Asteroid Goddesses - the undistorted Natural/Divine Feminine

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Here is the chart for Manizha Dalerovna Sangin (née Khamrayeva; Russian: Манижа Ð"алеровна Сангин (Хамраева); Tajik: Манижа Ð"алеровна Ҳамроева; born 8 July 1991), known professionally as simply Manizha, is a Russian-Tajik singer and songwriter. Beginning her career in 2003 as a child singer, Manizha went on to perform with the music groups Ru.Kola, Assai, and Krip De Shin, before later pursuing a solo career. She will represent Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 with the song "Russian Woman".

Early life and education

Manizha was born on 8 July 1991 in Dushanbe to parents Najiba Usmanova, a psychologist and clothing designer, and a father who worked as a doctor. Her parents are divorced, and her father did not want Manizha to begin a singing career due to believing it was not a suitable career choice for a Muslim woman. Manizha's grandfather was Toji Usmon, a Tajik writer and journalist with a monument dedicated to his honor in Khujand. Her great-grandmother was one of the first women in Tajikistan to remove her veil and begin a career of her own; in response to this, she had her children removed from her care, although she later was able to return to them and begin working outside of the home. Manizha changed her surname from Khamrayeva to Sangin in order to honor her grandmother, who was one of the first people who encouraged her to pursue music.

In 1994, Manizha and her family fled Tajikistan due to the Tajikistani Civil War, subsequently settling in Moscow. After arriving in Moscow, Manizha began studying at a music school, where she studied piano. She afterwards left the school to begin training with private vocal coaches. Manizha studied psychology at the Russian State University for the Humanities.

Career
2003-2015: Early career

Manizha began her career in 2003, performing as a child singer. She took part in a number of children's singing competitions, winning the Grand Prix of the Rainbow Stars competition in JÅ«rmala, becoming a laureate of the Ray of Hope festival organized by Mir, and becoming a laureate of the Kaunas Talent competition in Kaunas. She recorded a number of songs in both Russian and Tajik, before joining the music project Ru.Kola in 2007. That year, she became a finalist at the Five Stars music competition in Sochi.

Manizha later left the Ru.Kola project, and joined the Russian group Assai in 2011. She later left Assai to join Krip De Shin soon after, which was formed along with other former members of Assai. With Krip De Shin, she recorded an extended play and performed at various music festivals throughout Russia. Due to creative differences between herself and the band, she later opted to leave the group. After leaving the group, Manizha moved to London, and later began studying gospel music in both London and New York City.

2016-2020: Independent breakthrough

In 2016, Manizha returned to her music career, with the release of several independently released singles. The singles were followed up by the release of her debut studio album Manuscript, which was independently released in February 2017. Following the release of Manuscript, Manizha began working on her second release. Her second studio album ЯIAM was later released in March 2018. While describing the album, Manizha stated that it was based around the "architecture of the personality" of a person. Her debut solo extended play Womanizha was later released the following year, in April 2019.

2021-present: Eurovision Song Contest

In March 2021, Manizha was confirmed to be taking part in the Russian national final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 with the song "Russian Woman". The final was held in Moscow on 8 March 2021, where Manizha was declared the winner after receiving 39.7% of the public vote. As the winner, she will now represent Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021, held in Rotterdam.

More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manizha and https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/apr/09/russia-eurovision-candidate-manizha-takes-on-the-haters

Her natal Lilith is 27 Taurus, N.Node is 10 Sagittarius, S.Node is 28 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 25 Taurus, N.Node is 5 Gemini, and the S.Node is 6 Scorpio.

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Here is the chart for Angela Madsen (May 10, 1960 - June 21, 2020) was an American Paralympian sportswoman in both rowing and track and field. In a long career, Madsen moved from race rowing to ocean challenges before switching in 2011 to athletics, winning a bronze medal in the shot put at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. Madsen and teammate Helen Taylor were the first women to row across the Indian Ocean. She died in June 2020 while attempting a solo row from Los Angeles to Honolulu.

Early life and education

Madsen was born in Xenia, Ohio, on May 10, 1960. Educated at Fairborn Baker High School in Fairborn, Ohio, she became a single parent at the age of seventeen, which impeded her chance for an athletics scholarship.

