Tag: Hourglass Planetary Pattern

Marc Jones lists this lady as a numerologist; nothing else is known. Her ascendant is 03.14 Cancer that is rounded up to 04 Cancer.  It gives the Hyperion symbol of a “young boy learning the teaching of moksha,” the Hindu and Jain concept of aim of life is to follow one’s path in life via […]

In Autumn Moonlight   In autumn moonlight, when the white air wanIs fragrant in the wake of summer hence,‘Tis sweet to sit entranced, and muse thereonIn melancholy and godlike indolence:When the proud spirit, lull’d by mortal primeTo fond pretence of immortality.Vieweth all moments from the birth of time,All things whate’er have been or yet shall […]

Attached is his chart and the header picture is of Frome, England. Who is he we found no clues except that Astrotheme.org cites Jones. If his map is to be trusted, Herschell was a bright fellow with fine taste. His ascendant at 14 Taurus is the same as Annie Besant’s North Node and conjunct the […]

Prince Alfred was  24 when died.  His sister, Marie of Roumania #646 on the Jones 1000, wrote that his health broke down while the Times of London said that Prince Alfred’s death was due to a tumor, but it seems clear that as The Complete Peerage states, he shot himself and was a suicide.

Marc Jones, in his Essentials of Astrology,  writes James R. MacDonald is his illustration of the “see saw type” and the real creator and organizer of the Labor Party in Great Britain.  Jones for the record, was a strong progressive Democrat.

Bourbon Spanish queen Isabella II succeeded to the throne after her father died on September 29, 1833 because his wife demanded it.  In his will, the King listened and  rescinded Salic Law or the tradition in most royalty of Europe prohibiting females and any descendants in the female line from inheriting land, titles, and offices. Isabella […]

American astrologer described as “the No. 1 astrologer of the U.S.” in an article in LIFE magazine (“Hollywood Likes Myra Kingsley’s Horoscopes,” 7 August 1939), it appears in full below. She wrote “Outrageous Fortune: How I Practice Astrology” (Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1951). Miss Kingsley died on November 20, 1996 aged 99.   Myra was […]

Janet Gaynor was just twenty-two when she became the first person to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. Honored for her memorable performances in three dramatic films—Sunrise (1927), Seventh Heaven (1927), and Street Angel (1928)—Gaynor was the only actress ever to earn the Oscar for multiple roles rather than for work in a single […]

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 […]

Grassley is an ex-democrat who changed parties in 1981 with the Reagan blue wave.  He is the senior senator from his home state of Iowa.  Married in 1951, he and his wife of 66 years have five children.  He is the chairman of the Judiciary Committee reviewing the Kavanaugh-Ford allegations. Grassley’s chart is very similar […]

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, born September 7, 1836, Glasgow, Scotland-died April 22, 1908, London, England. He was the British prime minister from December 5, 1905, to April 5, 1908. He granted self-government to the Transvaal (1906) and the Orange River Colony (1907), despite the Boers recent defeat by the British in the South African War (1899-1902).

Charles Van Dell Johnson was born in Newport, Rhode Island, the only child of Loretta (née Snyder), a housewife, and Charles E. Johnson, a native Swede and came to the United States as a young child,  His mother was  of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry and an alcoholic who left the family when he was a child. […]