Tag: New York

I did a chart for Lee winning the New York state gubernatorial race and felt he would win. He did not, so I had to review the chart and discover why. Of course, the obvious reason is the number of people leaving New York is at an all-time high, and those were lost voting opportunities. […]

Looking at the first date for Allen Dulles, I found lots of anomalies and the chart seemed more cobbled together than naturally created. All those qualms go by the wayside with the second chart for Dulles. Here I just took the date of APril 7th and kept the time and everything fit together showing he […]

Dulles National Airport in Washington DC is named for the father of the CIA. He is also the longest servicing head of the organization and once ran for president on the Republican. Unlike another CIA director, George Bush, he was not as successful in his bid. Astro.com two birthdays for him, but they seem to […]

Richard Rorty, was an American pragmatist in favour of “bourgeois liberalism.” It is a phrase that shows up everywhere from the Chinese Communists using this phrase derogoratily to expunge too successful shopkeepers to Newark Mayor Ras Barkara claiming getting rid of the police is a bougeous liberal ideal. Rorty was the son of nonacademic leftist […]

Meeting Barbra Despite her odd spelling name, she was born Barbara Joan Streisand and decided to drop an “A” as it would be quirky and noticeable. She was born on April 25 1942 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, then an Orthodox enclave. She gave an homage to that closed world in “Yentl”, where a young girl dresses […]

Congressman Jerrold Lewis Nadler was born on June 13 1947 rectified to 3:30 in the afternoon in Midwood Brooklyn according to his Congressional site but since his father was at that time a poultry farmer in nearby rural New Jersey why Jerry was born in Brooklyn and not in Jersey seems odd.

Oh, those were the days: its 1982 and Mario Cuomo was going to be Governor, and Andrew Cuomo, 24 years old his father’s appointed executive director of his transition team. That’s not unusual though, Mitt Romney made his name through his father governorship in Michigan, Nancy Pelosi, aunt of California governor Newsom, used her father’s […]

A man of aphorisms Jones cites his birthday as September 24th, 1891 which is the same as the New York Times obituary. J. DONALD ADAMS JULY 1957 ISSUE, Atlantic Magazine.  Marc Edmund Jones,does not local mean time (LMT) the birth times in his 1000, but uses the clock time. I prefer Zain’s method of LMTing the time […]

Edward Colie Caswell is #182 on the Jones 1000.  I could not find much about him except in this article from “The Villager” online.   “It was an ant with a crumb twice its size in its jaws slowly making its way over the twigs. It occurred to me that if I were that little ant, […]

                                        Unravelling Hubbard and his legacy at Roycroft We will be tackling the various charts in Marc Jones’s How to Learn Astrology by Marc Jones over the succeeding months.  You can read the whole book online […]

Marc Jones looked at the Dial and decided against it, preferring to use the semi-sextile, sesquiquadrate and semi-square.  Indeed now with modern software one can divvy up the whole chart into 22.5 – 45 or 135 degree angles very easily and ignore the dial, so it is a preference.   Others go with John Addey and […]

The Franken chart is from a public astrology site. It works for me and it seems, him too.                                                                        from Humble Beginnings While Alan Stuart Franken was born on May 21, 1951 in Brooklyn, New York, when he was four years old, his father, Joseph Franken, a printing salesman of German Jewish background and his […]