Zodiac Alert The recent brouhaha about the 13th sign of the zodiac needs to be laid to rest. Be assured, you’re still an Aries or a Sagittarius, a Scorpio or a Capricorn. Nothing has changed. So, once again some astronomer, in this case Parke Kunkle from the Minnesota Planetarium Society, has plunged headlong into the trough of astrological fallacies and come up with the notion that the signs of the zodiac are wrong because they no longer match the constellations. This old chestnut makes its appearance every few y ..read more

Will history repeat itself and William and Catherine’s marriage follow the same course as Diana’s and Charles’? Sad to say, I am old enough to recall the day Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer. In fact, I remember it well. It wasn’t a particularly sunny Wednesday but at least it wasn’t raining, and in a British Summer that’s a serious plus. I had organized a picnic in the garden for friends and family, and to the accompaniment of my three-year old banging drums, speed-racing his tricycle and serving up wat ..read more

It was snowing. It was the first day of spring and it was snowing. Big white fluffy flakes were tumbling out of a slate-grey sky and falling silently on the pines and silver birches. There wasn’t a bird to be seen, a crocus or a snowdrop, let alone a daffodil. I was in Bergman country and the winters are long. It was snowing. It was the first day of spring. And it was my birthday… Now, some people actually look forward to their birthday, but not me. On my twenty-fifth I realized with horror that thirty was only five years away and ..read more

Since this article was first published in February 2017, Prince Harry and Meghan have married, Prince Philip retired from public life, Donald Trump met with Kim Jong Un and the crisis regarding Russian interference with the 2016 US election deepens by the day. Rumours of impeachment grow ever stronger. ON 18 AUGUST 2016, THE FIRST ECLIPSE in a series of eclipses on the Leo-Aquarius axis took place. And there will be three more in 2017, four in 2018 and one in 2019. All these eclipses fall on key points and planet ..read more

On 29th October 2009 at precisely 17hrs 09 GMT, Saturn enters the sign of Libra. Saturn is one of the most important planets for consideration in both mundane astrology (the astrology of world affairs) and natal astrology (person-centred astrology) so its entry into a new sign is of great significance. Saturn takes roughly twenty-nine years to orbit the sun, and therefore to circle the zodiac, and it spends approximately two and a half years in each of the twelve signs. Saturn previously transited Libra from September 1980 to Decem ..read more

AS I WAS PUTTING TOGETHER TOPICS for my June ’18 newsletter events in the life of American actor, Roseanne Barr, became headline news. It’s not every day you lose your job, your sponsorships and your representatives in the span of twenty-four hours. Such catastrophic events, self-inflicted or circumstantial, must have had a powerful astrological signature. Which indeed was the case with Ms Barr who had the great misfortune to have transiting Pluto squaring her natal Saturn. And Saturn is not alone in her natal chart: it is conjunct ..read more

MONDAY, 18 NOVEMBER – SUNDAY, 24 NOVEMBER Hello!   If you’ve been in a fog during the past couple of weeks, it’s about to clear. Clarity is on its way. On Wednesday, Mercury turns direct and as it gathers momentum gradually information will surface that provides explanations for mysteries and enables us to make plans. Nonetheless, there are situations of global importance that will remain shrouded, so it will be necessary to question the motives of certain individuals and to have an I’ll-believe-it-when-I see-it attitude. As the w ..read more

It was a bad week for news. It was an even worse week for the residents of Venice (Italy) and Fishlake, South Yorkshire, where water levels rose to unprecedented levels necessitating evacuation and causing unimaginable damage. It was a very bad week for President Trump as the impeachment hearing began in the House of Representatives, and it was a terrible week for Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn and Prime Minister Boris Johnson who suffered body blows to their respective electoral campaigns. And it was a devastating week for the reside ..read more

Despite denials by Kate and William that they did not know the sex of their unborn baby, along the way, close friends appeared to be sending many signals that it was a girl. So many signals, in fact, that I started to believe that there was method in the couple’s madness and it was surely a boy. But no, at 8 34 on the morning of 2 May, a baby girl arrived. At that precise moment in time the sign of Cancer was rising with beautiful Venus in Gemini a little above the horizon. The Moon in fair and balanced Libra is in perfect harmony w ..read more

South Korea’s beleaguered President South Korea’s leader, Park Geun-hye is engulfed in a scandal that threatens her presidency. She is accused of allowing a close friend, Choi Soon-sil, to view secret documents, which Soon-sil subsequently used for personal gain. Adding to the extent of the scandal are rumours that the president permitted shamanistic rites to be practised in the presidential Blue House. Why should we not be surprised at such a scandal erupting at this time? Geun-hye’s Saturn-Neptune conjunction i ..read more