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In the port of Rotterdam, a cruise ship has been detained for five years, the Astoria, and recently the news came that the ship will finally be auctioned. When the Astoria was towed into port in 2020, it was the oldest cruise ship still sailing in the world, which once began its illustrious life as…

Recently, the musician Brian Wilson, the creative brain behind The Beach Boys but also, according to many, a genius musical innovator, who broke new ground, passed away. He is mentioned as one of the important sources of inspiration for The Beatles, he was certainly successful, but above all a heavily tormented genius. There  is a…

And yes, astrology clearly showed that the ridiculous non-cabinet Schoof would go down ingloriously, as I wrote here two weeks ago. The shameless manipulations of Geert Wilders gave the long-awaited final blow to this powerless monstrosity, a great relief. But a tense time and a difficult time awaits this country, because who should govern together…

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…