Don Murray Astrologer

Don Murray Astrologer DON MURRAY Champion astrologer & tipster. A week after turning 27 in 1981 I left my homeland, New Zealand, again and headed to England. I was confused.

I couldn’t work out why I wasn’t gravitating towards a steady job, a wife, two kids and a mortgage like the majority. I’d had 14 jobs in the previous decade and was sacked from 9 , including 4 years as a racing journo with the NZ HERALD and two years of clerical in horse racing administration. I’d also worked in racing stables in Melbourne and in the allegedly roughest pub in the world in Port Hed

land, north-western Australia, during two years in Australia. Add four spells as an unemployment beneficiary, and a year as an investigative reporter for the SUNDAY NEWS in Auckland before 7 months as a truckdriver preceded my voyage to England. During a spell grooming polo ponies in south England I made friends with an Australian who shared my love of horse racing and introduced me to my first Astrologeress after I returned from a stint in a tourist hotel in the Scottish highlands. I’d had always been interested in star sign astrology and later on the Chinese version with its animals but this Astrologeress showed me the real birth chart and I was hooked. She told me about a lot of major events in the past and why I was not meant to follow the normal routine of marriage and mortgage and faith in the employer. Terms like " Uranus in the Cancer ascendant " and the " Moon-Neptune conjunction " can explain a lot of abnormal behaviour and Mars opposing Jupiter from the fifth is the awesomeist for explaining one’s love of horse racing, sport, partying, womanising etc
I was always top of the class in rural Ruawai primary and went keenly to be a boarder at Mt Albert Grammar School in Auckland for the 3rd form. After quite a mysterious marriage, the parents separated at the end of the 4th form and I was extremely pleased when mother moved down to Auckland and allowed me to quit the military regime of boarding school. The new " home " had it’s problems, too, and I was kicked out at age 16. Soon afterwards I scored a job with the horse racing administrators in Wellington and eagerly left Auckland to begin an exciting new adventure......
My waning interest in horse racing was rekindled with the discovery of Astrology in London. I was a pig in sh*t studying this newfound passion, and analysing people and my own past, to where I could see methods of predicting the future. When I returned home I continued my studies of Astrology and started gathering birth information on horse trainers and jockeys and plotting winning days. In my days as a racing journo/administrator and occasional employment in the stables I had been party to some incredible corruptions involving race-fixing and pull-up jobs, and I hadn’t bothered much afterwards with betting when there was no inside knowledge from trainer and jockey mates. In 1985 I launched the PLANET KINGDOM tipping sheet, which listed happy ( and likely winning) dates for various trainers and jockeys.( In the June 1988 edition of the Australian section a date, was allocated for " Trainer N McBurney, " who lined up one runner in Sydney that day, Dixieland Jazz, which saluted with bookmakers offering as much as 100 to one.) In 1995 an 0900 number was launched for tipping racehorses and later on an email service for the betting clients which still operates. I’ve written columns on the astrology around sportspersons and various others in newspapers like FRIDAY FLASH and TRUTH and did an annual STATE OF THE ASTROLOGICAL NATION address on Newstalk ZB every January for 18 years from 1994. I do birth charts in a professional capacity and enjoy introducing people to the wonders of astrology. I have lived in Otahuhu, Auckland since 1990 and am happily single. I am interested in cultures and in a volunteer scheme which helps black African families adjusting to the complexities of NZ life.

06/12/2025

NZ RACING NEEDS A REECE WALSH

The world loves bad boy stories, those who've turned their lives around and emerged from difficult lives. Bad girls,too, and also innocent victims who've risen from the ashes:

October 2023: " At 15, Erin Leighton was given drugs and indecently touched by serial fraudster Paul Bennett and a woman who can’t be named. Sixteen years on, they have now been convicted and sentenced for their crimes. Katie Harris speaks to Leighton about her battle to hold the pair to account. "

In several mainstream media stories there was no mention of Leighton's past as an apprentice jockey. While subsequently ignoring her amazing comeback to race riding, and time as Trackside Channel's mounted interviewer.

