Unicode Values for Astrology Symbols

I found a list of Unicode values for astrology symbols on Wikipedia.  This is a test list.  I typed it into a word document and then copy pasted to the blog post.  To get the symbol,  type in the numbers, then while holding down the Alt key hit the x key.  For example to make ☉ type 2609, then hold down the Alt key (probably at bottom of keyboard) while you type lower case x.

Not all of these work as advertized.  I noticed in the testing that a few of the Unicode values for aspect symbols give a square symbol in a Microsoft document which changes to the Wikipedia listed symbol when copied to the blog.  They won't work everywhere either.  For instance they don't show up at all in my android phone.





Here is a link to the Wiki list  Astrological Symbols

☉= 2609

☽= 263D

☾= 263E

☿= 263F

♀= 2640

⊕ = 2295

♂ = 2642

♃ = 2643

♄ = 2644

♅ = 2645

♆ = 2646

⚷ = 26B7

♇ = 2647

☊ = 260A

℞ = 211E

♉ = 2649

♊ = 264A

♋ = 264B

♌ = 264C

♍ = 264D

♎ = 264E

♏ = 264F

♐ = 2650

♑ = 2651

♒ = 2652

♓ = 2653

☌ = 260C

⚺ = 26BA

∠ = 2220

⚹ = 26B9

□ = 25A1

△ = 25B3

☍ = 260D

Presenting Part 2 in the Zodiac Series

In this 2^nd  installment of the Zodiac Series we view the Cancer quadrant.  (See Stone Circles for 1st part of zodiac series.) When 0degrees Cancer is on the MC, Raleigh is at the lowest point in its daily spin around Earth’s axis.  In the sky, the visible length of ecliptic is bisected, and we can see as much coming up in the East as there is going down in the West.  As we climb through Leo and Virgo to the beginning of Libra, we see the visible length of ecliptic shortening in the East and stretching out further to the West.
  

Beginning with the culmination* of Cancer we enter a protracted process of losing our ability to objectively perceive what is coming next.  By the time 0degrees Virgo is on the MC we are losing more than a degree of visibility in the East for every 5degrees the Earth turns.  The diminished ability to see what is coming is balanced by the stretching out of the ecliptic in the West.

Sometimes I think of a canoe going down a river with thick foliage along the banks. On a long, straight stretch the paddler can see what is coming, but when she reaches a curve the view of the waters up ahead is obstructed by the foliage along the banks.  She can look back on the straight stretch and see far, but the curve up ahead makes it impossible to see upcoming rapids or other dangers.
   

How far will that line representing the midheaven move to the left, showing a shrinking view of the future, before it begins to open out again?  In the 3^rd installment, showing charts for the Libra quadrant culminating from Raleigh, we’ll see just how short the oncoming vista gets. 

* For observers north of Earth’s equator, a point in the heavens culminates when it is exactly due south.  For example when the Sun culminates at midday, it is seen due south.

Spring Equinox Quick Map

We must have a scout map before the Earth gets too far from the cardinal point of the spring equinox!  At 1:20pm clock time today it is actually 12:20pm and we in Raleigh are almost exactly half way down in our daily descent from Capricorn via Aries to Cancer.  During spring equinox, when our ‘side’ is facing the sun, we see Sol on the midheaven when we are sticking out like the bucket on a Ferris Wheel half way to the bottom.  Weeeeee!!!  Aries!!!

And today the Moon is in Capricorn, lined up with Pluto...  it is just disappeared in the west in this chart for 1:20pm. Raleigh won’t see Luna in the sky again till after we have rotated to the bottom (Cancer) tonight at sunset and then come back up on the side facing Mars and Saturn (Libra).  We’ll have to rotate all the way above the middle (Libra) and through half of the sign Scorpio before we round the corner of our planet blocking light from the Moon.  If you are up at 4:30am you can see Mars and Saturn due south and the Moon in the East.  It would take visual super powers to see Pluto wayyyy off in the distance, in the same direction as the Capricorn Moon.

Stone Circles

This is the first of four installments in a series of charts designed to facilitate meditation on how the zodiac was originally developed.

