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Asteroid Goddesses - the undistorted Natural/Divine Feminine

Started by Linda, Sep 06, 2010, 05:48 PM

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Nerissa

Thanks Rad - that noon chart would make some sense - I was going to try to understand this opposition better but without the houses - not sure.

Regardless it seems we've a right/left brain - intuition/faith/thought/action dynamic with the Mars placement & Neptune/Virgo

And that Mercury (Neptune Ruler) square the axis (AQ/Leo) - & applying to AQ - well, the development of objectivity (which with a heavy Aries nature can be challenging) - & her Sun - both the ruler of Pluto AND the NN - & Uranus (SN ruler) - conjunct in Gemini!

And it's there near the nodes of Uranus - she seems to exemplify the ability to merge individual life/will with God's will & use her mind in both left/right brain to then utilize her knowledge, experience, in a scientific manner to the end goal: protection of what is natural.

I still am not sure what needed to be 'thrown off' though - the 'flip-flop' between right/left brain, intellect/intuition...  - ?

Could you use her chart/life to elucidate how/what needs to be 'thrown off' with regard to her Mars/Neptune opposition - ?

I was wondering if you'd an idea of what her evolutionary state could be- ?

Thank you, Rad!



Rad

Hi Nerissa,

I have not had any time to really look into her life so can't really comment in detail about what her Soul is needing to throw off in order for her evolution to proceed. At minimum however it has something to do with how she puts her ideas/thoughts together that comprises her empirical understanding that generates the rationalizations for her and other peoples behavior: how she explains to herself and others that which convinces her of the truth of whatever phenomena she is focused on at whatever moment in time.   

God Bless, Rad

Rad

Hi All,

I ran across an article in the Guardian newspaper about a new movie that has been made about Princess Diana wherein the actress Kristen Stewart plays her. The article is very, very striking in how Stewart experienced a sense of Diana's presence while making this.

Here is that article:

Kristen Stewart felt Princess Diana gave her 'sign off' for Spencer role

Actor who plays the Princess of Wales in critically lauded drama says there were moments during the shoot when it felt as if Diana was 'trying to break through'

Andrew Pulver
Guardian
Thu 9 Sep 2021 10.43 BST

Kristen Stewart has spoken about getting a "sign-off" from Diana, Princess of Wales for her performance in the biopic Spencer, recently premiered to considerable acclaim at the Venice and Telluride film festivals.

In an interview with the LA Times after the film's North American premiere at Telluride, Stewart said she had some "spooky, spiritual feelings making this movie", which takes place over three days during the 1991 Christmas break, when Diana was staying at Sandringham house. "Even if I was just fantasising. I felt like there were moments where I kind of got the sign-off."

Stewart added: "[Diana] felt so alive to me when I was making this movie, even if it's all between the ears and it was just a fantasy of mine. But there were moments where my body and mind would forget she was dead."

"It was ... a fight to keep her alive every day, and so remembering that she was dead was just absolutely lacerating. It just destroyed me constantly. And that itself felt spiritual ... there were times where I was like, 'Oh, God,' almost like she was, you know, trying to break through. It was weird. And amazing. I've never felt anything like it in my life."

Spencer, directed by Chilean film-maker Pablo Larraìn, has been widely praised since its world premiere at the Venice film festival on Friday. In a five star review, the Guardian's Xan Brooks called it "rich and intoxicating and altogether magnificent", while the Daily Telegraph, in another five-star review, described it as "thrillingly gutsy, seductive, uninhibited film-making".

After its Venice screening, Stewart told a press conference of her admiration for and empathy with Diana, saying: "We haven't had many of those people throughout history. Diana stands out just as a sparkly house on fire." 

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This kind of connection between Souls occurs though what can be called hyperspace. Hyperspace is that place where the astral realms and our physical realm interface. It is also that realm in which a Soul can communicate with another Soul within the physical realm itself. Hyperspace correlates with Aquarius, Uranus, and the 11th House.

So I thought it would be interesting to look at their chart together to see the EA astrology between them. I am attaching their individual charts, the synastry charts between them, and their composite. I am also attaching  some pictures of each of them, and a photo of Stewart as she appears in this new movie.

Diana's natal Lilith Diana 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 6 Scorpio.

Kristen's natal Lilith is 1 Aquarius, N.Node 9 Capricorn, and the  S.Node is 2 Gemini. Her Amazon is 21 Aquarius, N.Node 14 Taurus, S.Node 5 Sagittarius.

Here is a link the the trailer for this movie: https://youtu.be/-9DKkF7Wmww

Please feel free to make comments or ask questions about what you  see in their connections.

Goddess Bless, Rad


Rad

pictures ... and composite chart

Rad

Hi All

Here is the chart for Anna Pauline "Pauli" Murray (November 20, 1910 – July 1, 1985) was an American civil rights activist who became a lawyer, women's rights activist, Episcopal priest, and author. Drawn to the ministry in 1977, Murray was the first African-American woman to be ordained as an Episcopal priest, in the first year that any women were ordained by that church.]

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Murray was virtually orphaned when young, and she was raised mostly by her maternal grandparents in Durham, North Carolina. At the age of 16, she moved to New York City to attend Hunter College, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1933. In 1940, Murray sat in the whites-only section of a Virginia bus with a friend, and they were arrested for violating state segregation laws. This incident, and her subsequent involvement with the socialist Workers' Defense League, led her to pursue her career goal of working as a civil rights lawyer. She enrolled in the law school at Howard University, where she was the only woman in her class. Murray graduated first in her class, but she was denied the chance to do post-graduate work at Harvard University because of her gender. She called such prejudice against women "Jane Crow", alluding to the Jim Crow laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. She earned a master's degree in law at University of California, Berkeley, and in 1965 she became the first African American to receive a Doctor of Juridical Science degree from Yale Law School.

