The United States launched an airstrike Thursday evening. According to Fox News, it resulted in the death of an Iranian general and other military officials at Baghdad International Airport in Iraq. This is a major blow to the Obama Administration 2015 Iran deal . The Hudson Institute points this out in an article here, so... Continue Reading →
#J367 Mohandas Gandhi Lives
The chart data is from British Astrologer Alan Leo's 1001 Notables. Marc Jones adopted it. He was such an ardent fan of Gandhi; he wrote Gandhi Lives, hence the title of this post. The book is available for about 13.00 on Amazon. Our header picture is of Mohandas Gandhi at 19 years old. Gandhi and... Continue Reading →
October 16 Queen Marie Antionette is guillotoined
On October 16 1793, Queen Marie-Antoinette-Josèphe-Jeanne d’Autriche-Lorraine (Austria-Lorraine) was guillotined in Paris France. Looking at the chart, which we picked for 9 am, her chart has a fixed grand cross culminating at her death ascendant of 20 Scorpio 55. The Grand Square is composed of Pluto 22 Aquarius 45 in the 3rd house to Saturn... Continue Reading →
Prosperina’s warning for C485 Greta Thunberg
This is a general sunrise chart for Greta the spokes girl from Sweden on climate change. Her rising is 08 Aquarius 34 wth an appropriate midheaven of Sagittarius for her travels. Neptune that rules the 12th is found there, showing how the Viking spirit of travelling via boat to bring about the conquest of her... Continue Reading →
#J804 First Lady, Diplomat, Visionary – Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born on October 11, 1884 to Elliott Bulloch Roosevelt and Anna Rebecca Livingston Ludlow Hall Roosevelt. Her parents were New York City's elite families because of both their political connections and wealth. Her mother's ancestors, the Livingstons, signed the Declaration of Independence and another administered the oath of office to George Washington. Her... Continue Reading →
Pedro Escobar & Rodrigo Lara of Narcos
I got interested in Lara watching Netflix's Narcos, he was a welcome bolt of fresh air. The show is a real blast of the 1980's past as the production team did a fine job and many of the actors were good as well. So here is a late obit to Mr. Rodrigo Lara for a... Continue Reading →
A tale of two leaders: Alan Garcia of Peru and Marcelo Oberbrecht of Brazil
A tale of two leader: Alan Garcia of Peru and Marcelo Oberbrecht of Brazil
#J10 Envisioning Europe, Swiss leader Gustave Ador
Gustave Ador data is incorrect in the Jones 1000 -- his birthday is reckoned to be November 23, 1895 in Geneva, canton of Geneva, Switzerland, but it is really a month later, December 23, 1845. Jones states that was born at 1 am we are going with an ascendant of Taurus 02 and 1 pm.... Continue Reading →
Venezuelan Oppo leader, C486 Juan Guaido
Caracas, Venezuela -- Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido has called for a military uprising in what he dubbed the "final phase" of his bid to oust President Nicolas Maduro – or as he named it, "Operation Freedom." Currently there are 22,000 Cuban soldiers in Venezuela to support Maduro and Guaido is calling for an insurrection... Continue Reading →
C627 Tamerlane the Merciless
Tamerlane, is known in his native Uzbekistan as Amir Timur, or Timur the Great, but in the West he is remembered from his epithet, Timurlenke (Turkish) or in Persian Timur-i lang (Temur the Lame). He was one of history's greatest and cruelest conquerors. Early days of Timur Edgar Allen Poe wrote a poem for him,... Continue Reading →
#J61 Sir Goorooder Banerjee (Guradas Banerjee)
Astrological study of the great and honourable Indian jurist, Sir Guradas Banerjee.
C488 Julian Assange or the man with the Warhol hair.
Assange is back in the news because Bob Swan Mueller is hell bent on proving something after two years of proving nothing but that Manafort didn’t pay some back taxes. (He has a track record better than the weatherman.) When did Russian intelligence give WikiLeaks the e-mails that it hacked from the Democratic National Committee and... Continue Reading →