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South of France across the valley.
Dawn on a wintry morning with a pale sunrise lighting the bare trees.
“In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a shining dawn.” Khalil Gibran
December 7, 2024 at 5:57 PM
The collapse of the old left-right political battleground in the UK has led to Reform stepping up as a viable alternative. Nigel Farage is on a confident roll into 2026 but is better as a disruptor than a steady hand on the tiller. star4cast.com/nigel-farage...
December 7, 2024 at 1:30 PM
The street shooting of the CEO of UnitedHealth Group, has brought into focus consumer rage against the trillion dollar healthcare business. The Inauguration chart for the next term suggests health will be a key issue arousing considerable argument.
star4cast.com/usa-healthca...
December 7, 2024 at 12:07 PM
Garden cheer
Late in the year when colourful borders turn to muddy brown, the odd flower lingers long past its neighbours. Leucanthemum in the aster family name from the Greek leukos ("white") and anthemon ("flower").
“It’s OK to bloom alone.”
December 6, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Romania's constitutional court has annulled the result of the first round of voting in the presidential election after announcing there had been undue interference from another country. Romania is on red alert, alarmed at any backsliding to its unhappy past.
star4cast.com/romania-alar...
December 6, 2024 at 5:35 PM
A magnitude 7 earthquake struck off the north west coast of California yesterday with minimal damage. The recent Solar and Lunar Eclipses had diluted Uranus Neptune aspects, the classic quake signature. California, on edge politically, not having its best year.
star4cast.com/california-e...
December 6, 2024 at 10:46 AM
Garden cheer
Bottle Brush may be common in Australia, but it has an exotic tinge in the south of France. It means abundance, laughter, and joy, and is used to celebrate birth and new beginnings. Here fronted by Ampelodesmos mauritanicus grass.
December 5, 2024 at 5:49 PM
Queen Camilla recovering from a recent bout of pneumonia is venturing back out into a busy schedule. A triple Cancer with Jupiter in her 4th, she’s happy behind the scenes and at home. Neptune has been sapping her energy recently but will soon be waning.
star4cast.com/queen-camill...
December 5, 2024 at 2:04 PM
La France born on Pluto in Aquarius with an added splash of Uranus is grandstanding the downside of Fixed, egalitarian, no-compromise, ideologically driven, unrealistic, power-to-the-people Aquarius.
star4cast.com/france-the-d...
December 5, 2024 at 12:22 PM
Garden cheer – not here.
First irises come into flower in December in France sud, a welcome glimpse of spring to come.
“Irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash.” Margaret Atwood.
December 4, 2024 at 5:58 PM
The sad tale of child singer Lena Zavaroni is the subject of a new BBC doc. She shot to fame, aged 10, sang with Sinatra and at the White House, but succumbed to anorexia, dying young. A Scorpio with a Gemini Moon, her chart is riddled with uneasy quincunxes.
star4cast.com/lena-zavaron...
December 4, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Apple Martin, Gwyneth Paltrow’s daughter stepping out at a debutante ball and Donatella Versace at a Prada musical – two Sun Taurus keen to flaunt their appearance.
star4cast.com/apple-martin...
December 4, 2024 at 11:56 AM
Garden cheer
Definitely not here.
The great joy of December in France sud – the Acacia podalyriifolia or Pearl acacia is first of the Mimosas to flower and gives a sumptuous display.
December 3, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Kash Patel, a deep-state conspiracy theorist with limited management experience, Trump’s pick for the FBI, will face a tough confirmation hearing. He’s a Pisces Sun opposition an opportunistic, can-be-fanatical Mars Jupiter; with a paranoid Saturn Neptune.
star4cast.com/kash-patel-t...
December 3, 2024 at 2:47 PM
France’s government is on the brink of collapse as PM Michel Barnier tries to force through a budget in the face of a no confidence vote. His stubborn Mars in Aquarius opposition Pluto sits on France’s revolutionary, defiant Uranus and Pluto. A mighty stand off.
star4cast.com/france-bulld...
December 3, 2024 at 1:08 PM
Garden cheer from France sud.
Golden barrel cactus on a bed of stone. Otherwise known as "mother-in-law's cushion" or "mother-in-law’s chair, native to Mexico.
“This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised,
Under the twinkle of a fading star.” T.S Eliot
December 2, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Wendy Williams, the former UK talk show host is tragically incapacitated at 60 due to dementia, as Bruce Willis. There are no agreed astro-indicators for it but it was clear from her chart she was moving into difficult times before her diagnosis was announced.
star4cast.com/dementia-com...
December 2, 2024 at 2:28 PM
Joe Biden’s pardon for his son bring into question the overly politicised US justice system, including a partisan Supreme Court. Arguments that Trump is worse are inadequate. Constructive change is two elections hence.
star4cast.com/usa-justice-...
December 2, 2024 at 12:53 PM
Garden cheer in warmer climes.
The Aeonium, tree houseleeks, are native to the Canary Islands, with rosettes so perfect they look artificial. It flowers every five years and then dies but the pups (shoots) will live on. Blissfully easy to root if a piece falls off.
December 1, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Garden cheer still not here
Warmer winters in France sud were such a joy. The osteospermum, African daisies, kept flowering, not as prolifically but giving some colour. The yuccas as ever flaunting their wares.
November 30, 2024 at 5:40 PM
The shifting sand storms in the Middle East are brewing up more chaos with rebel forces taking control of Aleppo; and Assad’s former allies, Iran and Russia, overstretched coping with Israel and Ukraine. Nothing settled ahead.
star4cast.com/syria-more-m...
November 30, 2024 at 2:44 PM
Garden cheer but not here.
In France sud it is early Mimosa season, with flowers buds appearing on the Acacia covenyii.
“Light-leaved acacias, by the door,
Stood up in balmy air,
Clusters of blossomed moonlight bore,
And breathed a perfume rare.” George MacDonald
November 29, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Mars in Leo gives dramatic flair, self-confidence, a competitive nature which can become overly pushy. It fills the ranks of those seeking attention in politics and showbusiness. In the headlines today Gregg Wallace and Louise Haigh, bearing its signature.
star4cast.com/mars-in-leo-...
November 29, 2024 at 1:42 PM
The strawberry tree, Arbutus unedo, in full display with fruit and flowers together. A national symbol for Italy, in the Madrid coat of arms and figures in the Hieronymus Bosch painting The Garden of Earthly Delights.
November 28, 2024 at 6:12 PM
JonBenet Ramsey, the miniature beauty queen murdered nearly 30 years ago is back in the news with a Netflix True Crime documentary about her. A high stress Leo Sun entangled with her Aquarius Moon and Mars Pluto hints at a difficult life path even before the tragedy.
star4cast.com/jonbenet-ram...
November 28, 2024 at 3:30 PM