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THREE CAESARS: PART 2 EMPEROR NERO
Birth name: Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus December 15, 37 CE 7:30 am local time Anzio, Italy The second emperor in our collection is Nero, 37CE-68CE, the fifth Emperor in the succession which began with Augustus. In between them reigned Tiberius 14-37 CE, Caligula 37-41 CE and Claudius 41-54 CE. In this complicated clan lineage, it seemed…...
THREE CAESARS PART I – AUGUSTUS
Augustus Caesar, born Gaius Octavius, was the first man to rule Ancient Rome as an Emperor. The nephew of the general and First Consul Julius Caesar, he navigated the perilous years after the assassination of Julius and emerged as victor and ruler of a hugely enlarged Empire which had just conquered the Hellenistic Empire –…...
WILL SMITH – FROM FRESH PRINCE TO SHIVA DEVOTEE
Will Smith, the talented teenager who might have gone to MIT, instead rocketed to fame as a rap singer and then as a talented leading actor in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. In 1996, as star of the hit movie Independence Day, he had begun a long run of annual hit movies while continuing…...
NOSTRADAMUS: DREAMER, DOCTOR AND PROPHET IN THE TIME OF PLAGUE
“I have at one time or another been slandered, reviled, laughed at, feared, called charlatan and sorcerer and heretic and saint and prophet. But the only true art that I possess, which cannot be taught to other men, is this thing of dreams.” – Liz Greene, words attributed to Nostradamus (1) Jyotish, the science of…...
ANTONI GAUDI AND THE SAGRADA FAMILIA – A SUNNY WINTER INTERLUDE
Birth Data: Friday, June 25, 1852, 9:30 am approximate local mean time, Reus, Spain While much of the United States and Europe experiences a cold winter, let’s take ourselves on a mental vacation back in time to sunny Barcelona, Spain, where the architect Antoni Gaudi conceived and started upon the ornate basilica known as the…...
A MOST UNPOPULAR KING – CHARLES I OF ENGLAND
Astrobiography by Lynn Bootes November 25, 2018 Last month I wrote about the stupendously popular and effective monarch Queen Elizabeth I, who ruled over England in the Renaissance in the time of Shakespeare. Less than 50 years after her death in 1603, her grand-nephew, King Charles I of England, found himself haplessly caught up in…...
THE PEOPLE AROUND QUEEN ELIZABETH I
To the Reader: Here are the birth charts of the people closest to Queen Elizabeth I of England, and a few of the major events of her life. These charts are meant to be used as a companion to the main Astrobiography article in this issue. Note that the source of data for the births…...
GOOD QUEEN BESS- THE POWER OF JUPITER
“I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too…” July, 1688 “And though God hath raised me high, yet this I account the glory of my crown, that I have reigned with your loves. This…...
Swami Vivekananda – A Morning Sun Rises
BIRTH DATA January 12, 1863, Calcutta (Kolicutt), India, “just after sunrise on the first day of the Makara Mela,” according to family records, rated as AA data by astrodatabank. See footnotes for details regarding calculations. Everyone with an interest in Vedic astrology, yoga, meditation and New Age mysticism in America owes a huge debt to…...
Fixity of Purpose – Mirra Alfassa Richard (“The Mother”)
Mirra Alfassa Richard, also known to the followers of Sri Aurobindo as The Mother, began life as a privileged daughter of atheist bourgeois intellectuals in Paris. From a very young age she spontaneously meditated and went into trance, and as a young adult she sought out and mastered the practices of Western Occultism. She and…...