Note, McNamara’s noon chart is below. Bonus points if anyone comes up with the time of birth –В I have not looked, though someone must have dug out his data in the Sixties when he was somebody special. I’ve added some comments in the comments area below the chart. -efc
Dear Friend and Reader:
The interesting times continue. We can be sure that there was an eclipse Tuesday because that was the day of Michael Jackson’s funeral. Eclipses are events involving the lunar nodes and this demonstrates their property of mass public contact.
The Aries Point has a similar feeling, and this eclipse — stretching across the middle of the cardinal signs Cancer and Capricorn — definitely counted. As I mentioned, this eclipse was across the ascendant/descendant (1st/7th houses) of the Thema Mundi — the chart of the world. For those looking for some clues about the effects of astrology in real life, this is the perfect demonstration. Do we really think that the Jackson family consulted an astrologer and held the memorial a couple of hours after the exact eclipse? As Jehovah’s Witnesses you can be sure they would not go near an astrologer or astrology. But that does not exempt them from participating in the cosmic order.
As we mentioned in an article by Judith Gayle yesterday, a man named Robert S. McNamara died Monday. He was the architect of the Vietnam War, a ‘good American’ responsible for the deaths of millions. His name is no longer a household word, but some of us remember. Here is a very long New York Times obiturary, written years before his death in the tradition of the Times, well worth investigating. I also highly suggest getting The Fog of War from Netflix. This won an academy award for best documentary and it’s little other than in interview with McNamara, about his decisions during the Vietnam-era and how he feels about them today.
I’ve posted his noon chart below, scroll down a bit. We don’t kow the exact Moon or ascendant because we don’t have a birth time, but noon charts work pretty good for very prominent people. The first thing that leaps out of this chart is his Ceres-Pluto conjunction (exact that entire day), which brings a planet associated with the grief of mothers into contact with Pluto, the lord of death.