Friday Bite 28 November 2025

Talking Turkey

“1861, Americans went to war to keep a cabal from taking control of the government and turning it into an oligarchy. The fight against that rebellion seemed at first to be too much for the nation to survive. But Americans rallied and threw their hearts into the cause on the battlefields even as they continued to work on the home front for a government that defended democracy and equality before the law.

And in 1865, at least, they won.”

Heather Cox Richardson, 27 November

I AM WRITING this Friday Bite on Thursday, which is Thanksgiving in America. This morning, I read a piece on the history of this special day by Heather Cox Richardson in her excellent substack, Letters from an American. She talked not only about the genesis of Thanksgiving in 1621 when the Pilgrims shared fowl and deer with the indigenous Wampanoags, but how the significance of the holiday changed during Abraham Lincoln’s presidency and the civil war that divided the nation, becoming a time to remember the lives lost in the pursuit of liberty and equality.

This year, Thanksgiving comes at a similarly divisive period of American history. On the eve of Thanksgiving, two members of the National Guard were shot, a short distance from the White House. The suspect, an Afghan national who fled the Taliban in 2021, is in custody. In consequence, the administration has stopped processing immigration applications from Afghanistan.

Clearly, it’s not just America that is going through a troublesome time. Not only is the war between Russia and Ukraine raging, but the Palestine-Israel conflict is far from over and then there’s Sudan, Congo, Myanmar, and so it goes.

Here in Blighty, Chancellor Rachel Reeves finally revealed her much-speculated-upon budget, and its content proved as lacklustre as its author. As the government continues to struggle with balancing the economy and the disparate needs of the British people, it seems inevitable that heads will roll, including those of the prime minister and the chancellor. Whether these resignations occur before the winter solstice or in the volatile period between 20 January and 28 February is open to question. However, I believe neither of them will be in office by the next general election.

On Wednesday, a fire that engulfed an apartment complex in Hong Kong has been deemed the worst in more than half a century. It appears bamboo scaffolding surrounding the complex is to blame for the speed and spread of the fire, which has so far killed 128 people and injured 79. Two hundred are missing.

On Tuesday, Bloomberg, global financial news and analytics provider, published a transcript of two phone calls, one between Trump special envoy, Steve Witkoff and top Kremlin advisor, Yuri Ushakov, and another between Ushakov and Kremlin aide, Kirill Dmitriev. Witkoff is heard advising Ushakov on the tactics Vladimir Putin should employ in negotiating a peace deal with Donald Trump. The content of the conversation in and of itself is shocking, but what is even more shocking is its timing.  It took place on October 14, two days before the telephone call between the American and Russian presidents and three days before a meeting between Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky in which Trump failed to offer Ukraine the Tomahawk cruise missiles it had previously hinted that it would.

Witkoff has no previous diplomatic experience which may explain his naivety, but on the face of it his actions are nothing less than treasonous. Russia is the aggressor, not Ukraine. And Ukraine is the fortress that stands between Russia and Europe. Since World War I, the United States has stood shoulder to shoulder with its western partners but even if you put a positive spin on the actions of Witkoff and conclude that all’s fair in the pursuit of peace, it cannot be in the best interests of the western world for its most powerful nation to be supporting the cause of an authoritarian state seeking only to expand its anti-west influence.

I’m not going to take Witkoff’s chart apart, suffice to say we do not have a time of birth therefore we’re missing a lot of important detail, however some significant factors will remain regardless. Most notably, the generous Sun-Jupiter opposition – he is a charmer and an adventurer – and the Mars-Pluto square and the Mercury-Saturn square – the latter aspects revealing him to be a man with a mind for detail and someone you don’t want to cross. He is far from naïve. He’s been around the block more than once and would never have become the billionaire that he is without a nose for bull***t. So, in regard to his recent actions with the Russians, he knew what he was doing. And he’s backed the wrong horse. And with Uranus heading back over his natal Mars and squaring Pluto, and transiting Pluto opposing Uranus and squaring Neptune, he’s going to pay the price for his treachery.

