Jane Austen born December 16, 1775, during the Revolutionary War in Winchester, England. She was a great writer of mystery romances. -- Pride and Prejudice is a good intro because it is short. Sense and Sensibility is the better effort. Emma and the great Persuasion are solid literary efforts with the latter her best. Northanger... Continue Reading →
Vogue Magazine, December 1926 Photograph by Edward Steichen Anderson was born on September 13 1876 in Camden, Lorrain County, Ohio. We have pegged his ascendant to 18 Virgo. Locomotive temperament. Saturn in Pisces in the 6th is an interesting placement, highlighting how Anderson used his work to create a distance from him and family demands.... Continue Reading →
Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed.—Norman Rockwell This is a famous illustration that American painter Norman Rockwell did for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 4 Freedoms. https://youtu.be/mr9mPha3Eas Rockwell was born on February 3, 1894, and always wanted... Continue Reading →
The chart data is from British Astrologer Alan Leo's 1001 Notables. Marc Jones adopted it. He was such an ardent fan of Gandhi; he wrote Gandhi Lives, hence the title of this post. The book is available for about 13.00 on Amazon. Our header picture is of Mohandas Gandhi at 19 years old. Gandhi and... Continue Reading →
daniel-sternDownload Read her magnificent bio on New World. I cannot improve on that. She is bucket with a Moon handle, a common occurrence for writers (see Emily Bronte) who write romances. She has a preponderance in the sixth house in Capricorn highlighting her hard work on her novels and since her north node is trine... Continue Reading →
Cokie Roberts, long the face of ABC's national news, has reposed. She won countless awards, including three Emmys from the National Academy of Television throughout her decades-long career. Mrs. Roberts was inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame and cited by the American Women in Radio and Television (now called Advancing Women in... Continue Reading →
Thelma Todd was the daughter of a pair of immigrants: John Todd of Ireland and Alice Edwards of Canada. They met in Boston where John was working in the rug trade. It was a whirlwind courtship and they married on June 20, 1900 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, about 30 miles away in a Congregationalist ceremony. On... Continue Reading →
Comedian Tim Conway was born Toma Daniel Conway to Sophia Murgoi, a Romanian immigrant, and Daniel Conway, an Irish immigrant and a groomer for polo ponies in Willoughby, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, on December 13, 1933. He grew up in nearby Chagrin Falls. His birth name Toma was the Romanian version of Thomas, but... Continue Reading →
Marc Jones wrote very little on the nodes, so last month we took a turn with several other authors and highlighted their work on the nodes. Naturally, we found some better than others like Martin Schulman, Georges Muchery and Bernice Grebner, but in all honesty we did not survey Dr. Mohan Koparkar, Haydn Paul and... Continue Reading →
Countess Sheila Birkenhead was born on May 13, 1913 at 9:50 AM in Weybridge England. Marc Jones in his Sabian Symbols cites that data as does Mrs. Lois Rodden, probably from him. She was the daughter of the newspaper proprietor 1st Viscount Camrose, and married the 2nd Earl of Birkenhead in 1935. They had two children.... Continue Reading →
Albert II, Albert Félix Humbert Théodore Christian Eugène Marie of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, was born on June 6, 1934 at 10:45 pm in Vienna Austria. He was the second son to King Leopold III and Princess Astrid of Sweden who died 2 years late from a car accident. The princess was 29. While his elder brother... Continue Reading →
Highlighting the brilliant bacteriologist, Dr Hideyo Noguchi who died while trying to find the cure for yellow fever in Ghana.
