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Michael Hastings - sudden ending  From: Marjorie. (19 Jun 2013 16:24): 
Conspiracy theorists are in full flight with the tragic news that Michael Hastings, the award-winning journalist and war correspondent who ended General Stanley McChrystal's career with his Rolling Stones interview, has been killed in a solo car crash.
Hastings was born 28 Jan 1960 and was a Sun Mercury in Aquarius which is often the case with modern journalists who have to be tech savvy as well as good with words. He also had Jupiter Mars Saturn in Virgo which is more typically the journeyman writer's sign and possibly also a Gemini Moon. He was described by colleagues as 'fearless and irascible'.
He was on a confident high this year with tr Pluto trine his Jupiter/Mars midpoint. But his Solar Arc Pluto conjunct his Uranus did indicate a huge upheaval which regrettably buried his talents.
He certainly wasn't Stanley McChrystal's kind of guy since Hastings open minded Uranus squared McC's controlling Sun Pluto in Leo and Hastings' conscientious Saturn in Virgo squared McC's Mars - so an explosive combination.
Ben Bernanke - heading into trouble  From: Marjorie. (19 Jun 2013 16:24): 
There are murmurs of a shift in direction on quantitative easing from Ben Bernanke and the US Federal Reserve. Not directly from the horse's mouth but from those close. The problem being that no one quite knows what will happen when he does start to pull back.
He is running into Angela Merkel type astrological problems with his Solar Arc Pluto conjunct his Neptune Mars conjunction anytime from now over the next few months - that looks devastating and dead halt. In addition from mid July tr Pluto is trine his Mars/Uranus midpoint right through till late November which is hugely stressed.
That certainly fits with the pressures looming on the US Fed Reserve Bank chart with later August starting a run of panics with public confidence receding sharply. Tr Saturn is conjunct the Fed Reserve Mercury Moon in late Aug/Sept and the failure-ridden tr Neptune square Mars picks up late Aug till early Oct, returning late Dec till late Jan 2014. Tr Saturn is in a jolting square to Uranus in Oct and a confidence-dampening square to Jupiter in Nov. Plus a shock and a collision of sorts anytime between now and late August as the Solar Arc Sun squares Mars.
The USA 1776 chart looks to be in the grip of false hopes financially which will turn to disappointment along the way. Tr Neptune is trine the USA Jupiter at the moment and on and off till late 2014.
There's an almighty jolt as well over the next six months as the Solar Arc square Uranus draws exact. But it is 2014/15 when the problems really start to bite with the USA Cancer Sun square Saturn in Libra start to pick up the tr Uranus square tr Pluto which is going to be quite an obstacle course with certain financial implications from the deprived/hardship tr Pluto square Saturn.
Canada - cleaning up the corruption  From: Marjorie. (18 Jun 2013 12:19): 
Canada seems to be swimming in a sea of political sleaze at the moment.
[BBC]. Montreal's mayor Michael Applebaum has been arrested by Quebec's anti-corruption unit on fraud charges, months after his predecessor resigned amid corruption allegations. The arrest is the latest in a string of scandals surrounding Canadian local politics. Toronto Mayor Rob Ford denies allegations that he appeared in a video smoking crack cocaine. Applebeaum's arrest comes a month after the mayor of nearby Laval was also detained on corruption charges. Sounds just like France.
Usually sleaze emerging into the open or a clean up going on is Pluto at work. Tr Pluto has been criss crossing the Canada MC and opposing Sun Uranus in the past couple of years. Tr Uranus remains this year in square to both. So that may be part of it.
Canada has survived the latest economic downturn in better shape than most countries tho' it has now lost the encouraging tr Pluto sextile Jupiter. And tr Neptune is now on track opposing Mars this year into 2014 and then being conjunct Jupiter in 2014/15 - which suggests recent confidence won't hold up economically or otherwise. Tr Neptune is scandal prone especially of the financial variety.
The road ahead will be stickier than what has gone before since tr Uranus first will conjunct the Canada Neptune and then Ascendant from 2014 and tr Pluto following will square both as well. So an anxious, highly strung, potentially devastating time with a radical change in Canada's image. Sometimes tr Pluto in hard aspect to Neptune suggests major natural disasters - that's 2o15/16. By that mid decade period tr Pluto is also trine the Canada Pluto and then sextile Saturn which looks like a forced-change, belt-tightening time.
Nigella Lawson - intense relationships  From: Marjorie. (18 Jun 2013 12:18): 
Nigella Lawson did recently speak of her 'funny but depressive' mother who had a volatile temper and used to lash out at the children. She died in her late 40s of liver cancer, after leaving her husband and getting married to the philosopher A J Ayer.
In Nigella's chart her Aries Moon is trine Mars Jupiter in Sagittarius trine Uranus in Leo - so mother would be experienced as unpredictable with a hair trigger fuse from Mars Uranus. Nigella's father, ex-Chancellor Nigel Lawson, comes across as rather dour and tough with her Sun Saturn Mercury trine Pluto.
I can't find a birth date for her mother Vanessa Salmon. But in many ways it looks as if it was her father who shaped her relationships. Her relationship chart with her father has an affectionate Sun Venus trine Jupiter, opposition Pluto with Mars also opposition Pluto - so intense, with a real mix of love and over control.
She was in a relationship with human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson, 14 years her senior, and that relationship chart is not dissimilar with a composite Jupiter Mercury Sun Venus Mars square Pluto.
Her first husband John Diamond again was a similar relationship with a composite Sun Venus Mars opposition Pluto with Pluto opposition Jupiter. He died of throat cancer.
And this one with Charles Saatchi again has composite Sun Venus Jupiter aspects plus a power-struggling Mars opposition Pluto.
So it is very much part of her pattern to find these exceptionally intense relationships which can flip into messy confrontations or leave her as she once put it 'festering' with bad feelings.
I'd worry about her and all of this public dissection (moi aussi guilty) since these larger than life public figures are usually extremely vulnerable underneath. And she's got a tough time ahead as tr Pluto square tr Uranus move across her Saturn (2013/14) and then Sun (2014/15/16).
Ian Brady - Earth Water psychopath  From: Marjorie. (18 Jun 2013 12:17): 
Moors murderer Ian Brady has been seen in public for the first time in decades at a Mental Health Tribunal as he pleads to be allowed to return to Scotland to die. He was convicted along with Myra Hyndley for killing at least five children in the mid 1960s and he was declared criminally insane as a sexually sadistic psychopath in the 1980s. He has exhibited little remorse and refuses to say where one victim was buried.
Born 2 Jan 1938 12.40pm Glasgow, Scotland, he's a Sun Moon Mercury Venus in Capricorn; with Sun Venus Mercury trine Uranus in Taurus, sextile Mars - so earthy, uncompromising, drawn to excitement. His 4th house Pluto in Cancer is in a bleak trine to Saturn in Pisces which is in a neurotic opposition to Neptune; and Pluto is also in a pushily confident opposition to Jupiter.
He was born to a single mother, was brought up by another couple, turned to petty crime early on, spent time inside, seems to have been bright.
Could you tell from his chart he was a psychopath? Only with hindsight tho' there are some indications with his three Water planets being Mars, Saturn, Pluto so he'd express his feelings with cruelty. His Moon is widely opposition Pluto which also sometimes appears in psychopaths' charts, stemming presumably from an overly possessive relationship with mother very early on, which tends to make the individual lock away their feelings. Plus the confidence of Jupiter Pluto.
Certainly his mad/manic 7th Harmonic is strong joining together an unholy collection of Neptune Venus Pluto Mercury Saturn and Sun. His 9H curiously is also fairly gothic linking Saturn Pluto Uranus Mars and Moon as well as Mars and MC. He's also got heavily aspected 11H, 12H, 13H, 16H, 17H and 22H charts.
Wendi & Tone - just good networking friends  From: Marjorie. (16 Jun 2013 14:13): 
The media has calmed down somewhat now describing the possibility of Tony Blair being involved in the Murdoch split as outrageous nonsense. So we'll have to wait see what the 'jaw dropping' reason for their separation is as the divorce gets under way.
It is still true that Tony Blair is a close friend of Wendi Deng's and godfather to one of the children. According to Murdoch's biographer Blair saw Wendi as a key link into her husband's favour so cultivated the social relationship.
TB's relationship chart with Wendi certainly indicates a friendly, warm-hearted, quite intense connection with a composite Sun Venus opposition Pluto, trine Neptune. Though their friendship will have cooled since Neptune moved into Pisces in 2011 undermining the Sun and that magnifies over 2014 and beyond. This late Sept/Oct look at odds between them as well.
Tony would always have been friendlier with Wendi than Cherie - that relationship chart there looks superficially sugary with a composite Venus trine Jupiter but there's a more edgy Mars square Uranus Pluto and a suspicious Sun Neptune.
Cherie and Tony's relationship certainly underwent a poleaxing amount of pressure just after he left No 10 in 2007 with tr Saturn opposition tr Uranus square tr Pluto all bouncing off his Sun/Moon midpoint. With his constant travel schedule they see very little of each other.
The only thing showing on their relationship chart at the moment is tr Saturn conjunct the composite Moon which recurs for the final time this October which can be separating or at least a downer on good feelings. That's around the time tr Saturn is square his 10th house Moon so there may be a career setback then.
Any more serious rifts are a few years away.
Nigella & Charles - stresses and strains  From: Marjorie. (16 Jun 2013 14:11): 
There's an odd story about TV cook Nigella Lawson being embroiled in a very public and by all accounts physical row with her art-collector husband Charles Saatchi which left her according to onlookers looking scared and upset.
Born 6 Jan 1960, she married Saatchi, 9 June 1943, after her previous husband journalist John Diamond died of throat cancer.
It's quite an odd mix since she's a downbeat Sun Saturn in Capricorn and he's a downbeat Sun Saturn in Gemini. Her Saturn is under heavy pressure in 2013/14 with tr Pluto conjunct and tr Uranus square - and his Mars in Aries which squares her Saturn is also being heavily jangled. So neither of them will be feeling exactly chipper. Their relationship chart has an overly hardworking composite Sun Saturn opposition a sociable Venus Jupiter - which fairly describes their glitzy, high profile life together. But there is a power struggling Mars opposition Pluto as well so not always harmonious.
Hassan Rouhani - into the fray  From: Marjorie. (16 Jun 2013 14:10): 
Hassan Rouhani has surprisingly been voted in as Iran's new President to replace the weird Ahmadinejad. He was the most moderate of the hardline candidates pre-selected by the ruling council. He hailed his election as a "victory of moderation over extremism". Though no one thinks he'll make much of a dent in the over arching control of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khameini.
Rouhani, born 12 Nov 1948, is a stalwart Sun Scorpio square Pluto with a ruthless-when-necessary Pluto trine Mars. So although he's adept at sitting tight in sticky situations he's no push over.
His relationship chart with the Supreme Leader has a really awkward composite Mars opposition Saturn square Neptune - so bad tempered, at cross purposes and suspicious. There's also a composite Yod of Pluto sextile Uranus inconjunct Mars in Capricorn. So strain and a good deal of anger tightly controlled especially over reforms.
There'll be a fair amount of pushing and pulling over the next 18 months between them with that hugely stressed composite Mars being battered by tr Uranus square and tr Pluto conjunct.
Rouhani's chart chimes well with both Iran charts. His Jupiter in Sagittarius is conjunct the MC Venus of the Iran 1979 1 Feb 9am chart; and his Jupiter is conjunct the Asc of the 1906 12 pm chart.
Kim Kardashian Junior Princess - keen to get here  From: Marjorie. (16 Jun 2013 14:09): 
Kim Kardashian gave birth to her first child, a daughter, at around 1.30 am June 15 2013 in Los Angeles, California. Reports suggest the birth was a month early.
She is an enthusiastic, non-stop talker 3rd house Sun Jupiter in Gemini, sharp witted and restless. Though there's no doubt who will be in control. Mom. A controlling 10th house Pluto is hugely emphasised being the driving planet of a Kite, from the Water Grand Trine of a 12th house Neptune trine a 7th house Saturn in Scorpio trine Venus Mercury in Cancer in the 4th; with Pluto opposition Venus Mercury.
So she'll withdraw into her own escapist world, perhaps be drug or addictive-prone as an adult with that Neptune, very intensely involved with the family, maybe have problems settling to a committed partner in adult life and end up with an older husband. She's also got a 6th house Moon opposition Neptune square Mars in Gemini - so highly strung, prone to tantrums, mood swings, maybe delicate heath.
She's also got rebellious Uranus conjunct her Aries Ascendant square the Pluto opposition Venus Mercury so she'll be a boat rocker, emotionally very changeable.
Ultimately she may be quite an influential personality in her own right but she'll have quite a struggle to disengage from mom's clutches.
KimK is a Sun Pluto in Libra and Kanye West is another Sun Jupiter in Gemini - so an upbeat, enthusiastic Airy family though with KK's Pluto keeping the upper hand. KK's Mars in Sagittarius clashes with the baby's Virgo Moon - so an argumentative relationship.
Kanye West now that I look at it is another of these Air Sun opposition Neptune trine Pluto, quite driven - lots of them around in the news at the moment. His Sun Jupiter opposition Neptune squares a Pisces Moon. And he has a heavy duty Venus Mars in Taurus opposition Uranus square Saturn in Leo - so unpredictable and v stubborn.
Elephant Man - a blighted life but lucky as well  From: Marjorie. (15 Jun 2013 11:43): 
Joseph/John Merrick, the Victorian Elephant Man so called because of his deformities, had a dreadful life with his mother dying young, and being thrown out of his father and stepmother's home into the workhouse. His appearance was such he couldn't get a job. He then volunteered to put himself on display for money as a freak show, in England, then Europe. He was ripped off by his manager and returned to the England destitute. In his pocket he had a card from a doctor who had visited him out of medical curiosity years before and he ended up in his hospital. Money was raised for his care and he died finally aged 27.
His difficulty in speaking because of his deformities made him seem like an imbecile though he was evidently a charming, sensitive and intelligent man.
Born 5 Aug 1862 in Leicester he was a Sun Leo in an inspirational, entrepreneurial and courageous Fire Grand Trine to Mars Neptune in Aries trine Sagittarius Moon. His Sun was square Pluto so over controlled by father/life. Plus an iconic Jupiter Saturn in Virgo in a jangled but lucky square to Uranus.
For all the horrors of his life he did seem to have a guardian angel looking after him - courtesy of all that Fire and Jupiter.
Not surprisingly his victim 12th harmonic is very strong. His 7H and 11H are marked. And his 'famous' 22H pulled together Mars Uranus Pluto Venus and Sun Saturn Mars Uranus - describing a tortured life which brought him to public attention.
Rupe and Wendi - clash of the titans  From: Marjorie. (14 Jun 2013 10:54): 
The announcement of Rupert Murdoch's divorce from his third wife Wendi Deng is pretty much on cue with tr Saturn hovering around the square to his Sun/Moon midpoint this year (on and off till Sept 2013). There's no birth time for her but her Sun/Moon midpoint in early Libra will have been/be under assault from the tr Pluto square tr Uranus.
Their relationship chart also had the separating tr Saturn square the composite Mercury Venus Sun earlier this year as decisions were being reached and arrangements made. Plus tr Neptune was conjunct the Solar Arc Saturn from April this year moving on to oppose the composite Mars in 2014/15 - so a longish period of bad feeling.
That composite Mars opposition Saturn was never going to be good news for their relationship since it gives rise to bad temper and resentment with one or other of the partners feeling badly done by. It can appear in masochistic relationships but Wendi Deng was no doormat.
In her early twenties she started an affair with the husband of a couple who had sponsored her into the USA from China. He was three decades her senior and subsequently left his wife and married Wendi. She got her green card and they divorced less than 3 years later.
She's a Sun Sagittarius trine Saturn in self reliant Aries; with her Saturn opposition Mars in Libra square Venus in socially ambitious Capricorn perhaps opposition Moon in Cancer. So a Cardinal Grand Cross - spilling over with initiative and ambition.
Her Pluto Jupiter Uranus and Mars all fall in Murdoch Seniors 10th house so she'd be keen to remake and remould him and push him in new directions.
She was made really from the same mould as him as he's a Sun Pisces with a Cardinal Saturn opposition Mars Pluto Jupiter square Uranus.
There would be good feelings at the start since his Sagittarius Moon is conjunct her Sun and her Cancer Moon fell in his 7th house. The relationship chart does have an affectionate composite Sun Venus conjunction; but more negative besides that from the teeth-gritting Mars Saturn, a highly strung, unpredictable Neptune Moon square Uranus, and an overweeningly ambitious Jupiter Pluto.