This first installment of 18 half size charts illustrates the culmination of the first 3 signs of the zodiac- Aries, Taurus and Gemini.  In the first chart the line for the midheaven is skewed to the right and labeled 0degrees Aries07minutes.  Notice that the line for the midheaven (MC) moves closer to the middle as we progress through the culmination of the rest of the sign Aries and the following sign Taurus.  By the time Gemini is culminating (reaching the midheaven) most of the change has already taken place.  There is very little difference in the midheaven from one degree of Gemini to the next.  Gemini is the sign of the twins.  Gemini's particular mechanical nature will be even more evident when we get to Sagittarius and you can see the opposing contrast.

Unrealistic Expectations - Mercury Catches the Big Neptune Wave

Many friends are asking me what is wrong and looking for some understanding of why they feel so lost in a tunnel of darkness.  You will not understand what Saturn in Scorpio is until you are out of the tunnel and can see how much integrity you have gained by having to stand tall in the face of loss, until you can look back at the dark place behind you, and see the sign decorated with snakes, lizards and creepy arachnids that says “Scorpio.”  You will not believe me, I know, because I did not believe it when I first came to astrology.  You will not understand the need to push your own agenda, in the face of everyone doing the same damn thing, until Uranus passes into Taurus, the energy dissipates, and you can look back at the red flag, satisfied that you gave it your best, and see the past from the new present and say, “ohhhh that’s what they mean by Uranus in the sign of the head butting Ram.”  Nature is having its way with us.

Another post without a chart.  Mercury is almost caught up with Neptune in the beginning of Pisces.  Unrealistic expectations are being communicated.  Mercury is now in Pisces for good, which is like saying a yo yo is up for good, but really, this is Mercury’s complete annual passage through the sign of vision as compared to the little taste Feb 1-12.  Mercury the communicator prefers real data to hopeful/fearful anecdotes and wishful thinking.  But ya gotta do what ya gotta do.   This is the spring of the mind, and mine has certainly sprung.  I sent an email to Senator Warren today asking for her birthtime, from a document such as a birth certificate; so I have done my Mercury in Pisces duty and communicated an unrealistic request. 

Neptune is at nearly 6degrees Pisces, so these are very powerful years for the planet of persuasion, and now logistical minds are getting swept up in the current right and left.  Mercury today is 3degrees Pisces about to catch the big wave.  Whose perception of reality will roll with it, whose will get tubed in the crest, and whose will wipe out? 

I am working on a series of charts for March 30 when we will have 3 planets in Aries- Sun (1) and Moon (2), lined up with Uranus (3).  This is nothing like last year’s Sun lined up with Mars April 17, or the five planet pile up of April 3, 2011 when Uranus was just beginning its protracted occupation of Aries, and got a yearlong visit from Jupiter, a 5 week fist pump from Mars, along with the regular scheduled passage of the Spring Sun accompanied by a courageous new moon.  Check out the headlines for those dates to recall how planets in the Aries twelfth of heaven are experienced by folks on the ground looking up.

Back in 2011 Saturn was in Libra, so things were a lot more transparent and a lot more innocent.  Saturn entered Scorpio Nov 2012, coming under passive rule by the planet of war, so the aggression has gotten progressively more canny.  Sex, death and investment are all filed under the same sign in astrology; Scorpio.  If we didn’t die we wouldn’t need to reproduce.  We could just think of investment as putting vegetables up from the garden.  Since we’re talking about Saturn in Scorpio (instead of the Sun) we need to imagine these vittles stockpiled for a lean period of at least 10 years.  They can’t just be thrown in a baggie and tossed in the freezer; even Ball Jars are a bit dicey if those vegetables are really important. 

Saturn in Scorpio can be translated as Integrity spending 2 ½ years wandering around in the labyrinth wondering if it will ever again see the light of day. (Then when it does see the light of day in Sagittarius it must cope with the uncertainty of strange new territory.)  With Uranus in Aries the quiet of Saturn in deep dark places is laced with the muffled explosions of new life unfolding above.    

Saturn was in Scorpio from Aug 1983-Nov 1985, Nov 1953- Sept 1956; Daddy in the cave where he hides his secret weapons.  And then of course there were the years when Neptune was in Scorpio 1957-1969; Uranus Sept 1975-Jan 1981, and Pluto 1984-1994.  Astrologically, the years with outer planets in Scorpio are darker and more mysterious than the years of WW1 and WW2. 

