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AGENA beta Centauri 23 ä 59Notes: On the right foreleg of the Centaur.Influence: According to Ptolemy it is of the nature of Venus and Jupiter.It gives position, friendship, refinement, morality, health and honour.With Sun: Mental activity, rashness, success, many friendshipsWith Moon: Sarcasm and bitter speech, strong passions.With Mercury: Great mental ability, sarcasm, material gain, speaking, writing and cham-pioning the masses.With Venus: Poetical, strong passions, rash friendships with women.With Mars: Legal authority, honour as speaker or writer, great mental and physical powers.With Jupiter: Intellectual success, legal and Church authority, professional honour.With Saturn: Thoughtful, shrewd . . .

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Vivacity results as a rule from a promi-nent Mercurial or Gemini element, coupledwith a good Mars on its positive side.Sagittarius and Capricorn can also be ex-tremely vivacious. If charm is also present,Venus or Libra will be to the fore.Voluptuousness. All the fixed signs, withthe probable exception of Aquarius, canincline to this, especially if the 5th houseis prominent. Taurus is probably the mostfrequent culprit, while Libra slips easilyinto pleasure-loving indulgence. The Jo-vian signs are also prone to the same thingunder affliction. Severe afflictions to theluminaries from Saturn or Neptune mayall have this effect, in some or other form.The more aesthetic sybarite is often a na-tive of Gemini or Virgo. Nero is placedunder the former sign, and George IV andWilde under the latter. N.N. 740 is Gemini,with five planets in Taurus, including theruler Mercury, which is conjoined withVenus. Jupiter is in Libra and Neptune inPisces—both inclined to lack energy.Moon is in Scorpio . . .

ASTROLOGY OF THE WORLD I: ThePtolemaic Inheritance: Weather, Prices &Commodities, Eclipses & Comets, Chorog-raphy, translated with notes by BenjaminDykes.

To my knowledge, this is the first bookof translated texts to focus exclusively onmundane astrology, and it is most welcome.

Starting with the climate. The previouslyknown ancient texts on weather, surveyedby McCormack, were fewer than five. Inthis book Dykes gives us 240 pages of trans-lation and commentary, more than 17 ancientsources. While this book will not teach youthe fundamentals of weather (for that, getZain or Riske or McCormack), but if youknow the basics, the details given in thisbook will make you a master.

And it’s the same with the following 70pages on markets. You won’t learn what

stocks to buy, but in glancing through thebook I found Ibn Ezra’s note that earth andwater signs promote abundance and lowprices, while fire and air made for scarcityand high prices. Which when you thinkabout it is simple fertility and obvious on itsface. It’s just never been applied to the mar-kets. Get out your highlighters as you willlikely find abundant notes on beans, wheat,rice, milk and all the other classic commodi-ties of life. Same in California as it was inMesopotamia a thousand years ago.

The third section is on Eclipses and Com-ets, which I passed by. The fourth and finalsection is on “chorography,” which, it turnsout, is how the ancients assigned sign andplanetary rulers to specific geographic loca-tions, the very heart of mundane astrology.

In sum, Benjamin’s new book may do formundane astrology what Lilly’s did for horary.Start a revolution. 512 packed pages. It’sonly $40.

I was also impressed by David Monroe’snew book, Personal Prediction. He usesprecessed (aka sidereal, as in Cyril Fagan)solar returns, in combination with a solar re-turn MC that sets 9 months and 2 weeks equalto a year. Using a daily progression not unlikethat of Wynn’s Key Cycle, Monroe arrives at aseries of critical dates to watch out for. Mon-roe has been practicing for a long time, hemakes forecasting sound easy. Maybe it is.

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A Reincarnation Study

HOW you set up a study determineswhat you will get from it. This weekI wanted to compare the chart of a

reincarnated house slave with that of a rein-carnated field slave, as the differences shouldbe stark.

And though this sounds inherently rac-ist, it is nothing other than the fact that ALL

Afro-Americans are descended of slaves andit should be fairly easy to distinguish betweenreincarnate house versus field as one will begenerally well-adjusted and the other will not.