The divorce settlement will no doubt be dictated by the pre and post nuptials she signed but she's hardly the temperament to go quietly especially since she wants her two children by Murdoch to have voting rights along with his older four kids in the family business. The older children are evidently resisting heavily, never having taken to Wendi, especially Elisabeth. That relationship chart has a cold composite Sun Saturn Moon. James Murdoch looked more under Wendi's spell but that won't withstand the disruptions of the coming split.
RBS - questionable decision  From: Marjorie. (14 Jun 2013 10:52): 
RBS shares have shot downhill with the news that the CEO Stephen Hester has been ousted, it is assumed because of Treasury/Chancellor George Osborne pressure; and the Chairman has now said he's going as well. The theory is that Osborne is pushing for a fast re-privatisation of the state-rescued RBS on a schedule more dictated by the next election than by financial sense.
RBS 31 May 1727 JC doesn't look too upbeat in 2014 when the sale is expected to take place with tr Saturn opposing Jupiter and Mars; and tr Neptune square Solar Arc Mars. Plus the worse Solar Arc Mars square Neptune. The taxpayer will lose out if it's a mishandled (rushed) sale.
Though what's coming is nothing like as tricky as the 2008 meltdown when the tr Uranus opposition tr Saturn were square the RBS Sun and Solar Arc Uranus was in a highly insecure square to Mars; with Solar Arc Saturn just over the opposition to the RBS Mars which oversaw the disastrous AMRO exercise.

Hester is deemed to have done a competent job in turning RBS round after Fred Goodwin's forced exit in 2008, hauling down the bad debt. His relationship chart with RBS has a confident though brutally forceful composite Sun Jupiter opposition Pluto square Mars and North Node.
Born 14 Dec 1960 Hester had an unfortunate media image as the fat cat country squire but he seems to have gained the respect of the City. He looks half cheered up and half outraged by his departure. He'll walk away with a goodly pension pot/pay off and have the chance of making more in his next job where he presumably won't be constrained by Government interference on pay or policy.