One last thing, which I keep repeating because it is so important, Pluto in Capricorn is ruled by Saturn.  That is like the exile contracting with an official of significant rank.  But Saturn is in Scorpio, so the official with rank is not in power, but must answer to the warrior or hero.  This means Pluto is indirectly under the influence of the warrior/hero.  It adds up to 3 outer planets (Saturn, Uranus and Pluto) ultimately under the influence of Mars.  We are stuck in this highly militarized situation until Saturn enters Sagittarius Dec 24, 2014 for a 5 month taste of the ranking officer under the influence of Jupiter.  Jupiter is fun but not dependable.  Life is just so...... limited by circumstances.

Many friends are asking me what is wrong and looking for some understanding of why they feel so lost in a tunnel of darkness.  You will not understand what Saturn in Scorpio is until you are out of the tunnel and can see how much integrity you have gained by having to stand tall in the face of loss, until you look back at the dark place behind you, and see the sign decorated with snakes, lizards and creepy arachnids that says “Scorpio.”  You will not believe me, I know, because I did not believe it when I first came to astrology.  You will not understand the need to push your own agenda, in the face of everyone doing the same damn thing, until Uranus passes into Taurus, the energy dissipates, and you can look back at the red flag, satisfied that you gave it your best, and see the past from the new present and say, “ohhhh that’s what they mean by Uranus in the sign of the head butting Ram.”  Nature is having its way with us.

Jupiter Exalted in Cancer

No charts today- we are just going to use our imagination and the hints given by the zodiac.

Jupiter travels a twelve year cycle whose first completion is associated with adolescence.  Cancer is whatever we see due south when we are at the bottom of our daily revolution. 

We are currently lined up with the sun so that it is just visible as we begin our daily descent, referred to by ancient astrologers as the time when Capricorn the Goat is on the midheaven.  While the Archer is on the midheaven we are in the last section of our arc toward the daily peak.  When contemplating the zodiac, it doesn’t matter whether we can see stars beyond our solar system or which constellations happen to be visible during the age of our existence--what matters is that we see the planets lowest in the sky because we are as high on the Earth as we can get.  Capricorn-as high on the Earth as one can get.

In other words, at this time of year while the Sun is 2/3 through Pisces, day begins, for anyone around 35degrees north of the equator, at the moment they get to the top of the spherical mountain.  Night, when the Sun’s radiation is completely blocked by earth’s great mass, begins as we are almost to the bottom, reaching down for the Crab.

During this age, called by many the Age of Aquarius, we face away from the center of our galaxy every time we reach the bottom of our daily revolution.  During this Age of Aquarius, we see planets just East of Orion when we are down with the Crab.  In fact, right now, Jupiter in Cancer is lined up with our neighbor star Sirius, which is bright and visible in the same direction of the sky as Jupiter, but much lower.  But that won’t be till tonight, when our part of Earth is turning its back to the Piscean Sun.

Jupiter exalted in Cancer is an astrological formula handed down through many centuries along with the zodiac.  We have been given these riddles that were probably at one time methods for remembering where we actually are on the Earth when the light comes from various angles.  Jupiter’s 12 year cycle is not as mature as Saturn’s of about 28 years, but it marks a point in the human life cycle when one can do for oneself what was once done for them by others, including thinking, reasoning and most fun of all, philosophizing.  When we receive Jupiter’s signal from the lowly position of the Crab, every day, for a year, it is like –well I don’t know what the ancients thought and it would probably be wise to read what other astrologers have to say about this, but it makes me think of a twelve year old being applauded for philosophizing.  Is this philosopher coming up with original concepts?  If so how well have they been tested?  What will happen if every one takes these new ideas and adopts them as a religion or creed?  Cancer is associated with religion and nationalism, which is quite different from philosophy and higher learning.  It seems to me that religion and nationalism are ideas that are handed down from on high and accepted by those at the bottom, because they are at the bottom.  And Jupiter in Cancer represents the excitement of new untested ideas, inspiring us while we are crawling with the Crab.

Starting the Day at the Top of the World

At 8:20 this morn Raleigh is about 54 minutes into the downward half of its daily rotation on Earth’s axis.  Xining, China- on the opposite side of the northern hemisphere is about 54 minutes into its upward rotation.  In Xining, folks can look due south and see Jupiter (Jupiter is at bottom of chart in 10degrees Cancer) peaking in its nightly arc across the sky.