I was initially going to use Bill Cosby asthe reincarnate house slave, but as soon as Iread a bit of his bio, I realized he is most likelya reincarnate black minstrel, a free black, andnot a slave of any sort, though there is not alot of difference between a house slave and aminstrel as both led restricted lives. They werevastly better off than field slaves could everdream of. So either way Cosby would work.

The problem was finding notable reincar-nate field slaves.

Shirley Chisholm? She qualifies as anangry black (a tell), but she was born, inBrooklyn, to immigrant parents from Guyana(father) and Barbados (mother). Immigrantsare a complication I did not need, so, sorry,Shirley.

Angela Davis was an angry woman andstood trial for a courtroom shooting in Cali-fornia, but I found she was a child of privi-lege. Both her parents were college gradu-ates. Which smacks of reincarnate houseslaves who found it rough going in their nextlives when the system they knew was notthere to support them.

There were more names on my list, but Irealized they would be reincarnate minstrelsor house slaves, almost by definition. Amongthem, Pearl Bailey, Josephine Baker, BillieHoliday, Barbara Jordan, Toni Morrison, etc.

The problem with finding a notable rein-carnate field slave was that slaves were soground down as to not amount to anythingin their next lives, which would be the oneswe know. I could use cases from my files, butI would be guilty of leading the reader. Tell-ing you about a person whom you knew noth-ing else about. I see too much of that in thebooks I stock.

Then I realized that reincarnate field slaveshave traditionally excelled in competitivesports. When all you have to trade is yourphysical muscle, then even if you are ground

down psychologically and forced to pleaseThe Man, you will still take pride in demon-strating your physical ability among yourpeers. Who is the fastest? Who can lift themost? Has the most endurance?

Black male athletes are many, and withthis insight, that they are reincarnate fieldslaves who wanted to escape poverty andmake good, we have an effective means todelineate the charts of many living heroes.But still I wanted something else, which iswhy I looked to black female athletes. Iwanted to discover their attitudes towardschildren and child-bearing. My theory wasthat these women had been forced to bear chil-dren in their most recent past life and wouldavoid it in this life if they could. Is this true?

I did a simple Google search for black fe-male athletes. It took me here. I then gotcharts for the individuals named on that page.All but one of them had birth times. So whatdo they all have in common? Let’s see whatwe can find out.

VENUS WILLIAMS was born on June17,1980, at 2:12 pm in Lynwood, Cali-fornia. True to my model of reincar-

nate field slaves, Venus’s father, Richard Wil-liams, was one of seven children born to asingle mother, Julia Mae Williams, who waspresumably a reincarnate field slave, one whohad previously been forced to bear childrenand was resigned to that fate in this life, ac-counting for the (presumably) shiftless menwho fathered them.

In Venus’s chart, her father is shown byCapricorn on the 4th house cusp. Its ruler,Saturn, is found in Venus’s 12th house (whenthe father turns up as Saturn in this house,he gives strict but undying support, by theway), which, turn the chart, is the father’s 9thhouse of hopes and dreams. Saturn is con-junct Mars in Virgo, which, the two planetsfighting each other and fighting to get thedetails right, shows the enormous struggleto make his daughter a star. Those two plan-ets are, in their turn, ruled by Mercury in Can-cer, which is in Venus’s 10th house, of themother.

And it was Venus’s mother, OracenePrice, who in fact was her coach. Cancer iscaring and personal and direct and will notleave a stone unturned. Mercury in Canceris endlessly clever.

