Winning her second term 1983.The whole country was frozen, dry and still in March and early April. In my garden, which at this time of year is usually bursting with buoyant blooms, nothing changed for weeks. This was all due to the strange, bitter…
Tag: politics
All Change: What Do China and the Vatican Share?
Pope Francis.More than half of the denizens of this planet have just had a new leader chosen for them. Two small groups of powerful people within two vast, and rather arcane institutions have voted in two new leaders on opposite sides of the world.Pres…
Britain On The Rack Of The Uranus-Pluto Square
Corridors of power under a Neptune transit.For a month or so last summer what it meant to be British in the 21st century seemed so clear – in an eccentric sort of way. There were James Bond and the Queen and Mr Bean cavorting about, and various sport…
Gaza: The Quality of Mercy
After I gave birth to my first daughter in a London hospital, I shared a room with three other women – a Palestinian, an Israeli, and a London Iranian. No kidding.There was some awkward negotiating around drips, cots, nurses and nappies. But the…
US Election: Natal Chart 1, Solar Arc 0
Compassion, tolerance and generosity: that was a storming victory speech from Barack Obama.The US election was close in terms of the popular vote, but in fact Barack Obama won a comfortable majority of seats in the electoral college. There we…
Putting My Foot In the US Election
Using the same technique as the one I used to analyse the idiotic accident which resulted in my broken heel, the planets show a Romney win in the coming US presidential election.If you use Solar Arcs as your predictive tool, you’d pick Romne…
Be The Change
Mahatma Gandhi was born today, October 2 1869. He exemplified the best of Libra the peacemaker, with Sun and Ascendant in the sign of the scales. But he was also a revolutionary. Here’s something he said: “You must be the change you wish to see in…
Mitt Romney: Imitation of Life
Romney: Sun in Pisces (the mirror) Gemini Rising….Mitt Romney is the son of two truly remarkable people: his mother Lenore – clever, beautiful, a trained actress and a candidate for the senate when women did not do that, and his father George – a…
Boris: Toff With The Common Touch
Could this be the next Prime Minister?Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, has had a fantastic summer, using the Olympics to upstage the Prime Minister David Cameron, repeatedly. His season of triumph climaxed with a rabble-rousing speech on Monday…
Astrology of Now: Watching the Dirty Laundry Churn
I watched the current Chancellor of the Exchequer and an ex-Prime Minister lie on oath yesterday. And I have to admit, I was a bit shocked. I’m just not that cynical. I thought George Osborne and Gordon Brown would probably tell the truth. But neither …