As we know, horse racing is having great problems attracting young people, with their media's constant, tedious fare of breeding and group ones.

While rival sports are relishing the bad boys and you've only gotta look at Rugby League and wonder what a wizard like Reece Walsh would be like in stodgy old NZ racing ? Although he wouldn't be regarded as a “ blue-blood “ in their stud book, being by an indigenous Australian from a Hawkes Bay Maori mother. Who got badly into drugs and departed when Reece was 2 years old.

Walshy's now legendary at age 23, with his drinking from the toilet, painting his fingernails, the Grand Final and Ashes triumphs and his much-publicised parental devotion. Add a co***ne drama at age 19.

Meanwhile, the Wanganui Jockey Club hatched a master plan to attract patrons to their Cup meeting on November 29. They decided to target the idiot market, and charged a $95 entry fee for their 9 races ! That $95 got you 3 " beverage tokens. " No table, but a 3-4 person bar leaner could be hired for an extra $45 !

On which day the central's new riding sensation nabbed 2 wins from her 6 rides, with dividends of $8.40 and $14.10. After last weekend, 33 year-old Erin's season tally is 9 wins from 44 rides, and usually at outsider odds. In a chequered career, E Leighton's only had 319 race rides in 14 years, but 50 winners makes for a very impressive strike rate.

A comeback kid who definitely deserves more publicity.

03/12/2025

R360 LEAGUE " DONALDED "
December 4

The ink was barely dry on the November 2025 Annual Prophecies when work began on next year's stunners. Inspired by this:

" The launch of the R360 league, billed as a 'new global rugby series', has been delayed by two years, to 2028, to allow more time to meet the proposed rebel franchise's standards and ensure its long-term commercial impact, board member and former England centre Mike Tindall says. "

As one of 1978 Horse-year vintage, Tindall can expect all kinds of chaos and confusion in the recurring 2026 Fire Horse Year. With his booking for next November's Annual Prophecies already confirmed !

" Tindall, Mike:
Massive and difficult changes for rugby official with Pluto attacking Mercury and Jupiter between Feb 027 and Nov 028. Serious Saturn-Sun setbacks around May, Oct and Feb 028."

If Tindall's still involved, 2028 will be a disastrous year for R360 to start. That's if it's still going.

THE HORSE PEOPLE

Those born in HORSE years like 1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990 etc are renowned for their restlessness and adventures and not being suited to dull, boring routine. It's the Fire Horse's turn in 2026 and all horses traditionally experience a lot of surprises and unplanned change when their year recurs. The 2026 Fire Horse starts his gallop on February 17 and retires to the stable on February 5, 2027.

Among the notable horses are NZ pollies Chris Hipkins, Nandor Tanczos, Casey Costello and Eric Stanford. Also Aussie's Pauline Hanson and rugby league personnel Reece Walsh, Allan Langer, Ricky Stuart and Shaun Johnson. Other gallopers from horse racing include G*i and Robbie Waterhouse, Annabel Archibald, Shane Dye, Leith Innes, Dennis Ryan, Craig Thornton and Emma Clotworthy.

Footnote: For the undereducated, " Donalded " is a derivative of Cockney Rhyme's " Donald Duck."

01/12/2025

Wasting $35K PER KID ?

Many years back I decided to introduce a Youth Special to Astrological Enlightenment.

The Enlightenment has 3 stages--character analysis, then past-life analysis, which really blows people away with milestone identification, then 3 years into the future. Once for $120, discounted to $90 for Indian clients when I was on Humm FM weekly for 7-8 years. With many recommendations to family and friends, further discounts were introduced.

Then it dropped to $90 for everybody. A multi-talented Russian client, K.... was so impressed by her Enlightenment that she suggested a discount would get many of her acquaintances interested. So the $60 F O K special was introduced for " Friends of K...." Young ladies were ringing up for a " special Fok . " Eventually I decided to have youth rates as low as $50 for teenagers.