In its turn, Mercury in Cancer is ruled bythe Moon in Leo, in the second house of the

THE Sun’s 18O wide path through thezodiac is called the ecliptic becauseeclipses occur there. The Celestial

Equator is the earth’s equator extended outinto space but because of the tipping ofthe earth’s poles from vertical the CelestialEquator & ecliptic are not parallel; thus theecliptic curves above & below the CelestialEquator or “declines” away from touchingit, giving the word declination, or distancenorth & south of the Celestial Equator. Itsgreatest variance is 23O, 26’, 38.75” on eachside, astronomically termed the Obliquityof the Ecliptic. Planets in the first six Signsare above the Celestial Equator in NorthDeclination because that is the NorthernHemisphere marked by the Northern SignCancer. From that point the Sun declines,crossing the equator to reach the SouthernSign Capricorn in the Southern Hemisphere,where the last 6 Signs are below the equatorin South Declination.The Solstices and the Equinoxes

Declination is given in the ephemerisalong with longitude. Note that the Sun’sdeclination 23N27 & 23S27 is the same asthe obliquity of the ecliptic, which he setswhen in 0-Cancer & 0-Capricorn: these markthe turning point Summer & WinterSolstices. Declination therefore begins onthe equator & is 0N00 in 0-Aries and 0S00in 0-Libra, and these mark the equal-days-and-nights Spring & Autumn Equinoxes.

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Infant Mortality

The following are the particular rules:If the Sun or Moon be in an angle, and

one of the malefics be in conjunction with it,or else distant from both the Sun and Moonso as to form the apex of two equal sides ofa triangle of which the Sun and Moon formthe other apices [i.e., the Sun/Moon mid-point–Dave], and at the same time no ben-efic planet assists & the dispositors of theSun & Moon are also weak or afflicted bythe malefics, the child then born will immedi-ately die.

2. If the Sun, Moon & Ascendant are allafflicted by the malefics, especially from theangles, and no assistance is given by Venusor Jupiter the child will die in infancy. Notethat angular afflictions are always the mostserious, and that favourable aspects fromthe benefics will be rendered of little efficacyif these bodies are very weak.

3. If the Sun & Moon are in opposition,and at the same time are both square to twomalefics also in opposition, the child will bestillborn or will die at once. If, however, insuch a case the Sun & Moon are separating,and Jupiter & Venus precede them, the childwill live for a short time.

4. Afflictions from an elevated planet areworse than from one not so placed, and aremuch more difficult to overcome.

5. In general Mars afflicts the Moon morethan it does the Sun as they are of differentnatures, and similarly Saturn afflicts the Sunmore than it does the Moon for the same reason.

6. South Node in conjunction with amalefic in the 4th, or the luminaries besiegedby (i.e., in between) malefics often kills atbirth or just after.

THE examination of a few dozen casesof early death or, on the other hand,of examples of marked longevity, will

probably cause the student to entertain gravedoubts on the whole question of the hyleg,for it is not hard to find cases where deathseems certainly due to a violent affliction toa luminary well removed from hylegiacalpositions, and instances are also found wherethe native has attained great age with thehyleg violently afflicted.

Moreover, the question arises as towhether the hyleg remains the same throughlife, or changes as the horoscope progresses(see Chapter Ten).

The 4th house rules the end of life, and ifJupiter is therein, or if this planet (andsometimes Uranus or Neptune) is in stronggood aspect to the lord or occupant of thishouse, it is perhaps as good an indication asany of a long and healthy old age.

It is generally thought that the Sun is mostimportant in a man’s map, and the Moon in awoman’s, while the latter is always importantin childhood, irrespective of sex.

Lunar afflictions often work out largelythrough wife or mother in a man’s nativity,and in a woman’s the Sun’s aspects often actlargely through the father and husband, aswe have already said.

The Moon governs the functional healthand the Sun the constitution, the complaintsresulting from solar afflictions being as a rulefar more deep-rooted.

If the Sun, Moon, and asc. (the threehylegiacals) are not badly afflicted, thephysical well-being should be assured. Thestronger they are the better. Mixed aspects,good and bad, cause varying conditions. Ifthe Luminaries are afflicted in or from anglesthe results are likely to be the more drastic.

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Eclipsesfrom Interpreting the Eclipsesby Robert Jansky

AS one begins to delineate the horo-scope for the effect of an eclipse, thesingle most important factor to note

is, In which of the twelve houses does theeclipse fall? It will be in terms of this housethat you will feel most personally affected bythis eclipse.

