - Algol at its best](https://star4cast.com/robert-jay-lifton-algol-at-its-best/) - Robert Jay Lifton, the psychiatrist who shed light on the darkest chapters in modern history including Chinese brainwashing, Hiroshima, the Holocaust and the Vietnam War, has died aged 99. His later investigations into war crimes and the experiences of Vietnam veterans in the early 1970s led him to formulate his theory of the “atrocity-producing - [Glenn Close - grande dame of the silver screen](https://star4cast.com/glenn-close-grande-dame-of-the-silver-screen/) - Glenn Close is the ‘standout role’ in the new Benoit Blanc Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery with Daniel Craig according to early reviews. She plays a righteous woman quivering with religious fervour – or “a sad character with no life outside the church”, as Close puts it – with the creepy habit - [BBC, Bashir & Diana - another sorry tale](https://star4cast.com/bbc-bashir-diana-another-sorry-tale/) - The BBC already wilting under the Trump faked-misspeak brouhaha is facing another deluge of righteous criticism with the publication of Dianarama by Andy Webb, a former BBC TV reporter. Uncovering the truth about Martin Bashir’s tactics in persuading Princess Diana to speak out on Panorama in 1995 has taken decades. It triggered her divorce from - [Jeffrey Epstein - the ghost that won't be silenced](https://star4cast.com/jeffrey-epstein-the-ghost-that-wont-be-silenced/) - The relentless drip drip feed of potentially toxic information from the undead Jeffrey Epstein’s web of contacts continues. More than 20,000 files were released yesterday, including several that mention the US president and other prominent figures. The White House dismissed the significance of the files, saying they prove nothing. The House of Representatives is set - [Eris - conflict and catalyst](https://star4cast.com/eris-conflict-and-catalyst/) - Eris: Sacred Feminine Force of Evolutionary Astrology is the latest contribution to burgeoning field of astrological insights gleaned from beyond the standard natal planets. Eris is a dwarf planet situated in the Kuiper Belt recognized for its similarities to Pluto. The author Daniel Fiverson with a background in Tarot, Hermeticism, and the I Ching, - [Hermann Goring - the banality of evil](https://star4cast.com/herman-goring-the-banality-of-evil/) - Nuremberg, the latest film about the Nazi war crime trials after World War 11, stars Russell Crowe as Hermann Göring, once Hitler’s chosen successor. He embodied the spirit of the Third Reich and became the most senior surviving Nazi official to stand trial. His intelligence, arrogance and courtroom performances made him the defining symbol of - [Harry and Meghan - choices and regrets](https://star4cast.com/harry-and-meghan-choices-and-regrets/) - A glum-looking Prince Harry was wheeled out for a gaudy Kardashian Beverley Hills bash as the UK Royals were paying their respects to the dead of two world wars. Not a good look. The family freeze shows no signs of thawing out and there are hints certainly from the astrology of stresses and strains ahead - [BBC - hoist on their own petard](https://star4cast.com/bbc-hoist-on-their-own-petard/) - Tim Davie, the BBC director General has resigned over criticism about biased reporting, most significantly splicing together footage about Trump which misrepresented what he actually said. Though Gaza and transgender biases were also an issue. BBC devotees are crying foul that he (and the Head of News) were forced out by rightwing members of - [Huey Long - an American phenomenon](https://star4cast.com/huey-long-an-american-phenomenon/) - Huey Long was a left-wing populist Democrat politician in Louisiana, prominent during the Great Depression until his assassination in 1935. A controversial figure, he is celebrated as a populist champion of the poor or denounced as a fascist demagogue, accused of being unconstitutional and authoritarian. His biographer Thomas O. Harris saw him as "neither saint - [Diane Arbus - Neptune as image and alienation](https://star4cast.com/diane-arbus-neptune-as-image-and-alienation/) - Diane Arbus, the late renowned photographer, is presently featured in a London exhibition which reveals her ‘grotesquely bleak but brutally truthful vision of humanity’. The cultural critic Susan Sontag condemned Arbus for dwelling on misery and ugliness, calling her work anti-humanist. Her defenders say that Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol, Lucian Freud and Velázquez, all shared - [Astro comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-19/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in search. - [James Watson - Neptunian insight, less decency](https://star4cast.com/james-watson-neptunian-insight-less-decency/) - James Watson, Nobel Prize-winning biologist who discovered the structure of DNA with Francis Crick, has died. He chronicled the search for ‘the secret of life’ in his bestseller The Double Helix but damaged his career with his scathing judgments of colleagues and comments about race and genetics. Born 6 April 1928 1.23 am Chicago, - [Kim Kardashian - sneering critics versus fans](https://star4cast.com/kim-kardashian-sneering-critics-versus-fans/) - Kim Kardashian’s new legal TV drama has been savaged with reviews which run from "so awful, it feels almost contemptuous" to "may be the worst TV drama ever". "The glossy sheen of the show and its stacked cast might make you think it's verging on 'so bad it's good' territory, but it's really just a - [Pauline Collins - a Virgo with a sassy sparkle](https://star4cast.com/pauline-collins-a-virgo-with-a-sassy-sparkle/) - Actress Pauline Collins best known for the escapist mid-life comedy Shirley Valentine which made her the toast of London’s West End and Broadway followed by the the smash-hit film version, has died. She won an Olivier and a Tony as well as an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of a bored middle aged wife who - [Zohran Mamdani - a decisive win ++ taking up office in 2026](https://star4cast.com/zohran-mamdani-a-decisive-win/) - Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, has comfortably won the election to be New York City mayor against the scandal-prone Andrew Cuomo, who was endorsed by Donald Trump. Mamdani made campaign promises of free buses, no rent, fewer cops and higher taxes for the wealthy and big business which resulted in the highest turnout in more - [Juan Carlos - a different shade of Capricorn](https://star4cast.com/juan-carlos-a-different-shade-of-capricorn/) - What a difference a week makes. Former King Juan Carlos of Spain born six days after Anthony Hopkins (and more visibly Capricorn) has put out a memoir in France Reconciliation in an effort to retrieve his reputation after sexual and financial scandals sent him into exile. His son King Felipe is apparently unamused by the - [Anthony Hopkins - from unlikely beginnings](https://star4cast.com/anthony-hopkins-from-unlikely-beginnings/) - Anthony Hopkins’ memoir title We Did OK Kid is a hint of his self-effacing view of himself, regarded by himself and others in childhood as “useless, hopeless”. Neither sporty nor academic and friendless, “I couldn’t do anything,” he says, until he tripped into acting, won a scholarship to drama college, followed by a RADA training. - [Maria Riva - surviving mother Marlene](https://star4cast.com/maria-riva-surviving-mother-marlene/) - Maria Riva, the mistreated daughter of Marlene Dietrich, whose memoir revealed a childhood spent as her mother’s ‘handmaiden’ and personal assistant, has died aged 100. “At age three I knew quite definitely that I didn’t have a mother; I belonged to a queen,” she wrote in a searing biography published one year after Dietrich’s death - [Dick Cheney - a Jupiter Saturn fail](https://star4cast.com/dick-cheney-a-jupiter-saturn-fail/) - Dick Cheney, a dominant figure in US politics, Secretary of Defence under George H Bush and VP under George W Bush from 2001 to 2009, has died. He was a key architect of the "war on terror" after 9/11 and an early advocate of the disastrous invasion of Iraq in 2003. He later became a - [General Franco - dictators and decline](https://star4cast.com/general-franco-dictators-and-decline/) - “History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes” Mark Twain. A new biography of Spain’s dictator for 40 years, General Franco, offers thought-provoking insights. “In times of decline, nations often turn to authoritarians. This gives opportunities to otherwise mediocre men — toxic personalities unsuited to ordinary politics.” “Franco personifies Spain’s final, losing battle with colonial - [Rachel and money - not her strong point](https://star4cast.com/rachel-and-money-not-her-strong-point/) - Chancellor Rachel Reeves wrestling with the gap between Labour economic policy and fiscal stability let alone growth has tripped into a sinkhole over the mishandling of a private house rental. The details are complex, the assertions, corrections and obfuscations make a small matter hardly worth disentangling - but it is a political disaster, yet another, - [UK train attack - lawless Uranus on the rampage](https://star4cast.com/uk-train-attack-lawless-uranus-on-the-rampage/) - A knife attack on ten passengers on a train in England sent police and security forces into overdrive though they have now downplayed any terrorist connection. There is however an uncomfortable feeling about elevated risk levels in seemingly mundane situations as well as recent street demonstrations of all ideological shades threatening to erupt into violence. - [Astro-comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-18/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar and in search - [Royals in disarray - siblings at odds](https://star4cast.com/royals-in-disarray-siblings-at-odds/) - Charles finally acted in the interests of the monarchy stripping his brother Andrew of title and home as status and reputation won out over family. Charles’ 10th house Taurus North Node has an implicit momentum towards career and public life -and with his Solar Arc Pluto conjunct his 4th house South Node exactly this year - [Lily Allen - fame comes at a price ++ father Keith set the pattern](https://star4cast.com/lily-allen-fame-comes-at-a-price/) - A celebrity break up memorialised in an album of songs about betrayal, heartbreak, public humiliation and bitterness has sent the gossip media into a flutter. Lily Allen, a super-successful singer, talk show host, record label owner and a Laurence Olivier Award nomination actress, has had a riotous life. I confess I had never heard of her - [Jamaica - Pluto on Neptune and Eclipses ++ 1692 earthquake ++ Jamaica 1494 ++ Lisbon quake 1755](https://star4cast.com/jamaica-pluto-on-neptune-and-eclipses/) - Hurricane Melissa now a Category 5 hurricane heading for Jamaica has the 'ingredients to be a catastrophic storm', meteorological experts warn. There are likely to be a devastating storm-surge, extreme winds and high rainfall. It is likely that no part of Jamaica will be ‘spared from the effects of the monster hurricane, whose deadly combination - [Prunella Scales - a Saturnine Cancer](https://star4cast.com/prunella-scales-a-saturnine-cancer/) - Prunella Scales, best known for Faulty Towers, has died at 93, a year after her husband of sixty years, Timothy West. She worked constantly on stage, screen and radio from her late teens onwards until dementia halted her ten years ago. In recent times she appeared in Mapp and Lucia, as Queen Elizabeth in Alan - [Tony Hudgell - the fiery spirit to overcome](https://star4cast.com/tony-hudgell-the-fiery-spirit-to-overcome/) - The transformative story of young Tony Hudgell, so badly abused by his biological parents he nearly died as a baby and later had to have both legs amputated, has hit a sad turn. With extensive and superlative hospital care and a new adoptive family he has grown into a cheerful and determined young boy, learning - [Kamala Harris - politics for performers](https://star4cast.com/kamala-harris-politics-for-performers/) - Kamala Harris has teased that she may run for president in 2028 in a BBC interview on her international promotional book tour. She dismissed polls that place her as an outsider ranking behind even Hollywood actor Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson. She reinforced her criticism of Joe Biden’s late decision to withdraw which resulted in her - [Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - a Neptune Pluto epic ++ Percy Shelley, a horror of a marriage](https://star4cast.com/mary-shelleys-frankenstein-a-neptune-pluto-epic/) - The simmering sense of unease in the world at large at the moment can partly be ascribed to the neurotic combination of Saturn Neptune criss-crossing over the Fixed star Scheat, known for misfortune and bad judgement; but also to Uranus sitting on the midpoint of Neptune and Pluto which tends to bring hyper-sensitive nerves - [UK politics - past certainties fall away ++ Lucy Powell](https://star4cast.com/uk-politics-past-certainties-fall-away/) - A by-election calamity for all three main parties as the Welsh dragon let fly may not be an accurate barometer for a UK-wide general election. But it will have shaken nerves considerably with Labour losing this particular seat for the first time in 100 years and only collecting 11% of the vote to come third; - [Ben Stiller - one of the Antares tribe](https://star4cast.com/ben-stiller-one-of-the-antares-tribe/) - Ben Stiller, the actor, comedian, and filmmaker, known for his blend of slapstick humour and sharp wit, leader of the ‘Frat Pack’, has produced a memento to his parents, actor-comedians Jerry Stiller and Anna Meara and a showbusiness childhood – “ a lot of traveling, a lot of late nights — not what you'd call - [Grooming Gangs Inquiry - another mess](https://star4cast.com/grooming-gangs-inquiry-another-mess/) - Another botched-up UK child abuse inquiry is in disarray with several survivors of ‘grooming gangs’ backing out demanding the resignation of Jess Phillips, the UK Safeguarding Minister. Three potential chairs have retreated as well. The previous CSA Inquiry was launched in 2014 and went through three chairpersons, one of whom the NZ Judge Lowell Goddard - [Astro Comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-17/) - Please add below. Older posts under news on top bar or in Search - [Ireland Presidential Election - voter apathy](https://star4cast.com/ireland-presidential-election-voter-apathy/) - Ireland’s approaching presidential election appears to be in the same sinkhole as elsewhere with voter apathy about both contenders. Opinion polls give Catherine Connolly, an independent leftwing candidate, a wide lead over Heather Humphreys, who represents the ruling centre-right establishment. However, almost half of voters say they do not feel represented by either candidate, fuelling - [Sanae Takaichi - a Japanese first](https://star4cast.com/sanae-takaichi-a-japanese-first/) - Japan’s first woman prime minister Sanae Takaichi has been sworn in by the emperor. Known as Japan's "Iron Lady" she's an advocate of the policies of the late PM Shinzo Abe, which include higher government spending and tax breaks to cushion the rising cost of living. Despite which Trump recently hailed her as a "highly - [Andrew - too little too late ++ Princesses Beatrice & Eugenie ++ Andrew Lownie](https://star4cast.com/andrew-too-little-too-late/) - Finally finally and several years too late Prince Andrew has been defrocked of his titles, in a face-saving gesture made to look voluntary but almost certainly under immense pressure. The astrology has all been pored over in the past but there are points of note. The first is transiting Uranus exactly square his Pices - ['No Kings' - Saturn Neptune + Pluto in Aquarius](https://star4cast.com/no-kings-saturn-neptune-pluto-in-aquarius/) - The "No Kings" protests across all 50 US states against President Trump's authoritarian policies turned into one of the largest mass demonstrations of recent years. Speakers protested about the immigration crackdowns, domestic military deployments and efforts to go after critics and political opponents. People held signs like "Democracy not Monarchy" and "The Constitution is not - [John Bolton - the cost of criticising Trump](https://star4cast.com/john-bolton-the-cost-of-criticising-trump/) - John Bolton, Donald Trump's national security adviser before being fired in 2019 and becoming a critic of the president, has been criminally indicted on federal charges of retaining classified information and sharing it with family members. He could face decades in prison. The Wall Street Journal has pointed up the dangers of speaking out against - [Katy Perry - love proving elusive ++ Pierre and Margaret Trudeau](https://star4cast.com/katy-perry-love-proving-elusive/) - In a world filled with dread and suffering, the love life of Katy Perry seems a tawdry distraction. But the astrology is interesting as is her demonstrable lack of talent picking romantic partners, despite being one of Billboard’s greatest pop stars of the 21st century, having sold over 151 million records worldwide. Born 25 October - [China - spying and bullying without scruples](https://star4cast.com/china-spying-and-bullying-without-scruples/) - A tangled mess of an abandoned China spy trial has left Keir Starmer looking inept and the political classes across the board perplexed about how to tackle the China situation. One commentator said ‘China is a superpower with near-monopoly control of some mineral resources and pre-eminence in important manufacturing supply chains. Trusting friendship is not - [Malala - campaigning for women's education](https://star4cast.com/malala-campaigning-for-womens-education/) - Malala, the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history, who was shot by the Taliban aged 15 for campaigning to support women’s education in Pakistan in 2012 where it had been banned, has a new memoir out Finding My Way. After recovering in the UK, she and her family settled in Birmingham and she has grown - [Diane Keaton - cool, quirky, sophisticated](https://star4cast.com/diane-keaton-cool-quirky-sophisticated/) - Actress Diane Keaton, renowned for The Godfather and eight Woody Allen films including Annie Hall which won her an Oscar, amongst many others in a five decade career, has died after a short illness. Recently she directed several films, the first of which was a 1987 documentary, Heaven, chronicling people's beliefs about the afterlife. Both - [Joe Biden - raging against the dimming light](https://star4cast.com/joe-biden-raging-against-the-dimming-light/) - Joe Biden is receiving radiation therapy for his prostate cancer that was diagnosed in May as an “aggressive form” that had spread to his bones. At the time multiple oncologists said that given the nature of his cancer and the fact that it had already metastasized, it was possible that affliction had gone undiagnosed for - [Gen Z - making their voices heard](https://star4cast.com/gen-z-making-their-voices-heard/) - The Gen Z generation, born circa 1997 to 2010, are facing up to corrupt governments in Kenya, Nepal, Madagascar and elsewhere with angry street demonstrations ongoing. That generation coincides with Pluto in Sagittarius from the mid 1990s to 2009, now aged late teens to 30. Sagittarius is an idealistic, knowledgeable sign concerned with the - [Astro-comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-16/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar and in Search - [Ricky Hatton - a fighting Libra with a need for thrills](https://star4cast.com/ricky-hatton-a-fighting-libra-with-a-need-for-thrills/) - Thousands turned out to line the streets for former boxer Ricky Hatton’’s funeral in Manchester Cathedral after his surprise death aged 47. During his glittering 15-year career, he won four world titles at both light-welterweight and welterweight. But after his retirement was open about his struggles with alcohol, drugs and depression including suicidal thoughts. He - [Joan Kennedy - a dream turned to drink](https://star4cast.com/joan-kennedy-a-dream-turned-to-drink/) - Joan Kennedy, the shy, vulnerable first wife of Ted Kennedy, who had three children with him, and shared his problem with alcohol, has died. Two of their children were cancer victims. Ted Jr. developed bone cancer aged 12, and Kara contracted lung cancer and died of a heart attack in 2011 aged 51. Joan was - [Maggie Thatcher - revelling in power ++ Tory Party in trouble](https://star4cast.com/maggie-thatcher-revelling-in-power/) - Margaret Thatcher, the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold the position, was born 100 years ago. A polarising and divisive figure in UK politics, she is still viewed favourably in historical rankings and her realignment towards neoliberal policies had a significant effect. A Soviet journalist dubbed her - [Pam Bondi - a slippery Scorpio](https://star4cast.com/pam-bondi-a-slippery-scorpio/) - Pam Bondi, the US Attorney General, faced intense questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee, for the first time since her confirmation about the Jeffrey Epstein files, the deployment of the National Guard to American cities, and the prosecution of ex-FBI director James Comey. She clashed with Democrats over Trump and the ‘weaponization’ of the justice - [Anglican Church in a tangle over women](https://star4cast.com/anglican-church-in-a-tangle-over-women/) - The convoluted responses from die-hard traditionalists within the Anglican Church at the first woman Archbishop of Canterbury are of little interest to outsiders. Evidently seven serving bishops say they welcome the new archbishop but wouldn’t receive communion from her. Why are religious zealots so hung up about women/gender/sexuality? The ancient spirit versus flesh war still - [Israel & Gaza - countless thousands suffer](https://star4cast.com/israel-gaza-countless-thousands-suffer/) - Two years since the Hamas attack on Israel there is a slender hope of a negotiated peace deal with Donald Trump pushing hard for a settlement. The attacks were the first large-scale invasion of Israeli territory since the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, with 1,195 people killed by the attacks, 736 of them Israeli civilians. About 250 - [Jilly Cooper - upper class romps](https://star4cast.com/jilly-cooper-upper-class-romps/) - Writer Jilly Cooper, 'Queen of the bonkbuster' who brought sex and sharp-eyed social observation to Middle England's bookshelves with rollicking tales of raunch and rivalry amongst the Cotswolds polo-playing classes, has died after a fall. Queen Camilla, whose first husband Andrew Parker-Bowles was said to have been the inspiration for the invented lothario Rupert Cambell-Black, - [King James 1 - the downside of monarchy](https://star4cast.com/king-james-1-the-downside-of-monarchy/) - James I of England, the first Stuart king of England, and James VI of Scotland, has had a less than glowing reputation, deemed as odd and effeminate and has been underplayed in comparison to Elizabeth 1 and Charles I. A new biography paints a different picture of an assured intellectual who promoted peace in Europe - [Patricia Routledge - sympathy for eccentrics](https://star4cast.com/patricia-routledge-sympathy-for-eccentrics/) - Actress Patricia Routledge, a British treasure of screen and stage, with an extraordinary range, has died. Best known for playing the social-climbing battleaxe Hyacinth Bucket in classic TV sitcom Keeping Up Appearances (“an absolute monster and I enjoyed playing her enormously.") she also starred in Alan Bennett's TV monologues, and in BBC One's amateur sleuth - [Manchester - a magnet for traumatic events](https://star4cast.com/manchester-a-magnet-for-traumatic-events/) - Manchester is yet again shaken by a traumatic incident after a terrorist attack on a synagogue by Jihad al-Shamie, a British citizen of Syrian descent, wearing what appeared to be an explosive vest armed with a knife. Two victims were killed, one by friendly fire from the police, who also shot the attacker. The city - [Astro-comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-15/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar and in Search. - [USA shut down - when the lights go out](https://star4cast.com/usa-shut-down-when-the-lights-go-out/) - Another USA government shutdown has started with the prospect (at the minimum) of lay-offs - 750,000 federal employees expected to be placed on enforced leave, with pay withheld until they return to work, essential workers like military and border agents may be forced to work without pay, parks will be closed, rubbish pile up and - [Jane Goodall - caring for the family](https://star4cast.com/jane-goodall-caring-for-the-family/) - Conservationist Dame Jane Goodall, a world-leading expert on chimpanzees, has died aged 91. Actor Leonardo DiCaprio said that she "inspired millions to care, to act, and to hope", and called her a "a true hero for the planet". Biologist Stephen Jay Gould said her discoveries "revolutionised science" and Roger Fouts, a psychologist who studies the - [Patricia Crowther - a Wicca custodian](https://star4cast.com/patricia-crowther-a-wicca-custodian/) - Patricia Crowther, known as the “high priestess of the Moon Goddess”, and considered the spiritual heir to Gerald Gardner, the founding father of modern Wicca, has died at 97. She made it her mission to dispel myths about witches and their practices. “Witchcraft simply means the craft of the wise people.” She was adamant that - [Julie Andrews - sweet, sharp and subversive](https://star4cast.com/julie-andrews-sweet-sharp-and-subversive/) - Julie Andrews, is an amazing 90 today – ‘crisply accented, sweetly tuneful and girlish in her most famous movie musicals, but always with a sense of humour about her angelic image.’ She won the 1965 Oscar for playing a “practically perfect” English nanny for Walt Disney and mischievously drove around Los Angeles with a “Mary - [Nicole Kidman - love and ambition mismatch](https://star4cast.com/nicole-kidman-love-and-ambition-mismatch/) - Nicole Kidman and her husband musician Keith Urban are to split as their marriage heads for the 20 year mark. They have been kept apart recently with her back-to-back filming and his touring schedules; with some speculation about her recent daring roles ‘with some of the kinkiest sex scenes of her career’ perhaps causing problems - [Emma Watson & J.K.Rowling - a clash of queens](https://star4cast.com/emma-watson-j-k-rowling-a-clash-of-queens/) - Emma Watson, Hermione in the Harry Potter films, and more recently in Beauty and the Beast and Little Women, has caused some merriment by taking to the public airwaves to announce she was giving up acting because she disliked the attention it attracted. Shades of Prince Harry. She has also been getting skewered by - [Larry Ellison - octopus tentacles across the ocean ++ Oracle](https://star4cast.com/larry-ellison-octopus-tentacles-across-the-ocean/) - Larry Ellison, a giant of the tech world, co-founder of Oracle, now doubling his fortune via AI, is expanding in a worrisome fashion along with his son David into buying vast expanses of the US media - from TikTok’s US assets, to Paramount, preparing bid for Warner Brothers Discovery as well as HBO and CNN, - [Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco - Cancer + Pisces](https://star4cast.com/selena-gomez-benny-blanco-cancer-pisces/) - Selena Gomez, actress, singer, owner of a $2 billion cosmetics company and the most-followed woman on Instagram, married record producer Benny Blanco yesterday in California. Born 22 July 1992 7.19 am Grand Prairie, Texas, she has had it tough with split parents, a poor childhood and multiple health problems in her adult life ranging from - [Tony Blair - his messiah complex revving up](https://star4cast.com/tony-blair-his-messiah-complex-revving-up/) - Sir Tony Blair wants to run Gaza once the war between Israel and Hamas is over – runs a surreal headline which evidently has the backing of the White House. He has the support of several powerful figures, including Jared Kushner, and Steve Witkoff, the US president’s special envoy. He would head an interim government - [James Comey - in the line of Trump's ire](https://star4cast.com/james-comey-in-the-line-of-trumps-ire/) - James Comey, former FBI director, has been indicted on one count of making false statements and another of obstruction of justice, which is widely believed to be the latest example of Trump targeting critics based on a sense of personal grievance and retribution. He called on Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute not just the - [Astro comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-14/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar and in search. - [Menzies Campbell - a sporting gentleman](https://star4cast.com/menzies-campbell-a-sporting-gentleman/) - Menzies Campbell, a prominent Liberal Democrat, whose expertise in foreign affairs brought clashes with Tony Blair over Iraq and helped his party secure a surge of seats in the aftermath, has died. Born 22 May 1941 at 1.40 am Glasgow, he read law at Glasgow university at the same time as John Smith, the future - [Nicholas Sarkozy -the wrong sort of first](https://star4cast.com/nicholas-sarkozy-the-wrong-sort-of-first/) - France is in disarray with its final degree Virgo Sun in crisis as it reels from the shade cast by this week’s Solar Eclipse with yet another cross to bear as former president Nicolas Sarkozy is sentenced to five years in jail - the first ever for a former French president. He has been found - [Royals - scandals and secrecy over wealth ++ Norman Baker](https://star4cast.com/royals-scandals-and-secrecy-over-wealth/) - Dark murmurings about plummeting respect and support for the Monarchy with continuing contamination from the Epstein scandal are reinforced by King Charles’ refusal to banish Andrew from public view. Piling on the damage will be the new Norman Baker book on royal finances: Royal Mint, National Debt: More Things the Royals Don't Want You to - [Claudia Cardinale - looks and intelligence](https://star4cast.com/claudia-cardinale-looks-and-intelligence/) - Claudia Cardinale who has died aged 87, had looks, smouldering Italian intensity and a quirky intelligence which made her prized by European directors for Rocco and His Brothers, Girl with a Suitcase, Visconti’s The Leopard and Federico Fellini's 8½. She was then persuaded over to Hollywood for The Pink Panther opposite David Niven; and went - [Javier Milei - a right wing hero meets reality](https://star4cast.com/javier-milei-a-right-wing-hero-meets-reality/) - Javier Milei, the Argentinian president, former eccentric TV pundit, is in trouble with his chainsaw economics faltering, his sister embroiled in a corruption scandal and his political rivals circling with a recent landslide defeat in local elections with midterms approaching in late October. On the global right, he is an icon, a rock star - [Astrology - its ability to pinpoint events](https://star4cast.com/astrology-its-ability-to-pinpoint-events/) - A deep dive into the complexities of mediaeval astrology and its relevance to present day predictions comes in a revised edition of Alexey Borealis’ two volumes of the “Mysteries of Medieval Astrology” merged into one comprehensive Predictive Astrology Textbook. For anyone keen to expand their understanding of horary as well as natal astrology, it is - [Sarah - a Duchess lacking in decency ++ Beatrice and Eugenie](https://star4cast.com/sarah-a-duchess-lacking-in-decency/) - Sarah, Duchess of York’s unwelcome publicity emerging as more emails are disclosed about her support for Epstein after his initial conviction is hardly earth shattering. But it continues a pattern which is intriguing, hinting that Ghislaine Maxwell is more of a central player in present events than might be supposed given her incarceration. Given - [John Stapleton - amiable and incisive](https://star4cast.com/john-stapleton-amiable-and-incisive/) - John Stapleton, renowned as the personable UK TV presenter, who for five decades worked across the board on diverse programmes exposing fraudsters, reporting from war zones, interviewing prime ministers and fronting breakfast shows, has died aged 79 of Parkinsons. In a long career he worked on Newsnight, Panorama, Nationwide, TV-AM, GMTV's News Hour and Watchdog - [Eastern Europe - facing testing times ahead ++Latvia/Estonia 1918](https://star4cast.com/eastern-europe-facing-testing-times-ahead/) - Russian warplanes flying over the Gulf of Finland violated Estonia’s airspace yesterday. Italy, Finland and Sweden scrambled jets under Nato's mission to bolster its eastern flank. Russia issued a denial but tensions have been escalating recently, after Poland and Romania - both Nato members - said Russian drones breached their airspace recently. Following on from - [Matthew McConnaughey - being positive](https://star4cast.com/matthew-mcconnaughey-being-positive/) - Actor Matthew McConaughey has followed his memoir Greenlights - a collection of life lessons, bullet-point anecdotes and bumper-sticker musings with a book of poetry called Poems & Prayers. It is a portrait of his faith in the broadest sense and its impact on his everyday life. He advocates a world of relentless positivity that rejects - [Astro-comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-13/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in Search - or on google. - [Solar Eclipse - the mood of the moment](https://star4cast.com/solar-eclipse-the-mood-of-the-moment/) - The Partial Solar Eclipse on Sunday 21 September at 29 degrees Virgo will reinforce the prevailing edgy, uncertain and uneasy mood. Falling in the final degree of Virgo the New Moon is in a Grand Trine to Pluto in Aquarius and Uranus in Gemini, formed into a Kite by the New Moon opposition Neptune - [Joseph McCarthy - a blip in USA history](https://star4cast.com/joseph-mccarthy-a-blip-in-usa-history/) - MCarthyism was an oddity of 20th Century American history which was a pointer to a panicky and gullible streak within the national temperament, allowing public and politicians to be caught up for a time by strident and often dishonest attacks. Mcarthy insisted that communists had infiltrated the United States federal government, universities, film industry, the - [USA Freedom of Speech - another nail in the coffin](https://star4cast.com/usa-freedom-of-speech-another-nail-in-the-coffin/) - The USA’s much revered 1st amendment is in shock after Trump announced he is suing the New York Times for $15bn saying it had become a "mouthpiece for the Radical Left Democrat Party". “It has been allowed to freely lie, smear, and defame me for far too long, and that stops, NOW!" he posted on - [Charlie Sheen - the past is another country?](https://star4cast.com/charlie-sheen-the-past-is-another-country/) - Actor Charlie Sheen has launched an image rebrand with a memoir and a Netflix documentary with all the exuberance he used to devote to drugs, drink and tumultuous relationships. He says it is not an apology tour though his father Martin Sheen evidently wishes he would own up to his mistakes and “grow up and - [Venezuela - a narco-terrorism target](https://star4cast.com/venezuela-a-narco-terrorism-target/) - Venezuela is feeling the brunt of Trump’s unorthodox approach to unsanctioned military action as another boat from the deep south carrying drugs is sunk. There are murmurs that this is just the first target and Nicolas Maduro, the dictatorial president is the real prize. He is already hiding in one of his 63 underground bunkers - [Pete Murray - rock n' rolling to 100](https://star4cast.com/pete-murray-rock-n-rolling-to-100/) - Pete Murray, a fixture on BBC pop music shows through the 1950s/60s and on is amazingly still going strong with his 100th birthday this week. He hosted the rock and roll programme Six-Five Special, appeared as a regular panellist on Juke Box Jury and was a recurring presence in the BBC's coverage of the Eurovision - [Robert Redford - Leo + Virgo + Jupiter](https://star4cast.com/robert-redford-leo-virgo-jupiter/) - Robert Redford, one of Hollywood’s pre-eminent leading men, renowned for his performances in Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, The Sting and All the President’s Men has died. He was also acclaimed for launching the Sundance Film Festival, aimed at shining a light on new film-makers. It has been credited with launching the careers of - [Charlie Kirk - MAGA influencer shot dead ++ his stated views ++ Erika Kirk ++ USA political violence](https://star4cast.com/charlie-kirk-maga-influencer-shot-dead/) - The shooting of young Tik Tok MAGA influencer and Trump confidant Charlie Kirk has alarmed US political insiders of all persuasions as well as the White House. Though it has a certain irony given his recent comments on the right to bear arms. He said he was “very pro-second amendment”, adding “I fully acknowledge and - [Canada, Carney - can he walk his words?](https://star4cast.com/canada-carney-can-he-walk-his-words/) - Mark Carney took the benefit of the anti-Trump mood when he won the Canada election and over- promised about what he could deliver. As parliament in Ottawa resumes there is chatter about how much he can actually make stick. Donald Trump has imposed punishing tariffs on some sectors of the economy, like steel and - [Royals on parade to massage Trump's ego](https://star4cast.com/royals-on-parade-to-massage-trumps-ego/) - An unprecedented second state visit for Trump kicks off tomorrow. For him a vanity trip with photo ops galore amongst the Royals at Windsor. For the UK it is realpolitik with the hope of lower tariffs and a better bilateral relationship with the US than other countries. Though Epstein managing to send tremors from beyond - [Tommy Robinson - tapping into UK fears](https://star4cast.com/tommy-robinson-tapping-into-uk-fears/) - More than 100,000 people crowded into London yesterday for one of the UK’s largest ever Right-wing rallies organized by Tommy Robinson; with cheer-leading from Katie Hopkins, Lawrence Fox and Elon Musk (on video). Twenty-six police officers were injured, including four seriously as supporters “kicked and punched” officers. 