Welcome to Leslie Marlar’s little corner of the noosphere (no ah sphere). If you are not familiar with this term, it refers to the mental life of the planet as opposed to the biological life of the planet, the bioshpere. One of the most well known people to use the term was Pierre Teillard de Chardin, the Jesuit philosopher and paleontologist. He was very cool. In “The Divine Milieu” he notes his great love for earth by saying that “during every moment that I have lived, the world has gradually been taking on light and fire for me, until it has come to enveloped me in one mass of luminosity…” He was especially fond of very durable expressions of earth like iron. Mars, which equals iron, is at the very top of his chart. He looks up to iron. If you look at his birth chart you’ll find Saturn, Jupiter, the Sun, Neptune, Venus, Pluto, and Uranus in earth signs. This is planetary way of saying that earth stimulated in him: responsibility, optimism, delight, mysticism, love, cooperation, and fascination.

This is a little example of astro-biography, the main topic of this site. We’ll look at the biographical data of well known and accomplished people and note the details of their horoscopes. This is being done to share with you my remarkable discovery, along with other astrologers, that there is some very real useful and rather mystifying substance to astrology. If you look, you’ll find additional astrology articles and some talk about things of interest in the sky or recent world events and their connection to sky events. This is a place to read about interesting people and events and heavenly things.

Dear Friends,

Don’t forget the S.T.A.R. Guild meeting at 7pm on April 9th at the Cocoa library. We’ll be playing with the concept of signatures in the horoscope, for example, the signs of the Sun, Moon, Ascendant, and ruler of the Ascendant or the preponderance of element or quality. Bring your chart. We’ll continue to experiment with plotting Mars in our charts. We saw Mars opposing Pluto last month. This month we’ll anticipate what Mars opposing Jupiter will bring.
Mars, the strife filled planet, has been very active lately. From Oct ’07 until mid-May ’08, with the exception of Jan. and Feb, Mars has been in Cancer. Mars is crisis and Cancer is housing and we are having a housing crisis. Noting the timing of this correspondent may help.
Violent Mars has opposed extreme .... [more..]