August 2024: Full On and Fiery
On 4 August, a warm New Moon in Leo makes the month’s first weekend a memorable one. A Pluto opposition injects a sharp edge into this fiery lunation as it unfolds over the first half of August.
July 2024: Chilled and Alive
Mystifying Neptune starts the month by turning backwards at the tail end of Pisces and casts a hazy mist over July.
Mercury registers the confusion prior to entering Leo on 2 July, and meets Pluto head on on 3 July. The impulse to speak truth to power is strong.
June 2024: Thoughts and Feels
June begins with a vitalising Jupiter-Pluto trine on 2 June which could profoundly and positively transform your outlook this weekend. Allow yourself to roam beyond what you typically expect and unearth new possibilities.
May 2024: Active, Calm and Curious
While Mars in Aries urges risk-taking and pushing forward fast, Venus in Taurus invites you to be still and attract good things to you. She reminds you that you’re worth it so what’s the rush? Patience is its own reward.
Lunar Eclipse: Baltimore Bridge Collapses
Under the darkness of the lunar eclipse, a Singapore-flagged Dali cargo ship veered off course and collided with the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, USA at 01.28 EDT on 26 March 2024.
April 2024: Wild Times
This April is livelier than usual. The month begins with the Sun shining its brightest light. That’s plenty on its own. As soon as the Sun lands in Aries on 20 March, Spring is here and everything starts to grow again. It’s the best time of the year to start over and to get shit done.
Eclipse Season and Israel-Gaza
Two eclipses later this March and in early April, mirror the two lunations in between which Hamas attacked Israel last October. As the same zodiac degrees are activated by this year’s upcoming eclipses, major developments in what happens for Gaza and Israel are promised in the coming months.
Astro Note: New Moons and Solar Eclipses | Full Moons and Lunar Eclipses
A note to explain new and full Moons and their heightened versions as solar and lunar eclipses, with Nasa diagrams.
Astro Note: Zodiac Degrees
A note to explain zodiac degrees. In an astrological chart, a planet is located at a specific degree in a zodiac sign, not just in a zodiac sign.
Update on Begum vs UK Home Office
It appears that Shamima Begum’s lawyers have decided not to go to the UK Supreme Court. They had until yesterday to decide to escalate her case to the highest court in the land following last Friday’s Court of Appeal judgement that the UK government did not unlawfully deprive Begum of her UK citizenship.
Shamima Begum Loses Appeal to Overturn Removal of UK Citizenship
A short while ago, the Court of Appeal upheld the Special Immigration Appeals Commission’s decision that the government acted lawfully in 2019 when it removed Shamima Begum’s UK citizenship. The chart for today’s proceedings unequivocally shows that Begum’s bid to restore citizenship would fail.
Yesterday in Parliament and today’s Venus-Mars-Pluto conjunction
The ‘Plutonic imperative to get your primal needs met’ and today’s Venus-Mars-Pluto conjunction. UK Prime Minister in waiting and opposition leader, Keir Starmer’s survival instinct is currently on flashing red alert as he faces the biggest crisis of his political career to date.