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One of the main reasons for the
continued popularity of astrology is that it can be related
to the concept of ‘karma’, common to most leading eastern
philosophies.
Karma is, broadly, the transmigration of the soul through
successive re-incarnations to ultimate union with the
infinite: behaviour in one life determines the starting
point of the next.
Astrology is used to establish the stage that a soul has
reached on its journey, which many of the world’s leading
figures continue to demonstrate …
Mahatma Gandhi
His chart shows the Moon in Leo in the 10th House of
Career and Public Status, heavily aspected by seven other
planets. This strongly indicates his immense popularity
including an ability to “read” what the masses are thinking
and care most about and his exalted status among the people
of India.
Mick Jagger
He has a close conjunction of Jupiter and Pluto,
rising in the sign of Leo. This gives him his highly
individual appearance and personal dynamism, the ability to
influence the masses and staying power. Other key aspects in
his chart enable him to really “sell” a song, even though
the quality of his singing voice is not as high as many
other singers of his era, or since.
Queen Elizabeth II
Her ruling planet is Saturn, which conjoins her Mid-Heaven
and squares her Mars/Jupiter conjunction in the sign
Aquarius. This indicates responsibility, determination and a
desire to stay in power or in control for as long as
possible as an anchor to one’s family. A sense of duty over
enjoyment usually pervades the life, as well.
Pablo Picasso
His Rising Sign of Leo and Sun in Scorpio certainly helps
explain his creativity and energy and his passionate
vitality and sex-life into his eighties. As versatility,
variety and a constant search for new forms of
self-expression coloured his work, so they were expressed in
his numerous relationships and his obsessive work ethic.
Madonna
Arguably now the greatest romantic prize in the world
because she’s single once more, Madonna has her Moon (the
General Public) conjunct both her Mercury (Communication
Style) and the major asteroid Ceres (Financial Power) in her
First House of Personality. Her Leo Sun sign (“Look at me,
look at me”) is also in the 12th House of the collective
unconscious, the dream state and the prisons we put
ourselves into. Sun in the 12th is also symbolic of issues
with the subject’s father, especially concerning difficulty
in winning his approval. Indeed, the 1986 song “Papa Don’t
Preach”, dealing with the issue of teenage pregnancy, was
one of Madonna’s biggest ever hits. On a world karmic level,
Madonna was perhaps in the best position to bring attention
to this issue at that time, and, on some personal even
subconscious level, she knew it.
In Madonna’s chart, the major asteroid Vesta (sex roles,
social reform) in the sign Cancer (maternal instinct)
symbolizes her conscious roles as both a controversial,
sincere female shaking up public complacency, reaching
iconic status in doing so and as arguably the world’s
ultimate working mother.
With the esoteric asteroid Psyche in the passionate sign
Scorpio in her chart, Madonna’s highest romantic values are
trust and complete honesty. With her asteroid Eros in the
sign Aries, Madonna’s ideal man is a strong, successful
individual not at all intimidated by her formidable power
and whom only she seems capable of conquering. Madonna is
very loyal once he has proven worthy by meeting her high
levels of adoration and love, and when she knows she
surpasses all who have gone before her.
Captain Edward J. Smith of the TITANIC
His birth chart has Neptune (the planet of self deception)
in the 8th House of death and Uranus (representing disaster)
in the 9th House of Long Journeys.
On the night the ‘unsinkable’ ship was steaming at high
speed into an iceberg field, 14 April 1912, Uranus was
exactly opposite where Captain Smith’s Moon (representing
the general public and the 2200 souls on his ship) was in
his birth chart. Uranus was also in the exact same position
as the Sun overhead, indicating the event would be both
immediate world news and famous in history.
Two curious footnotes to this story : the planet Uranus,
which takes 84 years to orbit our sun, is also the planet of
‘unexpected occurrences’. The wreck of RMS TITANIC was
accidentally discovered on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean
on 1 September 1985, with Uranus at an energizing angle to
its original astrological position in 1912. Also, the
blockbuster movie ‘TITANIC’, which started production in
1996 (84 years after the disaster, Uranus now back where it
was in 1912) had several on-set disasters and became
unexpectedly the highest-grossing movie in history two years
later.
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