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We wrote earlier on this blog about the most bizarre, most incompetent and least effective cabinet that this country has ever governed or better not governed, the Schoof cabinet. Schoof himself is a good symbol for the cabinet, always flat and meaningless in his statements and without any decisiveness. You would almost feel sorry for…

Last week, Hans Wiegel, the remarkable retired politician who left his mark on Dutch politics especially in the 70s, passed away. He transformed the somewhat old-fashioned liberal VVD from a party for rich people into a real people’s party and thus laid the foundationa for the later liberal dominance. The consequences of this are still…

After a flying start as the merciless “government terminator” for Trump, Elon Musk is now facing major setbacks. Out of aversion to his unbridled extremism, interest in his Tesla has dropped dramatically, sales figures have never been so bad. What could be going on in his progressions, it must be quite fierce! But because we…

According to many, surprisingly quickly, the cardinals elected a new pope, Robert Prevost, the first American to the See of Peter. But in fact, the speed of the choice should not have been surprising because 80% of the cardinals received their red hats from the hands of the previous pope. That was much more than…

Last week we wrote about the Pluto-Mars opposition, which had its effect on the mundane level, but of course there are also effects on other levels. After all, astrology describes the entire cosmos from the highest, most comprehensive level to the lowest, most trivial level. The next event is of such a “low” level, but…

Our modern colleagues are always intensively involved with transits, in traditional astrology that is a lot less. First of all, we have the whole package of forecasting techniques at our disposal, which is much more than the moderns, who only use 5% of the effective astrological methods. Secondly, the transits are put in their right…

Pope Francis has died and he is generally praised as a humane church reformer, who had an eye for the weak and also paid attention to the environment. He was not a straightforward church prince, but a pope who wanted to bring the church even more in line with the modern world. It is almost…

Last week, Marine Le Pen was convicted of abusing European funds, and as a result, she would not be able to participate in the presidential elections in 2027. She was furious and spoke of a political process, an attack on democracy and the separation of powers. She was supported from every dark authoritarian and nepotistic…

This week, Marine le Pen and 24 officials of her party Rassemblement National were found guilty of large-scale misuse of European funds. Part of the verdict is that Le Pen is not allowed to run for a political function for five years, which would exclude her from participating in the presidential elections in 2027. That…

At the moment, the positions in the sky are very remarkable, four planets are close together on either side of the vernal equinox, the nodal axis and Neptune are in between, and the Sun is moving near the nodal axis. A very strong concentration of energy and because the Sun is near the Nodal Axis…