The Sun meets Venus In an ongoing study, Australian astrologer Paul Westran says he continues to find statistical support for the relational roles played by the Sun and planet Venus as they progress through the birth charts of couples. Britain’s newest Royal couple, Prince Harry and his American fiancée Meghan Markle are the latest pair…
Author: e~collage
The asteroid Chiron & Respect for Personality
Our featured image is by Giovanni Dal Lago, Italy, of the asteroid Chiron; from the NASA archives. Chiron Recently I read Barbara hand-Clow’s book on Chiron. It has many interesting ideas but it ultimately fails as she takes too much from Ceres and gives it Chiron, thus hurting both. I did like her emphasis on…
C453, Murder Teriyaki Style : Sada Abe
Sada Abe was a prostitute infamous for killing her lover She worked as a maid in a Tokyo hotel, but also served as a geisha-girl prostitute. That is rather ironic as “Sada” in Japanese means “the pure one,” though the obvious pun of the Marquis de Sade somehow always comes to my mind, probably because…
C161 Peking Man & Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The long extinct volcanic peaks of Auvergne and the forested preserves of this southern province left an indelible mark on Pierre Teilhard and i his spiritual autobiography, The Heart of Matter, Father de Chardin writes about the hills and valleys of Auvergne that they …molded me. Auvergne served me both as a Musée de…
Lent & Padre Pio
Biograph Francesco Forgione was born in a small town called Pietrelcina, near Benevento outside of Naples in Southern Italy, He was fifth of eight children. At an early age, he had celestial visions & spoke with Jesus and the Virgin Mother. He was also tormented by the devil to turn away from the Heavenly visions….
Ralph of Nader’s Raiders Hellenistically
Ralph Nader and the Protest Vote Ralph Nader was born on February 27, 1934 in Winstead, Connecticut, to Lebanese immigrants. His mother, Rose, came from Zahle, Lebanon to northwest Connecticut in 1925 to meet her husband, Nathre, who ran a diner highlighting his own baked goods. Ralph later used many of these recipes in his…
Sen. Pat McCarran, Harry Reid & HUAC
Biograph: Nevada Sen. Patrick Anthony McCarran (Dem 1931-1954) drafted several pieces of legislation in the 1930s and ’40s all of which became the foundation for today’s aviation regulatory structure. He has an airport in Southern Nevada named him, the McCarran International Airport. Sen. Harry Reid appealed to the Dept of Transporation to change the name,…
RIP…Norma McCorvey aka Jane Roe
Her lawyer Gloria Allred on the left; Ms. McCorvey in the center, at a rally in support of abortion rights in Washington in 1989. Credit Ron Galella/WireImage The Backstory Norma McCorvey, the anonymous plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion in the United States, reshaping the nation’s social…
Braveheart: Robert the Bruce
BIOGRAPH: Robert I, the King of Scotland, was born on July 11, 1274. He is better known in history as Robert the Bruce, who reigned as the King of the Scots from 1306 until 1329 AD; a productive twenty-three-year reign. His claim to the Scottish throne was his descent from David I of Scotland from his…
C378 Circus Girl
Remember when you had to got o the Circus get the oddities of life? Then there was television and now YouTube. One doesn’t have to travel too far to see super large giants, and little tiny midgets. This chart, mentioned in E.C. Chamber’s Fixed Stars and Degrees of the Zodiac struck my fancy. Maybe it…