A Jupiter / Sagittarius study

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To continue the planet studies, I go on with Jupiter. First I took charts

with Sagittarius ascendant, Jupiter alone in the first whole sign house.

Conclusions are at the end of the post.

 

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1. Lenny Bruce, 13th October 1925 at 11.24 AM +5.00 Mineola, NY

 

- “American satirical nightclub comedian, known for biting and

controversial subject matter, who changed the landscape of standup comedy

and cleared the way for Richard Pryor, George Carlin and others. (…) At one

time he was married to a stripper and drug user, with whom he had one

daughter before divorcing. He died of a heroin overdose on 8/03/1966 in

Hollywood, CA. (…)

 

He was billed as " King of the Sick Comics, " and started selling out at

nightclubs, recording albums and watching his notoriety grow. Bruce was

famous for Catholic jokes and bathroom humor that he frequently had to

defend in courtrooms.

 

In 1961, Lenny was arrested in Philadelphia for narcotic possession. He

denounced law officials, implying bribes, which many think was why he was

arrested five days later for using obscene language during a San Francisco

appearance. A jury acquitted him, but he started getting arrested in nearly

every city where he performed. The worst of his problems came during a 1964

appearance at New York City’s Café Au Go Go, when both he and the club owner

were arrested.

 

He had beaten obscenity charges in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and was

appealing one in Chicago when he went on trial in New York. Though many

well-known names (Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer) compared him to other satirists

like Mark Twain, he was convicted of obscenity 11/04/1964 and sentenced to

four months in jail. He was dead of a heroin overdose (8/03/1966 in

Hollywood) before the New York conviction was decided…”

 

 

2. Art Buchwald, 20th October 1925 at 1 PM +5.00 Mount Vernon, KY

 

- “American Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, columnist, raconteur and bon

vivant. Looking like a genial bulldog puffing a cigar, dressed in a bright

green sports jacket and slacks, he begins an anecdote and his eyes light up

and his face undergoes a transformation, becoming that of an impish boy in

delight, hoping the world will like him. Humor was his salvation, the

antidote to the misery of his youth.

 

He survived a painful childhood, as his mom went into a mental institution

when he was three months old. Raised in the Hebrew Orphanage in New York,

he saw his dad once a week, and was shifted into six successive foster

homes. One of his dysfunctional families told such horrid stories of demons

that he had nightmares for years afterwards.(…)

 

Subject to deep depressions, he periodically plunged into suicidal darkness.

He spent a month in a hospital in 1963 and again in 1987, during which time

he continued writing. His book, " Leaving Home, " was a best-selling memoir

of his traumatic childhood, identifying the depth of crippling

depressions.(…)

 

Buchwald turned his pain into humor with the creation of political word

cartoons and syndicated humor columns that were printed in 510 newspapers…”

 

 

3. Nicholas Culpeper, 28th October 1616 at 12.12 PM +0.01 at Ocley, England

 

- “British physician of the 17th century who had a short and eventful life.

He may be best remembered for his " Culpeper's Herbal, " a compendium of

natural healing that became the standard text for over three centuries. (…)

 

Nicholas was an apt student and applied himself, being particularly well

versed in Latin and Greek. He began his astrological studies at age ten. A

brilliant scholar in the humanities, he was also a scathing critic and a

hot-headed revolutionary. He was a strong and loyal ally but a dangerous

adversary, altruistic to those in need but reckless in slandering those with

whom he disagreed. Entering Cambridge at 18, he distinguished himself in

the Classics but with reckless extravagance, squandered his inheritance.

 

He fell in love with a beautiful heiress and they planned to elope. On the

night of their rendezvous, there was a severe thunderstorm and while driving

to their meeting place, his lover's coach was struck by lightning and she

died instantly. Grief-stricken and incoherent, Culpeper withdrew for several

months to his mother's cottage in Isfield with a nervous breakdown.

Emerging from the trauma a changed man, he changed his life's direction. He

refused to return to Cambridge and resumed to enter the ministry as he had

planned. His mother's health then failed and Culpeper had to turn around and

nurse her through her final days. He was left alone, financially destitute,

emotionally bankrupt and cut off from both sides of his titled family at age

23. Episodes of depression plagued him periodically for the rest of his

life…”

 

 

4. Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 17th September 1533 at 2.54 PM +0.00

Greenwich, England

 

- “British royalty, the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn

(b.1507?).(…)

 

Henry's sixth and final wife, Catherine Parr, convinced the king to return

his two daughters to court and restore them to the succession. She then

engaged the finest tutors available to train the fiercely intelligent young

Elizabeth.(…)

 

Elizabeth I never married, gaining the title of The Virgin Queen, but the

possibilities of affairs and even illegitimate children were rumored.

History does not know the status of her chastity.(…)

 

Elizabeth was said to be vain and deceitful, most devoted to her kingdom -

and her own satisfactions. A redhead, she had a ferocious temper. At 29

she had lost her hair when she had smallpox and from then on, wore wigs and

white makeup. She loved extravagant costume and had perhaps the best

collection of jewelry in Europe, with 628 pieces by 1587. Every week she

wore new shoes…”

 

 

5. Tom McCall, 22th March 1913 at 2,38 AM +5.00 Egypt, MA

- “American politician, the Governor of Oregon from 1966-1974. A liberal

Republican, he was known as a trailblazing environmentalist who was a pace

setter for conservation in the '70s and '80s by instituting many novel ideas

such as the bottle bill, odd-even gas rationing and the banning of

electrical outdoor signs during the energy crisis. He is the author of the

autobiography " Maverick, " 1977.(…)

 

McCall's administration began at the time when the pristine Pacific

Northwest discovered pollution in its rivers and was forced to face the

consequences of runaway development. Determined to stem the flow of

" progress " so Oregon could retain its natural beauty, McCall left no stone

unturned in preserving its natural resources. (…) As a creative

troubleshooter, he once set up a state sanctioned rock festival to prevent

rioting during an American Legion convention.

 

Formerly a TV commentator, McCall displayed a fitting ability of rising to

the occasion on camera; his finely tuned communication skills were coupled

with an instinct for confrontation. He is most famous for his 1971 TV

interview when he invited people to visit his beloved state of Oregon " but

for heaven's sake, please don't come here to live. " ...”

 

 

6. Jennifer O’Neill, 20th February 1948 at 1.00 AM +3.00 Rio De Janeiro,

Brazil

 

- “American actress, a leggy, fresh faced brunette with warm natural

beauty, probably best known for gracing many magazines covers and

tantalized adolescent boys in 1971's " Summer of '42. " Along with 30 movies,

she has also had eight husbands and nine marriages (she married one husband

twice); nine miscarriages; one suicide attempt; electroshock therapy; a

broken back from a riding accident; her daughter's sexual abuse by her fifth

husband; and an accidental shooting of herself in the hip.(…)

 

She is the author of an autobiography " Surviving Myself. " ”

 

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These people have had extremely dramatical lives. There's been surprisingly

lot of suffering, though Jupiter is traditionally connected with easiness

and good luck. That wouldn't seem to apply to these charts at all.

 

We have

- Lenny Bruce, a controversial comic who died of drugs,

- Art Buchwald, a depressed writer, who used humor as a survival method;

- Nicholas Culpeper, a 18th century physician who also suffered from

dramatical turns in his life and depression;

- Elizabeth I, an intelligent queen with a ferocious temper who reigned

alone for many decades;

- Tom McCall who used his natural communicative skills for advocating

environmental issues and who never shudded from confrontation; and

- Jennifer O'Neill, an actress with a life full of drama in general.

 

Regards, Sari