The character analysis usually discovers hidden talents and abilities. There was an Indian couple, so inspired by predictions, including finally becoming parents. Then requesting Enlightenment for their 3-weeks old twin daughters, who listened in their basinettes, along with their parents and a grandmother who didn't speak a word of English. As always it was recorded in voicemail.

With plenty of recommendations, as I marvelled at what else $50 can get you. One current client charges $70 a session for her nail polishing skills. Retirement has me just doing 3-years forecasts for $50. While shaking my head in disbelief at this recent stupidity:

" Spending $35,000 on a child now could save hundreds of thousands of dollars later and have major social benefits, Social Investment Minister Nicola Willis says.
She was commenting after the Government announced which programmes would receive money from the first $50 million to be provided through the Social Investment Fund. The seven programmes will reach more than 1600 children aged up to 18."

They think that'll stop kiwi kids topping the world for teenagers topping themselves ? After that recent " New Zealand has been reported by UNICEF to have the highest youth su***de rate (ages 15-19) among 41 OECD and EU countries ? " NZ would need an entire overhaul of it's culture, education and media systems that would never happen.

$35,000 per child ? That's a lot of $50 Enlightenments, from a system that proves it's trustworthiness by pinpointing milestones in early life. Even during the rapid-fire sessions with Murray Deaker on Newstalk ZB, and one notable client of June 1954 origin offering her birthdate. Within seconds she learned of a drastic change of life around age 19 ?

" I got pregnant ! " was the reply and I started considering her upcoming year, before Deaker's interruption with " Hang on, hang on, how can you tell something like that ? "

So I explained that her birthdate in the Ephemeris had the Sun at Cancer 0 degrees and erratic Uranus at Cancer 19, so via the day-for-a-year progression method, that Sun would be jumping on Uranus 19 years later and causing major chaos.

It's awesome having a system that can be trusted. Not many of those in struggling, angry NZ at present, with faith in the popos plummeting to an all-time low after the McSkimming-Coster-driving licence disgraces and about 147 popos in total now under investigation !

Poor New Zealand.But you can't help stupid if stupid doesn't want to be helped.

" Take me down to the Su***de City
But don't talk about Astrology because they get real s**tty "
-Guns N' Roses ?

29/11/2025

40 YEARS OF BEATING CORRUPTION

On a racing page in the weekly TRUTH newspaper of November 19, 1985 there was an unusual advertisement for a " tipping system: "

CATHY COSTIN STRIKES ON DECEMBER 21

Explaining how for $12, subscribers would get a list of Astrologically-calculated winning and losing dates for prominent jockeys and trainers in the month of December.

After discovering Astrology in London, I returned home in October 1982. The discoveries had also included formulae that produced days of good fortune for people. I'd had a lot of fun as a racing journalist in the 1970s, and been party to all kinds of skullduggery--- trainers wanting horses pulled up, jockeys organising races--- and I even used to place bets for jockey mates on horses they were racing against !

Great when you're in the inner circle, so horse racing was a memory when I left journalism. Race form and all the study meant nothing when a crafty old trainer tells the jockey to " give it a quiet one " so they can get a price next time.

So on returning home, I started gaining birth information of trainers and jockeys in my spare time while working in hospitality. Eventually launching the PLANET KINGDOM tip sheet in December 1985. Instant success with December 7's selected jockey, Debbie Healey winning on the first of 4 mounts-- Final Stick at $27.30. A couple of losing days, then the publicised Cathy Costin struck with Pentameter at $24.10. Bad for the nerves as it was at Ms Costin's 5th of 6 rides on December 21.

I started concentrating on small-time trainers and jumps jockeys who'd only have one or 2 chances per day. Then disaster struck in April when a government department decided that " tip sheets " contravened some archaic law. Suddenly they were outlawed in NZ, so I moved to Australia and marketed the tipping system over there.

THE BART CUMMINGS EPIC

Notably labelling trainer J B Cummings for Tuesday, November 4, 1986---Melbourne Cup day, on which Bart was so famous. Not this year, J B Cummings had only 2 runners in the whole of Australia that day. A failure in the Cup, then Cropley Road winning the next race at Flemington paying $55 !

