ASTROLOGY BY JAN WARREN ALLEN
FIND OUT WHO YOU ARE
WHO WERE YOU BEFORE YOU WERE YOU?
student, I visited Austria during the famous
Salzburg Summer Music Festival, where I toured the
home of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, one of the
most enduringly popular classical composers. While
walking through his house, I remember thinking how
it reminded me of the house I grew up in; both a
series of long, narrow rooms.
Later as an astrological student, I realized that we
were both musicians that shared the same birthday
and I wondered if there could be some kind of
myself, and this musical genius. My curiosity
propelled me into wanting
about him.
I read that when Mozart was very
to his older sister play the piano and
what he heard. I could relate to that, as at age five, I
would listen to my older brother play the piano
then sit down and play what I heard by ear also.
So then, I began to wonder if there could be
anything to the Eastern philosophy of reincarnation
and/or if there was even more of an astrological tie
between us. With that in mind, I looked further and
researched Mozart’s chart.
He was born on January 27, 1756 in Salzburg,
Austria at 8:00 PM. His ascendant at 12 Virgo 41
was so close to my Neptune at 11 Virgo 53R, that I
realized that if he was born just a tad earlier,
perhaps at 7:55:40 PM, my Neptune would exactly
conjoin his ascendant. I am always suspect when a
given time is right on the hour anyway. So with that slight correction, his 3rd house cusp, then at 02 Scorpio 53, matched my 5th house cusp, reflecting
that all I ever wanted to do since childhood was to
play music. The tight Neptune connection is also a
bond that refers to music. Then too, Mozart was
involved in the music of his day, while I have
always been passionate about playing the music of
my day, especially jazz. With my N Node in
Aquarius, however, at this point in my life, my
interest in music (S Node—been there, done that)
has given way to devoting my time to astrology!
Being intrigued with the idea of astrological
connections, I decided to go through the rest of the
signs to see if I could find other matchups, and
indeed I did. We have covered the sign of Aquarius,
so I will start with Aries and address the other signs.
ARIES:
Samuel Hinds: Actor, born April 4th, 1875. Hinds
was a Hollywood lawyer until the 1929 stock
market crash, when he lost most of his money. At
that point, at age 54, Hinds, decided to embark on
an acting career. The tall, dignified-looking Hinds
appeared in 214 films, characterizing men in
military office--politicians, and such. His two most
notable appearances were in Destry Rides Again,
and It's a Wonderful Life. Other films were The
Egg and I, and The Boy with the Green Hair. He
also appeared on stage during this time and
continued working until his death in 1948.
Robert Downey Jr.: Actor: born April 4, 1965. After
a series of well-reviewed Hollywood performances
and becoming known during the 1980s-90s, Downey
was an Academy Award nominee for Chaplin and a
Golden Globe Award winner for Ally McBeal. More
recent films include supporting and lead film roles
in Good Night and Good Luck and Iron Man.
Both actors share a 14° Aries Sun. But another
astrological connection is that Hind’s Uranus at 11
Leo 13 R, the sign of entertainment, conjoins
Downey's Transpluto at 11 Leo 29 R. Transpluto is
a hypothetical planet, which on the level of daily
life, seems to suggest the personal and cultural
background on which our sense of destiny is based.
Suppressed, this energy can generate disaster in the
life. When released and acknowledged however,
this energy provides the force and direction for the
highest fulfillment and realization. Uranus worked
in Hind’s life, as he was in another line of work
during the Great Depression, but unexpectedly lost
everything. So he reinvented himself as an actor,
and became very successful at it.
In Downey’s case, after finding early success, his
life spiraled down toward total disaster because of
his drug addiction in the late 1990s. While growing
up, he lived with his father who was the iconoclastic
director of movies like Putney Swope and a
flamboyant drug user in the 1960s and 1970s.
Robert once said that his father gave him Marijuana
when he was eight years old. The negative effect his
father had on him is shown in Robert’s chart by his
Saturn (father) in the sign of drugs at 11 Pisces 59,
opposed to his Mars at 10 Virgo 12 Rx, and Uranus
at 11 Virgo 30 Rx. So by those degree numbered
ages (10 and 11 years old), likely he was well on hi
way to developing a serious health problem.
