21 March - 20 April
ARIES [March 21 - 20 April]
The main headline for all Aries this month is a very strong Solar Eclipse April 9 and that occurs in your own sign. Every Solar Eclipse is strong for many reasons. For a start, it is a total eclipse, secondly it occurs in your sign as a Super Moon, and thirdly it impacts two other planets, Mercury and Venus. We suggest strongly that you do take it easy and relax your schedule while that eclipse is in effect. Make a note it is a few days before, and after, it happens. “Sensitive” people will feel an effect two weeks before it happens. By April 16 your Arian soul is surrounded by Mercury and Venus in your sign. The impact with Mercury shows that cars and communication equipment will become tested. Often repairs and replacements are necessary. It is essential to drive more carefully. The planet Venus is testing your value system of your personal life and who, and what, is really important. A need to redefine yourself image so that others see your true happy, independent identity.
21 April - 21 May
TAURUS ( 21 APRIL- 21 MAY )
The total eclipse on April 9 is the major headline of the month! Sunday April 7, is the end of daylight saving for Australia, thankfully so! Besides the powerful Solar Eclipse energy, we have Mercury going retrograde again, just after Easter Tuesday April 2. Retrograde period lasts for three weeks, until Thursday April 25. The birthdays of all Taureans will commence on Friday April 19 and continue to Monday May 20.The best days for Taurus will be April 10 and 11, when the Moon is in your sign and the powerful Solar Eclipse is underway leading you to brilliant new adventures! We suggest that all Taureans “ down their tools” and climb out of their stubborn trenches to move into a new life with new family and friends by April 21 with Jupiter and Uranus in a fantastic powerful prosperity punch. The Full Moon takes place in Scorpio, opposite your sign, on Wednesday April 24. You will find yourself reviewing your finances. Your assets should increase in value.
22 May - 22 June
GEMINI 22 MAY -22 JUNE
The planet Neptune is helping to give you a strong spiritual period for April. You may find yourself drawn to some psychics or astrologers to gain certain information. As the planet Jupiter will move into your sign after May 26 this is going to be a life changing start for you and in a good way. This could mean a yearly cycle of prosperity ahead for you. Hopefully you may arrive at living at a higher standard than usual! The cosmos will support you with better financial results – 2025. However, you must note that before this prosperity can commence, the Universe asks you to review your life with regard to your true values. This starts with Mercury being retrograde for three weeks from April 2 through April 25. As the month of April contains a powerful Solar Eclipse, April 9, in the sign of Aries, you will be sharpening your pencil on paper with brand new ideas. Your “get up and go” mark will be from the weekend April 27-28. There is a need to dress more fashionably now.
23 June - 22 July
CANCER 23 JUNE - 22 JULY
You will not be pleased to know that the month of April will be gut-wrenching for you, as you have a powerful eclipse April 9 in the sign of Aries, which is bound to start a new adventure for you! You will be pleased to be at the end of the daylight-saving time, which ends Sunday April 7th. However, you will be in a period of reflection and reminiscing over your past couple of years, since the planet Mercury will go into its three-week retrograde period, commencing April 2 to April 25. Your best days for contemplating what you need to do with your career, and family, will be April 14 and April 15. A strong eclipse, such as this one, should be looked at, as a cosmic reappraisal of your life! Out with the old, and on with the new! It is time to let go of the frivolous. The eclipse also means important career changes are happening. Because two major planets, such as Saturn and Neptune, are in the compatible sign of Pisces, you would do very well to add garlic to your diet. Anzac day is emotional.
23 July- 22 August
LEO (July 23 – 22 August )
Every Solar Eclipse affects you strongly! Now this one, on April 9 seems especially strong. Why is that so? Wel not only is it a total eclipse in your compatible sign of Aries, but it also impacts other important planets in your horoscope. These will be Mercury and Venus, your money and career planets! Normally you are known as a ‘fixed’ sign, usually running with the same habits, but this total eclipse in Aries surrounds you with dramatic moves forward into new adventures! Before you can move forward from April 26 you must put up with a Mercury retrograde period from April 2 to April 25. Your best days to contemplate your future will be April 16 and 17 with Moon in Leo.. This eclipse also brings important financial changes. Perhaps your financial thinking, planning and strategizing have not been realistic, as the events of this eclipse will show. A course correction is necessary and will happen! Cars and communication equipment can behave erratically and may need repairs.