Then the laws around tip sheets were relaxed in NZ and I was home early in 1987. Tip sheets were now okay as long as they contained a percentage of editorial comment. So the Astrological racing system was relaunched on June 1, when labelled jockey Paul Hillis won the Great Northern Steeplechase at Ellerslie on $12.55 shot Deductable. We were back in business.

THE PUBLICITY STUNT

Helped in no uncertain terms by some controversial " editorial " in the August edition. Re the racing authorities' bad attitude to Cannabis-using jockeys and revelations about widespread use and its benefits. So a fuming racecourse inspector decided to ban me indefinitely from racetracks at Pukekohe on Saturday August 1. Which earned maximum publicity from a Sunday Star-Times page lead the next day, then IZB prime time with Paul Holmes at 8.45 am Monday.

There were follow ups from IZB and the Star-Times and 2 sessions with great stirrer Tim Bickerstaff on Radio Pacific. The publicity stunt brought a lot of new clients and the October edition began with a novice jockey named Lisa Cropp getting a $45 winner from her 3 rides. Still the idiotic racecourse inspector refused to pardon me for racetrack return, until I submitted the names of 60 jockeys I had smoked Cannabis with, so they could be charged !

No ! was the answer and I went home and phoned Tim Bickerstaff. A few hours later I'm on air and Tim wondered about the racecourse inspector " wants you to go supergrass on your jockey mates, just so you can go on racetracks ? " Not that it had stopped me from going.

Eventually the racecourse inspector's bosses stepped in and I was officially pardoned after 8 months. Come 1995 a fresh challenge was needed and an 0900 line system was introduced. Weekly columns in FRIDAY FLASH ( 1990-92 ) and TRUTH ( 1994-97 ) helped the cause, along with irregular appearances on various radio and television channels.

BEING VERY SELECTIVE

Drastic changes to racing programming and dwindling jumps racing days saw the 0900 number retire in 2009. A new challenge was needed, and later that year the great service resumed for select clients, with a return to the original plans and aiming for longshot dividends. Another challenge, with clients placing $20 on the selections as a " management fee." If we don't win, I don't get paid. We're careful,too:

Since 2019: 25 investments, 8 wins. Average win dividend $12.42 on a 32% winning strike rate. We've had 4 losers and a 0204 formline since an October 2023 winner. That paid $8.50 after a 030 formline which followed a $26 winner in July 2023.

The quality of human involved in racing has dropped alarmingly and it's become so unattractive to normal people. I have even tried to help them, by trashing the long-standing myth about " no certainties in racing, " with Astrological unbeatables in Friday Flash, Truth and Trackside Channel over the last 35 years. My efforts were not appreciated.

Nowadays I can't be bothered with paltry $2 and $3 win dividends, I'm stuck in the golden 1970s emulating the cunning master trainers setting them up for a good dividend. It's a lot of fun, with patience, and I'm looking forward to 2 possibilities on Boxing Day, always one of my favourite days. Boxing Day has a formline for us of 113121 over 20 years, and includes winners that paid $28.50 and $13.00 !

27/11/2025

RIPPER RECESSION TIMELINE

The RPM ( Recession Predicting Machine ) has been very productive in the last 6 years.

January 2, 2020:
2 years of " great destruction " were forecast for Australia, courtesy of Pluto squashing its midheaven point until November 2021. February and June of 2020 were deemed crucial. ( Covid arrived in " February " and stayed until late 2021. Australia announced that it was in recession in " June " ! )

April 6, 2020:
" Very easy to see NZ's lockdown being extended and not a great deal of improvement overall until September. With the same Sun-Neptune progression being repeated around October 2021." ( There was another horrific, 4 months lockdown before NZ was finally free of the virus in December 2021. )


December 22, 2021:
Another recession for NZ was forecast between October 2023 and March 2024 beneath " BEWARE THE IDES OF NOVEMBER 2023 !" ( Lots of liquidations and layoffs had new PM Luxon's claims of inheriting "a recession " when he took over in December 2023 )

June 14 2024:
" NZ'S NEXT RECESSION " explained why there was another " ripper " between February 2025 and November 2026, courtesy of Pluto squashing NZ's Mercury. With serious hits around March 2026, involving similar, " difficult Solar progressions. "

These same " difficult Solar progressions " supervised the serious issues of late 2020 and 2021. When NZ was deemed to be " gullible, weakened, unhealthy, confused and careless with money." The March 2026 factor means there's 4 months of extreme industrial amendment on the horizon.