However, in tapping into the transformative power
of his Transpluto energy, he has dealt with his
problem successfully, and has come to the top
of his game again.
TAURUS:
Rudolph Valentino: Silent film actor: born May 6,
1895 in Castellaneta, Italy. Though the phrase, Latin
Lover, has been applied to many actors, to some
film buffs, the designation truly fits only one
individual: Rudolph Valentino. From early on,
Rudolph wanted to leave Italy. At 18 years old, (his
Uranus degree), his mother scraped up enough
money to send him to America. After working at
odd jobs, learning to dance and speak English, he
finally found success in the movie, The Sheik,
wherein Valentino's magnetic personality firmly
established him as a first rank star. He lived in a
Beverly Hills mansion called Falcon Lair, which was
recently on the market for $7.95 million. At the
tender age of 31, he was hospitalized with a
perforated ulcer and died August 23, 1926. Almost
immediately, the Valentino death cult entrenched
itself: nearly 80,000 hysterical women crowded into
the New York funeral parlor and several devotees
committed suicide.
George Clooney: Actor: Born May 6, 1961,
Lexington Manor, KY, 2:58 A.M. George is a
romantic heartthrob with a fabulous voice, and was
voted the sexiest man alive by People Magazine in
2006. He is an Academy Award and Golden Globe
Award winning actor, who gained fame as one of
the lead doctors in the long-running television
drama, ER (1994–99). Although George came from
a family of performers, he found his own success by
climbing the ladder from the bottom up. One of his
biggies is Ocean’s Eleven, a remake of the 1960s’
Rat Pack of the same name.
Both men have their Sun at 15° Taurus. But an
added connection between Valentino and Clooney is
especially interesting, since we have a timed chart
for Clooney. Valentino’s nodes were 19 Pisces -Virgo 12 which form a T-square to George’s 4th and 10th house cusps
at 19 Gemini-Pisces 52. That connects to the fact that
Valentino couldn’t wait to get out of Italy. He lived in a
mansion in Hollywood, while Clooney chooses to live in
Italy, even though he is of Irish and German descent.
Valentino came from southern Italy, while Clooney
lives in northern Italy. Moreover, with the Gemini
duality involved, Clooney has not one, but two
Italian villas. Set in the tranquil beauty of Italy's
Lake Como, Clooney fell in love with the 18th
century Villa Oleandra and paid $7 million for it.
Clooney has shown himself determined to be
accepted into his new community, and is learning to
speak Italian from language CDs, which he
laughingly says will "take an eternity, and it's
embarrassing to live in a country where you don't
know the language."
GEMINI:
Sir Edward Elgar: Musical Composer: born June 2,
1857 in Worcester, England. Sir Elgar was a prolific
and famous English musical composer, whose
works stimulated a renaissance of English music.
Elgar came from a family of modest means; his
father was an organist and piano tuner and had a
music shop. Edward had the advantage of growing
up in a practical musical atmosphere and taught himself
to play a wide variety of instruments. It is a remarkable
too, that Elgar was very largely self-taught as a
composer—evidence of the strong determination
behind his genius. His best known work is “Pomp
and Circumstance.” It was first played in 1905 at
Yale University, and soon became an American
graduation tradition.
Marvin Hamlisch: Musical Composer: Born June 2,
1944 in New York City. Hamlisch also came from a
family of modest means, and his father played the
accordion. A child prodigy, he, unlike Elgar, had the
opportunity for formal music education, as he was
accepted by the Julliard School of Music at the age
of seven. By his 21st birthday, he had written the pop hit
“Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows” while
the 1970s became his most spectacular decade. In
1973 he won two Oscars for his work on the Robert
Redford-Barbra Streisand film, The Way We Were,
and a third for the Redford-Paul Newman film, The
Sting. In 1975 he wrote the score to A Chorus Line,
the legendary smash that won a Pulitzer Prize and
was on Broadway for 15 years. In later years, he
conducted various pops orchestras and continued to
score films and television shows.
