Was He Born This Way or Did Life Make Him?

Posted on June 6, 2026 by cdsmiller17

Marty Life Is Short (2026)

I’m not a fan of Martin Short. Some would consider that sacrilege. His SCTV family definitely think he’s the funniest Canadian comedian ever. Over-the-top, I would say.

But what about the man, under those masks?

Martin Short (March 26, 1950)

Since his birth time is unknown (really?), I have rectified his birth chart, based on losing his mother to cancer (Moon) when he was 14, and his father (Saturn) when he was 22.

That locks the chart into place, putting the Sun/Mercury/North Node conjunction in the 1st House (of Personality) in opposition to the Mars /South Node conjunction in the 7th House (of Open Enemies) all square to the Moon/Uranus conjunction in the 4th House (of the Home and Family) and the Midheaven (of Career). Do you see what I mean? His mother’s death was the making of him. The Grand Cross shows that. At the time, he said he felt he couldn’t cope. But he did, and that must have informed his comedy from then on.

The Yod (Finger of God) pointing at his Pisces Ascendant is formed by inconjuncts to Neptune and Pluto. Pluto is also in opposition to Venus (conjunct Jupiter).which demonstrates that his 30 year relationship/marriage to Nancy made him a better man. She was a performer herself, but she supported his career, absolutely, I suspect because he could make her laugh. Humour is important in any marriage.

Love him or hate him, he was a natural clown. If you like him, you’ll enjoy this documentary on Netflix.

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Hot August Night

Posted on June 5, 2026 by cdsmiller17

August 24, 1972

Originally, I was intending to do a comparison of this live album’s creation with Neil Diamond’s birth chart. It became quite clear (almost immediately) that this event was a one-of-a-kind.

The Yod (Finger of God) pointing at the Pisces Ascendant (which is in a wide conjunction with the Moon in the 12th House) is formed from inconjuncts to Mercury in Leo and Uranus in Libra. They’re the lower and higher mind planets. Hmm.

In the chart comparison, the show’s Uranus is on Diamond’s Ascendant. The rest is history.

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“I Am…I Said”

Posted on June 4, 2026 by cdsmiller17

Neil Diamond (January 24, 1941)

I keep waking up to this song every morning since watching “Song Sung Blue” two weeks ago. To me, it’s a spiritual song, although disguised as an autobiographical story of not belonging to the West nor the East in the USA.. Anything said after “I AM” is an instruction to the body from the spiritual realms.

I thought it might be informative to take a look at Diamond’s birth chart:

Every time Neptune shows up in the 12th House (of the Unconscious) or the 1st House (of Personality), it signifies to me that the individual is a performer. This is especially true of females who present a beautiful image to the world when Neptune is on the Ascendant (like Michele Finney).

The conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn (Star of Bethlehem) as the apex of a T-square to the opposition of the Sun and Pluto makes me wonder if Diamond’s appearance on the world stage was purposeful. His album “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” is the most spiritual I have ever listened to. And, although Diamond is Jewish, he has embraced Christianity in principle along with other world religions. That same conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn is also trine to the Moon/Venus conjunction. Says it all, IMHO.

My favourite album is this one.

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Please Pay Attention: He’s Trying to Tell Us Something

Posted on June 2, 2026 by cdsmiller17

Thank You for Your Attention to This Matter!

It’s Trump’s latest sign-off on his Truth Social posts. He doesn’t want to be ignored, and mostly, the United States are paying close attention to EVERYTHING he shares. But, unfortunately, he cannot make things happen as he would want them to because there is “so much resistance from behind.”

Hmm

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The Many Faces of a Madman

Posted on June 2, 2026 by cdsmiller17

Charles Milles Manson (November 12, 1934 – November 19, 2017)

I guess I’ve skirted around this monster for long enough. Charles Manson was the leader of a cult called the Manson Family. In 1969 they went on a killing spree that became known as the Tate-LaBianca murders.