When the eclipse falls on one of the in-termediate house cusps, i.e., a house cuspother than one, four, seven or ten, the ques-tion is raised, Which house system do youuse in delineating the horoscope? I person-ally prefer the Koch system of houses be-cause it tends to be the most accurate in plac-ing an eclipse in the area of life that comesunder the focus of the eclipse.

The keywords to apply to the delineationof an eclipse are emphasis and crisis. Theeclipse tends to emphasize matters in relationto the house which it falls in the horoscope.The eclipse tends to bring matters related tothis house to a crisis stage during its periodof effect. The word “crisis” is not a maleficword, if you look it up in your dictionary. Itsimply means that you are required by eventsin your life to devote more time, attention andenergy to some matter(s) than usual. Herein, Ibelieve, you will discover the very essence ofthe importance of the eclipse in delineation.

When you have an eclipse that is very closeto an intermediate house cusp you have a fineopportunity to judge which house system bestfits your horoscope. This is done by simplyjudging what crisis in your life at that time comesclosest to the choice of the two houses facingyou, and then selecting which of the twohouses best fits the situation and finding ahouse system that places the intermediate cuspproperly. . .

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Venus WilliamsJune 17, 19802:12 pm PDTLynwood, CAPlacidus housesMean node

mother and the 8th of the father (chart turn-ing, again), indicating the value which themother had for the daughter, and the risksthat her father was willing to take with her.

Children. Venus Williams, now 33 yearsold, has none. Aquarius on the 5th housecusp is not fertile. Ruler Saturn in Virgo, con-junct Mars in Virgo, is not fertile. Saturn woulddeny children, Mars would burn them up.They are in the 8th house from the house ofchildren (12 is the 8th from the 5th). Withboth malefics in that house, if Venus had chil-dren they would have a hard time surviving.

Elsewhere, Sun in Gemini is not fertile.Moon in Leo is not fertile. Venus in Gemini isnot fertile. It would be fair to guess that Ve-nus Williams has no interest in childbearing.

WHICH brings me to her sister,Serena Williams, born September26, 1981, 8:28 pm EDT in Saginaw,

Michigan. Same parents as her older sister,but now see how they play out.

Serena has the same signs on the MC andIC as her sister Venus, but inverted. FatherRichard is now Cancer in the 4th house, ruledby the Moon, in Virgo. In her sister’s chartthe father was ruled by Saturn in Virgo. Hereit is the Moon, but still Virgo. Serena’s motheris Capricorn on her 10th house, ruled by Sat-urn, which is now at 11 degrees of Libra inthe 6th. Which is two degrees shy of sisterVenus’s 13 degree Libra ascendant and showshow the two sisters are linked by means oftheir mother, who presumably trained themtogether at one point or another.

How about the single grandmother andher children, the girls’ father? The father’smother is shown by the tenth house from thefather, which is shown by the 4th. The 10thhouse from the 4th is the grandchild’s ascen-dant. It’s the same for everybody.

In Venus’s chart, we find Pluto ingrandma’s house, in Libra, which impliesgrandma’s relationships were rocky. RulerVenus is retrograde in Gemini in granny’s 9thhouse. Moving away from the Sun, the houseand sign implies grandma was forced to leaveher true love. Note the opposition to Neptune.

In granddaughter’s Serena’s chart,grandma is shown by Taurus. Grandma wasweak, from ruler Venus’s placement opposite,in the 7th, and excessively forceful, a trait ofVenus in Scorpio. Note well: THIS IS NOT HOW

GRANDMA WILLIAMS WAS AS AN INDIVIDUAL.This is how she projected to two of her manygrandchildren. Each of whom will have theirown, unique, viewpoint. Those of you whohave large families can explore this further.