Elgar and Hamlisch not only shared having the Sun
at 12°Gemini, but both men had the Moon in Libra.
Moreover, Elgar's Mercury at 9° Gemini Rx
conjoined Hamlisch's Uranus. Elgar’s retrograde
Mercury might explain why his long struggle to
establish himself as a pore-eminent composer of
his older years, however, his Mercury turned his
interest to the new field of recording, which he
enthusiastically immersed himself.
On the other hand, by the time that Hamlisch
entered the scene, recording music had made great
strides and television was now on the scene.
Because he was witty and cheerful, his Uranus
(television) in Gemini allowed him to regularly
appear on the TV talk circuit. Hamlisch had three
planets, plus the NNode in Leo, so his choice of
writing and performing in the entertainment field
was where he found his success.
CANCER:
John Paul Jones: Born July 6, 1747, in Aberdeen
Scotland. He was born into a family of modest
means, and had little education. At the age of 13
(his Sun degree age) he signed for a seven-year
seaman's apprenticeship. Jones often found himself
in trouble because of his reckless behavior. In 1766
he sailed on a slave ship that had 77 Africans on it.
It must have been a terrible voyage as he turned
away from the slave traffic in disgust calling it an
abominable trade. When the American Revolution
was brewing, Jones’ letters revealed a strong
colonist siding; then as Congress formed a
Continental Navy, Jones offered his services and
was commissioned. As lieutenant of the Alfred and
later a captain of the Providence, Jones gained
experience of naval warfare, later advising Congress
on the development of Navy regulations. In 1777
he sailed on the Ranger for France, where he struck
a rapport with the American Commissioner in Paris,
Benjamin Franklin. At Quiberon, he forced the
French to salute the American Flag—the first time it
had been hoisted in a foreign harbor. He became
famous in the United States as the Father of the
American Navy, and his words “I have not yet
begun to fight” are well remembered! In America
he was considered to be a patriot, but in England,
he was thought of as a pirate!
George W. Bush: President of the United States:
born July 6, 1946, in New Haven Connecticut. He
unlike Jones, came from a privileged family and had
the best formal education. He is a patriot as well,
and is sympathetic to African-American issues.
also adventurous and reckless. When he jumped into
war with Iraq so easily, his motto might also have
been I have not yet begun to fight. Jones was
assigned to the newly constructed ship named
Ranger (an 80-gun frigate); on June 14, 1777 (the
same day the new Stars and Stripes flag was
adopted). George Bush was the owner of the
baseball team, the Texas Rangers before he got into
politics.
Besides sharing a 13° Cancer Sun, Jones’ Venus at
and Saturn in Cancer, Bush was always close to his
mother, and as the oldest of five children, stood in
for his father, who was away much of the time. The
other side of him, with his ascendant, plus his
Mercury, Pluto and Venus in Leo also fit into his
early adult party years, as well as his interest in
baseball. Bush’s Sun trines his Part of Fortune at 10 Scorpio 02 in the 4th house, explaining his fortunate
family background. Their vacation home in
Kennebunkport, Maine is surrounded by water, and
taking visiting dignitaries out fishing is a favorite
pastime of the President.
Jupiter at 12 Capricorn 37 Rx which verifies
that his formal education ended about that age (12).
His Mars at 5° Scorpio and his Pluto at 24° Scorpio
testify to his earlier troubled reputation, and his
prickly personality, as a family friend described it.
John Paul Jones was the Father of the American
Navy, and George Bush is presently our
Commander in Chief.
LEO:
Oliver Perry Morton: American politician, born
August 4, 1823 in Salisbury IN. First an attorney,
then a judge, Morton was eventually elected as
Indiana’s Governor in 1862 and re-elected in 1864,
right in the midst of the Civil War. Morton displayed
an unusual resourcefulness in thwarting the
secessionist schemes in neighboring Kentucky and
from the secret societies of Southern sympathizers.
