posted October 16, 2008 05:52 AM
The chart of Catherine of Aragon, the time is from Astrotheme where they use the Julian calendar date and make her a Capricorn. But I think this birthdate is correct for our calendar (Gregorian) as drawn up by Astrodienst.
Now presuming that time is right ... wow, is that an interesting chart. All planets about Truth (save 2) crammed into the house of Knowledge.
I think of her, maybe she should have made it easy on herself and backed down and gone to a nunnery. The King was going to have Boleyn, nothing was going to stand in his way. But Catherine wouldn't back down, you can see why with that chart. It wasn't going to happen. No compromise.
Some commentators say she lied about her first marriage. I don't think she did. Not after I've seen that, btw her first husband has a cradle configuration featuring Mars and Neptune (if I recall correctly). So has mine. I got his number.
In "Born to be Together" Terry Lamb talks about polairties and this is what he says for expression of Gem/Sag going for most to least healthy:
Gemini
Exploring polarity/communion
Dispersing/Spreading
Lively, exciteable
Scattered
Inconsistent
Fragmented/split
Sag
Seeking Truth
Focusing
Idealistic
Narrow
Dogmatic
Fanatical
I think maybe we are headed down the extreme end there, it is an extreme chart and she rocked Europe. She was catalyst for fundamental change in England.