The relationship chart between Hester and George Osborne looks cold, suspicious and was always prone to disruptions and upsets with a composite Venus Saturn opposition Uranus Pluto, trine Neptune.
Stretching the lifespan  From: Marjorie. (12 Jun 2013 13:14): 
Oldest man in the world Jiroemon Kimura, 19 April 1897, has died in Japan aged 116. He was a last degree Aries Sun trine Jupiter; with Jupiter square Uranus Saturn (Moon) in Scorpio. Relatives say his positivity was what kept him going so long.
Misao Okawa, 5 March 1898, is still with us and is a Sun Venus in Pisces square Saturn (Uranus) opposition Pluto Neptune. Her Jupiter in Libra is trine Pluto trine Mars in Aquarius, and sextile Uranus Saturn, maybe sextile a Leo Moon.
James McCoubrey, 13 Sep 1901, now the oldest man alive, is a Sun Virgo square a Uranus opposition Pluto; with his Jupiter conjunct Saturn in Capricorn opposition Neptune square Mercury, and Jupiter also sextile Mars in Scorpio.
Jeanne Calment who died in 1997 was the longest liver ever, being born 21 Feb 19875 so she made it to 122 on a diet of rough red wine, foie gras, stews and cigarettes. She was a Sun Pisces trine Jupiter with Jupiter opposition Neptune.
I've no desire to survive that long but a strong Jupiter is clearly a help.
NSA & GCHQ - goings on behind the arras  From: Marjorie. (12 Jun 2013 13:13): 
The USA National Security Agency (NSA) and the UK GCHQ are the intelligence gathering, communication-harvesting and cipher breaking agencies.
Guardian: 'In fact, courtesy of the whistleblower Edward Snowden, we now know the US National Security Agency is collecting 200 billion pieces of intelligence a month, hoovering up the mobile records of more than 200 million Americans and helping itself to a vast quantity of emails, web searches and live chats from the world's largest internet companies via a program called Prism.
Naturally, the NSA has been sharing some of its spying catches about UK citizens with its friends at GCHQ, sparing the British authorities the tiresome need to arrange a warrant. []
Such rampant blanket surveillance of course makes a mockery of the right to privacy - guaranteed by the US constitution's fourth amendment - and that has been the focus of debate since the Guardian began publishing the leaks. []
But this is as much about power as it is about privacy. Surveillance and intelligence are tools of control, at home and abroad. The history of their abuse by the US and British governments is voluminous, both in subverting and overthrowing foreign governments, from Iran to Chile, or in attacking civil rights at home, during the cold war and since 9/11.'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/11/
surveilllance-about-power-as-much-as-privacy

The NSA came into being on 4 Nov 1952 with a secretive Scorpio Sun in an overly expansive opposition to Jupiter which in turn is in an overly confident, rule-breaking-when-desired square Pluto. There's also an over excitable Mars in Capricorn opposition Uranus square a suspicious Saturn Neptune in Libra.
The UK GCHQ (best known for Bletchley Park and Alan Turing during WW11) was set up initially on 1 Nov 1919 so similarly has a Scorpio Sun in its' case trine Pluto, sextile Saturn Mars in Virgo. Ultra-ultra secretive, meticulous, designed for war time conditions.

The NSA chart looks rather deflated come the autumn with tr Saturn conjunct Sun and opposition Jupiter; with the November Scorpio Solar Eclipse conjunct Saturn conjunct the NSA Sun - so there may be some forced changes coming up.
GCHQ is also under considerable strain with tr Pluto trine Saturn Mars in 2013/14 - so maybe public outrage (such as it is!) will start to mount pressure for change in its ways of operating.

The relationship chart between NSA and GCHQ is interesting since it shows friendliness but with periodic upheavals and tendencies to go separate ways. There is a wet blanket sitting on co-operation at the moment with tr Saturn conjunct the composite Venus exactly now as the Snowden bombshell was dropped. Tr Saturn will continue to widen the gulf through the rest of this year into early 2014, with November this year being rather a hot spot.
EU/Euro - process just beginning  From: Marjorie. (12 Jun 2013 10:23): 
Hey ho. The EU. Gone very quiet recently apart from Greek politicians and Hollande trying to talk up the great mythical recovery. Unemployment is soaring, house prices plummeting, growth negligible or negative, debts off the richter scale. Oskar Lafontaine, the German finance minister who launched the euro, has called for a break-up of the single currency to let southern Europe recover, warning that the current course is "leading to disaster". Now the German Constitutional Court is staging a battle which could see the bond rescues marked as illegal and without German payments everything goes kafunkt. The likelihood is they won't do anything too destructive or will delay till after Merkel's September elections.
But she's not looking at all chirpy then. She's running into the dead halt Solar Arc Mars opposition her Pluto, exact around the turn of the year; and September has some unpleasant surprises for her. With worse coming in December and beyond. She's really the lynch pin for the whole thing.

As to predictions - both Euro and the EU chart have 10 degree Capricorns Suns. The tendency in advance is to say 2013 is when the sh** hits the fan since that's when tr Pluto starts to conjunct the Sun.
But if you look at the Russia example with a 14 degree Scorpio Sun, tr Pluto was conjunct the Russia Sun in Dec 88, March 89, Oct 89 and July 90 - and the Berlin Wall came down in Nov 89. My impression with country or entity charts is that they rarely show effects in advance or even on the first of the heavy transits. It's like trying to push a juggernaut over - it needs several hits or a build up of critical mass.

The EU chart itself is buoyed up by a Solar Arc Pluto conjunct Jupiter, exact in 2 months time. But it sees the tr Pluto conjunct Sun and trine 8th house Moon returning for the second time in June to mid July, then again late Nov to late Dec 2013, and briefly in Sept 2014. Plus tr Uranus square Sun on and off till early March 2014. So there's a ways to go yet.

The 3 Nov 2013 Solar Eclipse at 11 degrees Scorpio conjunct Saturn, sextile Mars and sextile Pluto - falls in the EU 2nd house in opposition to the 8th house Moon. That sounds fairly ominous on the economic front for the EU. [And indeed rather gruesome also for the UK since it will oppose the UK's 8th house Mars - so financial and risky in other ways as well.]
Prism - all encompassing eye  From: Marjorie. (11 Jun 2013 12:53): 
Prism, the National Security Agency electronic surveillance programme designed to identify terrorists first started collecting information in December 2007 according to the Guardian. Its' creation was enabled by the Protect America Act signed into being by GW Bush on 5 Aug 2007.

The Protect America Act had the paranoid/neurotic Saturn opposition Neptune square a determinedly aggressive Mars in Taurus with Mars inconjunct Pluto. Not too fussy or sensitive to the rights of others.
By the December of 2007 Jupiter had moved to conjunct Pluto in late Sagittarius - so mega projects were to be expected. And Mars had moved to oppose Jupiter and Pluto - which does suggest an over-reach of authority, riding roughshod over niceties and the rule of law.
There's no Prism start date in Dec 2007 but that Jupiter Pluto in Sagittarius opposition Mars in Gemini did fall exactly on Edward Snowden's Sun Mars in Gemini opposition Neptune in Sagittarius - which makes sense. His idealism was sparked by bullyboy tactics.
Nadya Suleman - spendthrift, depressed and erratic  From: Marjorie. (11 Jun 2013 12:52): 
Octomom Nadya Suleman appears to be in all sorts of trouble with suggestions of a Welfare Fraud investigation, plus near bankruptcy last year and a spell in rehab. She was born 11 July 1975 9.59pm? Fullerton, California (astrotheme). Her octuplets were born between 10.43 and 10.48 am on 26 Jan 2009 in Bellflower, California.
If this birth time is right then she has an extravagant Jupiter in Aries in the 2nd opposition an erratic 8th house Uranus square Sun Saturn in Cancer. The Jupiter square Saturn would also make for ups and downs. Plus a trapped Pluto in the 8th. So in general her handling of her finances and indeed her life will be none too well balanced. Staving off depression from that Sun Saturn in Cancer will no doubt exacerbate her spendthrift habits.
There's not a huge amount going on in her chart at the moment. Tr Saturn is moving out of her 8th which will help on the cash front and the two year tr Pluto square tr Uranus assault on her 8th house Pluto finished earlier this year.
The octuplets have Jupiter Sun Moon in Aquarius in the 10th so will be more enthusiastic and upbeat than mom. They will be ambitious and hard working though it's a not well hung together chart with all the emphasis being on reputation and outer achievement.
Their relationship with Nadya suggests a possessive though cold connection with a composite Moon Pluto square Saturn. Though with some fun and adventure. There are ripples of unease on that relationship chart - thro' 2012 and 2013/2014 but nothing too dramatic. They must be used to her not being there much of the time anyway. Presumably they have carers?
Edward Snowden - whistle blower - Sun Mars Neptune Pluto  From: Marjorie. (10 Jun 2013 14:57): 
Edward Snowden, the ex-CIA Intelligence leaker who released top-secret classified NASA info including Prism surveillance to the Guardian and Washington Post was born 21 June 1983 (politico.com) in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
This makes him a Sun Gemini (or if after 4pm birth time a Sun Cancer) conjunct North Node and Mars in Gemini opposition Neptune and trine Saturn Pluto in Libra - so a really heavy chart, ultra-determined, gritty, gutsy, hates being pushed around, attracted to risk, angry and idealistic.
That's another of these (probably) Air Suns in aspect to Neptune and Pluto. Quite a run of them recently. All with a fairly fanatical streak.
He's also got Mercury in Gemini opposition an adventurous Jupiter Uranus in Sagittarius. So he'll be impulsive, sharp witted.
Oddly enough like Julian Assange and Bradley Manning he's got an intense Scorpio Moon.

