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In memory of Peter Fonda, two weeks after his passing

The New Moon is in Virgo today, August 30 2019, while the Virgo Moon was Full when Peter Fonda was born.
The Moon Phase, the Moon/Sun polarity (VIrgo/Pisces) and the opposition of the Ruling Planet Mercury in Pisces to Neptune in Virgo are all very appropriate cosmic symbols for someone who became famous for directing and acting in a trailblazing movie depicting the use of psychedelics by the youth of the late sixties and seventies, longing for redemption and freedom.

Peter Fonda directing ‘Easy Rider’. Peter Fonda was born a few hours past the Virgo Full Moon, in the Fourth House, with the Sun in the opposite Sign of Pisces, in the Tenth House, perfectly conjunct the Mid-Heaven. His Ascendant was Gemini and the Ruling Planet Mercury in the Tenth House, in opposition to Neptune in the Fourth House. The major aspects of his Virgo Moon were the opposition to the Pisces Sun and a trine to Mars in Taurus, in the Eleventh House. The major aspect of his Pisces Sun was a sextile to Mars in Taurus. Fonda’s Venus was in Aries conjunct Jupiter in Aries, in the Eleventh House, and in square to Chiron in Cancer, in the First House. His Saturn was also in Aries, in the Eleventh House, conjunct the Descending Node of the Moon. Both Mars in early Taurus and Saturn in late Aries were in square to Pluto in Leo, in the Second House. His Uranus was in Taurus, on the cusp of the Twelfth House. Peter Fonda died, at the age of 79, of respiratory failure caused by lung cancer, on August 16 2019, at 11.05 am. Some amazing conjunctions between Progressed and Natal Planets became active at the time of death, namely Progressed Moon conjunct Progressed and Natal Pluto (the underworld); Progressed Sun conjunct Progressed Uranus in Taurus, in the Twelfth Natal House; Progressed Mars conjunct Natal Ascendant in Gemini (lungs); Progressed Mercury in Taurus semi-square Progressed Mars in Gemini and Natal Ascendant (lungs again). There were also very positive Progressions like Sun trine Neptune, Venus sextile Mars and Mars trine Saturn. The Transits were also remarkable, with Transiting Pluto on the cusp of the Eighth House (death) in square to the Lunar Nodes; Transiting Saturn in opposition to Chiron and square Natal Venus; Transiting Uranus semi-square Mercury; and the Transiting Moon conjunct the Natal Sun and opposed to the Natal Moon, activating his Natal Full Moon.

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Peter Fonda Birth Chart

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Peter Fonda Birth Chart Data

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Peter Fonda Death Progressions

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Peter Fonda Birth Chart + Death Progressions

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Peter Fonda Birth Chart + Death Transits

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Peter Fonda Birth Chart + Death Progressions and Transits

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Exceptional composer and performer Freddie Mercury was born when the Moon was transiting Sagittarius, in the Fourth House, and the Sun Virgo, in the First House. His Ascendant was also Virgo and the Ruling Planet Mercury was rising in Virgo, in far conjunction to the Sun in the First House and in semi-square to Mars in Libra. Freddie Mercury had a ‘Stellium’ of planets in Libra, in the Second House, namely: Neptune, Mars, Chiron, Jupiter and Venus. His Sagittarius Moon was in close sextile to Venus and Jupiter and also in opposition to Uranus in Gemini and trine Mercury in Virgo. His Virgo Sun was instead in semi-square to Venus and Jupiter. Both Saturn and Pluto were in Leo, in the Twelfth House. Mercury died of pulmonary complications brought about by AIDS in the evening of November 24 1991, at the age of 45. His illness had been diagnosed in late April 1987.

