Bestial came up as the WOTD from the OED today. I am not sure if you can access it so I copied the record. The original is here and a printable version below. Reading the entry I realized the renowned dictionary did not mention signs bestial — those signs that are animal-like who stand on four feet or are quadrupeds: Aries (Ram) Taurus (Bull) Leo (Lion), Sagittarian (Centaur), and Capricorn (Goat) but neither Cancer (Crab) Scorpio (Insect) nor Pisces (Fish) as they crawl; it seemed to me quite an “errata” as Benjamin Franklin would say.
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Queen Amelia of Portugal was the wife of the assassinated King Carlos.
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What is a trine and what is its astrological purpose? Does a chart need a trine? These are some questions that this essay tackles.
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Don Knotts was first known as Barney Phyfe in the Andy Griffith (variety) show, but he soon stole center stage with crazy slapstick, off beat comedy and headless chook demeanor. He was great. Celestiology looks to his chart to understood what made Don run.
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Surprisingly the Transcendentalists loved him Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau thought he was “Jesus come to life,” such was the aura around John Brown abolitionist. Born on May 9th, 1800 in West Torrington, Litchfield County, Connecticut, he was the third of six children to Owen and Ruth Brown. The first having died in infancy, the second was a girl named Anna, and then John was named for Owen’s father and grandfather.1 The Sword is mightier than the pen I have John Brown pegged to 18 Libra or the Hyperion symbol of a “Church in the Andes” because his…
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Born Mary Warren Anglin on April 3rd, 1876 in Ottawa, Ontario, it was as Margaret Anglin she found Broadway success. The youngest of nine children of newspaper editor and politician Timothy Warren Anglin (1822–1896) by his second wife, Ellen MacTavish it doesn’t seem much of her child hood destined her for the stage except being held by Oscar Wilde, novelist cum playwright, a guest of her father, when she was six years old, probably during Wilde’s first visit to America via the SS Arizona in 1882, when he conducted a 140 Lecture Tour across North America (US and Canada). Her…
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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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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 Midheaven, how much she aspired to be successful. This is emphasized because of her North Node conjunct her Sun in the sixth — its an extra push in ambition. Her relationship with the composer Franz Liszt is highlighted in the seventh house opposite her ascendant…
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Read her magnificent bio on New World.
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Today is Veterans’ Day, a federally mandated holidays in the US, for all those who served our country. Originally it was just for the dead and missing, but in 1954 Congress expanded it to everyone who served. I set our chart for the White House at the same time as the original Armistice was declared: 11:11 on 11:11 and serves as a proxy for the nation.
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2017, The week of October 9th @the other Salem
Sunday October 8, 2017 Our header image is of Oregon’s Coastline from this site.



















