Friday Bite 4 July 2025
Happy Birthday!
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.” The Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776
“This is a moment where I struggle! There must be a bigger purpose! But I can’t see it! “I’m heartbroken to hear about the passing of Diogo and his brother Andre. Jurgen Klopp, 3 July.
TODAY AMERICA CELEBRATES its 250th birthday. Donald Trump, 47th and 45th president in a line that stretches back to 1776, is at the peak of his power. Today, he will sign his Big Beautiful Bill. A triumph for him personally and for 2% of the taxpayers who earn enough to benefit from the tax relief. A disaster for 11.8 million people who will no longer be covered by Medicaid. The belief that America will be made great again by rewarding those at the very top is about to be tested to the max.
This time two years from now, things could look very different.
AND THIS TIME TOMORROW things could look very different for Japan should the visions of a graphic-novel artist come true.
I’ll come back to both these matters in a moment. First, I should make a brief mention of another bill that was the cause of fierce rebellion and more than a degree of distress, not only to the disabled of Great Britain but the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Over the past seven days, here in Blighty, Keir Starmer’s welfare bill took a drubbing. Called the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Reform bill, it ended up doing away with all reforms of Personal Independence Payments, and went from saving £5.5 billion to saving £0.
At Wednesday’s Prime Minister’s Question time, the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, was visibly in distress, tears running down her cheeks, chin trembling. While she is responsible for the economy as a whole and the welfare bill in particular, such a display of misery was touching to those of us who have a heart but sent markets tumbling and the pound plummeting for fear she was about to go. We still have no idea of the “personal matter” that caused her tears, but MS Reeves is here to stay – for now.
SINCE THE UNITED States is two hundred and fifty years old today, I thought we might look at its solar return. And what a picture of turbulence it is, although what intrigued me initially was that Jupiter and the Sun are returning to their original positions. A Jupiter-return reboots all the inherent Jupiterian promise of a natal chart, in this case, the birth of the nation. Indeed, the right to pursue happiness is enshrined in the natal Sun-Jupiter conjunction.
In the USA birth chart, the Sun-Jupiter conjunction falls in the seventh house of partners and “open enemies” while in 2025, the Sun is to be found in the sixth house (the engine of the horoscope, and covering all things from health care and social services to the civil service and the military, indeed any institution that serves the country) and Jupiter is in the fifth house of creativity, the arts, entertainment, sports and all things related to pregnancy and children. Food for thought in light of the birthright issue and the health and well-being of the nation and its service industries. Such aspects of life may grow in a good way or get out of control?
That Pluto is rising and Uranus is conjoined to the IC – planets noted for their capacity to disrupt and transform – underlines the huge process of change the nation is undergoing. America is reinventing itself under the Trump administration. Pluto’s position on the cusp of the first house affects the face of the nation, its very identity, while Uranus’ location on the cusp of the 4th house, suggests trouble in the homeland: protests and riots, on the one hand – probably a housing crisis, even martial law temporarily instated – earthquakes and weather-related problems, on the other. That Pluto rules the Midheaven and Uranus the Ascendant reinforces the significance of these two outer planets for America in the next twelve months.
The Saturn-Neptune conjunction falls in the second house of the solar return, thereby exerting an effect on the economy. The belief that the Big Beautiful Bill will initially boost the economy but prove unsustainable, thereby precipitating a crash is one way of interpreting this combination. More importantly, Saturn and Neptune are joined together on the US’s IC. On the positive side, the combined efforts of Neptune and Saturn could bring the dream of Making America Great Again to fruition but on the minus side, the nation could be shaken to its very roots by the events of the next twelve months. Certainly, a change in the leadership of the country is not out of the question.
AND SO TO earthquakes of the real kind. Over the past week or so, people have been asking my opinion about the prediction that a massive earthquake is about to occur in Japan. Ryo Tatsuki, the artist behind the graphic novel The Future I Saw, published in 1999 and re-released in 2021, successfully predicted the Great East Japan Earthquake in March of 2011. The graphic novel depicts Tatsuki’s dreams of the future, another of which portends a megaquake in Japan on 5 July 2025. Tomorrow.
In my investigations, I came across other psychics and astrologers who were predicting the same event on the same day, so I thought I would take a look.
I have done some research into earthquakes and volcanoes, which I aired in a newsletter in January, 2019. I looked at several of the major eruptions over the last seventy-plus years, and found some common denominators – 28 degrees Gemini-Sagittarius being one, eclipses and the signature of eclipses, another. So, I set up a chart for a random time on 5 July, using Naze, Japan as the location since it has been the focus for one of the biggest earthquakes today.