Of which there has been plenty in recent months. In 2025, New Zealand is experiencing its highest wave of company liquidations in over a decade, with figures on track to surpass the 2024 total of 2,500. By mid-year, 1,270 businesses had already entered liquidation, a 12% increase from the same period in 2024. Experts anticipate the total number of liquidations for 2025 will be 20-30% higher than the previous year's 10-year high and 2700 businesses have closed down in the last 12 months.

" Experts " in such an angry country going backwards ? With morale at an all-time low after the stunning revelations about those 17 " popos/pigs/ducks and geese " being investigated ? With unemployment now at a 30-years high, and there’s gonna be plenty more dramatics in the early months of the 2026 Fire Horse Year.

At least we know that the R P M can be trusted.

25/11/2025

THE PREDICTIONS FOR 2026

Every year these pearlers produce a 90%-plus strike rate. Just to show the world how useful the Astrological tool can be when planning for the future. Instead of the normal 50 predictions they've been cut to 40.

ARIES

Currie, Shayne:
Plenty of anger for veteran journalist with Saturn attacking his Sun,Mars and Uranus with May, Oct and Feb 027 very crucial. More personal life chaos with Uranus attacking Venus in June, Dec and March 027.

March 23,24,25 people weakened, complacent by Neptune crossing the Sun.

TA**US

Cummins, Pat:
2 years of difficult change for cricketer from Pluto attacking his Mars. Feb, March, April, June crucial, also Jan, Sept and Nov 027.

Jones, Stacey:
Major changes around NRL coach with Pluto-Mercury advancement between Jan and Nov, but chaos from Uranus squashing Mercury around June, Nov and April 027. Difficulties in close relationship matters from Pluto attacking Venus until Nov 027, with March and June 026 crucial.

Purdon, Mark:
Turmoil time for the harness racing great with Uranus-Moon and Pluto-Jupiter chaos in home and family matters.Feb, March, June, Aug notable with Dec very crucial, then Pluto v Mercury confusion in 027.

Major Pluto v Sun reversals for April 23,24,25 borns.

GEMINI

Stokes, Ben:
2 gap years recommended for cricketer with Pluto anti his Mars. March, June crucial, also Jan, Sept, Nov 027.

May 23,24,25,26 borns subject to Pluto-Sun advancement and Uranus over Sun chaos.

CANCER

Christie, Dame Julie:
Time out needed for the television maker with Uranus assaulting her Venus and Mars. June, July, Oct, Nov crucial, also April and May 027.

Luxon, Christopher:
The P M's blissful Neptune-Mars free ride ends in Feb. Thereafter chaos and confusion from Uranus v Node, with June and Dec crucial.

Seymour, David:
Unbelievable confusion and dithering from polly with Neptune-Sun, Saturn-Sun and Uranus-Jupiter negativity. Feb, March, June, Dec and Jan 027 very crucial.

Swarbrick, Chloe:
Polly getting pummelled by confusing, indecisive Neptune attacking Mercury and the Sun, with April, Sept and Feb 027 crucial. Also Pluto v Jupiter difficult career change between March 026 and Nov 027.

Tangata-Toa, David:
Major achievement year for NRL coach with awesome Pluto and Uranus trines to his Jupiter. And Neptune trining his Node.March, June, Aug, Nov very notable.

Walsh, Reece:
Slow start to season for NRL superstar with Uranus-Venus and Saturn-Mercury attacks in March, April.

