Tag: Libra Rising

What follows is the chart in Equal House format, for November 1, 2025 based from Times Square, Manhattan, New York. Water, particularly from Pisces, heavily dominates the chart. Outside of a harmonious trine to the Sun, the Moon has no other aspects. Neptune and Uranus though seem to cause some trouble, and since they aligned […]

An article in the AFA1 monthly journal submits a new chart for Edgar Cayce. The author moves Cayce’s ascendant from Marc Edmund Jones’s of 25 Leo 33 to something like 20; not even the decan is changed. I have seen that trick before, so let’s ignore it. My pet peeve aside, I don’t agree with […]

Plaudits for Berlusconi Former British PM Sir Tony Blair gave Signore Berlusconi the epitaph “‘ “shrewd, capable and true to his word”, following the announcement of the Italian PM’s demise on 12 June 2023 at age 86.  He was the longest servicing Italian prime minister and a self-made millionaire. His charm and aplomb let Italy […]

Paul Clancy, published in 1940 Opera Diva Maria Jeritza’s chart. Marc  Edmund Jones, a good friend, took it and put it in his 1000 in toto.  Scouting around, I found the New York Times obit, which cast no light on her, and gave no help.  I searched on.  Finally on  FindAGrave.com, I read a beautiful […]

In astrology, the asteroid Itokawa is named in honour of  Dr. Hideo Itokawa. His asteroid is used  to highlight astronomical or rocketry discoveries and advances. He is affectionately called “Dr. Rocket”  because on April 12, 1955. he led his fellow scientists in launching the tiny rocket called Pencil, a miniscule thing about 23CM in length […]

It was a fluke that I ran into Zoe on her birthday yesterday, December 1, so I took it as a sign and did her chart. The official birth chart for December 1, 1988 at Venice, California is not bad except it is rectified to local mean time, but shown as clock time. Marc Jones, […]

The chart of conjoined twins. These were born in Kentucky in 2021. Using the Equal House format.

From Magnum P.I. on, Tom Selleck has been a television heart throb. He made few movies because his studio would not release him, fearing that further publicity would make his demand more in next contract, thus Harrison Ford got the title role, and highly lucrative, Indian Jones part. Pity isn’t it? Selleck has a grand […]

Just E.G. He was from a Minnesota farming family and despite his riches never changed his Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labour Party affiliation — a socialist political organization formed after World War I. It was a populist progressive party complete with the desire of cradle to grave care including government ownership of important industries, total cradle to […]

Warner Baxter was the first American to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. He was the first actor to portray the character of Jay Gatsby on-screen in The Great Gatsby (1926).  By 1936, Baxter was the highest-paid actor in Hollywood, earning a record $284,000. His best role is that of the doctor who treated Abraham Lincoln‘s […]

Queen Amelia of Portugal was the wife of the assassinated King Carlos.

  Martha (Sunny) von Bülow, was an American heiress. She got into the news as it was suspected her second husband, a Danish-born man-about-society tried to poison her. Instead of dying, Sunny ended up in a life long coma before finally succumbing on Saturday December 6th, 2008 at an elite nursing home in Manhattan. Mrs. […]