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,

For locals, S.T.A.R. Guild will meet at the main library in Cocoa on July 9th at 7 pm. We will be discussing the planet, Uranus in the birth chart. If you've checked Rodden's site lately, you'll see that we have a birth certificate time on Obama. His birth data is: Aug 4 '61 at 7:24pm AHST Honolulu, Hawaii. His chart makes strong connections to the U.S. chart. Now we have a time on McCain and Obama and we have something to compare.

I had a discovery worth mentioning this month. I saw Bette Midler on Leno and was amazed by her enthusiasm and entertaining qualities as always. I found her chart in a data book. As anticipated she has many planets.... [more..]