Both Assange and Manning have strong Sun Uranus aspects which you'd expect from an anti-authoritarian boat-rocker. Snowden has his Sun = Uranus/Pluto which has much the same leaning. And Daniel Ellsberg, 7 Apr 1931, who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971 had similarly to Snowden his Sun = Jupiter/Pluto = Uranus/Pluto. He had the archetypal whistleblower chart with a Sun Uranus conjunct on the point of a T Square to Saturn opposition Jupiter Pluto. So confidence and persistence.

Snowden's time ahead has some upbeat, positive transits to Jupiter midpoints till after mid decade. Tho' also some panicky Solar Arcs in 2013/14 and then some seriously unpleasant ones in 2016/17 of the trapped and scary variety.
Barack Obama - image and reality  From: Marjorie. (09 Jun 2013 17:52): 
Barack Obama's 2nd Term always did look a good deal more argumentative than his first with a Moon opposition North Node square Mars in Aquarius. Having lurched through a trio of scandals - Benghazi, IRS targeting the right wing, reporters being spied on, drones etc - he's now into the great Prism row over mass surveillance. He's morphed into George W Obama. Shades of Tony Blair who started off as the great shining hope and became the most hated politician in the UK.
There was always a puzzle for me about what his 8th house Mars trine a 12th house Saturn was all about - and maybe all the above distinctly unliberal activities are part of the answer to that puzzle. Or maybe like GWB he's just being pushed around by background military/intell string-pullers.
Mind you now that I look Obama's Mars/Pluto midpoint is around 14 Virgo which is exactly square the Saturn opposition Pluto of the Patriot Act 2001 hinting that the threat of a (terrorist) war is what strikes real fear into him - so any measures are allowable to stave off that possibility.
His 2nd Term chart has a 12th house Uranus and a much more visible bleak, tough-minded Pluto sextile Saturn - so the reforming, freedom-loving urges are being pushed into the background.
Princess Madeleine - pluses and minuses  From: Marjorie. (09 Jun 2013 17:51): 
Princess Madeleine of Sweden married her US-Brit banker Chris O'Neill at 4.26 pm in Stockholm, Sweden on 8 June 2013.
It seems a pity to rain on their parade since they looked lovely from the photographs and it was quite a glitzy splash. But it is definitely an odd match [see previous post.]
She's an 8th house Gemini Sun opposition Neptune, trine/sextile Pluto and Saturn in Libra - so not an easy chart, rather bleak, lost in her own world, not good judgement. Her Aquarius Moon is trine Mars in Libra trine Mercury with Mercury opposition Uranus - so emotionally detached, irritable, erratic. Plus an unaspected Venus - so
He's heavy going and depressive with a Sun Saturn in Cancer square Pluto - and his Pluto is conjunct her 10th house Mars so there'll be quite a battle for control. His Libra Moon is probably conjunct her Saturn, maybe Mars which isn't good. His Venus does fall in her 7th which is positive for a marriage but there's a great deal that is negative.
The relationship chart has a cool Saturn square Venus; an adventurous Mars trine Jupiter; a power struggling Jupiter square Pluto; and an argumentative Mars square Moon. Some upsides and quite a few downers as well.
She did get married with tr Uranus conjunct her Sun/Moon midpoint and tr Pluto just off the square to Sun/Moon - so I'd imagine a fair few second thoughts running into the wedding and indeed beyond till late 2014. Not too long a honeymoon period.
The wedding chart looks fraught with an 8th house Mars in Gemini inconjunct Saturn in Scorpio - so aggravations possibly over money, maybe sex. A Water Grand Trine of Mercury Venus in Cancer trine Saturn trine a 5th house Neptune - so not quite connecting to reality and issues around commitment to children or maybe difficulties having them. Plus an intense, Mercury Venus opposition Pluto square Uranus - high tension, sulky, maybe health issues.
Dear dear. Why is it always the high profile weddings that produce the most peculiar matches.
Richard Ramirez - Pluto Neptune Mars   From: Marjorie. (09 Jun 2013 17:49): 
Richard Ramirez, California's Night Stalker, a serial rapist, killer and satanist in the mid 1980s, has died on death row of liver failure. He was charged with 13 murders, 5 attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults and burglary.
Born 28 Feb 1960 2.07 am El Paso, Texas [ADB AA], he had an abusive father and at least two serious head injuries from accidents as a child; and was present as a young teenager when his hero sadistic ex-soldier cousin shot his wife.
He was a 3rd house Pisces Sun opposition Pluto, trine/sextile Neptune - so controlled/controlling and a fantasist. He had Mars conjunct Venus in detached Aquarius with Mars inconjunct Pluto - so stubbornly determined, anger issues and difficulty handling his ruthless urges. His Neptune also trine Sun and square Venus Mars as well as on the point of a mini Grand Trine to a (wide) bleak Saturn trine Pluto. So a seriously over loaded Neptune which can be cosmically cold. With a Pisces Moon opposition North Node square Jupiter Ascendant in Sagittarius - so possibly spoiled by his mother, certainly over confident.
It's not it would have to be said at first glance the most gruesome chart I've ever seen though there are certainly pointers to violence.
His strongest Harmonic is the mad/manic 7H which ties together Mars Neptune Saturn and Sun which can be a cruel and perverse collection. His 5H is also strong with again Mars and Saturn in aspect; as is his 19H. The 8, 9,11,13, and 17 Harmonics are also marked.

When he started his killed spree tr Pluto was conjunct his Solar Arc Midheaven which would exacerbate his need to be in control. And his Solar Arc Saturn was conjunct his Venus making him feel unloved and clamping down his empathy. His Solar Arc Neptune was sextile his Mars and moving to square his Pluto; and tr Neptune was sextile his Solar Arc MC and moving to square his Pluto.
It's not exactly written in headlines - all hints. Though there is certainly a Neptune Pluto feel which is megalomaniac and tying in Mars is cruel as well.
At the moment as he died his Solar Arc Saturn was exactly conjunct his Sun. And tr Saturn has this year been square his Mars Venus and conjunct his Neptune. Presumably the liver failure was drug related.
Esther Williams - Fire + Water   From: Marjorie. (09 Jun 2013 17:41): 
Esther Williams who became famous as an MGM star in 'aquamusicals', following her earlier competitive swimming career has died. Born 8 Aug 1921 9.39 am Los Angeles, she had four marriages - the first dull and respectable, the second to an alcoholic parasite, the third to an Argentinian control freak womaniser - as well as an active love life in between during her movie years.
She was a Sun Neptune in Leo fittingly enough for a flamboyant entertainer in the movie business; with Mercury Mars also in Leo. She had a seductively charming Pluto Venus in Cancer conjunct her Midheaven trine Uranus in Pisces - so some Water in her chart. Jupiter Saturn in Virgo were in her 12th and a Libra Moon was in her 1st.
Like many stars of that era she had a 'charming' image as befits the Libra Ascendant but with a messy life behind the scenes. Pluto on the MC suggests a controlling mother which is presumably why she ended up with a run of bullying husbands.
Vladimir and Lyudmila Putin - Libra and Capricorn  From: Marjorie. (08 Jun 2013 12:45): 
In a bizarre, staged final public appearance together Russian President Vladimir Putin announced he was divorcing his wife Lyudmila. It's been an open secret for a considerable time that they were not together.
They were married on 28 July 1983. She was born 6 Jan 1958 and he 7 Oct 1952.
Lyudmila is a Sun Capricorn, Venus in Aquarius, Moon Cancer while he is Sun Libra, Moon Gemini, Venus Scorpio. Capricorn and Libra quite often match since both want the same things in life, social acceptance and an elegant lifestyle. Her Venus fits with his Libra Sun though his Saturn in Libra would put a damper on indulgent time together. Her Water Moon and his Water Venus also kind of resonate together. Her Sun is trine his Jupiter in Taurus he would be encouraging at times.
But it would be an argumentative combination since his Mars is conjunct her Mercury - and he'd win since his Mars is trine Pluto. His Uranus is conjunct her Sun so he'd be erratic and often not there. And her Aquarius Venus opposition Uranus square his Venus so she'd be fairly detached at times.
Their relationship chart has a passionate Pluto trine Venus Mars so there would be an initial strong attraction; though again with that erratic feel since the composite Sun is in a controlling square to Pluto and a rebellious trine to Uranus.
So a reasonably solid though complicated marriage that had just run its course and succumbed to the pressures of his hugely pressured career.
Bilderberg Group - high aspirations, low effects  From: Marjorie. (07 Jun 2013 17:45): 
The Bilderberg Group held its first conference on 29 May 1954 at Oosterbeek, Netherlands. It's an annual private conference for the invited those and such as those - politicians, high finance, very wealthy types and the odd Royal.
There's nothing too dramatically interesting about the chart - bit of a hotch potch really. There's an overly expansive, indulgent, high society feel from Venus Jupiter in Cancer opposition Mars in money-minded Capricorn. The Gemini Sun is inconjunct Mars so its' attempts at being assertive will be fairly hit and miss, too much or too little. Mars is also 135 degrees from Pluto so it will have difficulty also in wielding power, again veering from over the top to under effective.
The Venus Jupiter opposition Mars is in a wedge configuration, trine/sextile Saturn in Scorpio so it'll wobbly between serious and frivolous. The (probably) Aries Moon is in a secretive trine to Pluto and opposition Neptune square Uranus. The latter T Square does have tendencies towards reform and breaking the old moulds, but with Uranus Neptune will be fanatical or give rise to slightly barmy ideas. Again the vague Moon opposition Neptune is in another wedge, trine/sextile Pluto - so although it has aspirations to influence or control will find it difficult to act in a way that makes that stick.
Plus there's a Water Grand Trine of Saturn trine Jupiter Venus trine Descendant - which again points to a self protective stance, living in its own bubble.