Neptune v Sun indecision and confusion for June,23,24,25 borns.

LEO

Ardern, Jacinda:
Major comedown for the evil secrets hider with Pluto attacking her Sun until Nov. Serious Saturn restrictions Jan, April, May, Sept, Oct, Nov with a difficult emotional event around Nov as well.

Bosson, Opie:
Blissful Neptune-Sun trine ends around Feb, then gap autumn recommended for champion jockey with Saturn-Uranus-Mars collision around April. Awesome Pluto and Uranus trines to his Mars promise new energy and enthusiasm through 2027-28.

Gelagotis, Peter:
Major off-year for Melbourne horse trainer with Pluto attacking his Mars and Sun, and Saturn-Moon squashes. Jan, May,July, Aug, Oct, Dec notable.

Markle, Meghan:
Many emotional positives with Pluto and Uranus trining her Moon. March, June, July, Oct notable also Jan, May 027, with a special pinnacle around Nov 026.

Obama, Barack:
Serious emotional and residential reversals from Uranus-Moon and Neptune-Venus issues. Feb, March, April, June, Nov, Dec crucial, also Feb, April 027.

Tallis, Gorden:
Massive off-year for NRL personality from Pluto v Sun and Uranus v Venus attacks. Jan, May, July, Nov, Dec crucial, also Jan+Feb 027.

Pluto v Sun upheavals for July 26,27,28 borns but Neptune trine Sun bliss for July 25,26,27.

VIRGO

Johnson, Shaun:
Crazy times and drastic change for the NRL star from Pluto-Jupiter, Uranus-Venus and Uranus-Mars complications. Feb, May, July, Nov and Dec are crucial. Also Jan, Feb, April of 027 with Pluto-Moon challenges in that year as well.

Jones, Shane:
Much improvement for polly with Pluto and Uranus trining his Node. Feb, July, Nov and Dec notable after some Saturn setbacks in March.

Uranus v Sun reversals for Aug 25,26,27 borns.

LIBRA

Bellamy, Craig:
Major improvement for NRL coach with Pluto and Uranus trining his Node. Saturn setbacks May but Feb, July, Aug, Nov more productive.

Hayes, David:
Gap year recommended for horse racing great from Pluto v Mars and Uranus v Ascendant and Jupiter between Feb 026 and Feb 027.

Lowe, Sir Graham:
Gap years recommended for rugby league great with Pluto attacking his Mars. March, June crucial, also Jan, Sept, Nov 027. Saturn setbacks around April, Nov, Dec 026.

Netanyahu, Benjamin:
Crazy times and very erratic behaviour when erratic Uranus jumps on his Midheaven point around July. Confused and gullible from Sun v Neptune attack around Oct.

Major benefits from Uranus and Pluto trines to the Sun for Sept 25,26,27,28 borns.

SCORPIO

Cleary, Nathan:
Major off-year for NRL superstar with Neptune straining Mars until late 027. May, Aug 026 crucial, with Saturn-Venus setbacks in April, Nov, Dec.

Collett, Samantha:
Maximum chaos for leading jockey with Uranus v Sun, Moon, Mercury, and Saturn complications. March, May,July, Aug, Oct and Jan 027 crucial.

Lorde:
Time out needed for the stressed musician with Uranus attacking her Mars and serious Saturn complications. May, June, July, Aug and Nov crucial, also March and April 027.

Pluto v Sun upheavals for Oct 26,27,28 borns.

SAGITTARIUS

Lim, Nadia:
Major comedown for media person with Pluto attacking her Mars. Jan, Aug, Nov crucial.

Myers, Kelly:
Gap year recommended for veteran jockey with Uranus attacking her Sun, Moon and Mercury. May, June, July, Nov, Dec notable.

Maxwell, Ghislaine:
Major life improvements from progressed Jupiter-Moon and Midheaven-Moon trines. Positive emotional and residential changes, with Jan + June notable.

Roll, Jelly:
Entertainer needing rest in Feb when Saturn and Neptune shall be severely weakening his Mercury position.