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Freddie Mercury Birth Chart Data

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Freddie Mercury Progressed Chart on the day of death

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Freddie Mercury Birth Chart + Progressed Chart on the day of death

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Freddie Mercury Birth Chart + Transits Chart at the approx time of death

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Freddie Mercury Birth Chart + Progressed and Transits Charts on the day-approx time of death

Michael Hutchence was born when the Last Quarter Moon was transiting Scorpio, conjunct Neptune in the Tenth House, and the Sun Aquarius. rising conjunct the Ascendant, in the First House. His Ascendant was Capricorn and Saturn in Capricorn, in the Twelfth House, was his Chart’s Ruling Planet. Mars was also in the Twelfth House in conjunction to Saturn. Michael’s Venus was in Sagittarius in near perfect conjunction to Jupiter, in the Eleventh House. Michael died on November 22 1997 of a suspected suicide by hanging. Neptune was near perfect conjunction to his Mercury in Capricorn and very close to his Capricorn Ascendant and Zero degree Aquarius Sun. That particular Transit seems to have had a negatively morbid effect on Hutchence. Many other factors were also a play though, as it is always in these tragic cases. Quite eerie, for instance, is the perfect conjunction (same degree and minute ! ) of the Transiting Black Moon Lilith and his Lunar Ascending Node in Virgo; also the alignment of transiting Chiron to his Neptune; the near perfect conjunction of the Progressed Venus to his Saturn in Capricorn, in the Twelfth House of self-undoing. The two yearly Mars Return has taken place few days before his death also in the Twelfth House. The transiting Moon was entering Libra, the Sign occupied by Pluto at Birth, only five degrees from Pluto, in the Eighth House. Transiting Saturn had already made two passes over his Lower-Heaven (cusp of the Fourth House) since May of that year too. Finally the progressed Sun in Pisces was in exact trine to the Natal and Progressed Neptune in Scorpio.

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Michael Hutchence Birth Chart

Michael Hutchence Birth Chart Data

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Michael Hutchence Progressed Chart Approx Time of Death

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Michael Hutchence Birth Chart + Approx Time of Death Progressions

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Michael Hutchence Birth Chart + Approx Time of Death Transits

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Michael Hutchence Birth Chart + Approx Time of Death Progressions and Transits

Poetess Sylvia Plath was born when the Waning Moon was transiting Libra, in the Seventh House, and the Sun Scorpio, in the Eighth House. Her Ascendant fell on the cusp between Aquarius and Pisces. Her Ruling Planets were Saturn in Capricorn, in the Twelfth House, and Jupiter in Virgo, in the Seventh House. Her Libra Moon was un-aspected, meaning disconnected from the other major planetary energies in her Birth Chart. This seems significant considering the manner of her death by suicide at the age of thirty. The Moon however was linked by a perfect conjunction to the Asteroid Goddess Juno and a trine to the Asteroid Goddess Vesta. Her Mercury was in Scorpio in the Ninth House, in a T-Cross with Mars in Leo in the Sixth House (square) and Black Moon Lilith in Taurus in the Third House (opposition). Her Venus was in Virgo in perfect sextile to Pluto in Cancer. Her Chiron was in Taurus in the Third House in a Grand Trine with Saturn in the Twelfth and Venus in the Seventh Houses. Plath committed suicide, after suffering from severe bouts of depression for many years, on February 11 1963.

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Sylvia Plath Birth Chart

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Sylvia Plath Birth Chart Data

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Sylvia Plath Birth Chart with Asteroids

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Sylvia Plath Birth Chart Data with Asteroids

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Sylvia Plath Progressed Chart Suicide

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Sylvia Plath Birth Chart + Progreassions-Transits Suicide

Wolfang Amedeus Mozart was born when the Moon was transiting Sagittarius (in close conjunction to Pluto) and the Sun Aquarius. His Ascendant was Virgo and the Ruling Planet Mercury was conjunct the Sun in Aquarius. He died at the age of 35, of unknown causes. There are speculations that he might have been poisoned, as this is what himself feared when he became ill. There is not proof however that this was the case, and most historians believe he died of natural causes.

