tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86078800038174342252024-03-19T00:33:18.283-04:00 Jude Cowell Astrology Astrology as lens and languageJude Cowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016032974667786252noreply@blogger.comBlogger191125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8607880003817434225.post-30926734390584335532024-03-13T18:30:00.000-04:002024-03-13T18:30:31.618-04:00Happy 223rd Anniversary to Uranus!Astro-Spotlight: Uranus Enters Aquarius 1912 and 1996
by Jude Cowell
Astronomer and musician William Herschel, born November 15, 1738 in Hanover, Germany, discovered planet Uranus the evening of March 13, 1781 in Bath, England (10:30 pm LMT) with Uranus @24Gem27:15, as history records.
With the planet's discovery occurring between them, Uranus is associated with both the American and the French Jude Cowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016032974667786252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8607880003817434225.post-61889772132713177162024-02-16T15:11:00.003-05:002024-02-16T15:11:29.184-05:008 Great Sigma Males in History | Sigmas Who Set New Standardsby Jude Cowell
Perhaps you've noticed the concept of "Sigma personalities" entering the public discourse of late or being featured online more than ever. Alpha, Beta, Delta - and Sigma may be described.
If so, then maybe you've looked up the position of Sigma in your natal chart. Are you a loner, an introvert who can become extrovert whenever it's needed? Can you lead but prefer to remain Jude Cowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016032974667786252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8607880003817434225.post-27798992725352385472024-01-21T21:00:00.001-05:002024-01-21T23:12:20.865-05:00Astro-Notes: The Murder of Manly P. Hallby Jude Cowell
The following post is meant as a tribute to Manly P. Hall and his decades of work although his favored topics are not my personal cup of tea as a Saturnian astrologer. However, I realize that many folks are interested in esoteric subjects along with their astrological studies and hold Manly Hall's extensive collection of works in high regard, including his many lectures - for whichJude Cowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016032974667786252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8607880003817434225.post-40354396489100288502024-01-07T19:30:00.001-05:002024-01-08T22:38:34.145-05:00Cold Case Astrology: The Lord Lucan MurderViewing a Cold Case via Forensic Astrology
by Jude Cowell
The Guardian's headline of September 27, 2017 re-stirred public interest in a famous 1974 murder mystery with the news that Lady Lucan found dead at London home. Perhaps you remember the disappearance of her husband, Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, and the night of the murder in a dark basement kitchen on the evening of November 7Jude Cowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016032974667786252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8607880003817434225.post-33507984871122027872023-11-02T16:50:00.000-04:002023-11-02T16:50:41.462-04:00The Owl of Minerva and goddess Pallas AthenaA Drawing: Owl of Minerva; pencil on paper by Jude Cowell Art:
Sometimes the Owl of Minerva is known as the Owl of Athena and since yours truly was born in Athens, Georgia, the myth and the goddess have long attracted me. Not that years ago I knew why this was so, but years later my study of Astrology spotlighted the asteroids Minerva and Pallas in my natal chart and otherwise. My natal Jude Cowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016032974667786252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8607880003817434225.post-72748407868359947952023-10-23T17:04:00.000-04:002023-10-23T17:04:03.983-04:00Sleuthing my Haplogroup!Here's a map of the places in southwestern Asia from whence Haplogroup H folks are thought to have originated. No expert on DNA here, but I want to plop this map somewhere since H is my group and this is my blog!
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Jude Cowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016032974667786252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8607880003817434225.post-61617274030617241462023-09-01T12:26:00.000-04:002023-09-01T12:26:56.120-04:00The Astrological Significance of Vesta - David CochraneAfter extensive research, David Cochrane shares a fascinating presentation concerning the astrological significance of asteroid Vesta:
Jude Cowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016032974667786252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8607880003817434225.post-9292254591517263642023-07-20T08:12:00.003-04:002023-07-20T08:12:58.479-04:00July 1799: The Rosetta Stone is found
The Rosetta Stone; photograph © Hans Hillewaert; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rosetta_Stone.JPG
224 years ago on July 19, 1799, history was made by Napoleon Bonaparte's troops when the Rosetta Stone was found. Rightfully so, Egypt wants its antiquity back, and This Day In History tells us all about it.