FOR Venus Williams, with Sun con-junct her chart ruler, the planet Venus(a well-named woman?) in Gemini in

the 9th, she dreamed of a life free of dailyillusions (opposition to Neptune in the 3rd),and used her hands and arms (ruled byGemini) to do so. Note that both Venus andNeptune are retrograde. It is rare for bothends of an opposition to be retrograde. (Ve-nus retrograde is rare all by itself.) You canmake up your own stories about how she feelsunloved (Venus retrograde) and how she isdeceived in love and deceives her lovers (op-posite Neptune) and you would probably beright or at least not far wrong. For refuge sheturns to her 11th house Leo Moon, whichmakes her self-centered (all Leo Moons are)and her circle of friends. The Moon is con-junct the north node, there will never be alack of friends, though they will come andgo. Opposite the south node, no children.

Her sister Serena bats the ball for entirelydifferent reasons. Her Sun and Moon are inthe 6th house of service. And of slavery, infact. Libra intercepted in the sixth house, withSun, Saturn, Jupiter, Pluto and Mercury allinside it, for Serena life is a struggle to liveup to the expectations of others, as symbol-ized by Libra, the sign of the other interceptedin the 6th of service, and reinforced by thechart ruler, Venus, debilitated in Scorpio inthe 7th, which happens to rule the interceptedLibra stellium.

Like her sister, Serena has never married

and has no children. Field slaves did notmarry, there was no point. Like reincarnatepriests and monks (myself), while we cravecompanionship, we do not understand mar-riage itself.

Children: With Leo on the cusp of the 4thand Mars in Leo in the house itself, SerenaWilliams is most likely not fertile. With Mars,Sun, Saturn, Jupiter, Pluto, Mercury and Nep-tune in male signs, Serena Williams is stronglymasculine in character. More so than her sis-ter, Venus.

With our first two examples we have notproven our thesis, that reincarnate field slavesneglect or detest children. We have merelyfound two sisters who had better things todo with their lives.

WE turn now to Florence Griffith-Joyner, Flo-Jo. Born December21, 1959, at 12:11 am in Los Ange-

les. As with the Williams sisters, we againsee a rising sign ruled by Venus, in this case,Libra, which reminds us of Venus Williams,with Libra rising. For Flo-Jo, ruling planet,Venus, is debilitated in Scorpio, which re-minds us of Serena. It is in a waning con-junction with Neptune, which reminds us,again, of the elder Williams and her Venus-Neptune opposition.

Flo-Jo grew up in the Jordan Downs pub-lic housing complex, located in Watts, LosAngeles. Which was essentially a dumpingground for poor blacks, which is to say, rein-carnate field slaves. It was at the epicenter

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of the 1965 Watts riots.Chart ruler, Venus, we find debilitated in

Scorpio in the 2nd house in a waning con-junction with Neptune, where Flo-Jostruggles to find her values. It is ruled byMars in Sagittarius in the third, where we alsofind Mercury (debilitated) and Jupiter (ruler).Sagittarius rules legs. Mercury is speed. 3rdhouse is local. Mars is energy. Sun is vitality.Can you see a formula for a sprinter emerging?

Over at Wiki’s talk page is a lengthy dis-cussion about Flo-Jo’s alleged drug use. Herchart shows an empty 6th house (drugs), anda 2nd house Neptune with only sextiles toMoon-Pluto and Saturn. Sixth house rulerJupiter is itself well-placed in Sagittarius.Given that Mercury and Mars, when conjunct,give an intensely nervous constitution, thenearby abundance of Jupiter would likely leadto a drug overdose, should she have evertried. With four planets propelling her legs,Flo-Jo did not need drugs. Will-power wasitself enough, and note the squares fromMoon and Pluto to add further fuel. Thiswoman was born to be a great sprinter.

Death came from epilepsy. Carter quotesLilly as saying, Moon and Mercury not inaspect, which they were in Flo-Jo’s chart(square). Mars in a nocturnal chart angular(no). Mars by night disposing of the Moonand Mercury (no). Moon opposite Saturn inangles (no), or Moon rising opposite Saturnand Mercury (no).

