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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…...
Martin Luther
Birth data: November 10, 1483, “before midnight,” Eisleben, Germany. Rectified to 10:46 pm. Source: report by his mother to astrologer Philip Melanchthon, recorded in a letter in 1539. (1) “Some have complained that Luther displayed too much severity. I will not deny this. But I answer in the language of Erasmus: ‘Because of the magnitude…...
Rabindranath Tagore – The Pisces Poet of India
“I feel that once upon a time I was at one with the rest of the earth, that grass grew green upon me, that the autumn sun fell on me and under its rays the warm scent of youth wafted from every pore of my far-flung evergreen body. As my waters and mountains lay spread…...
Maria Montessori and The House Of Children
Maria Montessori, the progressive Italian physician and educator who transformed preschool education, presents a great example of a Lunar type person who has a strong Lagna. In addition to her work as the founder of her Montessori Schools, she was famous as the first female physician of Italy, and for her pioneering work in education…...
The Magic Is In The Light: Glass Artist Dale Chihuly
“The Magic is in the Light” – Dale Chihuly Artist and entrepreneur Dale Chihuly turned the craft of glass blowing into an art form in America, expanding the boundaries of this traditional craft and bringing huge assemblages to the attention of the general public. When asked “why glass?” he replied that “there are only a…...
Balaristha – Understanding Obstacles In The Birth Chart
Nothing challenges the astrologer so much as working with the chart of someone who seems to have been born with unusual obstacles not just to success but to life itself. This month I have dug deep into my files and present some short biographies of non-famous people I have known who have lived such lives…....
Victoria and Albert – Creators of the Modern Monarchy
“Why should we have Germans to rule over us? (Lady Jersey, 1820) (1) “From my heart I thank my beloved people. May God bless them!” (Queen Victoria, in a telegram sent on the day of her Diamond Jubilee, June 21, 1897) (2) Queen Victoria of England, born Alexandrina Victoria Saxe-Coburg Hanover, began life at a…...
