Category: Literarti

Bernard Malamud always had some element of magic in his works. As we close down the 500 nativities, I began to wonder why, so I did his chart. He won two National Book Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for The Natural” that became a Hollywood Movie with charismatic Robert Redford. 

Marianne Deborah Williamson born July 8, 1952 at 3:53 am in Bellaire, Texas, a suburb of Houston, to conservative Jewish family. Her father Samuel was a WWII veteran and after the War an immigration lawyer; her mother a homemaker for her family. Marianne is currently running for President as a progressive liberal against Joe Biden, […]

Who was Tennyson? Alfred Tennyson was the most popular poet of the Victorian age. With royal patronage, Queen Victoria made Tennyson Poet Laureate in 1850 for his poetry defined an era. There was a time when his poems, particularly the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. were […]

Read her magnificent bio on New World.

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 her […]

Recently I have been reading A History of Modern Poetry by David Perkins, Harvard University Press, and rediscovered many a familiar poet that I haven’t read in ages. John Davidson was one though I probably could not have told you more than he was “poet with Eliot connections” but that was about all.

Having just finished Karen Christino’s biography on “Eva Adams” the controversy on her birthdate is barely settled. She gives that Evangeline, a popular name at the time, was born to the poor side of the Adams family on Pavonia Avenue, right next to Journal Square (where the PATH station is these days) Jersey City, New […]

A man of aphorisms Jones cites his birthday as September 24th, 1891 which is the same as the New York Times obituary.  Marc Edmund Jones,does not local mean time (LMT) the birth times in his 1000, but uses the clock time. I prefer Zain’s method of LMTing the time as I agree it gives better results. This gives […]

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 […]

Alice Ann Bailey, often called AAB, was a woman ahead of her time. Born June 16, 1880 as Alice LaTrobe-Bateman in Manchester, England at what we have reckoned to be 9:50 pm. She first married fellow Christian evangelist British Walter Evans but this union ended in divorce as Bailey’s occult philosophy developed. Later, after relocating […]

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. […]

Enoch Arnold Bennett was born on May 27th, 1867 in Hanley, Staffordshire, England. Jones states he was born at 10:30. Hanley is on the the English Potteries towns which he hated and with great ambition became a successful writer. Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your […]