posted November 27, 2014 05:15 PM
I've been studying a historical person who was born in 1851 and whose life interests me deeply. I found out about this person because of strange dreams I had until I was five years old in which I was a moderately powerful woman living a long time ago on the other side of the world, in a culture very different from my own. The dreams stopped when I turned six years old. Lately I've been studying the history of that country and the architecture and clothing styles I saw in the dreams to try to see if I was having dreams about a real historical person. BTW, having dreams in which I'm not myself isn't normal for me. I'm always me in my dreams, except for the dreams I had about this woman.
Anyway, curiosity about these dreams led me to study the life of this woman, whose life events match the dreams I had pretty closely.
I don't know her exact birth time, but I entered 3am since a lot of babies are born at that time, and that gives her a rising sign that makes sense given choices she made in her life. Just for the heck of it, I did a synastry between our charts and found that our Parts of Fortune are exactly conjunct in the synastry, and her Juno is on my Sun and her Sun Venus are on my Vertex. Now, of course, none of this is really accurate since I don't know her real birth time, so I'm not taking it too serious. Still, it gave me goosebumps.
Also, no matter what time she was born, she had a scary near-exact conjunction between Uranus Pluto Saturn and Waldemath Lilith, and in the synastry, that cluster is exactly conjunct my Chiron.
I don't want to sound too nutty by speculating that I might have been this woman in a past life, but I'm keeping an open mind. There is a great danger of egotism in looking into past lives, where everyone wants to have been someone famous, and it devolves into an exercise in self-involvement. I don't want to engage in any of that. Still, I'm intrigued by this and wonder if anyone on this site has felt a similar connection with a historical person and found astrological connections between their chart and the chart of the historical person.
Also, I know Juno is considered the marriage asteroid, but I don't know if that's always accurate. In my study of other people's charts, I've found Juno most often indicates a commitment that is emotionally fulfilling to the person, but that doesn't necessarily have to be marriage. I've seen many people's Juno in a part of their chart which directly correlates with their career or a charitable cause that they are deeply committed to, so I think of Juno as the "happy commitment" asteroid, not the marriage asteroid.