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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…...
Preacher Man – Bishop Carelton Pearson
It was 1995 and Reverend Carleton Pearson was on the top of his game. Scion of a lineage of four generations of pastors, a favored disciple and confidante of Oral Roberts, one of the first two Black Pentecostal pastors to gain national attention on television, founder and leader of the Azusa Convention, which brought 50,000…...
Brave Heart – Astrobiography of Bobby Kennedy
“Bobby’s different from most contemporary politicians. He’s not pre-programmed or manufactured. He doesn’t have some public relations firm telling him what to do or what to say. Bobby is Bobby. He’s a real person, a human being. He is who he is. Even if you don’t like his politics, you have to admire him for…...
Rosa Parks – Mother of the Cilvil Rights Movement
On a Thursday evening at about 6:00 pm, December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a bus in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, after a busy day as a seamstress at a department store and a lunch hour spent at the local NAACP office where she served as volunteer secretary. On this day, she did not get up…...
Leonardo Da Vinci – Brilliant Visionary
February 9, 1498. It is a Friday evening at the Sforza Castle in Milan, Italy. The evening’s entertainment is a debate on the merits of the various liberal arts, presented by the leading scholars, musicians, philosophers, mathematicians and artists of Duke Ludovico’s brilliant court. Leonardo daVinci argues in favor of painting as the highest of…...
