Astrology Explored

May 15, 2007

Our next block buster movie is on the horizon. Let’s take a look at the fictional life and times of Indiana Jones. and the astrology of the swashbuckling archaeologist’s complex psychology. He is not your usual Sun sign Cancer!

Here is a little bit about the movie and Jones as he is portrayed in it:

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has the bullwhip-wielding hero up against Soviet bad guys led by a black-wigged Cate Blanchett as Irma Spalko, leader of the Soviet army’s quest for the Crystal Skull.

Marion Ravenwood, Indy’s girlfriend from Raiders of the Lost Ark, is back - played again by Karen Allen - and together they find themselves in the South American jungle encountering quicksand, amphibious vehicles, Ugha warriors, giant ants and a massive python.
Indy’s sidekick this time is played by 21-year-old Shia LaBeouf, star of last year’s Transformers. LaBeouf adopts a punk-rebel persona as Mutt Williams, a leather-jacketed, switchblade-carrying, motorcycling adventurer, who may or may not be Indy and Marion’s son.

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May 8, 2008

As some of you know, I occasionally guest blog at Death By One Thousand Papercuts. On May 4, DBKP posted my piece about the death of the D. C. Madam, Deborah Jean Palfrey.

Yesterday, a gentleman who identifies himself as a former member of her legal team posted a comment.

Check out the post and the comment here.

If you have a question you would like this astrologer answer on these pages, send it to starrynightastro@aol.com along with your birthday, birth place and birth time. No names will be published.

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May 8, 2008

Dan Rather fired off a new lawsuit against his former network Tuesday, charging that CBS News labeled the anchor “too hot to handle” and prevented him from being hired by other networks after his acrimonious departure.

Sun sign Scorpio Dan Rather’s penchant for digging to the heart of the story, of going into territory never attempted before, of graphically illustrating how events around around the world effected the American viewer not only got him into hot water more than once during his thirty seven year career, but proved him to be an icon of investigative journalism.

Among other things, his tough coverage of the Nixon Administrations’ Watergate scandal drew criticisms of biased reporting. Because forceful and skeptical reporting of the Iran-Contra affair, Presidents’ Bush Senior and Junior refused to grant him interviews during their presidencies. He has alleged that Fox News received “talking points” from the Republican controlled White House, though he has been criticized for having no proof for this claim. The end of his career at CBS came on the heels of his critical story of George W. Bush’s National Guard service record, where it was alleged that the source documents for the story were forgeries. Though Rather, on air, retracted the story, he on a Larry King interview said, “Nobody has proved that they were fraudulent, much less a forgery. … The truth of this story stands up to this day.”

Rather has said that “You can’t be a good reporter and not regularly be involved in some kind of controversy.”

What does astrology tell us of the makeup of the man? Why is he such a persistent fighter?

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May 1, 2008

While Barack Obama has spent considerable time positioning himself as the candidate that bridges differences and brings together diverse segments of the Democratic party, his association with the controversial Reverend Wright has tainted this image. After twenty years being a member of the Wright’s congregation and having said publicly that Wright was “like a family member”, he now says that “The person I saw yesterday [during Wright’s recent public appearances] was not the person that I met 20 years ago.”

Wright counters with “If Senator Obama did not say what he said, he would never get elected”, adding more fuel to the fire by insinuating that Obama’s denouncements are politically motivated. He made the rounds of various talk shows, stating that his remarks were misunderstood and taken out of context. That was before he went before the National Press Club and blamed the government in creating HIV as a biological weapon to destroy people of color.

Yet beyond the war of words between a presidential candidate and the man who ministered to his spiritual needs for two decades is the simmering issue of race relations. It is a powder keg issue, especially since one of issues is the root cause of racism.

Wright, in a much publicized YouTube clip says unequivocally that:

People have to put up with who cares what a poor black man has to face every day in a country controlled by rich white people

laying squarely on the white segment of the human race the plight of people of color, despite a PEW poll that reports that a majority of black people say that regardless of the race of an individual, a black person can make it in America.

What does astrology have to say about Reverend Wright and why he views the world as he does?

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April 12, 2008

Rob Lowe has decided that the best defense is a good offense when in comes to a battle with former employees. Rowe alleges that one employee demanded a million and half dollars by April 11, or she would go to the press with her story of an alleged affair and sexual harassment. In response, Lowe filed a million and half dollar lawsuit against his former nanny and posted a blog post on Huffington Post explaining the reason for his action.

Lowe is gun shy, having scandal damage his career before. In 1988 he was caught on tape having sex with two women he met in a bar, one of whom was underage. Eventually he went into rehab for alcohol and sex addiction and says he has maintained his sobriety for eighteen years.

However, it is unusual for Hollywood celebrities to file lawsuits against former employees. Lowe’s lawyer says this about the situation:

“You either succumb to their request or you fight back, and I think Rob felt that it was appropriate to, when improper things are said about him, to fight back.”