Thanksgiving was the deadline set by President Trump for Russia and Ukraine to respond to Trump’s 28-point peace plan (recently reduced to 19 points). That has come and gone, although there are signs of progress. On Tuesday, a Ukrainian delegation that had held talks with U.S. officials in Abu Dhabi appeared to tentatively support the basis of the U.S.-backed peace plan — though key details remained unresolved – while later the same day Zelensky said “Kyiv was ready to advance the peace framework”. Then on Thursday, Putin let it be known that Moscow was “ready for serious discussions” about the draft proposals. “We’re getting very close to a deal,” said Trump.

What do all these developments have in common? They have taken place under this formidable astral canopy that has held sway with various moving parts for much of 2025.

The above chart is set for zero hours on 27 November from the perspective of Washington, DC. The familiar Kite configuration is in play: Jupiter sextile Uranus sextile Pluto (mini grand trine); Jupiter trine Mercury/Venus trine Saturn/Neptune (grand trine): all strung together by an opposition between Mercury/Venus and Uranus.

Try not to set too much store over what a Kite configuration means, the important factor is that all the planets involved are resonating with one another, therefore making a huge sound and exerting a powerful effect. That we think of kites as marvellous things, fun things, is to forget that their flights rarely last long and they end with a vertiginous dive to the ground.

This configuration remains in play for all of next week, and forms the background to the full moon in Gemini on the 4 December.

The “new” configuration in the above chart is created by the full moon, which is closely square the nodal axis (the point at which eclipses occur). And 13 degrees of Gemini-Sagittarius falls within a degree of the Ascendant-Descendant axis of the United States. Thus, this full moon with all its attendant themes of closure and completion and crisis points, is going to make quite an impact on the United States and its government.

I would like to believe that next week’s full moon will prove to be the signature on the end of the war between Russia and Ukraine, however, it could just as easily symbolize an escalation of hostilities. Personally, I can’t see how Russia will agree to anything less than the demands it’s been making for the past three years and ten months. But we’ll see. And although I have focussed my attention here on the full moon in reference to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, it could also play into other critical developments in America.

We are seeing history in the making, and a dark one at that.

Friday Bite 21 November 2025

Time and Karma

 “Quiet, Quiet, piggy.”  Donald Trump to female reporter on board Airforce One, 14 November.

“SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” Donald Trump, Truth Social, 20 November. (In reference to a video released by military veterans in Congress reminding military and intelligence officers that they must refuse illegal orders.)

“After being left in the dark for decades, having my repeated calls for transparency and action ignored, and living through nearly five administrations that turned a blind eye to this enormous travesty of justice, Congress finally listened to survivors,” Maria Farmer. 20 November. (The first abuse survivor to report Epstein and Maxwell to law enforcement in 1996.)

NOT FOR THE first time am I spoiled for choice as to where to focus my astrological laser. But speaking of lasers, one of the notable events of the week was the disclosure by Britain’s Defence Secretary that a Russian spy ship had directed light lasers at RAF pilots engaged in tracking it while off the coast of Scotland. The Russians pooh-poohed the report, maintaining the Yantar was an “oceanic research vessel”.  It is believed the Russian ship is engaged in monitoring, mapping and potentially interfering with undersea cables. John Healey described the situation as “deeply dangerous… We see you. We know what you are doing. And if Yantar travels South this week, our Forces are ready to act.”

Russia appears to have no shame when it comes to outrageous acts of the threatening kind – witness the forays of its fighter planes into various European countries’ air space – and considering Thursday’s announcement of a US peace plan for the Russia-Ukraine war, which is heavily slanted in Russia’s favour, it seems far from Russia’s aggression being tempered, it is being stoked.