Manson would often talk about the Beatles, including their eponymous 1968 album. According to Los Angeles County District Attorney Vincent Bugliosi, Manson felt guided by his interpretation of the Beatles’ lyrics and adopted the term “Helter Skelter” to describe an impending apocalyptic race war. During his trial, Bugliosi argued that Manson had intended to start a race war, although Manson and others disputed this. Contemporary interviews and trial witness testimony insisted that the Tate–LaBianca murders were copycat crimes intended to exonerate Manson’s friend Bobby Beausoleil. Manson denied having ordered any murders. He served his time in prison and died from complications from colon cancer in 2017.

Wikipedia

A post on Facebook this morning featured Manson’s birth certificate. It clearly shows a birth time of 4:40 pm. So I looked at the entry on my computer program, and it had the correct time, too.

When a birth chart exhibits a Grand Cross, the individual is usually under a great deal of internal pressure. Depending on the planets concerned, this can be a frustrating feeling, at best; at worst, it can push him too far. The conjunction of Mars and Neptune @ 14° Virgo may have given Manson an outlet.

Mars Conjunct Neptune

The main problem with this aspect is that you tend to get discouraged. You do not have as much energy as other people, usually not because you are physically weak but Because you are too easily discouraged by opposition from persons or circumstances. You are not a very aggressive person. It is not that you are especially shy or reluctant to assert yourself, but you feel sure that in a direct confrontation with someone, you will lose. More than most people, you need abundant support and encouragement from your parents. If they are excessively critical or unsupportive, it will have a very negative effect on you.

The danger is that if this tendency to be discouraged is not checked, you may develop a defeatist attitude toward life. Or what is worse, you may assert yourself in underhanded ways so that no one can see what you are doing and try to stop you.

Robert Hand Planets in Youth (1977) pages 234-5

These two planets are trine the Midheaven.

When comparing his birth and death charts, I was surprised to see two planets return to their original positions after 83 years: Jupiter and Uranus. The Sun and Venus are also near their original positions. His North/South Node axis has flipped in the intervening years. Has the internal fire been quenched? What do you think?

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A True Love Story Based on a Documentary from 2008

Posted on May 31, 2026 by cdsmiller17

Song Sung Blue (2008)

We watched the Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson version from 2025. It was very entertaining, and reminded me of my love of Neil Diamond songs. I presume that’s what it intended to have happen.

Here’s the original preview of the Lightning and Thunder show:

Well, what do you know? The 2025 film may be slicker, with more beautiful stars, but the feelings are the same. It’s a triumph and a tragedy, all rolled into one heart-felt story. I would highly recommend it.

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To Us 1950’s Kids, He was King of the Wild Frontier

Posted on May 30, 2026 by cdsmiller17

Davy Crockett (August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836)

American myth-making was at its finest when the legend of Davy Crockett was written. The coonskin hat was a nice touch, especially since Walt Disney focused us on that feature. We all wanted our parents to buy us one. But was he all that the stories made him out to be? I wonder.

His birth chart is on several astrology sites, but they all have the same birth time, 1:30 pm, although this is unverified. Here’s what it looks like:

That Saturn/Pluto conjunction in his early childhood, as suggested by the video, may be where his headstrong nature came from. At the tender age of 12, Crockett was indentured out to work as a cowboy. That will, more-or-less, be represented by Jupiter in Taurus. But by 25 (the position of the Moon in the 7th House) he had become popular probably from his self-promotion as a frontiersman.

This is my way of advising you that his birth time may be ‘close enough for jazz’, as they say.

The Uranus in Cancer position of the 8th House (of Death) may be the hint that his death was quick.

A lot of men died on the day that Santa Anna defeated the American defenders of The Alamo in 1836. Davy Crockett was amongst them. Did he die in hand=to=hand combat, or was he executed after surrender? We may never know, but the battle’s end chart suggests in battle, since Pluto is conjunct the event Ascendant in Aries. There is one inconjunct linking Jupiter and Neptune, with only 1° difference.

Jupiter Inconjunct Neptune

You are probably an idealist with very vivid dreams about how you want your life to be, and at certain times of your life you will follow those dreams with all your energy. But sometimes these idealistic dreams will let you down, because you are not concerned enough with what is real and possible.

Robert Hand Planets in Youth (1977) page 269

Whatever happened, Davy Crockett’s legend was born and he lives on in our collective memory forever.

He’s still King of the Wild Frontier.

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Question: Are We All Just Participants in an Experiment?