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Eccentric genius and futuristic inventor Nikolas Tesla was a midnight child, born when the Moon was transiting Libra and the Sun Cancer. His Ascendant was Taurus with Pluto in Taurus rising in the First House, and the Lunar Ascending Node, Jupiter and Neptune, all in Aries, rising in the Twelfth House. The Ruling Planet Venus was in Cancer conjunct the Sun on the cusp of the Lower Heaven (Fourth House), both involved in a Cardinal Grand Cross with Moon-Mars conjunct in the Sixth House and Jupiter in Aries in the Twelfth House. Venus in Cancer and the Moon in Libra were in Mutual Reception (in each other Signs). His Mercury was in the Decan Aquarius of Gemini. Mercury was in fact the ‘Final Dispositor’, being the only planet in dignity (transiting its own Sign and House).

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Nikolas Tesla Birth Chart. Click to view larger image.

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Nikolas Tesla Birth Chart Data. Click to view larger image.

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Nikolas Tesla Progressed Chart on the day he died. As usual I use the birth place coordinates to cast Progressed Charts and actual location’s coordinates for Transits Charts. Click to view larger image.

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Nikolas Tesla Birth Chart + Progressed Chart and Sunrise Transits on the day he died. Click to view larger image.

British/American Philosopher Alan Watts was born when the Moon was transiting Virgo and the Sun Capricorn. His Ascendant was Sagittarius, with Venus rising in Sagittarius in the Twelfth House. The Ruling Planet Jupiter was in Aquarius, like his Sagittarius Ascendant appropriate for a Priest, a Monk, a Teacher, a Philosopher, Early Environmentalist, Bohemian and Zen Master, all of which he was at some times in his life! Or a ‘..lone wolf thinker and social rascal…’, as some critics described him.

Mercury and Mars were also in Capricorn, conjunct the Sun, explaining his combative spirit and gift with words (he wrote twenty five books and gave numberless lectures and speeches throughout his life. His radio talks are still aired today and his podcasts are extremely popular with a young generation of seekers). The prevalence of Capricorn shows also his deep interest in centuries old traditions and knowledge which he endeavored to translate into modern expression.

The critical and acute Virgo Moon was in perfect Trine to the exalted Mars in Capricorn, indicating emotional courage and talent for leadership, despite a timid emotional nature seeking solitude and calming routines.

His no nonsense approach and interest in man’s place in Nature have certainly a lot to do with the prevalence of Planets in Signs of Earth (Realism, Earth Magic) and Air (Reason, Communication); the Fire Signs giving him vision and aspirations beyond the ordinary. The lack of Planets in Water Signs, apart from Chiron in Pisces, shows a clear issue with emotions and longing to penetrate their mysteries.

Saturn disposing of (ruling the Signs of) Sun, Mercury, Mars and Jupiter was the hidden Ruler of his Horoscope. Saturn was in Gemini, conjunct Pluto on the cusp of Cancer. There is a magnificent Air Grand Trine between Saturn-Pluto, Jupiter-Ascending Lunar Node and the Mid-Heaven. Watts belonged to the eccentric and fiercely individualistic Uranus in Aquarius generation.  He belonged also to the Neptune and Pluto in Cancer generation, born in 1915, on the cusp of change, the chasm separating the world before the First World War and the world after it. These people also witnessed the Second World War cataclysm and its aftermath.

Watts died, at the age of 58, on November 16 1973, having also witnessed and upheld the New Age movement embracing Eastern traditions of thought and the psychedelic revolution.

Alan Watts Birth Chart. Click to view larger image.

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Alan Watts Birth Chart Data. Click to view larger image.

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Alan Watts Progressed Chart on the day of death

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Alan Watts Birth Chart + Progressions-Transits on the Sunrise of the day of death

Talented Oscar Wilde was born when the Moon transiting Leo and the Sun Libra. His Ascendant was Virgo and the Ruling Planet Mercury was in Scorpio squared by the Moon. He died on 30 November 1900, while in exile in Paris, three and half years after being freed from a London jail, where he spent two years for being Gay (from May 25 1895 to May 18 1897).

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Oscar Wilde Birth Chart. Click to view larger image

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Oscar Wilde Birth Chart Data. Click to view larger image

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Oscar Wilde Progressed Chart on the day he was jailed. Click to view larger image.

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Oscar Wilde Birth Chart + Progressed Chart and Sunrise Transits at the beginning of his jail term. Click to view larger image.

