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Apollo Wins the Canadian Election

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Canadians, it seems, have thrown out old and cold Saturn in favour of Apollo himself, the god of light. In other words, Justin Trudeau’s Liberal party trounced Stephen Harper’s Conservatives. Harper was older, colder, stiffer and meaner. Trudeau’s approach to politics? “Sunny ways, Canadians, sunny ways.” Justin Trudeau was born in the purple on Christmas Day, 1971. His father Pierre Trudeau was prime minister — and still riding the wave of “Trudeaumania” that swept him to power. In fact Trudeau Pere would go on to serve for more than a decade, so JT grew up in the power house. This legacy is something that JT will never […]

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Jeremy Corbyn, Astrology in Action

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The wave of left-wing emotion that’s swept through Europe from Greece to Spain and Italy has finally found a focus on these islands in the unlikely person of Jeremy Corbyn, a softly spoken Labour backbencher. It’s been a feeling in search of a leader. Corbyn is a slight, earnest, rather rumpled figure, not an especially gifted public speaker, and he’s been beavering away on the lefty edges of politics for so long that mainstream politicos have simply ignored him for a couple of decades. Not any more. After  electoral defeat this spring and the snap departure of its leader, Britain’s […]

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Astro-Notes: John Oliver April 23, 1977

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HBO’s Last Week Tonight is hosted by a British comedian with a dry sense of humor that American politicians, Politics, and society royally need. My theory has been to ridicule the powerful as much and as often as possible and John Oliver does not disappoint. In fact, Oliver is brilliant at it–first on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and now on his own, Last Week Tonight.

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Marine Le Pen: Killing the Father

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Tough, intelligent, focused and energetic, Marine Le Pen is France’s most charismatic politician. Compared to dreary Francois Holland and preening Nicolas Sarkozy, she has the “it” factor. Her chart ruler, Venus shines brightly in Leo. Le Pen is a serious contender for the presidency in 2017. If she wins, not only will France have its first female president, but also its first far right leader since Maréchal Pétain collaborated with the Nazis during the Occupation. The consequences for Europe could be catastrophic. She has taken the Front National (FN) party, founded by her father in the wake of France’s defeat in Algeria, and […]

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UK Election: Nigel Farage

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I wrote this piece originally for March edition of The Astrological Journal. Like a certain Transylvanian immigrant, Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party, has a habit of rising from the dead. Just when his enemies think it’s all over, there he is again climbing out of his coffin with a Rothman’s in one hand and a pint of beer in the other. He has almost died twice – for real. He also reinvented his career at least three times, and not so long ago it looked like UKIP was all washed up. Now, of course, like Dracula himself, […]

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Yanis Varoufakis

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For those of you curious to see the chart of Greece’s new finance minister, here it is. There is no birth time available, so I have drawn it for sunrise. Just briefly • Take a look at the nodes. SN conjunct Mercury in Pisces. (Wonder if there’s an ancestor in holy orders.). Brains run in the family. NN conjunct Pluto. He’s going to slay people with the power of his mind. But that’s a dangerous path. Lilith was at 6° Virgo when he got his new job. This axis is quite solution oriented. Both Pisces and Virgo are drawn to problems and how […]

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Virgins, Black Power, African Liberation…

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The month of Virgo was beautiful here, one warm soft day follows another. But the weather was also strange and unseasonable. The nights draw in but the days are as warm as summer. It’s dreamlike. Being deep in the dream of Virgo this year — with the help of an opposition from Neptune in Pisces perhaps — I understood the sign in a new way*, and this, in turn has brought on some thoughts about our on-going aspect between Uranus and Pluto. Here’s a rather Neptunian train of thought. In ancient times, virgin was less a description of a woman’s sexual experience than a description of her social status. When […]

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