November 24,25,26 borns subject to Uranus-Sun reversals and Neptune-Sun bliss.

CAPRICORN

Baker, Bjorn:
Down times for the gun horse trainer from Pluto attacking his Mars. Feb, July and Dec crucial.

McDonald, James:
Very slow autumn for the superstar jockey with a destructive Pluto progression squashing his Mars in April. Also Saturn restrictions in May, July, Aug, Oct.

Spratt, Samantha:
Major slowdown and close relationship issues for leading jockey with Pluto-Moon attack between April 026 and Dec 027. Uranus-Mars problems in Aug, Sept with Saturn-Sun setbacks in May, Oct and Feb 027.

Webster, Andrew:
Difficult changes for NRL coach with Pluto squashing his Venus around Jan, Aug, Nov. Saturn-Mars frustrations in June, Sept.

Neptune v Sun indecision and confusion for December 24,25,26 borns.

AQUARIUS

Logan, Donna:
Many reversals for veteran horse trainer with Neptune v Mars and Uranus v MC. March, July, Sept, Nov, Dec crucial.

Outteridge, Nathan:
Major off-year for sailor from Pluto-Node attack with Feb, Aug, Dec crucial. Better 027 with Uranus-Sun trine.

Pluto-Sun squash and personal reconstruction for Jan 24,25,26 borns but Uranus-Sun advancement for Jan 22,23,24.

PISCES

Collins, Judith:
A crasher for Crusher, with Uranus v Mars supervising erratic behaviour and dramatic change. June, July, Aug, Oct crucial with improvement from Pluto-Mars trine after May 027.

Devlin, Martin:
More monitoring necessary for broadcasting weirdo from Uranus attacking his Mars, Sun and Moon. Difficult progressions around Jan, April with May, June, Sept, Dec crucial as well.

Grylls, Craig:
Setbacks and difficult changes for leading jockey with Pluto-Moon attack. Feb and March very notable, also July and Dec.

Willis, Nicola:
Serious stress for polly with Saturn v Jupiter x 2 in Dec. But major improvement 027+028 with Uranus then Pluto trining that Jupiter.

Uranus-Sun reversals for Feb 21,22,23 borns.

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23/11/2025

THE NATIONAL PLONKER

NZ's " mental health " crisis has long been a source of great amusement. With yet another contribution from the national plonker:

" Scott Robertson's All Blacks are just not good enough and it's really upsetting me, " claimed Sir John Kirwan.

How much ? How does the " really upsetting me " compare with Kirwan's rank failures in 14 years as a head coach, and the Auckland Blues worst-ever ? As we know so well, the bone was well and truly pointed at the 2025 All Blacks in last November's Annual Prophecies, with those stunning prophecies on the 3 Scotts.

Ironically, the national plonker gave Astrology a big tick of approval in my sole appearance on Sports Cafe in August 1997. During discussion with regulars Marc Ellis, Ric Salizzo and Lana Coc-Kroft, Kirwan chimed in with a pearler: " My mother told me that you said this was going to be a bad year for Matthew Ridge ! "

Mother Kirwan must have learned this from Truthsport or Newstalk ZB. It was Ridge's first season with the Auckland Warriors after shifting home from Sydney, and he was in various on and off-field dramas. Was there some Astrological discussion in the Kirwan household ?

I had actually phoned mother Kirwan late in 1994 re John's birth time after getting tipped off about the Warriors planning to lure Kirwan from rugby retirement and sign him. His birthdate planets indicated some kind of comeback in the competitive arena. Mother Kirwan didn't think so, but J K did come back and play for the 1995 Auckland Warriors.

A promoter of evil alcohol as well as being a " mental health advocate," Sir Johnny Wino could claim to be the ultimate in hypocrisy. And like many " experts " with fragile egos, he cowers away from the amazing Astrological truths. So many have told unbelievable lies, a notable being the fellow " mental health advocate " Mike King.

Instead, Sir Johnny Plonk Pedlar could just S**U and deal privately with whatever's " really upsetting me." He's got around 40 brands of the JK-14 plonk he peddles to choose from !

