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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
We’ve all heard about “Custer’s Last Stand”. Did you ever wonder why he could make such an error in judgement that condemned his whole fighting troop of soldiers to death at the hands of the Lakota Sioux?
There is only one astrology site with his birth chart. I followed their lead because it makes sense that most of the planets and lights would be below the horizon at his birth, with only Pluto signaling his death at age 36. The inconjunct between the Moon and the Midheaven could be the indicator of his ‘pride before the fall’. His natal Sun is also within 10° of the Moon. His mother must have told him he was the best. This quote from the Wikipedia post about his life, relates the story (at age 4) for the Moon/Sun conjunction:
Emanuel Custer was an outspoken Jacksonian Democrat who taught his children politics and toughness at an early age. In a February 3, 1887, letter to his son’s widow Libby, Emanuel related an incident from when George Custer (known as Autie) was about four years old:
“He had to have a tooth drawn, and he was very much afraid of blood. When I took him to the doctor to have the tooth pulled, it was in the night and I told him if it bled well it would get well right away, and he must be a good soldier. When he got to the doctor he took his seat, and the pulling began. The forceps slipped off and he had to make a second trial. He pulled it out, and Autie never even scrunched. Going home, I led him by the arm. He jumped and skipped, and said ‘Father you and me can whip all the Whigs in Michigan.’ I thought that was saying a good deal but I did not contradict him.”
So, yes, I think the accuracy of the timing of his birth fits the story.
The Battle of Little Bighorn is a tale told by the victors. 3:30 pm was the start of the battle, and it lasted only 30 minutes. You do the math. Mercury is inconjunct Jupiter. Jupiter is in opposition to the Pluto/Midheaven conjunction and they are all square to the Moon/Ascendant conjunction in Leo. Bad news: you overestimate your abilities and underestimate the number of your enemies. Deadly mistake.
On the day, Custer’s natal Uranus/North Node conjunction was being transited by his ‘fatal’ Saturn. The “grim reaper” did his ‘best’ work that day.
I know that question seems a little harsh. After all, we all know who he is, and there have been many stories told about his exploits, including what happened at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone. But he wasn’t the main protagonist:
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was an American lawman and an assistant marshal to his brother, Virgil Earp. Earp was involved in the 1881 gunfight at the O.K. Corral, during which he and other lawmen killed three outlaws. While Earp is usually depicted as the key figure in the shootout, his brother Virgil was both the U.S. Marshal and the Tombstone city marshal and had decided to enforce a city ordinance prohibiting carrying weapons in public in an attempt to neutralize the loosely organized group of outlaws known as the Cochise County Cowboys.
Wikipedia
Only one astrology website has this birth time, but because it is so exact, I’m going to follow suit. The final planet in the train that starts with Mercury in Aquarius, through four in Pisces and the South Node and Uranus in Aries, ending with Pluto, the planet that would have witnessed his young wife die when he was only 21. His path was sealed with that disappointment.
On December 17, Judge Sanderson finally ruled that prizefighting was illegal in San Francisco and that the courts would not determine the winner. Sharkey retained the purse, but the decision provided no vindication for Earp. Until the fight, Earp had been a minor figure known regionally in California and Arizona; afterward, his name was known from coast to coast. The boxing match left a smear on his public character that followed him until after he died. Eight years later, Dr. B. Brookes Lee was accused of treating Sharkey to make it appear that he had been fouled by Fitzsimmons, and Lee admitted that it was true. “I fixed Sharkey up to look as if he had been fouled,” he confessed. “I got $1,000 for my part in the affair.”
Wikipedia
The position of Mars in Wyatt’s birth chart may be the marker of this slur on his name.
Earp tried to persuade his good friend, well-known cowboy movie star William S. Hart, to help set the record straight about his life and get a movie made. “If the story were exploited on the screen by you,” he wrote Hart, “It would do much toward setting me right before a public which has always been fed lies about me.” Hart encouraged Earp to first find an author to pen his story.