As a lawyer, Murray argued for civil rights and women's rights. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Chief Counsel Thurgood Marshall called Murray's 1950 book, States' Laws on Race and Color, the "bible" of the civil rights movement. Murray was appointed by President John F. Kennedy to serve on the 1961–1963 Presidential Commission on the Status of Women. In 1966, she was a co-founder of the National Organization for Women. Ruth Bader Ginsburg named Murray as a coauthor of a brief on the 1971 case Reed v. Reed, in recognition of her pioneering work on gender discrimination. This case articulated the "failure of the courts to recognize sex discrimination for what it is and its common features with other types of arbitrary discrimination." Murray held faculty or administrative positions at the Ghana School of Law, Benedict College, and Brandeis University.

In 1973, Murray left academia for activities associated with the Episcopal Church. She became an ordained priest in 1977, among the first generation of women priests. Murray struggled in her adult life with issues related to her sexual and gender identity, describing herself as having an "inverted sex instinct". She had a brief, annulled marriage to a man and several deep relationships with women. In her younger years, she occasionally had passed as a teenage boy. A number of scholars, including a 2017 biographer, have retroactively classified her as transgender. In addition to her legal and advocacy work, Murray published two well-reviewed autobiographies and a volume of poetry. Her volume of poetry, Dark Testament, was republished in 2018.

More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_Murray and https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/sep/17/how-is-pauli-murray-not-a-household-name-the-extraordinary-life-of-the-uss-most-radical-activist

Her natal Lilith is 7 Scorpio, N.Node 13 Sagittarius, S.Node 13 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 11 Taurus, N.Node 25 Taurus, and the S.Node 21 Scorpio.

Please feel free to comment or ask questions.

Goddess Bless, Rad

Rad

Hi All,

Here is the chart for Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg born 3 January 2003 is a Swedish environmental activist who is known for challenging world leaders to take immediate action for climate change mitigation. Thunberg initially gained notice for her youth and her straightforward speaking manner, both in public and to political leaders and assemblies, in which she criticises world leaders for their failure to take what she considers sufficient action to address the climate crisis.

Thunberg's activism began by persuading her parents to adopt lifestyle choices that reduced their own carbon footprint. In August 2018, at age 15, she started spending her school days outside the Swedish Parliament to call for stronger action on climate change by holding up a sign reading Skolstrejk för klimatet (School strike for climate). Soon other students engaged in similar protests in their own communities. Together they organised a school climate strike movement under the name Fridays for Future. After Thunberg addressed the 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference, student strikes took place every week somewhere in the world. In 2019, there were multiple coordinated multi-city protests involving over a million students each. To avoid energy-intensive flying, Thunberg sailed to North America where she attended the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit. Her speech there, in which she exclaimed "How dare you", was widely taken up by the press and incorporated into music.

Her sudden rise to world fame made her both a leader in the activist community and a target for critics, especially due to her age. Her influence on the world stage has been described by The Guardian and other newspapers as the "Greta effect". She received numerous honours and awards, including an honorary Fellowship of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, inclusion in Time's 100 most influential people, being the youngest Time Person of the Year, inclusion in the Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women (2019), and three consecutive nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize (2019–2021).

More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Thunberg and https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2021/sep/25/greta-thunberg-i-really-see-the-value-of-friendship-apart-from-the-climate-almost-nothing-else-matters and https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/sep/24/people-in-99-countries-take-part-in-global-climate-strike

Her natal Lilith 27 Sagittarius, N.Node 25 Sagittarius, S.Node 5 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 11 Aries, N.Node 5 Taurus, and the S.Node 3 Sagittarius.

Please feel free to comment or ask questions.

Goddess Bless, Rad

Rad

Hi All,

Here is the chart for Gail Omvedt (2 August 1941 – 25 August 2021) was an American-born Indian sociologist and human rights activist. She was a prolific writer and published numerous books on the anti-caste movement, Dalit politics, and women's struggles in India. Omvedt was involved in Dalit and anti-caste movements, environmental, farmers' and women's movements, especially with rural women.

Omvedt's dissertation was titled Cultural Revolt in a Colonial Society: The Non-Brahman Movement in Western India, 1873-1930.

Omvedt's academic writing includes numerous books and articles on class, caste and gender issues. Besides undertaking many research projects, she was a consultant for FAO, UNDP and NOVIB and served as a Dr Ambedkar Chair Professor at NISWASS in Orissa, a professor of sociology at the University of Pune and an Asian guest professor at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen. She was a senior fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library and research director of the Krantivir Babuji Patankar Sanstha.
 
Biography

Gail Omvedt was born in Minneapolis, and studied at Carleton College and at UC Berkeley where she earned her PhD in sociology in 1973. When she went to India for the first time in 1963~64, she was an English tutor on a Fulbright Fellowship. She was an Indian citizen since 1983. She lived in rural India in a town in Maharashtra called Kasegaon with her husband, Bharat Patankar, her mother-in-law Indumati Patankar and cousins.

In the years before her death she was working as a consulting sociologist on gender, environment and rural development, for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Oxfam Novib (NOVIB) and other institutions. She was a consultant for UN agencies and NGOs, served as a Dr. Ambedkar Chair Professor at NISWASS in Orissa, a Professor of Sociology at the University of Pune, as Asian Guest Professor at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen and as a Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. She was a Visiting Professor and Coordinator, School of Social Justice, University of Pune and a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. Gail Omvedt was a former Chair Professor for the Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Chair of Social Change and Development at IGNOU. Omvedt died on 25 August 2021 in Maharashtra at the age of 80.

