Starting out Roscoe Lee Brown was born on May 2nd 1922 in Woodbury, Gloucester County, New Jersey (not far east of Philadelphia) to a Baptist Minister and his wife. He went to Lincoln College, (now Lincoln University) an all black college in Lincoln College, Pennsylvania and then served in the army in WWII. Afterward he... Continue Reading →
Jean Baptiste Morin writes that he was born during the daytime i.e. 8:33 in the morning, and the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus and Saturn are all in the 12th house. He used the Whole Sign house system so they are "all" square to Mars in the third. The parental effect The Moon is the significator... Continue Reading →
Marc Edmund Jones lists him incorrectly as Louis duHohle born on January 25, 1903 at 7:45 PM sans location. Astro.com gets the win here, with the right details of January 24, 1903 in Berlin Germany. De Wohl, as an astrologer, states that his birth time is 15:30. To be honest, we disagree with his time... Continue Reading →
The duc d'Aumale – Henri Eugène Philippe Louis d'Orléans was born 16 janvier 1822 in Paris France. When he was eight he inherited the Domaine de Chantilly in 1830, from his godfather Louis-Henri-Joseph de Bourbon, the last Prince of Conde, thus becoming one of the most significant landowners in France. The portrait below is of... Continue Reading →
William Warrender Mackenzie, 1st Baron Amulree, GBE, PC, KC -- Knight Commander -- (19 August 1860 – 5 May 1942) was born in Scone, a town outside of Perth, Scotland. He was the fourth son of Robert MacKenzie and his wife the former Jean Menzies. The Baron was also known as Sir William Mackenzie between... Continue Reading →
Like Sigmund Freud that we just highlighted, the late Kate Spade also has a Martial handle to her larger bucket. Hers falls on the seventh house cusp highlighting how her partnership with her husband Andrew Spade, really brought her inspiration and drove her workaholic self into high gear. It is partile to her mid-heaven so... Continue Reading →
We mentioned previously that Elbert Hubbard was the first horoscope in How to Learn Astrology with a full complement of astrological symbology. Sigmund Freud is part of the earlier lessons where Marc Jones uses his "piano key" to highlight what the student should focus on. In a B&W publishing word, the piano keys were a... Continue Reading →
Unravelling Hubbard and his legacy at Roycroft We will be tackling the various charts in Marc Jones's How to Learn Astrology by Marc Jones over the succeeding months. You can read the whole book online... Continue Reading →
Biograph: She was born Florence Lilian Braithwaite, the daughter of an Anglican minister and dean of Croydon, but was professionally known as Lilian (one L) on March 9, 1872, Ramsgate, England. She was married once to fellow Shakespearian Gerald Lawrence with whom she had her only daughter Joyce Carey, on March 30, 1898. Her marriage... Continue Reading →
Ralph Lauren is a on a roll. Last year he designed the first lady's dress for the inauguration. This year he created the USA Olympic Team's couture (our header image is an illustration). Born Ralph Lifshitz in the Bronx, New York on October 14, 1939, he grew up there on Moshulu Parkway, itself a creation... Continue Reading →
Sada Abe was a prostitute working as a maid in a Tokyo hotel in the Hirohito area, pre-War WWII Japan, 1936. She strangled her lover, Kichizo Ichida, who was also her employer, during mad passion after he told her he no longer wanted her sexual favours. She then cut off his penis with a carving... Continue Reading →
General Michael Thomas Flynn has been in the news a lot lately. There is no birth data anywhere for him other than place, Barrington Rhode Island and month December and year, 1958 -- so we chose one and rectified from there. Read ahead for is our very speculative chart for him. We propose that General... Continue Reading →
