Author: jude cowell

Astro-Notes: America’s Saturn-Neptune Cycle

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good
Considering the massive social and political shifts occurring these days, here are two images for you on the topic of the Saturn-Neptune combination of energies in society:
1. A bi-wheel with what I suspect is the beginning of America’s Saturn-Neptune Cycle (center; September 27, 1773 @18Vir42:53 – conjunct Mercury 18:50) surrounded by the DC Horoscope

July-August 2025 Lunations – and Regulus

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good
As you see in the DC Horoscope below, fixed star Regulus, the "little king" star, features prominently in the August 23, 2025 New Moon Horoscope.
But first, have a look at a dual image of two charts – the New Moon of July 24th @2Leo08 (lower left and opposed by Pluto Rx @2AQ36 which suggests critical phases of development, plus, reversion to the brutal

July 10, 2025: a Capricorn Full Moon casts a bright spotlight

by Jude Cowell
"When one with honeyed words but evil mind persuades the mob, great woes befall the state."
– Euripides, his play Orestes first presented in 408 B.C.E.
Caution Advised: the following post may not be suitable for sensitive readers. jc
Previously discussed here on SO’W is the Capricorn Full Moon of July 10, 2025 @18Cap50:02 which conjuncts and spotlights the *Uranus-Neptune

Mega-Bill passes at US Solar and Jupiter Returns 2025

"Game Birds Feathered Their Nests" Big Time Today!
by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good
Well, I don’t know about you, dear reader, but this has been an unusually exhausting week as Congress members voted on Tr*mp’s "Mega-Bill." By now you know that Republicans reached their goal earlier today voting between 2:07 and 2:27 pm edt to pass the monstrosity with the obliging Libra Moon rising

Trump’s Mega Bill: Medicaid Cut to Fund Billionaire Donor Welfare – David Cay Johnston

If SO’W readers wish, they can find expert information from investigative journalist David Cay Johnston who has studied and written for years about the crimes of Mr. T:

In case this video is removed, here’s a link to it on The Mark Thompson Show channel.
Reader Alert: some of the following information may not be suitable for all readers. jc
For the curious reader, here’s a link to a post written

Senate Passes Destructive Trump Bill 2025

You Weren’t Using That Health Insurance Were You?

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

By now everyone has heard of the US Senate passing Tr*mp’s Big Fugly Bill earlier today so this will be a quick posting of the 119th Congress Horoscope (Jan 3, 2025; inner) surrounded by today’s speculatively timed Horoscope set for the Rising of the Virgo Moon (12:16:34 pm edt) @28Virgo: "A

Nov 2025 New Moon: Stars and Fog

"Almost" a Star of David
by Jude Cowell, partisan for a Common Good America
Here you see the DC Horoscope of the November 20, 2025 Scorpio New Moon @28Sco11:54 so the lunation is basically a Birthday New Moon for former President Joe Biden, and it’s much more besides:

Due to time contraints on this Friday afternoon, I must let my scribbled astro-notes on the chart speak for themselves although

NATO Horoscope and Summit June 2025

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

Details: NATO Summit June 24-25, 2025 at The Hague, Netherlands.
A request has been received to publish here the NATO Horoscope. Actually, there are four such horoscopes in my files so below you see a dual image of ‘NATO founded’ (April 4, 1949; upper right) and NATO (August 24, 1949: President Truman signed the entity into existence; lower left).

Astro-Notes: US Bombs Iran 2025

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good
Below are two horoscopic images for you – one a bi-wheel with the Department of Defense (DOD) Horoscope July 26, 1947 (inner; as signed by President Truman minutes before his plane took off at 12:30 pm) surrounded by the US Bombs Iran Horoscope set for June 21, 2025 2:30 am IT Qom, Iran.
Below the bi-wheel is a stand-alone chart with aspect grid of Tr*

The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe

by Jude Cowell
Actually, there are multiple mysteries associated with Edgar Allan Poe. His tragic and untimely death at age 40 is but one. His is an unsolved cold case but we can consider astrological influences of his life and death so let’s do that.
Poe: Inventor of Detective Fiction, Father of American Mystery Writers
Born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, there are various birth times proposed