Activism

Omvedt worked with social movements in India, including the Dalit and anti-caste movements, environmental movements, farmers' movements and especially with rural women. She was active in Shramik Mukti Dal, Stri Mukti Sangarsh Chalval which works on issues of abandoned women in Sangli and Satara districts of southern Maharashtra, and the Shetkari Mahila Aghadi, which works on issues of women's land rights and political power.

Views

Gail Omvedt was an Ambedkarite scholar who contributed immensely to anti-caste movement. Omvedt was critical of the religious scriptures of Hinduism (or what she specifically regarded as "brahminism") for what she argued is their promotion of a caste-based society.

In addition to her criticism of their purported advocacy for the caste-system, Omvedt also dismissed the Hindu tradition of venerating the Vedas as holy. In a 2000 open letter published in The Hindu addressed to then-BJP President Bangaru Laxman, she gave her perspective on the Rigveda:

    As for the Vedas, they are impressive books, especially the Rg Veda. I can only say this only from translations, but I am glad that the ban on women and shudras reading them has been broken, and that good translations by women and shudras themselves are available. But to take them as something holy? Read them for yourself! Most of the hymns are for success in war, cattle- stealing, love-making and the like. They celebrate conquest; the hymns about Indra and Vrtra sound suspiciously as if the Aryans were responsible for smashing dams built by the Indus valley people; though archeologists tell us there is no evidence for direct destruction by "Aryan invasion", the Rg Veda gives evidence of enmity between the Aryans and those they called dasyus, panis and the like.

Omvedt posits that Hindutva groups foster an ethnic definition of Hinduism based on geography, ancestry and heritage in order to create a solidarity amongst various castes, despite the prevalence of caste-based discrimination.

Omvedt endorsed the stand taken by Dalit activists at the 2001 World Conference Against Racism that caste discrimination is similar to racism in regarding discriminated groups as "biologically inferior and socially dangerous".

She called the United States a "racist country" and has advocated for affirmative action; however, she compared American positive-discrimination policies favorably to those of India, stating:

    It is a sad comment on the state of Indian industrialists' social consciousness that such discussions have begun in an organised way in the U.S. before they have been thought of in India itself.

and, with respect to perceptions of "group performance", in the United States and India, Omvedt wrote:

    Whereas the U.S. debate assumes an overall equal distribution of capacity among social groups, in India the assumption seems to be that the unequal showing of different caste groups on examinations, in education, etc. is a result of actual different capacities.

She on occasion supported big-dam projects[20] and GMO crops.

Controversy and criticism

Andre Beteille's criticism

Omvedt's portrayal of caste-discrimination and violence as forms of "racism" was opposed by the Indian government and sociologists in India, including Andre Beteille, who while acknowledging that discrimination exists, deeply opposed treating caste as a form of racism "simply to protect against prejudice and discrimination", describing such attempts as "politically mischievous" and "worse, scientifically nonsense". Beteille argues (that):

    In the past, some groups claimed superior rights on the ground that they belonged to the Aryan race or the Teutonic race. The anthropologists rejected such claims on two grounds: first, on the ground that within the same human species no race is superior to any other; but also on the ground that there is no such thing as an Aryan race or a Teutonic race. We cannot throw out the concept of race by the front door when it is misused for asserting social superiority and bring it in again through the back door to misuse it in the cause of the oppressed. The metaphor of race is a dangerous weapon whether it is used for asserting white supremacy or for making demands on behalf of disadvantaged groups.

Marxist critique

Omvedt was criticized for a perceived "anti-statist" bias in her writing as well as "neo-liberal" economic sympathies. Scholars have also questioned the sincerity of her claims regarding the "authenticity" of her work, writing:

    In this paragraph, Omvedt is transformed from dangerous American outsider to revolutionary insider, player of a song proclaiming: 'We will cut the throats of the rich!' The chapter strategically ends with these words, which, written and sung though they are by anonymous labourers, can be heard only through Omvedt's (technological) agency. The rest, as they say, is history. The remainder of the book unsubtly suggests what Omvedt does not say explicitly--that she has accepted the leadership role thrust upon her by the initially skeptical masses.

More: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/sep/29/gail-omvedt-us-sociologist-who-lived-by-her-principles-among-indias-poor

Her natal Lilith is 3 Scorpio, N.Node 3 Sagittarius, S.Node 5 Cancer. Her natal Amazon is 3 Virgo, N.Node 9 Gemini, and the S.Node 4 Scorpio.

Please feel free to comment or ask questions.

Goddess Bless, Rad


Rad

Hi All

Here is the chart for Altheia Jones-LeCointe (born 9 January 1945) is a Trinidadian physician and research scientist also known for her role as a leader of the British Black Panther Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Jones-LeCointe came to public attention in 1970 as one of the nine protestors, known as the Mangrove Nine, arrested and tried on charges that included conspiracy to incite a riot, following a protest against repeated police raids of The Mangrove restaurant in Notting Hill, London. They were all acquitted of the most serious charges and the trial became the first judicial acknowledgement of behaviour (the repeated raids) motivated by racial hatred, rather than legitimate crime control, within the Metropolitan Police.   

