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The Mothers of Invention: Moon, Mercury & the Nodes – Wilbur, Orville & Katharine Wright
By: Lynn Bootes CHART DATA: Wilbur Wright: April 16, 1867, Millville, IN. No time. I am speculating a time of 03:00. Orville Wright: August 19, 1871, Dayton, OH (“in the Morning”) I am speculating 07:45. Katharine Wright: August 19, 1874, Dayton, OH, no time. I am speculating 09:30. Wilbur and Orville…...
AstroBiography of Benjamin Franklin
By: Lynn Bootes Benjamin Franklin! A short essay cannot hope to cover all the details of this fascinating individual and his long and eventful life. I’ve just finished a newer biography: Benjamin Franklin: an American Life, by Walter Isaacson, who cites the French statesman Turgot’s epigram to sum up his essence: “He snatched lightning…...
ASTROBIOGRAPHY OF MARY SHELLEY, SARASWATI OF THE ENGLISH ROMANTICS
by Lynn Bootes Birth Data: August 30, 1797, 11:30 pm, London, England Source Astrodatabank (astro.com) “A” data from family diary Mary Godwin Shelley, best known for her gothic novel “Frankenstein” and her marriage to Romantic poet Percy Shelley, was in fact the leading female literary figure in early 19th century England. A prolific writer, feminist…...
Jane Goodall Astrobiography
by Lynn Bootes Birth Data: April 3, 1934, 11:30 pm, Hempstead, England. AA data from biographer Meg Greene to Astrodatabank. Jane Goodall, an Englishwoman raised in a middle-class family of mostly women, became enraptured at a very young age with the idea of going to Africa to study animals. Her mother refused to quash…...
AstroBiography: Mario and Aldo Andretti, A Tale of Two Brothers
By: Lynn Bootes Birth Data: Chart #1: Mario Andretti, Feb 28, 1940, 05:00, Motovun, Croatia. Chart #2: Aldo Andretti, Feb 28, 1940, 11:00, Motovun, Croatia. Data source: Maggie Meister reported a conversation with Mario Andretti in which he gave these time. “A” data, confirmed with an e-mail from Maggie. Some of you may know that…...
Joni Mitchell in Moon Dasha
By: Lynn Bootes A few months ago I wrote about Joni Mitchell. I chose to say very little about the transition into the next phase of her life, under the Mahadasha of the Moon. In the Vimshottari dasha system and the Lahiri ayanamsha, this was due to happen on January 6, 2015. On March 31,…...
Ronald Reagan AstroBiography: Riding the Serpent of Time
By: Lynn Bootes “Out of Tampico’s ice there grew, crystal by crystal, the glacier that is Ronald Reagan: an ever-thrusting, ever-deepening mass of chill purpose. Possessed of no inner warmth, with no apparent interest save in its own growth, it directed itself toward whatever declivities lay in its path. Inevitably, as the glacier grew, it…...
Ralph Waldo American – American Brahmin
Astrobiography series: March 2015 Copyright by Lynn Bootes VedicLightAstrology.com lynn.bootes@att.net Birth Data: May 25, 1803, 2:55 pm, Boston, MA, USA. Source of data: his father’s diary and family bible. AA data, though time-keeping methods of the day mean this is accurate only within 15 minutes. http://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Emerson,_Ralph_Waldo. Ralph Waldo Emerson was the philosophical and spiritual forefather…...
Mars Disappears!
By Lynn Bootes “What happened to Mars? It was right there!” Last Saturday night at about 6:30 pm, just after sunset on February 21, I was looking at the evening sky and noticed bright Venus and the crescent Moon in the west. Jupiter was high and bright in the east. I called my husband Don…...
Garth Brooks Astrobiography
Birth Data: February 7, 1962, 1:07 pm, Tulsa, OK “A” data from memory, collected by Lois Rodden Garth Brooks just surpassed Elvis Presley as the popular artist having sold the most recordings ever. This event occurred in the midst of Garth’s third world tour, while performing seven sold-out concerts in his home town of Tulsa,…...