Is this the right tactic for Rob Lowe to take? What can astrology tell us about the situation?

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March 30, 2008

Bon Jovie’s Ritchie Sambora had a recent brush with the law.

Sambora was pulled over by police in Laguna Beach, Calif., late on Tuesday after they observed him driving erratically, according to TMZ.com. Sambora reportedly failed numerous field sobriety tests and was detained for DUI.

The musician was admitted to rehab last year following a battle with alcoholism, which, among other factors, was sparked by his deteriorating marriage to actress Heather Locklear and the ailing health of his dad.

He spent a stint at celebrity rehab facility the Cirque Lodge in Utah months after completing a detox at the UCLA Medical Center.

In the car was his 10 year old daughter, another child and another unidentified adult.

Though TMZ has posted that Sambora might be cleared of DUI since his voluntary alcohol test might show a alcohol level below the legal limit, there is some sort of problem that caused him to drive erratically and cause him to fail field sobriety tests.

Gifts as songwriter and guitarist has earned him wealth and fame, but like so many celebrities, he has had trouble controlling his substance abuse problems. He has been in and out of rehab twice. What can astrology tell us about this man and his problems with substance abuse?

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March 6, 2008

Last Sunday Astrology Explored posted a little piece on Amazing Randi and his attempt to disprove astrology by having a well known astrologer give a cold reading to an audience directed at one person who was not made known to the astrologer. The subject was Hugh Laurie, known at that time, (1992) as a well known comedy actor in the UK. Hugh said the reading didn’t sound anything like him, but it did sound like his comedy partner, Stephen Fry, who was sitting right next to him in the audience.

So what happened here? And did the failure of the reading disprove astrology?

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February 25, 2008
Every industry has a report card and for actors its the Academy Awards. But what’s important here, Best Actor, Best Actress? No! Forget about that little gold statuette. What we are interested in is what the stars walk up the red carpet! From fashion hits and fashion misses, we are never failed to be entertained by the clothing choices of the stars.

What we wear, the things that look good to us when we choose them is a function of our birth charts. Whatever is there, for good or ill, rules our decisions in how we present ourselves to the world. Let’s take a look at the star’s stars to see what guides their fashion sense.

Golden Globe and now Oscar winning international film star Amy Cotillard, born September 30, 1975, has four planets, Sun, Moon, Mercury and Mars in the fashion conscious sign of Libra. These planets in harmonious aspect with the planet of glamour, Neptune in the quirky sign of Aquarius shows that she knows how to take a fashion risk. As one fashion pundit said:

I have a feeling that Marion Cotillard’s scaly dress is going to provoke a lot of mixed opinions. It was a creamy off-white number with hundreds of scallops and a fishtail -– the net effect, if you’ll forgive the pun, was of a mermaid going to a fashionable ball. Perhaps the gown was a little offbeat, but with her Gallic sang-froid, Cotillard carried it off, and at least the dress wasn’t boring.

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January 24, 2008

American news media make it seem like there is a hot and heavy race for the front runner position for the Republican presidential nominee as illustrated by this recent quote from MSNBC news:

There’s still no frontrunner in the GOP contest but there is a candidate in the “momentum slot.”

Mitt Romney kicked up some dust when he won the Nevada caucus, pumping up his bid for the nomination and keeping him ahead in votes for the nomination, but as predicted the tide of opinion is beginning to turn against him as shown in a recent MSNC article.

The truth is that one Republican candidate leads in one national wide poll and that person is John McCain. Can it be that McCain is really the presumptive front runner of the GOP race to the White House? Going further, is he the one that will capture the Republican nomination?

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December 28, 2007

Benazir Bhutto’s controversial political career came to a tragic end at the hands of an assassin on December 27, 2007 at 6:16 p.m. as she was leaving a political rally. Bhutto was the last of her generation of a powerful political dynastry that’s been involved in Pakistani politics for nearly a hundred years.

Pakistani politics are bloody and corrupt. Her father was disposed as Prime Minister, then executed. Her two brothers, active in resistance movements, died untimely deaths under suspicious circumstances. She herself endured arrest and confinement before her rise to power: her husband, prison and torture, amid accusations of corruption and money laundering after the second time she was disposed. Despite these accusations, she is a much loved figure to many Pakistanis. Her death will surely be a rallying cry to depose the current leadership.

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December 20, 2007
Michel Gauguelin undertook massive studies in the position of planets and their applications in the birth chart. One study was that of planetary heredity, which after over 25,000 charts were analyzed yielded that parents and children were more likely to share traits in the their charts than not. He did not find match ups in Sun/Sun, Moon/Moon combinations, but he did find that certain planets. Moon, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were more likely to share zodiac signs than statistical probability would indicate.