This chart, for Raleigh at 8:20 am, almost an hour after we reached 0degrees Capricorn on the midheaven, shows 13degrees Capricorn 25minutes on the MC.  Medium Coeli is Latin for middle of the sky.  In order to show that Uranus and any thing else in 22degrees Aries is coming up north of east, instead of exactly east, where a planet in 0degrees Aries rises, we move the line for the midheaven to the west a bit.  This also indicates that Mars in 27degrees Libra is setting a little bit south of west instead of exactly west.

So the line sticking up from the top of the chart is just a marker to help us see exactly how much the ecliptic is skewed to east or west depending on where we are in our daily rotation.  Since Raleigh is descending, we can see a bit more of the ecliptic rising in the east than what is setting in the west.  When we finish the first third in our daily fall to the bottom, 0degrees Pisces will be on the MC and that stick will be situated so far to the west that there will be an arc of 110 degrees between the Ascendent and the MC.  That will happen at about 11:30 this morn.  When the first degree of Capricorn or Cancer is on the MC the stick stands straight up making a 90degree angle with the Ascendent. 

East is in the left side of the chart.  You can see the symbol for Uranus at 10degrees Aries 55 minutes.  The 22nd degree of Aries was coming up over the horizon in Raleigh at 8:20am.  It is now 9:36 as I prepare to leave for work and the moon at 10 degrees Taurus is already above the horizon.  The sign Aries rises quickly.

Here is a link to the chartsfor the cycle of one day’s revolution.

Mars in Libra balancing Uranus in Aries

I have the day off and am watching videos of Lenny Bruce.  What a sweetheart.  What a great living example of Mars in Libra.  What a testament to the fact that a debilitated planet is often far more beautiful and inspiring than one that has power.

Also in the back of my mind are the photos of the palatial mansion in Ukraine abandoned by the Russian backed president in the wake of the popular uprising.  Nothing has been destroyed.  All those shiny floors, the sparkling crystal and panes of glass, all the bad art and reproductions of ancient Greek sculpture is unharmed after the crowds of amazed citizens danced through to gawk at what their taxes bought.  The galleon….well television viewers have probably seen this tens of times but I’m including a link anyway.  Luxury Ukraine presidential home revealed  Mars in Libra….  Grinding to a halt.  Noone really stopping, just the fact of relative motion.  Relative to Earth, Mars is barely moving.  Libra.  Not too high, not too low.  Right in the middle. 

In late July Mars will enter- with more speed- Scorpio, the sign it rules passively.  And do not forget that Uranus is only 1/3 through Aries; it entered the explosive sign in 2011- so after this period of relative civility the pumped up planet of revolution will get a behind the scenes boost from quietly ruling Mars, as will Saturn, which has been in Scorpio since October 2012.  Red hot revolution, disposited by raw energy and secret power, is currently tempered with a prolonged dose of diplomacy.  So much unrest, for so long, and still 4 more years to go.  Links to The Bangkok Shutdown  and the diplomatic flurry

I repeat this over and over, the last time Uranus was in Aries was during the years of the fascist party’s rise to power. 

Uranus was in Aries April 1927- March 1935.  In May 1937 Saturn entered Aries while Uranus was putting down roots in Taurus.  By May 1939 Jupiter had entered Aries and was catching up to Saturn- Fortune and Consequence meeting in the sign of open hostility.  In May 1942 Saturn had caught up with Uranus at the end of the sign Taurus, the bull, the worker, the stubborn one. 

Uranus in Aries now- 2011-2018.  Every day, any signal reaching us from that planet literally jumps over the horizon once any point on Earth hits the peak of its daily revolution.  When the Sun with its court of Venus and Mercury come through, when Moon sweeps through in a couple of days, or Mars in a month, or Jupiter in a year; when any planet comes through Aries we see its signal leap over the curve of the Earth as we are going down.  It is all because of our tilted axis. 

But Mars, right now on the opposite side of the solar system from Uranus, is seen as we are coming up; it first becomes visible to a spot on Earth climbing from its low point.  Mars in Libra takes 2 1/2 hours to complete the same rising arc that Uranus in Aries makes in 1 ½ hours.   The planet of war is actually balancing the warring planet of revolution!

Link to post about Lenny.  His birthchart showing Mars in Libra is at bottom of post.

It's Getting Warm up Here: Sun in Pisces

Today is February 23 and the Sun is almost to the 5^th degree of Pisces- a poetic way of locating its position from the top half of Earth.

