AstroBiography

The AstroBiography of Queen Elizabeth II

Birth: April 21, 1926 2:40am BST

Known For: Longest Reigning Monarch, Recent Death (September 8, 2022)

Astrology Stats: Taurus Sun, Leo Moon, Capricorn Rising, Scorpio Midheaven

Favorite Documentary or Show: The Crown

In Brief: Royal Stability

Queen Elizabeth’s outer personality is characterized by the wielding of dominance, with all the seriousness and decorum assigned her role (Capricorn Ascendant). She exuded poise, authority, and a sense of stabilization with her longstanding reliable presence, even as the British Empire rapidly diminished during her rule. Her Sun in Taurus symbolizes this picture of stability. At the same time, you might just as easily conjure up an image of Queen Elizabeth dressed in pastel outfits and ludicrous hats, reflecting the softer side (Venus in Pisces ruling the 10^th House). On a more internal note, her Moon placement in Leo echoes the pattern of regality, yet its difficult (8^th House) placement suggests the heaviness of the role bestowed on her, as well as a sense of isolation or loneliness, especially in her marriage. Many may envy or despise the royals; however, it is not an enviable life for anyone who values freedom, personal expression, or privacy.  Queen Elizabeth II passed away recently at the age of 96.

Please watch the video to learn more.

Born July 21, 1951

A Jolt of Sensitivity – the Astrology of Robin Williams – AstroBiography with Jennie & Laurie

Documentary: Come Into My Mind

The Keynotes Of His Horoscope*

Robin Williams’ astrology chart shows an effervescent personality warmly engaging the audience with depth and naughtiness, supported by a pioneering comic genius and a lot of hard work. His completely unpredictable antics, plus his gift for mimic, captured his fans and demonstrated a surprising ability to cut to the truth. On a more personal level, he used his characters to find connection with others, and truly needed to make people laugh. His chart also indicates an aching sensitivity, someone who felt quite vulnerable, internalized everything, and sought acceptance through his ability to entertain.

His friend Billy Crystal described him as a “light that didn’t know how to switch off.” After his performances, a sweat-drenched, exhausted Williams often didn’t know how to wind down and showed an insatiable appetite for stimulation.   Interestingly, while playing serious roles, Williams ruthlessly joked with all and sundry in between shoots. On the other hand, when performing live onstage, he often sat completely silent and inert, just before launching into his vigorous comic display. These extremes demonstrate his ability to jolt others with his lighting fast mind, and also his struggle to calm an intensely electrified nervous system. Watch the video for more insights.

What He Is Known For

Renowned comic performer Robin Williams caught audience attention with both his outrageous physical humor and surprising sensitivity. The Mork And Mindy Show kick-started his career in the early ‘80s, where only he could have pulled off the ridiculous premise. Robin attended Juilliard with Christopher Reeve and also was with John Belushi the night John died from an overdose. He spent most of the ‘80s doing improv and stand up (see Live At The Met), before landing his first big-time acting role in Good Morning Vietnam in 1987. Subsequently, he starred in many great films, including Mrs. Doubtfire, Good Will Hunting, The Dead Poet’s Society, and Awakenings.

Though raised as a lonely, only child, Mr. Williams had relationships with his two older half brothers in adulthood. His practical joker mother steeped him in a comic ethos, and he learned at an early age to attract attention with humor. Not surprisingly, his early successes went hand-in-hand with lots of drugs, drinking, and promiscuity. Married three times and father of three children, he struggled with depression and personality extremes alongside a very busy professional life. He clearly treasured his small number of close friends, in particular enjoying an intimate friendship with Billy Crystal. Unfortunately, Mr. Williams took his own life at age 63, while struggling with a variety of distressing neurological and mental symptoms, posthumously discovered to be the beginnings of Lewi Body Dementia. Robin Williams brought much laughter and joy to his audiences throughout the course of his career.

*AstroSpeak For The Astrological Keynotes

• Leo the Performer in the 10th House Of Career, containing communicative Mercury and empowering Pluto, next to the bright Sun in sensitive Cancer.
• Jupiter the Jester in Aries, in the 6th House of Work/Routines, supporting Mercury& Pluto.
• Action-oriented Mars conjunct electrifying, never-sit-still Uranus in sensitive Cancer, in a T-square with Jupiter and Neptune.
• Rising Sign in intense Scorpio, completing the trio of water signs with Sun in Cancer, Moon in Pisces, painting the picture of profound susceptibility to his environment.