Early life and education

Born Altheia Jones in 1945 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, she was one of the three daughters of Viola Jones, a Port of Spain dressmaker and clothes shop proprietor, and Dunstan Jones, the principal of a government school. Her parents also held local leadership roles in the People's National Movement during her childhood.[6] She attended St George's College in Barataria, where she was regarded by her chemistry teacher as "a vibrant, sparkling girl of exceptional ability". In 1965, she left Trinidad to complete a PhD in biochemistry at University College London.

Political activism

While studying in London, Jones-LeCointe became involved in community organising against racism and for the rights of people of African and Asian heritage in the UK. She worked as a teacher and organiser in the Universal Coloured Peoples' Association (UCPA).

After the arrest and departure of Obi Egbuna in 1968, Jones-LeCointe became a central and leading figure of the British Black Panther Movement. She recruited a central core of activists into the movement, including Darcus Howe and Eddie LeCointe. Eddie LeCointe, her husband, was also a leading figure of the British Black Panther Movement.

Jones-LeCointe was a Panther teacher; she spoke at schools and taught classes in anti-colonialism. Poet Linton Kwesi Johnson joined the Black Panther Youth league after seeing Jones-LeCointe debate at his sixth-form. In an interview with The Guardian, Johnson describes Jones-LeCointe as "perhaps the most remarkable woman I've ever met".

Notable achievements

Jones-LeCointe played a key role in ensuring that defending black women and girls was at the core of the movement. This included building structures into the organisation to ensure that men suspected of the abuse or exploitation of women were interrogated and punished if found guilty. W. Chris Johnson, writing in Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges (edited by Miescher, Mitchell and Shibusawa, 2015), states: "Jones-LeCointe's authority, and her energetic pursuit of justice, unsettled Panthers who did not see anti-sexism as an intrinsic part of revolutionary praxis."

Under her leadership, the Panthers' influence and reach in the community increased considerably. They produced a newspaper, Freedom News; led campaigns against police brutality and discrimination in employment, housing and education; and ran sessions to encourage black people to study books by radical authors. By the 1970s, Jones-LeCointe had led the recruitment of more than 3,000 people to the British Black Panther Movement.
Influence and impact

Jones-LeCointe is considered by academics and her contemporaries to be the leader of the British Black Panther Movement. According to the British Black Panthers' official photographer Neil Kenlock: "Althea (sic) never called herself the leader, but she led us." Jones-LeCointe says: "I don't know how I've suddenly become 'a leader,'" she recalls, "we didn't recognize those categories ... we believed in collective leadership."

As part of the Mangrove Nine, Jones-LeCointe and her fellow activists successfully defended themselves and for the first time, spoke about racism in the Metropolitan Police on an official platform - the courtroom. Their arguments and their win, led to the formation of the notable 1976 Race Relations Act.

Jones-LeCointe was one of the nine protesters arrested and tried in what has since been described as "Britain's most influential black power trial", and by Bryan Knight of The Guardian as "one the most significant legal cases in British history."

In 1969 and 1970, The Mangrove restaurant in Notting Hill became the target of repeated police raids. The police claimed the restaurant was a hub for criminal activity, despite a lack of evidence found. A march was organised by local Panthers and community leaders to demand police get their "hands off The Mangrove".

The March

On Sunday, 9 August 1970, an estimated 150 people took part in the protest. Jones-LeCointe and Howe addressed the demonstrators outside the restaurant. Jones-LeCointe spoke on community self-help and rights for British citizens.

The protesters were flanked and monitored by hundreds of police officers, with the estimated number of police officers ranging from 200 to 700. The heavy-handed policing led to clashes in the crowd.

During the march, Jones-LeCointe was coming to the aid of an injured woman when she was seized by three police constables and carried to a van.

The Trial

Jones-LeCointe and Howe made the decision to represent themselves in the trial. They also argued for an all-black jury to deliberate on the case — however, this was denied. Nonetheless, the Mangrove Nine successfully rooted their defending arguments in class struggle and thereby showed that they had a shared struggle with Britain's working-class community against institutionally oppressive government structures. In her closing speech, Jones-LeCointe pointed out the persecution of the black community by the police in Notting Hill.

In December 1971, the jury found the defendants not guilty of the most serious charge of conspiracy to incite a riot, which marked a turning point for racial justice in the UK and the recognition of systemic racism within British institutions. The jury asked for more lenient sentencing as Jones-LeCointe was pregnant. Jones-LeCointe and three others were convicted of assault. Judge Clarke suspended the sentences.

Depiction in the media

Jones-LeCointe appears in the 1973 Franco Rosso and John La Rose documentary film The Mangrove Nine.

In 2017, Jones-LeCointe's role in the British Black Panther Movement gained renewed interest following the release of Sky Atlantic drama miniseries Guerrilla, inspired by the emergence of British Black Power.

Guyanese/English actress Letitia Wright portrays Jones-LeCointe in the Mangrove episode of Steve McQueen's 2020 film anthology/television miniseries Small Axe.

Alongside Ian Macdonald QC – as well as Selma James, who was a witness in the Mangrove Nine case – Jones-LeCointe features in the documentary How the Mangrove Nine Won, a first-hand account of the case, filmed in 2016 and launched in November 2020 by Global Women's Strike as a fundraiser for the Haitian Emergency Relief Fund.Medical career

Jones-LeCointe is a medical researcher and practises as a haematologist in Britain and Trinidad.

Her natal Lilith is 15 Libra, N.Node 27 Sagittarius, S.Node 2 Gemini. Her natal Amazon is 00.33 Aries, N.Node 4 Taurus, and the S.Node  is 4 Sagittarius.

Please feel free to comment or ask questions.