25 people have been arrested for offences including - [Jackie Kennedy - her final beau](https://star4cast.com/jackie-kennedy-her-final-beau/) - Maurice Tempelsman, a diamond trader and latterly escort and friend to Jackie Kennedy has died. She famously said “The first time you marry for love, the second for money and the third for companionship,” although in the last instance the pair never tied the knot. Her marriage to JFK lasted ten years until his assassination; - [Astro-comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-12/) - Please add below, Older posts under News on top bar and in search. - [Sting - Police under caution](https://star4cast.com/sting-police-under-caution/) - Sting is being sued by his former bandmates in Police, Andy Summers and Stewart Copelamd, for what they claim are lost royalties from the hit Every Breath You Take. Sting's representatives have responded with the claim that the band members may have been “substantially overpaid” royalties. The band split up in 1984 after seven successful - [Peter Mandelson - fading back into the darkness](https://star4cast.com/peter-mandelson-fading-back-into-the-darkness/) - Peter Mandelson has been sacked as the UK's ambassador to the US, as the Foreign Office claimed that "the depth and extent of Peter Mandelson's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein is materially different from that known at the time of his appointment." Not sure how they managed to miss it given photographs of him emerged several - [Poland drones - Russia testing the temperature](https://star4cast.com/poland-drones-russia-testing-the-temperature/) - Russia has backtracked saying it had no intention of targeting Poland as PM Donald Tusk said the Russian drones flying over Polish territory were the closest the country had been to war since then 1940s. Analysts say it not so much a strategically calculated attack as an experiment to see whether Poland and Nato are - [Israel bombs Qatar - and on it goes](https://star4cast.com/israel-bombs-qatar-and-on-it-goes/) - Israel bombs Qatar, alarming Middle Eastern countries – Russia sends drones over Poland outraging NATO and western allies. All of which seems more redolent of the potentially violent March 2025 Aries Solar Eclipse than the upcoming late September low energy late Virgo one. It is a stretch but the March 2025 Solar Eclipse had Mars - [France - not learning the lessons of the past](https://star4cast.com/france-not-learning-the-lessons-of-the-past/) - Is France the canary in the coal mine for European democracies including the UK? Facing unmanageable state debt, overburdened with welfare and state sector spending with a population unwilling to grasp the nettle and vote for cutbacks, the runaway train hurtles ever faster towards the buffers. William Hague, ever a sane voice in a - [Boris Johnson - trouble never far from his door](https://star4cast.com/boris-johnson-trouble-never-far-from-his-door/) - Boris Johnson, never far from centre of attention was recently alarmingly touted as maybe returning to frontline politics with the Tories, then for a touch of alternative slapstick a possible double-act with Farage was suggested. In response the Guardian has delivered a tranche of stories about him using his tax-payer funded private office to profit - [Lulu - Scorpio Sun Sagittarius Moon](https://star4cast.com/lulu-scorpio-sun-sagittarius-moon/) - Lulu, the Scottish singer, with a six decade career behind her has a new memoir out called If Only You Knew. In it she owns up to a secret drinking habit which sent her into rehab in her sixties. Born 3 November 1948 1.30am Lennoxstown, Scotland, she shot to fame as a 15 year old - [UK Politics - Green Polanski, Jaunty Farage](https://star4cast.com/uk-politics-green-polanski-jaunty-farage/) - On the merry-go-round of UK politics Zack Polanski is the new face of the Green Party. He already sits on the London Assembly, scrutinising the activities of the London mayor. But he has ambitions to join the four Green MPs in Westminster And to be a threat to both Labour and Reform UK. He wants - [Graham Linehan - trapped in a culture war](https://star4cast.com/graham-linehan-trapped-in-a-culture-war/) - Graham Linehan, the Irish comedian, arrested by five armed police over an offensive tweet as he returned to the UK to face court charges over an altercation with a teenage transgender activist, has admitted that being embroiled in the debate over transgender issues had "consumed his life". It has lost him work, made him financially - [Duchess of Kent - a kindly, creative Pisces](https://star4cast.com/duchess-of-kent-a-kindly-creative-pisces/) - The Duchess of Kent, a radiantly beautiful, gentle and unassuming member of the Royal Family has died aged 92. Married to the Duke of Kent she came from a wealthy landowning family which raised a few eyebrows about her lack of Royal blood and went on to have three children. She had a fourth pregnancy - [Astro-comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-11/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in Search - [UK government - change but no progress](https://star4cast.com/uk-government-change-but-no-progress/) - Rayner resigns. David Lammy in as deputy prime minister and justice secretary. Yvette Cooper is the new foreign secretary and Shabana Mahmood becomes home secretary, while Rachel Reeves stays as chancellor. This is a speed read. Lammy, 19 July 1972, London, is a late Sun Cancer with a Scorpio Moon and a flashy and outspoken - [Giorgio Armani - Cancerian creativity and flair](https://star4cast.com/giorgio-armani-cancerian-creativity-and-flair/) - Giorgio Armani, the maestro of fashion for both men and women, whose look was classical in its simplicity has died aged 91. He first made a splash in 1975 with his “unreconstructed” jacket, which dispensed with lining and shoulder pads and was adopted by suave businessmen from Manhattan to Melbourne. His collections had a practicality - [Portugal crash - a forerunner for major changes](https://star4cast.com/portugal-crash-a-forerunner-for-major-changes/) - Portugal has declared a day of mourning after at least 17 people were killed when a funicular cable railway derailed and hit a building in Lisbon. More than 20 others were injured, many tourists. Local media reports suggest a cable came loose along the railway's route, causing it to lose control. It happened just - [Peter Sellers - one of a kind](https://star4cast.com/peter-sellers-one-of-a-kind/) - Peter Sellers credited as the greatest comedian of all time was born 100 years ago. A favourite on the early BBC radio program "The Goon Show", he had his first film break in I'm All Right Jack (1959). The film's success led to starring roles in Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita (1962) and thence into Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I - [India drifting east? Or maybe not](https://star4cast.com/india-drifting-east-or-maybe-not/) - “Donald Trump’s clueless diplomacy is a gift to Xi Jinping” runs the headline as Indian PM Modi cosies up to the Chinese and Russian leaders. On the surface it seems like a strategic slap in the face for Trump, though as ever in geopolitics there are pros and cons in either direction. India and - [Midpoints - a daily checkpoint](https://star4cast.com/midpoints-a-daily-checkpoint/) - Looking at midpoints of transits may sound obscure but can occasionally be illuminating. The inner planet aspects to midpoints are fast moving and only around for a day or so – though in itself that can be helpful for that day’s mood. The Sun is square the Mars/Pluto midpoint today which is heavy going, requiring - [Angela Rayner - Venus in Taurus, Aries, Leo ++ Rachel Reeves and Starmer](https://star4cast.com/angela-rayner-venus-in-taurus-aries-leo/) - Angela Rayner, the UK Deputy PM, is embroiled in a contentious situation over property with the Conservatives accusing Rayner, who is also the housing secretary, of hypocrisy. She avoided tax when buying a seaside property in East Sussex, purportedly to give her a safe seat for the next election. She ducked £40,000 in stamp duty - [USA Health - first do no harm? ++ deaths and vaccine stats](https://star4cast.com/usa-health-first-do-no-harm/) - “The lunatics have taken over the asylum” - said of a situation in which those in charge are incapable of handling their responsibilities, and should rather be put under scrutiny themselves. Robert F Kennedy Jnr, an anti-vaccine crank put in charge of US health has fired the respected head of the Centers for Disease Control - [George Clooney - a role to remember](https://star4cast.com/george-clooney-a-role-to-remember/) - George Clooney is being hailed by critics with ‘his best performance ever’ playing an ageing Hollywood A-lister suffering a midlife crisis on a trip through Europe in Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly which has just premiered at the Venice Film Festival. Born 6 May 1961 2.58 am Lexington, KY, he has a 2nd house Sun in - [Taylor & Travis - marketing gold](https://star4cast.com/taylor-travis-marketing-gold/) - An all too predictable media storm followed Taylor Swift’s engagement announcement to Travis Kelce on Instagram which raked in over 1m likes in less than 10 minutes, now currently over 18m. Born within two months of each other, she is a Sun Sagittarius with the triple conjunction of Uranus, Neptune, Saturn in Capricorn plus - [France - in the eye of the storm](https://star4cast.com/france-in-the-eye-of-the-storm/) - France has the misfortune to be in the centre of the calamitous Scheat storm in coming months. The government may fall next week if a confidence vote fails with Left and Right catching the prime minister in a vice as he attempts to address the problem of a massive national debt by controlling spending, cutting - [Astro-comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-10/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar and in Search - [Trump v Chicago - Fixed stars mark his path](https://star4cast.com/trump-v-chicago-fixed-stars-mark-his-path/) - The Trump trail of tears and terror continues to lengthen as he retreats from saving the world in the face of Putin and Netanyahu’s intransigence and instead turns his vengeful laser on home targets - Jerome Powell of the Federal Reserve, John Bolton, former ally turned critic, and Democrat-run cities which he deems killing zones - [Dr James Dobson - an American throwback](https://star4cast.com/dr-james-dobson-an-american-throwback/) - James Dobson, the Conservative preacher once called "the nation's most influential evangelical leader" with an entrée to the White House under Reagan has died. He believed in the notion of the traditional family with a male breadwinner and a female caregiver, thought spanking children aged 15 months and on was advisable with switches or belts - [Piper Alpha - Scheat sea disaster - repeat Eclipse](https://star4cast.com/piper-alpha-scheat-sea-disaster-repeat-eclipse/) - Piper Alpha, the world's worst offshore oil and gas accident on 6 July 1988, in which 167 men died 120 miles off the coast of Aberdeen, is the subject of a new BBC documentary. What is significant astrologically is the prominence of Scheat at the disaster, often connected to shipwrecks, in the previous March - [Stock Markets on edge with AI doubts ++ crypto currency 'fool's paradise'](https://star4cast.com/stock-markets-on-edge-with-ai-doubts/) - The US stock market has lost $1 trillion in just four days as a sell-off of tech companies deepened amid fears that an AI-powered stock market rally could be about to collapse. The drop-off has been fuelled by concerns that AI companies are overvalued, with some claiming they have little to show for the billions - [Helen Mirren - on a Leonine peak](https://star4cast.com/helen-mirren-on-a-leonine-peak/) - The indomitable Helen Mirren is 80 and not only still going strong but has a super-abundance of films on offer this year because of the covid pile-up - the second series of 1923 with Harrison Ford, the London gangland series MobLand and is now back alongside Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley and Celia Imrie for Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder - [Noel Clarke - the tragic flaw and 10th Harmonic](https://star4cast.com/noel-clarke-the-tragic-flaw-and-10th-harmonic/) - Fame is a fickle creature even when rooted in talent as actor Noel Clarke has discovered for the second time. In 2021 he won the outstanding BAFTA as actor, writer, producer, director for his contribution to British cinema. The Guardian then ran several articles and a podcast featuring more than 20 women accused him of - [Princess Tiaamii - and mommy dearest ++ brother Junior](https://star4cast.com/princess-tiaamii-and-mommy-dearest/) - “We ignore the gods and fill our minds with trash.” Rainer Maria Rilke. Starting with a mea culpa for a plunge into the rancid world of reality shows and tabloid hysteria. The Kardashians are practically in the rear view mirror, with the Beckham/Peltz family feud stepping in as the daily-rag top delight. Followed closely - [Amanda Knox - fated to be a scapegoat](https://star4cast.com/amanda-knox-fated-to-be-a-scapegoat/) - “The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox” is a new documentary about the legal fiasco which saw her imprisoned for a murder she did not commit in Italy. It was followed by an acquittal, subsequently overturned, before being dismissed categorically and compensation paid after an EHCR ruling that her rights had been violated in the initial - [Immigration - tensions and no answers ++ Sweden and Denmark policies](https://star4cast.com/immigration-tensions-and-no-answers/) - Immigration is inflaming tensions in the UK, Europe and the USA, headlined as an unsolvable problem and scaremongered as a threat to national identity. Looking back in history it is clear that ‘invasions’ by foreigners – in the case of Britain - Roman, Anglo-Saxon (Germanic), Viking (Scandanavian) and in the case of Spain the Moorish - [Norwegian Royals - another family calamity](https://star4cast.com/norwegian-royals-another-family-calamity/) - The eldest son of Norway's crown princess has been charged with 32 offences, including four counts of rape with one of them allegedly taking place after his arrest, and could face up to 10 years in prison if found guilty of the most serious charges. He does not have a royal title or official duties - [Churchill and De Gaulle - leaders of men](https://star4cast.com/churchill-and-de-gaulle-leaders-of-men/) - Winston Churchill or Charles de Gaulle - who was the greater leader? A niche question about bygone times but relevant given their ability to lead their country through perilous times. A new dual biography of them shows how different they were: one patrician and curiously childish, the other a bourgeois brigadier. Winston Churchill, 30 November - [Terence Stamp - beautiful and troubled ++ Sirius](https://star4cast.com/terence-stamp-beautiful-and-troubled/) - Actor Terence Stamp, the face of the Swinging Sixties, a star of Billy Budd, Far From the Madding Crowd, Poor Cow has died. Known as “the most beautiful man in the world” he was beloved by the paparazzi as well as being a favourite of directors like Pasolini, Fellini, William Wyer, Soderbergh, Joseph Losey. He - [Astro-comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-9/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in Search. Or in google. - [Ukraine - a superpower carve up?](https://star4cast.com/ukraine-a-superpower-carve-up/) - Zelensky backed by European leaders is due to meet Donald Trump at 1pm EST after his Alaskan two-step with Putin which was consummately finessed by the Russian leader. The Sun at 26 Leo exactly conjunct Trump’s blowhard Mars suggests he’ll be on his typical blustering and grandstanding form. The Sun is also in a wide-ish - [The Kennedys - entangled with Fixed stars](https://star4cast.com/the-kennedys-entangled-with-fixed-stars/) - The mythic status of the Kennedy family in the USA is well-trodden ground and a new CNN series American Prince: JFK Jr about the tragic son of Jackie and JFK killed in a plane crash when he was 39 apparently does little to dull the starry image. The reality is, as ever, another story - [Brian Cox - a consummate actor](https://star4cast.com/brian-cox-a-consummate-actor/) - The indefatigable actor Brian Cox, born two weeks before Donald Trump, is still going full tilt. He’s just off stage playing the 18th-century economist Adam Smith; has this year released several films, plus his own directorial debut of Glenrothan with Alan Cummings, as well bizarrely as fronting a reality show 007: Road to a Million; - [George Reid - a voice with a purpose ++ Aldebaran](https://star4cast.com/george-reid-a-voice-with-a-purpose/) - George Reid, former Presiding Officer and founder member of the Scottish Parliament, who has just died at 86, was that rare animal, a politician with a background in the real world. Initially an award winning journalist and TV producer, he became an SNP MP for several years, campaigning for devolution, before prompting a no confidence - [Same Sex unions - USA ponders a reversal](https://star4cast.com/same-sex-unions-usa-ponders-a-reversal/) - There are fears of a retreat away from a civilized stance on same sex marriage in the USA with a plea to the Supreme Court to overrule a 2015 landmark decision making it a fundamental right. Kim Davis, a former Kentucky county clerk who was jailed for six days in 2015 after refusing to issue - [Princess Anne - the best of the bunch](https://star4cast.com/princess-anne-the-best-of-the-bunch/) - Princess Anne, having her 75th birthday this week, is catching rave reviews in contrast to her younger brother Andrew. In the course of 2024, she was the busiest royal, carrying out 474 official engagements despite being hospitalised in June for concussion. Reliable, unfussy, devoted to her late mother and a reassuring support for her elder - [Outer planet shifts - where is the enlightenment?](https://star4cast.com/outer-planet-shifts-where-is-the-enlightenment/) - Gaza is an unbearable horror show; stalwart Ukraine is no nearer expelling the invaders; the USA is being dismantled under a military dictatorship; UK is in despairing chaos under a rudderless (and control-freaky) government; the EU are up against the wall, southern locations under threat of overheating/wildfires and on and on and on. It was - [Al Jazeera journalists - a sombre Saturn Return](https://star4cast.com/al-jazeera-journalists-a-sombre-saturn-return/) - Six journalists were killed in a targeted Israeli attack that brought condemnation from the UN's human rights office, Reporters Without Borders, the Foreign Press Association and the Committee to Protect Journalists. Five were Al Jazeera journalists, one of whom the Israeli military alleged had "served as the head of a terrorist cell in Hamas". The - [UK - Uranus Pluto uprisings](https://star4cast.com/uk-uranus-pluto-uprisings/) - ‘Britain is not a broken society’ runs one viewpoint - in complete contrast to ‘ many of the preconditions for civil war exist in Britain today.’ The first stance says crime is way down from the 1990s, there are no blackouts, fewer strikes and an economy which is better than our close neighbours. “The country - [Sydney Sweeney - creating a stir](https://star4cast.com/sydney-sweeney-creating-a-stir/) - Putting a finger on cultural pulse of the moment throws up depressingly pointless stories. One such is actress, model and brand promoter Syndey Sweeney, lauded to the heavens by Trump as “hot” and a Republican to boot, ruffling feathers with her comments on her blue-eyed genes to sell – ahem – jeans, and promoting the - [Astro-comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-8/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in search. Photo: 10 month old Jack Russell Bertie having a stand off with a snow leopard in a David Attenborough documentary. Cats, dogs, horses and anything furry gets an immediate response. - [Homeless minister entangled in yods](https://star4cast.com/homeless-minister-entangled-in-yods/) - Of passing interest is another political hiccup for Starmer as his homelessness minister resigns having previously spoken out about private renters being exploited only for it to emerge that she had removed tenants from property she owned before putting on a sizeable rent rise of almost £700 a month. Not illegal but certainly hypocritical. In - [Jim Lovell - calm in the face of disaster](https://star4cast.com/jim-lovell-calm-in-the-face-of-disaster/) - Jim Lovell, the astronaut, who was commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission – “Houston we have a problem” - which turned into one of the most dramatic in the history of space flight has died aged 97 Launched on 11 April 1970 from the Kennedy Space Centre at 2.13pm EST in April 1970, it - [Alexander Fleming - a Neptune Saturn legend](https://star4cast.com/alexander-fleming-a-neptune-saturn-legend/) - Sir Alexander Fleming, the Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the antibiotic penicillin which was described as the "single greatest victory ever achieved over disease", was born on 6 August 1881 at 2am Darvel, Scotland. He was knighted for his scientific achievements and was named in Time magazine's list of the 100 Most - [Morlok quads - a uniquely difficult life ++Dionne quintuplets](https://star4cast.com/morlok-quads-a-uniquely-difficult-life/) - Sarah, the last of the Morlok quadruplets, who entertained audiences with her three sisters as a child but grew up with a nightmare father, has died aged 95. Her mother was expecting twins and went into labour a month early, delivering four identical girls born from a single egg which was considered a medical miracle - [Sarah, the Duchess - less than noble](https://star4cast.com/sarah-the-duchess-less-than-noble/) - Sarah, Duchess of York, has been given an excoriating trouncing in Andrew Lownie’s book with endless tales of obscenely profligate spending with a guilt-free disregard for her inability to pay, debts racking up – and worse supposedly charitable ventures not paying out to the needy whose cause her public appearances were supposedly promoting. She - [Andrew - the Royal dilemma intensifies ++ Prince George chart ++ over-forgiving mother](https://star4cast.com/andrew-the-royal-dilemma-intensifies/) - Prince Andrew emerges, as expected, as an unpleasant human being from the Andrew Lownie’s Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York - sex obsessed and boorish, with an prurient, adolescent sense of humour, crassly arrogant, rude to staff and unsurprisingly lonely. Journalist Petronella Wyatt said he reminded her of Princess Margaret, ‘who - [Astrology - adding Sun to Rising and Moon](https://star4cast.com/astrology-adding-sun-to-rising-and-moon/) - There are Sun sign devotees, and I have known a few, who can intuit birthdays and personality characteristics with astonishing accuracy. If astrology were that simple, life would be easier for the aspiring astrologer who instead of focusing on one shining star is forced to juggle with the effect of Rising signs and Moon signs, - [Singapore - wealth and scary neighbours](https://star4cast.com/singapore-wealth-and-scary-neighbours/) - Singapore is celebrating 60 years as an independent sovereign nation and republic on August 9th. Highly developed and extremely wealthy, it is a major aviation, financial, and maritime shipping hub. It ranks highly in key social indicators: education, healthcare, quality of life, personal safety, infrastructure, and housing, with a home-ownership rate of 88 percent. Singaporeans - [Comets - fleeting messages from beyond](https://star4cast.com/comets-fleeting-messages-from-beyond/) - Comets in Astrology is a fascinating dive into an under researched topic but not for the faint of heart. The author Rod Chang having been asked eleven years ago where the icy celestial bodies that orbit the Sun known as comets, which appear periodically and erratically in the heavens, fit in with astrology, he decided - [Liam Neeson + Pamela Anderson - a Jupiterian zing](https://star4cast.com/liam-neeson-pamela-anderson-a-jupiterian-zing/) - Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson are an unlikely romantic duo but are providing a cheering distraction with musings on their new found togetherness. The 58-year-old Baywatch star and the 73-year-old Academy Award nominee held hands during interviews to promote their new comedy The Naked Gun, a sequel and reboot to the Leslie Nielsen-starring series of - [Gaza and Israel - unending horror ++ Palestine Independence and Fatah](https://star4cast.com/gaza-and-israel-unending-horror/) - In the unending horror of Gaza, there are two significant developments. One is Arab countries - Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt - calling for Hamas to disband and play no further part in the governing of Palestine, the first time they have done so. The other, inside Israel is the rising number of serving and - [Gwyneth Paltrow - yesterday's influencer](https://star4cast.com/gwyneth-paltrow-yesterdays-influencer/) - Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop appears to have gurgled in a southerly direction with the winds of change blowing. A Pluto in Capricorn creature it started with a newsletter in 2008, was incorporated in the UK in 2011 and went stratospheric. As well as promoting bizarre oddities like vagina eggs, coffee enemas and $15,000 sex toys, it - [Astro-comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-7/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in Search - [Jeremy Corbyn - a Gemini Scorpio party](https://star4cast.com/jeremy-corbyn-a-gemini-scorpio-party/) - Out of the bin into a resurrected-possible, leftwing Jeremy Corbyn has attracted half a million signatories for his new, as yet, unnamed party. His partner in the venture Zarah Sultana says their policies will include "democratic public ownership of key industries, universal free childcare, rent controls, free public transport and much more". Corbyn, added there - [Tom Lehrer - ridicule, irony and sharp wit](https://star4cast.com/tom-lehrer-ridicule-irony-and-sharp-wit/) - A maths prodigy with a satirical sense of humour, ‘who revelled in writing tongue-twisting songs of discerning bad taste’, Tom Lehrer has died aged 97. An acclaimed musical satirist of the cold war era he became one of America’s favorite prophets of doom building up a cult following before retreating to academia. His dazzling - [Women's Football - a win for England](https://star4cast.com/womens-football-a-win-for-england/) - Rapture greeted the England Women’s Football team – the Lionesses – win over Spain in the Euro 25. A nail-biting finish saw them seize the trophy. For Sarina Wiegman, the Dutch manager of the England women's national team since 2021 it is another triumph. She is the first-ever men's or women's manager to reach five - [Queen Victoria - hidden secrets](https://star4cast.com/queen-victoria-hidden-secrets/) - Stories of Royal illegitimate children can usually be discounted as a fantasist or opportunist claims for fame. But the recurring rumours of Queen Victoria’s romantic relationship with servant John Brown after Prince Albert died persist. With a further twist as suggestions are being made that there was a child, spirited away to New Zealand - [Bankruptcy - going back full circle](https://star4cast.com/bankruptcy-going-back-full-circle/) - A fleeting astrological titbit, based on marginally dubious birth times but with intriguing coincidences – comes from two UK celebrities, who rose from poor beginnings to success and money and have gone bankrupt twice. Martine McCutcheon, 14 May 1976 7.40am London, had a tough childhood with little money and a violent, abusive father, became a - [The Epstein ghost continues to haunt the USA ++ Ghislaine happy to testify (DM) ++ cartoon](https://star4cast.com/the-epstein-ghost-continues-to-haunt-the-usa/) - Jeffrey Epstein, ‘the man who never dies’ has arisen from his sarcophagus again to cause a bitter split between Trump and his biggest MAGA fans. They have complained vociferously about Pam Bondi, the Attorney General, closing the book on Epstein’s files saying there is nothing to see, having previously hinted at a big reveal earlier - [Cleo Laine - musical Neptune Regulus](https://star4cast.com/cleo-laine-musical-neptune-regulus/) - Cleo Laine, Britain's most successful jazz singer, who straddled jazz, classical, pop and musical theatre with a four-octave range, performed with the greats like Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra and collaborated for decades with husband, jazz musician John Dankworth has died aged 97. The Sunday Times once described her as "quite simply the best singer - [Candace Owens - the right to misrepresent ++ other tinfoil hat opinions](https://star4cast.com/candace-owens-the-right-to-misrepresent/) - A silly season story to distraction from miseries elsewhere. The French President and his wife are suing an American one-time Maga influencer and wild conspiracy theorist Candace Owens, after she falsely claimed France’s first lady was a man. And along the way, to her gzillion Insta and youtube fans, Candace also alluded to Emmanuel - [Zelensky - reversing a dubious decision](https://star4cast.com/zelensky-reversing-a-dubious-decision/) - Ukraine has seen the first public demonstrations against President Zelensky since the Russian invasion as he attempted to remove the independence of anti-corruption agencies, bringing them under the control of the prosecutor general, who is appointed by the president. It would have given him the de facto power to halt corruption investigations that target senior - [Hulk Hogan - the lion king of the ring](https://star4cast.com/hulk-hogan-the-lion-king-of-the-ring/) - Hulk Hogan, the US wrestling icon, known for his flamboyance and massive physique, his trademark blond moustache and his performance in Rocky 111 and television shows has died of cardiac arrest. Born 11 August 1953 6.13am (unverified) Augusta, Georgia, he had fittingly Pluto in Leo on his Ascendant conjunct a Leo Sun sitting midway between - [Nicola Sturgeon - the truth is never simple](https://star4cast.com/nicola-sturgeon-the-truth-is-never-simple/) - Nicola Sturgeon, former Scotland First Minister, is gearing up for the publication of her memoir boldly named “Frankly” in which she says she has poured her heart with candid reflections on her heartbreaks as well as triumphs. Scottish novelist Andrew Hagan is not sparing with his praise. ‘A triumph. Frankly is the most insightful - [Astro-comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-6/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in search, or on google. - [Ozzy Osbourne - a life less ordinary](https://star4cast.com/ozzy-osbourne-a-life-less-ordinary/) - Ozzy Osbourne, wild rock star, pioneer of heavy metal with Black Sabbath who became a global star with a "prince of darkness" reputation has died. The two oddities of his life are that he became and stayed famous from unlikely beginnings as an under-educated loser with a prison record who couldn’t sing. And that he - [Family disasters - Gloria Grahame, Lawrence Durrell](https://star4cast.com/family-disasters-gloria-grahame-lawrence-durrell/) - Blighted and scandalous families are not restricted to the obscenely wealthy, with two biographies out turning the focus on unforgivable behaviour amongst creative and celebrity types. Gloria Grahame, a four time married Hollywood actress, who gained some success in the 1950s with an Oscar for The Bad and the Beautiful, seduced the 12 - [Nicola Benedetti - a musical cheerleader](https://star4cast.com/nicola-benedetti-a-musical-cheerleader/) - The indefatigable Nicola Benedetti, celebrating her 38th birthday, is gearing up for the Edinburgh International Festival starting in three weeks of which she has been the first female director since 2022. Heralded as one of the most sought-after violinists of her generation, she was a child prodigy, continues to play and record prolifically to international audiences, - [Malcolm Jamal Warner - a highlighted Pisces Moon](https://star4cast.com/malcolm-jamal-warner-a-highlighted-pisces-moon/) - Malcolm-Jamal Warner, the American actor, musician and poet best known for his role in the Cosby Show had drowned while on vacation in Costa Rica, apparently dragged out to sea while swimming by a strong current. He was born August 18, 1970 at 2.43 am Jersey City, New Jersey, named after Malcolm X, and had - [Family Curses - Algol down the generations](https://star4cast.com/family-curses-algol-down-the-generations/) - Athina Onassis, the heir to a Greek shipping fortune, is gradually emerging from seclusion after her divorce several years ago which turns a focus back onto her family which has been blighted by early deaths, accidents, suicides and dramas. All the cliches about the curse of money which have haunted dynastic wealth like the - [Pholus - mobs, madness or inspiration](https://star4cast.com/pholus-mobs-madness-or-inspiration/) - Early astrology knew nothing of the outer planets. As they were discovered and added to the zodiacal lexicon, astrologers had extra tools for interpretation, expanded further by the addition of Chiron. In recent times Fixed Stars like Algol, Scheat, Alphard, have come back into vogue as helpful tools. And now asteroids are also coming - [Clint Eastwood - the films versus the flaws](https://star4cast.com/clint-eastwood-the-films-versus-the-flaws/) - Clint Eastwood has gained another biography which promises to be “neither acquiescence nor denigration,” though whether he will welcome it personally given his dislike of any incursion into his private life is questionable. Shawn Levy, the author, according to a review, covers Eastwood’s sixty years in films without making any attempt to moralize about - [Crypto heaven - risks and rewards](https://star4cast.com/crypto-heaven-risks-and-rewards/) - The value of the global cryptocurrency market has reached $4tn for the first time after the passage of the US digital asset legislation - the so-called Genius Act. It marks “one of the most significant moves” towards mainstream adoption of crypto. It is a huge turnaround since 2022, when its value fell to about $800bn - [Felix Baumgarten - born to fly](https://star4cast.com/felix-baumgarten-born-to-fly/) - Austrian Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to go faster than the speed of sound in 2012 after jumping out of a balloon 24 miles (39 kms) up in the air over New Mexico and smashing the record for the highest ever freefall, has died in a paragliding accident in Italy. According to media reports, he - [Connie Francis - great highs and worse lows](https://star4cast.com/connie-francis-great-highs-and-worse-lows/) - Connie Francis, the American singer, who was the best selling performer in the late 1950s/early 1960s after Presley and The Beatles, with Stupid Cupid, Who’s Sorry Now?, and Lipstick on Your Collar, has died aged 87. From 1964, her career was blighted by a catalogue of personal tragedies including three divorces, two miscarriages, rape, - [CIA - even its critics are on the defensive ++ UK SIS (MI6) and MI5](https://star4cast.com/cia-even-its-critics-are-on-the-defensive/) - The CIA rides high on Trump’s hate list as he considers the agency the beating heart of a “deep state” that is working to undermine him. The agency’s track record of past screw-ups is not such as to inspire respect anywhere but a new book points to the risks of putting “the instruments of American - [Questions & Astro-comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-astro-comments/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in Search - or on the internet. Try google. - [High voltage Earth Air - Janet Street Porter + Billy Joel](https://star4cast.com/high-voltage-earth-air-street-porter-joel/) - Mars Earth plus Air appears to be a recipe for multiple marriages and enduring, pro-active careers according to two showbusiness types in the news. One is ‘motormouth’ Janet Street Porter, English broadcaster, journalist, writer, media personality, at one point a BBC executive and then editor of the Independent. The other is Billy Joel, American singer, - [Ingmar Bergman - flawed genius](https://star4cast.com/ingmar-bergman-flawed-genius/) - Ingmar Bergman, the film director, was widely hailed as a genius for The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, and Fanny and Alexander amongst many others. Martin Scorsese said “it’s impossible to overestimate the effect that Bergman’s films had on people”. Stanley Kubrick and Woody Allen both proclaimed him “the greatest film artist, all things considered, since - [Ghislaine Maxwell - down the generations](https://star4cast.com/ghislaine-maxwell-down-the-generations/) - Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's right-hand woman is serving 20 years in prison for sex trafficking offenses, the only person held legally responsible to date. Her family are now claiming she ‘did not receive a fair trial', claiming she should have been protected under an agreement Epstein entered with the Department of Justice in 2007, in which - [The aristo, the rapist - and a neglected baby](https://star4cast.com/the-aristo-the-rapist-and-a-neglected-baby/) - The tragic, tawdry, off-the-grid lifestyle of aristocrat Constance Marten and her convicted rapist boyfriend Mark Gordon which lead to their four children being taken into care and adopted because of a domestic violence incident and a fifth baby dying of hypothermia while they were on the run has finally been brought to a halt. After - [Giorgia Meloni - Mars in full flight ++ Francesca Albanese](https://star4cast.com/giorgia-meloni-from-unlikely-beginnings/) - Giorgia Meloni, the Italian Prime Minister, known as the enfant terrible of the European Right and ‘Mussolini in high heels’, much feted by Donald Trump, has managed against all expectations to stay in power for three years. No mean feat given her country’s carnival politics - 69 governments in power over the past 79 years. - [Jewish Diaspora - Pluto in Aquarius](https://star4cast.com/jewish-diaspora-pluto-in-aquarius/) - Researching past times of Pluto in Aquarius which next picks up from 2023 till 2042 it caught my eye that the original Jewish diaspora occurred under the Pluto in Aquarius in 60 to 84 AD when the first of the Jewish Wars against the Romans took place. The Romans laid siege to Jerusalem crucifying tens - [Elements - Fire, Earth, Air, Water](https://star4cast.com/elements-fire-earth-air-water/) - The four elements of Fire, Air, Earth and Water; plus triplicities of Cardinal, Fixed and Mutable; plus 12 houses; plus 10 planets (and North Node and Fixed stars) all in different houses and in varying aspects to each other and the chart axis – and it adds up to a great deal of information to - [Pam Shriver * George Lazenby - Water and Earth](https://star4cast.com/pam-shriver-george-lazenby-water-and-earth/) - A touching story about the once-split now reconciled marriage of Pam Shriver, former tennis pro, and actor George Lazenby. What brought them back together after a bitter split was his advancing dementia (and their three children). She said they had a turbulent relationship: sometimes tender, sometimes toxic. “There were times, after our divorce, when we - [Trumpian USA - shocks and after shocks](https://star4cast.com/trumpian-usa-shocks-and-after-shocks/) - For good or for ill Donald Trump’s bond with the USA is a close one, not easily pulled apart. But all political careers end in failure runs the saying. He too will pass one way or another though it is difficult to predict when his time at the top will give way to the ravages - [Richard Burton - talent and torment ++ last letter to Liz](https://star4cast.com/richard-burton-talent-and-torment/) - Richard Burton regarded as one of the finest actors of his generation was born 100 years ago. His memorable performance as Hamlet in 1964 cemented his promise as "the natural successor to Olivier". His failure to live up to those expectations disappointed many with his heavy drinking and much-publicised turbulent relationship with Liz Taylor leading - [Christian Horner - a Scorpio ruled by Pluto](https://star4cast.com/christian-horner-a-scorpio-ruled-by-pluto/) - Christian Horner has been dropped by Red Bull as CEO a year after allegations surfaced of him sending texts to a female member of staff of which he was cleared at the time. But patience at the top has finally snapped. A sports reporter wrote: “While he has achieved success and clearly has many qualities, - [Astro comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-5/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in search. - [Texas floods - eclipse alerted watery disaster](https://star4cast.com/texas-floods-eclipse-alerted-watery-disaster/) - The Texas flash floods in the early hours of the 4th July have claimed over a hundred dead, including a number of children at summer camp, with more than 160 people still missing and numbers rising. The previous Lunar Eclipse of March set for Texas has Neptune and (shipwrecking) Scheat on the IC with Moon - [Zionism - an ideal with consequences](https://star4cast.com/zionism-an-ideal-with-consequences/) - Zionism was the dream of Hungarian journalist Theodor Herzl who believed antisemitism could not be defeated or cured, only avoided, and that the only way to avoid it was the establishment of a Jewish state. He argued that the Jewish people should leave Europe for Palestine, their historic homeland. They possessed a nationality; all they - [Norman Tebbit - respected even by leftwingers](https://star4cast.com/norman-tebbit-respected-even-by-leftwingers/) - Norman Tebbit who has died aged 94, was a highly effective minister for Margaret Thatcher, regarded as a political bruiser and parliamentary thug and was once famously described by Michael Foot as a “semi-housetrained polecat”. He turned out to be a politician of substance, grudgingly admired even by those on the left. Born on 29 - [Cycles of Life - Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto](https://star4cast.com/cycles-of-life-saturn-uranus-neptune-pluto/) - Tracking the staging posts in life through the cycles of the outer planets in square, opposition and for some Returns to their natal position on a birth chart is an interesting exercise. In a long lifespan there will be three Saturn Returns at 29, 58 and 87; a Uranus Return at 84 and before that - [Serbia - Uranus Pluto collides with Saturn](https://star4cast.com/serbia-uranus-pluto-collides-with-saturn/) - Popular protests against the Serbian regime and its leader Aleksandar Vučić have been met with increasingly brutal repression. What started as student movement has become a broader citizens’ movement which is calling for civil disobedience and demanding a new election. ‘A large section of Serbians have long been uneasy with his "strongman" style of leadership, - [Erin Patterson - down in the woods danger lurks](https://star4cast.com/erin-patterson-down-in-the-woods-danger-lurks/) - Erin Patterson has been found guilty of poisoning several of her relatives with wild mushrooms in a trial that has gripped Australia for nine weeks. She prepared a lunch of beef wellington on differently coloured plates allowing her to avoid the tainted food herself - within a week, three former in-laws would be dead, a - [London bombs, Bhopal - Alphard a warning flag](https://star4cast.com/london-bombs-bhopal-alphard-a-warning-flag/) - A memorial service is being held for the July 7 2005 London bombings which killed 52 people and injured 800. Four co-ordinated suicide attacks on London's public transport during the morning rush hour were carried out by Islamist terrorists. The attacks happened when the Solar Arc Mars was square Pluto on the UK 1801 chart - [Keir Starmer - the devil is in the detail ++ possible Capricorn Ascendant](https://star4cast.com/keir-starmer-the-devil-is-in-the-detail/) - The enigma that is Keir Starmer should be explainable from his astrology except that sadly his birth time is missing which cuts out some useful information. Houses do put a chart and personality in context since, for example, an 8th house Leo Sun will be very different to a 5th house Leo Sun. The 8th - [Jennifer Aniston - healing wounds from the past](https://star4cast.com/jennifer-aniston-healing-wounds-from-the-past/) - Jennifer Aniston is gearing up to play a ‘monster of a stage mother’ in the film version of Jeanette McCurdy’s best selling memoir I'm Glad My Mom Died which details her experiences as a child actress living with a 'narcissistic' parent. It will be all the more poignant for Aniston since she had a 15 - [Liam and Noel - an incendiary brotherhood](https://star4cast.com/liam-and-noel-an-incendiary-brotherhood/) - Liam and Noel Gallagher back together on stage in Cardiff after an acrimonious split 16 years ago sent an audience of 75,000 fans into ecstasy with an Oasis concert which made up for in exuberance what it lacked in nuance and subtlety. After a brief hug, the once-warring siblings walking out hand-in-hand with Liam firmly - [Diogo Jota, Michael Madsen, Julian McMahon - three losses](https://star4cast.com/diogo-jota-michael-madsen-julian-mcmahon-three-losses/) - A sad week with several high profile deaths. Most tragic was Liverpool Diogo Jota, the Portuguese footballer, killed in a car crash at 28 along with his brother, only two weeks after his marriage. Born 4 December 1996 in Porto, Portugal, he was a Sun in Sagittarius square Mars in Virgo; with Pluto in - [Brad Pitt - a full throttle entertainment](https://star4cast.com/brad-pitt-a-full-throttle-entertainment/) - F1: The Movie, Brad Pitt’s racing drama is mischievously described as “Barbie for dads.” Reviewers are tripping over themselves to find adjectives which praise it as “rousing entertainment” while protecting their gravitas by labelling it as a “cheesy” and a “big, dumb, fun summer flick." Directed by Joseph Kosinski, of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ fame, it - [Astro-comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-4/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar in in Search - [Sean Combs - guilty on two charges, no bail](https://star4cast.com/sean-combs-guilty-on-two-charges-no-bail/) - Music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs has been found guilty of transportation to engage in prostitution but the most serious charges of racketeering and sex trafficking were not upheld. He has been denied bail and will remain in custody until sentencing on October 3rd when he could face 20 years in prison. Though the likelihood is - [BBC and Israel/Gaza - damned if they do or don't](https://star4cast.com/bbc-and-israel-gaza-damned-if-they-do-or-dont/) - The BBC are under fire for transmitting live a Glastonbury act chanting 'Free Palestine' and 'Death to the IDF'. And will likely be the focus of more criticism once Channel 4 tonight airs Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, which was made by two Emmy award-winning filmmakers and originally commissioned by the BBC but they refused - [Keir Starmer - the storm is up, hazard looms ++ the Chancellor's tears](https://star4cast.com/keir-starmer-the-storm-is-up-hazard-looms/) - Keir Starmer in office but not in control flip flops constantly - winter fuel, gender identity, welfare, immigration – blown hither and thither by activists in his party, seemingly incapable of defending what in certain instances are perfectly sensible policies and comments. There is not much new to say – he was always due - [Dalai Lama - a life less ordinary](https://star4cast.com/dalai-lama-a-life-less-ordinary/) - The Dalai Lama celebrating his 90th birthday this week has said he will have a successor after his death, ending years of uncertainty. He said only the foundation he set up could recognise a future Dalai Lama - "no one else has any such authority to interfere". China's government responded by saying it alone would - [USA Health - robbing the sick pays for tax cuts](https://star4cast.com/usa-health-robbing-the-sick-pays-for-tax-cuts/) - Millions of Americans will lose health insurance and thousands will die appears to be the prediction if Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill is passed later this week. Slashing Medicaid funding to help offset the tax cuts and new spending has unsettled even a few Republicans. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the legislation would slash Medicaid - [Jupiter - a child's guide to growth](https://star4cast.com/jupiter-a-childs-guide-to-growth/) - Zeus on the Loose: Unlock your Child’s Cosmic Superpower is a suitably exuberant title for an intriguing Jupiterian guide to junior development. Written by teacher and astrologer Alex Trenoweth, it brings her knowledge of the classroom to bear on Jupiter in each sign and its journey from birth, toddler years and onto school through squares, - [Astrology - who gets a grip on life?](https://star4cast.com/astrology-who-gets-a-grip-on-life/) - Why do certain individuals thrive undeservedly while others get landed with an unfair lifetime of setbacks? Why do others overcome monumentally horrible problems to thrive? Not much astrology here in terms of examples, more random and varied thoughts. What astrologers need to keep in mind is that not everyone lives out the full - [US Supreme Court - erasing checks and balances](https://star4cast.com/us-supreme-court-erasing-checks-and-balances/) - The latest ruling from the USA Supreme Court was described by Ketanji Brown Jackson, one of the three dissenting justices, as “profoundly dangerous, since it gives the Executive the go-ahead to sometimes wield the kind of unchecked, arbitrary power the Founders crafted our Constitution to eradicate”. She also calls the ruling an “existential threat to - [NASA - ground control out of service](https://star4cast.com/nasa-ground-control-out-of-service/) - NASA, the USA National Aeronautics and Space Administration, is under threat with major budget cuts mooted for the near future which would put at risk future space exploration. For an organization which put a man on the moon, sent a rover to Mars and unlocked some of the greatest secrets of the universe’ this has - [Mariska Hargitay - a life out of the ordinary](https://star4cast.com/mariska-hargitay-a-life-out-of-the-ordinary/) - Mariska Hargitay, long term star of Law and Order Special Victims Unit has explored her family history through a documentary to honour her mother Jayne Mansfield - a Playboy Playmate, and sex symbol of the 1950s and early 1960s, who was killed in a car crash aged 34. Mariska was in the car when - [AIPAC - Trump uncertain, Bibi unrestrained ++ Israel extremist media most popular](https://star4cast.com/aipac-trump-uncertain-bibi-unrestrained/) - The US pro-Israel lobbying group, AIPAC has a stated mission 'to encourage and persuade the U.S. government to enact specific policies that create a strong, enduring and mutually beneficial relationship with our ally Israel.' It has been publicly supportive of Netanyahu’s Iran attack and Gaza campaign despite growing concern amongst moderate Jewish groups. AIPAC, incorporated - [Astro-comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-3/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar and in Search - [Anna Wintour - top of the fashion ladder](https://star4cast.com/anna-wintour-top-of-the-fashion-ladder/) - Anna Wintour, heralded as the most powerful woman in publishing and a global fashion leader, is stepping down as editor-in-chief of Vogue after 37 years. She has been chairperson of the annual haute couture Met Gala since the 1990s. Revered for her talent, she has been criticised for her reportedly cool and demanding personality a - [Activism - when sweet reason fails to work](https://star4cast.com/activism-when-sweet-reason-fails-to-work/) - Activists are on a mission to change the world and come in all forms from national political – South Africa’s ANC, the IRA (and forerunners in Ireland), Palestine Liberation Organisation (Hamas and Hezbollah) – to specific causes within society like Suffragettes, Animal Liberation, Hunt Saboteurs, Climate Change, Stop Oil etc. Such organisations are by their - [Zohran Mamdani - young voters swing left](https://star4cast.com/zohran-mamdani-young-voters-swing-left/) - Zohran Mamdani, the leftwing Democrat not beloved by Wall Street, is the surprise winner of the Democratic race to become mayor of New York. Andrew Cuomo conceded defeat though the final result won’t be known until July 1st. Mamdani ran his campaign on a pledge to make life more affordable for New Yorkers, with promises - [Bezos wedding - Venice bares its teeth](https://star4cast.com/bezos-wedding-venice-bares-its-teeth/) - The Jeff Bezos extravaganza in Venice as he marries the eye-popping Lauren Sanchez is causing equal measures of outrage from Venicians and merriment amongst cartoonists. The Guardian’s First Dog: “The world’s richest Jeff had his wedding plans interfered with by Italian busybodies! Oh no!” “Why do people hate vulgar displays of extreme wealth by - [Palestine Action - rights and wrongs](https://star4cast.com/palestine-action-rights-and-wrongs/) - Palestine Action, a leading activist group has been banned by the home secretary, proscribed as a terrorist organization, “aligned with the Iranian regime”, after vandalism of two military aircraft at the RAF’s largest base. Palestine Action had its first foray on 30 July 2020 by campaigners who had broken away from Extinction Rebellion (XR), the - [Stephen Fry and J.K. Rowling - a Virgo Leo clash](https://star4cast.com/stephen-fry-and-j-k-rowling-a-virgo-leo-clash/) - Stephen Fry has been letting loose on J.K.Rowling accusing her of ‘crowing’ over the Supreme Court Ruling that “sex”, “man” and “woman” in the Equality Act refer to biological sex (a person's sex at birth); and being radicalised. Quite why he has erupted now – well podcasts being one answer – is not clear since the - [Astro-Prediction - Solar Arc, Transit, Progression](https://star4cast.com/astro-prediction-solar-arc-transit-progression/) - Predictive astrology is complex, requiring detachment, the ability to juggle and rank variables in order of importance and a respect for the ultimate unknowableness of how events will turn out. My own view is that astrology can tap into an underlying realm of potentials, out of which real events emerge. The range of possibilities - [Cancer Ingress - hard-shell, sharp claws ++ yods bring uncertainty](https://star4cast.com/cancer-ingress-hard-shell-sharp-claws/) - The Cancer Ingress chart for the summer solstice is anything but peace and love with control-freak Pluto and aggressive Mars on the focal points of two respective yods and the hopeful Sun Jupiter conjunction undermined by a square from Saturn Neptune in Aries. Plus an excitable, uncompromising and explosive Mars square Uranus. Set for Teheran - [Synastry - a complicated dance of plus and minus ++ E. Jean Carroll and Trump](https://star4cast.com/synastry-a-complicated-dance-of-plus-and-minus/) - Synastry, comparing on birth chart to another, to understand the dynamics of a relationship is as complicated as human psychology itself. The first thing is that if an individual is not capable of relating it will not be possible to make a meaningful connection. Which is not to say they won’t get married or have - [Astro-comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions-2/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in Search - [USA bombs Iran - hoping for a quick fix](https://star4cast.com/usa-bombs-iran-hoping-for-a-quick-fix/) - The USA joined Israel’s fight against Iran by sending in bombers to attack Iran's nuclear sites. Happening around 3am Iran time, there were two yods of Sun Jupiter sextile Mars inconjunct Pluto – and Pluto sextile Saturn Neptune inconjunct Mars. A Plutonic yod can be coercive; a Martian yod rash and disruptive – and yods - [Grooming gangs - children deserve a childhood ++ Ann Cryer, Maggie Oliver ++ Cousin marriages to blame](https://star4cast.com/grooming-gangs-children-deserve-a-childhood/) - UK Home secretary Yvette Cooper has issued an “unequivocal apology” over the failure of the British state to protect young girls from predatory grooming gangs over 16 years, as she confirmed a full national inquiry into the scandal. The recent Casey Inquiry found a large proportion of the perpetrators were men from Asian ethnic backgrounds. - [USA Health - in a sickly state](https://star4cast.com/usa-health-in-a-sickly-state/) - Given that health is a key issue on Trump’s 2nd term Administration chart with a ramped-up focal point Moon in the 6th house of health square Mars opposition Mercury it is no surprise that the slash-and-burn policies cutting back federal health budgets and staff are hitting the headlines. Appointing Robert F Kennedy Jnr, an anti-vaxxer, - [Solar and Lunar Returns - looking for answers](https://star4cast.com/solar-lunar-returns-looking-for-answers/) - Solar Returns drawn up for the moment the Sun returns to its natal place have been a consuming fascination since the days of respected astrologers Johannes Kepler and William Lilly in the 16/17th century. But for all the weight put on them as indicators of the year ahead interpretations are not always obvious. ‘Nuanced - [High Speed Trains 2 - a Pluto in Capricorn fiasco](https://star4cast.com/high-speed-trains-2-a-pluto-in-capricorn-fiasco/) - The HS2 (High Speed Train 2) project has been labelled ‘a complete failure by the British state and its politicians’ and an ‘appalling mess’, fuelled by political puff and short-termism - the project has become a farce.’ Peter Mandelson’s insider confession about how Gordon Brown and his cabinet came to approve HS2 in 2010 - [Blaise Metreweli - from Q to M spy chief](https://star4cast.com/blaise-metreweli-from-q-to-m-spy-chief/) - Blaise Metreweli is to become the first woman to head MI6 (the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service) from 1 October. [Played by Judi Dench in Bond as 'M']. She is currently Director General "Q" - head of the technology and innovation division which has the crucial task of gathering intelligence overseas to improve the country’s security, stop - [Minnesota - politics out of the barrel of a gun](https://star4cast.com/minnesota-politics-out-of-the-barrel-of-a-gun/) - The Minnesota assassination of Congresswoman Melissa Hortman and her husband; and the shooting of Senator John Hoffman and his wife which has left them severely injured occurred on the exact Mars square Uranus (conjunct Algol) on June 14th. The Minnesota state chart, 11 May 1858, was exactly on its Uranus Return – with the tr - [Duchess Sarah - baring her anguish ++ Libra women lean towards their father](https://star4cast.com/duchess-sarah-baring-her-anguish/) - Sarah, Duchess of York, has been opening up in public prints about her mental health struggles stemming in part from her mother abandoning the family to run off with an Argentinian polo player when she was 12, leaving “profound scars” that “led to feelings of unworthiness and her subsequent eating disorders.” What slightly undermines sympathy - [Human Rights - tramping on common sense](https://star4cast.com/human-rights-tramping-on-common-sense/) - Increasingly bizarre court decisions taken under the guise of the European Convention of Human Rights, allowing murderers and rapists to avoid extradition on specious excuses are leading to pressure for reform. The ECHR, agreed after World War 11 by Churchill, Adenauer, Mitterrand and others came into force on 3 September 1953 in part as a - [Israel - testing Iran's resolve ++ USA/Iran ++ Israel chart 4.16 pm - Netanyahu created conditions for war](https://star4cast.com/israel-testing-irans-resolve/) - Israel has struck out at Iran as Washington continued to attempt a negotiated agreement with Teheran in the face of possible nuclear escalation. The attack hit Iran's missile bases and killed the military chief of staff, Hossein Salami, commander of the powerful Revolutionary Guards as well as several top nuclear scientists. Tr Uranus square the - [Benjamin Netanyahu - a man on a mission ++ created conditions for war](https://star4cast.com/benjamin-netanyahu-a-man-on-a-mission/) - Benjamin Netanyahu, despite a deluge of criticism about corruption as well as civilian suffering/ collateral damage in Gaza and extremist settlers taking over land in the West Bank unchecked, is on a roll. Having inflicted significant damage on Hezbollah in Lebanon and on Hamas, both Iranian proxies, he is now intent on going for the - [Astro-Comments and Questions](https://star4cast.com/astro-comments-and-questions/) - Please add below. Older comments under News on top bar or in search. - [Huma Abedin & Alex Soros - a curious mix](https://star4cast.com/huma-abedin-alex-soros-a-curious-mix/) - Huma Abedin, political aide to Hillary Clinton, marrying Alex Soros, son of George Soros, the Democratic Party’s most generous patron, on Saturday drew together a crowd of the wealthy Liberal left to the Hamptons. They picked the most unsettled weekend of the year (decade) with the Israel/Iran conflagration erupting; ‘Not a King’ anti-Trump protests and - [Gary Oldman - cleans up well for the King + Roger Daltrey, Elaine Paige, Pat Barker](https://star4cast.com/gary-oldman-cleans-up-well-for-the-king-roger-daltrey-elaine-paige-pat-barker/) - Actor Gary Oldman, the greasy, flatulent spy boss of the losers and rejects in Slow Horses, makes an unlikely knight of the realm in King Charles’ Birthday Honours. Though his prolific and highly successful, award-strewn career as one of the highest-grossing actors of all time, does deserve recognition. Despite a stellar career – in - [Iran 1501, Reza Pahlavi, Trump indecisive](https://star4cast.com/iran-1501-reza-pahlavi-trump-indecisive/) - ‘This attack is about raw power, not about regional stability or better outcomes for everyone.” ‘While there won’t be many Arab tears shed for Iran, that does not amount to support for Israel.’ ‘Israel seized an opening to strike. The hard part may be closing it.’ ‘Israel is not building a better tomorrow, it - [Ahmedabad plane crash - Mars Uranus Algol](https://star4cast.com/ahmedabad-plane-crash-mars-uranus-algol/) - A London-bound Air India Boeing has crashed today into residential buildings with 242 people on board just after take-off at Ahmedabad at 8.08 am UTC today with no survivors and many dead from a doctors' hostel. {Maybe one plane survivor miraculously.] The approaching Mars square Uranus, exact this Sunday, is explosive, accident-prone and frequently present - [Greta Thunberg - charging into danger ++ Chris Packham + sister Beata](https://star4cast.com/greta-thunberg-charging-into-danger/) - Greta Thunberg, the young Swedish climate change activist, now on a mission to bring aid and highlight the plight of Palestinians in Gaza, is sailing into what will be a confrontation with the IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) today or tomorrow. She is travelling with 12 pro-Palestinian activists, including a French member of the European parliament - [Brian Wilson - Gemini light and dark ++ Sly Stone](https://star4cast.com/brain-wilson-gemini-light-and-dark-sly-stone/) - Brian Wilson's songs - Surfin' USA, California Girls, I Get Around, Good Vibrations and God Only Knows - have become classics with music reviewers describing him as ‘one of pop music's true geniuses.’ ‘His 1966 masterpiece Pet Sounds remains a benchmark in pop culture, blending classical harmonic theory with melodious songcraft, baroque orchestrations and an - [Rachel Reeves - hopeful words, cool reception](https://star4cast.com/rachel-reeves-hopeful-words-cool-reception/) - Chancellor Rachel Reeves' much vaunted spending review has led to accusations of spend now, pay later with investment in infrastructure like nuclear power stations. Boosts for Health and Defence budgets come at a cost to other departments like the police which is unlikely to go down well with the electorate. Investors are widely expecting that - [Mary Vohryzek - astrology library](https://star4cast.com/mary-vohryzek-astrology-library/) - Astrology books, some older and difficult to obtain, are on offer from the library of the late Mary Vohryzek. She was a writer, teacher and lecturer who translated Elsbeth and Reinhold Ebertin's "Anatomical Correspondence to Zodiacal Degrees" and wrote the forward to Louise McWhirter's 1988 book Astrology and stock market forecasting. Marc Penfield has said - [China - preparing for a changing of the guard?](https://star4cast.com/china-preparing-for-a-changing-of-the-guard/) - Murmurs that Xi Jinping’s one-man-rule is showing signs of coming to an end may be wishful thinking though there are ominous hints of failure and concern on various charts in particular the Bank of China. Xi Jinping, 15 June 1953, has his Mars at zero degrees Cancer sinking under the weight of tr Neptune Saturn - [Los Angeles - the eye of the storm ++ California ++ Trump relocated](https://star4cast.com/los-angeles-the-eye-of-the-storm/) - The Los Angeles riots against Trump’s draconian measures on immigration which put the country on a war footing are being seen as a seminal moment. He sent in the National Guard for the first time in decades to suppress citizens on domestic soil against the wishes of a state’s governor, using a rarely invoked anti-foreign invasion - [Frederick Forsyth - an old style adventurer](https://star4cast.com/frederick-forsyth-an-old-style-adventurer/) - Frederick Forsyth, author of The Day of the Jackal and The Odessa File, whose former life as a spy and war reporter informed his meticulously researched and hugely successful thrillers that sold more than 75 million copies, has died aged 86. An old style adventurer he sashayed from a teenage desire to be a matador - [Questions & Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-comments-546/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in search. - [Erica Jong - fear of growing up](https://star4cast.com/erica-jong-fear-of-growing-up/) - Erica Jong, an icon of second wave feminism wrote an autobiographical novel Fear of Flying which made her famous in 1973. Her candid depiction of women’s sexual desires was shocking at the time, boosting its sales to 20m copies. John Updike compared it to The Catcher in the Rye and Portnoy’s Complaint. Her daughter - [Ana de Armas - cruising along in style](https://star4cast.com/ana-de-armas-cruising-along-in-style/) - Idle chatter has actor Tom Cruise romancing actress Ana de Armas as they have been seen multiple times together recently and gushed about each other’s talents in interviews. Though sources say they’re “just friends” who are working on projects together. An uncomplimentary piece in the Telegraph raises eyebrows about how De Armas, whose cv - [Nigel Farage - undone by a burqa](https://star4cast.com/nigel-farage-undone-by-a-burqa/) - Farage’s Reform Party has followed its usual pattern of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory by losing a major donor and strategist just as they looked like becoming a force to be reckoned with on the political scene. Admittedly it was over an issue which would gain general support as a new Reform MP - [Trump and Musk - a playground slanging match](https://star4cast.com/trump-and-musk-a-playground-slanging-match/) - Will the Musk fallout do damage? Trump in the past has made up with enemies before; and in addition has brushed off allegations and accusations of bad behaviour that would have sunk most politicians. There is no doubt this noisy parting of the ways has spread confusion and alarm this month since the Inauguration chart - [Goebbels - did not believe his own lies](https://star4cast.com/goebbels-did-not-believe-his-own-lies/) - The Nazi Minister of Propaganda or the Hexenmeister, chief sorcerer of lies, Joseph Goebbels, is the subject of a new film. It spotlights his strained relationship with Hitler despite his reputation as a devoted follower and shows the misgivings that quite senior Nazis had until late in the war. Behind the theatrical display of ecstatic - [Edward and Wallis - an omen-laden wedding ++ mother Mary of Teck](https://star4cast.com/edward-and-wallis-an-omen-laden-wedding/) - The Duke of Windsor’s wedding to ‘the woman I love’ Wallis Simpson, by all accounts a sad affair six months after his abdication with none of his family present took place in France. The vows were made at 11.47am in Conde en Brie, France on June 3 1937, with a self-protective Water Grand Trine of - [Derek Jarman - retreat from darkness into nature](https://star4cast.com/derek-jarman-retreat-from-darkness-into-nature/) - Derek Jarman, artist, writer, designer, gardener and activist, who died thirty years ago, is celebrated in an exhibition of his ‘dark paintings’ in London and in the publication of a treatment for an unfinished film called The Assassination of Pier Paolo Pasolini in the Garden of Earthly Delights, which Jarman wrote in 1984 as he - [Edmund White - a chronicler of gay life + Genet](https://star4cast.com/edmund-white-a-chronicler-of-gay-life-genet/) - Edmund White, essayist, playwright, novelist and chronicler of gay life, has died aged 85, having suffered from HIV since 1984. He once said of his generation: “Gay fiction before that, Gore Vidal and Truman Capote, was written for straight readers. We had a gay readership in mind, and that made all the difference.” For several - [Geert Wilders - a risky move likely to backfire](https://star4cast.com/geert-wilders-a-risky-move-likely-to-backfire/) - Far-right Dutch leader Geert Wilders has withdrawn his party from the government, over a row about immigration bringing down the governing coalition after less than a year. There was shock and anger among political leaders, many of whom pointed out that several of Wilders' demands are similar to policies already in the coalition agreement. Many - [Poland - a nationalist lurch to the right](https://star4cast.com/poland-a-nationalist-lurch-to-the-right/) - A shock result in the Polish presidential election has seen a right-wing historian, a former boxer with a background in football hooliganism and no political experience voted in. Karol Nawrocki is likely to oppose the prime minister Donald Tusk’s centrist pro-EU and pro-Ukraine agenda. The outcome is a rare win for Donald Trump’s Maga movement - [Ukraine drone attack - daring but not decisive](https://star4cast.com/ukraine-drone-attack-daring-but-not-decisive/) - “Operation Spider’s Web”, a drone attack planned and executed by Ukraine has wreaked considerable damage at two of Russia's most major airfields. The two remote military airfields are key to Russia's nuclear strike capability and were considered untouchable. The operation took eighteen months to organise and was personally overseen by Zelensky, with drones being smuggled - [Liverpool - an inexplicable crime](https://star4cast.com/liverpool-an-inexplicable-crime/) - The horrifying spectacle in Liverpool when a car deliberately rammed into a post-football crowd injuring 79 was partially alleviated when remarkably no one was killed (as yet). What makes it all the stranger was the culprit charged yesterday by the CPS appeared to be a decent family man. Comments on his birth chart – 4 - [Questions & Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-comments-545/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in search. - [Loretta Swit - a nation's favourite nurse](https://star4cast.com/loretta-swit-a-nations-favourite-nurse/) - Loretta Swit, the actress best known for playing head nurse Major “Hot Lips” Houlihan in the superlatively successful TV war comedy drama M*A*S*H has died. It ran between 1972 and 1983, and its finale drew one of the largest TV audiences of all time: 125 million people. She won two Emmys and numerous nominations in - [Hailey and Justin Bieber - one up, one down](https://star4cast.com/hailey-and-justin-bieber-one-up-one-down/) - Justin and Hailey Bieber are catching headlines with the billion dollar sale of her make up brand and his increasingly bedraggled appearance, which hint at trouble in paradise for the power couple. He has had mental health issues, perhaps concerns about the Diddy Coombs trial because of an earlier friendship and confusion over the success - [Ellie Simmonds - a miracle-making Scorpio](https://star4cast.com/ellie-simmonds-a-miracle-making-scorpio/) - Ellie Simmonds, the retired Paralympian swimmer, winner of gold medals at three Olympics, who suffers from dwarfism, has opened up a discussion on disabled babies in a documentary Should I Have Children? Her previous 2023 documentary Finding My Secret Family on tracking down her birth mother who had given her up for adoption when - [Pluto generations carry the spirit of their time](https://star4cast.com/pluto-generations-carry-the-spirit-of-their-time/) - The Pluto generations differ from each other and can be gauged against the events of those times. There will be additional factors since for example the mid 1960s Pluto in Virgo had the rebellious, reforming, status-quo-upsetting Uranus Pluto conjunction. Way back when, the Pluto in Gemini generation also had Neptune in Gemini to contend with. - [Emmanuel and Brigitte - the odd couple](https://star4cast.com/emmanuel-and-brigitte-the-odd-couple/) - A Macron marital spat or a jovial moment of horseplay? An unguarded moment before exiting the French presidential plane in Vietnam invited a good many mischievous comments, when Brigitte appeared to strike Emmanuel in the face. She declined to take his hand on descending the stairs a minute later and his clenched fist and jaw - [Michelle Mone - a talent for self-publicity](https://star4cast.com/michelle-mone-a-talent-for-self-publicity/) - The Rise and Fall of Michelle Mone – the first lady of lingerie and an unlikely choice by David Cameron for elevation to the House of Lords in 2015 – will hit BBC screens this week. From a poor, under-educated background she built a business empire over two decades mainly through brilliant self-publicity. She was - [Algeria and France - historical bitterness ++ Frantz Fanon](https://star4cast.com/algeria-and-france-historical-bitterness/) - France and Algeria are at a standoff with diplomats on each side being sent home after France recognised Moroccan sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara. Though shadowing any present-day dispute is the bitter history between the two countries extending back almost two centuries, culminating in the brutal 1954-1962 war for Algeria's independence from colonial France. In - [Susan Brownmiller - detonating social change](https://star4cast.com/susan-brownmiller-detonating-social-change/) - Susan Brownmiller, whose influential 1975 book “Against Our Will,” became a key pillar of the feminist movement and transformed the social and legal understanding of rape as a tool of violence and power, has died. In its wake, rape crisis centers were opened throughout the country, courtroom rules of evidence were changed to reduce the - [Jane Fonda - elegant in her mid eighties](https://star4cast.com/jane-fonda-elegant-in-her-mid-eighties/) - Jane Fonda looking magnificent on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival says “I don't feel like an old person. I'm much younger than I was when I was in my 20s, in all the ways that matter'. She still works out with a trainer every day to keep trim. She was born - [Saturn - a long and winding road](https://star4cast.com/saturn-a-long-and-winding-road/) - Saturn is on the move today out of a conflicted two years in Pisces where its practical, dutiful, rigid approach threatened to get submerged in oceanic, boundary-less, irrational Pisces. At best it could have given shape to Pisces’s dreams of the ideal of a better society, with help for the underdog and the suffering. At - [Trump term - the dark side of the Moon](https://star4cast.com/trump-term-the-dark-side-of-the-moon/) - Trump’s "big, beautiful bill" – a sweeping multi-trillion dollar tax breaks package - shortened to Triple B by his advisers, has evoked wry smiles from economists. They point out that “Triple B” is the tag that credit ratings groups use to designate the lower threshold of investment grade assets, before they become “junk”, with rising - [Questions & Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-comments-544/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar and in search. - [Tom Cruise - drawn to extremes](https://star4cast.com/tom-cruise-drawn-to-extremes/) - The phenomenon that is Tom Cruise has launched "Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning", the 8th in the successful series that has run since 1996. As Ethan Hunt he races to save the world from an evil AI Entity, an evil AI that has taken control of every nuclear missile on the planet. - [Alexander Skarsgard - a high vitality Virgo](https://star4cast.com/alexander-skarsgard-a-high-vitality-virgo/) - Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgård is in Cannes to promote Pillion adapted from Adam Mars-Jones’ novel Box Hill in which he plays an unlikely lover with Harry Melling. The story revolves round a shy traffic enforcement officer falling for the ultimate dominant alpha male – ‘an impossibly handsome, strong, emotionally impassive biker who demands complete domestic - [Scott Adams - morons rise to the top](https://star4cast.com/scott-adams-morons-rise-to-the-top/) - Scott Adams, the cartoonist, creator of the highly popular Dilbert, which satirized office culture, has announced he has a similar prostate cancer to Joe Biden that has spread to his bones. His thesis was that "leadership is nature's way of removing morons from the productive flow". ‘By the Dilbert principle, employees who were never competent - [Bill Belichick - an eyebrow-raising romance](https://star4cast.com/bill-belichick-an-eyebrow-raising-romance/) - Bill Belichick, regarded as one of the greatest American football head coaches has the gossip columns entranced with his May-December romance with Jordon Hudson, a former cheerleader and beauty queen. He is 73 and she is 24 and they have been dating for almost two years. What intrigues onlookers is that she seems to be - [Denzel Washington - a creative Capricorn](https://star4cast.com/39956-2/) - Actor and director Denzel Washington in Cannes to collect a Palme D’Or reacted angrily to an over-eager paparazzi on the red carpet, catching unwanted headlines. Normally regarded as steady and self-controlled, he’s had an award-strewn career and a long marriage. Recently he’s been best known for The Equalizer trilogy (2014–2023) and Gladiator II (2024) but - [Malcolm X - a dream born out of rage](https://star4cast.com/malcolm-x-a-dream-born-out-of-rage/) - Malcolm X, a celebrated though controversial figure within African-American and Muslim American communities for his pursuit of racial justice was born 100 years ago. He was a divisive force in the civil right movement, preaching racism and violence and was assassinated when he was only 40 in the midst of the febrile 1960s which also - [Yuri Grigorovich - a tyrannical focus on beauty](https://star4cast.com/yuri-grigorovich-a-tyrannical-focus-on-beauty/) - Yuri Grigorovich, known as the greatest living choreographer in the world of ballet, for his leadership of the Bolshoi from 1964 for thirty years, has died. He was a tough operator who was accused of being a tyrant but was clearly talented and able to put his stamp on Soviet ballet as it came to - [BBC, Lineker and Israel - another blunder](https://star4cast.com/bbc-lineker-and-israel-another-blunder/) - Gary Lineker, the former footballer and highest-paid on-air BBC star, presenter of Match of the Day for 26 years, will leave this weekend without a payoff. He apologised after it emerged he had reposted a pro-Palestine video on Instagram that criticised Zionism and included an illustration of a rat, which was a Nazi anti-semitic trope. - [Scottie Scheffler - Mars in Gemini outpaces rivals](https://star4cast.com/scottie-scheffler-mars-in-gemini-outpaces-rivals/) - Scottie Scheffler, winner of the USA PGA Championship and world number one, is another Mars in Gemini. Born 21 June 1996 in New Jersey, he started golfing at 3 and never looked back. His parents were not rich and had to borrow $50,000 to join him to the Royal Oaks Country Club in Dallas when - [Joe Biden - cancer diagnosis raises questions](https://star4cast.com/joe-biden-cancer-diagnosis-raises-questions/) - Joe Biden has been diagnosed with aggressive advanced prostate cancer which has metastasised to his bones with puzzled medical experts saying 'For even with the most aggressive form, it is a five to seven year journey without treatment before it becomes metastatic.' 