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Oscar Wilde Progressed Chart on the day he was released from jail. Click to view larger image.

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Oscar Wilde Birth Chart + Progressed Chart and Sunrise Transits at the end of his jail term. Click to view larger image.

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Oscar Wilde progressed Chart on the Sunrise of the day of death. Click to view larger image.

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Oscar Wilde Birth Chart + Progressed Chart and Sunrise Transits on the day of death. Click to view larger image.

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Jules Gabriel Verne Birth Chart

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Jules Verne Progressed Chart Sunrise day of death

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Jules Gabriel Verne Birth Chart Data

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Jules Verne Progressed Chart Sunrise day of death

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Jules Gabriel Verne Birth Chart + Progressions-Transits on day of death

On July 26, a month past her 88^th birthday, Australian artist and philanthropist, Margaret Hannah Olley, has died at her home-studio in Sydney. Busy to the end she was preparing a solo exhibition of her latest works.

Her birth-time is not available, so I chose to work with the Chart of Sunrise on her birthday, June 24, 1923. The planetary picture of that sunrise reveals much of the kindness, eccentricity and irreverent spirit that have made her the darling not only of the art world but also of common Australian people. Following is a reading of Margaret Olley’s Sunrise Chart.

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Margaret Olley Birth Sunrise Chart

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Margaret Olley Birth Sunrise Chart Data

Margaret was born with the Sun in Cancer, Sign of caring and imagination, in love with old things and attached to the security of home life. Most of Olley’s paintings were still life captured within the walls of her home, that was also a studio to her.

No better dream for a Cancerian than to create a cocoon where one can feel familiar and safe, where the source of creativity is never far away. She had an eye for small things, what others may think irrelevant and common, and made them art.

Not having children of her own she mothered apparently a great number of people, young artists in particular, thus fulfilling her Cancerian urge to nurture. Her Mars was also in Cancer, in contact to Pluto and Saturn, facts that made her nurturing qualities more militant and assertive. She must have been rather bossy at times, a queen within her own comfort zone.

Pluto in Cancer, in the vicinity of Mars, provided her with unflinching determination and fight to the death attitude, making her a rather driven person (she had more than 90 solo exhibition during her long career); and one who held some tangible power in the difficult and highly competitive art world. Mars in conjunction to Pluto acquires Scorpionic qualities, and, at 90 degrees from Saturn, becomes tougher and more cynical, accounting for Olley’s famously outspoken and frank ways. A Scorpio Jupiter, planet of the philosophical and moral outlook, would have enhanced again her uncompromising, honest, cutting through crap attitude toward life. And strangely suggests her enduring legacy to the arts and the philosophy and ideals of art, legacy that is guaranteed to survive her physical demise (Scorpio). Mars was also in aspect to Uranus, planet of individuality, accounting for her eccentricity and fierce independence, as well as for her awareness of social issues and her reforming spirit.

Olley was known and loved for her sense of humor; there is often a comedian quality to the Cancer personality, as shown by the number of great comedians and whimsical artists born under this Sign, like Robin Williams, Cindy Lauper, Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Bill Cosby.

Her artistic inclination is easily spotted in the conjunction of Venus, planet of beauty and aesthetic feelings, with Mercury, planet of communication, in Gemini, Sign of manual dexterity and adaptability. The accent in Gemini also kept her thinking young, even in her old age, easily befriending people much younger than herself. It also guaranteed her sharp wit and communication skill that won easily over her natural shyness and desire for a retiring life (Cancer). Gemini can be very irreverent at times, even a bit juvenile. A harmonious angle of both Mercury and Venus to Saturn in Libra indicates that, despite the choice of a bohemian life, Margaret Olley enjoyed discipline and routine, and felt often a sense of duty about grounding her inspirations into finished products, Saturn adding a down to earth quality of this Chart. Coupled with Cancer, these Saturnine aspects would have contributed greatly to her business skills.

The all important Moon was transiting from Libra to Scorpio that day, so, without the birth time, we can only guess. Libra could fit her idealistic personality, desire for relationships, but also fussiness about them, aspiring perhaps to something that is very difficult to attain in real relationship, a feeling of perfect equality and fairness, hence the choice of remaining single.