Posted on May 30, 2026 by cdsmiller17

Morphic Resonance

I’m sure you’ve heard of Rupert Sheldrake. The scientific community doesn’t like his work because it flies in the face of their cherished thinking. But it also speaks to a reality that is essentially spiritual.

Most developmental biologists accept the need for a holistic or integrative conception of living organization. Otherwise biology will go on floundering, even drowning, in oceans of data, as yet more genomes are sequenced, genes are cloned and proteins are characterized.

I suggest that morphogenetic fields work by imposing patterns on otherwise random or indeterminate patterns of activity. For example they cause microtubules to crystallize in one part of the cell rather than another, even though the subunits from which they are made are present throughout the cell.

Morphogenetic fields are not fixed forever, but evolve. The fields of Afghan hounds and poodles have become different from those of their common ancestors, wolves. How are these fields inherited? I propose that that they are transmitted from past members of the species through a kind of non-local resonance, called morphic resonance.

Experiments with rats have shown us how this works, but not why this works.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:

We are One.

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The Final Gordon, Canada’s Original “Rowdyman”

Posted on May 29, 2026 by cdsmiller17

Gordon Pinsent (July 12, 1930 – February 25, 2023)

Sometimes, peoples’ favourites come in threes: Gordon Lightfoot, Gordie Downie, and this man, Gordon Pinsent. (Of course, there’s also Gordie Howe, after all we are Canadian.)

This birth time is on several astrology as ‘rectified from approximate time’. Really? It’s more likely that they chose sunrise, forgetting that Newfoundland is a half-hour earlier than the Maritime time zone. There is one inconjunct linking Saturn with the Leo Ascendant. I shouldn’t rely on that aspect too much.

However, the T-square(s) linking the opposition between Saturn and Jupiter, with Uranus on the square. The Uranus/Midheaven conjunction is square to a Sun/Pluto conjunction, too. The Rowdyman label is well-deserved, I think. His popularity is enhanced by the Moon in Aquarius on the Descendant.

I’ve set the clock for noon on the day that he died. The planets and lights are all above the horizon line. Hmm. Mars is conjunct the ‘fatal’ Ascendant.

Combining his birth and death charts reveals a spider’s web of aspects, too many to unpick here.

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Their Lead Singer was Tragically Hip

Posted on May 28, 2026 by cdsmiller17

Gord Downie (February 6, 1964 – October 17, 2017)

Imagine being born three days before The Beatles first appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. That has to count for something, doesn’t it? Gord’s story is one of triumph and, ultimately, tragedy.

His birth time is unknown, so I have randomized his birth chart. I cannot answer for the accuracy, but despite that, there is a Yod (Finger of God) pointing at Jupiter, formed by inconjuncts to Neptune and Pluto, signifying that fame and success come with a price.

Gordon Edgar Downie CM (February 6, 1964 – October 17, 2017) was a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, musician, writer, poet, and activist. He was the singer and lyricist for the Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip, which he fronted from its formation in 1984 until his death in 2017. He is revered by many as one of the most influential artists in Canada’s music history.

But then:

In December 2015, shortly after attending his father’s funeral, Downie was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumour. The Tragically Hip announced his diagnosis on their website on May 24, 2016. Doctors at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre confirmed the same day that it was a glioblastoma, which had responded favourably to radiation and chemotherapy treatment but was not curable.

Downie toured with the band in summer 2016 to support Man Machine Poem, the band’s 13th studio album. The tour’s final concert was held at the Rogers K-Rock Centre in Kingston, Ontario, on August 20 and was broadcast and streamed live by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on television, radio and internet. It was viewed by an estimated 11.7 million people.

The tour was profiled in the 2017 documentary film Long Time Running, directed by Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier. The final concert was released on DVD under the title A National Celebration on December 24, 2017

I also randomized the timing of his death chart, knowing that he died in the evening on the day in question. Notice that there are also two inconjuncts this time, connecting Pluto (in the 8th House of Death) with a Gemini Ascendant, and Mars and Uranus, signifying a sudden death. Saturn is in opposition to the Ascendant, while Uranus is in opposition to the Sun/Mercury/Jupiter conjunction.

This is what a ‘natural’ death looks like for a Tragically Hip young man.

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