Every year, on the birthday of a person, country or event, the Sun returns to the exact position where it was when the original “birth” took place. This is a very powerful chart called the Solar Return. This chart can be used to see what will be the major issues during the upcoming year. The [...]

Will the final fall of Rome occur on May 11, 2011? The entire Italian Twitterverse (Il Twitterverso, I presume) is abuzz about a decades-old prediction saying that a powerful earthquake will hit central Italy and finish the job that that the Goths started millenia before. Raffaele Bendandi was a self-taught astronomer born in 1893. While [...]

The decade-long super-edition of Where’s Waldo ended last night when Evil Mastermind, Boris Badenov, I mean Osama Bin Laden, was killed at his luxury secret lair and disposed at sea. With expansive Jupiter conjuncting warriorlike Mars in its ruler, Aries, it was the perfect moment for a BIG event in a matter concerning war. While [...]

The November 2008 US elections took place during a Mercury Retrograde period, promising confusion, mix-ups and vague results, as was the case in the still on-going Franken / Coleman Senate race in Minnesota. Lots of times confused issues that arise during a Merc retro period are resolved during a subsequent Merc retro period / shadow [...]

A recent article in the Washington Post talks about the global food crisis. The recent economic crisis has pushed this out of the headlines, but the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organisation has recently warned of “a looming disaster next year if countries do not make food security a top priority.” The economic crisis has made [...]

Being an astrologer, it allows you to know things long before other people catch on. For years now, while the world has been humming along merrily on credit and “growth”, astrologers have been harping on about how when Pluto entered Capricorn it would mark the end of the corporate era as we know it. Problem [...]

Monday saw the annual Full Moon in Pisces, with the Moon exactly conjunct Uranus and squaring Pluto while forming a loose opposition to Saturn. Full Moons are about endings and Uranus is all about surprise, and Saturn represents the status quo and the fall of such an old established institution as Lehman Brothers is surely [...]