Carter then goes on to add his own ob-

servations:Mercury cadent (yes) afflicted by Mars

(yes). Ascendant and 3rd house afflicted:yes. The ascendant is ruled by a debilitatedVenus in Scorpio, while the 3rd house is Sag-ittarius with a debilitated Mercury in Sag in-side it. When we have an ailment that doesnot manifest cleanly according to the rules,we are often surprised by a sudden onset orunusual conditions. Most epileptics sufferfrom childhood, unlike Flo-Jo the diseasedoes not wait for maturity to appear.

My own impression of epilepsy is thatthe mind has been torn apart. A woman whocompulsively loves a man who is trying tomurder her is my classic example: She be-comes epileptic in her next life, which is tosay her husband’s hate has cost her her fu-ture. In Flo-Jo’s case we have a debilitatedMercury in Sag that is attacked by a Marsthat is much stronger than it is, which issquare to a Moon-Pluto conjunction inMercury’s own sign of Virgo. As Lilly says,the typical epileptic does not have Mercuryand Moon in aspect, but here their squareaspect come complete with an intense Pluto-Mars right on top of them. Which presumesthe autopsy was correct. The actual cause ofdeath was said to be asphyxiation.

Flo-Jo had one child, a daughter, bornwhen she was 31. This is late in a woman’slife and indicates a lack of fertility. The 5thhouse has Aquarius on the cusp, with rulerSaturn in Capricorn, its ruler. Saturn, strong

Florence Griffith-Joyner “Flo-Jo”December 21, 19591:00 am PST (rectified)Los Angeles, CAPlacidus housesMean node

in its sign, produces a child, but does so late.

DEATH at age 38. In this chart, nei-ther Sun nor Moon are hyleg (lifegivers) as the Sun is below the hori-

zon, while the Moon is in the 12th. The rulerof the ascendant, Venus, is below the hori-zon and debilitated, so is also ruled out.

Which leaves the ascendant itself. Makeit hyleg, and then look for a ruler of 3 Librathat is in aspect to it. Saturn, exalted in Libraand the ruler of the first 8 degrees, is the ob-vious choice as alcochoden, or giver of years,but, angular, gives too many of them: 57.Sextile Venus, we should add its least years,8, to get 65.

Change the time to, say, 1:00 am, we stillget a powerhouse in Sagittarius in the 3rd,but now have 10 Libra rising and a cadentSaturn in the 3rd. Which gives 30 years.Sextile to Venus adds 8, for a final tally of 38.Which is exactly correct. Why would theclock be wrong by 30 minutes at least I can-not say. This is rectification by death, anunpleasant thought. Note how the southnode has advanced into the 6th house andthink again of the suspicions of drug use.Her accusers were smelling her south node,for better or worse.

NEXT up: Wilma Rudolph, a track andfield star of the 1960 Olympics inRome. She was born June 23, 1940,

in St. Bethlehem, Tennessee, the 20th of 22children. Which already makes us think hermother was a reincarnate field slave, as I havenever before heard of a woman producing somany children. Presuming her siblings werenot twins or triplets, Rudolph’s mother bearsher first child in her teens and would bearound 35 or 40 at the time of Rudolph’s birth.Which puts the mother’s birth around theyears 1900-1905. As the interval betweenlives, when one lives past the age of 30 or so,is typically around a full century, this putsher mother’s previous birth around 1750 orthereabouts and gives an idea how far backslaves were being force-bred. This is justpencil-scratching on my part and gives anidea how I rough out a past life based onsketchy information. Regrettably I do nothave any hard facts to go beyond this, so faras Rudolph’s mother is concerned.

Rudolph was the daughter of a railwayporter and a maid. The Pullman company hada long history of blacks-only as porters intheir sleeping cars. As George Pullman well-knew, this was an ideal job for ex-field slaves,(as well as reincarnate field-slaves), as lit-eracy was not required, but a good, clearmemory was. Literate people generally havepoor memories, while the educated feel that

menial labor is beneath them. Field slavesalso often had a certain fear of white people,which, quite frankly, ensured the sleeperswould be left alone. While this may soundracist and while the pay was said to be poor,the hours long and travellers abusive, por-ters had a strong sense of pride, which is tohint that scarcity of money back then wasn’tthe major thing it has become in recent years.Overnight train travel, which is still commonin most of the of the world, is greatly missedin the US.