Military career

Most of Madsen's immediate family were military, so when her brothers told her she "couldn't make it as a marine", it made her determined to join. She enlisted in the Marines, leaving her daughter with her parents until she completed basic training. After passing training, the Marine Corps provided Madsen with a home for her and her daughter. She was sent to Fort McClellan in Alabama to train as a military police officer and her first duty station was at the Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, near Irvine, California. At El Toro, she joined the women's basketball team, at center, and when the team competed at the Marine Corps West Coast Regional Basketball Tournament, Madsen was scouted by the women's Marine Corps team.
Spinal injury and surgery

In 1980, at her first Marine Corps basketball training session, she fell on the court and another player stepped on her back, rupturing two discs in her spine. This in turn led Madsen to undergo surgery to her back, but a string of errors resulted in her suffering an L1 incomplete spinal cord injury and paraplegia.

The US military refused to pay for Madsen's medical bills following the accident, and, in the dispute that followed, Madsen lost her home and her marriage fell apart. She fell into depression and became homeless, sometimes sleeping in her wheelchair in front of Disneyland.

Paralympic career

Madsen's life turned around when, after attending a National Veterans Games, she was introduced to wheelchair basketball. She took up the sport and began to rebuild her life. The defining point in her recovery came after she fell onto subway tracks in San Francisco and feared that she had broken her neck. This event made her reassess her life as a disabled person, and she decided to live her life to the fullest. She wrote an autobiography, Rowing Against the Wind, published in 2014.

Rowing career

Madsen was introduced to rowing after her wheelchair basketball sponsor invited her to a learn-to-row event in Dana Point. She found she was a natural at the sport and liked that she did not need to use a wheelchair to participate. In 2002, the International Rowing Federation added adaptive rowing to the World Rowing Championships, and Madsen, classified as a trunk-and-arms (TA) competitor, was selected to race at the 2002 World Rowing Championships. She finished in silver place in the single sculls. In the next three years she entered each of the World Championships, winning the gold medal in the doubles sculls in every tournament.

While a competitive rower, Madsen was also enjoying ocean-rowing events, and from her home in California she had access to the Pacific. She began rowing between Newport, California, and Dana Point, and began entering 20-mile races. After Madsen met Louisville Adaptive Rowing Program volunteer Tori Murden, who was the first American to row the Atlantic solo, she became inspired to undertake an ocean journey. Over the following years Madsen took on multiple ocean treks. In 2007, she became the first woman with a disability to row across the Atlantic Ocean. Two years later she became, along with Helen Taylor, one of the first two women to row across the Indian Ocean. Madsen was also part of a team that circumnavigated Great Britain.

In 2008, Madsen represented the United States at her first Summer Paralympics, competing at the 2008 Games in Beijing in the mixed double sculls with William Brown, though they did not progress through the repechage and finished seventh.

Athletics career

Madsen made her first appearance for the United States as a F56 track-and-field athlete in 2011. Her results leading up to the games qualified her for the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, competing in the shot put (F54-56) and javelin throw (F54/55/56). She finished fifth in the javelin, but a throw of 8.88 metres was enough to win her a bronze medal in the shot put. She also competed for the United States at the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, and in 2016, at the Boiling Point Track Classic at the University of Windsor in Canada, Madsen won her shot put event with a distance of 9.43, setting a new world record. Also in July 2016 Madsen was announced as a member of the US team to compete at Rio in the 2016 Summer Paralympics, where she finished eighth in the women's shot put F56/57, and seventh in the women's javelin throw F55/F56.

In November 2014, Madsen received the Athletes in Excellence Award from The Foundation for Global Sports Development in recognition of her community service efforts and work with youth.

She held six Guinness World Records and was working toward another (as the oldest woman and first paraplegic to row across the Pacific alone) at the time of her death.

Personal life

Madsen came out as gay in 1981, while in the US military. She met her wife, Debra, in 2006. In 2015 she was a grand marshal for the Long Beach Pride Parade.[16] Madsen resided in Long Beach, California.

She was found dead nearly halfway into her solo row from Los Angeles to Honolulu on June 22, 2020. The journey was being filmed by Soraya Simi.

Her natal Lilith was 12 Pisces, N.Node 4 Capricorn, and the S.Node 11 Gemini. Her natal Amazon was 00.03 Sagittarius, N.Node 12 Taurus, and the S.Node was 24 Scorpio.