'Meaning it would be malpractice for this patient to show up and first - [12th house - being true to the inner self](https://star4cast.com/12th-house-being-true-to-the-inner-self/) - The 12th like the 8th house is not well understood or well written about in traditional astrology – dismal pointers to prisons, hospitals, forced seclusion used to be the norm. Below random thoughts from various posts over the years show a different picture. Michael Gauquelin’s statistical research of successful people found that the - [Questions & Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-comments-543/) - Please add below. Older posts under News in top bar or in search. - [Eurovision - a Jupiter Pluto in Leo extravaganza](https://star4cast.com/eurovision-a-jupiter-pluto-in-leo-extravaganza/) - Eurovision last night bombarded eyes and ears with what has become standard fare - ‘over emphatic, super colourful, gaudily camp’ in the words of the Telegraph’s insightful music critic. ‘ Eurovision has become a world unto itself, sealed off from the rest of popular culture, a camp and over-stressed absurdist magnification of particularly gaudy pop - [Duncan Campbell - crime was his passion](https://star4cast.com/duncan-campbell-crime-was-his-passion/) - Duncan Campbell, the renowned Guardian crime reporter, writer and broadcaster whose work highlighted police corruption, the shortcomings in the justice system and miscarriages of justice, has died aged 80. He reported on high-profile criminal cases of recent decades, including the Rosemary West trial and the Hatton Garden heist. Born 15 December 1944, no birth - [Astrology Books - the building blocks](https://star4cast.com/astrology-books-the-building-blocks/) - Learning astrology is a long drawn out process and it requires starting with the basics. Books I found useful at the start: Margaret Hone 1953 Modern Textbook of Astrology, out of print but some available second hand. Sakoian & Acker – The Astrologers Handbook. Planets in signs and houses and in aspect. Robert Hand – - [Barry and Diane - drawn together by destiny](https://star4cast.com/barry-and-diane-drawn-together-by-destiny/) - Barry Diller, the super-successful businessman, left a trail of hits from “Roots” at ABC, to Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Terms of Endearment and Beverly Hills Cop from his time as CEO of Paramount Cheers, before moving onto Fox and The Simpsons and thence into a blizzard of influential, money-making companies. - [Anthony Fauci - loved and hated](https://star4cast.com/anthony-fauci-loved-and-hated/) - The vilification of Anthony Fauci, pre-pandemic a highly respected research scientist and adviser to seven presidents, arose because he refused to bend the knee to Trump’s downplaying of the risks of the Covid virus and Trump’s promotion of unproven treatments. An analysis released by the Commonwealth Fund last week found the Covid vaccine shots saved - [Bruce Springsteen - lost land of hope and dreams](https://star4cast.com/bruce-springsteen-lost-land-of-hope-and-dreams/) - Bruce Springsteen, the rock’n’roll legend, in what was described as one of the most sustained political attacks from a cultural figure, said at a Manchester concert that Trump is running ‘rogue government’ and ‘siding with dictators’. In a series of blistering speeches on stage he targeted a ‘corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration’ and called the - [Andrew Norfolk - he made a difference](https://star4cast.com/andrew-norfolk-he-made-a-difference/) - “Journalism exists to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” Andrew Norfolk, the Times investigative reporter, whose expose of sexual grooming of underage girls by men of mainly Pakistani heritage in Rotherham and Rochdale in England sparked a national inquiry, has died. He said recently: “This story is an example of why newspapers matter. When - [Jose Mujica - from terrorism to trailblazer](https://star4cast.com/jose-mujica-from-terrorism-to-trailblazer/) - José “Pepe” Mujica, Uruguay’s former president, who started as a Marxist-Leninist guerrilla fighter and later became a groundbreaking social liberal has died at the age of 89. Some refer to him as Latin America’s Nelson Mandela because of his 13 years in jail. Others point to his legalising of marijuana, same sex marriage and abortion. - [Halle Berry - beguiling looks, chaotic life](https://star4cast.com/halle-berry-beguiling-looks-chaotic-life/) - The radiantly beautiful Halle Berry, a constant presence on the screen for 25 years, with an erratic romantic life, has raised eyebrows with an over-exposed outfit for the Met Gala and celebrating Mother’s Day with an Instagram post of herself naked in bed with her musician lover. Her charm and luminous looks along with - [ICE - the thorny problem of immigration](https://star4cast.com/ice-the-thorny-problem-of-immigration/) - The historic Alien Enemies Act, used only three times since its adoption in 1798, during war time, has been resurrected as an excuse for the Trump administration to arrest and deport undocumented immigrants. The present acting direction of ICE, the immigration enforcement agency, Todd Lyons said he would like the agency to implement a system - [Questions & Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-comments-542/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in Search - [Jack Draper - Mars makes sportsman warriors](https://star4cast.com/jack-draper-mars-makes-sportsman-warriors/) - Jack Draper, the UK tennis No 1, has admitted that “I get out of bed and I feel so angry some days” after smashing his racket during his recent win. “I’ve got to lose points, so I’ve got to go through those emotional ups and downs.” “It’s sometimes difficult to always be perfect.” Mars is - [Diana - an enduring myth](https://star4cast.com/diana-an-enduring-myth/) - The cultural obsession with Princess Diana, still ongoing nearly three decades after her death, is the subject of a new book - Dianaworld. Author Edward White gives ‘a deeply-researched account of the public fascination from royalists, republicans, lookalikes and sex workers and approaches Diana’s story through the people who saw themselves in her – the - [Israel-Palestine - Uranus on fanatical form ++ Matthew Parris - Why?](https://star4cast.com/israel-palestine-uranus-on-fanatical-form/) - Louis Theroux’s documentary on settler violence in the West Bank follows on from Basel Adra’s Oscar winning documentary No Other Land – both focusing on the worsening situation in the West Bank. After the October 7th Hamas attack settlers have been armed by the government and granted policing powers and have forced at least 18 - [Stephen Miller - the dream is not delivering](https://star4cast.com/stephen-miller-the-dream-is-not-delivering/) - Stephen Miller, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff, has stirred up another dust storm suggesting the Trump administration is considering whether it can suspend habeas corpus, the right of an individual to challenge their detention in court. Trump has repeatedly asserted the U.S. is facing an “invasion” requiring the deportation of undocumented migrants under - [Gertrude Stein - Aquarian, creative, a maverick](https://star4cast.com/gertrude-stein-aquarian-creative-a-maverick/) - Gertrude Stein, the controversial American novelist and playwright, an eccentric and colorful figure in the post-World War I literary scene has had her life and talents spotlighted in a well-reviewed biography After Life. She was a character of “bewildering contradictions”. Depending on who you spoke to, she was either a genius or a charlatan. She - [J.M. Barrie - the boy who stayed eternally young](https://star4cast.com/j-m-barrie-the-boy-who-stayed-eternally-young/) - Peter Pan and the Admiral Crichton are the two memorable successes of novelist and playwright J.M.Barrie whose birthday was yesterday in 1860. Born at 6.30am in Kirriemuir, Scotland, he was the ninth child of ten in a Calvinist family of a modestly successful weaver. He was, in the way of those days in Scotland, exceptionally - [Pope Leo X1V - flexible, steady but not revolutionary](https://star4cast.com/pope-leo-x1v-flexible-steady-but-not-revolutionary/) - The white smoke announcing Pope Leo XIV’s election at 6.08 pm in Rome sent the crowds of the faithful gathered in St Peter’s Square into wild expressions of delight and surprise. An American pope had not been expected though Leo’s South American missionary work has led to hopes of a unity head of the church, - [Democratic Party - not astro precise](https://star4cast.com/democratic-party-not-astro-precise/) - Political party charts are often a surprisingly opaque guide to wins and losses. The commonly used Democratic Party chart of 8 January 1828 is no different, checked against Clinton and Obama triumphs and Reagan and G.W. Bush’s defeats from a Democrat viewpoint. There is a slight hint of the Nodes being involved but nothing startling. - [India and Pakistan - molten lava erupts again](https://star4cast.com/india-and-pakistan-molten-lava-erupts-again/) - “The past is never dead. It's not even past.” William Faulkner. Groundhog Day rolls round in Palestine-Israel, Russia and Eastern Europe and now India-Pakistan with the old hatreds flaring up like volcanic lava. One India commentator remarked about the recent Kashmir tit for tat violence: “These tensions are unlikely to subside anytime soon. They - [Film Tariffs - yearning for the good old days](https://star4cast.com/film-tariffs-yearning-for-the-good-old-days/) - Hollywood has passed its glory days having lost ground in the past two decades in a global battle with countries like Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland, Hungary and Morocco which attract filmmakers with tax incentives. Other countries also have lower labour costs. The British Film Institute said spending on film and high-end TV production - [Friederich Merz - not a resounding start](https://star4cast.com/friederich-merz-not-a-resounding-start/) - Conservative leader Friedrich Merz has won a parliament vote to become Germany's next chancellor at the second attempt. He initially fell six votes short of the majority he needed on Tuesday morning – ‘a significant blow to his prestige and an unprecedented failure in post-war German history.’ His coalition with the Social Democrats should - [Saturn in Aries - more self-reliance, less sympathy](https://star4cast.com/saturn-in-aries-more-self-reliance-less-sympathy/) - Saturn moves into fiery Aries from the 25th of this month staying longer than usual until April 2028. Its recent sojourn through Pisces ran from March 2023. The changeover will be noticeable since the move from regretful, uncertain, indecisive Pisces into independent and tough-minded Aries will to a degree stiffen spines. Leaving aside the softening - [Questions & Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-comments-541/) - Please add below Older posts under News on top bar and in Search. - [EA Hanks - a journey of remembrance](https://star4cast.com/ea-hanks-a-journey-of-remembrance/) - Actor Tom Hanks is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide and ranked as the fourth-highest-grossing American film actor. But not everything in his back story is sweetness and light. Born July 9, 1956 11.17 am Concord, California, with a Portuguese mother and an itinerant cook father, who took the three eldest - [Warren Buffett - a hard act to follow](https://star4cast.com/warren-buffett-a-hard-act-to-follow/) - Warren Buffett, the mega-successful investor referred to as the "Oracle" or "Sage" of Omaha and “the single most influential investor of all time - " the Isaac Newton of investing” is retiring at 94. He has accumulated a massive fortune reckoned at US $168.2 billion, making him the sixth-richest individual in the world and is - [Prince Harry - tilting at windmills ++ relocated California ++ Meghan and the UK](https://star4cast.com/prince-harry-tilting-at-windmills/) - Prince Harry. Sigh. Again. What’s to say? An intense and nervy 8th house Virgo Sun square an outspoken, irascible Mars in Sagittarius with Mercury square a speak-before-think Uranus. A head-in the-clouds, overly hopeful, unrealistic Neptune Jupiter in the 12th. A fixated Pluto Saturn in Scorpio. And at 41 he still hasn’t managed to find a - [Kelsey Grammer - family tragedies](https://star4cast.com/kelsey-grammer-family-tragedies/) - Kelsey Grammer, best known as his iconic role for two decades as Dr Frasier Crane in Cheers and Frasier is no stranger to tragedy with his beloved sister murdered when he was 20 and his absent father also murdered in an apparently racially motivated killing in the Virgin Islands. For years he knew little - [David Attenborough - one of a kind](https://star4cast.com/david-attenborough-one-of-a-kind/) - The extraordinary David Attenborough will be 99 this week and is still preoccupied with saving the planet, fronting a hard-hitting new film Ocean. There is he says nowhere more vital for our survival, more full of life, wonder, or surprise, than the ocean and its health is vital for keeping the entire planet stable and - [Beckhams - money won't buy family bliss](https://star4cast.com/beckhams-money-wont-buy-family-bliss/) - The glitz, glamour and conspicuous wealth of David and Victoria Beckham, worth a reputed half billion pounds, goes hand in hand with a loss-making fashion business, a splashy Netflix doc, a less than complimentary Tom Bower biography “Thin and Thick” and a running family fall-out. Son Brooklyn and wife actress Nicola Peltz, daughter of - [Farage on a high - will it sustain? ++ Political Parties ahead](https://star4cast.com/farage-on-a-high-will-it-sustain/) - A huge swing to Reform at the expense of the Tories and Labour candidates is not unexpected though the scale of it might be. Whether or not Farage and Reform have the endurance to maintain their lead is a question. Farage, 3 April 1964 4.30 pm Farnborough, England, is in for a roller coaster ride - [Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee - star crossed lovers](https://star4cast.com/bobby-darin-and-sandra-dee-star-crossed-lovers/) - A Broadway tribute to singer Bobby Darin - in the 1960s a world-wise success with "Splish Splash", "Dream Lover", "Mack the Knife" and "Beyond the Sea" - throws a spotlight on his short, tragedy-tinged life. He was born 14 May 1936 5.28 am Manhattan, New York and brought up by his grandmother, ‘an effervescent ex-showgirl - [White House - two women at the top](https://star4cast.com/white-house-two-women-at-the-top/) - A woman USA Chief of Staff and a woman White House Press Secretary – who’d have thought it? Susie Wiles, nicknamed the ‘ice maiden’ by Trump for her calm and effective management was involved in Republican politics way back to Reagan and stepped up for Trump and de Santis in 2016 in Florida and - [Ukraine - a turning point or a Trump flier](https://star4cast.com/ukraine-a-turning-point-or-a-trump-flier/) - Despite significant doubts (some of which remain) the US and Ukraine have signed an “economic partnership” deal giving the US access to the country’s critical minerals and natural resources. The new deal does not include a previous US demand for retroactive compensation for more than $100bn in military support for Ukraine; and there will - [Net Zero - not a chance says Tony Blair](https://star4cast.com/net-zero-not-a-chance-says-tony-blair/) - Tony Blair’s intervention into the Net Zero debate suggesting present policies were wrong has put the cat amongst the pigeons before he did a sharp about turn. He had warned that energy secretary Ed Miliband’s eco policies and their push towards renewable energy were wrong. He claimed voters “feel they’re being asked to make financial - [Questions & Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-comments-540/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar and in Search - [Joe Nickell - desperately seeking an explanation](https://star4cast.com/joe-nickell-desperately-seeking-an-explanation/) - Joe Nickell “the world’s only full-time professional paranormal investigator” has died. He studied weeping statues, ghosts, poltergeists, crop circles, flying saucers, Elvis sightings, the Loch Ness myth and the Turin Shroud. For almost all he found there were logical or scientific explanations or they were hoaxes. Born 1 December 1944 11.30pm Lexington, Wisconsin, he took an - [Schwab and Davos - the winds of change blowing](https://star4cast.com/schwab-and-davos-the-winds-of-change-blowing/) - Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum think tank, renowned for its annual Davos meeting where investors, business leaders, political leaders, economists, celebrities and journalists meet to chew over global issues, is reeling after a whistleblower let fly. He had been preparing to stand down in 2027 after allegations of him presiding over a - [Heather Graham - learning to say no](https://star4cast.com/heather-graham-learning-to-say-no/) - Actress turned director Heather Graham has made a comedy - Chosen Family - about her struggles to stop being a people-pleaser which led to her splitting from her family thirty years ago. She was born 29 January 1970 5.37pm Brookfield, Wisconsin, with an FBI agent father and children’s author mother who were religious and disapproved - [UK & EU - exploring options in troubled times](https://star4cast.com/uk-eu-exploring-options-in-troubled-times/) - Hopes that the EU-UK summit on May 19 in London could be the start of a warming of relations are being cheered on by Germany. Initially the meeting is to agree a new EU-UK defence and security pact; with hopes that a youth mobility deal, energy co-operation, removal of red tape for food and plant - [John Lithgow - on a high with Dahl and J.K. Rowling](https://star4cast.com/john-lithgow-a-high-with-dahl-and-j-k-rowling/) - Actor John Lithgow is on a roll playing the fearsome Cardinal Tremblay in The Conclave, appearing in the successful Giant in the West End of London as children’s writer Roald Dahl at his most antisemitic; and having accepted the role of Dumbledore in HBO’s forthcoming ten-season Harry Potter series. The hate mail he has received - [Cardinal Re - Pluto plus Aquarius ++ birth time](https://star4cast.com/cardinal-re-pluto-plus-aquarius/) - The funeral of Pope Francis was a wonder of flamboyant colour, pomp and liturgy, wonderfully well produced and surprisingly upbeat with thoughts of happy ever after for the departed. The central figure presiding with remarkable stamina and gravitas was the 91 year old Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, whose voice and hands remained steady through a - [Virginia Giuffre - a tragic life ends badly](https://star4cast.com/virginia-giuffre-a-tragic-life-ends-badly/) - Virginia Giuffre who accused Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse, has apparently committed suicide. Relatives said in a statement on Friday that she had been a "fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse", and that the "toll of abuse... became unbearable". She was one of the most outspoken accusers of Epstein and - [Eubank v Benn - fighting within the family](https://star4cast.com/eubank-v-benn-fighting-within-the-family/) - Chris Eubank Jr versus Conor Benn tonight has boxing fans enthralled as the bitter rivals face up to each other 35 years after their respective fathers punched it out with Eubank Snr emerging the winner. The Juniors were due to fight two and a half ago but that was cancelled at the last minute because - [Kashmir - a beautiful conflict zone](https://star4cast.com/kashmir-a-beautiful-conflict-zone/) - A deadly attack on civilians in Indian-controlled Kashmir has threatened to reignite one of Asia’s longest-running conflicts after New Delhi blamed the violence on Pakistan, which aroused fears of a renewed confrontation between the nuclear-armed neighbours. Twenty-six people were killed and 17 wounded on Tuesday when suspected militants opened fire in a scenic tourism destination - [Mars Pluto - choosing how to channel raw power](https://star4cast.com/mars-pluto-choosing-how-to-channel-raw-power/) - Mars opposition Pluto which has been a constant and baleful celestial presence since late last October meets its final aspect exactly this Sunday but will hang around in effect for a few days after since the Taurus Sun will hook it into a Fixed T square. As above so below. Not only does Mars Pluto - [Questions & Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-comments-539/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar and in search - [Liz Hurley & Billy Ray Cyrus - a curious match](https://star4cast.com/liz-hurley-billy-ray-cyrus-a-curious-match/) - Liz Hurley has sent the gossip columns into a flutter as she announces an unlikely romantic hook up with three times married plus plus country singer and actor Billy Ray Cyrus, who performed at Trump’s second Inauguration. Having had four well-publicised partnerships with Hugh Grant, Steve Bing, Arun Nayar and Shane Warner, she seemed - [Pope Francis - hope for a kinder future ++ Rome chart](https://star4cast.com/pope-francis-hope-for-a-kinder-future/) - Pope Francis, the first Jesuit pope, a vocal champion of the world’s poor, dispossessed and disadvantaged, and a critic of corporate greed and social and economic inequality has died. He was a divisive force within the Vatican speaking out against extravagance and privilege, calling on church leaders to show humility. ‘His views riled significant numbers - [Jerome Powell - flying the flag of independence](https://star4cast.com/jerome-powell-flying-the-flag-of-independence/) - Alarm bells are ratcheting up to defcon level amongst the money men as Trump threatens to take down Jerome Powell, Chairman of the heretofore independent US Federal Reserve. Since his tariff ‘policy’ boomeranged he needed someone else to blame. The Trump playbook adopted at the feet of Roy Cohn, a McCarthyite and corrupt lawyer, is - [Canada - voting for an alpha fighter](https://star4cast.com/canada-voting-for-an-alpha-fighter/) - Canada goes to the polls on the 28th one day after the tense, aggravated Mars opposition Pluto which will still be in effect. The run into polling will bring hostile debates and a heated mood with much at stake. Pierre Poilievre should have been a shoe-in after Justin Trudeau’s limp performance but the Trump-effect with - [Australia election - waiting for inspiration](https://star4cast.com/australia-election-waiting-for-inspiration/) - Australia looks uncertain as it heads for a May 3 election with polls showing 47% of voters on the fence. The day itself will be every bit as fraught as the Canada election with the Mars in Leo opposition Pluto square the Taurus Sun in place for maximum frustration and divisive intensity. Uranus will be - [Turner, Caravaggio - healing madness + Audubon](https://star4cast.com/turner-caravaggio-healing-madness-audubon/) - JMW Turner, the pre-eminent English painter, was born 250 years ago this week. He is hailed as the father of modernism though other say he was a classicist prone to wild exaggeration. He was born 23 April 1775 at 1.10am in London, Cockney son of a barber with an angry, impatient, violent mother who died - [Triple Capricorn Generation - facing change](https://star4cast.com/triple-capricorn-generation-facing-change/) - The outer planets grouped together bring significant cultural phases – enlightenment, creativity, war, hardship – and mark those born when the aspects are in place with specific traits. For example, 1941 had the Saturn Uranus Jupiter conjunction in Taurus when World War 11 was at a critical point and those born around then had particularly - [El Salvador - not for the faint-hearted](https://star4cast.com/el-salvador-not-for-the-faint-hearted/) - El Salvador is the focus of the latest of Trump’s squalls with the establishment as he ordered the deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members, invoking the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, only previously used during war. The Supreme Court has now insisted on a pause (with two dissenting voices) saying the men have not had a - [Hilma af Klint & Georgiana Houghton - a world beyond](https://star4cast.com/hilma-af-klint-georgiana-houghton-a-world-beyond/) - Hilma af Klint, the Swedish abstract painter and mystic whose paintings are considered among the first major abstract works in Western art history will have a selection of her botanical drawings on display at MOMA this May. She combined detailed renderings of plants with enigmatic abstract diagrams - a sunflower paired with concentric circles, a - [Sanders & AOC - cheering on the opposition ++ Wes Moore](https://star4cast.com/sanders-aoc-cheering-on-the-opposition/) - Bernie Sanders and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) are mounting a fight back against the Trump administration with a recent anti-oligarchy rally attracting 36,000 people in Los Angeles. AOC, 13 October 1989 11.50am New York, an upfront Sun Mars in Libra with a probably Aries Moon opposition Mercury square Uranus is having a rough few weeks - [Mark Zuckerburg - being judged on two fronts](https://star4cast.com/mark-zuckerburg-being-judged-on-two-fronts/) - Mark Zuckerburg is front and centre of the anti-trust trial which may force Meta to restructure or sell parts of its business, including Instagram and WhatsApp on the grounds that it is an illegal monopoly. And he is also in the firing line of disaffected former employees who were once devout fans of Meta’s stated - [Questions & Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-comments-538/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in search. - [Japan - megaquake worries loom large](https://star4cast.com/japan-megaquake-worries-loom-large/) - Japan, one of the world's most earthquake-prone zones, is awash with warnings about the likelihood of an imminent megaquake. Doom laden reports hint it and the ensuing tsunami could bring 300,000 deaths and cause Japan's economy to lose as much as $1.81 trillion in such an event. A 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck Japan's eastern coastline - [Jean Marsh - trendsetter in period drama](https://star4cast.com/jean-marsh-trendsetter-in-period-drama/) - Jean Marsh, Upstairs Downstairs co-creator and actress, has died aged 90. The hugely successful 1970s TV drama series she dreamt up with co-thespian Eileen Atkins, became a cultural landmark and inspired later period dramas like Downtown Abbey. She was born 1 July 1934 12.15 pm Stoke Newington with a 10th house Cancer Sun and - [Mario Vargas Llosa - born to write](https://star4cast.com/mario-vargas-llosa-born-to-write/) - Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel laureate and leading figure in Latin American literature, has died aged 89. Over a 50 year career he charted power and corruption in a series of novels including The Time of the Hero, Conversation in the Cathedral and The Feast of the Goat. In a colourful life he also launched a - [Mickey Rourke - lacking self-awareness](https://star4cast.com/mickey-rourke-lacking-self-awareness/) - Actor Mickey Rourke’s troubled career with major highs and worse lows has added another paragraph of woe as he was kicked out of the Celebrity Big Brother show for inappropriate and aggressive behaviour. He won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA in his heyday, made a sideways move into boxing, returned to movies and caused - [Trump v the dragon - a long drawn out tussle ++ China holds the whip hand](https://star4cast.com/trump-v-the-dragon-a-long-drawn-out-tussle/) - Trump’s tariffs might spell the end of China versus Why China is not afraid of a trade war with Trump. Economic commentators are grasping at complete opposites as the unknown unknowns mount. One scenario says if the US leverages the rest of the world to close off their markets to China it could spell trouble - [Rory McIlroy - victory after 'drought'](https://star4cast.com/rory-mcilroy-victory-after-drought/) - Rory McIlroy, the Northern Ireland golfer, whose win at Atlanta yesterday put him up with the greats like Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Tiger Woods as the only men to have won all four majors, has sent golf commentators into ecstasies. “He conjured golf from the gods.” What made it all the more - [Michael Crichton - medical drama and dinosaurs ++ ER ++ Noah Wyle](https://star4cast.com/michael-crichton-medical-drama-and-dinosaurs/) - The incredibly successful and prolific writer Michael Crichton is back in the news seventeen years after his death as his estate sues over the idea-copyright of new medical drama series The Pitt. His books sold over 200 million with over a dozen adapted into films. His genre was within the science fiction, techno-thriller, and medical - [Jeff Bridges - musical memories after testing times](https://star4cast.com/jeff-bridges-musical-memories-after-testing-times/) - Actor Jeff Bridges after a run of disasters is in contemplative mood, releasing an album recorded years ago with Malibu friends. The songs are described as “loose, playful and lightly surreal. They sound like Creedence Clearwater Revival jamming with Frank Zappa, or some particularly stoned outtakes from Bob Dylan.” Best known for movies like The - [Edward & Alexandra - elegance and excess ++ Victoria & Albert, cruel parents](https://star4cast.com/edward-alexandra-elegance-and-excess/) - Britain’s age of excess started as stuffy Queen Victoria died in 1901 and her pleasure-loving son, ‘Dirty Bertie’, King Edward V11 took over as monarch for nine years along with his style-icon Queen Alexandra. An exhibition devoted to The Edwardians: Age of Elegance will be on display in Buckingham Palace, showing paintings, sculpture, jewellery, furniture, books, photographs - [Barack and Michelle - two strong individuals](https://star4cast.com/barack-and-michelle-two-strong-individuals/) - Barack and Michelle Obama’s marriage is under scrutiny in the popular media because of her non-appearance at a couple of events with him. Although she has come out recently to defend her right to choose what she does for herself. Standing behind her husband’s political ambitions was a sacrifice for her, requiring she cut back - [David Hockney - walking his own road](https://star4cast.com/david-hockney-walking-his-own-road/) - David Hockney regarded as among the world's greatest living artists is opening his biggest ever show in Paris, filling 11 room across four floors. Two years ago, when they started planning the exhibition, "I just thought I probably wouldn't be here", he says. "I'm still a smoker, a happy smoker fed up of bossy people - [Questions & Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-comments-537/) - Add below. Older posts under News on top bar and in search - [Trump tariffs - sound the trumpets for a disaster? ++ Howard Lutnick ++ April 9th starting pistol sounds](https://star4cast.com/trump-tariffs-sound-the-trumpets-for-a-disaster/) - Trump’s grandstanding ‘liberation day’ as he launched a trade war with tariffs for all the world like a gameshow host has fulfilled one of his aims, namely drawing the attention of the world to him. He timed his bombshell announcement unwittingly with astrological precision at 4pm Washington, DC time. The destructive Fixed Star Algol - [Pluto - adding power to energy](https://star4cast.com/pluto-adding-power-to-energy/) - Pluto is the other half of the story in the final week since it squares the Sun on the 23rd before opposing Mars on the 27th – and will be in effect for a few days before since slow-moving Pluto builds up a head of steam before the exact aspect. From a previous post: Pluto, - [Mars Pluto - testing courage and confidence](https://star4cast.com/mars-pluto-testing-courage-and-confidence/) - Mars Pluto is hoving back into view aiming for a direct opposition on the 27th; with the Sun squaring Mars and Pluto in the days before. All of which will add up to an aggravated and frustrating finish to what has already been a tumultuous month. The edgy mood will run into the middle of - [The Great Gatsby - echoing today's immorality](https://star4cast.com/the-great-gatsby-echoing-todays-immorality/) - The ‘great American novel’ Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is celebrating its 100 anniversary this week. His take on the excesses of the Neptune in Leo Roaring Twenties has become for many a definitive statement on unaccountable elites today. “They were careless people . . . they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money - [Virginia Giuffre & Prince Andrew - both in crisis](https://star4cast.com/virginia-giuffre-prince-andrew-both-in-crisis/) - Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s teenage acquisitions, who won a multimillion-pound payout from Prince Andrew after claiming she was trafficked to have sex with him at the age of 17, appears to be in a crisis. She claimed she had only 'four days to live' after suffering kidney failure in the crash despite - [Israel and Palestine - no end in sight to suffering](https://star4cast.com/israel-and-palestine-no-end-in-sight-to-suffering/) - Israel’s miliary occupation of Gaza, intended to encourage a mass exodus of the local population, and to pressure Hamas to release the remaining 59 captives, 24 of whom are believed to be alive, has been pushed down the news agenda. Against the protests of hostage families, the ceasefire brokered by Trump’s emissary is fading into - [Val Kilmer - a talented and troubled soul](https://star4cast.com/val-kilmer-a-talented-and-troubled-soul/) - Actor Val Kilmer, renowned for Top Gun and Batman Forever, has died after a long battle with throat cancer. He gained a reputation as “temperamental, intense, a perfectionist and sometimes egotistical.” Numerous spats with directors and co-stars, plus a series of flops, dented his later career. Batman director Joel Schumacher called Kilmer “the most psychologically - [Corey Booker leads a Democrat pushback](https://star4cast.com/corey-booker-leads-a-democrat-pushback/) - Democrat Corey Booker has broken the record for the longest speech in US Senate history after speaking for more than 25 hours without a bathroom break to deliver a marathon protest of the policies of Trump. He said the threats to American democracy were “grave and urgent”. Born 27 April 1969 1.10 am Washington, DC - [Questions & Relevant Facts](https://star4cast.com/questions-relevant-facts/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in Search. [Above North East Scotland] - [Peter Thiel - right-wing with a mind of his own](https://star4cast.com/peter-thiel-right-wing-with-a-mind-of-his-own/) - Peter Thiel, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist, net worth stood US$16.2 billion, a co-founder of PayPal, gave money to the Trump 2016 campaign but not this one. He is an elusive character, describing himself as a conservative libertarian. He has criticized economically-liberal attitudes towards free trade and big tech, is pro stricter border control, - [Marine Le Pen - knocked off course ++ La France in turmoil, Bardella etc](https://star4cast.com/marine-le-pen-knocked-off-course/) - Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, has been banned from standing for office for five years and sentenced to jail after being convicted of embezzling EU funds. She was handed a four-year jail sentence, of which two years are suspended, would only begin once no further legal recourse after appeals remains. She was also - [Stock Markets in shock as tariffs loom](https://star4cast.com/stock-markets-in-shock-as-tariffs-loom/) - Stock markets across the world fell heavily after Trump suggested that new tariffs he is expected to announce this week would hit “all countries”. An explanatory piece in the FT pointed out he is driven by realpolitik which is practical, not moral or ideological. “If Trump thinks tariffs will help him, he won’t care who - [Richard Chamberlain - a screen icon of yesteryear](https://star4cast.com/richard-chamberlain-a-screen-icon-of-yesteryear/) - Actor Richard Chamberlain, once renowned as the "king of the mini-series" for his leading roles in Shogun and The Thorn Birds, as well as in the 1960s medical drama Dr Kildare has died aged 90, a day before his birthday. He was born 31 March 1934 6.20pm Los Angeles with an alcoholic, emotionally abusive - [Greenland - united against intimidation - Vance and Usha out of sorts](https://star4cast.com/greenland-united-against-intimidation/) - On Greenland: Trump: “It’s an island that we need. And we’re going to have to have it.” JD Vance: “I think Greenland understands that the United States should own it. And if Denmark and the EU don’t understand it, we have to explain it to them. We need Greenland for international security.” Greenland, a former - [Myanamar & Thailand - earthquake disaster](https://star4cast.com/myanamar-thailand-earthquake-disaster/) - The Aries Solar Eclipse of March 29th is certainly living up to its turbulent Saros Series with a major 7.7 magnitude earthquake hitting Myanamar and Thailand with many dead and injured. It is the strongest quake to hit Thailand since the 1839 Ava Earthquake, of 8.3 in magnitude. The Partial Solar Eclipse of 29th - [Prince Harry - charity woes](https://star4cast.com/prince-harry-charity-woes/) - Sentebale, the Lesotho charity[ founded in 2006 to help children and adolescents struggling to come to terms with their HIV and AIDS diagnosis has been torn apart by a rancorous dispute between the chairman, a Zimbabwean lawyer, Dr Sophie Chandauka, and the founders Prince Harry and Prince Seeiso of Lesotho and the board of trustees. It was initially set up in April - [Adolescence - Stephen Graham v Andrew Tate](https://star4cast.com/adolescence-stephen-graham-v-andrew-tate/) - Adolescence, a Netflix mini-series, about knife crime, social media, male rage, toxic masculinity and the impact pernicious, misogynistic online influencers like Andrew Tate can have on young men has become a surprise hit. Created by actor Stephen Graham and his wife it follows the case of a 13-year-old boy arrested for killing a female classmate. - [Rachel Reeves - facing unpopular choices](https://star4cast.com/rachel-reeves-facing-unpopular-choices/) - Rachel Reeves, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, is facing flak from all directions as she is poised to make £5 billion welfare cuts and hack back the civil service at a time when inflation is rising, borrowing costs are up, the economy is flatlining and defence costs are rising. She does have tr Uranus square - [Questions & Factual Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-factual-comments-4/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in search. Reminder: Please remember this is NOT a political chat site. It is astrology or background facts only. Please ensure your comment contributes meaningful discussion to the topic. Opinions and irrelevant comments may be removed. - [George Foreman, Eddie Jordan, IOC - winning and losing](https://star4cast.com/george-foreman-eddie-jordan-ioc-winning-and-losing/) - A sporting round up with two greats – George Foreman and Eddie Jordan gone and the IOC (Olympic Committee) facing the fall-out from a questionable election result. George Foreman, 10 January 1949, 9.15pm Marshall, Texas, was a heavyweight boxing champion and Olympic gold medallist who in his career had 76 wins and only five losses, - [Heathrow Fire - solar eclipse as forecast](https://star4cast.com/heathrow-fire-solar-eclipse-as-forecast/) - A fire which knocked out power to Heathrow Airport, the busiest airport in Europe, has raised questions about how well infrastructure is protected in the UK, whether from accidental damage or from deliberate sabotage. What is clear is it fits the pattern of the Solar Arc Uranus conjunct the UK 8th house Mars drawing ever - [Turner and Constable - sky and earth](https://star4cast.com/turner-and-constable-sky-and-earth/) - Turner and Constable were two landscape artists of genius, born within a year of each other, whom art history has been keen to see as rivals. Though they had different subject matter, backgrounds and temperaments and both have gone down as world class talents so any confected conflict is an irrelevance. Turner is best known - [Trump's Tainted Touch - SCOTUS, Netanyhu, Fed Reserve ++ Zaporizhzhia](https://star4cast.com/trumps-tainted-touch-scotus-netanyhu-fed-reserve/) - Neptune may finally be showing its hand as Donald Trump’s miscalculations begin to undermine his bellicose platform. The Nobel Peace prize recedes into the distance as Netanyahu and Putin both short circuit his promise of instant settlements of conflicts and the economy creaks under the boomerang effect of tariffs. On a 10.54 am - [Jupiter - has an upside and a downside ++ George Orwell](https://star4cast.com/jupiter-has-an-upside-and-a-downside/) - Eternally optimistic, luck-bringing Jupiter is given a forensic makeover in Liz Greene’s latest book - By Jove! The Meaning of the Astrological Jupiter. She emphasizes Jupiter is a good deal more enigmatic and less predictable than usually portrayed. At best it brings a connection to a meaningful and greater pattern, faith in the - [Paul Gauguin - his image given a makeover ++ Vincent van Gogh](https://star4cast.com/paul-gauguin-his-image-given-a-makeover/) - Paul Gauguin, the French artist renowned for his Tahitian paintings has had his image restored in a new book, based on recently discovered material. Condemned until recently as a French colonialist who spread syphilis to underage girls in the South Seas, it now emerges he never suffered from the disease and was much revered in - [Grayson Perry - on a mission to shock](https://star4cast.com/grayson-perry-on-a-mission-to-shock-2/) - Grayson Perry, the transvestite potter, whose ceramic vases and tapestries have earned him acclaim and prizes has an extensive exhibition about to open in London. He is well known for cross-dressing, as well as his observations of the contemporary arts scene, and for dissecting British "prejudices, fashions and foibles". There is a strong autobiographical element - [Canada - fending off the predator ++ Mark Carney (with birth time) into the hot seat ++ Sworn In](https://star4cast.com/canada-fending-off-the-predator/) - Canada has responded to Trump’s deranged demands for obeisance by pulling together in a show of national unity with the political landscape turning turtle. Trudeau’s Liberals, sagging in popularity until recently, have seen a sharp rise in popularity, partly because of Trudeau’s impending exit and also because his possible successors are seen as better defenders - [Tesla - running out of road ++ SpaceX](https://star4cast.com/tesla-running-out-of-road/) - Electrical carmaker Tesla's share price has dropped 40% since the start of the year, mainly due to a drop in sales over the past year though founder Elon Musk’s close alliance with Trump is hurting the brand and worries about tariffs affecting supply chains are also part of the problem. Tesla, 1 July 2003, - [Snow White - dragged into tiffs and miffs](https://star4cast.com/snow-white-dragged-into-tiffs-and-miffs/) - The magic mirror of Snow White has been obscured by a box-office denting series of missteps, plunging the children’s favourite into bumpy terrain with controversies over feminism, racism, dwarfism and unbelievably the Israel-Palestine conflict. Much appears due to lead actress Rachel Zegler, Golden Globe winner for West Side Story. Admittedly she had to - [Rodrigo Duterte - facing international sanctions](https://star4cast.com/rodrigo-duterte-facing-international-sanctions/) - Rodrigo Duterte, former Philippines president, is now under arrest in the Hague by the International Criminal Court (ICC) charged over his indiscriminate killings without trial during his “war in drugs” while in power. The official toll stands at 6,000, though activists believe the real figure could run into the tens of thousands. He is the - [NHS UK - embarking on yet another cure](https://star4cast.com/nhs-uk-embarking-on-yet-another-cure/) - A major reversal of an unpopular 2013 shake-up of the UK National Health Service carried out by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition is aimed to “cut bureaucracy” and bring management of the health service “back into democratic control”. Keir Starmer said “abolishing the biggest quango in the world” by getting rid of NHS England would free - [Nigel Farage - another chaos maker](https://star4cast.com/nigel-farage-another-chaos-maker/) - Nigel Farage in a classic shoot-in-the-foot manoeuvre has managed to stir up a fight that could wreck his Reform Party’s chances of making inroads into the Tory vote and providing a viable alternative. Rupert Lowe MP is the latest of his cronies to fall foul of his anger with a spectacular hissy fit being - [Portugal - struggling with uncertain times](https://star4cast.com/portugal-struggling-with-uncertain-times/) - Portugal is facing its third snap election in three years after the prime minister lost a confidence vote after being accused of corruption. Concerns about immigration and a steep rise in the cost of living have helped boost the chances of the far-Right Chega party. This despite the fact that new arrivals have helped to - [Questions & Facts for context](https://star4cast.com/questions-facts-for-context-2/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar and in search. - [Oil Tanker crash - UK 8th house red alert](https://star4cast.com/oil-tanker-crash-uk-8th-house-red-alert/) - A collision between a Portuguese-flagged cargo ship carrying toxic chemicals and a US oil tanker carrying jet fuel for the US military in the North Sea off the coast of northern England could “devastate” wildlife. Leaking oil and fuel from the ships could endanger species including threatened seabird colonies, grey seals, harbour porpoises, fish, and - [Dylan Mulvaney - Moon + yod, managing contradictions](https://star4cast.com/dylan-mulvaney-moon-yod-managing-contradictions/) - Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney is publishing her memoir Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer which documents her life before and after her transition via journal entries, reflects on her rise to fame and delves into some of her controversies. Her partnership with Bud Light beer in 2023 resulted in a drop in sales, customers - [Maurice Ravel - a singleminded Pisces New Moon](https://star4cast.com/maurice-ravel-a-singleminded-pisces-new-moon/) - Maurice Ravel, the French composer, best known for Ravel’s Bolero and Daphnis and Chloe, who wrote opera, ballet and orchestral works, was born 150 years ago. He was born 7 March 1875 10pm Ciboure, France, with an engineer and inventor father and an illiterate/illegitimate, free-thinker of a mother to whom he was close. His interest - [Angelica Huston - a Cancer Virgo stalwart](https://star4cast.com/angelica-huston-a-cancer-virgo-stalwart/) - Angelica Huston, happy to be cast as a character actress is still going strong in her late seventies, appearing in the recent TV adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Toward Zero. She has had a long and impressive career with an Oscar for Prizzi’s Honor, and has worked with all the top directors including Francis Ford Coppola, - [Friedrich Merz - stepping into a minefield](https://star4cast.com/friedrich-merz-stepping-into-a-minefield/) - Friederich Merz, a Sun Scorpio with an exceptionally Fixed chart, almost certain to step up as German Chancellor heading a coalition, has a tougher temperament than the departing Olaf Scholz, a Gemini Sun trine Jupiter. He has announced a political deal to raise hundreds of billions of euros in extra spending on defence to counter - [Carl Dean, Mr Dolly Parton - an odd pairing](https://star4cast.com/carl-dean-mr-dolly-parton-an-odd-pairing/) - Carl Dean, the famously reclusive husband of Dolly Parton, who maintained a steadfast presence behind the scenes for almost six decades, has died aged 82. Their long separations because of her successful career raised media comments but she insisted they were a contented and faithful twosome. She was born 19 January 1946 8.25 pm - [Meghan as ever - not feeling the love](https://star4cast.com/meghan-for-ever-not-feeling-the-love/) - ‘With Love, Meghan’ Netflix’s latest offering from the Sussex household has been met with less than rapturous reviews. One critic said the “tone-deaf lifestyle show vibrates with vacuous joylessness – packed with useless information.” It has an 11 per cent rating from Rotten Tomatoes and 2.6 out of 10 from IMDb. The Hollywood bible magazine - [Jack Vettriano - a Scorpio talent for unease](https://star4cast.com/jack-vettriano-a-scorpio-talent-for-unease/) - Jack Vettriano, the Scottish painter who was often dismissed as kitsch and derivative but became one of Britain’s most successful artists has died. Often compared to Edward Hopper and Walter Sickert because of his subject matter, after his sudden breakthrough in 1988 he painted prolifically. He was born into a mining village left school early - [Cuba - sun, cigars and crisis](https://star4cast.com/cuba-sun-cigars-and-crisis/) - Cuba has been reinstated to the list of state sponsors of terrorism by the US government and has been punished for the communist regime’s human trafficking of Cuban doctors. The so-called Cuban Medical Brigades have a history of six decades of labor exploitation, human rights abuses and in some cases cover-up of military operations. The - [Royals state visits - grit teeth and carry on](https://star4cast.com/royals-state-visits-grit-teeth-and-carry-on/) - In a grovelling attempt to curry favour with Trump, Keir Starmer produced a rabbit out of the hat in the form of a personal letter from King Charles. It not only suggested a second state visit, untypical for a returning president, but also a pre-Balmoral knees up to discuss same. It worked. Monarchs are - [Questions and Facts for context](https://star4cast.com/questions-and-facts-for-context-2/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar and in search. - [Boris Spassky - master of the chess board](https://star4cast.com/boris-spassky-master-of-the-chess-board/) - Boris Spassky, the Russian chess grandmaster who against his wishes became embroiled in a Cold War east-west tussle with American player Bobby Fischer, has died. He was born 30 January 1937 in Leningrad, no birth time, with a military father, school teacher mother and a sister who won the Soviet draughts championship four times. He - [White House fireworks - all heat, no light ++ who has paid most for Ukraine](https://star4cast.com/white-house-fireworks-all-heat-no-light/) - Is there method in the madness? Or was the Zelensky fiasco in the White House a rapid pull back after a hard word from Putin pointing out that a US/Ukraine mineral deal (lighting up Trump’s greed) would effectively rule out any future Kremlin attacks and incursions? Trump, the disruptor, is obvious but whether - [Andrew & Tristan Tate - friends in high places](https://star4cast.com/andrew-tristan-tate-friends-in-high-places/) - Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan, accused of rape, human trafficking and money laundering, have been freed from travel restrictions in Romania after several White House officials took an interest in their case. Though the president denies all knowledge. They have joint US-UK citizenship and face separate, unrelated allegations of rape and human trafficking in - [Washington Post - speaking truth to power ??](https://star4cast.com/washington-post-speaking-truth-to-power/) - ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness’ still sits as an ironic indictment on the masthead of the Washington Post - the paper that broke the Watergate story and unseated a corrupt president – as oligarch-owner Jeff Bezos dramatically undermines standards. He has issued an edict that curtails what the Opinion section can print prompting the top opinion - [Gene Hackman - dogged, determined, talented](https://star4cast.com/gene-hackman-dogged-determined-talented/) - Veteran actor Gene Hackman has died aged 95, having retired from movies two decades ago and turned his hand to co-writing three historical fiction novels. Renowned for The French Connection, Unforgiven, Mississippi Burning, Superman, A Bridge Too Far, Enemy of the State, amongst many others he was prolific over an award-strewn, four decade career on - [UN, WHO, NATO, ICC - upending the global order](https://star4cast.com/un-who-nato-icc-upending-the-global-order/) - ‘The day the UN died’ was the headline as the USA voted with Russia and China at the United Nations to avoid condemnation of the Kremlin over the blood-soaked Ukraine invasion – ‘as if Ukraine’s calamity was a natural disaster for which no-one could be blamed.’ Ripples of unease are running round various international bodies - [John Dee - astrologer to Elizabeth 1](https://star4cast.com/john-dee-astrologer-to-elizabeth-1/) - John Dee, an astronomer, occultist, alchemist, mathematician and astrologer to Elizabeth 1, evidently predicted her rise to the throne to replace her sister the blighted Queen Mary. That may have been a lucky guess from a psychic seeking to make his way in the world or astute political intuition but he did end up - [Eclipses, Sun & Moon 2025 - Aries and Virgo ++ Starbucks + Macron/Trump ++ Washington, DC](https://star4cast.com/eclipses-sun-moon-2025-aries-and-virgo/) - The first eclipse of the year is a Total Lunar Eclipse on 14 March at 23 degrees Virgo/Pisces with the Sun conjunct Saturn and Neptune which suggests a fair amount of anxiety and illusory thinking from Saturn Neptune. With a harder-edged, explosive, perhaps military, Sun Saturn trine Mars sextile Uranus. On the astrocartography, the - [Roberta Flack - a voice to remember](https://star4cast.com/roberta-flack-a-voice-to-remember/) - Another musical icon has departed to join the heavenly choirs. Roberta Flack’s The First Time Ever I Saw His Face and Killing Me Softly from the 1970s have gone down as all-time classics and she is described as having ‘one of the loveliest voices pop music has ever heard.’ ‘There was something almost supernatural about - [Germany - a country divided](https://star4cast.com/germany-a-country-divided/) - A splintered result in the Germany elections will almost certainly see Friederich Merz replace Scholz as much-of-the-same head of a coalition government. The right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, egged on by senior figures in the Trump administration, notched up the strongest election result for any party of the radical right since the Second World - [Questions and Facts for context](https://star4cast.com/questions-and-facts-for-context/) - Please add below. Older posts under news on top bar or in search. Please astrology and context only. Opinions direct elsewhere. - [Osgood Perkins - history changing moments](https://star4cast.com/osgood-perkins-history-changing-moments/) - Osgood Perkins is a child and adult actor turned horror movie director which could be a run-of-the-mill Hollywood tale. Except his father was Anthony Perkins and his mother was killed in one of the 9/11 plane crashes. What struck me as astro-intriguing is his connection, albeit unwanted, to key historical events which resonated with the - [Trumpers ahead - the dream hits a reality check](https://star4cast.com/trumpers-ahead-the-dream-hits-a-reality-check/) - Snippets from the Trump bin. Kash Patel, former lawyer and federal prosecutor, now Director of the FBI, is heading into car-crash territory more obviously than most of the controversial Trump nominees. He is the promoter of multiple conspiracy theories about the “deep state”, false claims about 2020 election fraud, COVID-19 vaccines, false claims that the - [Suleiman, Catherine, Charlemagne - Pluto in Capricorn & Aquarius](https://star4cast.com/suleiman-catherine-charlemagne-pluto-in-capricorn-aquarius/) - Suleiman the Magnificent who expanded the Ottoman Empire to become the pre-eminent influence in central and eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa in the 16th Century, ruled during Pluto in Capricorn and in Aquarius and finally giving way to old age midway through Pluto in Pisces. His early rule was dominated by military - [Uranus - blowing up the past](https://star4cast.com/uranus-blowing-up-the-past/) - Uranus, trailblazer and light-bearer for a darkened world, a progressive agent for change. OR a defiant and lawless disruptor so intent on upending the status quo that anarchy and chaos result since the Uranus energy is not well designed to lay the foundations for the new era. Good at wrecking what has outlived its usefulness, - [Pope Francis - facing Saturnine realities](https://star4cast.com/pope-francis-facing-saturnine-realities/) - Pope Francis, 89 this year, in hospital with pneumonia in both lungs may well be facing tough decisions about whether to resign like his predecessor Pope Benedict. He was elected on 13 March 2013 at 7.06 pm in Rome, with a Pisces Sun which is about to catch the transiting Saturn conjunction towards the end - [Juno - love, fairness, beauty and betrayal](https://star4cast.com/juno-love-fairness-beauty-and-betrayal/) - Juno is considered one of the four major asteroids and named after the Roman goddess of marriage and queen of the gods. In addition to commitment, fairness, love and relationships and wealth her meaning also encompasses betrayal through infidelity. She is deemed a protector of women, especially during childbirth. She is often fused with the - [Europe - no clear vision ahead](https://star4cast.com/europe-no-clear-vision-ahead/) - The EU has moved into paralysis zone with the not-unexpected Trump withdrawal from Ukraine support. The Solar Arc Pluto has now moved onto the exact degree in opposition to the EU 8th house Moon and square Uranus and will stay in effect throughout 2025. Blocked, stuck, in turmoil as it faces the cost of filling - [Trump - a wrecking ball in the global order + China Cultural revolution + previous SA collisions + US Army Chief](https://star4cast.com/trump-a-wrecking-ball-in-the-global-order/) - As the Trump Administration sets about upsetting the global world order and undercutting internal securities, several thoughts to ponder. Common sense from William Hague: “If wars are settled in ways that reward lawless attacks, displace populations and leave a burning grievance for the future, then the result is usually more war.” “ A settlement with - [Bo Burnham - an earthy social satirist](https://star4cast.com/bo-burnham-an-earthy-social-satirist/) - Bo Burnham is an American satirist, stand-up comedian, musician, actor and filmmaker who came to success early at 16 on YouTube. In 2016 he described Trump as ‘joke proof’ and says he prefers to avoid politics, taking aim instead at cultural attitudes in general. Though his ‘That Funny Feeling’ - a litany of anxiety and - [Bridget Jones - nonsense to lighten the mood](https://star4cast.com/bridget-jones-nonsense-to-lighten-the-mood/) - The gales of laughter which met the first Bridget Jones movie in the midst of the deadening Saturn opposition Pluto of 2001 are being revived as No 4 Mad about the Boy hits the screens in the UK to appreciative audiences. Coincidentally Jupiter has returned to Gemini for where it was for the first BJ - [Black Moon Lilith - elusive and ill defined](https://star4cast.com/black-moon-lilith-elusive-and-ill-defined/) - Black Moon Lilith represents the wild feminine that does not want to be tamed and in mythology was cast out of paradise. It ‘represents the untame-able, feral spirit of those who’ve been exiled from dominant social structures. The outsiders, the outcasts, and the marginalized who flourish in our culture’s figurative underground. The people who refuse - [Brad Kochunas - embracing the darkness](https://star4cast.com/brad-kochunas-embracing-the-darkness/) - Brad Kochunas’ reflections on astrology, soul, myth and imagination are gathered together in his latest book Dark Skies. Thought-provoking and mystical in approach, his insights and attitudes are informed by his work for three decades in prison mental health. He puts forward the idea of ‘therapeutic astrology’ rather than psychological astrology which latter he - [Questions & Facts for context](https://star4cast.com/questions-facts-for-context/) - Please add below. Older posts under news on top bar and in search - [Tradwives - blocked Mars, suppressed identity](https://star4cast.com/tradwives-blocked-mars-suppressed-identity/) - 'Tradwives' are a money-making bandwagon for social media influencers keen to promote ‘the feminine urge to take care of your husband’ - dressed in floral, baking cakes and slapping on the makeup before the ‘provider man’ comes home from his day’s labours. They have struck a chord amongst some fans of the ‘traditional’ marriage which - [Solar & Lunar Returns - past and changing future](https://star4cast.com/solar-lunar-returns-past-and-changing-future/) - Hindsight is a wonderful thing when mulling over the efficacy of predictive tools. But the past is not always a good indicator of a precise repeat when similar influences occur ahead. Trump survived an assassination attempt on 13 July last year near Butler, Pennsylvania. Relocating his chart there pulls his 12th house Mars in Leo - [Kanye and Bianca - heading for a merciful closure](https://star4cast.com/kanye-and-bianca-heading-for-a-merciful-closure/) - The tawdry spectacle of an unhinged Kanye West dragging his compliant maybe-spouse Bianca Censori on flesh-baring, publicity parades may be coming to a finish. Despite denials it does look like the end of the road. His close partner signifier Sun/Moon midpoint is around 2 degrees Taurus which is catching the tr Pluto square exactly - [Solar Returns - decoding possibilities](https://star4cast.com/solar-returns-decoding-possibilities/) - Solar Returns have their fans but are a hit and miss tool taken on their own for predicting elections and the aftermath. In a quick skip backwards - only JFK had lucky, successful Jupiter in his Solar Return 10th on his election. Trump in 2016 for his successful run had Uranus conjunct the Solar - [Germany - facing a moment of reckoning ++ Weidel and Chrupalla of AFD](https://star4cast.com/germany-facing-a-moment-of-reckoning/) - Germany is heading to the polls on 23 February to vote in a snap general election, after the government collapsed in November. The centre-right CDU/CSU alliance is in the lead with about 30%, while the anti-immigration, Eurosceptic, far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has risen to more than 20%, making it the second strongest party. The - [OCD - blocked Mars leading to hyper-anxiety](https://star4cast.com/ocd-blocked-mars-leading-to-hyper-anxiety/) - Actress Tuppence Middleton, of Downton Abbey and War & Peace renown has been speaking of her obsessive compulsive disorder which constantly threatens to overwhelm her. This is a speedy and not comprehensive flit across a few well known OCD sufferers. Tuppence Middleton, 21 February 1987, is a Sun Pisces trine Pluto, sextile Neptune with - [Anselm Kiefer - war painters and poets - Bak, Nash, Sassoon, T.E. Lawrence](https://star4cast.com/anselm-kiefer-war-painters-and-poets-bak-nash-sassoon-t-e-lawrence/) - Anselm Kiefer, the German painter, on exhibition in Oxford and 80 in a few weeks, has used his art to explore the infiltration of his country’s culture and psychology by Nazism and the far right. Born in 1945 he was one of the first generation of German artists to confront the country’s recent past head-on - [USA Treasury - moving into a cyclone](https://star4cast.com/usa-treasury-moving-into-a-cyclone/) - The US Treasury manages government revenue, collects federal taxes through the IRS and manages U.S. government debt. It is headed by a secretary of the treasury, who is a member of the Cabinet, presently Scott Bessent, an investor and hedge fund manager, a major donor, fundraiser, and economic advisor for Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign. - [Panama Canal - up for grabs?](https://star4cast.com/panama-canal-up-for-grabs/) - The Panama Canal, involved in a tug of war with an imperialist Trump who claims America built it and dislikes China’s growing influence in the area, is an artificial 82-kilometer (51-mile) waterway which connects the Caribbean Sea with the Pacific Ocean. It provides a shortcut which greatly reduces the time for ships to travel between - [Mass Media - massage or message](https://star4cast.com/mass-media-massage-or-message/) - ‘The medium is the message’ or ‘massage’ as Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan, the father of media studies, used to joke. While the internet and before that television is blamed for negative social trends, there have often been periods of less than desirable effects from earlier mass communication, which has been around since the invention of - [United States - Pluto Return dims prospects](https://star4cast.com/united-states-pluto-return-dims-prospects/) - Could America’s Pluto Return be a hint of a slow moving collapse of global power and prestige? Loss of faith in US institutions could spiral towards a significant decline with the possibility of ‘a series of catastrophic governmental failures following key personnel having been fired and ‘dangerous lack of oversight of critical infrastructure, including nuclear - [Belle Gibson, cons and cronies - Neptune, Jupiter and Aquarius](https://star4cast.com/belle-gibson-cons-and-cronies-neptune-jupiter-and-aquarius/) - Con gullible victims out of thousands with heart-rending tales of illness, get prison sentence, get Netflix series. The most recent trickster felon Belle Gibson is star of Apple Cider Vinegar. A wellness guru, she falsely claimed to have been diagnosed with multiple cancer pathologies, including malignant brain cancer, which she said she was effectively managing - [Sweden - boundless compassion running out ++ shooter Rickard Andersson](https://star4cast.com/sweden-boundless-compassion-running-out/) - Sweden is reeling from a mass shooting with eleven dead including the killer, a local man in his mid 30s who returned to a school he had attended which provided Swedish language classes for immigrants and adult education for people who did not finish primary or secondary school. ‘There is no obvious evidence of an - [Trump anti-democracy wild men - Yarvin, Roberts, Musk ++ Vought](https://star4cast.com/trump-anti-democracy-wild-men-yarvin-roberts-musk/) - American democracy is a failed experiment according to blogger Curis Yarvin, an inaugural-gala invitee due to his "outsize influence over the Trumpian right." He founded the anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic philosophical movement known as the Dark Enlightenment or neo-reactionary movement in which he argues that the present system should be replaced by an accountable monarchy, similar - [Questions & Factual Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-factual-comments-3/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar and in search. - [Boris Becker - blessed and cursed by the gods of chance](https://star4cast.com/boris-becker-blessed-and-cursed-by-the-gods-of-chance/) - Boris Becker, once wunderkind of the tennis world, is a salutary tale of great success followed by an abysmal fall. At 17 the youngest Wimbledon champion in history, he continued on through six-time grand slam wins, earning £100 million-plus through deals and sponsorships over the years. He retired in 2012, was declared bankrupt in - [Iraq - western meddling, schisms and drought](https://star4cast.com/iraq-western-meddling-schisms-and-drought/) - Iraq’s troubled history over the past 100 years starting with British interference after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of WW1 through various coups and religious schisms culminating in George W Bush’s ‘shock and awe’ carnage in 2003 after 9/11 shows no signs of settling any time soon. Despite ISIS, who had - [Diana Melly - survivor of a stormy marriage](https://star4cast.com/diana-melly-survivor-of-a-wild-marriage/) - Riotous, unconventional, reckless lives are entertaining between the pages of a novel but the emotional damage they wreak is undeniable. Diana Melly, wife of the flamboyant jazz singer, journalist and libertine George Melly with whom she shared an open marriage that survived for “45 long years” has died aged 87. She was born 26 July - [Aga Khan - spiritual in a material world](https://star4cast.com/aga-khan-spiritual-in-a-material-world/) - The Aga Khan who mystifyingly combined the role of spiritual leader and generous philanthropist with astonishing wealth and a turbulent, well-publicised romantic life has died aged 88. Well known for his racehorses, which included the 2016 Derby winner and the kidnapped Shergar, he owned the largest horse racing and breeding operation in France which brought - [Mussolini - selling fascism to the masses ++ Stalin, Mao, Franco, Tito](https://star4cast.com/mussolini-selling-fascism-to-the-masses/) - The rise of 20th century fascism is credited to Italian ‘Il Duce’ Benito Mussolini, who is noted as an inspiration behind Adolf Hitler’s plans for Germany with the Nazi Party. Mussolini is the subject of an 8 part television drama starting tonight based on Antonio Scurati’s bestselling novel following his path from the founding of - [Jane Austen & Iris Murdoch - driven by a ferocious Mars ++ Christina Rosetti & Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://star4cast.com/austen-murdoch-driven-by-a-ferocious-mars/) - Writer Jane Austen is having a moment with the 250th anniversary of her birth this year causing a flutter of excitement amongst her fans. Author of Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park and others, she stands head and shoulders above other novelists having stood the test of time with constant revival TV - [Trump tariffs - a shoot self in foot decision](https://star4cast.com/trump-tariffs-a-shoot-self-in-foot-decision/) - The ultimate stress test of Donald Trump’s trade war tariffs will be in the effect on the US economy. Described by the FT as an “absurdity” it is regarded as a pointless self-inflicted injury which will raise prices for American families and deliver a shock to North American and world economies. “They are being used - [Neptune's dying days - Schrodinger & Hahn](https://star4cast.com/neptunes-dying-days-schrodinger-hahn/) - Neptune leaving a sign oversees the deaths of prominent musical and film icons. But it also ushers in new creative and political talent. As Neptune prepared to exit Taurus in the late 1880s, painters Georgia O’Keefe and Marcel Duchamp were born as was war poet Rupert Brooke, architect Le Corbusier, and actors Chico Marx and - [Middle East - peace remains a forlorn hope](https://star4cast.com/middle-east-peace-remains-a-forlorn-hope/) - Trump has moved the Israel-Hamas-Gaza situation on a smidgeon but there are no hopeful indicators moving forward of a long term solution. Netanyahu is caught in a double bind having promised to destroy Hamas but even after 47,000 Palestinians killed and Gaza effectively destroyed, the green headbands were defiantly on display as hostages were - [Disasters and syncronicity](https://star4cast.com/disasters-and-syncronicity/) - Natural and man-made disasters often have an eerie significance and are a synchronous forerunner to key changes in a country’s and individual’s destiny. “Synchronicity is a phenomenon in which people interpret two separate—and seemingly unrelated—experiences as being meaningfully intertwined, even though there is no evidence that one led to the other or that the two events - [Marianne Faithfull - talented and reckless](https://star4cast.com/marianne-faithfull-talented-and-reckless/) - Marianne Faithfull, singer and actress, icon of the Sixties pop counterculture, one time girlfriend of Mick Jagger, has died aged 78. When that affair split, she descended into a drug addiction and homelessness, before reinventing herself with a shattered voice as a great musical interpreter, issuing 13 adventurous albums and became a magnet for film-makers, - [Questions & Factual Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-factual-comments-2/) - Please add below. Older posts on News on top bar or in search - [Astrology tools - learning as you go](https://star4cast.com/astrology-tools-learning-as-you-go/) - Astrology tools: What always attracted me to astrology was that there was no ‘right’ way to do it. Using different methods and calculations different astrologers can end up making accurate interpretations, sometimes shining a light on a different facet of a person/situation. My own evolution as an astrologer started as most people’s did reading - [Athena joins the Royal merry-go-round](https://star4cast.com/athena-joins-the-royal-merry-go-round/) - Athena Mozzi, Princess Beatrice’s second daughter was born prematurely on 22 January 2025 at 12.57pm by caesarean section. This gives her a 9th house (much travelled and opinionated) Sun Pluto conjunction in Aquarius with a 5th house intensely emotional Scorpio Moon. Her career 10th house is full with a well-organised Saturn conjunct a creative Venus - [Robert Kennedy Jnr - a Uranus Neptune ultra](https://star4cast.com/robert-kennedy-jnr-a-uranus-neptune-ultra/) - Robert F Kennedy Jnr’s contentious confirmation hearings for the position of secretary of health today have elicited strong condemnation from two Kennedy family members. Caroline Kennedy, his cousin, JFK’s daughter, formerly ambassador to Australia and Japan, detailed troubling behavior she witnessed over the years, accusing him of having hypocritical views on vaccines and being “addicted - [Artificial Intelligence - let the games begin](https://star4cast.com/artificial-intelligence-let-the-games-begin/) - The AI stock panic is receding after the launch of China’s DeepSeek, a less capital-intensive artificial intelligence model, resulted in a one day rout. Nvidia and Oracle Stocks have rebounded. DeepSeek was launched sometime in May 2023 (wiki) which would give it a Taurus Sun conjunct Uranus and Mars in Cancer opposition Pluto (at zero - [Denmark - refusing to play Trump's game](https://star4cast.com/denmark-refusing-to-play-trumps-game/) - Denmark is pushing back against Trump’s claim that he can defend Greenland better than they can and is alarmed as he is refusing to rule out military action to forcibly take the territory from them and is threatening targeted tariffs unless he gets his way. The US already has the sole military base in Greenland, - [USA - immigration, rhetoric v reality](https://star4cast.com/usa-immigration-rhetoric-v-reality/) - The gulf between Trump’s hopes of deporting 11 million undocumented immigrants lies and the reality on the ground with ‘enormous financial, legal and logistical hurdles at every step of the process’ plus an economic hit for the USA means his inflammatory rhetoric may not move the gauge much. Biden deported 271,484 unauthorised immigrants, a 10-year - [Pete Hegseth - a wildly opinionated Gemini](https://star4cast.com/pete-hegseth-a-wildly-opinionated-gemini/) - The most contested of Trump’s nominees – so far - Pete Hegseth has been confirmed as secretary of defense. A former Fox News personality and rightwing commentator who has said women should not serve in combat roles, recommended the military purge generals and faced allegations of sexual assault and alcoholism, made it through after a tie-breaking vote - [Stelliums - intense focus with blind spots](https://star4cast.com/stelliums-genius-with-blind-spots/) - Stelliums are formed by having three planets or more in the same sign or house. They concentrate amplified energy on the traits of that sign or house and often give an intense and singular focus to life. They don’t always bestow genius but it is a fair analogy since persons with great ability in one - [Venus - love, lust, beauty and insincerity](https://star4cast.com/venus-love-lust-beauty-and-insincerity/) - Venus, goddess of love and beauty, ruler of artistic refinement, social skills and all things sweet and nice, has a darker under-side when lust, greed, laziness and insincerity take precedence. Mythology has a variety of associations relating the Roman Venus and her Greek counterpart Aphrodite to pleasure, passion, procreation, fertility, prosperity, and victory. Hesiod - [Questions & Factual Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-factual-comments/) - Questions and factual comments for context please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in search. - [Josephine Baker - an unrestrained Gemini](https://star4cast.com/josephine-baker-an-unrestrained-gemini/) - Josephine Baker, the American Folie Bergere dancer, who started life as a street kid in segregated Missouri and went on to become a World War II spy for France and resistance fighter as well, later, as a civil rights activist in the USA is the subject of a newly released memoir Fearless and Free. Originally - [USA - Trump mark 11 day one ++ health, finances, secret deals backfiring etc](https://star4cast.com/usa-trump-mark-11-day-one/) - The US is holding its breath as Trump is inaugurated for the second time with fears that his wild and inflated promises will be followed through. Commentators are divided between downplaying the threat – ‘My counsel would be not to sweat what he says, but judge him by what he does.’ And doing the opposite - [Unity Mitford - a sick infatuation](https://star4cast.com/unity-mitford-a-sick-infatuation/) - Unity Mitford was one of five infamous debutante sisters of the 1930s, who developed an infatuation with Hitler. Her sister Diana, wife of Oswald Mosley of the British Fascist Party, spent the war in an internment camp because of Nazi sympathies. Unity’s diaries of her time in Germany between 1935 and 1939 have been published - [Joan Plowright - a talented Scorpio with an upbeat Moon](https://star4cast.com/joan-plowright-a-talented-scorpio-with-an-upbeat-moon/) - Joan Plowright, one of Britain's finest stage actresses, married for three decades to Laurence Olivier, has died aged 95. She garnered innumerable awards for her performances on screen as well, most recently for Tea with Mussolini where she played in an ensemble cast with Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. She was born 28 October 1929 - [David Lynch - seeking truth in the darkness ++ plus Fellini, Polanski charts](https://star4cast.com/david-lynch-seeking-truth-in-the-darkness/) - David Lynch, the film director, ‘the visionary of America’s subconscious’ and a ‘a singular auteur whose films found poetry in the ugly underbelly of American life’ has died. He ‘saw that if the US dreamed of safety and prosperity and the suburban drive and the picket fence, it also dreamed of the opposite: of escape, - [Israel cease fire - surprise Trump intervention](https://star4cast.com/israel-cease-fire-surprise-trump-intervention/) - Two astro-thoughts about a possible ceasefire in Gaza which no one is expecting to be the end of the conflict. One is that the original Hamas invasion chart of 7 October 2023 which was announced at 6.30am that morning had a brutal, ruthless Mars square Pluto. That has moved by Solar Arc to close the - [Bob Dylan & Timothee Chalamet - a lucky pairing](https://star4cast.com/bob-dylan-timothee-chalamet-a-lucky-pairing/) - The legendary Bob Dylan has been given a Hollywood biopic which has been rapturously received by the upmarket film critics. “A Complete Unknown: Timothée Chalamet embodies Bob Dylan’s once-in-a-generation coolness. “The rocker is too mercurial a figure for a biopic to ever fully capture him – but this gorgeous film comes as close as you - [Michelle and Barack Obama - opposing attitudes](https://star4cast.com/michelle-and-barack-obama-opposing-attitudes/) - Michelle Obama was conspicuous by her absence from Jimmy Carter’s funeral and evidently does not intend to attend Trump’s Inauguration. Reasons proffered in the media are that she does not do hypocrisy and refuses to put on a false smile to applaud a man who has directly insulted them and she thinks is a danger - [Astrology - searching for mother in the chart + Chiron](https://star4cast.com/astrology-searching-for-mother-in-the-chart/) - A search for mother (or the experience of mother) in a birth chart will focus on the Moon house position and aspects and 10th house planets. This is a quick skip round main features which can be amplified by reading elsewhere. Where the Moon falls house-wise is what brings nurturing and protection (the mothering - [Questions & Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-comments-536/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in Search - [UK fiscal woes - heading for a moment of truth](https://star4cast.com/uk-fiscal-woes-heading-for-a-moment-of-truth/) - Never was the financial panic afflicting the UK more clearly marked than on Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England’s term chart. He accompanied Rachel Reeves on her bizarre trip to China which accomplished meagre returns. Taking up office on 16 March 2020, his administration chart has a triple whammy of undesirables at - [Mark Zuckerburg - and uneasy friendships](https://star4cast.com/mark-zuckerburg-and-uneasy-friendships/) - Mark Zuckerburg’s decision to stop fact checking on Meta/Facebook and cosy up to the new Trump administration is causing frissons of alarm. With Zuckerburg’s Taurus Sun sitting exactly on Trump’s Midheaven it might seem like a match made in heaven for progress with joint ambitions; with MZ’s Jupiter falling on DT’s Descendant which for a - [Michel de Montaigne - a Pluto in Aquarius sage](https://star4cast.com/michel-de-montaigne-a-pluto-in-aquarius-sage/) - Coping with overwhelming crisis in a time of chaotic uncertainty and constant diverse conflicts requires the ability to stand back from the melee. Either taking a historical perspective – ‘we have lived through worse before’ and ‘this too will pass because it always has done.’ Or going inwards – ‘if you can’t sort the world’s - [Astrology - choosing the inevitable ++ Uranus, Prometheus and digital](https://star4cast.com/astrology-choosing-the-inevitable/) - “Freedom of will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.” Carl Jung’s paradoxical maxim can be seen as a motivational urge to make the best of a bad situation by wearing a happy smile. Or at a more profound level as an encouragement to accept who you are and live - [LA fire - celebrity losses - Moons and Mars](https://star4cast.com/la-fire-celebrity-losses-moons-and-mars/) - Anthony Hopkins who lost his home in the Palisades fire issued a zen-like message of stoic calm in the aftermath. "As we all struggle to heal from the devastation of these fires, it's important we remember that the only thing we take with us is the love we give." Born 31 December 1937 9.15 - [Keir Starmer - lost in a dark wood ++ Musk v UK, Trump v Keir](https://star4cast.com/keir-starmer-lost-in-a-dark-wood/) - Poor Keir Starmer from whom the proverb ‘be careful what you wish for’ must be echoing round the walls of No 10 as one political sinkhole after another turns up for him to trip into. Not all the political disasters are of his own making, though Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s missteps which have - [Los Angeles - wildfire out of control ++ Hollywood](https://star4cast.com/los-angeles-wildfire-out-of-control/) - Los Angeles is in a state of emergency as a raging wildfire exploded from 10 acres to more than 2,900 acres in hours with worse forecast to come as the winds stay high. More than 30,000 people have been evacuated with many celebrity homes at risk. The fire broke out at 10.30am on the 7th - [David Attenborough - a life of wonder](https://star4cast.com/david-attenborough-a-life-of-wonder/) - The irreplaceable and extraordinary David Attenborough will be 98 soon and is still making nature documentaries after five decades. From childhood he was fascinated by fossils and wildlife and studied zoology at Cambridge. Although he became a producer and rose to the top of the BBC, being offered the Director General position, he resigned to - [Jean-Marie Le Pen - the face of French nationalism ++ Marion Marechal](https://star4cast.com/jean-marie-le-pen-the-face-of-french-nationalism/) - Jean-Marie Le Pen, who repeatedly played down the Holocaust and was an unrepentant extremist on race, gender and immigration, founder of the French far-right National Front party, has died. Always a controversial and divisive figure described as the 'Devil of the Republic', he caused consternation when he reached the presidential election-run off against Jacques - [Greenland - mineral-rich and a security outpost](https://star4cast.com/greenland-mineral-rich-and-a-security-outpost/) - Shudders of disbelief are running through western capitals at Trump’s alpha-chimp chest-beating display in pursuit of Greenland, Panama and - why not? - Canada. The farcical theatrics appear to be driven by Trump’s (not unreasonable) concern about holding back Chinese encroachment. Background: ‘China craves its rare earth minerals needed for microchips and sonar systems. It - [Child Sexual Abuse - too terrible to face ++ ultra-liberal fascism ++ 'social and state failure' ++ foreign males commit more sex crimes](https://star4cast.com/child-sexual-abuse-too-terrible-to-face/) - The reluctance of authorities to tackle child sexual abuse is not limited to the most recent horrors emerging from the north of England with mainly “Pakistani men” preying on young girls, many in social care. Fear of embarrassing Muslim sensitivities with concern about the political impact may have been part of the problem. But it - [Questions & Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-comments-535/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar and in search. - [Jerry Springer - the man who wrecked US culture](https://star4cast.com/jerry-springer-the-man-who-wrecked-us-culture/) - Jerry Springer, the man who ruined a culture and fronted a tawdry, outrage-inducing and popular talk show for three decades, is given the netflix documentary treatment 18 months after his death. Fights, Camera, Action according to a review is a damning insight into TV’s most notorious show. One insider said ‘It really was the modern - [Argentina's reboot under Milei - will it last?](https://star4cast.com/argentinas-reboot-under-milei-will-it-last/) - Javier Milei has begun wrenching opening Argentina’s protectionist economy, slashing tariffs in a bid to beat down high prices. Argentines are ordering from Amazon for the first time. On December 22, the government stopped charging a blanket tax of 7.5 per cent on all imported goods. The changes put Argentina on the opposite course - [Iran 2025 - confidence and confusion](https://star4cast.com/iran-2025-confidence-and-confusion/) - Iran having watched the weakening of its proxy fighters Hamas, Hezbollah and the fall of the Assad regime in 2024 is sending more weapons to the Houthis in Yemen. They have given the militia group enough supplies to keep up its strikes on Israel and attacks on global shipping for “years to come” it is - [EU 2025 and beyond - stormy seas not abating ++ World Economic Forum](https://star4cast.com/eu-2025-and-beyond-stormy-seas-not-abating/) - The EU will struggle mightily against headwinds in the coming year which won’t ease thereafter financially or otherwise with the years running into late decade being equally fraught. At present the Midheaven and Ascendant being final degree Gemini and Virgo respectively will have the undermining tr Neptune in hard aspect throughout 2025 bringing - [King Edward V1 - a passing monarch ++ King Charles 1 and Lady Jane Grey](https://star4cast.com/king-edward-v1-a-passing-monarch/) - An astrologer predicting an imminent death may have shifted the course of English history a fraction. In the febrile period after Henry V111’s death, he was succeeded by his son Edward V1, then 10 years old. Next in line Mary Tudor, his half-sister, was persuaded to stay in England by the prospect of his approaching - [Luke Littler - into the age of Aquarius](https://star4cast.com/luke-littler-into-the-age-of-aquarius/) - Luke Littler, the youngest world champion in darts history beat one of the greatest players in a match which has sent fans and sports writers into meltdown. He had to produce a birth certificate recently to prove that he is indeed only 17, born 21 January 2007 in Warrington, England. He started at 18 months - [Eclipses 2025 - changing of the celestial guard](https://star4cast.com/eclipses-2025-changing-of-the-celestial-guard/) - Total Lunar Eclipse on March 14 at 24 degrees Virgo - the Pisces Sun will conjunct Saturn and Neptune opposing the Sun so the mood will be of uncertainty, with a need for determined effort in the face of difficulties or danger with Mars trine Sun and Saturn. Partial Solar Eclipse on 29 March at - [New Orleans killings - a Trump headache to start ++ perpetrator chart](https://star4cast.com/new-orleans-killings-a-trump-headache-to-start/) - The IS (Islamic State) flag on the truck which drove into a crowded New Orleans street at 3 am on January 1st killing 15 revellers and injuring dozens more is an ominous sign. If it proves to be more than a disturbed perpetrator, then it will give Trump a serious headache from the start. - [Meghan and Harry - wishing won't make it so ++ relocation charts ++ Wallis and Edward ++ Netflix show](https://star4cast.com/meghan-and-harry-wishing-wont-make-it-so/) - The continuing fascination and embarrassment surrounding the Meghan-Harry roadshow continues with a dud polo Netflix series streaming and disappearing, various splotches of critical media comment and no sign of the upmarket jam jamboree landing soon. While I would love to wish them happy ever after, all the indications are that after a hugely stressful four - [Grimms fairytales - Pluto in Aquarius in action ++ relationship chart](https://star4cast.com/grimms-fairytales-pluto-in-aquarius-in-action/) - Magic and escapism with a touch of Disney schmaltz throw sparkle and glitter over Snow White, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood. While there has always been an undercurrent of darkness in modern versions of fairytales, the reality of Grimms’ Children’s and Household Tales was a good deal bleaker. The original version - [Jocelyn Wildenstein - self-destruct for love](https://star4cast.com/jocelyn-wildenstein-self-destruct-for-love/) - Jocelyn Wildenstein whose extreme addiction to plastic surgery led to grotesque changes in her appearance has died in her sleep aged 84. As her marriage to a wealthy art collector billionaire started to crumble she hoped to win back his affections by ‘improving’ her appearance and since he had an interest in wild cats on - [Russia - approaching the witching hour ++ failure of Ukraine campaign](https://star4cast.com/russia-approaching-the-witching-hour/) - All eyes are on Russia with the upcoming Saturn Neptune conjunction, a marker of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, of Stalin’s death in 1953 and the break up of the USSR in 1990. If the same astro-pattern holds good then Saturn overtaking Neptune will be the crucial period which means mid 2026 to early 2027. That - [Jupiter square Saturn - hope versus realism](https://star4cast.com/jupiter-square-saturn-hope-versus-realism/) - The Jupiter in Gemini square Saturn in Pisces hovering over the close of the old year and start of the new has produced an oddly disjointed mood to add to everything else. The square between high-hopes Jupiter and downbeat Saturn picked up in August 2024 and will run on to mid 2025 after which Jupiter - [India - on a roll with a few queries ahead ++ slowdown forecast](https://star4cast.com/india-on-a-roll-with-a-few-queries-ahead/) - India remains the world’s fastest growing major economy, with an uptick of 8.2% in 2023/24. Public investment in infrastructure and rising household investments in real estate plus a buoyant manufacturing sector were all given the credit. Narendra Modi was sworn-in as Prime Minister for the third time on 9th June 2024 after a decisive victory. - [Questions & Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-comments-534/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar and in search. - [New Zealand - safe, secure, corruption free](https://star4cast.com/new-zealand-safe-secure-corruption-free/) - New Zealand has been under enormous strain in recent years with Pluto bearing down on its Sun Mars in Capricorn square Pluto since early 2022 running till last month. The worst of that is over but it always takes time on the far side of Pluto to see the benefits of the forced changes. On - [Australia 2025 - surfing the rollers](https://star4cast.com/australia-2025-surfing-the-rollers/) - Indications are that Australia faces cautious optimism ahead with an improving employment rate and interest rates tipped to drop. But the Bank of Australia chart, 14 January 1960, suggests there may be a hurdle or two to overcome on the economic front. Tr Neptune will square the Mars from March 2025 on and off till - [Mars retrograde - suppressed, then expressed](https://star4cast.com/mars-retrograde-suppressed-then-expressed/) - Mars retrograde in Leo will oppose Pluto on January 3rd which will put a damper on New Year high spirits until the blockage is passed. Mars goes retrograde every two years for about 10 weeks – in this instance from 7 December 2024 to 25 February 2025 – and once it goes direct it will - [Jimmy Carter - truth and decency in the White House](https://star4cast.com/jimmy-carter-truth-and-decency-in-the-white-house/) - Jimmy Carter has died aged 100, who became renowned in his post-presidency years for the success of his initiatives on global health, democracy promotion and conflict resolution. Although deemed a lacklustre president he was the first since Jefferson under whom no blood was shed in war. At a farewell dinner as he left office, his - [Manmohan Singh - a soft-spoken revolutionary](https://star4cast.com/manmohan-singh-a-soft-spoken-revolutionary/) - Manmohan Singh whose economic reforms from the 1990s onwards unleashed an economic boom in India and propelled it to a world power has died aged 92. Starting as finance minister in 1991, he took up the reins when India was close to defaulting on its external debt, had only two weeks of foreign currency reserves - [John Maynard Keynes - the cure or the problem? ++ relationships](https://star4cast.com/john-maynard-keynes-the-cure-or-the-problem/) - The jungle drums are beating more loudly over worrisome levels of global government and corporate debt with the money wonks cautioning that America now owes more money than the value of its economy. Quite what John Maynard Keynes would have made of it, the English economist whose ideas fundamentally changed the theory and practice - [Sara Netanyahu - not a lady for turning ++ family](https://star4cast.com/sara-netanyahu-not-a-lady-for-turning/) - Sara Netanyahu, the Israeli PM’s wife has been accused of harassing witnesses and obstructing justice in her husband’s corruption cases. She is said to have orchestrated a campaign of demonstrations and social media attacks against perceived “enemies” of the prime minister. He is standing trial on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust relating - [Indonesia tsunami - 20 years on](https://star4cast.com/indonesia-tsunami-20-years-on/) - The Boxing Day tsunami in 2004 was caused by an underwater earthquake, measuring 9.2 on the Richter scale, that struck off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. A massive tsunami with waves up to 30 m (100 ft) high, devastated communities along the surrounding coasts of the Indian Ocean, killing an estimated 227,898 - [Asma Assad - Taurus Algol profiteer ++ blocked ahead](https://star4cast.com/asma-assad-taurus-algol-profiteer/) - The fall of the House of Assad has turned the spotlight back on the mafia state in Syria which crushed dissent for decades, killed countless hundreds of thousands and wrecked a country rich in natural resources, with an ancient history and a strategic position on the Mediterranean. Hafez Assad, 6 October 1930, described as “a - [Questions & Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-comments-533/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in Search. - [The season of endings and beginnings](https://star4cast.com/the-season-of-endings-and-beginnings/) - Warmest best wishes all round for festive fun or relaxing peace and quiet. Whatever floats your boat. Bon chance et courage for 2025 - [James Bond - Barbara Broccoli defending his honour](https://star4cast.com/james-bond-barbara-broccoli-defending-his-honour/) - James Bond fans will be chewing their fingernails at the delays over their next favourite movie as producer Barbara Broccoli and Amazon, the new owners of MGM, appear to be at a standoff. Old school versus the algorithm generation don’t appear to be a good mix with no sign of a script or replacement for - [Ariane Grande - a fairy tale gone sour](https://star4cast.com/ariane-grande-a-fairy-tale-gone-sour/) - Ariane Grande’s tumultuous love life strewn with a series of short-lived flings and a recent two year marriage followed by a divorce has managed to wreck another marriage. Co-star of her recent movie Wicked Ethan Slater left his childhood sweetheart, wife of several years and mother of his months’ old baby, to hook up with - [Peter Sellers - another Sun Mars in Virgo ++ Robin Williams](https://star4cast.com/peter-sellers-another-sun-mars-in-virgo/) - Peter Sellers renowned for his comic skills in the "Pink Panther" series, as well as "The Mouse that Roared", “Dr. Strangelove” and most notably in Being There is admired in a recent biography. Though reviews suggest it skips over what a monster he was in reality. He married four times; had four children, including one - [Gaza - the end of times with no respite](https://star4cast.com/gaza-the-end-of-times-with-no-respite/) - The mind-numbing stories from Gaza of a starving, traumatized population in mid winter, described by an Oxfam director as “apocalyptic” with no help in sight from an international community seemingly incapable of taking action is a sobering indictment of the times. The Israeli liberal newspaper Haaretz, now sanctioned by the Netanyahu government, relates stories from - [Blake Lively & Justin Baldoni - Virgo Scorpio clash](https://star4cast.com/blakey-lively-justin-baldoni-virgo-scorpio-clash/) - The fallout from the doomed domestic violence movie It Ends with Us rolls on with Blake Lively making accusations against her former co-star/director Justin Baldoni, filing a legal complaint claiming sexual harassment and making allegations of a coordinated PR effort to damage her reputation. What is astro-intriguing are two coincidences. One is that she was - [Elon Musk - he who pays the piper ++ J.D. Vance](https://star4cast.com/elon-musk-he-who-pays-the-piper/) - The battle of the egos between Elon Musk and Trump has not so far incurred any noticeable damage to their bro-romance. Though Musk’s $250 million contribution to the Trump campaign with an eye to more in the future no doubt plays a part. The recent kerfuffle over the spending deal had led some to conclude - [Mexico - on Trump's blacklist + China, EU, UK](https://star4cast.com/mexico-on-trumps-blacklist-china-eu-uk/) - Mexico in the full line of Trump’s wrath over immigrants and drugs could not be more star-crossed if their meeting was ruled by Kali, the goddess of destruction. Mexico, 15 September 1810 11 pm Dolores Hidalgo, has Trump’s Uranus sitting on its Ascendant, causing disruptions to its image, and square its 10th house Pluto shaking - [Capricorn Ingress - tough climb ahead](https://star4cast.com/capricorn-ingress-tough-climb-ahead/) - The Capricorn Ingress tomorrow – the Winter Solstice in the northern hemisphere - has a sparsely aspected Sun square Neptune Scheat and the Aries North Node. Uranus still close to Algol is sextile Neptune Scheat. There is a Mutable Grand Cross of Jupiter opposition Mercury square a Virgo Moon opposition Saturn for a highly-strung, - [Dominique Pelicot - France pondering misogyny ++ Fred West chart](https://star4cast.com/dominique-pelicot-france-pondering-misogyny/) - The grisly trial in France of Dominique Pelicot and fifty others accused of raping his drugged wife Dominique over nine years has ended with guilty verdicts all round. It only came to light when videos were discovered on his computer by police investigating another crime. His wife has been given universal acclaim for her - [Canada 2025 - facing Trump's threat](https://star4cast.com/canada-2025-facing-trumps-threat/) - Canada is in political turmoil as Trump, the great disruptor, throws a spoiler into the mix with his promised 25% tariff on all goods and services, causing the Deputy Prime Minister to resign saying that Justin Trudeau was not up to the job of confronting aggressive “America-first” economic nationalism. Trudeau’s popularity was already plummeting - [Matt and Luke Goss - sibling split](https://star4cast.com/matt-and-luke-goss-sibling-split/) - Matt Goss is back in the UK after an 11 year solo Vegas residency talking sadly of the estrangement from his twin brother Luke, formerly part of the teen sensation Bros in the late 1980s. They were the biggest band in Britain, peroxide bombshells in leather jackets with eight Top 10 singles. Then they split - [Questions & Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-comments-532/) - Please add below older posts under News on top bar and in Search. - [Sara Sharif - a child care calamity](https://star4cast.com/sara-sharif-a-child-care-calamity/) - The horror story of Sara Sharif’s life was laid bare in court with her father and stepmother finally found guilty of her murder after years of abuse and torture. The judge described the 10-year-old was as "a very courageous little girl with an unquenchable spirit" who loved to sing and dance. A postmortem found she - [China 2025- even the mighty dragon will blink](https://star4cast.com/china-2025-even-the-mighty-dragon-will-blink/) - China has run into a setback of considerable proportions as of now with similar financial concerns as elsewhere ahead. The China 1 January 1912 chart has the Progressed Mars opposition the Sun at the moment which will throw obstacles in its path to progress; with jolts and upsets in later March to May 2025; - [UK 2025- economic hit before improvements ++ Cabinet disarray](https://star4cast.com/uk-economic-hit-before-improvements/) - The UK is facing a crunch point of its own with the 8th house Mars about to be detonated by Solar Arc Uranus over the coming few months. The 8th house rules international and business finances as well as deeper transformations. In the past when the UK Mars was under pressure it also accompanied - [Prince Andrew - down in the woods today ++ Andrew and Queen Elizabeth, a Neptunian fog](https://star4cast.com/prince-andrew-down-in-the-woods-today/) - ‘The gift that keeps on giving’ in the portly form of Prince Andrew must be delighting the anti-monarchy lobby with more revelations this time about a Chinese spy, once an invitee to an Andrew birthday party in recent years, now banned from entry to the UK as a security risk. He was evidently a close - [Dorothy Parker - a mean, sad Virgo ++ quotes ++ husband ++ South Korea's Lady Macbeth](https://star4cast.com/dorothy-parker-a-mean-sad-virgo/) - Dorothy Parker, the original Queen of Mean, with acerbic one liners that went down in history, eventually ended up in Hollywood. A new biography which relates her later years shows her as a brilliant wit and wasted talent, as she never overcame her addiction to carousing and alcohol. Behind the piercing wit she was - [USA 2025 - a Cancerian moment of truth](https://star4cast.com/usa-2025-a-cancerian-moment-of-truth/) - An elemental shift from Earth Water to Air Fire in 2025 and beyond will pose challenges for the USA’s stellium in Cancer. Cancer dislikes letting go, tends to airbrush the past, gets overly defensive when criticized, tends to be conservative and traditional in outlook and views detached Aquarius as a liberally-minded rebel and a threat - [2025 - Earth Water changes to Air Fire](https://star4cast.com/2025-earth-water-changes-to-air-fire/) - An inauspicious start to 2025 with a logjammed Mars opposition Pluto on January 3rd bringing high tensions in the days before will put a damper on New Year celebrations. Though nothing will stay the same for long in a fast-moving, ever-changing year. Astro-details for the year ahead. Pluto is now firmly into Aquarius, staying till - [Lily Phillips - social media sinks to the depths ++ Bonnie Blue](https://star4cast.com/lily-phillips-social-media-sinks-to-the-depths/) - A tawdry modern tale of warped social media fandom features a 23 year old OnlyFans and porn star Lily Phillips who catapulted to the TikTok viral stratosphere in October after having sex with 101 men in a single day. Born 23 July 2001 in England, she made it to Sheffield University but dropped out - [Jay-Z - fighting off damaging allegations](https://star4cast.com/jay-z-fighting-off-damaging-allegations/) - Guilty of raping a minor or a brazen shakedown for cash? The media frenzy around allegations against Jay-z, furiously denied, have so far muddied the water and drawn Jennifer Lopez, once part of a Diddy Combs twosome into the story. It appears to be a civil not criminal complaint with the accuser staying out of - [Selena Gomez - Mars Pluto strong woman](https://star4cast.com/selena-gomez-mars-pluto-strong-woman/) - Selena Gomez, singer, actress and businesswoman, is on a roll with two Golden Globe nominations this week for the operatic musical Emilia Pérez and the other for TV’s Only Murders in the Building. This year she also joined the billionaire celebrity rich list, amassing a $1.3bn (£1bn) fortune, mainly from her Rare Beauty make-up company. - [Luigi Mangione - anger, obstinacy and Pisces ++ Anders Brevik chart](https://star4cast.com/luigi-mangione-anger-obstinacy-and-pisces/) - Luigi Mangione arrested for the shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson appears to have been born 6 May 1998 in Pennsylvania. Lauded by some as a folk hero for standing up against an avaricious health care system, he has been condemned by others. His writings glorified Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, a domestic terrorist who - [Questions & Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-comments-531/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar. - [January 6 - rerunning old battles](https://star4cast.com/january-6-rerunning-old-battles/) - Trump is threatening the January 6 Capitol Hill riot investigation committee members with prison in the same breath as he insists he will pardon the convicted lawbreakers. This is the rapidest look at four relevant charts. Liz Cheney, 28 July 1966 11.57pm Washington, DC, with tr Neptune conjunct her Saturn throughout 2025 won’t be anything - [Revolutionaries - Robespierre to Mandela ++ Collins, Gandhi](https://star4cast.com/revolutionaries-robespierre-to-mandela/) - “Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.” T.E. Lawrence. With revolution in the air, a look at the - [Assad falls - a shift in the great power game](https://star4cast.com/assad-falls-a-shift-in-the-great-power-game/) - The tectonic plates in the great power game are shifting on cue with the outer planet transitions and an October Solar Eclipse pointing to a time of completion and separation from the past. The fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is marked in the date of the original military coup which brought his repressive - [USA healthcare - next term turmoil](https://star4cast.com/usa-healthcare-next-term-turmoil/) - The street shooting of Brian Thompson CEO of UnitedHealth Group, the largest insurance provider in the US, has brought into focus consumer rage against the trillion dollar healthcare business. Social media is awash with Americans’ dire experiences at the hands of health insurance companies and outrage at the large profits that they generate. United Healthcare - [Nigel Farage - trailblazer or chaos creator](https://star4cast.com/nigel-farage-trailblazer-or-chaos-creator/) - The collapse of the old left-right political battleground in the UK has led to Reform stepping up as a viable alternative with a recent polls giving Reform (24%) the edge on Labour (23%) with Tories just ahead (26%). Even Morgan McSweeney, the PM’s chief of staff, said it is unclear who Labour’s main opponents will - [Romania - alarm at election interference](https://star4cast.com/romania-alarm-at-election-interference/) - Romania's constitutional court has annulled the result of the first round of voting in the presidential election after it was won by Calin Georgescu, an almost unknown far-right Nato-sceptic who has previously praised Vladimir Putin. The decision came after suggestions that he benefitted from a mass influence operation, assumed to be Russian, to interfere with - [California Earthquake - fault line opens up](https://star4cast.com/california-earthquake-fault-line-opens-up/) - A magnitude 7 earthquake struck off the north west coast of California yesterday at around 10.40am local time with minimal damage and a tsunami warning proving to be redundant. The quake chart has Pluto on the Aquarius Ascendant in a destructive, scary opposition to Mars; with Uranus conjunct the IC – which is fairly descriptive - [Queen Camilla - emerging from a Neptunian dip](https://star4cast.com/queen-camilla-emerging-from-a-neptunian-dip/) - Queen Camilla recovering from a recent bout of pneumonia still appears to have a busy schedule of state dinners and book club jaunts. She has had a punishing year with her husband King Charles’ cancer diagnosis and treatment as well as the Princess of Wales – and is known for not finding overseas visits especially - [France - the downside of Pluto in Aquarius](https://star4cast.com/france-the-downside-of-pluto-in-aquarius/) - La France born on Pluto in Aquarius with an added splash of Uranus is grandstanding the downside of Fixed, egalitarian, Airy Aquarius. As one commentator pointed out, France has never developed a culture of compromise. An angry ideological push for ever more generous spending pledges, despite stark warnings about the national debt flies in the - [Lena Zavaroni - sacrificed on the altar of success ++ Karen Carpenter](https://star4cast.com/lena-zavaroni-sacrificed-on-the-altar-of-success/) - The sad tale of child singing phenomenon Lena Zavaroni is the subject of a new BBC documentary. She shot to fame aged 10, winning the TV talent show Opportunity Knocks and was whisked off to London by agents away from her family to entertain on TV shows on both sides of the Atlantic. She sang - [Questions & Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-comments-530/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in search. - [Kash Patel - the FBI in his crosshairs ++ J. Edgar Hoover](https://star4cast.com/kash-patel-the-fbi-in-his-crosshairs/) - Kash Patel, a deep-state conspiracy theorist with limited management experience, who is Trump’s pick for head of the FBI, will face a tough confirmation hearing. Patel began his career as a Miami federal public defender, then worked as a terrorism prosecutor at the Department of Justice, followed by senior aide to Republicans who led the - [Apple Martin * Donatella - Taurus on show](https://star4cast.com/apple-martin-donatella-taurus-on-show/) - Apple Martin, Gwyneth Paltrow and Coldplay Chris Martin’s daughter was wheeled out for a time-warp debutante ball in Paris. Le Bal des Débutantes is an annual invitation-only event that introduces young women from prominent families “into society” and aims to raise money for charities. Apple wore a strapless blue Valentino gown that took 750 hours - [France - bulldozer meets brick wall ++ 5th Republic chart](https://star4cast.com/france-bulldozer-meets-brick-wall/) - France’s government is on the brink of collapse as PM Michel Barnier vowed to force through draft tax and spending plans without parliamentary approval in the face of a no confidence vote backed by Marine Le Pen. He said. ““We have arrived at a moment of truth. It is now up to members of the - [USA Justice - one law for the powerful ++ USA Constitution](https://star4cast.com/usa-justice-one-law-for-the-powerful/) - Joe Biden’s pardon for his son Hunter for gun and tax charges and broken promise not to do so has brought criticism even from his own side. One Democratic congressman tweeted “This wasn’t a politically-motivated prosecution. Hunter committed felonies, and was convicted by a jury of his peers.” The president backdated the wide-ranging pardon to - [Dementia - coming too soon](https://star4cast.com/dementia-coming-too-soon/) - Wendy Williams, the former UK talk show host is tragically now permanently incapacitated at the young age of 60 due to aphasia and frontotemporal dementia, the same form of the illness as actor Bruce Willis. There are no agreed astro-indicators for dementia but it was clear from her chart she was moving into dark and - [Timothy West - destined to find a life partner - died 6.55pm](https://star4cast.com/timothy-west-destined-to-find-a-life-partner/) - Timothy West, one of Britain's most respected and versatile actors, has died at the age of 90. Renowned for his Shakespearean performances on stage as well as a wide range of television roles, in recent years he had success with his wife of six decades Prunella Scales filming Great Canal Journeys, despite her advancing Alzheimers. - [Syria - more Middle East turmoil](https://star4cast.com/syria-more-middle-east-turmoil/) - The shifting sand storms in the Middle East are brewing up more chaos with rebel forces taking control of Syria’s second-largest city, Aleppo. Although Russia has launched air strikes in response, for the first time since 2016, the rebels know that Assad’s old allies in Hezbollah, Iran and Russia are overstretched fending off Israeli attacks - [Assisted Dying - an 8th house decision](https://star4cast.com/assisted-dying-an-8th-house-decision/) - The Assisted Dying Bill for England and Wales was voted through yesterday in Westminster at around 2.15pm. It would allow terminally ill adults expected to die within six months to seek help to end their own life. There will be hurdles ahead before it becomes law and (I think) it requires two doctors and a - [Mars in Leo - Gregg Wallace, Haigh, Albanese, Cher ++ Frank Auerbach](https://star4cast.com/mars-in-leo-gregg-wallace-haigh-albanese-cher/) - Mars in Leo gives drive, will-power, dramatic flair and creativity, leadership ability, self-confidence, a competitive nature which can tilt over into egotism and an over bearing streak with a tendency to dominate others. Not surprisingly it fills the ranks of those seeking attention in politics and showbusiness - Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron, Hillary Clinton, Kamala - [JonBenet Ramsey - glitzy and tragic](https://star4cast.com/jonbenet-ramsey-glitzy-and-tragic/) - JonBenet Ramsey, the miniature beauty queen murdered nearly 30 years ago is back in the news with a Netflix True Crime documentary about her. On the morning after Christmas the family reported a kidnap and the house was over-run by police setting up for a ransom demand; and when the body was discovered, it was - [Keir Starmer - facing a relentless storm](https://star4cast.com/keir-starmer-facing-a-relentless-storm/) - Keir Starmer’s freefall down the polls with a petition pleading with him to resign doing the opposite does little to foster calm in a UK which had grown weary of revolving premiers amongst the previous administration. Starmer’s Government chart, 5 July 2024 12.19 pm always looked ominous with Mars Uranus (Algol) in the 8th - [Questions & Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-comments-529/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in Search - [Angela Merkel - faded former glory](https://star4cast.com/angela-merkel-faded-former-glory/) - Angela Merkel regrets little in her fairly anodyne memoirs, keen to shore up her legacy. Critics say what she left behind was the German economic miracle sagging, the automotive industry struggling and debt at a post-war high. She became too close to Vladimir Putin, causing Germany to become dependent on Russian oil and gas, and - [Financial watchdog - torpedoed by the eclipses](https://star4cast.com/financial-watchdog-torpedoed-by-the-eclipses/) - Another day, another exposé of busted Britain with an excoriating report by an all-party parliamentary group on the shortcomings of the FCA (Financial Conduct Authority) whose principal role is to protect consumers. ‘A “toxic” culture at the City watchdog has made it easier for fraudsters to prey on consumers.’ The agency’s failings were deemed “incompetent at - [Adele - the other side of Neptune ++ weight loss Moon Uranus](https://star4cast.com/adele-the-other-side-of-neptune/) - Singer Adele has finished her two year residency at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas which earned her a reputed $100 million for her 100 weekend shows and says she intends to take an extended break with no clear plans about what comes next. Though it may include marrying her sports agent fiancée and having another child. - [Barbara Taylor Bradford - a Saturnine success](https://star4cast.com/barbara-taylor-bradford-a-saturnine-success/) - Writer Barbara Taylor Bradford, known for a string of best-selling epic novels which spawned sequels and TV adaptations like A Woman of Substance, has died at the age of 91. She had a ferocious work ethic, inspired by her mother who was mourning a son lost before her birth and poured her determination into her - [Afghanistan - women obliterated](https://star4cast.com/afghanistan-women-obliterated/) - As Afghanistan’s benighted, backward-looking Taliban ruler, lays down increasingly draconian edicts restricting women’s lives, there are signs of discord from within the ranks. Some senior figures have openly criticised the policies of the leadership towards women. An official inside the Taliban’s morality ministry told The Telegraph most of the rules it was told to enforce - [Aquarius males - breaking with cultural norms ++ Edouard Manet](https://star4cast.com/aquarius-males-breaking-with-cultural-norms/) - Robert Burns, the Scots poet personifies the humanitarian, egalitarian streak in Aquarius. His poem extolling the virtues of the ordinary man over fools in silks – “a man’s a man for a’ that” – made him popular in early communist Russia. He was born 25 January 1759 7am Ayr, Scotland, which (if accurate) made him - [Adani charges - risk for Modi and US relations? ++ China India relations + Conor McGregor](https://star4cast.com/adani-charges-risk-for-modi-and-us-relations/) - The US indictment of Indian billionaire Gautam Adani on bribery charges raises questions about the probity of Indian authorities, which draws in PM Narendra Modi, his close friend, and may strain US/India relations when there are already problems over claims that Indian officials were involved in attempts to kill Sikh separatists in the US and - [Bjork - a trailblazer in music and nature](https://star4cast.com/bjork-a-trailblazer-in-music-and-nature/) - Bjork, the Icelandic singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, and actress, noted for her distinct voice, three-octave vocal range, and avant-garde style has a sound installation at the Centre Pompidou in Paris called “Nature Manifesto,” as part of a forum on biodiversity. She has been campaigning against industrial salmon farming, talks about being a guardian of - [Usha Vance - an ultra-determined Capricorn](https://star4cast.com/usha-vance-an-ultra-determined-capricorn/) - Usha Vance, wife of the vice-president elect J.D.Vance, has an upscale legal background having served as a law clerk after her graduation for multiple federal judges, including Chief Justice John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh. She met her husband at Yale Law School, with a friend calling their relationship "extremely unlikely, almost opposites of personality". They - [Questions & Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-comments-528/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in Search - [Jordan Peterson - down a rabbit hole](https://star4cast.com/jordan-peterson-down-a-rabbit-hole/) - Jordan Peterson, the controversial Canadian psychology professor who became a love-hate figure for his anti-political correctness views, condemnation of academic “safe spaces” and his refusal to use transgender preferred pronouns, has a new book out with the unlikely title of We Who Wrestle With God. According to the Times review it is is “unreadable, - [Aquarius ladies - fighting for their beliefs](https://star4cast.com/aquarius-ladies-fighting-for-their-beliefs/) - Aquarius as the thinker, the activist and the humanitarian. Simone Weil, the French philosopher and political activist, ticked most of the boxes. She assisted in the trade union movement, sided with the anarchists and worked later as a labourer to better understand the working class. Latterly she became more mystical. She was born 3 February - [Uranus switching from earth to air](https://star4cast.com/uranus-switching-from-earth-to-air/) - Uranus will be the fourth outer planet to change sign this coming July which will bring new advances and innovations. Uranus, the lightning god, promoter of freedom, independence, revolutions, scientific inventions, as well as anarchic chaos. Wary of emotional intimacy, at a personal level it can seem cold, unco-operative, belligerent about compromise which Uranus equates - [Uranus Return - coming full cycle](https://star4cast.com/uranus-return-coming-full-cycle/) - Uranus, the sky god, is a trailblazer, a catalyst for change and a lightning striker, illuminating what has become stuck and needs a sharp wake up call. Uncompromising and uncooperative, it fights for tolerance and freedom and can be anarchic and lawless as well as an idealist and humanitarian. It moves into Gemini for the - [Pluto in Aquarius - through houses and signs](https://star4cast.com/pluto-in-aquarius-through-houses-and-signs/) - Pluto, the planet of transformation, ruler of inexorable and seismic changes, a wrecking ball and a reconstructor, is now firmly into Aquarius to stay for two decades. On an individual chart it will have an effect depending on the chart house which it moves through and which planets it aspects. Transiting Pluto through a chart - [Pluto into Aquarius - how history repeats](https://star4cast.com/pluto-into-aquarius-how-history-repeats/) - Pluto finally moves into Aquarius for the long haul, having been retrograding across the cusp since last year and now stays permanently until 2043. At best Aquarius is about friendship, fostering social groups, is tolerant of difference and diversity, androgynous and unconcerned about binary gender distinctions, scientific, knowledgeable, interested in pushing back boundaries and exploring - [Nordic countries - heighten alert levels](https://star4cast.com/nordic-countries-heighten-alert-levels/) - Nordic countries are on edge with underwater telecoms cables in the Baltic Sea being cut which is regarded as possible sabotage. Swedish citizens being issued with a pamphlet advising the population how to prepare and cope in the event of war or another unexpected crisis. Norwegians are