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 […]
Tag: Preponderance in Pisces
Exploring the Astronomical Origins of the Star of Bethlehem
Astronomer Michael Molnar wrote ‘The Star of Bethlehem – The Legacy of the Magi’ (Rutgers University Press, 1999) in which he deduced Jesus bar Joseph was born on April 17, 6 BC (17.4.748 AUC / 29 Nisan 3755 HC) based on the photograph of a coin. From his website: “Superposed on the photograph of the […]
C398 Commander of the Quds clandestine forces in Iran, Maj Gen Qasem Soleimani
The United States launched an airstrike Thursday evening. According to Fox News, it resulted in the death of an Iranian general and other military officials at Baghdad International Airport in Iraq. This is a major blow to the Obama Administration 2015 Iran deal . The Hudson Institute points this out in an article here, so […]
C477 Local boy does good, Alexander McQueen
hat’s a lot of septiles While we have looked at a preponderance of septiles in people with health problems (Roger Ailes, Tsavertich Alexei) and even alcoholics (Fitzgerald), this time we see them in Alexander McQueen’s chart — he has 7. Marc Jones wrote that this preponderance indicated fatalistic thinking — that the person could not […]
J06 When was Evangeline Smith Adams born?
Having just finished Karen Christino’s biography on “Eva Adams” one can say the controversy of Adam’s birthdate is barely settled. Christino says Evangeline, a popular name at the time, was born to the poor side of the Adams family on Pavonia Avenue, right next to Journal Square (where the PATH station is these days) Jersey […]
C732 The Royal Typewriter, the Princess Telephone and Big Ben — all by Henry Dreyfuss
Henry Dreyfuss is not a household name, but his designs are objects that fill and beautify our homes like the Royal Quiet de Luxe Typewriter, the Westclox Big Ben alarm clock, the Western Electric desk, vacuum cleaners for Hoover and the AT&T desk and Princess line phones, the round thermostat for Honeywell (cloned by Nest […]
J43 Suffragette Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyle
Princess Louise was the fourth daughter and sixth child of Queen Victoria. She got married to the Duke of Argyle because all the other possibilities had political ramifications that the Queen wanted to bypass. It doesn’t seem that her marriage was particularly happy and they had no children. Her most notable creation is the sculpture she created, […]
J140 How do i love thee? Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Emily Bronte
Elizabeth Moulton-Barrett was born on Thursday, March 6, 1806, the eldest child of Edward Moulton-Barrett (1785–1857) and Mary Graham-Clarke (1781–1828), at Coxhoe Hall, County Durham, England. Both come from families with extensive plantations in Jamaica, where her father Edward was born and lived until the age of seven. The Barretts left Coxhoe in the Autumn of 1808 and, […]