HAMILTON VS. MASSA - To the wire!

Halfway round the 71st and last lap of the Brazilian Grand prix I was gripping my chair-arms exclaiming 'But he CAN'T lose the Championship! Jupiter's on his Sun! It rules the starting MC of the race! His natal Venus is about to culminate at Interlagos!' Yet here was Lewis Hamilton, having driven a faultless race under very trying circumstances from P4 on the grid, trailing in to the flag in 6th position and losing not only the race but the Championship by one point to Felipe Massa. The Brazilian home crowd were ecstatic.

Then Timo Glock - who hadn't changed to wet tyres when the Moon swam onto the Midheaven and started to rain all ove the track for the second time since a chaotic and delayed start - skittered about on the track, lost grip, slowed down ... and Hamilton passed him. So he was now in 5th place. And that's where he was at the finishing line. And so he claimed that crucial one point that inched him ahead of Massa at the climax of the 2008 F1 series - and the UK has another World Champion racing driver! He's the youngest ever, and our first black driver, and I for one am absolutely thrilled. Well done, Lewis! And Well Done, friend Jupiter, who delivered astounding good luck at the eleventh hour and 59th minute, right on cue.

Felipe Massa who won for his home country was hampered by the current transit of Saturn/Uranus - its draconic position is across 3-4 Taurus-Scorpio and hitting on Massa's Taurus Sun. So a tricky year ahead for the gifted young Brazilian; I hope he gets his turn at the top spot later on. He drove like a champion, conducted himself with great dignity, and only because it wasn't his lucky year he missed out by a whisker. Roll on 2009!