Goddess Bless, Rad

Rad

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Here is the chart for Sally Rooney (born 20 February 1991) is an Irish author and screenwriter. She has published three novels: Conversations with Friends (2017), Normal People (2018), and Beautiful World, Where Are You (2021). Normal People was adapted into a 2020 television series by Hulu and the BBC. Rooney's work has garnered critical acclaim and commercial success, and she is regarded as one of the foremost millennial writers.     

Early life and education

Rooney was born in Castlebar, County Mayo, in 1991, and grew up there.] Her father, Kieran Rooney, worked for Telecom Éireann and her mother, Marie Farrell, ran an arts centre. Rooney has an older brother and a younger sister. Rooney studied English at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), where she was elected a scholar in 2011. She started (but did not complete) a master's degree in politics there, completing a degree in American literature instead, and graduated with an MA in 2013. Rooney has described herself as a Marxist.

A university debater, as a student at Trinity College Dublin, Rooney rose through the ranks of the European circuit to become the top debater at the European University Debating Championships in 2013, later writing of the experience. Before becoming a writer, she worked for a restaurant in an administrative role.

Career
Early career

Rooney completed her first novel—which she has described as "absolute trash"—at the age of 15. She began writing "constantly" in late 2014. She completed her debut novel, Conversations with Friends, while studying for her master's degree in American literature. She wrote 100,000 words of the book in three months.

In 2015, her essay "Even If You Beat Me", about her time as the "top competitive debater on the continent of Europe", was seen by an agent, Tracy Bohan, of the Wylie Agency, and Bohan contacted Rooney. Rooney gave Bohan a manuscript, and Bohan circulated it to publishers, receiving seven bids.

    She had seen my story and wondered whether I had anything else she could read... But I didn't send her anything for ages... I don't know why. I didn't want her to see this shoddy draft.

More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Rooney and https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/10/sally-rooney-enters-the-activist-author-debate

Her natal Lilith is 17 Pisces, N.node 6 Capricorn, S.Node 24 Taurus. Her natal Amazon is 2 Aries, N.Node 5 Taurus, and the S.Node 9 Sagittarius.

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Goddess Bless, Rad

Rad

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Here is the chart for Judy Chicago (born Judith Sylvia Cohen; July 20, 1939 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American feminist artist, art educator, and writer known for her large collaborative art installation pieces about birth and creation images, which examine the role of women in history and culture. During the 1970s, Chicago founded the first feminist art program in the United States at California State University Fresno (formerly Fresno State College) and acted as a catalyst for feminist art and art education. Her inclusion in hundreds of publications in various areas of the world showcases her influence in the worldwide art community. Additionally, many of her books have been published in other countries, making her work more accessible to international readers. Chicago's work incorporates a variety of artistic skills, such as needlework, counterbalanced with labor-intensive skills such as welding and pyrotechnics. Chicago's most well known work is The Dinner Party, which is permanently installed in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. The Dinner Party celebrates the accomplishments of women throughout history and is widely regarded as the first epic feminist artwork. Other notable art projects by Chicago include International Honor Quilt, The Birth Project, Powerplay, and The Holocaust Project.

Chicago was included in Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2018.

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

Her natal Lilith is 21 Gemini, N.Node 6 Sagittarius, S.Node 2 Cancer. Her natal  Amazon is 27 Taurus, N.Node 7 Gemini, and the S.Node is 5 Scorpio.

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Goddess Bless, Rad

Rad

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Here is the chart for Holly Ffion Humberstone is a British musician from Grantham, England. In 2021, she signed a record deal with Interscope and Polydor Records. Her first EP following the signings, The Walls Are Way Too Thin will be released on 5 November 2021.

Personal life

Humberstone is from Grantham and is one of four sisters.[2][3] As of April 2019, she is studying at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.

Musical style and influences

Humberstone cites Damien Rice, Ben Howard, Phoebe Bridgers, and HAIM as musical inspirations.[4] Rice's debut album O is considered by Humberstone to be her 'first favourite album'.

Career

Humberstone performed at Glastonbury Festival 2019 on the BBC Introducing stage.

Her debut single "Deep End", was released on 30 January 2020. Her second single, "Falling Asleep at the Wheel", was released on 19 March, while her third single, "Overkill", was released on 26 June. On 30 July 2020, she released a cover of "Fake Plastic Trees" by the English rock band Radiohead. Her debut EP, also titled Falling Asleep at the Wheel, was released on 14 August, which contained her three previous singles, alongside the tracks "Vanilla", "Drop Dead" and "Livewire".

On December 9, 2020 she was included in VEVO DSCVR's Artists To Watch 2021.[16] She performed her song Vanilla on the channel.

In March 2021, ahead of the release of her single "Haunted House" and her second EP, Humberstone signed with Polydor Records in the United Kingdom and Darkroom/Interscope Records in the United States. She also landed a publishing deal with Universal Music Publishing Group.

On 13 October 2021, Holly performed "Scarlett" from her forthcoming EP, The Walls Are Way Too Thin on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

Here is a recent article on her from the Guardian:

Interview: 'I have chaos in my head all the time': Holly Humberstone, pop's pandemic breakout star

After releasing her introspective debut EP last year, the 21-year-old emerged from lockdown with millions of listeners and a major label deal. Can she protect the intimacy behind her success?

Laura Snapes
Guardian
Thu 28 Oct 2021 12.00 BST

Perched on a wall outside a cafe in Haggerston, east London, Holly Humberstone looks like a harried off-duty waitress. She leans on her knees and stares at the pavement as she smokes. It is only when she looks up, revealing racoon-sized orbs of copper eyeshadow at odds with her well-loved brown hoodie, that her identity becomes clear.