23 August - 23 September
VIRGO (23 August – 22 September)
A very strong solar eclipse on April 9 is the main headline for you this month. The eclipse is strong for many reasons. First it is a total solar eclipse and secondly it impacts other important planets and affects very important people in your life. It may be a month like having a hurricane rushing through your suburb. We suggest stay close to home, avoid unnecessary driving or interstate trips. Reschedule any events for another time to avoid one rushing on top of another! Because Mercury goes retrograde, for three weeks, commencing April 2 to April 25, and as Mercury rules this period you would be best advised to just repair or renovate anything around the home, furniture, electrical goods and computers. Your best days for reviewing your life will be April 12 and 13. This eclipse may want you to take action impulsively but this is extremely dangerous to your sign and can cause accidents to your head and hands. It is just the need to review yourself, your opinion of yourself.
24 September - 23 October
LIBRA [23 September - 22 October]
We have a very strong Solar Eclipse April 9 and that being in the sign of Aries, is opposite to your sign. We suggest that you take it nice and easy with a relaxed schedule while this eclipse is in effect. There is no need to panic it just means you can stay close to home, do what is absolutely necessary to do, however reschedule everything else. Take a short break, read a book, watch a movie, or best of all, ground yourself with your feet on the grass for at least ten minutes per day for the rest of the week. This is called “grounding yourself” to the center of the earth. The thing to watch out for is that your brain cells will go into reverse mode from April 2 to April 25! This is known as the Mercury retrograde period. The period is a great time to revise and repair any equipment necessary. Another thing to note is that Daylight Saving time will end April 7 just before the Solar eclipse New Moon April 9. Your best days of the month should be April 21 – 23 the Moon is in your sign.
24 October - 22 November
SCORPIO [23 October - 22 November]
The strongest Solar Eclipse of 2024 is the main headline for you this month. This is a Super Moon total eclipse and one that directly impacts your other planets, which makes it unusually powerful. You need to note that you will find yourself rescheduling activities and appointments due to a Mercury Retrograde period from April 2 – April25. Now the Full Moon, April 24, appears in your sign, Scorpio, and you will be intensely wanting to find out how to proceed further in your life and contemplate your whole value system. Because the planets Jupiter and Uranus are moving together in your opposite sign, Taurus, you may find yourself wondering whether your career offers the best opportunities, whether your relationships are satisfactory and whether you are living in the right area. In other words, you are about to have a total re-evaluation of your life, loves and fortune. Computers, software and high Tek gadgetry are likely to behave erratically during this Solar Eclipse.
23 November - 21 December
SAGITTARIUS (23 November – 21 December)
You love to travel Sagittarius, but it is not a good time for this while a Solar Eclipse is in effect April 9. It may be because there are dramas and disruptions in war zones or religious protests. It is much preferable for you to take it easy while this eclipse is in effect. It is also stressful because the planet of safe travel, Mercury, is in a negative resonance of going retrograde from April 2 to April 25. Your real travel time moving you forward is actually from the Full Moon of Sagittarius May 23. So, save your travel until that date. This solar eclipse is better for having a de-tox of the physical body. Some of your symptoms may seem like a disease, but it is really not so! The body is just getting rid of material which does not belong there. Since the planet Mercury is impacted, this eclipse will test all your current relationships. Perhaps not only your spouse or other office relationships. A sound relationship will weather this crisis. You are going to rethink the need to change in your career.
22 December - 20 January
CAPRICORN [23 December - 19 January].
There is a very powerful Solar Eclipse April 9, which is the main headline this month. This eclipse is the strongest one for the entire year. Because it is a Super Moon Solar Eclipse at 19 degrees mark of Aries, that sign is a challenge to your leadership. Because the Moon will be in Taurus that day it is strongly suggested that you re appraise all your values of life, including finances, career, and relationships. Take common sense precautions in that you do not need to drive or travel, if you don’t really need to. This is certainly a month to avoid dare-devil – type activities. More so as the stars are pointing to the travel planet, Mercury, in its retrograde period April 2 until April 25. This means a strong need to spend time around your home and family and perhaps major repairs and renovations will be front and center. There is bound to be more upheaval in an any corporate hierarchy. Job changes are also afoot! Your health regime may change over a few months.
