C400 Paradise Lost, John Milton

I happened to catch this from the UK ill-starred Transits magazine and noticed today is John Milton’s birthday. I could not get the 6-7 am time to work particularly if I threw in the Fixed Stars. He was totally blind by 1654, probably from glaucoma or bilateral retinal detachment (inoperable at that time) and so dictated the bulk of his poem to his very dutiful daughter (hence why Mercury and Venus are so close and in the twelfth house of imprisonment). His ascendant, 22 Sagittarius [HS] Blue skies opening from above a time when it is possible for all to become fully observant of the human experience. The keyword is Enlightenment, appropriate for a man who is the Father of the English Enlightenment.