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.

May 01 '12

For those of you who are local, S.T.A.R. Guild Astrology Study Group meets on Tuesday May 1st at 6pm at the main library in Cocoa at 308 Forrest Ave. We'll be looking at the effect that Venus is Gemini is having on us and also looking at charts of topical interest. Please bring your charts and ideas and insights to share.

I had a wonderful class on Earth Day. It was also a New Moon in Taurus. The idea was to make new starts that would bring more Taurus-like things, like spring, into our lives. Before the class my friend and I were looking ....[more..]