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WILL SMITH – FROM FRESH PRINCE TO SHIVA DEVOTEE
Will Smith, the talented teenager who might have gone to MIT, instead rocketed to fame as a rap singer and then as a talented leading actor in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. In 1996, as star of the hit movie Independence Day, he had begun a long run of annual hit movies while continuing…...
NOSTRADAMUS: DREAMER, DOCTOR AND PROPHET IN THE TIME OF PLAGUE
“I have at one time or another been slandered, reviled, laughed at, feared, called charlatan and sorcerer and heretic and saint and prophet. But the only true art that I possess, which cannot be taught to other men, is this thing of dreams.” – Liz Greene, words attributed to Nostradamus (1) Jyotish, the science of…...
ANTONI GAUDI AND THE SAGRADA FAMILIA – A SUNNY WINTER INTERLUDE
Birth Data: Friday, June 25, 1852, 9:30 am approximate local mean time, Reus, Spain While much of the United States and Europe experiences a cold winter, let’s take ourselves on a mental vacation back in time to sunny Barcelona, Spain, where the architect Antoni Gaudi conceived and started upon the ornate basilica known as the…...
A MOST UNPOPULAR KING – CHARLES I OF ENGLAND
Astrobiography by Lynn Bootes November 25, 2018 Last month I wrote about the stupendously popular and effective monarch Queen Elizabeth I, who ruled over England in the Renaissance in the time of Shakespeare. Less than 50 years after her death in 1603, her grand-nephew, King Charles I of England, found himself haplessly caught up in…...
THE PEOPLE AROUND QUEEN ELIZABETH I
To the Reader: Here are the birth charts of the people closest to Queen Elizabeth I of England, and a few of the major events of her life. These charts are meant to be used as a companion to the main Astrobiography article in this issue. Note that the source of data for the births…...
GOOD QUEEN BESS- THE POWER OF JUPITER
“I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too…” July, 1688 “And though God hath raised me high, yet this I account the glory of my crown, that I have reigned with your loves. This…...
Swami Vivekananda – A Morning Sun Rises
BIRTH DATA January 12, 1863, Calcutta (Kolicutt), India, “just after sunrise on the first day of the Makara Mela,” according to family records, rated as AA data by astrodatabank. See footnotes for details regarding calculations. Everyone with an interest in Vedic astrology, yoga, meditation and New Age mysticism in America owes a huge debt to…...
Fixity of Purpose – Mirra Alfassa Richard (“The Mother”)
Mirra Alfassa Richard, also known to the followers of Sri Aurobindo as The Mother, began life as a privileged daughter of atheist bourgeois intellectuals in Paris. From a very young age she spontaneously meditated and went into trance, and as a young adult she sought out and mastered the practices of Western Occultism. She and…...
Atomic Scientist Beholds Krshna: Astrobiography of J. Robert Oppenheimer
“I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” – J. Robert Oppenheimer’s own translation of a portion of Chapter XI, sloka 32 of the Bhagavad Gita, spoken after witnessing the first atomic bomb test at Trinity Site in New Mexico on July 16, 1945. It is the summer of 1927. Twenty-three year old J. Robert…...
The Trinity Site Atomic Test Chart
CHART DATA: July 16, 1945, 05:30 War Time, Trinity Site, New Mexico, 106W01 longitude 34N 18 latitude This is the birth chart of the Atomic Age, the first nuclear text explosion. What I find interesting about this chart is that Rahu and Saturn are rising, Saturn almost exactly by the same degree of as the…...