Rudolph’s mother was a maid, anothermenial position. At one point there were Pull-man maids as well, who served on female-segregated cars. She might have had the sameemployer as her husband. Menial work, as Iwell-know, gives a personal satisfaction thatis missing in executive trades. I will not lookdown on it.

In Wilma Rudolph’s chart we see the sameMercury-Mars conjunction as in Flo-Jo’s,only now in Cancer and the 2nd house. WhileFlo-Jo was simply a huge talent, to Rudolphhaving use of her limbs and being active wasa big deal – a value – to her, as she was strickenwith polio at age 4. A poor man’s daughter,she did not come to the attention of NurseKenny, who used techniques similar to that ofJoseph Blagrave and cured polio at a time whenconventional medicine thought it incurable.

Rudolph was not so lucky. She wore abrace. Very few who got the brace ever gotrid of it, it was a lifetime’s sentence. Yet by

the age of 12, Rudolph was cured. She pre-sumably had cured herself.

CARTER says palsy/paralysis hap-pens when Uranus and Neptune af-flict Mercury. In Rudolph’s chart,

Mercury is sextile to both. Carter also saysTaurus, Cancer, Scorpio or Capricorn areheavily tenanted. In Rudolph’s chart, we findJupiter, Saturn and Uranus in Taurus, the Sun,Ascendant, Venus, Mars and Mercury inCancer. Eight degrees of Cancer/Capricornare a problem. Rudolph had Venus and herascendant at 7 Cancer. And Jupiter-Saturnafflictions. Rudolph had them conjunct, Ju-piter at 8 Taurus, which tightly sextiled herascendant at 7 Cancer.

Polio often swept through entire commu-nities as an epidemic, which invariably meanstransiting outer planets were in play. Rudolphcontracted the disease at age 4, in 1944. InJuly, 1944, transiting Saturn was conjunct herSun, while transiting Jupiter had just opposedher Moon and squared her Uranus. Transit-ing Pluto was square her Jupiter. The nodewas passing over her Mercury.

In Rudolph’s case, Jupiter and Pluto set uptargets born in 1940 for the benefit of Saturn,Mars and the node, who then made the finalselection. Epidemics are no harder than that.

It was the placement of Mercury and Marsin her second house that made Rudolph fightback and win. Mars-Mercury were her rightto be active, in the second house and in Can-cer the need was visceral. She would walk,

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Wilma RudolphJune 23, 19405:00 am CSTSt. Bethlehem, TNPlacidus housesMean node

she would run again, and she did.The 20th century epidemic of childhood

polio was a consequence of pasteurization.It killed the many harmless strains of poliothat gave immunity, leaving the rare strainsthat crippled. And it made the milk bad, thecheese worse, and dairy farmers sloppy anddirty. Pasteurization has now been the law ofthe land for many years. If you do not pas-teurize, the state will run you out of busi-ness, but I digress.

Wilma Rudolph bore four children, whichwas typical of women of the period, as I wasa child of the age and families of that size andlarger were common. Libra on the 5th houseis moderately fertile and produces beautifulchildren. Ruler Venus in fertile Cancer is onthe ascendant, meaning she would be knownas a mother, but that Venus retrograde hid it.Sometimes I think of a retrograde planet as adoor that compulsively opens the wrong way.

Rudolph died of brain/throat cancer, age54. Offhand she does not meet any of Carter’scriteria for cancer (Sun in aspect/relation toJupiter and Saturn), but if we replace the Sunwith its ruler, the Moon, she is. Note theMoon is in the sign of the Sun’s debility,Aquarius. Regrettably I was not able to getAl-Khayyat’s life expectancy to work out.This is due to my limitations.