21 January - 19 February
AQUARIUS [20 January - 19 February]
A very strong Super Moon Solar Eclipse on April 9 is the big headline for you this month! There is much healing to be done to rid you of old traditional ways, including bad relationships, and move forward into a new era. This is particularly so as the Sun and the asteroid Chiron are getting together at the same time as the eclipse. This is a time when someone thinks that their power is right and you can be dispensed with! You are therefore strongly advised not to react to others aggression, but to move away swiftly to your own safe ground. As the Moon will be in Taurus at this time you will be enlightened in reviewing your values of life and where you wish to be. Don’t take any short drives or go travelling during this period. It is really best to take a couple of days off, and to stay close to home. As the planet Mercury will be retrograde from April 2 to April 25, which happens to be Anzac Day in Australia, we suggest that you reschedule any events that are likely to be stressful. Mercury happens to be stationery ready to move communications forward again from 26th April! It clears most backlogs after Tuesday 14th May after it clears its 'shadow period"!
20 February - 20 March
PISCES [20 February - 20 March]
A Super Moon Solar Eclipse on April 9 is the main headline for every sign this month! This eclipse strongly affects several different areas of your chart, and most likely affects various important people in your life. There is no need to panic, but remain in your peaceful, patient “bubble”. It would be good to take commonsense precautions from April 2 to April 25 as the planet Mercury will be going retrograde in the sign of Aries. Unnecessary driving or travelling needs to be avoided at this time. Spend more time at home, read a book and have some therapy massages. During this three-week period of Mercury Retrograde this time period will show where you are thinking, planning and previous financial strategies need revision. Most likely friends and associations from the past may return under this retrograde period. The planet Venus may also be impacted by this eclipse therefore it is good to have important chats with your spouse or partner. The Cosmos blesses you!
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A really important article by Michael Gawenda Why journalists are failing to do their jobs reporting Gaza Former Age Editor Michael Gawenda explains the way the media works - or fails to work - in reporting the Israel-Hamas War.
MICHAEL GAWENDA
Last updated: 28 March 2024
Since the war between Israel and Hamas began on October 7, hundreds of foreign journalists from across the world, including journalists and film crews from Japan and China and Russia, have filed countless news stories, analysis pieces, filmed interviews with suffering Palestinian women and children and above all, an endless stream of the most heart-rending videos of the daily carnage in Gaza.
These hundreds of journalists are based in Israel from where they do their reporting. Their film crews are based in Israel. Some of the big US television networks have teams of 20 or more—reporters, camera operators, sound recordists— producing the network news coverage of Gaza. They are all based in Israel.
There are no foreign journalists in Gaza. The videos of carnage are taken by Gazans. A lot of the videos shown on screens across the world have been taken from social media. Some videos have been filmed by local journalists in Gaza and they are paid by the foreign media companies for it.
All the reports of what is happening in Gaza come from local journalists employed by the foreign media companies. Some of these journalists have proven to be members of Hamas. All of them do their journalism at the pleasure of Hamas. Was their reporting to displease Hamas, they would be forced out of journalism. One way or another.
Some of the local journalists have been killed by Israeli air strikes. The number is disputed. It is even in dispute how many of them were journalists rather that Hamas operatives and how many were killed doing journalism. The deaths of journalists covering a war is a war crime. But I do not believe there is any credible evidence that shows Israeli pilots deliberately targeted journalists.
Why am I writing about this, why does it matter when the people of Gaza are suffering so unthinkably, when so many women and children are being killed by the Israeli air strikes that have reduced much of Gaza to rubble?
Foreign journalists do not really know whether the news they are reporting out of Gaza is anywhere near factually accurate.
It matters because the hundreds of foreign journalists and film crews and international affairs journalists, in effect, do not want their audiences to know that they have only limited knowledge of what is happening in Gaza.
In fact, they hardly know anything that is based on their own first-hand reporting. They are all based in Israel, in Jerusalem in the main, which in the context of this war, is a long way from Gaza.
On top of that, the vast majority do not speak Hebrew or Arabic. As a result, most of them, even those who are based in Israel and are not visiting `firemen’ who have flown in to cover a `hot’ story about which they have read a bit on the flight to Tel Aviv, know few non-English speaking Israelis or Palestinians. As a result, in their reporting, Israel and Palestine, Israelis and Palestinians, exist only as actors in a bitter, century long, seemingly forever conflict.
How many of the hundreds of foreign journalists have told their readers and their television audiences anything about this, about how their lack of Hebrew and Arabic restricts their reporting?
