THE UNREMARKABLE MEGHAN MARKLE

The Critics Say No But What Does Xtrology Say About Her Future...

If I were Meghan Markle’s, I mean Sussex’s, astrologer, I would tell her not to begin her Netflix cooking show while her predictive Venus begins its square to natal Mercury — keeping in mind that Mercury is your reputation and Venus is people that love you and you love. It can include the public. So a cooking show called, With Love, Meghan? Just an ironic choice. This is an anti-love aspect. You have to hand it to her. She never fails to disappoint.

After going most of 2024 with only predictive Sun square Neptune: the Sun, you, square Neptune, lies and disappointments, she picks the exact time there are fires in Los Angeles then changes the date to three months later, the day Donald Trump gives his address to the nation. She’s the author of her own failure. The girl needs a miracle.

Much to my surprise watching With Love, Meghan, I don’t hate it. It’s too much self-praise interspersed with some really elegant and useful information. It’s definitely uneven. But Meghan herself is lovely at times. However, you’re always waiting for the I’m-in-love-with-myself moments. Because they are always there just dying for their opportunity. You know the people that aren’t listening to you because they are just waiting for their chance to speak. This is Mrs. Sussex. Totally infatuated with herself.

There is an episode with Mindy Kaling. She is just try-hard in every gesture. Wearing too much makeup, Mindy is one of those people that thinks if she goes far enough, gets thin enough, she will get there. Kiss-up comments. Obsequious.

As for Meghan, I couldn’t stop looking at her hair. A lot of people reviewing her have mentioned it too. What is going on with Meghan is that, like the series itself, she asked for total control. She needs to hand the job of her hair over to someone who knows what they are doing. It’s distracting. It looks dirty and stringy. And it’s near the food she’s prepping. But the kicker is that she has an extremely white middle part — much whiter than her face. So which one is real? The color of her face, which is darker than her arms and hands, or the large middle part? Distracting for me.

The Independent called the series, “…a millennial blog come to life.”

And then there are the clothes that no one in their right mind would wear while cooking. Sticking to her neutral colors, these high end pieces run the risk of food stains. And the only reason you aren’t seeing that is another criticism. You don’t actually see all the preparation. Some of it is done off camera. And probably not by her. And it is edited to make it all so effortlessly easy. Highly edited. So much so, it seems unreal. We can only wish cooking is this easy. Wave a wand and you have beautiful dishes.

Variety called it, “a Montecito ego trip not worth taking…”

I do love her food choices. I really enjoyed seeing the freshness and beautiful colors from the plants in the garden outside the kitchen door. Except it isn’t her kitchen. It isn’t her garden. So another criticism is that it nows seems more than fake than ever. It’s manipulation on a very high level. Okay it’s Hollywood. But this isn’t a 50’s musical. This is a reality show begging for reality. People want to see where she lives and how she lives. I admit that’s the only reason I tune into the Kardashians. I do love the elegance of their houses, the furnishing, the grounds, the color choices and OMG the pantries — all that. And it’s missing here. I tell myself. Stop thinking about it. Nothing ever goes wrong in this kitchen. It’s perfect. Meghan is perfect. But it’s fake.

My favorite episode, if you want to check out only one, is the third with Roy Choi. Meghan is delightful with an absence of the awkward pauses and the self compliments. She resonates occasionally with great enthusiasm. Roy’s food is nothing short of amazing. Except that it’s very complicated. Most of us will never go to that much trouble. And we don’t get told exactly how it’s made. We’re just outsiders looking in. And again with the beautiful freshest ingredients Roy makes Korean fried chicken. Together they make a charcuterie board. My mouth was watering. I enjoyed this episode. Meghan wore her hair tied back.

There is one other episode that touched me. The one with Alice Waters. Either Meghan is a better actress than we’re giving her credit for or she connected with this dynamite women. If Meghan could hang on to this genuineness, in many ways she’s a natural. Narcissism is a serious mental illness. Narcs almost always end up alone, because part of the syndrome is to turn against the people you love. This formulates in early childhood so who is to blame?

One of the worst things that can happen to a narcissist is for their dreams to come true. Then the evil comes flying out. It’s a temptation or a scratch they can’t resist. It’s really fun to feel superior when you have so few feelings, and unfortunately being an expert isn’t included.

As ever?

"As Ever essentially means as it's always been, and if you've followed me since 2014 with The Tig, you know I've always loved cooking and crafting and gardening—this is what I do."

Meghan put raw chicken legs on a glass shelf in the rented fridge. An amateur move if ever there was one.

And this. Is she copying Emma Thynn, Marchioness of Bath — the first black marchioness in history — even down to her clothing? The two shows look and feel remarkably alike. She’s often accused of copycatting. Minus the children, of course.

My final thoughts: Meghan has a lovely quality about her, that Capricorn Moon charm, but underneath there is an anger. Pluto also conjuncts her Moon giving it a Scorpio vibe. That’s the two worst Moons you can have. Which makes her clearly a narcissist extraordinaire. You often find that with either of those Moons.

But again, it’s easy to like her until you notice “the agenda.” You’re either in it and then, almost always, you’re out. She goes though a lot of friends. It’s the moment you see through her, and then you’ll be scrapped. It’s when you don’t continue to fall for the current role she is playing. That’s what is happening here. We’re seeing through her. A narc’s self hating mistake. Exposure.

In an interview with Tina Brown, a founding member of The Daily Beast, Tina said, She’s still searching for that thing that makes her authentic…It should have been her sitting there saying, ‘Will someone for God’s sake, get me an effing project?”

“My husband’s popping by.”

