• Noteworthy

    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 coin is what I found: Jupiter underwent two occultations (‘eclipses’) by the Moon in Aries in 6 BC. As the regal ‘star’ which confers kingships – its gift is amplified when Jupiter is in close conjunctions with the Moon (see the astrological chart below, as…

  • Military

    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 we are doing Obama’s official chart against the Soleimani too. Notice the conjunction of Soleimani’s Mars to Obama’s Moon in the eighth house and the Part of Fortune of the General to Obama’s fifth house South Node.

  • Fashion

    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 come with alternatives to a dark scenario and so blindly followed a predetermined path as though they were devoid of will and volition. For McQueen that proved inevitably, and horribly, true. Growing up in East London, McQueen realized somewhere in his teens he was a…

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    #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 City, New Jersey February 8, 1868 at 8:36 am. Marc Jones has the same time, and perhaps this is what Christino used (she does not specify in her book.)   Astrotheme is six minutes earlier at 8:30 am. Christino mentions a lot of things that are…

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    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 though still in use). He lead the forefront of American industrial for decades until his death in 1972. Dreyfuss’s name has a second “s” because his family were German Jews. French Jews Julia Louis Dreyfus of Seinfeld and Veep fame have just one. He was…

  • Royalty

    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, that still stands outside of Kensington Palace of her mother at her coronation. The princess’s chart In her time, she was considered a great beauty, Venus at her midheaven. She was born March 18, 1848, at Buckingham Palace, She was christened on May 13, 1848, at…

  • Authors

    J#140 How do i love thee? Elizabeth Barrett Browning

                                    HOW DO I LOVE THEE? (From Sonnets from the Portuguese) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning          HOW do I love thee? Let me count the ways.          I love thee to the depth and breadth and height          My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight          For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.          I love thee to the level of everyday’s          Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.          I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;          I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.          I love thee with the…