A Libra Moon would also add to her artistic talents and love of beauty, flowers and hats. In her bohemian way she was always well dressed, in beautiful colours and materials, old fashion (Cancer) but also stylish (Libra). The Sun and Moon both in Cardinal Signs (Cancer, Libra) would have accentuated qualities of restlessness and ambition.

A Scorpio Moon, on the other hand, would have added more intensity and shrewdness, and also more sensitivity and an instinctive knowledge of human nature, the good and the bad. It would also have accentuated the possibility of going to emotional extremes, falling into addictions and depressive moods, also her lot in life. If the Moon was in Libra (birth before 10.20 am) her recurrent depressions could be easily accounted for by her difficult Mars-Pluto-Saturn interaction.

Of note, considering the sudden nature of her death, somewhat unexpected, on July 26, 2011, we can’t help to notice that the last Solar Eclipse, on the Cancer New Moon of July 1, was conjunct Margaret Olley’s Pluto, while Saturn was squaring Pluto and the Eclipse point, Uranus was in orb of square too, and Pluto in orb of opposition. The time had come.

Bon voyage, lovely Margaret, you made your mark to the last.

Here are the Progressions and Transits at the approximate time of death, worthy studying.

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Margaret Olley Progressed Chart at the approx time of death

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Margaret Olley Birth Chart + Progression at the approx time of death

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Margaret Olley Birth Chart + Transits at the approx time of death

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Margaret Olley Birth Chart + Progressions-Transits at the approx time of death

Steve Jobs was born when the Crescent Moon was transiting Aries in the Seventh House, and the Sun Pisces, in the Sixth House. The Moon only aspects were two sequi-square to Saturn and Pluto, in Scorpio and Leo, the Third and Twelfth Houses respectively. Of some interest to the student of Astrology is the fact that Jobs’ arch rival Bill Gates was born the same year, 1955, and also had the Moon in Aries at birth, same degree, as well as Saturn in the same degree of Scorpio ! Jobs’ Pisces Sun was in a Grand Trine with the South Node in Cancer and Neptune on the last degree of Libra, between the Sixth, Tenth and Second House, areas of work career and wealth. Steve Jobs’ Ascendant (birth 7.15 pm) was Virgo and the Ruling Planet Mercury was in Aquarius, in square to Saturn in Scorpio, from the Fifth to the Third Houses. This square was the only major aspect of his Ruling Planet. His Venus was in Capricorn, on the cusp of the Fifth House, in opposition to Jupiter and Uranus conjunct on the cusp of the Eleventh House. Venus was also in perfect sextile to Saturn in Scorpio, in the Third House, and in far square to Mars. Mars was on the last degree of Leo, in the Eighth House, in opposition to Neptune in the Second House. Venus, Mars, Jupiter-Uranus and Neptune were involved in a wide (not exact) Grand Cross in Cardinal Signs. Jupiter and Uranus in Cancer, on the cusp of the Eleventh House, were in trine to Saturn in Scorpio, in the Third House. Saturn was also in square to Pluto in Leo in the Twelfth House.

I wrote these paragraphs about Steve Jobs’ Astrology on October 15 2011, few days after his death (at 3 pm, on October 5, 2011, in Palo Alto, California), the same day in fact the people at Apple were organizing a memorial to his life and career.

To cast Steve Jobs’ Birth Chart I have used the time of birth given by astro.com and derived from a Sacramento’s birth certificate. Steve Jobs was given away for adoption as an infant and therefore his time of birth from the hospital he was born in must be considered fairly accurate. And in fact the Birth Chart cast for the time of 7.15 pm seems to fit his personality and destiny in a remarkable way.