She is, in fact, a harried, very briefly off-duty pop star. The makeup is from a photoshoot that had her holding uncomfortable poses in the street while van drivers yelled abuse. After returning from her first US tour two days ago, the 21-year-old songwriter from Lincolnshire found that the London flat she shares with her older sister had been burgled. Work has left little time for her friends back home, relationships she is trying to hold fast to because "everything else is so alien to me", she says of life now, sounding shellshocked. "It's a weird job."

Most of us returned to some version of our old realities post-lockdown. Humberstone was thrown into a new one. Her debut EP, last year's Falling Asleep at the Wheel, made her a rare breakout singer during a pandemic that has blocked most traditional routes to success. Her intimate music thrived in the circumstances. The quaver in her voice gives her detailed lyrics the sense of uncomfortable truths being spoken aloud for the first time, to ex-boyfriends and sisters struggling with depression. Her silvery sound, which earned her second place in the BBC Sound of 2021 poll, is sombre yet tender, flecked with pop's pulses and worthy of comparison to her songwriting heroes Phoebe Bridgers and the 1975 (her recent single Please Don't Leave Just Yet was co-written with Matty Healy).

Listen to The Walls Are Way Too Thin, from the EP of the same name: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36hmuTxo88U

The purpose of her songwriting hasn't changed since she was 11, she says. "I have chaos in my head all the time. When I sit down to write, it's working through all these things that I'm going through. When I put it in a song, it's a more manageable piece to understand. It's really my therapy."

When real life resumed, Humberstone had a small kind of stardom to reckon with, alongside the regular worries of young adulthood. Her new EP, The Walls Are Way Too Thin, brims with the fear of change. On the advice of surveyors, her family left the crumbling rural cottage where she had spent her life. "My ultimate comfort, sacred space," says Humberstone – the place where her parents, NHS medics, encouraged their four daughters to be creative and make a mess. She moved to London ("overwhelming"), her parents went to Wales and her sisters scattered around. They recently lost their grandma, too. Growing up with three sisters left her shocked by the reality of touring with an all-male crew in the US: "Them coming into my room and there's sanitary towels everywhere and I'm like: let's just clear that away ..." (Next time, she wants an all-female band.)

"It's a really awkward age where you have to face all these things for the first time," says Humberstone, a sweetly nervy talker who persistently describes herself as "awkward". On her right hand, a ring spells out "SISTER".

    I feel really uncomfortable about people who aren't involved in the creative process telling me how I should write

Change, however, is speeding down the pipe. Humberstone is trying to appreciate the shock of realising her lifelong dream as success uproots the stability on which it was founded. Going to the US had always been her yardstick for "making it". She couldn't believe anyone turned up to her sold-out gigs in New York and Los Angeles, let alone knew her songs. (She once said her lyrics had to be tattoo-worthy; several fans asked her to handwrite lines to get them permanently inscribed.) She performed on Jimmy Fallon's late-night show, appearing alongside Victoria Beckham, whom she was too scared to meet. "When I see somebody that I really idolised, my first instinct is to run away."

But the shows did neutralise one fear. In lockdown, "the only way of judging my success was statistics on my phone screen", says Humberstone. She would look up peers and compare streaming figures. "Constantly! It's shitty, and I know other people were doing it as well." That conditioned state of comparison felt familiar from attending a girls' grammar school. Finally meeting fans and other musicians dissolved it. "We've all come through a pandemic, we're all still working and it's sick to see how many other amazing young females are doing so well," she says, proclaiming her love for Matilda Mann, Gracie Abrams and Dora Jar.

With 2.2m monthly Spotify listeners and tour dates stretching into next summer, Humberstone is now trying to protect the conditions behind her vulnerable songwriting and reckon with her ambition. In March, she announced that she had left the Apple-owned label services company Platoon (which supplies industry infrastructure while allowing artists to remain independent) for Polydor, a major. "The songs were connecting people and I thought I might as well try to reach a wider audience," she says. She is aware that some young women report having an awful time at major labels. "I don't know how much you can prepare for that," she says. "The best thing I can do to protect myself is to have people around me who understand what's going on." She says she puts more pressure on herself than the label ever could.

She is still working with her small team and retained her master recordings in the deal – as well as her creative control. "I made it very clear that I don't want any fingers in the pie," she says. "I feel really uncomfortable about people who aren't involved in the creative process telling me how I should write my songs." She has made most of her music to date with Rob Milton, formerly of the Nottingham-based indie band Dog Is Dead, and finds writing with strangers anxiety-inducing. Yet she looked up two blue-chip songwriters during her trip to LA to see what they might come up with. "I idolise these people and it was fun, but still tricky," she says. The point, she insists, isn't striving for pop hits. "I just go in with my baggage and my feelings."

After her autumn tour concludes, Humberstone has time off to write her debut full-length. "An album is the most terrifying thing ever," she says. "It's so final and such a big piece of work to be happy with." The songs written so far touch on the return of her social life and some decisively brief flings. After the end of a three-year relationship, documented in her debut EP, she has decided her career means she doesn't have the energy for romance: "And I like being on my own at the moment."

Success hasn't changed how she sees herself. She is always going through an awkward phase, she says. "And I still have major impostor syndrome."

The Walls Are Way Too Thin is released on 12 November on Polydor

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Here is the chart for Alma Elizabeth Deutscher (born 19 February 2005) is a British composer, pianist and violinist. Deutscher composed her first piano sonata at the age of five. At seven, she completed a short opera The Sweeper of Dreams. Aged nine, she wrote a concerto for violin and orchestra. At the age of ten, she wrote her first full-length opera, Cinderella, which had its European premiere in Vienna in 2016 under the patronage of conductor Zubin Mehta. The U.S. premiere a year later at Opera San Jose was released on DVD by Sony Classical. Deutscher's piano concerto was performed when she was 12. She made her debut at Carnegie Hall in 2019.

