“We have an entire sky within us, our fiery strength and heavenly origin: Luna, which symbolizes the continuous motion of soul and body, Mars speed and Saturn slowness, the Sun God, Jupiter law, Mercury reason, and Venus humanity.” – Marsilio Ficino, letter to Lorenzo the Magnificent on the sacred seven planets.
Antonio Gramsci, a bitter man Gramsci’s ascendant is 29 Aries, that Dr. Gordon, calls an “independent and domineering disagreeable character” one who stands in his own in his insistence of being correct. “Through his overbearing nature stands to become a social outcast and at some point in time sustains great loses through ostracism.” Maybe, but in Europe he became a folk hero. There are several Marxist sites devoted to Gramsci, one at the Marxists International Archive, and the other at the International Gramsci Society
I am reading the Rise and Fall of the Habsburg Monarchy by Victor Tapie and he writes that Pope Pius II was a humanist. I checked Britannica and they said the same
The data is straight from Jones’ book, Sabian Symbols. Assagioli developed psychosynthesis that he felt had much in common with Jung’s archetypes. Read more here. He was born on February 28 1888 in Venice at around 8 o’clock in the morning. His ascendant is 23 Taurus, a jewelry shop with the keyword of Preservation. With a grand trine in air, and few conjunctions, there is no surprise that Dr. Assagioli is a humanist splash pattern. Of course because of this planetary pattern, he has no preponderances in his chart for a Splash tries to fill as much of the chart…
Jerome Cardano’s astrological reckoning was the date I used to backtrack Marc Jones Martin Luther King scope, and I have been a fan ever since. Since we seem to hitting a lot of mathematicians this week, I thought I would add his for Cardano wrote Ars magna (The Great Art; or, The Rules of Algebra) a cornerstone in the history of algebra cementing his reputation as a great mathematician and then turned his hand to astrology (astronomy in his day). His biograph is here. Pluto not discovered for another 400 years, tells the tale for Signore Cardano, who prophesized his own…
It all began in Rio On the night of June 30, 1886, Arturo Toscanini — recently turned 19 — arrived, barely on time, at the imperial opera house in Rio de Janeiro, was to perform “Aida.” Pandemonium. The unpopular lead conductor had resigned in a huff; the audience shouted his unpopular replacement off the podium. Toscanini, the principal cellist & assistant choral master, was thrust forward by his colleagues. “Everyone knew about my memory,” he would recall, “because the singers had all had lessons with me, and I had played the piano without ever looking at the music.” For the remaining…
Astrologically Leonardo We have adopted the traditional 10 of Sagittarius ascendant for a wandering mind, as the Maestro did not physically travel far. Its symbol is “a teacher giving new forms for old symbols, ” and hearkens to the higher faculties of human understanding with the keyword of “acuteness.” Life of da Vinci LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452-1519) is the great Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer and natural philosopher. He was the bastard son of a Florentine lawyer (Piero), by a young girl of a merchant family Catarina (Catherine). He was born in Vinci, a castello or fortified hill village…
This chart was already rectified by someone. There is no mention in Kepler by whom, but we are accepting it. Marc Jones has the correct date and place, the Royal Palace at Raconghi, Italia but no place. he also refers him to Prince Umberto and not King Umberto the II. While King Umberto does have two oppositions in his chart they are not squared to each so he does not have a Cosmic Cross in his chart.
Biograph Francesco Forgione was born in a small town called Pietrelcina, near Benevento outside of Naples in Southern Italy, He was fifth of eight children. At an early age, he had celestial visions & spoke with Jesus and the Virgin Mother. He was also tormented by the devil to turn away from the Heavenly visions. Francesco helped his family by looking after livestock until he was 10 years old, and gained a limited education. When he first applied to join the Capuchin order, he was knocked back because of this lack, so he worked in exchange for private lessons from…