On January 1 we were in the 10^th degree of Capricorn, lined up between Jupiter at the top of the solar system diagram and Pluto way down at the bottom.  Now, less than two months later, Earth has moved into the position where it is roasting more of its side than its feet.  Since Raleigh is in the Northern half of the globe that means we are getting a better share of Sun’s photons and other signals.

The above diagram of the solar system is not to scale and I left our closest siblings out of the picture.  We are pretending they are not related to us and only following the planets that make really big circles. 

I talked about Mars slowing down last week, click on the shaded text for a link to that post.  We are about to pass through the straights of Mars/Sun, then Saturn/Sun.  In the astrology chart above, since Earth is at the center, things look a bit different: we see the Sun on one side, approaching opposition to Mars first and then Saturn.  

See Neptune on the right side of the first diagram?  In the astrology chart the planet of generational vision appears right beside the Sun.  We will see the Sun leave Pisces in less than a month, but Neptune won’t enter Aries (the sign after Pisces) until 2025.  How many babies will be born with Neptune in Pisces?  We haven’t had babies born with Neptune in Pisces since the start of the Civil War.

At 5:53 am Raleigh was almost to the top of her daily spin round Earth’s axis.   When we are so close to the top that we could just about shoot an arrow over the curve of the Earth, it is called Sagittarius.  What will those cave dwellers think of next?!

Now…another first for this blog….Today I am including a little diagram of where we saw the planets in the actual sky from Raleigh at 5:53am.  You can see the little house and the steps where the person came out their door facing North and walked around to the South and looked up.  

Along with a few distant stars that were bright enough to outshine city lights, Venus was coming up in the east, the moon was just east of due south and then Saturn and Mars were west of south.  That’s a close up view so you can’t see the whole line of the ecliptic, which is not exactly imaginary and not exactly real- I guess you would call it the yellow brick road the planets follow through the sky.  Sometimes they go a little above it and sometimes a little below.  This morning they were all a little above it.

The main diagram, with the house and bug eyed planet gazer, shows a close-up view of the sky, so you can’t see where the ecliptic descends on the horizon.  The last diagram shows things from a wider view so you can see how the ecliptic was intersecting the horizon at that moment.

Yes, the ecliptic is skewed to the west, not centered as the hands marching around the perfect circle of the clock.  But what does it meannnn?????   It means that we are children of the universe and we have a right to know our real place in it.

Mercury Overtakes Earth Again!

 Once again Earth is overtaken by Mercury.  You would think after 4.5 billion times around the Sun the larger planet inhabited by the children of GOD would catch on to the little booger’s technique for getting ahead.

Mars Slowing Down and The High and Low of a Daily Revolution

Before diving in to these Aquarian maps of the solar system I want to tell the story of a friend learning Tai Chi.  She is taking Tai Chi for the second time after an aborted attempt over 15 years ago.  After plenty of concentration, practice and returning to the first level class right after completing it, her joy in what she has learned is infectious.  Every time she talks about this new skill she is learning she recalls the first time she tried, so many years ago, and how discouraged she was.  There was only one teacher for more than 10 students, and she was taking the class at night after a long day at work and caring for a family.  This time she is retired and taking the class with a group of people dedicated to sharing this physical form of meditation with the wider community, and this time she is having much more success.

When she showed me some of the movements she has learned, it seemed as though energy was being made visible through the graceful motions of her hands, arms and entire body.  The motions looked elegant, yet had required weeks of sorting out which direction to move, and when, for every part of the body.  Even as I was amazed at the beauty of her movements, she was laughing about how clumsy she was compared to more experienced members of her group.

Like Tai Chi, astrology is a lot harder than it looks.  Even with someone leading you through the concepts, it requires diligent concentration to visualize what seems like a very simple system of planets circling a fiery ball.  Do not be discouraged if you have trouble making sense of the pictures and numbers.  Begin with something that intrigues you- for me it was the moon.   Study just one planet- and when you have 30 minutes where your mind is not occupied with daily tasks, try to picture how its cycle unfolds in the actual sky.  One short glimmer of life on this revolving sphere will make you feel so connected to real heaven - that chances are good you will want to see more. 

Earth catching up to Mars

The 3 featured planets for today are colorized; Earth, Sun and Mars.  Earth is getting ready to catch up with, and pass Mars.  Each day as earth gets closer to Mars, the planet of war seems to go a bit slower.  A month ago we were seeing Mars move forward 23 minutes a day, which is still pretty slow compared to 45 minutes a day last April.  Today it will only advance 10 minutes, or 1/6 of a degree.  (The sun appears to move about 1degree/day.) 

