Star Guide

    Jiaying Chen appears at her sentencing on Oct. 6, 2026   In my recent post Echoes of the Venus T-Square in the News , I traced the core arc currently unfolding in the sky: Five of Cups (Venus retrograde in early Scorpio) — loss, disappointment, and emotional reckoning around love, attachment, and values Five of Wands (Venus square Mars around October 10–11) — open conflict, clashing wills, and friction over desires or boundaries Five of Swords (Venus square Pluto around October 20) — sharper power struggles, control issues, betrayal of trust, or decisive confrontation and release The Court TV story [1]  that broke on 7 October 2026 about Jiaying Chen — the so-called “runaway bride” sentenced in Las Vegas — lands almost uncannily inside this pattern. Chen pleaded guilty to bigamy and obtaining money under false pretenses after marrying multiple men, taking tens of thousands of dollars from them, and disappearing. Nine victims sought restitution ra...

On 8 October 2026 a quietly powerful video [1] circulated online. An old horse kicks the door at 3 a.m. The family discovers that the mother, who lives with dementia, has wandered into the night. They find her sitting on a rock—the same place where her husband proposed fifty years earlier—accompanied by the horse that once shared their Sunday rides. The story is simple, tender, and almost mythic.     The Partial Lunar Eclipse of 28 August 2026 (charted for San Francisco coordinates) and its secondary progression to the exact time the video was posted offer a striking symbolic frame for this narrative. In the eclipse chart, Venus stands opposite Saturn across the horizon. This classic configuration speaks of old and faithful love—relationships tested by time yet still capable of deep loyalty. Cupido, the Uranian point of family and marriage, sits on the Midheaven opposite Hades in Cancer. Mars, also in Cancer, appears to stir the waters of memory, bringing the past into the...

  On 17 February 2026 an annular solar eclipse occurred at 28° Aquarius 49′. Its Sabian symbol is Phase 329: “A Butterfly Emerging from a Chrysalis.” In the London chart the eclipse sat precisely on the Midheaven, squared by Uranus at 27° Taurus — and by the extreme trans-Neptunian object Alicanto, also at 27° Taurus.     Alicanto is named after a mythical nocturnal bird of the Chilean Atacama Desert whose wings shine at night with beautiful metallic colours. Miners who follow the luminous bird without greed may be led to hidden treasure; those who pursue it for the wrong reasons lose the light and may be led astray. The asteroid therefore carries a signature of beauty that reveals treasure after a process of careful, pure-hearted following. The Sabian for the Taurus degree occupied by Uranus and Alicanto is Phase 58: “A Woman, Past Her ‘Change of Life,’ Experiences a New Love.” Its keynote is humanity’s capacity to rise in consciousness and feeling above biological...

French President Emmanuel Macron (born 21 December 1977, 10:40 CET, Amiens) is currently under a potent lunar return chart. The standout configuration is a Mars-Pluto opposition tightly aligned with the horizon axis and squared by Mercury. In plain language: power, control, and raw force sit on the Ascendant-Descendant line while the mind and voice (Mercury) are under pressure—exactly the kind of signature that can turn policy debate into high-stakes confrontation.     Martha Wescott’s reading of Mars/Pluto is especially useful here. She notes that this combination often produces people who, when challenged or criticized, “make mountains out of molehills.” There is a drive to “do what they’re gonna do” regardless of consequences or who stands in the way. Buttons get pushed; over-reaction becomes likely. Adolescent expressions of anger and immature grasps for power can surface. The deeper invitation, she suggests, is to notice when something feels threatened and ask whether...