Background

Alma Elizabeth Deutscher was born on 19 February 2005, in Basingstoke, England. She is the daughter of academic, Janie Deutscher (née Steen) and Israeli linguist, Guy Deutscher. Deutscher also has a younger sister, Helen Clara.]

She began playing piano at the age of two, followed by violin at three. At four she was composing and improvising on the piano, and by five, had begun writing down her compositions. These first written notations were unclear, but by six, she could write clear compositions and had composed her first piano sonata. At seven, she composed her first short opera, at nine, a violin concerto, and her first full-length opera at age ten. According to her father, she could name the notes on a piano when she was two. "For her third birthday I bought her a little violin as a toy. She was so excited by it and tried playing on it for days on end, so we decided to try to find her a teacher. Within less than a year she was playing Handel sonatas." In a 2017 interview with the Financial Times, Deutscher said: "I remember when I was three and I was listening to a lullaby by Richard Strauss, I loved it! I especially loved the harmony; I always call it the Strauss harmony now. And after it finished I asked my parents 'How could music be so beautiful?'"

Deutscher's initial media exposure may be traced to writer and comedian Stephen Fry publicising her YouTube channel when she was seven, by writing: "Simply mind-blowing: Alma Deutscher playing her own compositions. A new Mozart?", with a link to one of Deutscher's videos. Television crews arrived at her family home the next day. Guy Deutscher spoke of his concerns surrounding Alma's initial press coverage. He explained that the family had been unprepared for the intense exposure, and that they view as their most important tasks protecting her and ensuring that she has a happy childhood. In September 2014, a viral YouTube mashup video released by Israeli musician Kutiman ("Give It Up") featured a 4-second ostinato assembled from pieces of one of Deutscher's early videos.

Critical reception

Much of the critical response to Deutscher's compositions in the first years of her public exposure centered on her young age and status as a child prodigy. Commenting on the public perception of child prodigies and their musical output, Deutscher told the newspaper Die Zeit when she was 10: "I want my music to be taken seriously ... and sometimes it's a little bit difficult for people to take me seriously because I'm just a little girl."

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

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Here is the chart for Melissa Lou Etheridge (born May 29, 1961) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and activist. Her self-titled debut album Melissa Etheridge was released in 1988 and became an underground success. The album peaked at No. 22 on the Billboard 200, and its lead single, "Bring Me Some Water", garnered Etheridge her first Grammy Award nomination for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female. In 1993, Etheridge won her first Grammy award for her single "Ain't It Heavy" from her third album, Never Enough. Later that year, she released what would become her mainstream breakthrough album, Yes I Am. Its tracks "I'm the Only One" and "Come to My Window" both reached the top 30 in the United States, and the latter earned Etheridge her second Grammy award. Yes I Am peaked at No. 15 on the Billboard 200, and spent 138 weeks on the chart, earning an RIAA certification of 6× Platinum, her largest selling album to date.

In October 2004, Etheridge was diagnosed with breast cancer, and underwent surgery and chemotherapy. At the 2005 Grammy Awards, she made a return to the stage, performing a tribute to Janis Joplin with Joss Stone. Stone began the performance with "Cry Baby" and Etheridge, bald from chemotherapy, joined her to perform the song "Piece of My Heart". Their performance was widely acclaimed and India.Arie wrote "I Am Not My Hair" about Etheridge. Later that year, Etheridge released her first compilation album, Greatest Hits: The Road Less Traveled. The album was a success, peaking at No. 14 on the Billboard 200, and going Gold almost immediately. Her latest studio album is The Medicine Show (2019).

Etheridge is known for music with a mixture of "confessional lyrics, pop-based folk-rock, and raspy, smoky vocals." She has been a gay and lesbian activist since her public coming out in January 1993. She has received fifteen Grammy Award nominations throughout her career, winning two, in 1993 and 1995. In 2007, she won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "I Need to Wake Up" from the film An Inconvenient Truth. In September 2011, Etheridge received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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Here is the chart for Madeleine Madden The Wheel of Time actor.  'As an Aboriginal woman, my life is politicised'

Early life

Madden grew up around Redfern, a Sydney inner city suburb, and attended Rose Bay Secondary College. The daughter of Lee Madden (Gadigal and Bundjalung) and art curator and writer Hetti Perkins, Madden grew up in a political family; she is the great-granddaughter of Arrernte elder Hetty Perkins and the granddaughter of activist and soccer player Charles Perkins.] Her aunt is director Rachel Perkins. She has two older sisters and two younger half-sisters, including actress Miah Madden. Their father died in a car accident in 2003.

Career

In 2010, at age 13, Madden became the first teenager in Australia to deliver an address to the nation, when she delivered a two-minute speech on the future of Indigenous Australians. It was broadcast to 6 million viewers on every free-to-air television network in Australia.

Television

Madden starred in Australia's first indigenous teen drama, Ready for This, and in the critically applauded Redfern Now. She has also starred in The Moodys, Jack Irish, My Place and The Code. In 2016 she starred in the miniseries Tomorrow, When the War Began which is based on the John Marsden series of young adult books. In 2018 she played Marion Quade in the miniseries Picnic at Hanging Rock, Crystal Swan in the TV miniseries Mystery Road and Immy DuPain in the series Pine Gap. She currently stars as Egwene al'Vere in Amazon's adaptation of The Wheel of Time novels.