It's an all over the place chart for a group that is feared as a world dominator.

Assuming a start time of about 10.30 am it would put stonewalling Pluto on the Ascendant. Marginally earlier it would put the Moon opposition the paranoid Neptune/Saturn midpoint which would also make sense. I can't get too worked up about them taking over the universe I must say. Though it is a bit of an obscenity in this day and age.
Paris Jackson - needing a quiet life  From: Marjorie. (06 Jun 2013 15:06): 
Paris Jackson, daughter of Michael Jackson has been rescued after a suicide attempt. Poor kid, she has - not surprisingly - a really difficult chart to match her really difficult life. Removed from her surrogate mother to be brought up in the bizarre Jackson Never Never world, she's now having to contend with belatedly bonding with her mother, Debbie Rowe and being embroiled in the midst of the messy Jackson family suit against AEG. She always did look too composed and sure of herself in the aftermath of Jackson's death - given the way her chart is.
She's a 12th house Sun Mercury Saturn Mars in Aries so a great deal that is hidden, probably even from her, much of it anger at her treatment. With a stuck/trapped Sun trine an 8th house Pluto. She has a sensitive, self protective Cancer Moon that sits out as a singleton which squares her Sun. her Moon is being battered every which way this year by the tr Pluto opposition and tr Uranus square. With 2014/15 seeing huge changes as well with the same influences hitting her Sun.
It looks very tough for her in the next year as well with Solar Arc Pluto trining her Saturn Mars conjunction; and the emotional upset of Solar Arc Uranus conjunct Venus exact in five months' time.
She really needs an extended period of several years out of the spotlight which hardly looks likely in the Jackson family melee.
Floods in Europe - Eclipse degrees plus Pluto Uranus/Saturn  From: Marjorie. (06 Jun 2013 15:04): 
The present floods in Germany and that end of Europe appear to be the worst since 14 Aug 1501; although there were also bad floods starting 6 Aug 2002 which were deemed the worst in a century.

There are some striking similarities in the Eclipse positions just prior. Through late April and May recently we've seen a Lunar Eclipse at 5 Scorpio, a Solar Eclipse at 19 Taurus and another Lunar at 4 Sagittarius.

In 2002 on 26 May there was a Lunar Eclipse at 5 Sagittarius.

In 1501 the 17 April Solar Eclipse was at 6 Taurus; the Lunar of 3rd May at 21 Scorpio; and the 17th May Lunar Eclipse at 4 Gemini.

So 4/5 degrees Gemini/Sagittarius and 19/21 Taurus/Scorpio are flagged up at all three floods.

The united Germany 1 Jan 1871 chart does have an 8th house Pluto at 17 Taurus and Moon at 5 Taurus both of which would be shaken by the recent eclipses. Although Germany clearly wasn't around as a unified entity in 1501 one can assume whatever chart fitted at that point might well have similar degree points.

The 1501 and the present 2013 floods both have the disruptive Uranus square Pluto around; and 2002 flood had the hardship/deprivation Saturn opposition Pluto.

There are major destructive floods all over the world reasonably frequently: see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_floods. So it must be influences bearing down on specific countries/regions charts that makes the difference.

Also we are moving into several Water Grand Trines in June/July this year. A previous Water Grand Trine in the mid 1920s saw the worst ever tornado in USA and the Great Miami Hurricane, plus tornadoes in Eastern Europe. The 1966 Water Grand Trine saw the Topeka, Kansas Tornado F5 on the scale, one of the costliest ever plus a couple of hugely destructive earthquakes in Turkey. Mind you in 1966 there was also the Uranus Pluto opposition Saturn around which combines disruption with extreme deprivation so it wouldn't all be down to the Water Grand Trine.
Francois Hollande - hen pecked and hapless  From: Marjorie. (05 Jun 2013 14:38): 
There's no let up for poor beleaguered Francois Hollande, President of France, criticised on all sides for his lame handling of economic reforms in France and now attacked by his ex-wife Segolene Royal, mother of his four children. She's apparently angling for a better job in his Government. But he's stuck between a rock and a hard place since his present mistress Valerie Trierweiler is of a jealous temperament and likely to erupt if he does.
For a blancmange as he is known - Monsieur Flanby - he can certainly attract fiery ladies.
He's a battened down 4th house Sun Pluto trine a 7th house Mars which certainly fits his partner choices. Plus a Capricorn Moon. His ex is a Sun Virgo opposition Pisces Moon square Jupiter in Gemini with a powerfully persuasive Venus Pluto in Leo. ValerieT is an Aquarius Sun Mercury Venus square a Jupiter in Taurus opposition Neptune so ego-centric and v stubborn.
To be frank the ex-wife looks a better fit since on the relationship chart there is an affectionate Sun Venus with Sun sextile Jupiter. Admittedly there's a bad tempered Mars Saturn as well.
But it is a good deal easier than the Francois/Valerie combo. There's a passionate (and possessive) composite Venus square Pluto but that is the best of it. Usually when Pluto relationships split it's bitter and prolonged. Plus an argumentative and mutually under-supportive composite Moon Mars Neptune. I wouldn't lay money on that relationship surviving his term - indeed it is in serious trouble before the end of this year and very chilly in 2014.
Sean Parker - Mars Jupiter run riot  From: Marjorie. (05 Jun 2013 14:36): 
Sean Parker, the Napster co-founder and former Facebook president, got married last weekend in an extraordinarily expensive splash at Big Sur, California which cost an estimated $10 million. None too tactful given the state of the general economy and hardships around.
Born 3 Dec 1979 he's a Sun Sagittarius probably opposition a Gemini Moon and square an adventurously confident Mars Jupiter in Virgo - so scattered, impulsive and doesn't think small. His Mars Jupiter are trine Venus in socially ambitious Capricorn.
On the IT front, his high-tech Uranus is conjunct Mercury which sextiles hard working Saturn in Virgo; and is on the midpoint of Neptune and Pluto, which latter has overtones of megalomania.
The wedding took place afternoon on 1 June 2013 when there was a Pisces Moon square a frothy, indulgent Venus Jupiter in Gemini. Plus a secretive, heavy duty Water Grand Trine/Kite of Saturn trine Neptune trine Mercury, Mercury opposition Pluto. Neptune was square Mars Sun so good for publicity but not necessarily great for a solid connection.
Sean Parker Jnr - Winter Victoria (sigh) - was born 6 Jan 2013 and is a Sun Mercury Pluto in Capricorn sextile Saturn (Moon) in Scorpio; with Mercury Pluto square Uranus and Mars trine Jupiter and square Saturn (maybe Moon). So papa is clearly a dominant force in her life, sometimes great fun and sometimes not. Mother Alexandra Lenas, no birth date, is singer songwriter, looks quite battened down from the baby's experience.
Will Smith - needing better jokes  From: Marjorie. (05 Jun 2013 14:35): 
After Brad Pitt's tanker with the zombied World War Z, Will Smith appears to be on a similar banana skin with his sci-fi/scientology disaster of a movie After Earth. Murmurings are that he has had the end of his glorious peak. Which would be a shame since he's an exceptionally funny actor.
Born 25 Sept 1968 1.46am? Philadelphia, PA (astrotheme) he does have an odd chart. He's a Libra Sun with a Scorpio Moon but straddling his chart is a Yod of Pluto sextile Neptune inconjunct Saturn in Aries - which is difficult to handle well. Saturn in Aries is self-reliant but on the focal point of a Yod it needs a real degree of self discipline and maturity to make it work. That Saturn is in a cool opposition to Venus Mercury in Libra.
His Pluto is conjunct Uranus on one side and Jupiter on the other - so he's confident though also erratic. His Sun is also conjunct Uranus so he's quite a maverick.
He nearly went bankrupt at the end of his successful patch in late 1980s having omitted to pay his taxes, when tr Saturn was square his Saturn and tr Uranus Neptune were trine his 2nd house Mars - all of which fits. A wake up call.
On this birth time he has a long career ahead of him with a few highs later this year and in 2014 and quite a few difficulties as well.
Queen Eliz 11 Coronation - Saturn Neptune  From: Marjorie. (04 Jun 2013 10:22): 
HM Queen Elizabeth 11 is celebrating 60 years on the throne this week. Her Coronation on 2 June 1953 at approx. 11 am had an enthusiastic, successful Sun Jupiter in Gemini in the 10th. Plus an ambitious Mars Mercury in Gemini also in the 10th in a stalwart, controlling, influential trine to Saturn Neptune, sextile Pluto Ascendant. The Aquarius Moon North Node were in an easy, popular trine to Jupiter Sun. A 9th house Venus and the Aquarius Moon and North Node also point to a love of foreign parts and the Commonwealth which has been one of the Queen's priorities. Venus opposed Saturn Neptune which was square Uranus in Cancer so emotionally cool and changeable popularity.

The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth 1 on 15 Jan 1559 (JC) had Sun Mercury Jupiter in Aquarius with the Jupiter emphasised in square to a Saturn Neptune in Taurus opposition Uranus Mars in Scorpio.
Both Elizabeth 1 and Elizabeth 11 were crowned on a Saturn Neptune conjunction which is historically associated with women's rights.