Laurie Farrington of Astrolore and Jennie Date of Hidden Path Astrology celebrate the stories and horoscopes of badasses, brave souls, and unsung heroes who are work to uplift others, challenge the status quo, or otherwise make bold change in our troubled world. Our goal in the Inspiring series is to bring these harbingers of hope to your attention while you learn the fun and exciting art of astrology.

Amanda Gorman

What She Is Known For:

• Reading her poem “The Hill We Climb” at the 2020 Presidential Inauguration
• 1^st National Youth Poet Laureate                                                                                               
• Activist, Feminist, Harvard Attendee

Amanda Gorman became the First National Youth Poet Laureate and read her poetry before the nation at 21 years old, a stunning achievement. This only becomes more dramatic when you learn that she had a speech impediment as a young child, which she overcame with focus, hard work and diligent practice. At age 16, she declared herself a feminist, began community organizing, and wrote poetry in direct response Dr. Ford’s testimony at Kavanaugh’s hearing and Trump’s election. This rising star’s burning question, after receiving accolades and fame, is “What am I going to do with my access?”

Astrology Highlights of Her Horoscope

Amanda Gorman displays a Grand Trine in Water, which illustrates the ability to generate a lovely flow of creative, empathetic, and sensitive energy. The Pisces Sun moves easily with the Moon in the protective and fierce sign of cardinal Cancer, and both of these connect to the wounded healer Chiron, in Scorpio. Taskmaster Saturn squares the Moon, showing someone who grew up quickly and applied serious effort to all of her undertakings.

Her Midheaven (MC) in the communicative and teaching sign of Gemini reveals how she appears from the public’s viewpoint. This points to the planet Mercury, just barely hanging on in very late poetic Pisces. It makes a bridge to Mars, powerfully situated in home warrior sign of Aries. This warrior holds the mighty pen as a weapon for truth in the fight against racism and misogyny, and the poetry that emerges also holds the promise of transcendence (Neptune influence). In addition, her chart indicates a strong value system rooted in the desire for social change (Venus, Neptune, Uranus in Aquarius). Her ability to write beautiful poetry that both protects and cuts to the heart brings this astrological symbolism to life.

Finally, with her Ascendant sign in Virgo, the planet Mercury also rules her more personal affairs, indicating that the person on stage is also the person her good friends see. The chart suggests a thoughtful and sensitive dreamer who listens and wields a strong ability to follow through and makes things happen.

Find her interview on Good Morning America.

Moon in Cancer square Neptune: Robert Frost

In a natal horoscope, the Moon reveals the deepest emotional need and the greatest ego struggle of the individual. Lunar symbolism helps us to understand the feminine side, the relationship to mother, and the instinctive self, wired for survival. It illuminates the truth that hides in the shadow, those places that are necessarily dark. Think of the rich black soil where a seed takes root, the womb in which young life grows, or night sky holding bright stars.

Studying the position of the natal Moon makes it possible to understand the native’s emotional nature and orientation. When in hard aspect to other planets, we witness powerful forces impacting the person’s approach to life. To see this, let’s look at Robert Frost’s life and poetry. This is one of his most famous poems:

Nature’s first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf’s a flower

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.

Notice the effect of reading this poem. Feel the lilting fragility to the whole piece, the deep longing it conjures, and notice where you feel this in your body. Pause.

Depression, Grief, and Poetry

Robert Frost dealt with a large share grief. As a young lad, he lost his father to tuberculosis. He was forced to shut away his younger sister in an asylum. Four out of six of his children died before him, including one in childbirth, and one from suicide. He himself suffered from depression. Nature inspired him to write poems from this well of sorrow, and he often wrote in the early morning light. He won the Pulitzer four times, becoming one of the most well known poets of our time.

The Water Element

Astrologers look for repeating patterns. Robert Frost’s natal Moon is in the cardinal water sign of Cancer, squared by oceanic Neptune, and trine to Mercury in Pisces. Neptune signifies states of consciousness. Like tuned keys on a piano, these states range from drugged ecstasy to delusion, daydreaming, imagination, and spiritual enlightenment. Frost’s Cancer Moon suggests a life lesson regarding healing and nurturing through expressing his gift to the world (Moon in 5^th House), through the eloquent communication (trine Mercury) of poetry (Pisces). The Neptune square implies the difficulty of swimming to the surface of family circumstance. We also note the possibility of magnified prominence (Moon sextile Pluto & Jupiter).

This paints a picture of a man partially submerged in the ocean, close enough to the surface to speak yet dangerously subject to the tides. He may have easily drowned in all that grief. Instead he wrote poetry.