But you know, the Rosetta Stone, which made possible the translation of cuneiform Jude Cowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016032974667786252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8607880003817434225.post-65219645657042680602023-07-15T18:32:00.005-04:002023-07-15T18:32:47.751-04:00The Importance of Centaur Pholus in a Natal Chart
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More Details Concerning Centaur Pholus in Astrology
by Jude Cowell
Having the centaur Pholus conjunct a natal 5th house planet, it seems necessary that I follow up on previous research into Pholus since it had resulted in a post here in April 2022, Astro-Genealogy Can Reveal Ancestral Trauma. At that time, we focused on Jude Cowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016032974667786252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8607880003817434225.post-62708951169843265722023-07-07T16:40:00.000-04:002023-07-07T16:40:31.272-04:00Something's Fishy at Jude Cowell Astrology!An Art-and-Astro Musing by Jude Cowell
While searching my several blogs just now I floated across my very first Dreamyfish Art entry of December 19, 2005 which opened with my all-time favorite botanical fish portrait of a Breaksea cod ensnared within his favorite dream scenario. In fact, here he is now, all the way from the waters of Western Australia. He's one of my Saturn-Neptune depictions of Jude Cowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016032974667786252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8607880003817434225.post-27737124803651332522023-06-18T16:14:00.004-04:002023-06-18T16:18:10.919-04:00Happy Father's Day 2023 to an Ancient Great-Grandfather!We're All Descendants Now: Richard de Clare, aka, "Strongbow"
by Jude Cowell
Because today in the US it's Father's Day when we honor, celebrate, and/or pay tribute to our earthly fathers, and because my Dad is no longer with us, I went searching for my ancestral grandfathers on my Dad's side to see if one might inspire the creation of this very post.
Well, thanks to my paternal Strickland Jude Cowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016032974667786252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8607880003817434225.post-42840019522050598982023-06-17T17:59:00.003-04:002024-01-15T12:02:20.644-05:00Astrology of King John and the Magna Carta
King John; John Chapman, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
by Jude Cowell
From what I've read and heard of him, only King John I of England (1167--1216) carries the name 'John' within the long panoply of British monarchs because who wants to be named after the most reviled king that Britain has yet produced?
Now many folks alive today are direct descendants of King John, aka, John 'Lackland'Jude Cowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016032974667786252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8607880003817434225.post-81311461430692104852023-06-16T16:42:00.001-04:002023-06-16T16:44:40.330-04:00Astro-Profile re: Queen Catherine de' Mediciby Jude Cowell
Have you ever consulted the Wikipedia page of Catherine de' Medici, Queen consort of King Henry II of France? Well, here's an interesting video concerning Catherine de' Medici, a 16th-century monarch sometimes labeled as, The Black Queen of France, and she's featured in a 2022 Starz presentation, The Serpent Queen.
Now as per historical record, Catherine married King Henry II of Jude Cowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016032974667786252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8607880003817434225.post-88822344062980293602023-05-25T14:49:00.000-04:002023-05-25T14:49:08.391-04:00The Life and Death Horoscopes of Franz Kafka
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When Bohemian novelist Franz Kafta was born on July 3, 1883 in Prague, Czech Republic, an exact birth hour for baby Franz was left unrecorded. In large part, Kafka novels are studies in anxiety and they continue to resonate into our anxiety-prone era. An interesting fellow, a giant of 20th century Literature, Kafka died of tuberculosis inJude Cowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016032974667786252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8607880003817434225.post-36415013489821477552023-04-23T15:11:00.071-04:002023-04-23T15:44:17.337-04:00Sir Isaac Newton: Unhappy Scientific Genius | Full Doc | Biography - w/ his Solar Eclipse
Whenever I hear or read an assessment of Sir Isaac Newton such as the title of the Biography presentation, above, this novice astrologer must wonder: are unhappiness and scienctific genius revealed in his natal horoscope?
Well, one prominent factor along these lines is that Newton's 5 North Prenatal Solar Eclipse @00Scorpio arose at his birth which identifies him as being destined to have an Jude Cowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016032974667786252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8607880003817434225.post-52881323922816638602023-04-21T18:53:00.004-04:002023-04-21T22:21:28.273-04:00On the Mysticism of Marc Edmund Jonesby Jude Cowell
In the A-rated natal horoscope of famed astrologer Marc Edmund Jones we find indications of his writing talent via a Mercury-Venus Conjunction in early Scorpio, sign of deep research and occult concerns, and a Saturn-Uranus sextile of a progressive individual. There his astrological, new age ideas and ideals are comfortably poured into Saturn's container, made real and available Jude Cowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016032974667786252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8607880003817434225.post-69035279018854919802023-03-06T14:38:00.001-05:002023-03-06T14:38:35.437-05:00The Neville Family and Anne's Date with DestinyImage: The Neville Family Book of Hours
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In ancient days it was a thing to record prayers in a Book of Hours and if there's a most-famous such book, it must be that of Queen Consort Anne Boleyn.
