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.
Friday Bite 14 November 2025
Moon Shadow
“Thank you to The Telegraph for exposing these Corrupt ‘Journalists.’ These are very dishonest people who tried to step on the scales of a Presidential Election. On top of everything else, they are from a Foreign Country, one that many consider our Number One Ally. What a terrible thing for Democracy.” Donald Trump, Truth Social
“While the BBC sincerely regrets the manner in which the video clip was edited, we strongly disagree there is a basis for a defamation claim,” BBC spokesperson
“The idea that an American president would sue the British broadcaster, paid for by British taxpayers— sue for a billion dollars for a 12-second edit of a speech he made is pretty astonishing,” Jane Martinson, Professor of newspaper and journalism.
IN THE WANING cycle of the Moon, chapters end and situations that have peaked, wind down. And so it was that five days after the full moon in Taurus, the US Government shut-down ended. The shutdown had begun on 1 October after Congress failed to agree a spending plan for 2026. Over the course of the next forty-three days, the Republican-controlled House continued to represent the bill and the Democrat-controlled Senate continued to reject it. On 10 November, a handful of Democrats caved in and the appropriations legislation was passed. In those forty-three days, 900,000 federal employees were furloughed, another two million worked without pay, SNAP food payments were suspended and thousands of flights were cancelled.
Just why some Democrats decided enough was enough when the party was riding high after wins in the gubernatorial elections is open to opinion, but it appears to be more than a coincidence that within a day of Donald Trump signing the bill, some 20,000 pages of documents from the estate of the convicted sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein were released, including email correspondence between Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell and Epstein and author Michael Wolff. Within hours of the publication of damaging emails, House Republicans released another tranche of documents to counter “the Democratic effort to cherry-pick documents and create a fake narrative to slander President Trump”.
Dear oh dear, why does President Trump keep having to defend himself from outrageous slurs on his character and leadership. He was busy seeking to protect his good name earlier in the week, when a storm broke over a BBC Panorama documentary in which two separate parts of his speech to his supporters on January 6 were spliced together making it appear that he had encouraged the Capitol Hill riots. Heaven forfend!
Concerns about the documentary which had aired in October 2024, had been raised in a memo sent by an independent external advisor to the BBC; in response, the BBC had refused to accept there had been a breach of standards. On 3 November, The Telegraph published the memo and in consequence, last Monday, Trump’s lawyers sent a letter to the BBC demanding it immediately retract the documentary, issue an apology and compensate him to the tune of one beeliion dollars. The BBC was given a deadline of Friday, 14 November, 22:00.
On Thursday, the BBC issued a direct apology to the President, admitting that it had made “an error of judgement” but it refused to pay compensation. In the meantime, the Director General of the BBC and the CEO of BBC News resigned.
The British Broadcasting Company was established under a royal charter and operates under an agreement with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, currently Labour minister, Lisa Nandy. The company was founded on 18 October, 1922. The first radio broadcast – a news programme – took place almost four weeks later on 14 November. The organization became a corporation on 1 January, 1927 and it made its first television broadcast on 2 November 1936. Thus, there is more than one chart to consider for this hugely influential organization.
There are, however, common denominators in all four charts: 23 – 29 degrees of the mutable signs, and angular Neptunes – conjunct the Ascendant at the founding of the BBC, conjunct the IC at its first radio broadcast and conjunct the Descendant at the time of the first television broadcast. Quite fitting when you think that Neptune is the planet that governs the unseen world – and that includes how sound and images reach us in our sitting rooms.
At the heart of the debacle over the Trump documentary is the accusation that the BBC has a political bias that leans left rather than right. Certainly, it has just fallen foul of a far-right attack on its legitimacy, but it has survived such allegations before and will do so again. The corporation has had a difficult few years with scandals surrounding its leading figures and some very public resignations, which Saturn’s and Neptune’s transits of the latter degrees of Pisces stand testament to. On 31 December 2027, its royal charter comes up for review, thus it has a relatively short time in which to perform a root and branch review of its funding, programming and its purpose and, perhaps most important of all, reestablish its impartiality.
The charts of the BBC’s first broadcast, its first television broadcast and the corporation itself have planets between 8 and 10 degrees of the fixed signs and will thus be the focus for a Pluto transit in 2027/28, so we can expect to see a radically new version of “Auntie” as she heads into the next decade. But gone? No. It’s like the monarchy, a corporation for all seasons.
And speaking of the monarchy, it is King Charles’ 77th birthday today.
In tandem with the BBC it’s been a rubbish time for the monarchy. The egregious Yorks have been sacked/fallen on their swords but it’s probably going to take a few more nips and tucks to reshape the monarchy into something more appropriate for the times. And for that, we must wait for William. In a way, Charles is the last of the old guard. He has come to the throne at a time of national and international conflict and discord, a time when divisions between the haves and the have nots, left and right are at an extreme. No longer can the royal family be seen to enjoy such privilege and wealth, its members must roll up their sleeves, ride their bicycles and make do and mend like the rest of us.
We also know that King Charles is not going to have a long reign. His health is a concern, although he manages an extraordinary schedule for a man in his late seventies, let alone someone undergoing cancer treatment. With this in mind, I thought I would look at his solar return, which will cover the next twelve months.
I’m not the greatest champion of the solar return. Sometimes, in pretrospect, they turn out to have been spot-on and sometimes not. So, I’m going to make a point of returning to this solar return this time next year.
What initially strikes me as significant is the presence of Mars in Sagittarius on the Midheaven. Any planet on an angle acquires greater strength, and since Charles has a natal Mars in Sagittarius, Mars becomes even more important. Mars is conjunct Mercury, so I would suggest this is going to be a period in which the King will be expressing himself forcefully, travelling widely and taking some very courageous, if not controversial, steps. The Sun occupies the ninth house, so the theme of travel, interest in foreign cultures and creeds is going to be strong. The Sun is widely opposed to Uranus, although this exact transit took place in 2024, so its unpredictable influence is fading.
The Sun is also part of a Grand trine together with Jupiter and Saturn and Neptune, and since Uranus opposes the Sun, this configuration morphs into a Kite. In a nutshell, the next twelve months are going to contain some pretty shocking and certainly groundbreaking developments.
I also noted that the degree of the Ascendant in the solar return chart is that of the King’s Pluto, which brings the theme of transformation into the foreground. Death and rebirth, elimination and reformation – all Plutonic themes. Perhaps the next twelve months will allow him to show us that he is not the caretaker King but the King who championed the remaking of the monarchy.