Kirwan is best-known for " opening up " about his " mental issues," which are actually the product of revolutionary Pluto squashing energetic Mars when he was born. Maintaining positive energy is very difficult under this aspects, and possessors experience drastic and extreme personal changes.

Depression and mid-life crises are common, with fellow possessors including controversial NZers Brent Todd, Cameron Slater, Brooke Howard-Smith and departeds Pua Magasiva and Sean Wainui. Horse racing has donated dramatics like Stephen McKee, Michael McNab, Paul Milich and the late Ray Cleaver.

Kirwan's extreme personal changes include being a mental health advocate then a promoter of evil alcohol !

22/11/2025

KIWI KIDS ON TOP

Even if NZ squanders zillions on " counsellors, " this should not be funny !

Key Statistics (as of May/October 2025 data/reports)
• Ranking: New Zealand has been reported by UNICEF to have the highest youth su***de rate (ages 15-19) among 41 OECD and EU countries.

" Take me down to the Su***de City
But don't talk about Astrology because they get real s**tty "
-Guns N' Roses ?

21/11/2025

WHEN THE GOLDEN ERA BEGAN

'Twas 33 years ago this month that NZ got its first taste of real radio Astrology.

More than the shallow, Sun sign crap, this was real, using the time, date and place of birth. I had been writing a column in the horse racing weekly Friday Flash since June 1990, and making many accurate predictions. Initially on horse racing, then I veered onto subjects like rugby league, royalty and even the Gulf War. Jarrod McCracken, Prince Charles and Saddam Hussain featured.

This needed to go further, so I wrote a letter to Radio Pacific with my credentials. They decided that I would be in the 10 am-noon spot on Monday, November 23, in the One on One with Tim Bickerstaff. I was promoted as an interesting person, an ex-journalist whose travels had included tending bar in the world's allegedly toughest pub ( Port Hedland, Western Australia ), grooming polo ponies for Prince Andrew's father-in-law in England and discovering Astrology.

Eventually the talkback lines were opened and callers provided their birthdates and got a brief analysis. Like the young lady who was told of a wonderful Neptune-Venus phase this year, and she spoke enthusiastically about her recent engagement !

So many accurates like that, and even Bickerstaff asked about his own future. 1993 would have major Pluto-trine-Jupiter expansion, and he hoped the expansion wasn't going to be " around the waistline ? " No. More a great year for career matters and a good time for business.

At the end, the normally sceptical 49 year-old broadcasting lifer Bickerstaff admitted to being " impressed. " Which inspired me to go home and write to the boss of Radio Pacific. Such an amazing science/system deserved much more publicity, but he didn't think so. Then I sent a letter to about a dozen radio stations/publications.

Mid-1993 Bickerstaff and Radio Pacific's boss clashed. Bickerstaff stormed off, leased airtime elsewhere and began his own show. Late that year I got my first reply from the letters. Newstalk ZB's producer contacted me, with suggestions of an hour with Murray Deaker on New Year's Day, 1994.

This happened, and the annual January hour went for 18 years. A nation wanted it and loved it, with talkback lines jammed with people for the instant Astrological analysis. 15 minutes after the show I'd be home to a dozen messages on the answerphone and the 0900 line received 67 calls one Monday after a Sunday show. But some 15 years ago, the new media regime started cutting Astrological content. My last Newstalk ZB show was in January 2011.

You can feel very alienated from the land of K.I.W.I in laid-back, multicultural, own-rules Otahuhu. But NZ is obviously struggling, with those recent spikes in su***de, liquidations, layoffs, poverty, homelessness and massive debt. And the methamphetamine boom.

Collectively the stupid cuntry didn't learn anything from the era of awesome Astrology. But I prefer to see the positives from that amazing chapter in the comic book of life. Thousands of smart people did have their lives enhanced with Astrological enlightenment, and 18 hours of the free, prime-time advertising with NZ's most influential sportscaster would have cost me a fortune..

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