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i thought of sharing an ancient ritual that is celebrated today in my country (and probably others?) that is traditionally seen coming from christianity but its origins are of ancient pagan root of celebration of the Goddess and for me it is the day of celebration of CERES, as it is called the day of the of the ear of wheat (hope i'm making a good translation from the portuguese "dia da espiga")
So for anyone that wishes to also join in their own location, this is a ritual celebrated in the month of May to thank the Goddess for her prosperity (with christianity the day is always a Thursday which in reality is Jupiter's day) and go out in the fields picking a bunch of flowers and crops and save the bunch in our homes until it is renewed the next year at the same time.
Traditionally, the bunch is composed of 5 of each: poppies, marigold, olive branch, rosemary and ear of wheat or other cereals. But there is no rules, we can just get creative pick whatever flowers we like :-)
I found this is such a beautiful simple ritual to celebrate Mother Nature and Her gifts that i thought of sharing!

A beautiful Ceres day to everyone,
Helena

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Here is the chart for Ann Lennox OBE (born 25 December 1954) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving moderate success in the late 1970s as part of the new wave band The Tourists, she and fellow musician Dave Stewart went on to achieve international success in the 1980s as Eurythmics. Appearing in the 1983 music video for "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" with orange cropped hair and wearing a man's business suit, the BBC states, "all eyes were on Annie Lennox, the singer whose powerful androgynous look defied the male gaze". Subsequent hits with Eurythmics include "There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)" and "Here Comes the Rain Again".

Lennox embarked on a solo career in 1992 with her debut album, Diva, which produced several hit singles including "Why" and "Walking on Broken Glass". The same year, she performed "Love Song for a Vampire" for Bram Stoker's Dracula. Her 1995 studio album, Medusa, includes "No More I Love You's" and "A Whiter Shade of Pale". To date, she has released six solo studio albums and a compilation album, The Annie Lennox Collection (2009). With eight Brit Awards, which includes being named Best British Female Artist a record six times, Lennox has been named the "Brits Champion of Champions". She has also collected four Grammy Awards and an MTV Video Music Award. In 2002, Lennox received a Billboard Century Award; the highest accolade from Billboard magazine. In 2004, she received both the Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Into the West", written for the soundtrack to the feature film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

Lennox's vocal range is contralto. She has been named "The Greatest White Soul Singer Alive" by VH1 and one of The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time by Rolling Stone. In 2012, she was rated No. 22 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Music. She has earned the distinction of "most successful female British artist in UK music history". As of June 2008, including her work with Eurythmics, Lennox had sold over 80 million records worldwide. As part of a one-hour symphony of British Music, Lennox performed "Little Bird" during the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony in London. At the 2015 Ivor Novello Awards, Lennox was made a fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, the first woman to receive the honour.

In addition to her career as a musician, Lennox is also a political and social activist, notable for raising money and awareness for HIV/ AIDS as it affects women and children in Africa-this includes her SING Campaign which she launched in 2007. In 2011, Lennox was appointed an OBE by Queen Elizabeth II for her "tireless charity campaigns and championing of humanitarian causes". On 4 June 2012 she performed at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert in front of Buckingham Palace. In 2017, Lennox was appointed Glasgow Caledonian University's first female chancellor.

More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Lennox

Her natal Lilith is 16 Sagittarius, N.Node 23 Sagittarius, S.Node 11 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 22 Sagittarius, N.Node 6 Taurus, S.Node 1 Sagittarius.

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Here is the chart for Luchita Hurtado ([luˈt͡ʃita urˈt̪aðo]; November 28, 1920 - August 13, 2020), born Luisa Amelia García Rodriguez Hurtado, was a Venezuelan-born American painter based in Santa Monica, California, and Arroyo Seco, New Mexico. Born in Venezuela, she moved to the United States as a child. Although she became involved with art after concentrating on the subject in high school and created art over eight decades, she only received broad recognition for her art towards the end of her life. Her work has strong environmental and feminist themes that bridges many genres, bearing influence from different art movements and cultures.

Hurtado was named as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2019.


Early and personal life

Hurtado was born in Maiquetía, Venezuela, on November 28, 1920. Her mother moved from Venezuela to New York with her two sisters and worked as a seamstress. Hurtado and her older sister joined their mother and aunts in New York shortly afterwards in 1928, while their father stayed in Venezuela. She studied fine art at Washington Irving High School, took classes at the Art Students League, and volunteered at La Prensa, a Spanish-language newspaper where she met her first husband, Chilean journalist Daniel de Solar. The couple married when Luchita was 18, and went on to have two children together.  At the invitation of Rafael Trujillo, the then-dictator of the Dominican Republic, Hurtado and de Solar moved to Santo Domingo to start a newspaper. The couple moved back to New York, where they became close with a group of Latin American artists and journalists, such as Rufino Tamayo.