Film

Madden has starred in short films by Deborah Mailman, and Meryl Tankard and co-starred with Christina Ricci and Jack Thompson in Around the Block. Her first film acting job was at 8 years old. She aims to become a director in the future.

When she was 21, Madden made her big Hollywood debut as Sammy in the 2019 Nickelodeon film Dora and the Lost City of Gold.

More: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/nov/23/the-wheel-of-time-actor-madeleine-madden-as-an-aboriginal-woman-my-life-is-politicised

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Here is the chart for Johanna Gezina van Gogh-Bonger (4 October 1862 – 2 September 1925) was a Dutch editor and translator of the letters of the van Gogh brothers. She was the wife of Theo van Gogh, art dealer, and the sister-in-law of the painter Vincent van Gogh and became a key player in the growth of Vincent's fame.   

Early life

Johanna Gezina Bonger was born on 4 October 1862 in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. She was the fifth of seven children, the daughter of Hendrik Christiaan Bonger (1828–1904), an insurance broker, and Hermine Louise Weissman (1831–1905). Her youngest brother, Willem Adriaan Bonger (1876–1940), became an important criminologist. The family was musical, holding evening performances of quartets, and Johanna became an accomplished piano player. Unlike her elder sisters, who helped out with household duties, Johanna, a "cheerful and lively child", was permitted to further her education by studying English, and earning the equivalent of a college degree. She stayed some months in London, working in the British Museum library.

From the age of 17 she kept a detailed diary, which was to become a source of much information about Vincent van Gogh. At this time she also came under the influence of the non-conformist writer Multatuli.

Adulthood

With son Vincent Willem at the studio of photographer Raoul Saisset, 4 Rue Frochot, Paris, 1890

At the age of 22 she became a teacher of English at a boarding school for girls at Elburg, later teaching at the High School for Girls at Utrecht. About this time while in Amsterdam she was introduced by her brother Andries to Theo van Gogh, brother of Vincent. One of the Van Gogh sisters described her as "smart and tender".

First marriage

Theo became preoccupied with Johanna, and the following year paid a visit to Amsterdam to declare his love. Surprised and annoyed that a man she hardly knew should wish to marry her, she rejected him. However, she accepted his proposal the following year, and they were married in Amsterdam on 17 April 1889. Their son, Vincent Willem, was born on 31 January 1890. Following Theo's death in January 1891, Johanna was left a widow with her infant son to support.

She was left with only an apartment in Paris filled with a few items of furniture and about 200 then valueless works of her brother-in-law Vincent. Although advised to dispose of the pictures, she instead moved back to the Netherlands, opened a boarding house in Bussum, a village 25 km from Amsterdam, and began to re-establish her artistic contacts. She had not kept her diary during her marriage, but resumed it, intending that her son should read it someday. To earn extra income she translated short stories from French and English into Dutch. In 1905, to the evident disapproval of her family, she was one of the founding members of a women's socialist movement, but did not allow this to interfere with raising her son.

In 1892, while organizing an exhibition of Vincent's works, she was harshly criticized by artist Richard Roland Holst:

    "Mrs Van Gogh is a charming little woman, but it irritates me when someone gushes fanatically on a subject she knows nothing about, and although blinded by sentimentality still thinks she is adopting a strictly critical attitude. It is schoolgirlish twaddle, nothing more. [...] The work that Mrs Van Gogh would like best is the one that was the most bombastic and sentimental, the one that made her shed the most tears; she forgets that her sorrow is turning Vincent into a god."

Second marriage

Johanna Bonger, by her second husband Johan Cohen Gosschalk, 1905

In August 1901, she married Johan Cohen Gosschalk (1873–1912), a Dutch painter who was born in Amsterdam. She was widowed again in 1912. In 1914, she moved Theo's remains from Utrecht to Auvers-sur-Oise, and interred them in the spot next to Vincent's grave. A sprig of ivy taken from the garden of Dr Paul Gachet carpets both graves to this day.

Work and van Gogh letters

After the death of Vincent and her husband, she worked assiduously on editing the brothers' correspondence, producing the first volume in Dutch in 1914. She also played a key role in the growth of Vincent's fame and reputation through her donations of his work to various early retrospective exhibitions. She wrote a Van Gogh family history as well.

Johanna van Gogh stayed in contact with Vincent van Gogh's friend Eugène Boch to whom she offered the painting portrait of Eugene Boch in July 1891. She also stayed in touch with Émile Bernard, who helped her to promote Vincent van Gogh's paintings.

The legacy and renown of Vincent van Gogh the long-suffering artist began to spread in the years after his death; first in the Netherlands, and Germany and then throughout Europe. His friendship with his younger brother Theo was documented in numerous letters they exchanged from August 1872 onwards. Van Gogh-Bonger published the letters in three volumes in 1914. Johanna initially worked closely with German art dealers and publishers Paul Cassirer and his cousin Bruno to organize exhibitions of Van Gogh's paintings in Berlin and in 1914 to publish the first volume of the Letters to Theo. Publication of the letters helped spread the compelling mystique of Vincent van Gogh, the intense and dedicated painter who suffered for his art and died young, throughout Europe and the rest of the world.

Later life

She lived in New York from 1915 to 1919, where she began the work of translating Vincent's letters into English.[7] In 1919, she returned to Amsterdam. She died on 2 September 1925, at the age of 62, in Laren, Netherlands. At the time of her death, she was still occupied translating 526 of Vincent's letters into English. She had one child and four grandchildren.

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