In 1863 the legislature sought to deprive him of
militia control; failing in this, it adjourned without
making the necessary appropriations. Morton
appointed a bureau of finance and appealed for
financial aid from private individuals, bankers, and
the Federal government. The response was so
prompt that he was able to conduct affairs
practically single-handed until 1865, when a
legislature assembled more favorable to his policies.
That same year, when Morton had a paralytic stroke
and went to Europe for treatment, the President
entrusted him with a confidential mission to
Napoleon III concerning the withdrawal of the
French troops from Mexico. In 1867, Morton
accepted a seat in the U.S. Senate. He was one of
the leaders of the radical wing of his party, voting
in favor of Andrew' Johnson's impeachment, and
was active on behalf of Negro suffrage. He was a
candidate for the Republican nomination in 1876
although it went to Rutherford B. Hayes. That election
became one of the most contentious in
American history.
Barack Hussein Obama: Born August 4, 1961 at
7:24 PM in Honolulu,Hawaii.
Obama is the junior United States Senator from
Illinois and a candidate for the Democratic
nomination in the 2008 presidential election. Born
to a Kenyan father and an American mother, he
spent most of his early life in Honolulu, Hawaii.
A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard
Law School, Obama worked as a community
organizer, university lecturer, and civil rights lawyer
before running for public office and serving in the
Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. After an
unsuccessful bid for a US House of Representatives
seat in 2000, he announced his campaign to run for
the US Senate and was elected in 2004. While still a
state legislator, Obama delivered the keynote
address at the 2004 Democratic National
Convention. As Senator, he co-sponsored bipartisan
legislation for controlling conventional weapons and
greater public accountability in the use of federal
funds. In the current Congress, he sponsored
legislation on lobbying and electoral fraud, climate
change, nuclear terrorism, and military personnel
care. Since announcing his presidential campaign,
Obama has emphasized ending the Iraq War,
increasing energy independence, and providing
universal health care as three priorities.
Obama’s Sun is at 12 Leo 18. Morton’s Sun at 11:59
PM reaches 11 Leo 57, but I think that is a close
enough connection, especially since Morton’s
Jupiter at 01°+ Cancer conjoins Obama’s Venus. In
addition, Morton’s Venus at 27°+ Virgo conjoins Obama’s progressed Sun in his political 11th which
trines Obama’s progressed Jupiter at 27 Virgo 20 Rx in his 3rd of communication. Although one Senator
was a Republican, while the other is a Democrat, it
is interesting that financial issues and withdrawing
troops from a war were part of both men’s agenda!
VIRGO:
Many years ago, I became acquainted with a Navy
Captain, Ralph G. Bird, who later became an
Admiral. His birthday was September 9, 1933, 5:47
AM at Ann Arbor,Michigan. A mental light flashed
when I discovered this was the same birthday as the
famous Captain Bligh, also born on September 9,
but in 1754 in Bodmin, England, and who also
became an Admiral.
Admiral William Bligh was an officer of the British
Royal Navy and colonial administrator. He is best
known as Captain Bligh from the novel, Mutiny on
the Bounty. The mutiny was against his command,
and he is well remembered for the remarkable
voyage he made to Timor, after being set adrift with
18 supporters by the mutineers. Bligh’s mentor was
Captain James Cook who picked him for the
position of Sailing Master on the Resolution; he
accompanied Captain Cook in July 1776 on Cook's
third and fatal voyage to the Pacific. The Bounty's
log shows that Bligh resorted to punishments
relatively sparingly. He scolded when other
captains would have whipped, and whipped when other
captains would have hanged. Educated and deeply
interested in science, he was convinced that good
diet and sanitation were necessary for the welfare
of his crew, took great interest in his crew's exercise
and his ship’s cleanliness and tried to check the
spread of venereal disease among his men—all very
positive Virgo qualities.
Fast forward to our era when science has made
many important advances, and we see that Admiral
Ralph G. Bird also had a mentor; one Admiral
Hymen Rickover, who was known as the Father of
the Nuclear Navy. Rickover's substantial legacy of
technical achievements includes the United States
Navy's continuing record of zero reactor accidents,
as defined by the uncontrolled release of fission
products subsequent to reactor core damage.