She and de Solar divorced in 1942. She subsequently married Wolfgang Paalen, an artist and collector, after being introduced to him by Isamu Noguchi. Hurtado's son from her first marriage, Pablo, died of polio at age 5. She wanted to have another child, while Paalen did not, so the couple divorced.

During this time, her circle of fellow artists expanded. One such connection she made was with Ailes Gilmour, who had roomed with Hurtado and de Solar when they were still married. Gilmour was the half-sister of Isamu Noguchi, so Noguchi and Hurtado became close, often visiting galleries together.

In 1951, Hurtado moved to Los Angeles with fellow artist Lee Mullican who she would then marry that same decade and remained married until his death in 1998. Together, they had two sons: Matt Mullican, a New York-based artist,[4] and John Mullican, who works as a film director.

Hurtado died on the night of August 13, 2020, at her home in Santa Monica, California. She died of natural causes, just 76 days short of her 100th birthday.

Art career

In 1944, Hurtado made window displays and painted murals for Bloomingdale's. She also began freelance work as an illustrator for Condé Nast and as a muralist for Lord & Taylor in New York. In 1946, she and her second husband Wolfgang Paalen travelled together to Mexico to research pre-Colombian art, and Hurtado took photographs that were later published in 1952 in Cahiers D'Art to accompany an article, "La Plus Aincien Visage du Nouveau Monde".

In the 1970s, Luchita Hurtado founded the feminist group, Los Angeles Council of Women Artists.] In 1972, Hurtado participated in a feminist-focused group exhibition, "Invisible/Visible," at the Long Beach Museum of Art, which was organized by Judy Chicago and Dextra Frankel. Of her work in this exhibition, Frankel described Self Portrait (1971) as "[looking] down and sees herself in a way men never see women"[. In 1974, she had a solo exhibition at the Woman's Building in Los Angeles. Though Hurtado participated and shared feminist beliefs with many groups, when asked to join a West Coast chapter of the Guerilla Girls, she declined.

Outside of her work for Bloomingdale's, Conde Nast, and the two Los Angeles exhibitions she participated in, Hurtado's work was largely unknown until 2015. Ryan Good, former studio director for Lee Mullican, Hurtado's third husband, was cataloguing his estate when he came across a number of paintings signed "LH". Upon asking Hurtado, he learned that she was the artist behind these works. Good showed these paintings to Paul Soto, founder of Park View Gallery, who then launched her second ever solo exhibition, Luchita Hurtado: Selected Works, 1942-1952, which ran from November 12, 2016 - January 7, 2017. From there, her career erupted. Hurtado's work was included in the Hammer Museum's Made in L.A. exhibition in 2018. She was called the "hot new discovery" of the exhibition by the L.A. Times, and generally received extremely favorable critical reception. Eventually her work caught the attention of Hans Ulrich Obrich, a Swiss art curator and artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries in which she had her first international solo exhibition, titled Luchita Hurtado: I Live I Die I Will Be Reborn. She remained active in the arts until her death, with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibiting a key career survey of hers in February 2020. Several visitors asked the curators if her birth date was incorrect because the work seemed contemporary.

Art imagery and reception

Hurtado engaged with different styles and drew elements from 20th-century avantgarde and modernist art movements such as surrealism, abstraction, and magical realism. ]Hurtado incorporated womb imagery into her work long before feminist art would incorporate the same subject matter during the feminist art movement in the late '70s. Among her most well-known works is the "I Am" series of the 1960s; self-portraits that Hurtado painted by looking down at her own body, often in closets as it was the only place she could work in between child-rearing and managing the home. According to the New York Times in recent years, the environmental themes in her work became more specific and urgent, as she took up the issue of climate change. Some of her later paintings and works on paper added block-lettered texts, like "Water Air Earth," "We Are Just a Species, and "Mother Nature," to her signature images of figures in wide, open-armed stances, who seem to be merging with the trees around them. She had said that when it comes to this planet, she hoped that it is not too late for people to make a difference; even if it is a small one, everything counts.Others, reprising her earlier works' top-down perspective, showed globes emerging like infants from the birth canal.