Elizabeth 11's Coronation chart is moving into a rather disappointing, lack lustre time with tr Neptune square Jupiter now and then square Sun/Jupiter and then square Sun over the next three/four years. Tr Saturn is also square the Coronation Moon this year, once more in Oct 2013.
The only previous time tr Neptune was in hard aspect to that Coronation Sun Jupiter in opposition from Sagittarius around 1975/6 Australian Republicanism was mounting which would upset the Queen plus Prince Margaret was separating from her husband.
The Queen's annis horribilis in 1992 when fire destroyed much of Windsor Castle and three of her children's marriages broke down came when tr Saturn was conjunct the Coronation Moon; tr Pluto was tugging at that emphasised Pluto in square; and tr Uranus Neptune were opposing the Coronation Uranus. So a huge amount of activity on that chart.
Jean Stapleton - redoubtable and lucky  From: Marjorie. (04 Jun 2013 10:21): 
American film and tv actress Jean Stapleton has died (All in the Family etc). Born 19 January 1923 she was a Sun Capricorn sextile a creative Mars in Pisces, square a hard working Saturn in Libra. She also had a healing, self-protective, lucky, confident Water Grand Trine of Jupiter in Scorpio trine Uranus trine Pluto. Plus a Fixed T Square of Neptune opposition Mercury in Aquarius square Jupiter in Scorpio.
That very strongly aspected idealistic Jupiter would help soften the harder edges of her Sun Mars Saturn.

What is intriguing is that Sir Denys Roberts, Brit colonial administrator, diplomat and judge, born on the same day also died in May on the 19th, ten days before Jean Stapleton. He seems to have been quite a character, standing steadfast in Hong Kong while the Cultural Revolution raged in China.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries
/law-obituaries/10094594/Sir-Denys-Roberts.html
Rob Ford - a Toronto storm  From: Marjorie. (03 Jun 2013 16:14): 
Rob Ford, 28 May 1969, Mayor of Toronto since 1 Dec 2010, seems to have had a fairly chequered past with all manner of mishaps and allegations (see Wikipedia). He's a Sun Mercury in Gemini opposition Mars in Sagittarius so highly strung, argumentative, impulsive. He's also got an 'adventurous', pushily confident and unpredictable Pluto Jupiter Uranus conjunction in Virgo opposition North Node in Pisces. That opposition is sextile/trine Neptune in Scorpio. A wedge with a focal point Neptune is difficult to balance - so no surprises he goes off on escapist Neptunian trips.
The recent Lunar Eclipse of late May fell exactly onto his Sun Mercury opposition Mars so was always going to bring a shock or collision of sorts into his life.
There's nothing much on his birth chart (without time) or his Mayoral chart to suggest an immediate exit. Though 2014 to 2016 look very undermining on both charts. So maybe somehow he'll hang on to be ousted next year.
Though a birth time might bring that closer.
Katie Holmes and Luke Rigby - amiable playmates  From: Marjorie. (01 Jun 2013 13:02): 
Katie Holmes, 18 Dec 978 maybe 9.32pm Toledo Junction, Ohio, is filming Mania Days a romantic drama about a manic depressive rapper who gets involved with a manic depressive poet in a passionate affair that results in a pregnancy. Sounds uplifting.
She is allegedly getting close to her co-star Canadian actor Luke Rigby, born 21 June 1978. Her Sun Sagittarius conjunct Mars is opposition his Sun in Gemini/Cancer so there would be a flash of attraction from that. His Venus in Leo is conjunct her Jupiter which is great fun; and his Uranus is conjunct her Venus which oddly enough will spark up attraction though it may not last for ever.
Their relationship chart certainly has a friendly/affectionate composite Sun Venus conjunction in an adventurous, mutually-morale boosting sextile to Jupiter so it will at least be a positive friendship. The composite Venus does square Neptune which can be a delightful illusion though usually the bubble bursts at some point along the way.
It could work for a while.
Israel and Syria - poised for action  From: Marjorie. (01 Jun 2013 13:00): 
Israeli troops are gathering in the Golan Heights on the borders with Syria with the locals being convinced war is coming. Tensions are escalating with Russia promising Assad weapons which the Israelis are saying they will destroy. Hezbollah from the Lebanon have also thrown in their lot with Assad. The Golan Heights pre-1967 war was Syrian land.

The Israel chart certainly has tr Uranus trine the 10th house Pluto this year suggesting a radical change of direction with mounting concerns from tr Neptune trine Sun/Saturn at the moment. Tr Pluto is about to retrograde exactly in opposition to the Israel Sun/Mars midpoint within a couple of days - running till mid July and returning late Nov into Dec 2013. That could be high risk and ruthless; plus a couple of upbeat confidence-boosting transits to Jupiter midpoints.
The Israel/Syria 1941 and 1944 charts hint at a turnaround in relations at the moment, certainly there's a war of words but it could spill over into real action.
Turkey - into a late spring  From: Marjorie. (01 Jun 2013 11:46): 
Turkey is facing increasing unrest in the capital Ankara over a local matter which has blown up into a general demonstration of discontent against the Government's increasingly Islamist policies. Turkey was set up as a stalwartly secular state in 29 Oct 1923 8.30pm. But the present prime minister Recep Erdogan, in for his third term, is seen as increasingly authoritarian and Islamist.
The demos are right on cue astrologically on the Turkey chart with tr Uranus about to square the Pluto exactly within a few days and this rebellious, unsettled influence runs till Jan 2015 with the similar push-for-change tr Pluto sextile Uranus picking up in 2014 running into 2015.
Erdogan's 3rd Term started on 28 June 2011 around 3pm on that awkward Cardinal Grand Cross of Sun opposition Pluto square Uranus opposition Saturn. Solar Arc Uranus has moved to close the square to Pluto and Sun to exact at the moment - so again no surprises his Government is being elbowed sharply. Plus the considerable challenges of tr Pluto and tr Uranus hitting the Saturn till early 2015. So he was never going to have an easy run despite his success in fostering economic growth and global influence.
He is reckoned to be one of the most influential Turkish leaders since Ataturk.
Born 26 Feb 1954 he's a Sun Mercury Venus in Pisces square a Jupiter opposition Mars (Moon) in Sagittarius. Tr Neptune starts to chip away at his energy and success from May 2014 onwards as it hard aspects that T square first in conjunction with his Sun. So these demos may well be a very significant pointer to what lies ahead.
Iraq - never ending - ditto Chilcot  From: Marjorie. (01 Jun 2013 11:13): 
The UN's envoy to Iraq has warned that "systemic violence is ready to explode at any moment", as a fresh wave of attacks killed at least 24 people. The dramatic escalation in attacks in recent weeks has raised fears of a return to the levels of sectarian violence seen in 2006 and 2007, in which thousands died. The UN has said more than 700 people were killed in April - the highest monthly toll in almost five years. That would take the toll from the last two months well over 1,000 victims. [BBC]
10 years after the Iraq attack and chaos still reigns. The Iraq Sovereignty chart of June 28 2004 10.26 am Baghdad has Solar Arc Sun exactly conjunct Saturn (within 3 minutes of a degree) at the moment so no surprises there is a deeply discouraged mood. There's an inward looking Water Grand Trine on that chart of Sun Saturn in Cancer trine Uranus trine an intense Scorpio Moon, formed onto a Kite with Uranus opposition Jupiter in Virgo. There's a faint possibility with tr Pluto trine that Jupiter in 2014/15 that there may be more confidence around. Though sometimes Pluto on Jupiter can lead to more power struggles. Certainly with Saturn at 15 degrees Cancer it'll be several years before there is any chance of calm. Tr Uranus will bring high tension jolts in 2014 and tr Pluto opposition Saturn considerably more hardship in 2015/16.
The Iraq 1921 chart, 23 Aug 1921 6 am Baghdad, is directionless this year with tr Neptune square MC and opposition Solar Arc MC and opposition Ascendant. So swampy and uncommitted to agreements. With more upheavals from tr Uranus square Pluto till early 2014. Plus angry clashes and setbacks from tr Saturn square Mars Neptune in late 2013; and then a downbeat square Mercury Sun in late 2014.