What!?!?!? Popping by? Who says their husband is popping by? You say that about friends. Truth is she’s got one toe in and one toe out.

There’s some pretty good authority that Meghan and Harry aren’t living together. The whole thing about the children, I just don’t know. They seem very sketchy, but she did mention them in this series.

Venus square Mercury could also mean the end of her marriage. Probably. It’s lasts a year and a half. Another hint that the future is fraught. And the Nodes? The North being what you get? 1st House is you. Your physical self. The South being what is taken away. The 7th House is marriage. Meghan is living in a real fantasy. She married a living breathing prince. But will she be able to keep him.

“It’s full of confounding contradictions that prove she’s not ready to get real.” Rolling Stone

Meghan sees herself as royalty. Her $45 million dollar wedding and $1 million baby shower are just who she is — and really always has been despite her moderate beginnings. Her true worth has been discovered. And as as such she will never have to worry about dried flowers or the time it takes to put them on food. She will never have to work again — not real work like you and I do — just things she has some interest in or that brings her attention. She truly believes she will never be a single mother scraping out a living. But there is an excellent possibility that is exactly what is going to happen to her. It happened to Sara Ferguson, Duchess of York. So she is really using bad judgment with this high flying approach to everything she does.

Her future looks like this: May 18, 2026 predictive Mercury conjunct natal Pluto. November 18, 2027 predictive Mars conjunct her natal Sun with a little gap in between. I predict one day she will be back to her TV dinner beginnings. Or using that Duchess title for everything it’s worth. Unlike Sarah’s, she will bring her kids up to be just like her — if she actually has children.

“Thank you for loving me so much and for celebrating with me,” she tells the assembled parties at the season-closing brunch…

We don’t love her very much at all. And if she continues to just love herself, we never will.

It’s the lack of humour, irony, self-awareness and apprehension of the reality of this deeply unequal and apocalyptic world that makes With Love, Meghan so unlovable in the end. The Guardian

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Roy Choi’s Amazing Fried Chicken Ingredients

For brining, parboiling, and air-drying:
4 pounds full chicken wings (with tips) and drums
6 quarts water
4 garlic cloves, peeled and smashed
4 tablespoons fresh ginger, chopped
Juice of 1 lemon
Juice of 1 lime
Juice of 1 orange
1/2 cup kosher salt
1 tablespoon black peppercorns
2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 cup natural rice vinegar (not seasoned)
4 cups beer — whatever’s in your fridge
1 cup whole milk

For frying:
4 cups tempura flour, divided
2 cups highly carbonated, VERY cold soda water
2 quarts vegetable oil

For the flavoring 3-ways:
Ramen Salt, recipe follows
Sweet Chile O’ Mine Sauce, recipe follows
Korean Crying Tiger Sauce, recipe follows

Method

For brining:

1. Fill a large pot with water.

2. Add the garlic and ginger to the water, as well as the citrus juices, salt, peppercorns, sugar, vinegar, beer, and milk.

3. Bring brine to a boil and then reduce to a simmer and allow to cook for 20 minutes.

4. Drain the brine through a sieve, discarding the solids, return the brine to the pot, and cool for several hours.

5. Add the wings and drums to the cooled brine and allow them to brine in the fridge for at least a few hours or soak overnight.

For parboiling and air-drying:

1. Remove the chicken from the brine and reserve the brine. Bring the brine to a boil again.

2. Add chicken and poach about 8-12 minutes at a medium-high boil, skimming the broth for impurities as you do, until blood no longer pushes from the knuckles and the meat is firm to the touch. You want your wings and drums about 80 % cooked. A solid medium-well.

3. Turn off the flame. Remove wings with spider or skimmer onto parchment-lined sheet tray or wire rack-lined tray to dry and cool.

For frying:

1. Preheat the oil in a tabletop deep fryer or in a Dutch oven on the stove to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

2. Divide the tempura flour equally between two bowls.

3. Add VERY COLD soda water to tempura all at once to one of the bowls.

4. Mix preferably with chopsticks or by hand, feeling for clumps and adjusting moisture level as needed. If making a large batch, a whisk is acceptable, just be careful not to overwork your batter. The final consistency should be that of a melted milkshake, but just a touch thinner and very cold. Add ice directly to the batter as needed to achieve this texture and consistency.

5. Work in batches and by cut of chicken. For example, the drums first and the wings second as they will cook for different amounts of time.

6. Coat chicken in dry tempura flour first, tapping off any excess, and then completely submerge in wet tempura batter; they should be swimming. Allow the excess to drip off back into the batter.

7. Carefully drop the chicken into the 350 degrees Fahrenheit oil for 7-8 minutes or until internal temperature reaches 165 degrees Fahrenheit and the exterior is golden brown.

8. Remove with spider or tongs and to a paper towel-lined sheet tray.

For flavoring 3-ways:

1. For the Ramen Salt Flavor: While still hot, put the fried chicken in a metal mixing bowl and toss with a generous amount of Ramen Salt. Be sure to do this while it is still very hot so the salt sticks. Note: The Ramen Salt is a base for all three flavors and a flavor in and of itself.

2. For the Sweet Chile O’ Mine Flavor: Put a few pieces of Ramen Salted chicken into a metal mixing bowl and toss with some of the Sweet Chile O’Mine Sauce until well coated.

3. For the Korean Crying Tiger Flavor: Brush a few pieces of the Ramen Salted chicken with the Korean Crying Tiger Sauce until completely coated.

4. Serve with Quickles and Kimchi.

5. Enjoy!

Recipe courtesy of Roy Choi