Bristol, Connecticut by Mo Saladin. There are few things I remember clearer than at 12:30 PM on November 22, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald killing President Kennedy in Dallas. The news came into my house via radio, but I was at school. No reason given. They dismissed class with the warning to go home. We were stunned, but happy to get out of school early, but when we did, we saw that there were teachers crying and a somber feeling permeated the air.
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Grand Duchess Anastasia was the fourth and last daughter born to Tsar Nikolai and Tsarina Aleksandra on June 17, 1901 at Peterhof Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia. Red Communists butchered her and her family — later called Soviets and now Russians again — on July 17, 1918 at the Native House, Yekaterinburg, Russia. A full biography is available here. We do not change Julian dates to Gregorian otherwise it is the same as Marc Edmund Jones’s, who puts her ascendant at 03 Aquarius 22, a Hindu healer or the self-assertion of bringing forward human potential. She is hourglass planetary pattern. It is interesting…
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The chart data is from British Astrologer Alan Leo’s 1001 Notables. Marc Jones adopted it. He was such an ardent fan of Gandhi; he wrote Gandhi Lives, hence the title of this post. The book is available for about 13.00 on Amazon.
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On October 16 1793, Queen Marie-Antoinette-Josèphe-Jeanne d’Autriche-Lorraine (Austria-Lorraine) of France was guillotined in Paris, France. Her husband, King Louis XVI, has fallen nine months earlier. Looking at the chart, which we picked for 9 am for the act. This gives the chart below marked heavily by a fixed grand cross, culminating at her death with an ascendant of 20 Scorpio 55.It is striking as her natal Sun is 10 Scorpio 35, while the event’s Sun is 23 Libra 27, the Queen natal moon is 20 Libra 40. Her natal ascendant was rectified by French astrologer, the late Andre Barbault to…
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I got interested in Lara watching Netflix’s Narcos, he was a welcome bolt of fresh air. The show is a real blast of the 1980’s past as the production team did a fine job and many of the actors were good as well. So here is a late obit to Mr. Rodrigo Lara for a job well done and life cut far too short. The header picture is of the team called The New Liberalism. Mr. Lara and his wife are third and fourth from the left. The New Yorker from the New Yorker magazine, March 8, 2019 …. Pedro…
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I read book review “A pawn in a deadly game” by Colin Greenwood in the UK Spectator issue 2 Feb 2019, a while ago and remembered it for today, the first day of Passover in the Jewish calendar. Greenwood was reviewing “Hilter’s Scapegoat: The boy Assassin and the Holocaust” written by Stephen Koch published by Ambereley Press. It’s an interesting tale. PRELUDE On 7 November 1938, an impoverished seventeen-year-old Polish Jew living in Paris, obsessed with the whereabouts of his family — A few days earlier, German authorities had expelled thousands of Jews of Polish citizenship living in Germany from…
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On Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2018 the sheriff of Florida’s Broward County, announced that there had been a massacre inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School at Parkland Florida at around 2.21 PM according to Fox News. In toto 17 children and adults dead, another 16 wounded. The suspect in custody is Nikolas Cruz, 19, a former student who was expelled from the school and who unnerved acquaintances with his desire to be a “professional school shooter.” Before the incident Cruz had no criminal history according to state law enforcement records. He grew up in Pine Tree Estates, Parkland Florida. Both…
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Empress Alexandra Feodorovna Romanov, Queen Victoria of England, Emperor Nicholas, Bolshevists, Capricorn 21, Cancer 29 Aries 24 Gemini 07 Part of Self-Undoing Part of Fortune Part of Treachery Part of Tragedy, Chiron Sagittarius 23 Gemini 13 Star Nunki Pelagus