Here are Steve Jobs’ Birth Chart and the Progressions and Transits Charts at the time of death.
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Steve Jobs Birth Chart

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Steve Jobs Birth Chart Data

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I want to share here an observation I have made at the time of Steve Jobs’ passing. Around that time I did notice reported in the evening news a cluster of deaths of well known people, all still relatively young, in their fifties and sixties, all victims of the same disease, pancreatic cancer. One was Steve Jobs, others were Ralph Steinman, Canadian immunologist and cellular biologist, who died on September 30 2011 and received a posthumous Nobel Prize for Medicine on October 3; and Ian Carroll, Australian media pioneer who died on August 19 2011, and who, like the others, many considered a genius in his field.

To add to this coincidence I also found out that Rene Magritte, the French surrealist painter, who did inspire Apple famous logo, died of pancreatic cancer too. I was certainly been made aware of this particular illness at that time!

Briefly comparing the respective Birth Charts (time of birth not available for Steinmann and Carroll) I have found out that they all share a powerful Jupiter, as it could be expected, with Jupiter traditionally believed to rule the liver.

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Steve Jobs Death Progressions

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Steve Jobs Birth Chart + Death Progressions

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Steve Jobs Birth Chart + Death Transits

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Steve Jobs Birth Chart + Death Progressions and Transits

URLS

Mona Simpson = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Simpson_%28novelist%29

Steve Jobs Bio = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs

Ralph Steinman Bio = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_M._Steinman

Famed and controversial Indian Guru Osho was born when the Moon was transiting Capricorn, in the Eighth House, and the Sun Sagittarius, in the Seventh House, right on the Descendant (just setting). His Ascendant was Gemini and the Ruling Planet Mercury was in Capricorn, like the Sun in the Seventh House but closer to the cusp of the Eighth. In fact Osho had a ‘Stellium’ of planets in Capricorn, namely: the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Saturn, all between the Seventh and Eighth Houses. The Capricorn Moon was mid-point conjunct Venus and Saturn. The Moon, Saturn and Venus were all square Uranus in Aries, Eleventh House, and opposition Pluto in Cancer, in the Second House (Saturn nearly exact opposition from the Eighth House). All the Capricorn planets, excluding Saturn, were in trine to his Neptune in Virgo on the cusp of the Fourth House (Lower Heaven). The Sagittarius Sun was part of a Fire Grand Trine with Jupiter in Leo, Third House, and Uranus in Aries, Eleventh House. Both Mercury and Venus were in square to the Lunar Nodes in Aries and Libra. Osho died of heart failure on January 19 1990 in his Indian Ashram at Poona; he was 58 years old. Some of his disciples believe that he was poisoned while jailed for a few days in the USA before his last return trip to India.

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Osho Birth Chart

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Osho Birth Chart Data

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Osho Progressed Horoscope time of death

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Osho Birth Chart + Progressions time of death

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Osho Birth Chart + Transits time of death

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Osho Birth Chart + Progressions and Transits time of death

In occasion of the 75th anniversary of Anne Frank and her family going into hiding from Nazi prosecution, on August 4 1942, here are her Birth Chart and the Progressions-Transits of the dates of hiding, arrest and approximate period of death, between February and March 1945, in Bergen-Belsen concentration Camp.

Anne Frank was born when the Moon was transiting Leo, in the Second House, and the Sun Gemini, in the Eleventh House. Her Ascendant was zero degree Leo and the Sun conjunct Mercury in Gemini was her Ruling Planet. The Leo Moon was conjunct to Neptune and connected by aspect to Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. Uranus was her most elevated planet conjunct her Mid-Heaven in Aries. Her Venus was in Taurus and her Mars in Leo. Her Jupiter was on the cusp Taurus-Gemini and her Saturn was in Sagittarius.

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Anne Frank Birth Chart

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Anne Frank Birth Chart Data

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Anne Frank Progressions Day of Hiding

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Anne Frank Birth Chart + Progressions-Transits of Hiding

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Anne Frank Progressions on the day of her family arrest

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Anne frank Birth Chart + Progressions-Transits on day of arrest

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Anne Frank Progressions Approx Death Feb 15 1945

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Anne frank Birth Chart + Progressions-Transits of approximate period of death

