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Astrology


In Western (tropical) astrology I am a Double Gemini (Sun and Moon) with Sagittarius Rising. In Indian (sidereal) astrology I am a Taurus. No way. In Chinese astrology, I am Year of the Wood Horse (Fire Sign), with the Snake (another Fire Sign) as my lunar/inner animal and a secret animal that's either a Monkey or Rooster (Metal Signs). OK...

The issue for me is not what the Sun or the Moon were doing at the moment of our birth, or what was ascendant, or what the planets were doing in our houses. Horoscope astrology offers a mystical or Gnostic obsession with synchonicity which seems to be religious in nature, except that here Time replaces Space (cf. The Divine Elevator and Sacred Geometry plus Chartres Cathedral's Zodiac windows).

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However, I am content to believe that astrology can capture human DNA quite well and I certainly fit the Gemini profile. Fire, Earth, Air and Water and animal-based "types" like Aries, Taurus, etc. with their clusters of adjectives offer a richer human tapestry than the classical theory of humors or the lists of pathologies created by modern psychoanalysts and psychologists. No wonder a significant proportion of the population in this so-called scientific age prefers to believe in astrology's descriptive and predictive powers. Why? Because it works better and it's not as rigid - change is woven into the mix.

Below are some of the famous names in this website, with their Sun Sign and an occasional Moon Sign and Ascendant (Rising Sign) thrown in.

Cervantes - Libra (Aries Moon, Sagittarius Ascendant)
Rubens - Cancer (multiple links: use Search)
Rembrandt - Cancer
Louis XIV - Virgo
Voltaire - Scorpio
Goethe - Virgo
William Blake - Sagittarius (multiple links: use Search)
Jane Austen - Sagittarius
Beethoven - Sagittarius (Sagittarius Moon, Scorpio Ascendant)

Just to confuse things: some astrologers explain that Ophiuchus technically can be considered a zodiac sign and that Jane Austen and Beethoven, for example, would move out of Sagittarius.

Lewis Carroll - Aquarius (Sagittarius Moon, Ascendant Sagittarius)
George Sand - Cancer (Aries Moon)
Frederic Chopin - Pisces (Libra Moon)
Edgar Allan Poe - Capricorn (Pisces Moon)
Richard Wagner - Gemini
Mark Twain - Sagittarius (Aries Moon, Scorpio Ascendant)
Peter Tchaikovsky - Taurus
Oscar Wilde - Libra

Virginia Woolf - Aquarius (Aries Moon)
Pablo Picasso - Scorpio
W. B. Yeats - Gemini
W.H. Auden - Pisces (multiple links: use Search)
Hermann Hesse - Cancer (Pisces Moon, Sagittarius Ascendant )
Anais Nin - Pisces (Capricorn Moon, Libra Ascendant)
Henry Miller - Capricorn
D.H. Lawrence - Virgo
Igor Stravinsky - Gemini (Cancer Moon)
Agatha Christie - Virgo (Libra Moon, Virgo Ascendant)
Salvador Dali - Taurus (Aries Moon)
Jorge-Luis Borges - Virgo
Alfred Hitchcock - Leo
Dylan Thomas - Scorpio

Joseph Campbell - Aries (Leo Moon)
Jimi Hendrix - Sagittarius (Cancer Moon, Sagittarius Ascendant)
George Harrison - Pisces
Paul McCartney - Gemini (Leo Moon)
Ringo Starr - Cancer
John Lennon - Libra (Aquarius Moon, Aries Ascendant)
J.K. Rowling - Leo
Hayao Miyazaki - Capricorn
Philip Pullman - Libra
Mel Gibson - Capricorn (Libra Moon)

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