However, above you see a public domain image of the Neville Family Book of Hours instead, located on Wikimedia Commons Jude Cowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016032974667786252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8607880003817434225.post-63152764061204669142023-02-19T15:06:00.000-05:002023-02-19T15:06:05.244-05:00When Chiron Returns 2027 and 2028
CHIRON by William Blake, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Now in Aries, transit Chiron will enter Taurus in May 2027
by Jude Cowell, 3rd house Chiron in Sagittarius
Below you see a tri-wheel of the three times that Chiron Returns for the very first time since discovery to the centaur's founding degree of 3Tau08. Chiron, when in Venus-ruled Taurus uplifts within the Collective our concerns Jude Cowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016032974667786252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8607880003817434225.post-5519877055109452092023-01-29T22:53:00.002-05:002023-01-29T22:53:52.340-05:00Twitter Horoscope: first tweet March 2006Nervously Twittering
by Jude Cowell, tweeting since March 2008
This is just a quick posting of the time-stamped 'First Tweet" Horoscope of Twitter along with a few astro-notes:
One chart factor we can't fail to notice is the double Solar Eclipse action at the IC (Foundation Point) of the 1st tweet horoscope. Twitter was founded under the rays of a 7 South Eclipse which occurred on October 3, Jude Cowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016032974667786252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8607880003817434225.post-27055674624623373332023-01-27T09:40:00.003-05:002023-03-17T21:02:47.226-04:00Did Winston Churchill Paint This Masterpiece? | Fake Or Fortune? | Persp...Jude Cowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016032974667786252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8607880003817434225.post-37341518693847022172023-01-26T14:06:00.001-05:002023-01-26T14:08:08.266-05:00Astrology: Picasso, Matisse, plus Gertrude Stein
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Astro-Notes: Modern Artist Pablo Picasso and Two of His Contemporaries
by Jude Cowell
In the natal horoscope of the brilliant American heiress and collector of avant-garde art Gertrude Stein we find an Air-Earth Sun Aquarius-Moon Virgo personality blend with mystical Pisces rising (00:21). When her portrait was painted in Paris by a Jude Cowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016032974667786252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8607880003817434225.post-15505368242174424782022-12-11T14:56:00.004-05:002023-04-15T17:40:01.451-04:00An Astrology Chart for Empress Matilda!Genealogy Plus History: Empress Matilda
by Jude Cowell
The following post and horoscope/s are part of my series on ancient ancestors - this time concerning Empress Matilda, my 26th great-grandmother, as geni dot com informs me. Ceres (the mother) is active in her natal chart as are Juno (wife), Pallas (daughter), and hearth-tender Vesta who mates with whomever she pleases. Three of the feminine Jude Cowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016032974667786252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8607880003817434225.post-45068583716728539972022-12-07T17:10:00.001-05:002023-01-27T12:10:38.518-05:00Astrology of a Tragedy in Moscow, Idahoby Jude Cowell
Admittedly, it's rare that I publish tragic horoscopes of death while a murder investigation is ongoing and, preferring Forensic Astrology of cold cases instead, I waver over doing it now. But my heart is broken over this tragedy, and with the perpetrator/s on the loose, I've decided to share two horoscopes showing the time frame that Moscow, Idaho's police chief, James Fry, has Jude Cowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016032974667786252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8607880003817434225.post-39335854408721659082022-10-22T20:28:00.000-04:002022-10-22T20:28:06.727-04:00Say Hello to Siegfried I, Count of Luxembourg!
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Don't Let His Scowl Fool Ya - He's Happy To Meet Anyone At All These Days!
by Jude Cowell
Well, it's Thanks once again to my paternal Strickland grandmother, for I find that Siegfried I, Count of Luxembourg, is my 30th great-grandfather. Not close enough to do me or mine any harm Jude Cowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016032974667786252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8607880003817434225.post-68664999364894603412022-10-09T17:33:00.000-04:002022-10-09T17:33:49.314-04:00Minerva: The Goddess and the Asteroid
Among the Capitoline Triad of Jupiter and Juno nestles Minerva, often with a wreath of laurel upon her brow. Yet I confess that years ago when I depicted in pencil 'Owl of Minerva' (displayed above) I knew very little of the mythical goddess, and had paid little if any attention to the position of asteroid Minerva in my natal horoscope - in other words, the Zodiacal position where Minerva was Jude Cowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016032974667786252noreply@blogger.com0