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An article in the AFA1 monthly journal submits a new chart for Edgar Cayce. The author moves Cayce’s ascendant from Marc Edmund Jones’s of 25 Leo 33 to something like 20; not even the decan is changed. I have seen that trick before, so let’s ignore it. My pet peeve aside, I don’t agree with […]

Hamish Saunders of Astrology House, the developer of Janus software, emigrated from his native Scotland to go to Auckland to pursue his dream. Does his chart agree?

Dune is the mystical science fiction story from the pen of Frank Herbert, where the Atreides & Harkonnen families battle for world supremacy, all the while unknowingly guided by Bene Gesserit witches while Fremen fight for their freedom. This post was inspired by seeing the first Villeneuve movie. After that, I read the prequels by […]

Clarence Darrow is a well-known libertarian lawyer who defended highly unpopular cases. He is most famous for is the Scopes Monkey Trial. Darrow, at the behest of the then nascent American Civil Liberties (ACLU) and in collusion with the school’s superintendent , approached a Tennessee high school teacher to claim he had lost his position […]

Gary W. Lineker was a football striker. In European football, or American soccer, the team sets up the striker, who has the power and maneuverability to actually “strike” the ball into scoring position. Lineker played for several top teams in Britain and Europe. After retiring, Lineker became the host of Match of the Day (commonly […]

Dulles National Airport in Washington DC is named for the father of the CIA. He is also the longest servicing head of the organization and once ran for president on the Republican. Unlike another CIA director, George Bush, he was not as successful in his bid. Astro.com two birthdays for him, but they seem to […]

I could find nothing to support this date under the original heading of “abolishing apartheid” as it came up from an ISAR search, but upon further research I could spot an article from the New York Times archives about DeKlerk legalizing the ANC.  That must have been the incident to which ISAR was referring.

Marc Jones has Karl Marx with a 1:30 am birth time. This gives the German political philosopher 10 Aquarius as his ascendant — [HS] “artisan in mosaic glass” the call for careful and sophisticated consideration of subtle distinctions before the execution of one’s great work.” It gets the keyword of “Planning” according to McClung as […]

Marc Jones has Karl Marx with a 1:30 am birth time. This gives the German political philosopher 10 Aquarius as his ascendant — [HS] “artisan in mosaic glass” the call for careful and sophisticated consideration of subtle distinctions before the execution of one’s great work.” It gets the keyword of “Planning” according to McClung as […]

On November 14, 1948, the Prince of Wales was born in Buckingham, sometime in the evening. He was the first child to queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh. Princess Elizabeth was just 22 & in labour for 30 hours during which time his father gallantly played squash with his private secretary […]

Marc Jones, in his Essentials of Astrology,  writes James R. MacDonald is his illustration of the “see saw type” and the real creator and organizer of the Labor Party in Great Britain.  Jones for the record, was a strong progressive Democrat.

Our header picture is Nikki Haley with her family on the left and her husband’s on the left taken when she was governor of South Carolina.  Based on the poinsettias in the background, I imagine it was taken as a Christmas Holiday photo —  Mrs. Haley is a convert to Christianity but her parents remain […]