Category: Literarti

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 […]

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 […]

                                                             plus ca change, plus c’est la même chose Marc Jones, a wide and erudite reader, mentions “Alphonse Karr” in the second chapter of Astrology:  How […]

John Emerich Edward Dalberg is Lord Acton. John Dalberg, was trained at St. Mary’s College in New Oscott, a Roman Catholic seminary in the Birmingham Archdiocese because Cambridge would not admit Catholics. Dalberg then went to Munich and continued his studies under Johann Joseph von Dollinger, who educated him in the new German methods of […]

‘If you ask Google “when is Jamal Khashoggi’s birthday”, it will return October 13 1958.  Based on that, we created this chart using a sunrise birthtime and whole houses since we are working the dark.  Nothing odd about that but the chart is rather perplexing for him.  Obviously whatever we know about the journalist is […]

There was a time when Faith Baldwin books lined the supermarket checkout counters along with Daphne du Maurier, Anya Seton, Susan Howatch, Barbara Cartland, Jean Plaidy/Philippa Carr and so on.  Now she would be compared to Nora Roberts.  Searching for Baldwin’s book, all we could find was her first Mavis of Green Hills and that as […]

Marc Jones has this incorrectly marked as L. Stowacki, September 4, 1809, place unknown.  His correct name is Juliusz Slowacki, born in Krzemieniec Poland; now Ukraine. Slowacki is one of the “Three Bards” of Polish literature and a  major figure in the Polish Romantic period, concurrent with Percy Shelley, Lord Byron and John Keats in […]

Recently I was reading a series of essays, “English Romantic Poets: Modern Essays in Criticism” edited by M. H. Abrams in 1960. One writer, I think it was the poet Donald Davie,  mentioned how when he was young and first introduced to the Romantics he loved Shelley to the point of memorizing his poems and quoting […]

That James Russell Lowell is part of the Jones 1000 makes sense; Jones considered himself a minor poet and wrote esoteric verse whenever he could much like Aleister Crowley, his contemporary, did. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL was born at Elmwood the family home, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the 22nd of February 1819.  James was the son […]

Anne Sexton was born Anne Gray Harvey in Newton, Massachusetts to Mary Gray (Staples) Harvey (1901–1959) and Ralph Churchill Harvey (1900–1959) and raised in Weston.She was the daughter of a successful businessman, but her relationships with her parents were difficult. Her closest confidante was her maternal maiden great-aunt (grandmother’s sister). At age 19, she married Alfred “Kayo” Sexton II and while he […]

                                             the Grand Sextile A Grand Sextile is a pattern of six individual sextiles (60° each) linked to form a circle of 360° creating mutual encouragement within itself but because it is a “closed” […]

Marc Jones states that she was a tennis player in the Sabian Symbols.  His time is generally accepted, so our chart here agrees.  She was the daughter of William Ewart Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose and Mary Agnes, Viscountess Camrose and married Frederick Winston Furneaux Smith, 2nd Earl of Birkenhead. She is a southern hemisphere bowl […]