Kurt Cobain was born when the Moon was transiting Cancer, in the Tenth House, and the Sun Pisces, in the Sixth House. The Moon was part of a Water Grand Trine with Mercury in Pisces and Neptune in Scorpio. The Sun was trine Mars in early Scorpio and square Neptune in late Scorpio. His Ascendant was Virgo, with Uranus and Pluto rising on the Eastern Horizon, Pluto in the Twelfth House and Uranus on the same degree as the Ascendant. Ruling Planet Mercury in Pisces, in the Sixth House, was conjunct Chiron and in opposition to Pluto and Uranus, and part of the Grand Trine with Moon and Neptune. His Mars was in Scorpio square Jupiter in Cancer. And his Venus was in Pisces conjunct and midpoint Chiron and Saturn, in the Seventh House. Saturn was conjunct the Black Moon Lilith in Aries. Cobain died of a self inflicted gunshot at the age of 27, on April 5 1994, time unknown. The potential for suicidal tendencies is clearly marked in his Birth Chart and augmented by the Progressions and Transits at the time of death.

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Kurt Cobain Birth Chart

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Kurt Cobain Birth Chart Data

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Kurt Cobain Progressed Chart Suicide Day

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Kurt Cobain Birth Chart + Progressions-Transits on Sunrise Day of Suicide

Studying the fascinating and tragic life of artist-activist Frida Kahlo can be very rewarding to the astrological student. As a young woman she had dreamed to become a doctor but her destiny decided otherwise, due to the fact that she first contracted Polio as a child of six, and then , at the age of 18, was severely injured in a bus accident, thus becoming a life long patient of doctors who proved unable to help her. Salient moments in her life were the day of the bus accident that nearly killed her and caused her life long suffering, September 17 1925, age 18; her marriage, which proved very tempestuous, to artist-activist Diego Rivera, twenty years her senior, on August 21 1929, age 22; and her death, a suspected suicide by morphine overdose, during the night of July 13 1954. Frida became an artist because of her ongoing health problems and constant state of physical pain, so there would not be the current cult status of Frida Kahlo the artist if those tragedies had not befell her !

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Frida Kahlo was born when the Waning Balsamic Moon was transiting the very last degree of the Fixed Earth Sign of Taurus, in the Tenth House, and the Sun the Cardinal Water Sign of Cancer, in the Eleventh House.

Her Ascendant was Leo, making the Cancer Sun her Ruling Planet. This polarity combines the Moon and Sun Signs, sensitivity and imagination coupled with warmth, creativity and passion. The Sun and Moon polarity, Cancer and Taurus, on the other hand, enhanced her affetionate nature, clingin, possessive and fiercely private.

A Solar Eclipse followed her birth, on July 10 1907, at around age 4 in Progression. Frida contracted Polio around the age of six. A Lunar Eclipse happened, also in Progression, in January 1926, few months after she was involved in a near fatal accident. This event affected her health for the rest of her life, contributing to her early death after much suffering and more than thirty, mainly unsuccessful operations, including a leg amputation a year before her death.

Her Taurus Moon shows a sensuous, artistic  temperament and her capacity for strong even obsessive attachments. The fact however that the Moon is in the last degree of this loyal Sign and very close to curious, flirty, non committal Gemini shows a certain emotional ambivalence, explaining her infidelities (and experience of the same from her life partner) as well as her bi-sexual tendencies. The Taurus-cusp-Gemini Moon certainly influenced her career as a painter being the closest body to her Mid-Heaven (life goals and purpose), as Taurus is ruled by artistic, eclectic Venus in Gemini, made deeper and more intensely sexual by the conjunction to Pluto. The Gemini side of the Moon is ruled instead by Mercury in passionate, creative, strongly visual Leo, apart from the Ascendant the only Fire in her Birth Chart.

Her Cancer Sun was in close conjunction to dreamy, artistic, idealistic but possibly also morbid, passive, fated Neptune. Both were in opposition to tough, determined, ambitious Retro Mars and the life changing, eccentric, trail blazing Uranus in Capricorn, between the Eleventh House, representing her remarkable contribution to the collective, and the Fifth House of creativity and children, showing her ambivalence about having children, and her experience of both terminations and miscarriage. She ended up never having children. The Fifth is also the area of creative self expression and the Mars-Uranus conjunction in this area shows her originality and perchance for unusual and confronting subjects. This was also strengthened by the close conjunction of Venus to Pluto that likes to pry open the Pandora box of taboos, hidden emotions and secrets.