From the positions of the planets on the fifth of July, there’s nothing that screams mega-earthquakes and tsunamis, however the time is crucial. Only by playing around with the time would you find a chart that reflected an eruption of a significant magnitude – 9.0 + on the Richter scale.
The nodal axis is one of the factors that appears to be significant in major earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions. The nodal axis represents the point at which eclipses occur so if an actual eclipse is not present close to the time of an eruption, then the nodal axis will be in a prominent position – conjunct the Ascendant-Descendant axis or squaring it; conjunct the MC-IC axis or squaring it; conjunct Uranus, Neptune or Pluto, and so on.
At the moment, the nodal axis is to be found at 21 degrees of Pisces-Virgo, and not closely angling Uranus, Neptune or Pluto, so if there is an eruption, we’re only going to see it in hindsight because of the position of the nodes.
Since 21 June there have been about 1,000 earthquakes in and around Japan, most of little consequence, although there was a 5.5 eruption yesterday, which has prompted the evacuation of a dozen people from the remote island of Tokara. And intense seismic activity is certainly a sign that a big earthquake is on its way. However, I would not feel confident in predicting a megaquake tomorrow, although many months ago I had a terrifying dream of an under-sea eruption, which I have mentioned in these Friday missives and on my YouTube channel.
I’m not ruling out a megaquake this year, but there is not enough evidence to say it is tomorrow. September looks a lot more likely.
ONE LAST THING. The tragic deaths of Diogo Jota and his brother Andre Silva. They died early Thursday morning when the Lamborghini they were travelling in veered off the road and burst into flames. Jota had married his long-term partner and mother of their three children, just ten days beforehand. His loss to Liverpool Football Club and the greater football world is devastating; the loss to his family – the loss of two brothers – unimaginable.
The thoughts of former Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp, (under the title) echo what so many people must be thinking; what purpose could there be behind such a tragedy? There is no answer. Life may have a design and each person a purpose, but we are not privy to that knowledge. Diogo died a matter of weeks after his first Saturn-return, so, in a way, he had completed a life-cycle. In twenty-eight years, he had lived a lifetime. What his death also serves to show us is that life is short. We never know when we are to leave. We must therefore live every moment to the full.
Friday Bite 27 June 2025
Daddy Trump
“Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes [on Iran earlier in the day] were a spectacular military success. Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated… if peace does not come quickly, we will go after… other targets with precision, speed and skill.” Donald Trump, 22 June.
“The events this morning are outrageous and will have everlasting consequences,” Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, 22 June.
“[Any further attacks by the United States on the Islamic Republic will] result in irreparable damage.” Iran’s Supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khomenei, 22 June.
AND SO THE twelve-day war between Israel and Iran was brought to an end. Well, sort of. There was a brief breach of the ceasefire on Monday, some twenty-four hours after it had been instigated, which gave rise to an explosive post by President Trump on Truth Social. “ISRAEL. DO NOT DROP THOSE BOMBS. IF YOU DO IT IS A MAJOR VIOLATION. BRING YOUR PILOTS HOME, NOW!”, but in the space of time between the last Friday Bite and this the war between Israel and Iran ended.
AT ZERO HOURS, Saturday (ET), a large strike-force of B-2 bombers took off from the Whiteman Air Force base in Missouri bound for Iran – a journey of some 7,000 miles and eighteen hours duration. To maintain the element of surprise, other bombers flew west over the Pacific. As the air fleet entered Iranian airspace, a US submarine launched more than a dozen Tomahawk cruise missiles at Iran’s Isfahan nuclear site. At 3:10 am (Iran time) Sunday/6:40 pm ET Saturday, the first B-2 bomber dropped two MOPs (Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs) on the Fordow nuclear site. Twenty-five minutes later, all US planes were beyond Iranian airspace and on their way home. Not a single shot had been fired by Iranian aircraft or air defences on the ground.
More than seventy-five weapons were used in total including fourteen Bunker-buster bombs and one hundred and twenty-five aircraft took part.
By any standards the mission was an unqualified success. And President Trump took little time in informing the world what had happened. At 19:50 ET, Saturday, President Trump took to Truth Social to announce the successful attack on Iran’s nuclear bases, and that “peace must now follow”. Since then, the American president has practiced the delicate art of diplomacy in the all too familiar way with blunt social media posts, replete with capitals and exclamation marks.