Of her artworks depicting nude women, Christopher Knight, a Los Angeles Time art critic said of her work, "her drawings' loosely Surrealist forms recall dense pictographs from a variety of cultures, ancient and modern. Among them are prehistoric cave paintings, Northwest and Southwest tribal art, pre-Columbian reliefs, and the abstract paintings and sculptures." Senior Curator at the Hammer Museum from 2009-2019 Anne Ellegood said of Hurtado's, "you can imagine how meaningful they were at that time in terms of female artists taking back the ability to represent their own bodies and shifting the so-called male gaze and controlling that gaze."  Novelist and critic Yxta Maya Murray, of Artforum, described her works depicting nude women as being "less about the pleasures and trajectories of the body than about its suspension in otherwise throwaway moments." Writing about her work, curator Hans Ulrich Obrist said that, "[Hurtado's] masterly oeuvre offers an extraordinary perspective that focuses attention on the edges of our bodies and the language that we use to bridge the gap between ourselves and others. By coupling intimate gestures of the body with expansive views of the sky and the earth, Luchita maps a visceral connective tissue between us all."

Despite receiving belated recognition for her work, Hurtado did not harbor feelings of resentment towards that fact. In a 2019 interview with fellow artist Andrea Bowers for the magazine Ursula, she said, "I don't feel anger, I really don't. I feel, you know: 'How stupid of them.' Maybe the people who were looking at what I was doing had no eye for the future and, therefore, no eye for the present."

Her natal Lilith is 3 Capricorn, N.Node 10 Sagittarius, S.Node 17 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 25 Sagittarius, N.Node 1 Gemini, S.Node 18 Scorpio.

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Here is the chart for Marie Louise Cruz (born November 14, 1946), known as Sacheen Littlefeather, is an American actress, model and activist for Native American civil rights, best remembered for representing Marlon Brando at the 45th Academy Awards in 1973 to decline the Best Actor award for his performance in The Godfather. The favorite to win, Brando boycotted the ceremony in protest of Hollywood's portrayal of Native Americans and to draw attention to the standoff at Wounded Knee. During her speech, the audience response to Brando's boycotting was divided between jeers and applause.

Littlefeather was born in Salinas, California, to a Native American father and European American mother. During the 1969 occupation of Alcatraz, she became active in the Native American activist community. After the Academy Award speech, she went on to work in hospice care. She continues to work in activism for a number of health-related and Native American issues, and has produced films about Native Americans.

More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacheen_Littlefeather and https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/03/i-promised-brando-i-would-not-touch-his-oscar-secret-life-sacheen-littlefeather

Her natal Lilith is 4 Capricorn, N.Node is 13 Sagittarius, S.Node is 11 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 2 Virgo, N.Node is 23 Taurus, and the S.Node is 22 Scorpio.

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Here is the chart for Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading,  born 9 December 1950) is a Kittitian-English singer-songwriter and guitarist.

A three-time Grammy Award nominee, Armatrading has also been nominated twice for BRIT Awards as Best Female Artist. She received an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contemporary Song Collection in 1996.

In a recording career spanning nearly 50 years, Armatrading has released 19 studio albums, as well as several live albums and compilations.   

Early life

Joan Armatrading, the third of six children, was born in 1950 in the town of Basseterre in what was then the British colony Saint Christopher and Nevis. Her father was a carpenter and her mother a housewife. When she was three years old, her parents moved with their two eldest boys to Birmingham in England, sending Joan to live with her grandmother on the Caribbean island of Antigua. In early 1958, at the age of seven, she joined her parents in Brookfields, then a district of Birmingham. (The area, now mostly demolished, has been absorbed into the district of Hockley.) Her father had played in a band in his youth, later forbidding his children from touching his guitar. At about the age of 14 Armatrading began writing songs by setting her own limericks to music on a piano that her mother had purchased as "a piece of furniture". Shortly thereafter, her mother bought her a £3 guitar (equivalent to £59 in 2019)[13] from a pawn shop in exchange for two prams, and she began teaching herself the instrument.

Armatrading left school at the age of 15 to help support her family.[3][4] She lost her first job (as a typist and comptometer operator) after taking her guitar to work and playing it during tea-breaks.