The UK Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War also appears mired. Former Foreign Secretary David Owen said it "is being prevented from revealing extracts that they believe relevant from exchanges between President Bush and Prime Minister Blair". The culprits, he said, are Tony Blair and David Cameron. The Telegraph commented: 'If Chilcot were to conclude that Tony Blair lied over Iraq (and many well-placed people are convinced he did) it would be a first-order catastrophe for the former prime minister. He would be disgraced, just as Anthony Eden was after it emerged that he had lied to Parliament over the invasion of Suez in 1956. His political life would be over and his reputation destroyed. It is not merely that he would be unable to return to British politics. He would also be forced to abandon all ambitions on the international stage, such as his professed desire to become European Union president. The central allegation against Mr Blair is that he gave a private assurance in early 2002 to President Bush that Britain would join the United States in an invasion of Iraq. Thereafter, it is said, all was decided.'
The Chilcot Inquiry was announced on 15 June 2009 on an overly controlled Sun opposition Pluto and an over-hopeful Sun trine Jupiter Neptune. Pluto was also in a frustrating trine to Mars Venus with Mars trine Saturn. So it was never going to be the fast result that John Chilcot promised at the start. It looks blocked right through 2014 and indeed beyond. Shades of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry which reported 12 years after kick off.
More Quads - Fire Water  From: Marjorie. (01 Jun 2013 09:38): 
More UK quads have arrived and quintuplets are expected tomorrow in Czechoslovakia. A time of profusion!
Two sets of identical twins came on March 30 2013 in Oxford, Eng. James was delivered at 4.55pm and his twin Joshua at 4.56pm. Then another set of twins Lauren and Emily came at one minute intervals thereafter.
They have a marginally easier chart than the previous UK Quads [see post below] with only one Yod of Saturn sextile Pluto inconjunct Jupiter which is the easiest of the Yod focal points. They still have the rather fierce Pluto square Uranus Sun Venus Mars in Aries in their 7th house; but it's easier than the previous Quads 8th house Aries planets.
This lot have an unaspected Scorpio Moon in the 3rd so siblings will be a comfort and support. With that Uranus in the 7th they may find it easier to stick to family in later life than find settled relationships outside. Perhaps marginally delicate health with a 6th house Neptune.
Gary Goldsmith - the merry uncle of Windsor  From: Marjorie. (31 May 2013 11:16): 
Gary Goldsmith, the 'black sheep' uncle of the Duchess of Cambridge who claims he was set up in tabloid revelations about his racy life is trying to rebuild his media image as a respectable millionaire businessman. Though giving interviews to Hello magazine and the Daily Mail doesn't seem the way to endear him to the dedicatedly discreet Royals.
Born 29 April 1965 he's a Taurus Sun in a charming and indulgent conjunction to Venus in opposition to Neptune. Though what gives him his unpredictable, impulsive streak is an explosive and tumultuous Mars Uranus Pluto conjunction in Virgo opposition Saturn; with Pluto inconjunct Mercury in upfront Aries.
He looks rather trapped and frustrated from mid July onwards with tr Pluto trine his Mars and tugging on that very difficult opposition; and tr Pluto opposing his Sun/Mars at the same time. There's a heavy feel to his transits ahead for several years with tr Pluto continuing round that opposition and bouncing off Sun, Venus and Mars midpoints in an awkward way.

His relationship with Carole Middleton, his sister 10 years older, looks very affectionate though is being undermined this year and next. His relationship to Kate looks enthusiastic at one level and blocked at another. His relationship with Prince William has undercurrents of irritability and is not that chirpy at the best of times and is being badly eroded in 2013/14. Ditto with his brother in law Michael Middleton. So I'd imagine they'll try to corral him and it won't improve the family mood.

El Salvador - lunatic principles  From: Marjorie. (30 May 2013 15:47): 
El Salvador judges have extraordinarily refused doctors the right to terminate a woman's pregnancy which may well kill her, for a foetus which has known severe abnormalities and will not survive. Perhaps Pope Francis might put a word in!
El Salvador in line with many South American countries had a muddled beginning but independence is generally taken as 21 Sept 1821. This produces a difficult chart with the Virgo Sun in a controlling opposition to Pluto square a fanatical, unpredictable Uranus Neptune conjunction. There's also Venus in Scorpio opposition Jupiter Saturn in Aries square Mars in Cancer (maybe conjunct Moon).
Amnesty has over the past ten years queried El Salvador's record in tracking down missing children and prosecuting crimes against women. El Salvador is a majority Roman Catholic country.
Mark Bridger - violent fantasist  From: Marjorie. (30 May 2013 15:46): 
Mark Bridger has been found guilty of the sexually motivated murder of 5 year old April Jones on October 1 last year, whose body has never been found. The jury took just four hours to reach their verdict after he put up a bizarre can't-remember defence. The judge ruled him a 'pathological liar'. He seems to have been charismatic but a fantasist, spinning tales about his time in the SAS which never happened. He had been a slaughterman and has six children by different mothers. His computer was full of violent child abuse porn though forensic profilers say he doesn't fit the pattern of a predatory paedophile.
Born 6 Nov 1965 he's a Sun Neptune in Scorpio trine Saturn in Pisces which in turn opposes Uranus Pluto in Virgo; with Uranus Pluto square Mars in Sagittarius. With Moon in Aries.
So fantasy-prone Neptune is strongly represented as well as ruthless and explosive Mars Uranus Pluto.
Little April Jones, 4 April 2007, was an Aries Sun with Scorpio Moon so tragically felt comfortable with Bridger who has Sun Moon in the reverse signs. Though his Mars was conjunct her Pluto Jupiter - so her confidence would arouse his anger.
Their relationship chart does indeed have an angry composite Sun Mercury Mars (Moon) in an Earth Grand Trine to Saturn and Jupiter - so cruelty in there. Plus a strong-attraction composite Venus trine Pluto.
The chart for her disappearance was very descriptive [see previous post Oct 10 2012] suggesting an inability to let go control which he certainly exhibited throughout the trial and indeed before since her poor parents don't even have a grave to grieve over.
Emily Davison - another Neptunian fighter for the cause  From: Marjorie. (28 May 2013 13:11): 
Emily Davison was a militant suffragette, famously killed when she fell in front of the King's horse at the Derby in June 1913. She was certainly a fighter willing to put her life on the line for the cause. She had been jailed nine times and force fed 49 times. Once she withstood attempts by prison authorities to flood her out of the cell where she was barricaded to avoid being force-fed, and on another occasion flung herself down a prison staircase to draw attention to the same protest. Evidence is now emerging that her Derby death was not a high profile martyred suicide but an attempt to pin the suffragette banner on the horse as it raced by. Not too practical then?
Born 11 Oct 1872 she was a Sun and Mercury in Libra opposition Neptune square Saturn in Capricorn. Her Sun was inconjunct Pluto. There have been a few of these Air Sun Neptune Pluto fanatics/idealists recently [see previous posts.] In her case Saturn Neptune is also highlighted which historically is the astrological signature for women's rights. Her Pluto was square Jupiter, giving her the confidence to break the law if it suited her purpose; Pluto also trine Saturn so a gritty perseverance.

Her Harmonics: have an inspirational get-it-together 5th; a do-or-die mad/manic 7th; the obsessional 11th; a very strong victim/martyr 12th which marked her out as a revolutionary; and a 'destructive' high-risk 18H.
What is extraordinary is her 18th Harmonic which is a very turbulent number causing conflict and attracting destructive experiences. It has three Yods, all close - of Sun sextile Venus inconjunct Pluto; Venus sextile Uranus inconjunct Mars; and Mars sextile Pluto inconjunct Venus. So it makes a configuration which I've never seen round the chart comprised of two squares and three sextiles. Involving Mars Pluto Uranus Sun and Venus - guaranteed to explode at some point. What is extraordinary is her 18th Harmonic which is a very turbulent number causing conflict and attracting destructive experiences. It has three Yods, all close - of Sun sextile Venus inconjunct Pluto; Venus sextile Uranus inconjunct Mars; and Mars sextile Pluto inconjunct Venus. So it makes a configuration which I've never seen round the chart comprised of two squares and three sextiles. Involving Mars Pluto Uranus Sun and Venus - guaranteed to explode at some point.
Women in Britain only got equal voting rights in 1928.
Danniella Westbrook - car crash life  From: Marjorie. (28 May 2013 13:09): 
Danniella Westbrook, 5 Nov 1973, is an English TV sitcom actress (Eastenders etc) whose major coke problem led to her nose rotting away and her being gang raped in the 1990s over a drug debt. Plus a through-the-windscreen car crash. A catastrophe of a life. Recently she has evidently become a born again Christian.
She's a Sun Scorpio trine Saturn in Cancer possibly trine Moon in Pisces with Saturn opposition Venus in late Sagittarius - so emotionally under-nurtured which would make her retreat into the Water Grand trine fantasy inner world. Her escapist Neptune is also emphasised being on the point of a mini Grand Trine to a confident Pluto trine Jupiter.
She has a heat-seeking Mars in Aries opposition Uranus so would seek risky adventures; with that opposition being trine/sextile her Venus so certainly would approach her emotional life with gusto. And a bleak Saturn square Pluto. Plus a fated/karmic Yod of Jupiter sextile Neptune inconjunct Saturn. What a complicated chart - and with no Earth so not practical or well grounded.

She has two children from different fathers - 23 Nov 1996 and 5 Sept 2001. The first is a Sun Pluto in Sagittarius trine Saturn and the second has a Virgo Sun on the point of a T Square to a Saturn opposition Pluto - so her bleakness continues down through to the next generation.
Fawzi - Al-Odah - dying for freedom  From: Marjorie. (28 May 2013 13:09): 
Fawzi Al-Odah is a Kuwaiti on hunger strike in Guantanamo, having been stuck there without trial for 11 years. His father fought with US forces during Gulf War 1 in 1991.
The US authorities say he was connected with Al Quaeda. He says he was in Afghanistan offering humanitarian aid. Quite a few who have been released from Guantanamo have returned to the fight and possibly a few innocents were radicalised by their treatment there. So no easy choices but a trial would help.
Fawzi Al-Odah was born 6 May 1977 and has a very powerful chart with a Taurus Sun opposition Uranus square Saturn in Leo - so he's keen to change the status quo and has executive ability. Plus an inspirational, entrepreneurial Fire Grand Trine of Saturn trine Venus Mars in Aries trine Neptune in Sagittarius, formed into two Kites by Mars Venus opposition Pluto and Neptune widely opposition Jupiter.
On the face of it he doesn't look like a victim. But either way it is a tragic waste of a great deal of potential to be starving to death in a no-hope Cuban gulag.
His 'obsessional dream' 11th Harmonic; possibly self destructive 16H and high-risk 18H are his strongest.
There's nothing that looks too cheerful ahead for him apart from a few glimmers of light in mid Oct this year and Jan/Feb next.