Next Friday Mars will advance 6 minutes, or 1/10 of a degree.  Friday, Feb 28 it will advance 1 puny minute, or 1/60 of a degree.  It will stand there, like a bunch of soldiers waiting for orders, Sat and Sun; then Monday it will go backwards one measly 60^th of a degree.

Fast forward to the future:

We will be lined up between Sun and Mars April 8.  Mars, the first planet beyond Earth’s orbit, is the cycle of separation; Venus and Mercury never get far from the sun, while Mars, with a cycle of only 2 years compared to Jupiter’s 12 gets to wander far and wide with the big ones.  So we associate this cycle with the process of separation.  This time around Mars spends 8 months in the sign Libra, it entered the sign of cooperation in early Dec 2013 and will not pass into Scorpio until July 26 of this year.  Every night, for the next several months, we can see the planet of war move across heaven at the balanced elevation of the celestial equator.  The warrior is learning to walk the tightrope of diplomacy.  Anyone born Oct 19-21 is energized by Mars today.

You can see Mar’s big sister Venus has recently overtaken Earth in her orbit.  She is now on her way and this summer will be approaching the far side of the sun from us. 

The High and Low of a Daily Revolution

Next up in this post –the first time on this blog - we zoom in for a close-up of earth, and show Raleigh’s high and low points in her daily trip round earth’s axis.  Today we reached our high point (Capricorn the goat) at 8:38am.  We were half way down to the bottom at 2:38pm. (Aries on the Midheaven)  Then, depending on the clouds, we will see Jupiter high in the sky when we are at the bottom (Cancer the Crab) at 8:38 pm.  

A point in the Northern hemishpere at its highest elevation is facing Capricorn on the Midheaven (MC)- while a point at its lowest elevation is facing Cancer on the MC.

Here are three charts for today showing when Capricorn, Aries and Cancer were on the Midheaven for Raleigh.

Raleigh was at the peak of her daily revolution at 8:38 this morn - the sign Capricorn was on the MC.  The midheaven is what we see when we look due south where the Sun is found at midday.

At 2:38pm Raleigh was half way to the bottom of her daily revolution and had already turned so the sun was getting ready to set in the west instead of rising in the east at 8:38am.  Any point on earth halfway down from the top faces Aries on the MC.

Cancer the Crab on the MC means we are at the bottom

Notice how the line for the Midheaven is straight up in Capricorn and Cancer, but inclined to the west for Aries.  When we are at the top or bottom of our revolution we can see as much of the ecliptic coming up in the east, as what we are turning away from in the west.  It is like climbing up one side of a mountain, and, upon reaching the top, being able to see equally what is on the side of ascent and what is on the other side where you are about to go down.  When you get half way down the mountain (Aries) you can’t see much of what was on the side where you came up, but you can see a lot of the side where you are descending.   When Aries is on the Midheaven and we are half way down, we can see more of the ecliptic coming up in the east than what’s going down in the west.

In a somewhat similar way, when we are at the bottom of our daily revolution, we see the path of the ecliptic highest in the sky, and we see an equal amount of it coming up in the east and going down in the west. 

There is not a chart today to show Libra on the midheaven.  When we are rotated half way to the top we can't see much of the ecliptic in the east, but we can see a lot of what is setting in the west.  Any chart for the northern hemisphere should show a line for a Libra midheaven inclined to the east, since the visibility of the plane of orbit is cut off in that direction.

Happy Birthday (a little late) to John Dancy-Jones!

This is one of the first charts I ever calculated way back in the days of the Thursday Night Open Poetry Readings.  I bought “The Handbook of Humanistic Astrology” at the Paper Plant, a very lucky find as back in 1985/6 there were few books floating around that explained how to calculate a chart.  

Here is a prettier version of the same chart.  I wrote that the moon in Sagittarius is the soul of a philosopher, but another sentence that can be made with that astrological placement in the 11th house of reputation is the soul of a publisher of wide repute.

 And last of all a chart for how the Raleigh Rambler has evolved up to this point in time, his 61st year.  This below is a progressed chart- a chart for 61 solar days after the moment (which may be approximate time) of John's birth.  The progressed moon in Pisces is about 18months into a 2 1/2 year period of swimming with the fishes in the wine dark sea. 

Happy Birthday John!