Her Sun was also conjunct Jupiter in Cancer factor that contributed to her indomitable free spirit and interest in the philosophical-ideological side of things (the big picture). From very early in life she became a mouthpiece for the Mexican people against the greedy colonialism and capitalism of the United States.

The Lunar Nodes, indicating the positions of the Solar and Lunar Eclipses early in her life, were in Cancer and Capricorn too, showing the potential for long periods of isolation, even hospitalization (North Node on the cusp of the Twelfth House) and her ongoing poor health (South Node just on the cusp of the Sixth House).

Mercury was in creative and stubborn Leo at her birth, forming a semi-square to Venus and Pluto, conjunct in Gemini, indicating her interest in the occult side of things and in death, and her capacity for unending passion and even toxic love attachments that marred many of her intimate relationships. This Venus is another proof that Frida Kahlo was inded a very private person, despite the glamorised side of her public persona.

Venus and Pluto were squaring her Saturn in Pisces in the Eighth House, an aspect that portended the tough turns her destiny took, and the impossibility to do something about it. The Pisces Saturn, if aided by other difficult configurations, as in this case, can indicates a lack of control over life major events, with the need to acquiesce and find a spiritual outlet to life insurmountable difficulties. Something similar can also be read in the conjunction of her Sun to Neptune and the opposition of Mars and Uranus to the same, all aspects that demand a high degree of acceptance and letting go of control.

Chiron in Aquarius was in her Sixth House, a great example of the most negative outcome for such a configuration, when again there are a lot of other indications of possible chronic ill health. Chiron was forming only a square to the MId-Heaven, but no aspect to Sun, Moon or any celestial body, fact that often causes a planet to become exceedingly powerful, like a separate, all powerful entity in the psyche and life of the individual.

The Progressions and Transits Charts at the time of the major events in Frida Kahlo’s life should speak for themselves to the student of Astrology. Like, for instance, the Progressed Moon in Capricorn (Sign ruled by Saturn and pertaining to the skeletal parts of the body and also to chronic, lingering health conditions) and just entering the Sixth Natal House (health and illness), in conjunction to the Progressed South Lunar Node (Eclipse marking point) and in difficult aspect to both the Ascendant and Mid-heaven, at the time of the accident that changed her life and contributed to her early death. At the same time transiting Neptune, one of the major influences in her Birth Chart, had reached just exactly the degree of her Leo Ascendant, a remarkable synchronicity, stressing the destiny factor in the accident, with all its spiritual and ego denying implications.

Her marriage Charts are also very instructive, with transiting Saturn in Sagittarius reaching the opposition to her Venus-Pluto conjunction, while the Progressed Moon in Pisces applies to a conjunction to her Natal Saturn (the old man archetype), in the Eighth House of intimacy, and is in square to the transiting Saturn, on the cusp of the Fifth House of children and lovers, considering she married a man who could have been her father and never succeeded having children by him.

Another amazing synchronicity is the exact transit of Pluto over her Natal Ascendant in Leo at the time of death. What Neptune did at the time of the near fatal accident, Pluto, god of the underworld, did at the time of her death.

I could spend days talking about this remarkable woman’s astrological portrait and the cosmic synchronicity of her life major events. I hope having her Birth Charts and the Progressed-Transits Charts made available here will help some students of Astrology to learn more about the mysterious connections at work in our lives and psyches.

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Frida Kahlo Birth Chart

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Frida Kahlo Birth Chart Data

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Frida Kahlo Progressions Bus Accident age 18

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Frida Kahlo Birth Chart + Progressions and Transits Bus Accident age 18

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Frida Kahlo Marriage to Diego Rivera Progressions

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Frida Kahlo Birth Chart + Progressions and Transits Marriage

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Frida Kahlo Death Progressions age 47

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Frida Kahlo Birth Chart +Death Progressions and Transits age 47

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