In case you haven’t come across details of the plan drafted by Russian and US officials it involves Ukraine ceding the Donbas to Russia and reducing its army to 600,000 – a reduction of hundreds of thousands of personnel. Ukraine would be banned from ever joining NATO, and NATO would agree not to station troops in Ukraine. Meanwhile, Russia gets given swathes of Ukrainian territory it has not conquered and readmitted to the G8.

Last on my list of jaw-dropping developments was the almost unanimous vote by the House of Congress (247-1) to approve the release of the Epstein files. This was promptly followed by the Senate’s passing of the measure, and on Wednesday, President Trump put his signature on the bill. However, before we get too excited at the prospect of finally sipping the spilt tea, the really damaging material will probably never see the light of day – at least for years.

Under the legislation, the Trump administration can withhold records that identify victims or include images of child sexual abuse, or are otherwise classified. The legislation also allows records to be withheld if they would jeopardize an active federal investigation. The Justice Department has already said the files it withheld contained images of victims, downloaded videos of illegal child sex abuse or materials that had been ordered sealed by a court.

I misspoke. I have one more item on my list. The sight of Osama Mohammed bin Salman smiling benignly beside the President of the United States while he chided a reporter for asking the Saudi Crown Prince about his part in the grisly murder of Jamal Khashoggi was truly shocking. During Trump’s first term, US intelligence ascertained bin Salman had ordered Khashoggi’s murder, and the administration effectively cut off diplomatic relations with the Saudi government. “Things happen”, as Trump sagely observed.

When history looks back on these times, do we think it will applaud this president and this administration for their actions and earmark it as a golden period for America or will it question the disingenuity of the people who voted them in? That is, of course, if history remains untweaked…

The above chart of the new moon in Scorpio, which took place on Thursday, serves as an example of the alignments presiding over all these hugely significant developments. The new moon at 28 degrees of Scorpio (conjunct Mercury and opposing Uranus) squares America’s natal Moon (27 degrees Aquarius), Trump’s Ascendant/Mars midpoint) and Ukraine’s Venus (28 degrees Leo), Sun (1 degree Virgo) and Moon (22 degrees Aquarius). The involvement of Uranus clearly reflects the shocking and sudden aspect to events. Plus, as the months go by, each new moon will fall at 28 degrees of a sign, thus resonating with the above chart, albeit from different perspectives. The significance of all the above events cannot be understated. The actions taken at this time will have profound outcomes.

IN THE PAST six months, the Epstein affair has figured several times in my Friday Bites, and it is clearly not going away any day soon. I hate to admit it, but only this week did I realize that there are more than a thousand survivors of Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring – a web that stretched across the world and involved girls as young as twelve. This week, their suffering and patience was rewarded as the bill passed through Congress, the Senate and now bears the President’s signature.

Years ago, in the process of writing a book on reincarnation, I worked with a psychiatrist who regressed a number of people to a former life. I then set up charts of those former lives to see what connections, if any, there were with the current birth charts. I was amazed at the synchronicities and the way those original charts appeared to be responding to the transits at the time of the regressions. We may die. But our consciousness lives on, so why should we be surprised that a life long-gone should still carry a resonance. Which is a longwinded way of pointing out that Jeffrey Epstein’s chart is resonating with the current transits and progressions.

Pluto has been hovering over Epstein’s Sun for the past three years, but it is only now that the information, which has been buried under so much misdirection, prevarication and obfuscation, is beginning to surface.  With Trump’s signature on the release of the information held by the Justice Department, the process of discovery can truly begin.

Epstein’s progressed Venus has reached 29 degrees of Taurus and his progressed Mars, 28 degrees of Taurus, and on Thursday, the new moon (28 degrees of Scorpio) opposed them. And over the course of the next five months, each new moon will continue to play a tune on that degree, revealing more and more secrets. And I wouldn’t be surprised if, on the solar eclipse of 17 February (28 degrees of Aquarius), some powerful heads will roll.