Career

Armatrading first performed in a concert at Birmingham University for her brother at the age of about 16. She only knew her own songs, but her brother asked her to perform something that would be familiar to the audience; she chose "The Sound of Silence". She then performed her own songs around the local area with a friend from school, and played bass- and rhythm-guitar at local clubs. In 1968 Armatrading joined a touring production of the stage musical Hair.[6] There she met the lyricist Pam Nestor in 1970, and they worked together on Armatrading's debut album Whatever's for Us, released by Cube Records in 1972. Nestor wrote the lyrics to 11 of the 14 songs on the album, while Armatrading wrote the lyrics to three of them, performed all the vocals, wrote all the music and played an array of instruments on the album. Although Nestor was credited as co-lyricist, Cube regarded Armatrading as the more likely star material. These events produced a tension that broke up the partnership.[citation needed]

On 28 November 1972 Armatrading appeared on the BBC Radio 1 John Peel Show performing "Head of the Table", "Spend A Little Time", "Child Star" and "Whatever's For Us". She sang and played acoustic guitar and piano. In 1973 Cube released on the Fly label (catalogue: Bug 31) Armatrading's first single, "Lonely Lady" (with lyrics by Nestor), a song that had not been included on the album. It proved unsuccessful in the charts, and a period of inactivity for Armatrading followed while she extricated herself from her contract with Cube Records. The single was subsequently withdrawn by Cube and re-released as a promotional single in the US by Armatrading's new label A&M Records, the same year (as A&M1452). In January 1974 she appeared again on the John Peel Show. Performing "Some Sort Of Love Song", "Lonely Lady" and "Freedom", she again sang and played acoustic guitar and piano, but was accompanied by supporting musicians Snowy White (guitar), Mike Tomich (bass) and Brian Glassock (drums).

In 1975 Armatrading was free to sign with A&M Records, and issued the album Back to the Night, which was promoted[by whom?] on tour with six-piece English jazz-pop group The Movies. Armatrading credited English singer Elkie Brooks on the sleeve notes as she had cooked for Armatrading and the band in the studio while they had been making the album, which was produced by Brooks' then husband Pete Gage. A major publicity relaunch in 1976 and the involvement of producer Glyn Johns propelled her next album, Joan Armatrading, into the Top 20 and spawned the Top-10 hit single "Love and Affection". The album mixed acoustic work with jazz-influenced material, and this style was retained for the 1977 follow-up Show Some Emotion, also produced by Glyn Johns, as was 1978's To the Limit. These albums included songs which continue to be staples of Armatrading's live shows, including "Willow", "Down to Zero", "Tall in the Saddle", and "Kissin' and a Huggin'". Also at this time Armatrading wrote and performed "The Flight of the Wild Geese", which was used during the opening- and end-titles of the 1978 war film The Wild Geese. The song was included on the soundtrack album for the film, originally released by A&M Records, later released under licence as a Cinephile DVD. A live album entitled Steppin' Out was released in 1979.

Between 1972 and 1976 Armatrading made a total of eight appearances in session for the John Peel show, and the decade saw her become the first Black British female singer-songwriter to enjoy international success.

Armatrading appeared as the musical guest for Season 2, episode 21 of NBC's Saturday Night Live, which originally aired on 14 May 1977. She performed "Love and Affection" and "Down to Zero".

More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Armatrading and https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jun/17/joan-armatrading-consequences-review-strikingly-inventive-songwriter-deserves-her-due

Her natal Lilith is 26 Sagittarius, N.Node 19 Sagittarius, S.Node 25 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is
14 Aries, N.Node 11 Taurus, S.Node 27 Scorpio.

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Here is the chart for Ellen Gallagher (born December 16, 1965) is an American artist. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions and is held in the permanent collections of many major museums. Her media include painting, works on paper, film and video. Some of her pieces refer to issues of race, and may combine formality with racial stereotypes and depict "ordering principles" society imposes. 

Background and education

Gallagher was born on December 16, 1965, in Providence, Rhode Island. Referred to as African American, she is of biracial ethnicity; her father's heritage was from Cape Verde, in Western Africa (but he was born in the United States), and her mother's background was Caucasian Irish Catholic. Gallagher's mother was a working-class Irish-American and her father was a professional boxer.