also getting updated advice. And Finland has issued - [Neptune Saturn in Aries - hope for better](https://star4cast.com/neptune-saturn-in-aries-hope-for-better/) - Neptune moves into Aries in conjunction with Saturn from April/May 2025 onwards. Below a reprise of earlier posts. Neptune, planet of spirituality, illusion, delusion, deception, creativity and vision moves out of its own sign Pisces, where it has been since 2011, into Aries in 2025 staying till 2038. Looking back on historical events linked to - [Biden's parting gift to Ukraine](https://star4cast.com/bidens-swansong-gift-to-ukraine/) - President Biden’s decision to allow Ukraine to use long-range US missiles to strike inside Russia has provoked a strong response from Moscow. The Kremlin says it will view such missiles as an attack not from Ukraine, but from the US itself, accusing the outgoing US administration of adding ‘oil to the fire’. There is a - [Josh Brolin - Mars Pluto and the will to survive](https://star4cast.com/josh-brolin-mars-pluto-and-the-will-to-survive/) - A Mars Pluto family legacy could have cut actor Josh Brolin’s life short as he started on drugs aged nine and was an alcoholic over the next four decades. He emerged with distinction in the Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men (2007) and was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in the biopic Milk (2008). - [Denzel Washington - a commanding presence ++ Steve Jobs, Kevin Costner, Alex Salmond etc](https://star4cast.com/denzel-washington-a-commanding-presence/) - Denzel Washington steals the show in Gladiator II in the supporting role of Macrinus, the villainous slave turned slave owner aiming for power and status. Glowing reviews hint he is at the top of his game, having been crowned recently as the best actor of the 21st century by The New York Times. He was - [Trump goes full tonto with choices ++ Don Jnr & J.D. Vance ++ Tulsi Gabbard](https://star4cast.com/trump-goes-full-tonto-with-choices/) - Caveat emptor (buyer beware) must be ringing through many Republican politicians’ heads. The electorate may be forgiven for their disinterest in anything beyond the dollar in their pocket. But senators and congresspersons don’t have that excuse for their wholehearted support for Trump, knowing full well his – ahem – idiosyncrasies and his mental deterioration from - [Anti-social media in for a wakeup call](https://star4cast.com/anti-social-media-in-for-a-wakeup-call/) - In the tower of babel created by social media, complex thinking fell down a rabbit hole. Unhinged and threatening Twitter pile-ons ramp up extremist views. Fair-minded resolutions about not living in a comforting echo chamber of confirming views have been battered into extinction. One commentator writes; “The future of social media looks increasingly segregated - [Frank Auerbach - his art was his entire existence](https://star4cast.com/37013-2/) - Frank Auerbach, known for his encrusted canvases, a Holocaust orphan, who lived a monkish, solitary life in Camden, London has died aged 93. Seven days a week, 10 hours a day, for decades, he painted and said “I’ve certainly never been lonely by myself. I’m far more likely to be lonely in the company of - [Anglican Church & Vatican - unholy mess ++ Welby's illusions blasted by the Eclipses ++ Paula Vennells](https://star4cast.com/anglican-church-vatican-unholy-mess/) - Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, is profuse in his apologies about not nailing down child abusing barrister John Smyth when his offences became known a decade ago. His "horrific" and violent abuse of more than 100 children and young men was covered up within the Church of England for decades, according to the conclusion of - [Questions & Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-comments-527/) - Please add below. Older posts under news on top bar or in search. - [Conclave - money and power jostle for supremacy](https://star4cast.com/conclave-money-and-power-jostle-for-supremacy/) - Despite the drift away from institutionalised religion it continues to fascinate with Robert Harris’s spellbinding Conclave about the election of a new pope now out as a movie with Ralph Fiennes starring. Reviews are good – “A self-contained and intricate story that uses God’s representatives on Earth to show us at our most human, filled - [Susan Sarandon - running into an astro storm](https://star4cast.com/susan-sarandon-running-into-an-astro-storm/) - Actress Susan Sarandon, 35 years into a prolifically successful career, has found herself backlisted for remarks made last year at a pro-Palestinian rally. She later apologized but was dropped by her agent and reckons she’ll never be employed in a big budget Hollywood movie again. Leaving aside the rights and wrongs of what she said, - [Henry V111 - leaving his mark on history](https://star4cast.com/henry-v111-leaving-his-mark-on-history/) - The momentous rift between England's King Henry V111 and Rome in 1534 is an integral part of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, first televised a decade ago and now dramatising a much praised follow up - Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light. Focusing on his adviser Thomas Cromwell, a Putney blacksmith’s boy risen to high - [Beckett, Frankl, Fromm - living with uncertainty](https://star4cast.com/beckett-frankl-fromm-living-with-uncertainty/) - “To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.” Samuel Beckett The panicky uncertainty of this time of celestial transition was in place before recent US election results with many/most stumbling through a fog of unknowing with rising levels of anxiety. How to cope when it is - [Trump wins the game - with swamps ahead ++ Inauguration chart 2025 ++ UK Starmer seriously at odds ++ Limits to Trump's choices ahead](https://star4cast.com/trump-wins-the-game-with-swamps-ahead/) - Donald Trump is the unquestioned winner of the election with Jupiter crossing his 10th house natal Uranus and transiting Uranus conjunct his Midheaven pushing him across the line. His success comes despite a raft of imponderables ahead. His Solar Arc Neptune is conjunct his South Node exactly now, then conjunct his Moon in 2025 and - [Ukraine - the long road to freedom or not ++ a resistant Keir Starmer](https://star4cast.com/ukraine-the-long-road-to-freedom-or-not/) - Ukraine now nearly at the end of three years intense and exhausting conflict with Russian invading forces will be at the sharp end of Trump decisions as he takes up the reins. The Ukraine, 24 August 1991 2.31pm chart, has ups and downs ahead. On the bright side tr Uranus square the Jupiter this April - [The Jackal - Jupiter in the 10th firing squad](https://star4cast.com/the-jackal-jupiter-in-the-10th-firing-squad/) - Eddie Redmayne is receiving positive reviews for his performance as the reptilian assassin in a remake of Frederick Forsyth’s best selling The Day of the Jackal. The previous 1973 Fred Zinneman movie based on the book about the attempted assassination of French President Charles De Gaulle had Edward Fox in the lead. This version ‘swaps - [Questions & Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-comments-526/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in search. - [Clint Eastwood & Michael Caine - going strong](https://star4cast.com/clint-eastwood-michael-caine-going-strong/) - Clint Eastwood at 94 has just released his latest movie with a sterling record as a director, grossing over a billion dollars, with three of his biggest hits coming in the last decade. And Michael Caine, British actor, at 91, with an equally prolific output of 160 films during a seventy year career, now retired, - [Royal commerce - giving hostages to fortune ++ Prince George ++ England Republic 1649](https://star4cast.com/royal-commerce-giving-hostages-to-fortune/) - The relationship between monarch and country has always been troublesome (with scandals aplenty) though less so in recent centuries in the UK with the growth of democracy. Queen Elizabeth’s relationship chart with the UK had a powerfully confident Jupiter Pluto conjunction suggesting a strong and successful association. There were two yods onto a Leo - [Quincy Jones - a musical phenomenon](https://star4cast.com/quincy-jones-a-musical-phenomenon/) - Quincy Jones, one of the American popular musical greats renowned as a brilliant creator and composer as well as an entrepreneur, has died at 91. He raised many singers to a different level including Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon and Aretha Franklin and propelled Oprah Winfrey and Will Smith to fame and fortune. He - [Royal finances - lifting the lid](https://star4cast.com/royal-finances-lifting-the-lid/) - Even staunch Royalists are wincing over the recent investigation into King Charles and Prince William’s opaque financial affairs which details how their estates take money off hospitals, the military, prisons and firefighters. Both Royals pay income tax (since the 1990s though refuse to say how much) but not capital gains and corporation tax. Hints from - [Spain floods - Pluto eclipsed sends a message ++ King Felipe](https://star4cast.com/spain-floods-pluto-eclipsed-sends-a-message/) - Spain is in shock after its worst flooding in decades after a year’s worth of rain fell in a matter of hours onto drought- hardened ground. The death toll is well over 200 and rising. It is Europe's worst flood-related disaster since 1967 when at least 500 people died in Portugal. Spanish troops have been - [Kemi Badenoch - new opposition leader ++ Tamworth + Starmer and Farage](https://star4cast.com/kemi-badenoch-new-opposition-leader/) - Kemi Badenoch has been voted as leader of the UK Tory Party in opposition. With a background in IT, she was born in London, 2 January 1980 but grew up in Nigeria, returning when she was 16 and becoming an MP in 2017. Her Leadership chart, 2 November 2024 11.05 am approx, is challenging to - [Prince Andrew - forced to walk a lone road](https://star4cast.com/prince-andrew-forced-to-walk-a-lone-road/) - A quick catch up on the ongoing Prince Andrew saga of will-he won’t-he be forced to move out of his palatial 37 room Royal Lodge which even his late mother thought he would have to exit. An updated biography of Robert Hardman claims King Charles has finally removed his £1 million annual allowance and ceased - [Mars Pluto - I want versus Letting go](https://star4cast.com/mars-pluto-i-want-versus-letting-go/) - Mars at odds with Pluto will be the unwelcome spirit of the times until next April as Mars retrogrades and then advances across the zodiac from Pluto moving out of Capricorn into Aquarius. The first exact opposition is tomorrow, with another on January 3rd and finally April 27th 2025. Understanding the nature of this - [Rodney Alcala & Anna Kendrick - kill v cure](https://star4cast.com/rodney-alcala-anna-kendrick-kill-v-cure/) - Rodney Alcala, known as The Dating Game Killer, is the subject of a true crime film made of his murderous career. He was found guilty of eight murders between 1971 and 1979, is suspected of killing more than 100 women and girls and died in 2021 on death row. The actress Anna Kendrick who directed - [Rachel Reeves - pride comes before ????](https://star4cast.com/rachel-reeves-pride-comes-before/) - Rachel Reeves’ bombshell budget has attracted mixed reviews. The Guardian cautions that “with a big budget comes a big risk”. The right wing media unsurprisingly slated it. Daily Mail - “A fatally flawed and seriously socialist Budget that dooms Britain to another lost decade. The Times - “Reeves missed her chance to bet on growth. - [Questions & Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-comments-525/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in search - [Astrology - a unique channel into self knowledge](https://star4cast.com/astrology-a-unique-channel-into-self-knowledge/) - Astrology in a nutshell – some thoughts on psychological astrology and how transformative it can be. “Understanding yourself in depth for which the birth chart is the road map is the key to understanding why certain events and experiences keep recurring. They may seem to be ‘out there’ but they are inextricably linked to the - [Canada - envisioning a Trudeau-less future](https://star4cast.com/canada-envisioning-a-trudeau-less-future/) - Canada appears to be undergoing its own particular existential and identity crisis with the blame being directed at PM Justin Trudeau. His resignation has been demanded by 24 of his caucus members with today being the deadline for his decision. It seems unlikely he will go instantly though poll numbers are way down with defeat - [Gwyneth Paltrow - all not well in health paradise](https://star4cast.com/gwyneth-paltrow-all-not-well-in-health-paradise/) - Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop - ‘a major player in the cut-throat world of global wellness, a market recently valued by McKinsey as being worth more than £1 trillion’ - appears to be on the decline. Last year, Goop’s London store was shuttered after losing an estimated £1.4 million and there are cuts to the Goop workforce - [Money and politics - Musk, Bezos and friends](https://star4cast.com/money-and-politics-musk-bezos-and-friends/) - The money men are stirring the political pot pre-election with Elon Musk drenching Trump and potential voters with hard cash, Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos causing ructions banning a Harris endorsement; and Murdoch as usual rolling over to assist Trump’s chances. Elon Musk, 28 June 1971 7.30am (unverified) Pretoria, South Africa, is certainly in the - [Gladiator 11 - leather kilts and violence](https://star4cast.com/gladiator-11-leather-kilts-and-violence/) - Gladiator II, Ridley Scott’s epic historical action film, the sequel to the successful Russell Crowe 2000 blockbuster, is due for release this November. Paul Mescal plays Lucius, the secret son of the murdered Maximus from the previous narrative. The storyline sticks close to the original with Lucius, formerly heir to the Roman Empire, becoming a - [Commonwealth - a fork in the road ahead + colonialism Africa](https://star4cast.com/commonwealth-a-fork-in-the-road-ahead/) - "None of us can change the past" was King Charles’ attempt to tackle the reparations row over the transatlantic slave trade at the Commonwealth Heads meeting. From 1500, the British government and the monarchy were prominent participants in the centuries-long slave trade, alongside other European nations. British ships are reckoned to have transported over three - [Ron Ely - lost in the jungle with Jane](https://star4cast.com/ron-ely-lost-in-the-jungle-with-jane/) - Actor Ron Ely who came to fame as Tarzan in the 1960s television series Tarzan has died at 86 five years after his second wife was stabbed to death by their son Cameron who was subsequently shot by the police. Initially Cameron phoned police to say his father had killed her and when they arrived, - [Rudy Giuliani - karma or hubris catches up](https://star4cast.com/rudy-giuliani-karma-or-hubris-catches-up/) - “Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, And falls on th'other. . . .” Shakespeare Rudi Giuliani as the tragic hero brought low by hubris seems an unlikely depiction as he shows precious little of his former glory gained in his days as New York Mayor overseeing crime rates dropping and taking charge over 9/11. He has - [Cliff Richards - 'Real as I Wanna Be'](https://star4cast.com/cliff-richards-real-as-i-wanna-be/) - Cliff Richard, the teenyboppers’ delight pre-The Beatles in the early 1960s, is still going strong into his mid eighties. He has announced his Can’t Stop Me Now tour to Australia, New Zealand and the UK in 2025. He started as a rebellious rock and roll singer in the style of Presley and Little Richard - [Graham Hancock - stirring up a hornet's nest](https://star4cast.com/graham-hancock-stirring-up-a-hornets-nest/) - Graham Hancock’s 'Ancient Apocalypse' series which aroused scientific fury on the first season is back for a sequel. Described as the most dangerous show on Netflix it attracted top ratings with accusations that fans were conspiracy theory nuts. Season 2 looks for continued proof of an apocalyptic event that may have wiped an advanced civilization - [Charles down under - angry hello ++ Charles relocated](https://star4cast.com/charles-down-under-angry-hello/) - King Charles’ welcoming event at the Australian parliament was disrupted by Aboriginal senator Lidia Thorpe who went on an anti-colonial rant before being ushered out. She has a track record of stunts and angry outbursts, giving a Black Power salute as she prepared to take her oath for the start of a new post-election parliament. - [Moldova - caught between west and east](https://star4cast.com/moldova-caught-between-west-and-east/) - Moldova has voted by the slimmest margin in a referendum to join the EU with much talk of Russian interference in the vote. Though according to reports the populist Georgian Dream party is expected to win in an upcoming election on Saturday which is set to pursue an illiberal agenda that would make EU membership - [Questions & Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-comments-524/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in Search. - [Tory Party - fighting over scraps](https://star4cast.com/tory-party-fighting-over-scraps/) - The long drawn out struggle to appoint a new leader for the defeated Tory Party is a needless exercise in the view of some who see yet another change coming up a year or so ahead. The cartoonists are having a field day sticking a head on the skeletal remains of the Conservative Party. - [North Korea - tantrums and tears](https://star4cast.com/north-korea-tantrums-and-tears/) - North Korea is acting provocatively towards the south blowing up a connecting road and making balloon rubbish drops across the border with the present South Korean leader taking a less relaxed view than his predecessor about their troublesome neighbour. Concern is also being voiced about Kim Jong Un’s military support for Putin in Ukraine sending - [Chris Hoy - facing the inevitable with a smile](https://star4cast.com/chris-hoy-face-the-inevitable-with-a-smile/) - Chris Hoy former track cyclist, is an 11-time world champion and a six-time Olympic champion, endowed not only with sporting talent but also a likeable personality, articulate, intelligent and humble. At the young age of 48 he has written a heartbreaking though surprisingly upbeat book about his terminal cancer diagnosis. All That Matters: My Toughest - [Maria Callas - Angelina Jolie dazzles](https://star4cast.com/maria-callas-angelina-jolie-dazzles/) - Maria Callas, the tragic but talented Greek opera singer, is shown in her final days up to her early death at 53 from a heart attack, with flashback memories, in a new biopic starring Angelina Jolie. The film has received mixed reviews, although critics have generally praised its central performance. "Jolie is absolutely spellbinding as - [Joker - insane killer no longer funny](https://star4cast.com/joker-insane-killer-no-longer-funny/) - Movie buffs are puzzled about why the billion-grossing movie Joker in 2019 has turned into a 2024 damp squib sequel for Joker: Folie a Deux. Not that the critics loved the earlier version about the murderous clown afflicted with mental illness with its potential to inspire acts of real-life violence and criticism of its brutal - [Mitzi Gaynor - from the heyday of musicals](https://star4cast.com/mitzi-gaynor-from-the-heyday-of-musicals/) - Mitzi Gaynor, actress, singer and dancer, was best known for South Pacific, the 1958 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical extravaganza which won her a Golden Globe nomination; and There's No Business Like Showbusiness. She has died aged 93, after a long career performing latterly in nightclubs and on TV specials. She was born 4 September 1931 - [Thomas Tuchel - exceptional focus, three yods](https://star4cast.com/thomas-tuchel-exceptional-focus-three-yods/) - Thomas Tuchel considered one of the best football managers has been named as the England team coach from 1 January 1925. He is described by one commentator as ‘an impressive, if abrasive, personality with a reputation as an outstanding tactician.' Born 29 August 1973 Krumbach, Germany, no birth time, he has a singular, complex and - [Plagiarism - Saturn does the damage](https://star4cast.com/plagiarism-saturn-does-the-damage/) - Plagiariasm is defined as passing someone else’s words or ideas off as one’s own. Effectively stealing. It has long been known in academia and in journalism though there are grey areas in music and the creative arts with arguments over whether ideas or tunes can be copyrightable. On a quick skip through some high - [Liam Payne - a troubled Virgo](https://star4cast.com/liam-payne-a-troubled-virgo/) - Liam Payne, once a member of One Direction, the most popular boyband of its era, a creation of Simon Cowell’s talent show X Factor, has died at 31. He fell off a sixth floor hotel balcony in Argentina after a police intervention for acting aggressively, apparently on alcohol and drugs. Fame at a young age - [Gen Mike Jackson - whisky defused global crisis](https://star4cast.com/gen-mike-jackson-whisky-defused-global-crisis/) - General Sir Mike Jackson, formerly called 'The Prince of Darkness' and UK Chief of the General Staff from 2003 and 2006, has died. Well liked amongst military personnel for his no-nonsense style of leadership, he proved his mettle in the Kosovo crisis when he refused to obey his American counterpart in blocking Russian troops landing - [Ratan Tata - capitalism and compassion](https://star4cast.com/rajan-tata-capitalism-and-philanthropy/) - Ratan Tata, a much revered and respected Indian businessman and philanthropist, who turned his family’s Tata Group into a global player, and invested heavily in British industry - Land Rover and British Steel - has died. He was a major figure in the international business community, close to US politicians as well as the Indian - [Questions & Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-comments-523/) - Comments and questions please add below. Older posts under news on top bar or in Search. - [Angela Rippon - everlasting entertainer](https://star4cast.com/angela-rippon-everlasting-entertainer/) - Angela Rippon, one of UK TV’s best known faces who broke through several glass ceilings early in a long and illustrious career by becoming a BBC female news reader and presenting Top Gear for petrolheads has been celebrating her 80th birthday in style. A BBC4 programme at the weekend marked her extraordinary career over the - [Alex Salmond - dedicated to a cause ++ relocated chart](https://star4cast.com/alex-salmond-dedicated-to-a-cause/) - Alex Salmond, a towering figure in UK politics who very nearly split apart four hundred years of a union between Scotland and England, has died. Whatever his detractors said he was a great orator and a shrewd politician whose rallying cry was 'Scotland is a country not a county'. His reputation in recent years was - [Lore Segal & Lily Ebert - words made a difference](https://star4cast.com/lore-segal-lily-ebert-words-made-a-difference/) - Two Jewish writers who used words to make sense of their war-time experiences have died. Lore Segal, 29 December 1923, Austria, was one of the lucky 10,000 children selected for Kindertransport, in 1938, a humanitarian initiative to foster endangered Jewish children in Nazi territories into British homes. She was later reunited with her parents. She - [USA election - confusion and contradictions](https://star4cast.com/usa-election-confusion-and-contradictions/) - With less than a month to go, here is a reprise of what has gone before with, I fear, no more clarity. What the astrology shows is a description of the individual’s reactions from which can be extrapolated a reasonable assumption of a win or loss – though not with 100% certainty. Both Trump - [Ethel Kennedy - a mass of contradictions](https://star4cast.com/ethel-kennedy-a-mass-of-contradictions/) - Ethel Kennedy, widow of Robert, has died. She was by his side when he was shot in 1968 and six months later gave birth to their 11th child. Her life ‘veered between exuberance and tragedy’ and was a mass of contradictions. Both her parents, who were alcoholics, died in one plane crash, her brother in - [Brighton bombing - ++ Pluto Jupiter ++ Vindemiatrix a catalyst](https://star4cast.com/brighton-bombing-vindemiatrix-a-catalyst/) - The Brighton bombing on 12 October 1984 by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), an attempt to assassinate Margaret Thatcher and other members of the British government, at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, is marked by a well-reviewed BBC documentary. In the event five people were killed and 30 injured. Thatcher was uninjured and decided - [Hurricane Milton - nature on the rampage](https://star4cast.com/hurricane-milton-nature-on-the-rampage/) - Hurricane Milton made landfall as a Category 3 storms at 8.30pm last night with Pluto close to the Midheaven in Sarasota, Florida and tore through the state bringing tornadoes, floods, and the risk of storm surges. More than three million homes and businesses are without power, and there have been "a number of deaths" reported - [Jilly Cooper, P.D.James & Rutger Hauer - Grand Trines](https://star4cast.com/jilly-cooper-p-d-james-rutger-hauer-grand-trines/) - A riotous bonkbuster and a splash of retro-escapism to the 1980s before political correctness set in is the entertainment in the long awaited TV adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s Rivals. ‘Everyone commits adultery and smokes like a chimney. They hunt and shoot. People tell off-colour jokes and nobody pulls them up on it with a po-faced - [Barlinnie - prison and rehabilitation](https://star4cast.com/barlinnie-prison-and-rehabilitation/) - Barlinnie Prison in Glasgow, described by one inmate as “Glasgow’s Guantanamo Bay”, which over the decades housed violent criminals is to close. Opened initially in July 1882 it has a starkly descriptive chart with a tough, unyielding stellium in Taurus with Saturn in Taurus conjunct Neptune on one side and Algol, Chiron, Pluto and South - [Questions & Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-comments-522/) - Please add below. Older posts under news on top bar. - [EU - heading for splits or a collapse ++ Germany ++ Poland](https://star4cast.com/eu-heading-for-splits-or-a-collapse/) - The European Union could die because of overregulation and underinvestment says Emmanuel Macron and is running out of time to survive as he backs Mario Draghi’s plea for an investment fund to combat the rise of Chinese and American dominance. Macron said the bloc’s failure to meet the challenges posed by global economic rivalry was - [Morgan McSweeney - No 10 musical chairs](https://star4cast.com/morgan-mcsweeney-no-10-musical-chairs/) - Morgan McSweeney, Starmer’s closest aide and architect of the Labour victory has been dropped in as chief of staff at No 10 replacing Sue Gray, who had become a distraction. He is credited with removing Corbynism which has not improved his popularity with the left and has tended to parachute his friends and allies into - [Lee Miller - changing the image of war](https://star4cast.com/lee-miller-changing-the-image-of-war/) - Lee Miller, former model turned war correspondent, with a traumatic childhood is the subject of a biopic starring Kate Winslet. A review says she “captures the spirit of the character: the brawling, confrontational tough-broad aspects of Miller’s personality, as well as her considerable magnetism - a hardboiled screwball heroine - chain-smoking, whisky-swilling.” “She balances the - [Hurricane Helene - Solar Eclipse echoes Katrina](https://star4cast.com/hurricane-helene-solar-eclipse-echoes-katrina/) - Hurricane Helene which has been ravaging North Carolina in particular is the deadliest mainland storm since Katrina in 2005. 200 are known to have died, with hundreds still missing and 780,000 homes are without power nearly a week after it made landfall. This week’s Solar Eclipse at 10 degrees Libra was a repeat of the - [1979 - the year that changed the world](https://star4cast.com/1979-the-year-that-changed-the-world/) - Greed has always been one of the deadly sins but more obvious recently with the Thatcherite and Reaganite 1980s taking off the restraints and allowing capitalism to run rampant as Pluto powered through Scorpio. Which all ended up in tears in 2008 as Pluto entered Capricorn with the financial crash, theoretically showing the limits - [Phil Shiner - lies came with a hefty price tag](https://star4cast.com/phil-shiner-lies-came-with-a-hefty-price-tag/) - Phil Shiner, a once esteemed ‘lefty lawyer’, scion of the LSE, the Guardian and human rights lobby ruined lives and ran up a £27m bill for taxpayers with bogus claims of war crimes by British troops in Iraq. He received more than £3 million in taxpayer funding and had described the behaviour of Britain’s troops - [Narcissism - it is never my fault ++ Sam Vaknin](https://star4cast.com/narcissism-it-is-never-my-fault/) - Boris Johnson, Philip Scofield, Donald Trump, Prince Andrew, Prince Harry – once shining stars in their respective spheres now brought low by their staggering lack of self-awareness and tendency to handout blame to others rather than ‘fess up to any missteps on their part. Astrology though illuminating in its own terms about characteristics - [Kris Kristofferson - following his dream](https://star4cast.com/kris-kristopherson-following-his-dream/) - Kris Kristofferson, the award-winning country singer and actor, has died aged 88. Among his song writing credits are "Me and Bobby McGee", "For the Good Times", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night", all of which were hits for other artists. Along with fellow country artists Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson - [Boris Johnson - letting the corks fly](https://star4cast.com/boris-johnson-letting-the-corks-fly/) - Boris Johnson’s latest offering in book form Unleashed about his recent political foray which ended in ignominy is typically ebullient, unapologetic, shameless and a rollick through his Mayoral and No 10 days when nothing was ever his fault. A columnist who shared his office in yesteryear described him as “this clown” who “ has an - [Middle East - shifting sands with storms to come](https://star4cast.com/middle-east-shifting-sands-with-storms-to-come/) - As the Middle East stands on the brink of a new order after Israel’s onslaught on the Lebanon it is worth considering what has shifted in the power game. The attack on Hezbollah strikes at the heart of Iran’s influence in the region and also undermines Bashar Assad in Syria who relied on Hezbollah’s fighters - [Parkrun - a healing idea spreads across the globe](https://star4cast.com/parkrun-a-healing-idea-spreads-across-the-globe/) - Parkrun, a 5-kilometre (3.1 mi) event for runners, walkers and volunteers that takes place every Saturday morning at more than 2,000 locations in 22 countries across five continents is celebrating its 20 anniversary this week. It started in London on 2 October 2004 and grew into a global phenomenon with many millions of runners registered. - [Maggie Smith - Neptune waves a farewell](https://star4cast.com/maggie-smith-neptune-waves-a-farewell/) - Maggie Smith has died, the actress who more than any epitomized British acting at its best across seven decades on stage, on screen in films and on television. She was born 28 December 1934 and ‘made her acting debut in 1952 and was still working six decades later having moved from aspiring star to national - [Israel - where is the end game?](https://star4cast.com/israel-where-is-the-end-game/) - And the world holds its breath. Hezbollah is decapitated of its leadership, Hamas effectively weakened if not destroyed. Will Iran retaliate as its proxies are knocked off the chessboard, though it has shown no sign of wanting a direct confrontation? From an Israeli point of view neutralizing Hamas and Hezbollah who were attacking across their - [Questions & Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-comments-521/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in Search - [Virgos - uneasy with a Pluto slant](https://star4cast.com/virgos-uneasy-with-a-pluto-slant/) - Since Sun Pluto in Virgo appear to be newsworthy with Eric Adams and Keir Starmer catching the headlines, a quick run-down of other notables. Hassan Nasrullah, 31 August 1960, leader of Hezbollah. Bashar Assad, 11 September 1965, Syrian dictator. Geert Wilders, 6 September 1963, Dutch neo-fascist politician. Chris Christie, Republican politician, 6 September 1962. Anthony - [Eric Adams - New York's beacon on dimmer](https://star4cast.com/eric-adams-new-yorks-beacon-on-dimmer/) - The charismatic New York mayor Eric Adams is facing a federal indictment on bribery and fraud charges bribery and soliciting illegal campaign contributions from Turkish businessmen. In typically ebullient form he has been comparing himself to Job, the biblical figure who must endure various plagues. And relates a tale from his rough childhood where his - [James Middleton - Mars and Pluto yods](https://star4cast.com/james-middleton-mars-and-pluto-yods/) - James Middleton’s book about Ella, his cocker spaniel, who brought him back from the brink of suicidal thoughts in 2017 is, according to reviews, a sweet book about his mental health problems - clinical depression, ADD and dyslexia – and how his pets and family were his lifeline. Born 15 April 1987, no birth time, - [Jared Kushner - finances under scrutiny](https://star4cast.com/jared-kushner-finances-under-scrutiny/) - Jared Kushner is under scrutiny since his $3bn private equity fund, mainly engorged by the Saudi government’s public investment fund plus monies from the sovereign wealth funds of Qatar, the UAE and Terry Gou, the Foxconn Taiwanese billionaire appears not to be returning any profits to investors. The findings from the Senate finance committee has - [Sudan - a humanitarian disaster too far ++](https://star4cast.com/sudan-a-humanitarian-disaster-too-far/) - Sudan has become the forgotten war and famine as top diplomats have used up their bandwidth focusing on Gaza and Ukraine. The latest outbreak of violence in Sudan in 2023 has displaced 10 million people, some fleeing abroad, and left as many as 25 million, half the population, facing acute hunger. Recent severe flooding has - [Menendez killings - two brothers locked in anger](https://star4cast.com/menendez-killings-two-brothers-locked-in-anger/) - Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story has shot to the top of Netflix's streaming chart despite (or maybe cause of) criticism that it is “in the worst possible taste." Other reviews describe it as a "messy, salacious slog"; and "a retelling of unspeakable abuses and gruesome crimes." Erik and Lyle Mendendez were found - [Mars meeting Pluto - courage to keep going](https://star4cast.com/mars-meeting-pluto-courage-to-keep-going/) - Mars will dominate this winter as it moves through Cancer in opposition to Pluto from late October, going retrograde early December and staying within orb of this high-stress opposition till after the USA Inauguration in late January. Mars goes direct late February and picks up the Pluto opposition again mid April to mid May. Not - [Solar Eclipse Vindemiatrix - the harvester](https://star4cast.com/solar-eclipse-vindemiatrix-the-harvester/) - The Solar Eclipse of October 2nd is conjunct the Fixed star Vindemiatrix, named after the Latin for ‘the grape-harvestress’. It suggests a collector or gatherer of information, can give mental concentration as well as produce ‘The One Sent Forth in the Faith’ – a missionary for their cause, whether religious or other. Astrology King - [Keir Starmer - honeymoon short-circuits ++ Waheed Alli](https://star4cast.com/keir-starmer-honeymoon-short-circuits/) - With a government chart having Neptune on the Descendant conjunct shipwrecking Scheat and an 8th house Uranus (Mars) conjunct the destructive star Algol, it is not surprising Keir Starmer’s administration has stumbled into a damaging run of self-defeating missteps. On the face of it a 10th house with Moon, Sun, Venus in Cancer should have - [Libra Ingress - finding balance in chaos](https://star4cast.com/libra-ingress-finding-balance-in-chaos/) - The Libra Ingress coinciding with the autumn equinox (in northern hemisphere) was considered by German astrologer E.H. Troinski to be the key Cardinal Ingress of the year. Though other prominent astrologers like Barbault and Kepler discounted the relevance of ingress charts altogether. Charles Carter took the view they might have value as part of a - [Questions & Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-comments-520/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in search. - [Martha Lane Fox - Neptune's superpower drive](https://star4cast.com/martha-lane-fox-neptunes-superpower-drive/) - An inspirational tale as an antidote to complaining about personal woes comes from Melanie Reid, a Times columnist who has been tetraplegic since a riding accident in 2010. She writes with humour and angst about the travails of a seriously disabled life. This week she talks about Martha Lane Fox, entrepreneur founder of the - [Mohammed Al Fayed - retribution comes late](https://star4cast.com/mohammed-al-fayed-retribution-comes-late/) - Mohammed Al Fayed, formerly owner of Harrods and nearly Princess Diana’s father-in-law, who died last year, is now the centre of a sexual abuse scandal with allegations of rape and sexual assault being made by former employees. Ambitious for high honour and acceptance in the upper echelons of British society including in the Royal - [Pamela Harriman - bedding her way to success](https://star4cast.com/pamela-harriman-bedding-her-way-to-success/) - Pamela Harriman, daughter-in-law of Winston Churchill, described as a “European geisha” and “The Last Courtesan” was supposedly, according to a new biography, pimped out by her father-in-law (and Lord Beaverbrook) to seduce key Americans to ensure support for the UK war effort. She did bed W. Averell Harriman, Roosevelt’s representative in London and in later - [Lebanon and Israel - intractable conflict](https://star4cast.com/lebanon-and-israel-intractable-conflict/) - The Lebanon has had an illustrious history stretching back several millenia being a major centre under the Byzantine Empire and ultimately under the Ottoman Empire. In the colonial carve up after World War 1 it was handed as a mandate along with Syria to France, who made a botch of their ultimate withdrawal with 22 - [Alan Cumming - a man for all seasons](https://star4cast.com/alan-cumming-a-man-for-all-seasons/) - The versatile Alan Cumming has added yet another award from the recent Emmys to join his previous BAFTA Award, previous Emmy, Tonys and an Olivier. This recent accolade was for his hosting of the reality show Traitors, which is a tense psychological adventure competition where 22 strangers in a castle in the Scottish Highlands aim - [Netanyahu, Smotrich - any hopes of peace recede](https://star4cast.com/netanyahu-smotrich-any-hopes-of-peace-recede/) - Another day and the tit-for-tat atrocities pile up. Hezbollah has blamed Israel for the death of nine people after the simultaneous explosion of thousands of pagers used by the terror group in Lebanon yesterday. Thousands were injured in the attack, with 200 people said to be in a critical condition. Hezbollah said Israel would get - [Afghanistan - fear of women intensifies](https://star4cast.com/afghanistan-fear-of-women-intensifies/) - The Afghanistan Taliban government’s increasingly repressive measures, described by one woman living there as Islamic fascism, are causing growing dissatisfaction among the Afghan population and continuing international isolation. Despite promises to the contrary when the USA withdrew in 2021, stricter morality laws have been enforced with girls and women banned from attending secondary school and - [Lunar Eclipse Scheat - flooding and drowning](https://star4cast.com/lunar-eclipse-scheat-flooding-and-drowning/) - Disaster by water is being experienced with a vengeance in eastern Europe with several deaths from flooding and an entire Polish city being told to evacuate. With transiting Neptune and the Fixed star Scheat both falling close to this week’s Lunar