Admiral Bird was his protégé. After retiring in the
1980’s, Admiral Bird put his Virgo traits to work
into solving problems in the non-military world with
commercial reactors. With his no-nonsense attitude,
and perfectionist approach, he was able to clean
house at the Boston Edison's Pilgrim reactor, which
was closed for more than two years for management
problems. An outside evaluation of the changes,
made by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, was
positive, and in late 1989 the commission gave
Pilgrim permission to reopen.
Interestingly enough, between the charts of Bligh
and Bird we find an opposition, in that Bird’s
Uranus at 26 Aries 52 Rx opposes Bligh’s Venus at
26 Libra 52. A further connection occurred when I
calculated Bligh’s Venus to come to that exact
placement, his ascendant turned out to be 11
degrees of Virgo; which is the same as Bird’s
ascendant.
LIBRA:
Ned Turner: Born October 2, 1800 in Southampton,
Missouri. Turner was an American slave and leader
of the Southampton Insurrection. Deeply religious
from childhood, Turner was a preacher and was in-
fluential among local slaves. Apparently believing
himself divinely appointed to lead fellow slaves to
freedom, he plotted a revolt with 60 followers. After
killing the family of Turner's owner, the band
ravaged the neighborhood, killing in two days 55
whites, mostly women and children. The revolt was
soon crushed, and 13 slaves and three free blacks
were hanged. Turner escaped, but was later
captured and hanged also. The abortive uprising was
by far the bloodiest and most serious in the history
of slavery in the US and led to more stringent slave
laws in the South and an end of the organized
abolition movement. Over the years, Turner became
a figure of controversy, seen by some as a vicious
fanatic and by others as a hero of black resistance.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi:
Born October 2, 1869. Mahatma Gandhi was a
major political and spiritual leader of India and the
Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer
of Satyagraha—a philosophy concerned with truth
and resistance to evil through active, non-violent
resistance—which led India to independence and
inspired movements for civil rights and freedom
across the world. Gandhi first employed peaceful
civil disobedience in South Africa. Then assuming
leadership of the Indian National Congress, Gandhi
led nationwide campaigns against poverty, for
liberation of women, brotherhood amongst
different religious and ethnic groups, an end to
untouchability caste discrimination, and
independence of India from foreign domination.
Gandhi led in the disobedience of the British salt tax
with the 250-mile march in 1930, and in a call for
the British to quit India in 1942. He was imprisoned
for many years on numerous occasions in both
South Africa and India.
Both men had the Sun at 9° Libra, but besides that,
Gandhi’s Neptune at 18° Aries conjoined Turner’s
NNode. With their Libra Sun, both men were trying
to create a free and more equitable balance among
them (or the moral of the story) would seem to be
that after Turner’s controversial, violent methods
failed to get results, Gandhi chose another path, that
of nonviolence to achieve the same type of goals.
SCORPIO:
General Jean-Baptiste Eugène Estienne: Born on
November 7, 1860 in Condé-en-Barrois in the
Meuse valley in France. In 1882, Estienne placed
first in the national mathematics competition, and
was always interested in dealing with mathematical
and philosophical problems—but his passion was
Greek Antiquity. Estienne was reputed to be one of
the most competent and progressive French officers,
one of the founders of modern artillery and the
the artillery school in Grenoble. When the French
aviation service was created and since the main task
of aircraft was seen as directing artillery, Estienne
was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and became
one of the founders of French Military aviation,
commanding the 5th Aviation Group at Lyon for a
short time. But he was recalled to the arsenal of
Vincennes to continue his technical work—though
he couldn't resist founding a new artillery aviation,
rising to the rank of General in World War 1.
General David Praeteus: Born on November 7, 1952
in Cornwall, NY. Petraeus graduated from West
Point in 1974 and began his military career with to a
light infantry unit. Shortly afterward, he assumed
command of the19th Infantry Regiment
(Mechanized) and ever since, light infantry has been
at the core of his career, punctuated by assignments
to mechanized units.