In Rhode Island, Gallagher attended Moses Brown, an elite, Quaker college preparatory school. At sixteen, Gallagher entered her first year at Oberlin College in Ohio (1982–1984) and studied writing. Gallagher did not finish her education at Oberlin College and ended up joining a carpenters' union in Seattle. Before her art career, Gallagher worked as a commercial fisherman in Alaska and Maine. In 1989 she attended Studio 70 in Fort Thomas, Kentucky, before earning a degree in fine arts from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 1992. Her art education further continued in 1993 at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine.

Career

Gallagher gained recognition as an artist in 1995. Prior to her Gagosian showing, Gallagher had solo shows at Mary Boone in Soho, New York, and Anthony D'Offay in London. As her first solo show in New York, Gallagher chose Mary Boone's space because of its neutrality, in which she stated, "because there the abstract qualities of my work stand out first".

More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Gallagher

Her natal Lilith is 26 Cancer, N.Node 21 Sagittarius, S.Node 18 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 25 Scorpio. N.Node 9 Taurus, S.Node 29 Scorpio.

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Hi All.

Here is the chart for Diana, Princess of Wales (born Diana Frances Spencer; 1 July 1961, 7:45 PM, Sandringham, England, United Kingdom – 31 August 1997), was a member of the British royal family. She was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales—the heir apparent to the British throne—and mother of Prince William and Prince Harry. Diana's activism and glamour made her an international icon and earned her enduring popularity as well as unprecedented public scrutiny, exacerbated by her tumultuous private life. Her legacy has had a deep impact on the royal family and British society.

Diana was born into the British nobility and grew up close to the royal family on their Sandringham estate. In 1981, while working as a nursery teacher's assistant, she became engaged to Prince Charles, the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II. Their wedding took place at St Paul's Cathedral in 1981 and made her Princess of Wales, a role in which she was enthusiastically received by the public. The couple had two sons, William and Harry, who were then second and third in the line of succession to the British throne. Diana's marriage to Charles, however, suffered due to their incompatibility and extramarital affairs. They separated in 1992, soon after the breakdown of their relationship became public knowledge. The details of their marital difficulties became increasingly publicised, and the marriage ended in divorce in 1996. Diana died the next year in a car crash in Paris, leading to extensive public mourning and global media attention.

As Princess of Wales, Diana undertook royal duties on behalf of the Queen and represented her at functions across the Commonwealth realms. She was celebrated in the media for her unconventional approach to charity work. Her patronages initially centred on children and youth but she later became known for her involvement with AIDS patients and campaigning for the removal of landmines. She also raised awareness and advocated ways to help people affected with cancer and mental illness. The Princess was initially noted for her shyness, but her charisma and friendliness endeared her to the public and helped her reputation survive the acrimonious collapse of her marriage. Considered to be very photogenic, she was a leader of fashion in the 1980s and 1990s.

More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana,_Princess_of_Wales

Her natal Lilith is 2 Cancer, N.Node 12 Sagittarius, S.Node 26 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 2 Pisces. N.Node 3 Gemini, and the S.Node is 6 Scorpio.

Please feel free to comment or ask questions.

Goddess Bless, Rad

[Helena]

Hi Rad,

just one question relative to Princess Diana, i remember (don't know if correctly) seeing an old thread where there was the study of Diana and Queen Elizabeth's chart mentioning that they were in fact the same soul, i can't find the thread though, is it still accessible?

Helena

[Rad]

Hi Helena,

I have no recollection of that, and do not know where that thread would be if at all.

God Bless, Rad

[Rad]

Hi All,

I am posting the chart of Jesuit priest whose name is Rev. Stan Swamy from India. His birth date is 26 April 1937, in Madras India.

Here is his story.

                                            A Jailed Priest's Death in India Stirs Outrage

The Rev. Stan Swamy was among more than a dozen activists jailed under a broad antiterrorism law that critics say is used to stifle dissent.

NY Times
July 10 2021

July 5, 2021

NEW DELHI — A Jesuit priest and activist with Parkinson's disease, whose high-profile arrest  was seen as an example of the broad scope of the Indian government's unpopular antiterrorism law, died on Monday still in custody at a hospital in Mumbai, his lawyer said.

The Rev. Stan Swamy — at 84 the oldest person to be accused of terrorism in India — was arrested last October under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, which critics say is meant to stifle dissent. His detention incited widespread accusations of government cruelty.

