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A round up on Neptune, planet of bliss and brutality, creativity and duplicity, now near the end of its run in Pisces. Epic poetry, maths, exploration and religion were highlighted in previous times. The mythology points to idealism inextricably mixed with cruelty.
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December 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Garden cheer from the Scottish Highlands
Rain on the rose.
“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.” George Eliot
December 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The Age of Pisces starting supposedly at Christmas two thousand years ago fostered the world’s two great religions. But Pisces is not only about divine love. Inextricably linked is the opposite. The ideal and the shadow.
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December 22, 2025 at 5:40 PM
David Walliams, one of the UK’s most successful children’s authors has been dropped by his publisher. A flamboyant Sun Leo with an intense Moon Mars, he has run into a Pluto road block.
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December 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Garden cheer from the Scottish Highlands.
Even in chilly midwinter the odd hardy geranium, Cranesbill, produces a single flower, even as its leaves die back.
“Blue is the only colour which maintains its own character in all its tones. It will always stay blue." - Raoul Dufy.
December 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The shooting at Brown University is flagged up clearly on its 1764 foundation chart with a pressured and high risk Solar Arc Pluto (Mars) conjunct its Virgo Sun.
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December 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The last survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre, the single worst incident of racial violence in US history, has died aged 111. A resolute Taurus, she had optimism and enthusiasm as well as a lucky Jupiter which helped her push ahead despite losing everything.
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December 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Hedgerow Haunts from Franc sud
One of the joys of warmer climes is that plants flower well into winter. Cow parsley - Anthriscus sylvestris, wild chervil or wild beaked parsley - may be dismissed as a weed but it has delicate and intricate flowers seen up close.
December 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Inconceivable and witless even by today’s standards of reality-twisting, the BMJ Journal for Medical Ethics has global academics proclaiming that objections to female genital mutilation are ‘neocolonial’ and misplaced. Survivors are outraged.
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December 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Leaving aside the Trump-friendly omissions in the latest Epstein file dump, Bill Clinton does not come out of it well. He has a Leo Sun conjunct a can-be-self-defeating Alphard with an intense and impulsive Taurus Moon. star4cast.com/bill-clinton...
December 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Garden cheer from France sud
My favourite tree - Arbutus unedo - known as the strawberry tree or madrone. The national tree and flower of Italy – green, white and red to match the flag.
December 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Can you sidestep fate? Is the course of events in our life predetermined? The imponderable question for astrologers. In Greek mythology, the Moirai or Fates, were three sisters - the spinner, the allotter and the inevitable.
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December 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Carlos Alcaraz, ranked No 1 in men’s tennis single, has split from the coach who nurtured him through six Grand Slam titles. A determined Sun Taurus with a Gemini Moon, his decision hints at a Uranian need for freedom.
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December 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Garden cheer from the Scottish Highlands

Roses are the most extraordinarily adaptable and versatile plants. They grow in scorching summer in Spain and here a late bloomer in the distinctly chilly north.
December 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The Winter Solstice marking the Sun’s entry into Capricorn on December 21st since prehistoric times has been marked by festivals. Associated with Janus, the Roman god, Capricorn is two faced – not duplicitous, but looking back to the old year and facing up to the new.
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December 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Susie Wiles, Trump’s chief of staff, has been wrong-footed when her bizarrely outspoken comments about Trump, Musk, Vance etc were published. Her chart hints at alarm and frustration about the direction of the administration. star4cast.com/susie-wiles-...
December 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Garden cheer from a wintry evening

“The days are short,
The sun a spark
Hung thin between
The dark and dark.”
John Updike
December 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Renowned director/actor Rob Reiner has been murdered with his wife in Hollywood. An entertaining filmic Pisces, his astrology charts the shocking event with his Saturn under massive assault and the recent Lunar Eclipse pointing to a crisis.
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December 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Garden cheer from the Scottish Highlands
Defying the north east winds, snow and frost, a Crocosmia seeded in an odd stony corner keeps blooming to add a spark of colour to mud and damp stone.
December 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
11 dead from a shooting on Bondi beach, Australia for a Hanukkah festival. When it happened explosive Uranus and destructive Algol were on the Ascendant with the recent high-risk Solar Eclipse being triggered.
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December 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Stanley Baxter, the comic actor whose female impersonations in his TV spectaculars attracted vast audiences, has died at 99. A quixotic Gemini he was born a month after Queen Elizabeth 11 and shared her perfectionism, as well as Pluto conjunct honour-giving Sirius.
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December 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Football fans are up in arms about the "scandalous" ticket prices for the 2026 FIFA tournament which are seven times higher than in Qatar. Infantino’s judgement will be called into question.
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December 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Trump’s threat to break up the EU and leave NATO, all Kremlin-friendly policies, are not shared by many Republican lawmakers who regard Russia with distrust as does the USA as a country.
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December 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
John Candy, popular star of Uncle Buck etc has had a celebratory documentary made, thirty years after his death. A charming Scorpio, he had a troubled underside with self-admitted severe anxiety and panic attacks, obesity and addiction problems. Behind the smiles ……
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December 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
The ghosts of the Irish Troubles continue to prowl with a report on the British spy handled by MI5 within the IRA ‘Stakeknife’. MI5 was founded in 1909, the year the Titanic Hull was laid, replete with unfortunate Fixed stars.
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December 11, 2025 at 10:33 AM