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Balaristha – Understanding Obstacles In The Birth Chart
Nothing challenges the astrologer so much as working with the chart of someone who seems to have been born with unusual obstacles not just to success but to life itself. This month I have dug deep into my files and present some short biographies of non-famous people I have known who have lived such lives…....
Victoria and Albert – Creators of the Modern Monarchy
“Why should we have Germans to rule over us? (Lady Jersey, 1820) (1) “From my heart I thank my beloved people. May God bless them!” (Queen Victoria, in a telegram sent on the day of her Diamond Jubilee, June 21, 1897) (2) Queen Victoria of England, born Alexandrina Victoria Saxe-Coburg Hanover, began life at a…...
Fred Rodgers – The Milk of Human Kindess
“(Through silence) …you’re able to be much more mindful of what is deep and simple and how essential that is, in order to keep on growing…. And whatever our expression of care might be, whether it be television or the Internet or all of these books that the people want us to write — whatever…...
Vladimir Putin – A Study In Raja Yoga
“I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education.” (1) “No one in Russia should be able to call President Yeltsin a puppet of NATO.” (2) Last month, the Astrobiography featured Lois Rodden, the astrologer who established standards for birth data collection. This month I am going to step outside those boundaries…...
Blowin’ In The Wind- AstroBiography of Bob Dylan
Birth Data: May 24, 1941, 9:05 pm, Duluth, Minnesota AA data from birth certificate or written record. “Bob Dylan is a figure that arises every three or four hundred years. He represents and embodies all the finest aspirations of the human heart. He is unparalleled in the world of music and will remain a torch…...
Williams Randolph Hearst: Media Mogul of American Imperialism
Birth Data: April 29, 1863, 5:58 am, San Francisco, CA. Source, “from memory.” As the 2016 United Presidential election draws near, and debate season is upon us, I though it would be instructive to look at the chart of a media mogul from a century ago who also ran for President. Like Donald Trump,…...
A Tale of Two Cadets
This is the story of two young men who entered the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1969. WJ (whose real name I am not using due to his Special Forces involvement) went on to an eventful career as an Army commander. Mukunda Tom Stiles experienced a different kind of awakening which led…...
William Butler Yeats, The Astrologer Poet
THE SECOND COMING (1920) Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of…...
William Lilly: An Astrologer’s Life
Birth Data: May 11, 1602 (Gregorian Calendar) 2:00 am, Diseworth, England. Source: his autobiography. This is apparently a time he rectified, as it is unlikely that an exact record was available. In the old Julian calendar, the date was May 2. I have chosen to present the chart with a 2:33 am birth time. Astrologers…...
The Monastic Thomas Merton
by Lynn Bootes Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk in the Cistercian order of the Catholic Church. A gifted writer and teacher, he entered the monastery as a recent convert in 1941 in the midst of the Second World War. Through his writings he fostered a renewed interest in the contemplative life among American Catholics…...