      In my recent post Grief → Conflict → Power: Weaving the Five of Cups, Wands & Swords Under Venus Retrograde , I explored the potent sequence unfolding during Venus’s retrograde journey through Scorpio (stationing retrograde on October 3 at 8°29′ Scorpio). The core arc moves from the Five of Cups (Venus Rx in early Scorpio — focusing on loss, disappointment, and emotional reckoning around love, attachment, and values) into the Five of Wands (Venus square Mars around October 10–11 — open conflict, clashing wills, and friction over desires or boundaries) and culminates in the Five of Swords (Venus square Pluto around October 20 — sharper power struggles, control issues, betrayal of trust, or decisive confrontation and release). These energies invite a purification of what is truly sustainable in relationships and personal values. Unresolved grief erupts into conflict and then demands radical honesty with power dynamics. The invitation is to stop pouring energy in...

Romanino, Girolamo - Pegasus and the Muses On 2 October 2026, The Hindu published a thoughtful feature timed to the dual observances of World Architecture Day and the UN’s World Habitat Day. Titled “Why adequate housing must be at the heart of architecture,” the piece gathers architects, designers, and industry voices reflecting on what “adequate housing for all” truly means in India’s rapidly growing cities. You can read the full article here: https://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/homes-and-gardens/why-adequate-housing-must-be-at-the-heart-of-architecture/article71535709.ece     The timing is anything but accidental when viewed through the lens of the celestial weather. Two nearly identical charts — one cast for the article’s publication (approximately 18:15 IST on 2 October 2026 in Madras) and the other for the exact Sun–Saturn opposition on 4 October — reveal a powerful angular configuration that mirrors the article’s central concerns with uncanny precision. ...

In the long story of Britain’s landed aristocracy, few legislative moments proved as quietly transformative as the Finance Act of 1894. That year the Liberal government introduced a graduated Estate Duty — the true ancestor of modern inheritance tax — applying to the estates of those who died after 1 August 1894. What makes the timing even more intriguing is the sky itself.     On 1 August 1894 a New Moon formed at 9° Leo, tightly conjunct the Midheaven at 13° Leo for London. The lunation sat close to the Beehive Cluster (Praesepe), known in Chinese astrology as T’ien Soung , the Celestial Punisher, a star group associated with death, buried treasures and wealth accumulated in times of conflict. The same New Moon squared Uranus at 11° Scorpio, promising sudden disruption in the realm of shared resources and inheritance. In mundane terms the chart describes a decisive national shift: state power intervening in aristocratic wealth under a signature of mortality and abrupt ch...

The Great Bear Astrology sometimes reveals connections that ordinary observation misses. As Dennis Elwell put it: “Astrology embodies a system of new categories that are different from the ones to which we are habituated. In this system objects and events that at first sight appear to have nothing whatever to do with each other are shown to be intimately connected.” In early October 2026 an RT report highlighted a striking development across Russia: the country’s brown bear population has more than doubled over the past three decades to around 307,900 animals. Authorities recorded 59 attacks so far that year, resulting in 21 deaths and 38 injuries across 22 regions—well above the typical 20–30 incidents of recent years. An independent project named WhereBear began mapping sightings, tracks and attacks on an interactive map of the country. Officials discussed possible new measures, extra federal funding for affected regions, and even the option of removing brown bears from certain hun...

Centaur  Eurytus Asteroid 463368 Eurytus is one of those obscure minor bodies that has so far received almost no attention from astrologers. Discovered only in 2012 and named in 2026, it has yet to appear in the usual asteroid ephemerides discussions or interpretive literature. Yet the circumstances of its discovery and the mythology behind its name offer a rich, nuanced symbolism that is well worth exploring. Discovery Details Eurytus was discovered on 14 November 2012 at Mount Graham, Arizona (Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope, MPC code 290) by K. Černis and R. P. Boyle. The first observation was recorded at 14.27951 November 2012 UT (approximately 06:42:30 UT). The site coordinates are roughly 32°42′ N, 109°53′ W. Importantly, this discovery occurred only 8–9 hours after the total solar eclipse of 13 November 2012. The eclipse New Moon fell at approximately 21° Scorpio, and the event chart (cast for the same location) shows a powerful Uranus-in-Aries square Pluto-in-...