One of the most famous parent/child partnerships is that of Billy Ray Cyrus and his daughter Miley Cyrus, star of the extremely popular Hannah Montana series. Both are immensely popular entertainers and their close relationship is shown in the stars.
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December 13, 2007

Ike Turner is certainly one of the most dehumanized figures in rock history. Mention his name and the first association that comes to most anyone’s mind is “abusive husband,” not “soul star” or “rock & roll pioneer.” According to legend, Turner was a tyrannical ogre who used physical violence and psychological intimidation to control his infinitely more talented wife Tina, while indulging his own appetites for cocaine and women at every turn. That’s not entirely accurate, although by most accounts Turner did quite a bit to earn that reputation; he spent time in prison due to his drug problems, and his own refutations of Tina’s allegations of abuse have been inconsistent at best over the years.

Like the Scorpio he was, so much about Ike Turner is shrouded by his “bad boy” demeanor. Did he or didn’t he abuse Tina? He denied it, but then abusers usually do deny their behavior. Was he a heavy drug user? He did spend time in prison for his drug use. This rock ‘n roll Hall of Famer made good, then lost it from his own excesses. With his Sun, Mercury and Venus in Scorpio, like most denizens of this bent zodiac sign, he had a real talent for sabotaging himself.

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December 6, 2007
Will Smith seems set on heading towards another blockbuster hit with his new movie I Am Legend so naturally many people are taking another look at the popular rapper/actor.

An internet search easily reveals his birthdate, September 25, 1968, but not his birth time, leaving us in doubt of his ascendant, a key piece of an individual’s astrological make-up. The ascendant is the face we present to the world, the way we interact socially and the first impression people have of us.

Astrologers have tools to parse out elusive information. The technique used is called “rectification”. Using clues from physical appearance to events in a client’s life, an astrologer can nail down a possible birth time. Rectification is a complex technique, starting with an analysis of body features to narrow down the list of possible ascendants. On Will’s birthdate, the range of ascendants start with Cancer and works it way back to the early degrees of Taurus.

Let’s consider the first four possible ascendants, Cancer, Leo, Virgo and Libra. In the chart below the approximate times for the sign on the ascendant is listed with each sign for Will Smith’s birthdate. And just for a comparison, below is a computer generated face representing an average male face.
Compared to the average face, Will’s face is long, the forehead is high, the eyes are small, the lips are rounded and the brows lower set in the face. Though he doesn’t appear to have dimples, this profile fits more closely than the other possible ascendants.

Will Smith’s personality seems to fit the Libra ascendant, though, of course he has a strong Libra influence in his chart through his Sun, Mercury and Venus. Libra is called the “relationship sign”, with a strong drive to have a partner in his life. Will himself tells the story of what drove him to show business:

. . . it all goes back to when he was 16. Smith says that it was his cheating first girlfriend motivated him to become a movie star.

“I was so devastated that she cheated on me and I remember making a decision that she cheated on me ‘cause I wasn’t good enough right? And I remember laying in my mother’s bed crying and making a decision that if I was the best at everything, that my woman could never cheat on me,” he said.

Analyzing facial features is just a first step in the rectification process, but we can mark down “Libra” as a possible ascendant. What do you think?

Facial Feature Chart

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November 15, 2007

The famous turned infamous football star faces yet again jail time. You would think once bitten, twice shy, and any man would do what he could to stay out of trouble. So what on earth was that man thinking when he went to that hotel room to take back items allegedly stolen from him? And what is the outlook for O. J. ? Is he going to jail this time?

Let’s look at the influences surrounding his acquittal of murdering his ex-wife and Ron Goldman for a clue as to what is going to happen. A the time of the trial, Neptune was conjuct Uranus in tension aspect to his Sun/Mercury combination. There was a lot of speculation and shocking allegations directed at O. J. and even to this day, the truth is not known about those murders.
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While filming in Cambodia in 2001, Angelina Jolie’s eyes were opened to the plight of refugees.

“It was very clear to me there was a lot about this world that I didn’t know. I felt really ashamed and ignorant. . . . It just changed my life.” -Angelina Jolie

Angelina’s response to her experience was to adopt Maddox out of Cambodia, and contact the United Nations, to ask what she could do to help. They in turned, harnessed her star power by naming her Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commission on Refugees. But she not only lent her name to the plight of the poorest of the poor, she’s invested a considerable amount of her time, making tours of UNHCR refugee operations in the Balkans, Sierra Leone, Namibia, Tanzania, Kenya, Cambodia, Thailand, and Pakistan and Ecuador. In addition she has contributed three million dollars to this cause. A quick tour of a recent Forbes survey of top ten celebrity philanthropists, she is outstanding in her generosity, donating nearly 10% of her net worth, while others donate a mere fraction of theirs.

What makes Angelina give so much of herself? Is it as Forbes says:

they benefit from a public-relations standpoint. The more good they do, the more the public loves them

Or does she have other, deeper motivations?
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