Eclipse in Pisces it highlights the nature of Scheat associated with misfortune, floods, shipwrecks - [Ursula & Thierry - an EU flare up](https://star4cast.com/ursula-thierry-an-eu-flare-up/) - France’s European commissioner, Thierry Breton, has resigned, citing “questionable governance” at the EU executive led by Ursula von der Leyen. His hissy fit comes after she had asked Paris to withdraw his name for reasons unknown. None of which amounts to a hill of beans but the astrology is fun. He was born 15 January - [Questions & Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-comments-519/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in search - [Richard Gadd - turning trauma into drama](https://star4cast.com/richard-gadd-turning-trauma-into-drama/) - Richard Gadd, creator of the hit Netflix, black-comedy TV series Baby Reindeer about his experiences with a stalker has been showered with awards at the Emmys. There was no mention of the defamation lawsuit filed against Netflix by the real-life woman who allegedly inspired the stalker character which was billed as "a true story" though - [French village - De Sade to Pelicot](https://star4cast.com/french-village-de-sade-to-pelicot/) - The unthinkable crimes of Dominique Pelicot against his wife being paraded in a French courtroom take on an added frisson of revulsion with the knowledge that the village of Mazan where it took place contains a chateaux that once belonged to the Marquis De Sade’s family. Pelicot is charged with drugging his wife for a - [Michaela DePrince - a sparkling star gone](https://star4cast.com/michaela-deprince-a-sparkling-star-gone/) - Michaela DePrince, the trailblazing ballet star, who overcame massive hardship in her early years has died unexpectedly at 29. She lost both parents during Sierra Leone’s civil war and was sent to an orphanage at three, where she was mistreated due to her vitiligo. She said “We were ranked as numbers, and number 27 was - [Prince Harry Solar Return - a year treading water](https://star4cast.com/prince-harry-solar-return-a-year-treading-water/) - Solar Returns are an astrological staple though can be mystifyingly vague at times and spot on at others. With an added layer of complication depending on which location to choose to set the Solar Return – birth or present home. Prince Harry poised on his 40th is a good test case since the birth - [Laura Loomer - Trump's alter ego](https://star4cast.com/laura-loomer-trumps-alter-ego/) - Laura Loomer, a far-right 9/11 conspiracy theorist, Islamaphobe, racist and promoter of the Haitian-immigrants-eat-pets controversy has become increasingly close to Trump recently. He said “Laura’s been a supporter of mine. She speaks positively of the campaign. I don’t control Laura. She’s a free spirit.” Republicans even on the far right are becoming concerned that this - [Ian McKellen - an iconic thespian](https://star4cast.com/ian-mckellen-an-iconic-thespian/) - Ian McKellen is getting rave reviews for his latest film The Critic, out this week. With a sixty year career spanning the heights in Shakespeare on stage to blockbuster success as Lord Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit he has a career to envy. A recent fall off stage has put - [Putin issuing threats - storm clouds ahead](https://star4cast.com/putin-issuing-threats-storm-clouds-ahead/) - Putin is issuing threats about being at war with the UK, USA and NATO if Ukraine is allowed to use UK-made Storm Shadow missiles against targets across the border in Russia. Keir Starmer and Joe Biden are holding talks today in the White House with concerns about Moscow escalating the conflict by buying ballistic missiles - [NHS - Neptunian decay and deterioration](https://star4cast.com/nhs-neptunian-decay-and-deterioration/) - The UK National Health Service which has been creaking for years is deemed in a "critical condition" by a new report. A&E is in an "awful state"; the UK has higher cancer mortality rates than other countries and the service has been starved of capital investment, meaning "crumbling buildings", mental health patients in "Victoria-era cells - [Vincent Van Gogh - sacrificed on the altar of art](https://star4cast.com/vincent-van-gogh-sacrificed-on-the-altar-of-art/) - A new Vincent Van Gogh exhibition at London's National Gallery has been described as a "once-in-a-century" show with rave reviews from critics. It opens on 14 September and features more than 60 pieces painted by the Dutch artist, who died in 1890 aged 37. Lurid tales of his psychosis, ear cutting off episode, brothels - [Justin Trudeau - near the end of the political road](https://star4cast.com/justin-trudeau-near-the-end-of-the-political-road/) - Justin Trudeau may survive as Canada's prime minister into next year, political analysts say, despite the withdrawal of support from a small left-wing party. Though he can no longer be sure of surviving confidence votes in the House of Commons chamber, where the Liberals only hold 154 of the 338 seats. In that case his - [Focal planets - harness energy, resolve tensions](https://star4cast.com/focal-planets-harness-energy-resolve-tensions/) - Focal point planets can be the key to resolving tensions whether on the point of T Squares or the apex of yods or as the driving planet of a Kite from a Grand Trine. They can harness the energy of the planets in aspect to produce a dynamic thrust. Though it can depend on the - [Questions & Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-comments-518/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar. - [James Earl Jones - a voice to remember](https://star4cast.com/james-earl-jones-a-voice-to-remember/) - James Earl Jones scaled the heights for decades on stage and on screen but what he is most remembered for is his voice. It was once described as the sound that "Moses heard when addressed by God." He was the voice of Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy, summoning the full power of - [Princess Catherine - cherishing the moment](https://star4cast.com/princess-catherine-cherishing-the-moment/) - The Princess of Wales has released a video marking her all clear from chemotherapy which is reassuring news. Though its schmaltzy, over-produced, soft-focus in a wheatfield Instagramy-feel is not to everyone’s tastes. She has no verified birthtime though 7pm 9 January 1982 Reading, England, fits well enough with her recent health scare. Tr Pluto moved - [Solar Eclipse hints at need for closure](https://star4cast.com/solar-eclipse-hints-at-need-for-closure/) - The upcoming Libra Solar Eclipse at 10 degrees Libra hints at closure, completion, a parting of the ways, separation, over-straining energy. It will be mirrored by the late March 2025 Aries Solar Eclipse at 9 degrees Aries, which is in a Saros series that is physically expressive though also over strenuous and accident prone. - [Questions & Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-comments-517/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar. - [Relationship dynamics - add one leads to split](https://star4cast.com/relationship-dynamics-add-one-leads-to-split/) - The surprise coming together of the two Gallagher brothers is partly put down to the exit of Noel’s wife Sara MacDonald from the scene who not surprisingly took a dislike to Liam. Likewise the George Clooney Brad Pitt bro-romance resurgence is attributed to Angelina Jolie no longer being present since she evidently did not - [Henry V111 - a golden boy, drunk on power](https://star4cast.com/henry-v111-a-golden-boy-drunk-on-power/) - A bloated Henry V111 in his final years with a 54 inch waist, needing nine men and a mechanical device to get his 28 stone bulk aboard a horse, is not an intuitive role for the winsome Jude Law. But his performance in the movie Firebrand about Henry’s declining years is described as a show-stealer - [Abe Lincoln and other Inaugurations](https://star4cast.com/abe-lincoln-and-other-inaugurations/) - Abraham Lincoln’s election in late 1860 was held under an intense, pressured Scorpio Sun opposition Pluto and by the Inauguration in March 1825 there was an aggravated/enraged Mars Pluto conjunction. It led directly to the Civil War with secessionist states forming into the Confederacy after his election. Neptune was in late Pisces at that point - [Michel Barnier - a gladiatorial battle](https://star4cast.com/michel-barnier-a-gladiatorial-battle/) - Michel Barnier, the tough Brexit negotiator and right-winger has been named as Emmanuel Macron’s prime minister after an extensive delay. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the left wing politician, whose party and allies won most seats in the recent election said the election had been "stolen from the French people", complaining that Barnier was “a member of a - [Electoral College - adding more uncertainty](https://star4cast.com/electoral-college-adding-more-uncertainty/) - Winning and losing is no simple matter in the USA elections. Al Gore bested G.W. Bush by half a million votes in 2000, and Hillary Clinton beat Trump by 2.9 million in 2016 – and both still ended up defeated. The Electoral College is the filter through which the votes are funnelled, with electors - [Grenfell Fire - Solar Eclipse flagged the risk](https://star4cast.com/grenfell-fire-solar-eclipse-flagged-the-risk/) - The Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people in 2017 was the result of "dishonest" companies, successive governments, and a lack of strategy by the fire service, the official report out today concludes. It says a cladding product manufacturer “deliberately concealed” fire risks, while coalition and Conservative governments “ignored, delayed or disregarded” concerns. All deaths - [Gary Oldman - in and out of the spotlight](https://star4cast.com/gary-oldman-in-and-out-of-the-spotlight/) - Gary Oldman is back as the greasy, flatulent spy boss of the losers and rejects at Slough House in Season 4 of Mick Herron’s Slow Horses (Apple TV+). Despite a stellar career awash with awards and a position as one of the highest-grossing actors of all time – in Harry Potter; Tinker, Tailor; The Dark - [Brad Pitt - into the fray once more](https://star4cast.com/brad-pitt-into-the-fray-once-more/) - Brad Pitt having not quite exfiltrated himself from the fallout of his Angelina Jolie marriage has set foot on a new partnership, showcased at the recent Venice Film Festival. Ines de Ramon is a jewellery designer, formerly married to Vampire star Paul Wesley. Brad Pitt, 18 December 1963 6.31 am Shawnee, Oklahoma, has a penchant - [Alexander Grothendieck - mystic and mathematical ++ mother ++ Riemann](https://star4cast.com/alexander-grothendieck-mystic-and-mathematical/) - Alexander Grothendieck, a mathematical genius and latterly a hermit, who died last year, “revolutionised postwar mathematics in the 1950s/60s as Einstein had physics a generation earlier. Moving beyond distinct disciplines such as geometry, algebra and topology, he worked in pursuit of a deeper, universal language to unify them all.” The publication in 2022 of - [Germany - a troubling election result](https://star4cast.com/germany-a-troubling-election-result/) - Former East Germany has seen the first radical right-wing party to come first in a state election since 1933. Fears of a Nazi past being resurrected are misplaced but the success of the anti-immigration AfD party and failure of the present three governing parties is a sobering moment. Alternative fur Deutschland was founded on 11 - [Questions & Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-comments-516/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar. - [Keir Starmer handbagged by the Iron Lady](https://star4cast.com/keir-starmer-handbagged-by-the-iron-lady/) - Keir Starmer has hit the ground running or tripping himself up depending on one’s viewpoint. Since politics in the moment is as much about perception as policies, there is a slight sense of a tone-deaf administration picking the wrong fights however sanctimonious the reasons behind their decisions. None is weirder (though admittedly trivial) than the - [Princess Martha weds her shaman](https://star4cast.com/princess-martha-weds-her-shaman/) - The marriage between Princess Martha Louise of Norway and Californian shaman Durek Verrett, which no one thought would happen (me included), took place in Norway yesterday with her family in attendance. Full details on both from previous post below. In brief, he has a Scorpio stellium with Sun Venus in his 10th and Mars - [Liam & Noel - get it back together just](https://star4cast.com/liam-noel-get-it-back-together-just/) - The famously fractured sibling duo of Liam and Noel Gallagher have finally shelved their fifteen year grievance and decided on an Oasis Reunion tour next summer which has sent the ticket booking websites into meltdown. Liam, 21 September 1972 12.58pm Burnage, England, with a reputation for being loutish and rudely outspoken has a high-octane and - [Herbert Asquith - sex and secrets in the closet](https://star4cast.com/herbert-asquith-sex-and-secrets-in-the-closet/) - History tends to put a shine on politicians and only decades later does the often startling truth emerge. It now appears that Herbert Asquith, UK prime minister from 1908 to 1916 took a young socialite lover whom he cavorted with in passionate weekly trysts in the back of the official prime-ministerial car. He also shared - [Charles Dickens - bleak house at home](https://star4cast.com/charles-dickens-bleak-house-at-home/) - The reputation of the much revered novelist Charles Dickens has taken another dent with the publication of letters from Catherine Dickens, mother of his ten children, to one of her sons. When Dickens left Catherine for a teenage actress, the same age as one of his daughters, in order to prevent any public fallout he - [Nick Cave - a Pluto transformation](https://star4cast.com/nick-cave-a-pluto-transformation/) - Nick Cave, the Australian musician, writer and actor, frontman for the rock band the Bad Seeds, has a new album out and has been talking of the transformative effect that grief and the death of two of his sons brought about. One son died in 2015 in a cliff accident after taking LSD for the - [Israel & Hezbollah - the unhealable wound](https://star4cast.com/israel-hezbollah-the-unhealable-wound/) - The world looks on in despair and asks is there an end game in all this tit for tat slaughter? Israel kills a Hezbollah commander in the Lebanon. Hezbollah respond with attacks on Israel. Israel ups the ante in response and batters Lebanon. There is not much to add to the previous post - [Kamala and Donald debate - mental mush](https://star4cast.com/kamala-and-donald-debate-mental-mush/) - The Kamala Harris Donald Trump debate is scheduled for 10 September 2024 in Philadelphia at 9pm. That puts a fight-for-control Pluto in the 10th and an argumentative, heated Mars in the communication 3rd; with the Virgo Mercury and Sun in the attention-seeking 5th house. Although the Sun opposition Saturn will put a damper on proceedings - [Saturn Neptune - fighting for the underdog](https://star4cast.com/saturn-neptune-fighting-for-the-underdog/) - Saturn Neptune conjunctions come round roughly three times a century - in 1989 in Capricorn, in 1953 in Libra and in 1917/18 in Leo. The next one nearly comes together in Aries in June 2025 and comes exact briefly in February 2026. Historically they have been associated with the fight for womens’ and workers’ - [Michel Guerard - a counter-culture chef](https://star4cast.com/michel-guerard-a-counter-culture-chef/) - Michel Guerard, the celebrity chef who committed sacrilege in France by pioneering the nouvelle cuisine movement with low-fat, low-calorie and no-sugar food, has died. Time magazine in a cover issue recognizing his talent wrote: “No longer need a Frenchman dig his grave with a fork.” He wanted to be a doctor but with a - [Questions & Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-comments-515/) - Please add below. Older posts under news on top bar or in search. - [Uranus - liberator or wrecker - Yoko, Wallis, Meghan + Camilla](https://star4cast.com/uranus-liberator-or-wrecker-yoko-wallis-meghan/) - Uranus, the catalyst for change, marked Yoko Ono’s life and career and especially her role in the Beatles breakup. Surviving the war in Tokyo she said gave her an understanding of ‘outsider’ status and she went on to become an avant-garde artist and peace activist. Born 18 February 1933 8.30 pm Tokyo, Japan, her Uranus - [Faye Dunaway - an exacting personality](https://star4cast.com/faye-dunaway-an-exacting-personality/) - Faye Dunaway, superstar of yesteryear, notorious for being difficult, has a documentary out. Made with her approval it is a ‘misty-eyed homage’ according to one reviewer, though it does admit to her alcoholism and bi-polar disorder. According to Bette Davis she was one of the worst people in Hollywood. Jack Nicholson referred to her - [Prince William - designed for high office](https://star4cast.com/prince-william-designed-for-high-office/) - Prince William is coping with a great deal, stepping up to be heir, with Catherine still undergoing cancer treatment as is his father, and minus his ‘wingman’ brother. Born 21 June 1982 9.03pm London, he has a New Moon in Cancer in his 7th house of relationships which is an odd mix of needing a - [Mike Lynch - celebration turns to disaster](https://star4cast.com/mike-lynch-celebration-turns-to-disaster/) - The tragic sinking of entrepreneur Mike Lynch’s yacht in a freak typhoon off Sicily with several deaths and others still missing has given rise to unconvincing conspiracy theories. But there are still a raft of coincidences arguably putting it into the category which Carl Jung called syncronicity - events that coincide in time and appear - [Alain Delon, Bardot, Depardieu - Pluto plus](https://star4cast.com/alain-delon-bardot-depardieu-pluto-plus/) - The absurdly handsome French film star Alain Delon, known as the male Brigitte Bardot has died, with Bardot, his elder by a year and many others, singing his praises. He emerged from unlikely beginnings, abandoned in childhood, kicked out of school, with Mafia gangster friends he kept throughout his life. A gilded star, with - [King Charles - family fractures](https://star4cast.com/king-charles-family-fractures/) - Family aggravations are dogging King Charles as he fends off ill-health all in the midst of finding his footing as monarch barely two years into his reign. The 8th September sees the anniversary of his accession, a moment both sad and celebratory. His Accession chart for 3.10 pm has the 3rd house of siblings inhabited - [Apologies - site a step back](https://star4cast.com/apologies-site-a-step-back/) - Apologies - I thought it was too good to be true getting through the Uranian thunderbolt without a glitch. Website reverted to last Sunday. Will update with more recent posts regrettably without comments which have disappeared into a cyber space black hole. - [Uranus - for good or the opposite](https://star4cast.com/uranus-for-good-or-the-opposite/) - A Uranian summer has not been a balmy affair with the USA election jolted onto a different trajectory plus an assassination attempt, the UK in turmoil, the Middle East poised on a knife edge and Russia startled by a surprise turn of events with Ukraine’s fight back. This coming Monday sees an Aquarius Full Moon - [Blake Lively & Ryan Reynolds - Virgo Scorpio overload](https://star4cast.com/blake-lively-ryan-reynolds-virgo-scorpio-overload/) - In the fevered and puffed up world of celebrity super-fandom popularity can rest on a knife edge. Hero to zero or worse. The glitter appears to be pealing off actress Blake Lively which will encompass her ever present husband Ryan Reynolds as well. One commentator asked “Has Blake Lively finally girlbossed too close to - [Taurus in turmoil - Khelif & JKR, Clooney, Molly-Mae](https://star4cast.com/taurus-in-turmoil-khelif-jkr-clooney-molly-mae/) - Algerian boxing gold medalist Inane Khelif, at the centre of the gender row that dominated the Olympics, has laid a complaint with French authorities (the online hate centre of the Paris prosecutor’s office) over aggravated cyber harassment. Several high-profile individuals could be named in the suit, including JK Rowling, Elon Musk and Donald Trump. - [James 11 - a fleeting monarch in troubled times](https://star4cast.com/james-11-a-fleeting-monarch-in-troubled-times/) - The beheading of King Charles 1 in 1649 was arguably the most momentous event in English history in the midst of political and social turmoil which lasted for almost five decades. It was preceded by the English Civil War (1642 -1651) between Royalists and Parliamentarians, and followed by five years of Cromwell’s Protectorate after which - [Alcohol - sinful or a gift from the gods](https://star4cast.com/alcohol-sinful-or-a-gift-from-the-gods/) - Temperance movements, often driven by religious groups, have at various times attempted to ban the drinking of alcohol - temperance being a misnomer for abstinence. This in contrast to the ancient Greeks and Romans who regarded wine as the nectar of the gods, a divine elixir and a gift from the immortal ones. The festivals - [Elon Musk - gone over to the dark side + Trump bro-romance going sour](https://star4cast.com/elon-musk-gone-over-to-the-dark-side/) - Elon Musk, always regarded as an off-beat, contrarian genius, has decided to ‘rebrand himself lord of misrule’ in the words of one commentator. ‘Until now, we’ve never watched a plutocrat go full Bond villain, cackling from his lair as he spreads discord and fear.’ He is pro-Trump, has spread a deep-fake video of Kamala Harris, - [Questions & Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-comments-514/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in SEARCH - [Ukraine - the best defence is offence](https://star4cast.com/ukraine-the-best-defence-is-offence/) - Ukrainian forces are on the offensive attacking across the border into Russia in order to “stretch” and “destabilise” Russia. The Kremlin has declared a federal emergency in the Kursk region and said it was transferring extra forces to try to snuff out the incursion that has damaged its credibility. More than 76,000 civilians have been - [The celestial 'wanderers' - staying in daily touch](https://star4cast.com/the-celestial-wanderers-staying-in-daily-touch/) - Reaching out for a deeper connection to the inner planets in everyday living, Julian Venables’ latest book The Divine Order is written for the non-specialist. He only includes the celestial ‘wanderers’ as they were once called, that can be seen with the naked eye – Moon to Saturn – to focus on a humanocentric approach. - [Muhammad Yunus - youth welcome a wise sage](https://star4cast.com/muhammad-yunus-youth-welcome-a-wise-sage/) - Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Peace prize winner, has been handed the momentous task of restoring peace in Bangladesh after the autocratic Sheikh Hasina was ousted by a student revolution. An insider commented: “This will be a superstrong combination: young people leading the way, and his old age and wisdom coming together.” He now has the fate - [Spanish Pimpernel = Trump + astronaut](https://star4cast.com/spanish-pimpernel-trump-astronaut/) - “They seek him here, they seek him there They try so hard but they try in vain For he eludes them yet again.” High comedy and maximum embarrassment in Spain following the appearance on a political stage and then disappearance of exiled separatist leader Carles Puigdemont under the noses of police and journalists. Described as - [Boeing & NASA - stuck in space](https://star4cast.com/boeing-nasa-stuck-in-space/) - Boeing mishaps strike again with two American astronauts on Starliner already stuck for two months at the International Space Station, on what was supposed to be a nine-day round trip, are now expected not to be able to return till next February. The spacecraft is well-stocked but it is another nightmare for Boeing after a - [US election - the longest marathon anywhere](https://star4cast.com/us-election-the-longest-marathon-anywhere/) - The US election, although it happens on a challenging, frustrated and aggravated Mars opposition Pluto, is nowhere near as heated as the last one. In 2020 at the election tr Pluto was opposition the US Mercury, triggering the demagogic, fanatical USA Mercury opposition Pluto – with the fast approaching Pluto Return (from February 2022) adding - [Kamala picks VP Walz - nothing clear cut ahead](https://star4cast.com/kamala-picks-vp-walz-nothing-clear-cut-ahead/) - Kamala Harris has picked Tim Walz, a former teacher, and mid Western Minnesota governor to be her VP. Born 6 April 1964, West Point, Nebraska, no birth time. He has his Sun, Mars and Jupiter spread out through Aries so resonates with her Aries Moon and Mars in Leo. Like her, he is - [Noah Lyles - Neptune for gold + Keely Hodgkinson](https://star4cast.com/noah-lyles-neptune-for-gold/) - Exuberant US sprint star Noah Lyles won the Olympic 100m title by five-thousandths of a second and gives every appearance of becoming the new Usain Bolt in the eyes of the media. He is a professional track and field sprinter who competes in the 60, 100 and 200 metres; a two-time Olympic medalist and six-time - [Stock Markets - on a slide + Toronto, Amsterdam](https://star4cast.com/stock-markets-on-a-slide/) - Jitters in the financial world have sent the ‘fear gauge’ surging to highest level since early stages of pandemic. A global stock sell-off gathered pace with concern of a recession in the USA, the world’s biggest economy. Japanese, Asian and European markets suffered sharp declines in response. This is a quick skip through the - [Questions & Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-comments-513/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in Search. - [Justin Bieber - carrying the burden of fame](https://star4cast.com/justin-bieber-carrying-the-burden-of-fame/) - Justin Bieber fans immersed in the febrile world of celebrity gossip are torn between delirious joy at his impending fatherhood and concern over rumours of problems in his marriage to Hailey Baldwin. None of which matter a jot outside the Bieber homepad but are a distraction from horrors elsewhere or US politics. He - [IOC - a Cancerian with a women problem](https://star4cast.com/ioc-a-cancerian-with-a-women-problem/) - The IOC (Olympic Committee) has got itself in a tangle over DSD boxers whom they deem female without a check yet are banned elsewhere in the sport. DSD means difference of sexual development, appearing female at birth but with male chromosomes and more importantly internal testes which produce testosterone at normal male levels at puberty - [Saturn - a guilt trip either way ++ My Lai + Hugh Thompson ++ Southport killer ++ Lauryn Goodman + Richard Burton](https://star4cast.com/35645-2/) - Saturn weighs heavily in two headline crime stories. Jeremy Bamber in prison for shooting five members of his family since 1985 could be freed after allegations of police malpractice. He says the incident was a murder-suicide carried out by his sister, who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. His girlfriend of the time said he had been - [UK - a fight for UK's identity ahead](https://star4cast.com/uk-a-fight-for-uks-identity-ahead/) - UK social unrest in the form of violent rioting is expected to continue as far-right groups show no sign of pulling back after the stabbing and death of three children at Southport. Misleading social media blamed immigrants and Nigel Farage is doing little to calm tempers. Tommy Robinson, 27 November 1982, is chief rouble-rouser, a - [Israel and Hezbollah - hope of peace receding fast](https://star4cast.com/israel-and-hezbollah-hope-of-peace-receding-fast/) - Israel’s deadly strike against the Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh in Teheran and a top Hezbollah leader in Beirut has world leaders holding their breath for what comes next. Their deaths coincide with the swearing in of the new Iranian prime minister Massoud Pezeshkian two days ago, replacing Ebrahim Raisi who was killed in a helicopter - [Huw Edwards - a spectacular fall](https://star4cast.com/huw-edwards-a-spectacular-fall/) - Huw Edwards, one of the nation’s most admired broadcasters, who announced the death of Queen Elizabeth 11 and fronted coverage of Charles’ Coronation as well as elections is now facing a prison sentence for pleading guilty to possessing child sexual abuse material of the most serious kind. He stepped down last year with mental health - [Simone Biles - a stunning comeback](https://star4cast.com/simone-biles-a-stunning-comeback/) - The wondrous Simone Biles has recovered from her wobbles at the Tokyo Olympics to triumph in Paris with an astonishing display of gymnastic prowess and grace. A commentator said, “What is gymnastics exactly? Performance art? Hard-edge competitive sport? At one point in her balance beam routine Biles did an insane triple backflip (repeat: on a - [Saturn and Neptune - a meeting made in heaven](https://star4cast.com/saturn-and-neptune-a-meeting-made-in-heaven/) - Saturn and Neptune have been a pervasive and often conflicting influence over the past fifteen years plus with Pluto moving through Saturn-ruled Capricorn and Neptune in Pisces doubling up its reality-twisting tendencies. They will come together from mid 2025 in a conjunction in Aries which French astrologer Andre Barbault, envisaged as bringing about a ‘new - [Mutable signs - Mercury on steroids](https://star4cast.com/mutable-signs-mercury-on-steroids/) - Thinkers and communicators, chameleons, shape-shifters, adept at adapting, Mutables crave variety and novelty. An overload in Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces tends to bring high nervous tension, quick thinking and hyper-alertness along with restlessness and a tendency to scatter attention in too many directions. Concentration may be lacking, indecision can a problem along with suggestibility, given - [Edna O'Brien - a trailblazer for Irish women](https://star4cast.com/edna-obrien-a-trailblazer-for-irish-women/) - Writer Edna O’Brien, whose early novels so outraged her native Ireland they were banned, moved ultimately from outcast to icon as her work was celebrated even in her homeland. She has died aged 93. Her early novels focused on love and the lot of young women in an unforgiving world and her views on sex - [Questions & Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-comments-512/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar and in Search. - [Fixed signs - strength can be a weakness](https://star4cast.com/fixed-signs-its-strength-can-be-a-weakness/) - Fixed signs dominated in July’s disruptions and with Pluto moving into Aquarius there will be a culture shift ahead from the restless, go-getting Pluto in Cardinal Capricorn years since 2008. Fixed energy can be enduring, steadfast, unchanging but also inordinately stubborn and inflexible. It was most notable in the case of Queen Elizabeth 11 - [Grand British Mission - wind and water](https://star4cast.com/grand-british-mission-wind-and-water/) - Making Britain a clean energy superpower by 2030 is the new UK Labour Government’s impressive mission put into the hands of Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero. Great British Energy (GBE) is being set up, to be headquartered in Scotland and the founding statement was unveiled on 25 July 2024. - [John Mayall - middle England and the blues](https://star4cast.com/john-mayall-middle-england-and-the-blues/) - John Mayall known as the godfather of British blues has died. His influential band the Bluesbreakers was a springboard for stars including Eric Clapton, as well as bassist John McVie and the drummer Mick Fleetwood, on their way to found Fleetwood Mac. He remained a “musician’s musician” for most of his career, eclipsed in name - [Global finance - rising debt + greedy financiers](https://star4cast.com/global-finance-rising-debt-greedy-financiers/) - Panic is in the air everywhere and economic journalists tend to see catastrophes beyond every bend in the road. But there are worrying indicators beginning to flash red. One is government debt which is massively up everywhere. Biden probably spent more even than Trump. In the UK, newly-arrived Starmer is discovering there is no wiggle - [Solar Arcs - from terrorism to dressage](https://star4cast.com/solar-arcs-from-terrorism-to-dressage/) - Solar Arcs in action can be a key indicator of life-changing events. Two cases in point in the news - one is radical preacher Anjem Choudary who has been found guilty of directing a terrorist group al-Muhajiroun banned under UK law. Seen as a radicalising network its former members were involved in the London Bridge - [Venezuela - is it the end of an era?](https://star4cast.com/venezuela-is-it-the-end-of-an-era/) - Venezuela is heading into an election this weekend which if played fairly would see the downfall of autocrat Nicolas Maduro, who took over in 2013. His administration has overseen a wrecking of the economy of the oil-rich state with GDP down 80% and has precipitated the emigration of eight million people, a quarter of its - [Kamala Harris - a shaky replacement](https://star4cast.com/kamala-harris-a-shaky-replacement/) - Kamala Harris has been endorsed by Joe Biden in his belated withdrawal from the presidential campaign with other senior Democrats pitching in support. But the delegates of the convention on 19 August are not legally bound to back Harris. If one candidate steps forward to oppose Harris, the dam could break and several others could - [Ukraine - on tenterhooks about Trump ++ Zelensky and DT](https://star4cast.com/ukraine-on-tenterhooks-about-trump/) - Ukraine’s agony drags on with the additional concern about Trump getting elected, blocking US aid and cosying up to Putin. The one chink of sunshine on the Ukraine 24 August 1991 2.31pm chart is tr Uranus square the Jupiter running through this November but disappearing before the month’s end and returning in April 2025. This - [Bangladesh - student Gen-Zers say enough](https://star4cast.com/bangladesh-student-gen-zers-say-enough/) - In Bangladesh, student protestors are embroiled in violent demonstrations against the government over corruption and unemployment. The army has been deployed with at least 105 reported dead so far, a curfew has been imposed and the internet shut down. The protests began this month as students demanded an end to a quota system that reserves - [Crowdstrike - the problems of interconnectivity](https://star4cast.com/35507-2/) - Cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike says a “defect” in one of its software updates hit Windows operating systems, causing major IT outages across the world with flights cancelled and banking, healthcare and shops affected. 9bn was wiped off the firm with CEO George Kurtz, losing nearly £250million of his personal fortune. Many thanks to Hugh for tech - [Bob Newhart - raising a smile](https://star4cast.com/bob-newhart-raising-a-smile/) - Bob Newhart, the American comedian, who won fame through deadpan monologues that reflected wry bewilderment at everyday aspects of 20th-century life, has died. One award described him as “a person whose gentle satire and wry and irreverent wit waft a breath of fresh and bracing air through the stale and stuffy electronic corridors”. Born 5 - [Helen Pitcher - unrepentant Pisces](https://star4cast.com/helen-pitcher-unrepentant-pisces/) - ‘Unfit to fulfil her duties’ is the damning judgement of the Justice Secretary on Helen Pitcher, the head of the Criminal Cases Review Commission, which has been found in an independent barrister’s report to be ‘a broken safety net’, guilty of serious failings. Pitcher has astonishingly said she believes she is the “best person for - [J.D. Vance - Trump picks a junior version ++ Birth time](https://star4cast.com/j-d-vance-trump-picks-a-junior-version/) - In picking J.D. Vance as VP Trump is doubling down on Maga – the nearest thing he could find to a ‘mini-me.’ Vance is a deep sceptic of Nato, a critic of globalization, a believer in the existence of the deep state, which he wants to dismantle, opposes providing US military aid to Ukraine, is - [Questions & Comments](https://star4cast.com/questions-comments-511/) - Please add below. Older posts under News on top bar or in SEARCH - [Strictly Come Dancing - scrape off the glitter](https://star4cast.com/strictly-come-dancing-scrape-off-the-glitter/) - The lid has come off complaints about certain former Strictly Come Dancing professionals apparently bullying their celebrity partners in training for the television show. Contractual confidentiality agreements have evidently made it difficult to speak out before now. Strictly Come Dancing is a hugely successful asset and the format has been exported to 60 different countries. - [Mary Anning - succeeding against the odds](https://star4cast.com/mary-anning-succeeding-against-the-odds/) - There is an inspiring tale of Mary Anning born into poverty in 1799, under-educated in the way of the time and ignored because of the prejudice against women, who left her mark as a fossil collector and palaeontologist. Earlier this year the Royal Mail issued a set of four stamps celebrating her discoveries and in - [Shannen Doherty - Mars plus a Scorpio Moon](https://star4cast.com/shannen-doherty-mars-plus-a-scorpio-moon/) - Shannen Doherty, a child star who became tabloid fodder with her wild-child behaviour, peaked in the 1990s teen drama Beverly Hills, 90210 but struggled in a rag-bag career later. She contracted breast cancer in 2015 which she handled with her customary bravado, working to publicise cancer awareness, but it spread to her brain and bones - [Gen Z Kenya - rebelling against politicians](https://star4cast.com/gen-z-kenya-rebelling-against-politicians/) - ‘A plague on all their houses’ appears to be the apolitical approach of young Kenyans, eloquent and educated, who are staging demonstrations against corruption, injustice and inequality in a self-serving political class whom they are denouncing across the board. The GenZ movement as they are known who claim no political or tribal allegiance and organize - [Dr Ruth - diminutive and determined](https://star4cast.com/dr-ruth-diminutive-and-determined/) - Ruth Westheimer, the celebrity sex therapist dubbed Dr Ruth by a caller to her late-night radio show and otherwise called ‘Grandma Freud’, has died. She was a target of conservatives for her support of gay rights and abortion. Born 4 June 1928 4am Karlstadt, Germany, she was separated from her family when she was 10 - [USA - living up to its reputation for violence ++ Thomas Crooks](https://star4cast.com/usa-living-up-to-its-reputation-for-violence/) - The attempted assassination of Donald Trump for reasons unknown by a 20 year old apparently Republican-registered shooter has been taken as a critical moment in the election run-up with an iconic fist-pumping photograph of Trump going viral. Two astrological influences were spot on. Firstly the transiting Uranus, Mars, Algol of the moment was exactly - [Alice Munro - Moon Chiron, defective mothering ++ Andrea and relationship charts](https://star4cast.com/alice-munro-defective-mothering/) - Alice Munro the Canadian short story writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Man Booker as well as countless other plaudits has had her reputation tarnished. 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Astrology was a complete revelation for me more than 20 years ago when I first had my birth chart read. As a complete non-believer, a BBC TV - [Birth Charts](https://star4cast.com/birth-charts/) - If you require a personal consultation by email, audio file (MP3) or one-to-one telephone consultation please go to the Personal Consultation page to order. click here or use the link in the menu above. There you can chose the appropriate consultation. Payment can be made by credit card or using the simple PayPal system. If - [Capricorn - Star sign characteristics](https://star4cast.com/love-match/capricorn/) - GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS: A cardinal earth sign, you have initiative by the bucket load, are ambitious, practical, upwardly socially mobile and highly determined. Ruled by Saturn you put material security before almost everything else, and tend to be conventional or traditionalist in your outlook. 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