Rights activists and other critics say the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has used the act and the coronavirus pandemic as a pretext to round up government critics and silence activists who are protesting what they see as the government's iron-fisted and anti-minority policies.

A number of academics, writers and poets are being held under antiterrorism laws that have been used to criminalize everything from leading rallies to posting political messages on social media.

Nearly all of the accused remained imprisoned throughout the pandemic, even as India temporarily released thousands of other prisoners out of concern that they were likely to acquire the virus while in custody.

In October, just after his arrest, Father Swamy recorded a video that was uploaded to YouTube.

"Because of my age, I have certain ailments," he said. "This is something that I am communicating to them and let us hope that some human sense will prevail."

Father Swamy's trembling hands — characteristic of many with Parkinson's — made it difficult for him to eat and drink and he formally asked the court to give him a sippy cup and straw. After a month that was granted.

But the priest's repeated requests for bail, which cited his frail health, were denied. In May, when Father Swamy became very ill, he was moved to a private hospital, where he was found to have Covid-19. That is where he died, his lawyer, Mihir Desai, said.

Father Swamy lived in the mineral-rich but largely impoverished state of Jharkhand in eastern India. For half a century, he was an advocate for Jharkhand's tribal Adivasi people, pitting himself against big mining companies and the public officials behind them, and other marginalized groups, including the Dalits, the lowest in Hinduism's caste hierarchy.

As industrialization reached Jharkhand in the 1980s, Father Swamy set up a center dedicated to social activism, particularly the protection of Adivasis' legal rights to land and water.

"He was a champion of the poor and the voiceless," Stany D'Souza, a fellow Jesuit, said during an online memorial on Monday.

The son of farmers in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, Father Swamy was sent to Jharkhand as a teenage Jesuit novice.

"He fell in love with the Adivasi way of life: their egalitarianism, their consensus-based decision-making, their closeness and their contentment," said Tony PM, another Jesuit priest who worked with Father Swamy in Jharkhand.

But last October, members of India's counterterrorism task force entered Father Swamy's communal home in Ranchi, the capital of Jharkhand, and took him to a prison in Mumbai, India's financial capital.

He was among more than a dozen people who were arrested under India's sweeping antiterrorism act. Their arrests stem from an event that began as a commemoration of a 200-year-old Dalit military victory but spiraled into communal violence that left one person dead.

Father Swamy and more than a dozen other activists were accused of inflammatory speech and of ties to Maoist insurgents who have been fighting the Indian state for decades.

Father Swamy denied the charges, but he along with the others accused were kept in detention as the investigation into the so-called Koregaon Bhima case dragged on.

"This is inhuman," Justice Madan Bhimarao Lokur, a former judge on India's Supreme Court, said during the memorial. "I have been watching for two years now the pulverization of human rights. It has been a downhill slide and it has culminated in today's tragic death."

Hundreds of tributes — from condolences to condemnation — were made on Twitter, including from Rahul Gandhi, the leader of India's main opposition party, the Congress party.

Eamon Gilmore, the European Union's special representative for Human Rights, said that the E.U. had repeatedly raised the priest's case with the authorities.

Mary Lawlor, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights defenders, condemned his jailing. "The news from India today," she posted on Twitter, "is devastating."

For more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Swamy

His natal Lilith is 5 Sagittarius, N.Node is 7 Capricorn, S.Node is 7 Gemini. His natal Amazon is 3 Sagittarius, N.Node 18 Taurus, and the S.Node 29 Scorpio.

Feel free to comment or ask questions.

Goddess Bless, Rad

[dollydaydream]

Hi Helena, here is the bi-wheel chart of Princess Diana and her previous life as Elizabeth 1st of England.  I downloaded it from the MB a couple of years ago. DDD

[Nerissa]

Hi Rad,

just one question relative to Princess Diana, i remember (don't know if correctly) seeing an old thread where there was the study of Diana and Queen Elizabeth's chart mentioning that they were in fact the same soul, i can't find the thread though, is it still accessible?

Helena

Hi Helena,
I recall this too & with a cursory search of 'Princess Diana' there is a reference to this in the 2012 post by 'Gray' under the 'Group practice' stating he enjoyed the correlations/discussion about Diana & Elizabeth - I, too, thought that it was confirmed that one of Diana's previous lives was Elizabeth & she had one inbetween the two.....but, again, it cannot be found to confirm, there's nothing much but posts that reference the original discussion.