Since October 7, I have written a fair bit about how the ethical standards that I thought most mainstream journalists had signed on to are being discarded, thrown out with yesterday’s news.
The many petitions and group letters that have circulated since October 7, signed and in some cases, instigated by journalists, with the support of the MEAA, the journalist’s union, in essence, call for new ethical standards in journalism. No longer was there to be a commitment to fairness, factual accuracy, open-mindedness, to journalism that was not agenda driven, that was in essence, a search for truth no matter how elusive and impossible to find the truth may be.
Instead, according to the letter signers and petition signers—the many thousands of them in the US, Canada and Australia—journalists were to be committed to social justice , to supporting the oppressed against the oppressors, to preferencing the voices of the oppressed― Palestinians which sometimes includes Hamas—over the voices of the oppressors― Israelis and their Jewish supporters and lobbyists in the US and Canada and Australia. It was okay—more than okay—for journalists to be activists for a cause.
I have written virtually nothing about the coverage of the war basically because I think the short-comings of the journalism—its shallowness, its sameness, its cliché-ridden commentary and analysis―are self-evident.
What is not self-evident because journalists are not prepared to talk about it, is that they do not really know whether the news they are reporting out of Gaza is anywhere near factually accurate. They do not really know what is happening because they are not there and they are relying on statements coming from Hamas or from local journalists who have to work by rules determined by Hamas. In truth, they cannot vouch for accuracy of their reporting and commentary, and they cannot check facts: they really don’t know what is true and what is false.
Local reporters in Gaza are simply forbidden by Hamas to practice journalism, to ask difficult questions.
And yet the group letter writers and petition signers ignore all of this and instead, insist that Hamas’s version of the truth of what is happening in Gaza—the number of civilians killed and wounded by the IDF, the brutal treatment by the IDF of innocent Palestinians, the deliberate killing by the IDF of children and women, the deliberate humanitarian crisis in Gaza engineered by Israel ― is essentially to be believed.
Perhaps it is accurate, this stuff coming from Hamas but here are some questions that any journalist with even a modicum of experience and with an open mind would want the leaders of Hamas to answer, questions that simply have not been asked:
Is it true that you deliberately hide fighters and weapons in schools and hospitals and mosques? If it is true, why do that?
Why do you have your missile batteries located in the densest urban areas of Gaza?
Why, as the rulers of Gaza, did you not provide the residents of Gaza with bomb shelters to protect the innocents against Israeli airstrikes—you surely could have used some of the billions of dollars in aid for that purpose?
Why are you holding old people and children hostage? Is that not a war crime?
How many of the people killed in the war in Gaza were Hamas fighters? How do you arrive at a daily death toll, distinguishing so quickly between fighters and civilians?
What is the outcome you want from this war? What outcome could end it?
As far as I can tell these questions, rudimentary as they are, have not been asked of Hamas by the local reporters in Gaza. They are simply forbidden by Hamas to practice journalism, to ask difficult questions.
Nor have these difficult questions been asked by the foreign reporters of the Hamas leadership in Qatar who have given any number of soft ‘interviews’ to Al Jazeera. Perhaps the Hamas officials in Qatar have refused to give interviews that answer these questions. If so, the journalists should say so and they should publish and broadcast the questions that have gone unanswered.
If the journalists have not asked these questions, then the only possible explanations I can think of is that the foreign reporters lack the courage to confront Hamas or that they think trying to force Hamas to be accountable for what it does is not important. Either way, this is a major reporting failure.
I think journalism is in crisis. I think more and more people believe that the mainstream media traffics in fake news. With social media awash with conspiracy theories and lies and malign fantasies, with Tik Tok the main news source for millions of young people, there is a desperate need for journalism that is fair, factually accurate and honest. Dispassionate but not heartless.
This is not the sort of journalism that the petition and group letter signers are urging on those covering the war in Gaza. The line between the ethics of the social justice warriors on social media and the ethics of journalists in the mainstream media is becoming blurred. That is disastrous for journalism and journalists. And not to be too pompous, for liberal democracy as well.
About the author
Michael Gawenda
Michael Gawenda is one of Australia’s best-known journalists and authors. In a career spanning more than four decades, Michael has been a political reporter, foreign correspondent in London and Washington, and was editor and editor in chief of The Age from 1997 to 2004. He has won numerous journalism awards including three Walkley awards.
