La Rue

Last weekend, the students’ protests in France, which had been going on for weeks, got totally out of hand, extremist rioters mingled with the demonstrators and it came to looting and a real battle with the police. La Rue (the street) can be quite fiery in France, but this time it is all very violent….

Mercury

In the polls for the French presidential elections, Marine Le Pen is leading by a large margin, her conviction for financial malpractice has not harmed her. Her lead is so big that it sometimes seems decided, her closest competitors don’t come close to her. It also doesn’t seem to matter who will be her opponent…

Oktoberfest

As explained many times on this blog, it is possible to make reliable charts for countries using the Great Conjunctions (GCs) of Saturn and Jupiter. You then take the chart of the exact moment of the conjunction of the chronocrators for the place you are looking at. For a country, this is the GC that…

Praesepe Time

Early November, exactly halfway through the four-year presidential mandate, the so-called midterms will be held in the US. In these midterm elections, the entire House of Representatives and a third of the Senate will be re-elected. The midterms are therefore one of the most important elections in the US, especially t now because Donald Trump’s…

Andromeda

Last week the chart of Céline Dion was discussed here who has started a series of concerts in France after a period of long absence due to illness. In that post, her manager and later husband was already mentioned the musician René Angélil. He played a very big role in Dion’s life, he even took…

Cendrillon

France is in turmoil because after a long time away from the stages, Céline Dion will give a series of 26 concerts. She does this in Paris, in residence and the series is totally sold out. She was unable to perform for years because of her disease, the so-called stiff person syndrome, with symptoms of…

Polkadot

On August 14, Yajoi Kusama, a Japanese highly influential avantgarde artist, nicknamed the “polkadot queen”, died at the age of 97. She mainly painted dots in bright colors in all shapes and sizes, and was ultimately very successful with the general public, her work sold excellently. She was extremely driven, also because her art was…

Ferrari

Last week, Varenne, the best and fastest racehorse of all time, passed away. In his native Italy, Varenne was immensely popular because he broke all speed records during his career, the horse won more than six million in prize money. He was not only athletic and lightning fast, but also elegant and smart. He knew…

Ariane Grande

Modern society often resembles more of a series of symptoms of a developing psychiatric disorder than of a culture offering people something valuable. Social media don’t exactly bring out the best in people and the weirdest trends follow each other in rapid succession. Life maxxing, mindless challenges, manosphere, body shaming, fat shaming, the root of…

The Islamic Republic

Last week, the natal chart of Iran was delineated, the radix of the Islamic republic that arose after the revolution of the Ayatollah Khomeini. The time that the Shah left Iran by plane was taken as the time of birth and the interpretation of that chart  seemed to reflect the reality of the country as…