In 1925 Earp began to collaborate on a biography with his friend and former mining engineer John Flood to get his story told in a way that he approved. Flood volunteered his time and attempted to write an authorized biography of Earp’s life, based on Earp’s recollections. The two men sat together every Sunday in the kitchen of Earp’s modest, rented bungalow. While Wyatt sipped a drink and smoked a cigar, they tried to tell Earp’s story, but Josephine was always present. She often interrupted and insisted, “You can’t write that! It needs to be clean.” She also demanded that they add more “pep” to the manuscript, which in her mind meant including the word “CRACK!” in all capitals. In the chapter about the shootout, the manuscript includes 109 uses of “CRACK”. She thought Earp needed to be shown as a hero, and the manuscript includes a chapter titled “Conflagration” in which Earp saves two women, one a cripple, from a Tombstone fire.
Wikipedia
In his birth chart, the unpublished manuscript would have appeared where Jupiter shows up.
The death chart is set for noon, which augments the inconjunct linking the Sun (conjunct the Midheaven) and Mars. Jupiter, again, is conjunct the (presumed) Ascendant @ 6° Taurus. These may not be accurate, but they are symbolic. After his death, his legendary life grew to what we remember today.
Following on from my posts about Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, I thought it might be informative to take a look at that Old West enigma called “Doc” Holliday. His nickname comes from the fact that he was a qualified dentist, but then being diagnosed as suffering from tuberculosis, the same disease that killed his mother and his sister. In fact, his mother’s death, when he was 15, gives me a timing link for the rectification of his birth chart, namely the position of the Moon in the 6th House.
The (almost) exact conjunction of Saturn and Uranus may have given him his ability to shoot so quickly and accurately. The conjunction of Pluto within 4° of those planets was a deadly combination, for sure.
The Yod (Finger of God) pointing at the Moon, formed from inconjuncts to the Sun and Jupiter, may have made him fearless. The only other inconjunct links Venus with Neptune, making him a beloved legend of the Old West.
His time of death was reported by the woman who was nursing him. Effectively he died laughing about his being barefoot. Neptune and Pluto are conjunct, both in opposition to Mercury, trine to Venus.
Interestingly, the interactive inconjuncts from Mercury and Venus in his ‘fatal’ chart are forming a triple Yod to his natal conjunction of Saturn, Uranus and Pluto. He really didn’t expect to die in bed. He always thought he’d die in a gunfight. Fate had a different ending, so the last laugh really was on him.
Again, this shouldn’t be a surprise, because the number 72 is mentioned several times in the Bible:
Ancient civilizations like the Egyptians and Babylonians integrated 72 in their cosmology and science. You notice the Egyptians divided the sky into 36 decans, each lasting 10 days, totaling 360 days; doubling this relates to the significance of 72. You’ll find the Babylonians’ base-60 number system influenced how 72 linked to time and angles, with 72 degrees being one-fifth of a 360-degree circle.
You recognize 72 as a crucial number in measuring celestial cycles: the precession of the equinoxes shifts roughly one degree every 72 years, marking a slow dance of the Earth’s axis with cosmic timing. This connection ties the physical world to metaphysical concepts about time and eternity.
You encounter 72 frequently appearing in religious texts and myths, symbolizing spiritual completeness and divine order. Christianity mentions 72 disciples sent by Jesus to spread his teachings. In Judaism, you find the Shemhamphorash, the 72-fold name of God, used in mystical traditions to invoke divine power and protection.
Islamic tradition includes 72 sects and 72 virgins as a symbolic promise in paradise. In Hinduism, the number connects to the goddess Durga, whose 72 forms embody strength and protection.
Through these traditions, 72 signifies balance, cosmic harmony, and the link between the earthly and the divine—a symbol you can explore to deepen your understanding of spiritual symbolism.
There’s even a reference to 72 angels guarding the 12 gates of the Holy City, Jerusalem.
Enough said.
We cannot say we are enlightened if we view something spiritual as mumbo-jumbo. The question of 13 being something negative stems from a Friday the 13th roundup of the Knights Templar in 1307. And yet, if we go back far enough, Jesus and his 12 Disciples also equal 13, considered a feminine number.
The YouTube channel ESOTERICA published a video this past week, discussing the fact that the ‘original’ Tree of Life (Kabbalah of Contemplation) may have had 13 Sefirot. Hmm. It’s all connected.
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