On Tuesday, a preliminary report by the DIA (Defence Intelligence Agency) suggested that the bunker-buster bombs had succeeded only in pushing back Iran’s nuclear aspirations by a few months. Plus, Iran has claimed that it had removed the highly enriched uranium from Fordow (and presumably the other two sites) and taken the material to a secret underground nuclear facility.
It will take months before the true extent of the damage to Iran’s nuclear infrastructure can be ascertained but it’s hard to believe that the instruments of such devastation (MOPs) would have not achieved their ends. And moving highly enriched uranium (in gas form) is not a task to be done quickly and easily.
As for the rights and wrongs of the United States action, time will be the judge.
However, based on the astrology, I’m not sure Iran has finished with its payback. The missile attack on Qatar’s Al Udeid air base – the largest US base in the Middle East – which was seen as the response to the US strike, was conducted with a reserve rarely exhibited in a climate of war, Mr Trump declaring Iran had run its plans past the US before it struck, “They were very nice. They gave us warning… Is one o’clock Okay? I said, ‘It’s fine.’.”
I say, don’t be fooled.
If you remember in last week’s Bite, I set up a horary chart for the question: will the US join Israel in the war with Iran? I came to the conclusion that it would. I have to confess to a deep sense of satisfaction when a prediction is borne out – and on this occasion twenty-four hours later. I also suggested, the Yod configurations in play at the time and their involvement with the Saturn-Neptune conjunction would “lead to huge consequences that cannot be foreseen”. I’ll come back to this shortly, but first, Operation Midnight Hammer.
Before I even mention the presence of the Yod with Mars at the apex, which makes it the protagonist of the planetary group, the vehicle through which the combined effects of Pluto, Saturn and Neptune are filtered, the MC-IC axis (12 degrees Sagittarius-Gemini) is the Ascendant-Descendant axis of the United States. And whenever you get markers like these (key planets, points and degree areas in the horoscopes of the actors involved) it adds an extra layer of relevance to the event chart or any chart you may be examining.
The second Yod – Sun and Jupiter sextile Mars, each in turn inconjunct Pluto – also features the angular Mars but here the protagonist planet is Pluto, making transformation and elimination the focus for the combined “energies” of the Sun, Jupiter and Mars. The Sun and Jupiter are both conjunct the USA’s natal Venus-Jupiter conjunction.
Were you to have used astrology to help you choose the moment to embark on this mission, midnight on 21/22 June could hardly have been bettered. However, the devil’s in the detail. The Saturn-Neptune conjunction, currently hovering over the US IC, and involved in both Yod configurations, is a double-edged sword. While its presence may invite the realization of a dream (in this case to render Iran toothless in nuclear terms) it also invites loss, betrayal and broken dreams. There are unknown consequences to this act.
Perhaps more significantly, the Saturn-Neptune conjunction is associated with the ends of regimes and the ends of eras. Again, while we may think this is a sign that the end of the Mullahs is near, it could equally point to the end of the Netanyahu regime or the Trump regime. This is a point I raised in regard to the Cancer Ingress chart for Israel, which, of course, occurred within the same time-frame as the attack on Iran’s nuclear sites.
So, I hope my instincts that there is more to come in the way of Iranian terrorist and missile strikes are wrong, and instead the war with Iran is over and a new Middle East order is set to emerge, but July’s astrology is anything but rainbows and unicorns. Plus, the Ingress charts I referred to in my video, have three months in which to fully reveal the transformational potential of these yods. Plus, the time period they cover ends with a solar eclipse opposing the Saturn-Neptune conjunction. Buckle up!
TRUMP DADDY refers to the NATO meeting which took place on Monday. It was a truncated event, shrunk from two full days to one morning in deference to President Trump’s short attention span. European leaders were at pains to please the American president, thanking him for the Iranian attack and praising him for bringing about a ceasefire. By all accounts, the meeting went well and NATO lives to fight another day. At one point, NATO secretary-general, Mark Rutte referred to Trump’s comment that Iran and Israel were behaving like two kids in a school yard that had a “big fight”. “Daddy has to sometimes use strong language to get them to stop.”
AND FINALLY, THE eldest son by a former marriage of Norway’s Crown princess was today charged on several counts including rape, sexual assault and bodily harm. The charges come after months of investigation which involved a “double-digit” number of alleged victims. I will take a closer look at the Norwegian royal family’s charts at a future date, but Uranus’s presence on the country’s midheaven is certainly where we can point the finger for now.
The times in which we live…