After earning the General George C. Marshall
Award as the top graduate of the Army Command
and General Staff College Class of 1983, he
returned to the military academy, earning an MPA
in 1985 and a P.H.D. in international relations in
1987 from Princeton. In 1988–1989, he served as
operations officer to the 3rd Infantry Division and in
1993–94, Petraeus continued his long association
with the 101st Airborne Division as its Assistant
Chief of Staff, and installation Director of Plans,
Training and Mobilization. During a civilian
skydiving jump, his parachute collapsed at low
altitude due to a hook turn, resulting in a hard
landing that broke his pelvis.
General Petraeus is now the commanding
general in Iraq. Before leaving for Iraq, Petraeus
recruited a number of highly educated military
officers, nicknamed, Petraeus guys, or designated
thinkers.
Both men have their Sun at 15° Scorpio. But more
interestingly, when I adjust their time of births, with
Estienne's at 9:59 AM and Praetheus's at 4:34 PM
they both have Mercury at 8 Sagittarius 07, fitting
with their superior intellects. Furthermore, at that
Petraues's Moon at 26 Cancer 19 conjoins
Estenne's S Node at 26 Cancer 20 Rx. True to their
Scorpio Sun signs, Petraeus is described as “a high
energy individual who likes to lead from the front,
in any field he is going into,” and Estenne was
reputed to be “one of the most competent and
progressive officers in France.” One other thing
that struck me was, although Preateus's father came
from the Netherlands, that name seems to be of
Greek origin.
SAGITTARIUS:
Jonathon Swift: Writer, born November 30, 1667 at
1:08 AM in Dublin Ireland. Swift was an Anglo-Irish
cleric, Dean of St. Patrick's in Dublin, satirist,
essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs, then
for Tories), and poet. Swift received his M.A. from
Hertford College, Oxford University in 1692 and is
probably the foremost prose satirist in the English
language, but less well known for his poetry. Swift
originally published his works under
pseudonyms, such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac
Bickerstaff M.B. Drapier- or anonymously.
Although there were many others, Gulliver's
Travels is Swift's best known full-length work, a
classic of English literature that became
tremendously popular as soon as it was published,
so that "it is universally read, from the cabinet
council to the nursery"; likely it has never been out
of print since then.
Mark Twain: Writer, born November 30, 1835 in
Florida, Missouri. Twain’s real name was Samuel
Langhorne Clemens, but was better known by his
pen name. He was an American humorist, satirist,
lecturer and writer and known for his quotations.
Twain is most noted for his novels, Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn (the Great American Novel) and
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Twain enjoyed
incisive satire earned him praise from both critics
and peers. During his lifetime, Twain became a
friend to presidents, artists, industrialists and
European royalty. American author William
Faulkner called Twain "the father of American
literature."
There was an interesting connection between the
two men. Not only did they share their Sun at 7°
Sagittarius, Swift’s S Node at the same degree tied
them both together. Swift’s Mercury at 22°
Sagittarius conjoined Twain’s Venus. It is interesting
how they both used their Sagittarian energy. Swift
had three Sagittarian planets, the S Node and
Transpluto. Not only was he well-educated, he
became a priest; and he wrote about travellers'
tales, a literary sub-genre.
Mark Twain traveled extensively and during his tour
of Europe and the Middle East, he wrote a
collection of travel letters, compiled as The
Innocents Abroad. Unlike Swift, Twain educated
himself in public libraries, finding wider sources of
information than at a conventional school. In his
political views, Twain was an adamant supporter of
emancipation, and wrote glowingly about unions,
in the river boating industry in Life on the
Mississippi. While Swift embraced religion,
Christianity through his later life.
CAPRICORN:
Benjamin Franklin: Born January 17, 1706 in
Boston Massachusetts; politician, and one of the
Founding Fathers of the US. When he was young,
Franklin educated himself by being a voracious
reader. Later, as a scientist he was a major figure in
the Enlightenment and the history of physics for his
discoveries and theories regarding electricity. He
invented the lightning rod, and bifocals, among
other things. His interest in reading and sharing
lending library in America. He played a major role
in establishing the University of Pennsylvania and
the Franklin and Marshall College. Franklin was also
Postmaster General under the Continental Congress.