His chart is certainly heavily at cross purposes with the Guantanamo chart, 12 Dec 2001, with the G bleak, war-like Saturn opposition Pluto sitting on his Jupiter opposition Neptune crushing his dream. The relationship chart has a cruelly restrictive, possibly death-dealing Grand Trine of Mars trine Pluto trine Saturn, with Saturn opposition Neptune. None of that looks good either for the foreseeable future.
Afghanistan - not great but less worse  From: Marjorie. (25 May 2013 13:44): 
Another Taleban bomb atrocity in Kabul and nothing ever seems to improve, with the removal of NATO forces by 2014 looming.
The Afghanistan chart, 19 Aug 1919 12 am Kabul, looks seriously directionless this year with tr Neptune conjunct the Midheaven at 3 Pisces and square the Solar Arc Midheaven at 5 Gemini. There's no will and no drive to get a constructive grip at all. Plus the next four months look even more insecure than usual with Solar Arc Mars trine the Afgh Uranus which is tied into a Cardinal Grand Cross - opposition Sun Saturn square Moon opposition North Node - so rattling the main elements of the chart.

It is certainly not as horror strewn as it has been through the 00s when tr Uranus bounced off the Grand Cross followed by tr Neptune; and the tr Pluto square tr Uranus hit the Afgh Pluto. All of that is now finished.
Tr Saturn will hit the Grand Cross late in 2014 which will have a depressing effect. Maybe just maybe when the Solar Arc Mars is trine the MC in four years time there may be more drive to get a grip and get things moving. But it looks like a long haul ahead.
The Rooneys - complicated family life  From: Marjorie. (25 May 2013 13:44): 
Klay Rooney, 21 May 2013 2.11 am Liverpool, Eng, is the latest addition to footballer Wayne and wife Coleen's family. The first son Kai was born 2 Nov 2009 1.45pm Liverpool.
Klay has a 3rd house Sun Gemini with Mars in Taurus also there - so bright, chatty, argumentative, will drive too fast. He looks attached to home, family, father with Venus Jupiter in Gemini in the 4th. But not easy emotionally for him with a blocked/defensive 8th house Saturn and a hair-raising 8th house Moon (cusp) opposition Uranus square Pluto - so mother is experienced as a roller coaster of constant change, one moment possessive and the next off somewhere else. I'd think grandparents would be a strong connection in his growing up.

Elder brother Kai is a 9th house Sun Mercury in Scorpio opposition Moon square a 7th house Mars in Leo - so bright, well travelled though also aggressive and constantly ambivalent about what he wants. Mother and father seen as totally different personalities, almost incompatible. I'm not sure if there wasn't nearly a split at some point? He's also got Saturn in the 8th square Pluto and sextile Mars with Moon also trine Pluto - so again emotionally conflicted, angry at both parents.
Wayne is a Sun Pluto in Scorpio with a Pisces Moon and Venus in Libra. Coleen is a Sun Aries trine Saturn with probably an Aquarius Moon and Venus in Taurus - so chalk and cheese.
All of the family relationship charts have a confusing mix of affection and difficulties. The brothers will be friendly with each other but also hugely competitive so will erupt at times into major fights.
Help for Heroes - serious about healing - Saturn driving Water Grand Trine  From: Marjorie. (24 May 2013 16:45): 
The murdered soldier was wearing a Help for Heroes T shirt when he was killed. This is a military charity set up on 1 Oct 2007 to help wounded veterans. They've had a tricky year with the BBC broadcasting a 'misleading and unfair' Newsnight story about them which 'gave the false impression it was responsible for shortcomings in support offered to wounded veterans.' That cut their donations substantially though the BBC finally apologised. Now their website has crashed due to an upsurge in people wanting to contribute so back on the upswing again. Tr Pluto square tr Uranus has been battering at their Sun so not surprising they are being bounced around.
The Help for Heroes chart has serendipitously a healing Water Grand Trine of Mars in Cancer trine Mercury in Scorpio trine North Node in Pisces, with North Node opposition Saturn in hard working Virgo. So the military Mars Saturn is there in sextile and it all focuses onto practical Saturn in health-conscious Virgo.
Michael Adebolajo - machete killer Mars Saturn  From: Marjorie. (24 May 2013 16:44): 
The main machete killer of the British soldier in Woolwich has been named as Michael Adebolajo, born in London to Christian Nigerian parents. According to the Daily Mail he was born 10 Dec 1984.
This would make him a reforming Sun Uranus in crusading Sagittarius sextile a stubborn, no-compromise Mars in Aquarius. Mars in turn sits on the focal point of a Fixed T Square to Saturn opposition Taurus North Node. Such a Fixed focal point Mars makes for a personality that is headstrong, dogged, single minded, relentlessly persistent.
Saturn in Scorpio is obsessive and square Mars is hard or has been made hard by life/childhood. His Saturn sits conjunct his Uranus/Pluto midpoint which Ebertin describes as 'self will, egoism, hatred, stubbornness, one-sided; exposure to extremely great pressure by others; separation caused thro' force majeure'. Sounds about right.
There's nothing too obvious on his chart vis a vis planets at the moment except perhaps for a Cancer Moon under assault which we don't know the degree without birth time. On his midpoints virtually all the transits are to Neptune midpoints or by Neptune - so much confusion, fanaticism plus a dollop of confidence.
His relationship chart with the UK is truly horrible with a composite Mars opposition Saturn square Pluto Sun - so a fight to the death would just about sum it up.
His Harmonics:- a strong get-it-together 5th; an even stronger mad/manic 7th; obsessive fanatical 11th; victimised/sacrificial 12th; very strong self-destructive 16th; and the explosive enemies/war/revolution 18th.
Monsanto - the evil empire under attack  From: Marjorie. (23 May 2013 18:37): 
There's to be a global day of action against Monsanto, voted the most evil corporation in the world sometime back by one of the natural health magazines in a readers' poll. A senator is also waging war on protectionist measures by the US Government which would give them free run to please themselves - as ever.
Monsanto are a mega Agribusiness who during the Vietnam War produced the herbicide/defoliant Agent Orange which it is reckoned killed or maimed 400,000 people and resulted in 500,000 children born with birth defects as a result of its use. The Red Cross of Vietnam estimates that up to 1 million people are disabled or have health problems due to Agent Orange.
Since then they have been galloping along with GM modified crops globally, the effects of which are very unclear - except bees are dying at a staggering rate - and they are now additionally being fingered for the ill effects of their weedkiller Roundup/glysophate on the human population.
An Orwellian nightmare come true.

What is fascinating is the chart of the original Monsanto Company, founded 29 Nov 1901, which has a 'revolutionary' Uranus in Sagittarius opposition Pluto in Gemini sitting astride a sextile of Jupiter Saturn in Capricorn to Mercury in Scorpio. It puts Pluto at the foot of the Yod to that sextile. Such a Pluto in its positive manifestation does have a capacity for 'exploring unknown, potent resources available to humanity and thus revolutionising the world concept.' (Tierney). But it also has a power hungry, coercive, manipulative streak.
Jupiter Saturn in conjunction can have a tendency to aggrandizement, of sailing too high and with the hubris comes the risk of a mighty fall at some point. In earth signs as it is here it can be overly materialistic.
Interestingly Monsanto's strongest Harmonics are the 9th which can be idealistic/humanitarian or corrupt and greedy; and the destructive 18H.

Will it fall? My cynicism would say no. Though it'll have a bad 2014/15 with tr Neptune in an undermining square to its Sun and tr Pluto square tr Uranus bouncing off Saturn and Jupiter.
Woolwich Murder - the horrors just keep on coming  From: Marjorie. (23 May 2013 18:12): 
These recent peculiarly aggravated Eclipses are certainly extracting their toll in anguish. Over the first Lunar Eclipse at the end of April the Bangladesh factory collapse killed nearly 1000; then these poor women crawled out of that hell hole in Cleveland, Ohio; then the Oklahoma Tornado wreaked havoc and destruction; and the violence in Iraq rose to new levels this week. The UK already reeling with three utterly grim and sickening sexual abuse and murder trials finishing or ongoing - and now the machete killing of a Brit soldier in Woolwich (London), England.
It certainly bears out the Sun Mars in Taurus opposition Moon Saturn in Scorpio, trine/sextile Pluto and Neptune of the late April Eclipse. And the Solar Eclipse of May 10th wasn't much better. Mars Saturn does have military associations and is certainly a signature for assassinations as well as sexual abuse.
The Lunar Eclipse of 25 April had Neptune conjunct the IC exactly located to Woolwich which suggests a sinking, swampy feeling emotionally with a good deal of confusion. And the upcoming second Lunar Eclipse this week on the 25th has the Sagittarius Moon conjunct Descendant opposition Sun conjunct Ascendant so pin pointing Woolwich for an event of significance. This Eclipsed Full Moon squares onto Neptune which fairly adequately describes the concern and uncertainty of the security services' worst nightmare - two lone jihadist nutters - since there is no way of guarding against future such attacks.
Plus of course on the UK chart tr Pluto is trine the 8th house Mars - and both the April Lunar and May Solar Eclipse were sharply elbowing that 8th house - all of which point to death experiences and brutality.
When tr Pluto was in Scorpio in the 1980s pulling even more strongly on that 8th house Mars there were a hideous run of disasters - King's Cross Fire and the Zebrugge Ferry disaster to name but two. There were quite a list of them at that point plus the IRA lobbing bombs around.
Tr Pluto stays on that Mars till early June and then reverses backwards and forwards till late 2014 regrettably.

The dead soldier has been named as Lee Rigby, born July 1987 but no date as yet. And the most obvious of the jihadists was Michael Adebolajo, born 1985.

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