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Last week, the Austrian Dietrich Mateschitz, one of the “inventors” of the Red Bull energy drink, died. Mateschitz had become rich from the enormous success of Red Bull and this money he also used for sport sponsoring, including the very successful Formula 1 team with Max Verstappen as leader. So it is interesting to take…

After 45 days, the new British prime minister Liz Truss had to leave again, probably setting a record as the shortest-serving UK prime minister ever. She announced during her campaign to become PM  that she would take decisive action and she kept her word. She immediately took extremely neo-liberal measures that completely destabilsized the already…

It  was already remarkable that comedian Volodymyr Zelensky became the president of Ukraine in 2019, even more remarkable is his current role as war president, which he seems to have taken on so effortlessly. We will not look at his radix in detail now, we will focus on the progressions, but one radix position cannot…

This weekend, Max Verstappen’s lead over his competitors in Formula 1 racing became so big that he can no longer be overtaken. With that, he became world champion again well before the end of the season. It is in this context interesting to read what we wrote earlier in the season, late May about his…

Recently Georgia Meloni with her party Fratelli d’Italia, the Brothers of Italy, won the elections there and she will probably be the first female Italian prime minister. Ironically, the first woman to rule Italy has very conservative views, the Fratelli fit into the list of parties called “radical right”. There is quite a bit of…

A while ago on this blog we discussed the previous eclipse of May 16, a Lunar Eclipse in which the Sun fell on Algol. This was used to predict how things would proceed with Russia and that did not look too good. Because in this eclipse chart (made for the time that the eclipse is…

Now that Queen Elisabeth has died, the United Kingdom has a new king Charles the Third, but also a new “queen” officially called the ”Queen-Consort”. So it is not as in Holland for the wife of the king “Queen Maxima”, but something in between. We’re talking, of course, about Camilla Parker-Bowles, Charles’ old lover whom…

La reine est mort, vive le roi. It feels strange that the queen of queens has died, the Queen was always there almost as a matter of course. Even for the non-British, she was a wonderfully stable point for many decades. The world and the country she was queen of have changed enormously, but she…

This week, Mikhael Gorbachev died, who once put an end to the dark Soviet empire and ushered in a new era. Of course, the mundane- astrological cycles in his time indicated that the time for this had come, such a process can never be initiated by one man. It was around 1990 that this happened,…

While the Ukrainian army started its counterattack to recapture the city of Cherson from the Russians and all eyes are on it, disaster is unfolding on the other side of the world. Due to persistent very heavy rains, a third of Pakistan is flooded. People and cattle are drowning, houses are being washed away, crops…