In 1753, both Harvard and Yale awarded him
honorary degrees. In 1759, the University of St
Andrews awarded him an Honorary Doctor of Laws
degree.
Newton Minnow: Born January 17, 1926
in Milwaukee, WI at 8:35 PM. Minnow is an
influential attorney, concerning telecommunications
law and is active in many non-profit, civic, and
educational institutions. Minow campaigned for
Kennedy to Chair the Federal Communications
from early on, was persuading Congress to pass legislation
clearing the way for communications satellites.
"When I toured the space program with Kennedy, I
told him communications satellites will be much
more important than sending man into space
because they will send ideas into space. Ideas last
longer than men." Minnow was on the Board of
Governors of the Public Broadcasting Service and
its predecessor, National Educational Television. He
is a recent past-president of the Carnegie
Corporation, the original funder of Sesame Street, a
professor emeritus at Northwestern University, and
the author of four books and numerous journal and
magazine articles. Minow has supported and written
about the Digital Promise Project, designed to fulfill
the Internet's educational potential.
Both men have their Sun at 27° Capricorn, which
allowed them to run large organizations, and both
men have their Moon in Pisces. Franklin’s
Transpluto at 25 Capricorn 13 conjoins Minnow’s
S Node at 25 Capricorn 24. Franklin’s Jupiter at 24
Cancer 20 Rx conjoins Minnows Transpluto at 24
Cancer 52. Both men have their Mars in Sagittarius,
the sign of higher education.
However, in Minnow’s era, his Jupiter and Venus in
Aquarius, which rules television allowed him to
open new educational vistas to the world. Franklin's
Mars was in Aquarius also, which links his interest
to electricity (Aquarius ruled), and what was
happening in the heavens to Minnow’s involvement
was also what was happening in the heavens; but on
a whole different plane. Minnow has taken
Franklin’s interest and involvement with books and
communication to a much higher level, literally!
And lastly, I noticed that in the picture that is shown
of Minnow in the Wikipedia website, he is wearing
glasses; with, no doubt, Franklin’s bifocals!
PISCES:
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Writer, born
February 27, 1807 in Portland, ME. Longfellow was
an American poet whose works include "Paul
Revere's Ride", “The Song of Hiawatha”, and
"Evangeline" and was also the first American to
translate Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy.
Longfellow predominantly wrote lyric poetry,
known for its melody-like musicality, which often
presented stories of mythology and legend.
Longfellow rarely wrote on current subjects and
seemed detached from contemporary American
concerns. He became the most popular American poet
of the 19th century and also found success
overseas, in fact, the rapidity with which American
readers embraced Longfellow was unparalleled in
US publishing history.
John Steinbeck: Writer, born February 27, 1902 in
Salinas, CA. He is one of the best-known and most widely read American writers of the 20th century.
He wrote what is called a series of California novels
and Dust Bowl fiction, set among common people
during the Great Depression. These included In
Dubious Battle in 1936, Of Mice and Men in 1937,
and The Grapes of Wrath in 1939, for which he
received a Pulitzer Prize. In all, he wrote 25 books,
including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books and
several collections of short stories. In 1962
Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Unlike Longfellow, Steinbeck wrote about
contemporary social issues. His Of Mice and Men
about the dreams of a pair of migrant laborers
working the California soil was critically acclaimed.
Seventeen of his works, including Cannery Row,
The Pearl, and East of Eden, went on to become
Hollywood films and continue on as remakes.
Both men had their Sun at 8° of artistic Pisces.
Longfellow had four planets in Pisces; hence his
writing took on a more fanciful, emotional and
musical turn. Whereas Steinbeck had three planets
in Aquarius, so writing about how he experienced
social and humanitarian concerns was where his
writing led him. When I calculated Steinbeck's chart
for 12:48 PM, his Moon at 10 Scorpio 24 conjoins
Longfellow’s retrograde Saturn. So perhaps he had
to come back to report on the serious and troubling
times our country went through in the 1900’s.
So in closing, I would like to ask again: Who were
Who were you before you were you?
References from http://Wikipedia.com