THE final woman in this survey, AltheaGibson, born August 25, 1927, at 9:00am in Silver, South Carolina, was, like

Venus and Serena Williams, a tennis player.

In this case, the first professional black ten-nis player of either sex.

Like Venus, like Serena, like Flo-Jo weagain have one of Venus’ signs rising, in thiscase, Libra, to match Venus Williams and Flo-Jo. Like Venus Williams and Rudolph, she hasVenus retrograde. Given that we have onlyfive individuals in this sample, that three of

them have Venus retrograde (by far the rarestof all retrogrades) and that the other two haveVenus debilitated in Scorpio raises many ques-tions. Do female athletes commonly have Ve-nus retrograde or disabled? Who made theselection at fitsugar.com?

OR could it be that black females, re-incarnated field slaves all of them,were so badly scarred as slaves as

to hate their essential female functions? Weneed a bigger sample.

Silver, South Carolina, is essentially a widespot on the road. Gibson’s parents were farm-ers, presumably sharecroppers. When theeconomy went bad in 1930 they moved toHarlem, in New York. Gibson was a New Yorktennis champion by her early teens. She thenwent on to sweep all the major champion-ships, both at Wimbledon and in the US, be-fore being forced to give up the sport in 1958at the age of 31 as she had no means of income.She then had an erratic life in sports, entertain-ment, and as a celebrity.

Aside from minor factors I am unable toread the chart. Mars is in a Gauquelin sectorfor athletes but a champion needs far morethan a single placement. Disposed by Mer-cury, which is twice addled, once by being inLeo, a second time by rushing to a conjunc-tion with Neptune. Pluto is on the MC, whichis someone who will not do well in public,which Gibson did not. The Sun is tightlysquare Saturn and tightly inconjunct Jupiterand Uranus, but none of these make for a

Althea GibsonAugust 25, 19279:00 am ESTSilver, SCPlacidus housesMean node

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sports champion.The necessary drive normally falls in the

first quadrant (houses 1, 2 3), or happens withpersonal planets angular. The 2–8 polarity isused by daredevils, while a 6th house em-phasis (Serena Williams) is for those drivenby a sense of duty. Gibson lacks all of these.

Considering children, Aquarius on thecusp of 5 is not fertile. Ruler Saturn in the 3rdand Sagittarius is not fertile. The ruler ofSaturn, Jupiter in Aries, is not fertile, whichtakes us to Mars in Virgo, which is hardlybetter. Gibson was married twice and seemsto have had no children. Neither husband, itseems, gave financial support. Which, tocontinue with a field-slave analogy, wouldbe typical. Slaves were too impoverished togive financial assistance to one another and

Bill CosbyJuly 12 193712:30 am EDTPhiladelphia, PAPlacidus housesMean node

presumably are still crippled by that belief.To say nothing of a generally weak under-standing of the duties of marriage.

The prevalence of single-parent Afro-American families gives lie to the belief thatslaves had normal families and fought to keepthem together. Slaves clearly did not havefamilies at all, but do we need to know this inorder to heal?

No, we do not. We will heal whether weknow or not. Knowledge is often a hindrance.We need forgiveness and compassion.

IN this quick study of African-Americanfemale athletes, we have found many indications of athletic ability as well as

disturbing hints of self-dislike, but, I mustconfess, not the smoking gun of I hate chil-dren that I had hoped to find. As I men-

tioned, I have seen this dislike in individualcharts. It might be the desire to be someonehas overwhelmed all else. Intense desire isthe first step out of slavery. Time will healthese people. Hopefully the larger white/His-panic society will help and not hinder. Re-member America has many reincarnate slaveowners (as well as many more who profitedfrom this great evil, in the North as well as theSouth) who must grow and change and learnas well. The Cos will have to wait, apologies.

Next week: I have taken my concept ofastrology as earth-based energies and spunit into Einstein’s Unified Field Theory. Struc-ture overwhelms simple math. The logic ofAristotle will yet return.

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