Vanessa Montgomery and Tony Howard chat about all things Scorpio, classic Scorpios Robert Mapplethorpe and Caitlyn Jenner, PLUS the new and full Moon, the major planetary alignments this month featuring Mars in Libra and Venus out of bounds. You’ll hear the declination report including this month’s out of bounds Moon, the major parallel alignments, plus the opportunity transits and featured electional dates for good timing around key actions.
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Interesting and informative post. liked it.
Thanks, Tony! It is such fun to talk about famous people and their charts! You know, I wanted to explore Arthur Conan Doyle’s Venus in Aries and Edgar Allen Poe’s Venus in Pisces, using astrologer Martin Schulman’s idea of the “Venus Yod.” Schulman thought that Venus in any sign would be engaged more fully if thought of as the apex of a yod, and honoring the energies of the other two signs that make up that yod. Thus, Doyle’s Venus in Aries Yod would include Virgo and Scorpio, and Poe’s Venus in Pisces yod would include Libra and Leo. Schulman said that it did not matter if the other signs in the birth chart had no planets, as they would be activated by transits throughout one’s life. I thought I would explore that with our two creative geniuses – Doyle, and Poe.
Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes is an archetypal warrior against crime, and a fine boxer (Aries); he is great at analyzing clues, and weeding out distracting, extraneous information, and is precise in his thought process (Virgo); and hence is a fine detective through organizing information in his mind and looking deeply into a situation (Scorpio).
Poe was a marvelously dark, macabre mystic (Pisces); a fine artistic poet (Libra – “the rare and radiant maiden, whom the angels named Lenore/nameless her forever more.” God, who writes like that!?); but sadly, his inner child (Leo) was plagued by a dysfunctional family, alcohol, and mental illness, and he died tragically young. He is a perfect example of the tortured artist/wounded healer. But the perfection he could not achieve in his personal life he managed to channel into his art, and for that, we can be grateful!
I am experimenting with Schulman’s idea of the Venus Yod, and since Venus is out of bounds until December, it seems like a great time for that! Thanks so much, Tony & Vanessa! Happy All Souls Day!
Thanks for this Neal. That’s a really creative idea from Schulman! Not sure what I think about it, except that if I think of every Venus as being part of a yod that doesn’t technically exist, that sends my Virgo planets for a loop 🙂 I think ideas like this are fun to explore though. The Huber’s have a lot of ideas in that category… Take care.
Interesting Neal! It sounds like you have some work to do in observation and data collection then. Yes Poe and Doyle, amazing and so inspirational. I love how they captured the spirit of their times yet are so timeless. I’ll add, Doyle does have a Pluto Mercury conj in Taurus, so there is that. The detective digging down, so clever.
Hi, Tony and Vanessa! I have been musing about detective Sherlock Holmes, his creator – Arthur Conan Doyle – and also actors who have taken on the role of Holmes. Doyle did not have any planets in Scorpio, but he did admire Edgar Allen Poe, who did have planets in Scorpio (as Vanessa noted!), so perhaps this was the “Scorpio well” from which he drew inspiration. As for famous actors who took on the role of Holmes: Jeremy Brett and Jonny Lee Miller have Sun in Scorpio; Basil Rathbone and Benedict Cumberbatch have Uranus in Scorpio; and Robert Downey Jr. has Neptune in Scorpio! My Scorpio mantras are taken from ‘spooky’ X Files: “The Truth is out there,” and “I want to believe!” Thanks!
Thanks for this Neal! I think in Doyle we see more of the Saturn ruled MC, and the Mercury Saturn square, plus the Sun-Uranus in Gemini – “excellent deduction Holmes”! Sherlock Holmes was always “seeing the obvious” that others missed through his finely tuned observation skills.
Hey Neal, yes that makes sense that the actors that play Holmes had some Scorpio to draw from. Iconic mystery. Also the Xfiles, the mystery!