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Gary Busey is Back to the Future
Gary Busey is Back to the Future
Gary Busey playing Biff in Back to the Future is rather satirical, as he had a near death experience when he crashed a guard rail back in 1988. It made headline because he refused to wear a helmet and during the surgery to sew his head back together, the actor died on the operating table.
Gary, born William Gareth Jacob Busey, won an Academy award for fellow Texan, Buddy Holley, another irony as…
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Unravelling Hubbard and his legacy at Roycroft
Our chart for this week is Elbert Hubbard, taken from How to Learn Astrology by Marc Jones. On May 7, 1915 the Lusitania sunk taking with it Elbert as his second wife Alice. It breaks from the earlier charts in the book as it is not in the piano key layout, making it the first complete layout.
from Hubbard’s Dictionary of Roycroft
Hubbard’s focal determinator is his cardinal grand cross on the angular houses. He erected his life in concert with his dynamic aptitude of the spiritual opposition of Mars to Jupiter that appears on his Ascendant/Descendant while simultaneously trying to meet the emotional challenges posed to him on at the squares.
This made his success dependent on his ability to adapt to the daily demands of his spiritual vision and in his personal life was dramatically depicted by his financially crippling divorce from his first wife (in 2018 dollars he was forced to pay $335G) and also the public persona he created as the ” Sage of East Aurora”.
He worked originally as a salesman for Larkin Soap Co., based in Buffalo, and then as as a PR manager. He had been quite successful but at 35 years old, decided that there was more to life than soap and left the business and went to Harvard University in Boston Massachusetts and took several courses on writing. Inspired by what William Morris was doing in England, he went there to learn from him at the Red house. This sparked Hubbard’s s interest in printing and publishing house and the eventual formation of the Roycroft Arts and Crafts campus of handcrafted artisans.
The publishing business though well regarded did not do well, so Hubbard decided to follow Morris into the decorative arts, and this was quite successful, selling his wares like Sears and Roebuck via catalog.
He broke with Morris in that he did not offer his good to upper crust courture line, but went for the new evolving upper middle class of America, much like Henry Ford. Everyone was buying a house and that home had to be furnished — it was Hubbard’s desire to be the major furnisher of goods much like the department store of J. C. Penney, and Macy’s, but via the catalog. It was an ambitious enterprise but with Jupiter in the sixth house, there was little that Hubbard did on small scale.
Marc Jones on Hubbard
Marc Jones writes extensively on Elbert Hubbard, the “sage of East Aurora” in How to Learn. You can read the whole thing here. We have abbreviated it for this essay.
He was a unique and stimulating literary figure, widely known in America at the turn of the twentieth century. The beginner will notice an east singleton Mars in the twelfth house. This is enlightening because of the degree to which this native carved out his own destiny (the eastern hemisphere-emphasis) by means of his own initiative via the Mars emphasis uses of the hidden resources in his own personality.
The influence of the Mars initiative is so direct in Elbert Hubbard’s life that a first house position might seem more correct than the twelfth house place given but using our preferred Morinus method we see that the Mars is conjunct the Ascendant though not necessarily the first house (The Morinus method separates the two) and that highlights the dynamism of his personality in all his efforts.
woodcut of Roycroft
A further “look” at the Elbert Hubbard chart will show that four of the planets are near the major southern cusp, of the Mid-heaven. Here we have Saturn at Cancer 2°55′, which is within a fraction over nine degrees of the cusp at Cancer 12°, and Mercury is a little over a degree farther away at Cancer 1°27′. The sun, at Gemini 28°35′, is within thirteen odd degrees of the cusp, since the 1°25′ in Gemini, added to the twelve degrees in Cancer, makes the exact distance 13°25′. Venus, at Gemini 19°44′, measured in the same fashion, is a little over twenty-two degrees away.
The student, for whom this text is geared, should be very careful to make sure he understands how distance around the circle is measured in signs and degrees. He should remember the normal order of the signs, seeing clearly how each represents a successive thirty degrees in the whole zodiac circle & be able to compute the distance with equal ease counterclockwise or clockwise and not rely on software to perform this job for him.
By the light of the Moon
The moon lies almost directly opposite these four planets near the nadir in the north, a little less than three degrees . Mars is at the easternmost point of the chart, exactly on the first house cusp, as mentioned. Jupiter is over at the west angle, less than four degrees from an exact position on the seventh cusp. Pluto is some twenty-five degrees south from this seventh cusp, and Uranus is not quite eighteen degrees farther, giving a Vigintile, one of Johannes Kepler’s minor aspects that is thought to possess a positive creative influence. In Hubbard’s chart it shows the transformative urge to create socially pertinent things, instead of a commodity, like soap.
Neptune too is little less than twenty degrees on the northern side, making another Vigintile aspect, so that there are four planets lustered closely at the midheaven , and four are lying not quite as closely at the west. The other angles are emphasized by the close proximity to the single planets creating the astrological configuration of “x-cross.”
The pattern of the planets here is remarkable because they cling to the cusps of the angular houses and provide a sort of metaphorical “crucifixion,” where the person’s spiritual ideals are tested in the material world.
Elbert Hubbard dramatizes this well, since he consistently felt himself to be in complete rebellion against the existing order of things, the Pluto-Uranus vigintile on the eighth house cusp., and his attitude gave voice to America’s growing protest against mid-Victorian artificiality making his Roycroft enterprises an expression of every soul’s need to break the shackles of an uninteresting existence and like Icarus fly high.
On the Lusitania, Elbert Hubbard Unravelling Hubbard and his legacy at Roycroft Our chart for this week is Elbert Hubbard, taken from How to Learn Astrology by Marc Jones.
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Opposition & Pres. Barack H. Obama
Opposition & Pres. Barack H. Obama
Phenomenal people have outstanding charts that are worthwhile an astrological student’s time. President Barack Hussein Obama, the USA’s 44th President and the first Black American President, a spectacular feat since it was a mere fifty years since all the Jim Crow laws were abolished by President Lyndon B. Johnson. The Opposition of Awareness Dr. Marc E. Jones termed the astrological…
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