British playwright and outspoken citizen/artist Harold Pinter has died on Christmas eve. Few other writers of his time spoke out so firmly in favour of humanity and against oppression and political violence. Here's his birth chart (ps not sure of the source of the time of birth so please treat cusps etc with caution):-
In his speech upon winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005 Pinter expressed his Sun in Libra (the mirrored self) opposite Uranus in Aries (breaking through to the truth on the other side of the mirror) and square to Jupiter-Pluto-Mars in Cancer (truth as protection for vulnerable humanity) when he said:-
"When we look into a mirror we think the image that confronts us is accurate. But move a millimetre and the image changes. We are actually looking at a never-ending range of reflections. But sometimes a writer has to smash the mirror - for it is on the other side of that mirror that the truth stares at us.
I believe that despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation which devolves upon us all. It is in fact mandatory.
If such a determination is not embodied in our political vision we have no hope of restoring what is so nearly lost to us - the dignity of man."
Here are his planet-star parans:-
Stars on Angles at Birth
Alpheratz - Rising at the Ascendant
To see oneself as independent of one's culture or society
Zuben Eschamali - Culminating at the Mid-heaven
A person who strives for power
Heliacal rising star
Alkes
To be the living vessel of a sacred body of knowledge or philosophy
Heliacal setting star
Markab
To stand firm for your beliefs and principles
Sun
Culminating when Antares is Rising
Someone who is intense and focused, the potential to be obsessed
Culminating when Vindemiatrix is Culminating
The one who gathers information, things or people
Moon
Rising when Alcyone is Rising
Insightful into the darker side of life
Culminating when Phact is Rising
The romantic adventurer, of places or ideas
Culminating when Alphecca is Anti-culminating
A person who wants to leave a legacy
Setting when Ras Alhague is Rising
A person who probes the hidden meanings, or sacredness, of life
Setting when Rigel is Setting
The metaphysician, or one who is drawn to alternative, or hidden wisdoms
Mercury
Culminating when Alcyone is Setting
Insightful and brilliant, but struggling with the darker side of human nature
Culminating when Aldebaran is Setting
The noble thinker, the person with integrity, a naturalist
Venus
Rising when Alpheratz is Anti-culminating
To demand the right to follow one's own social or religious conscience
Culminating when Markab is Rising
Strong personal and moral philosophies, to be unchanging in social ideas
Culminating when Alcyone is Anti-culminating
A love of theatre or the rituals of religion: the poetic soul
Mars
Rising when Denebola is Anti-culminating
To champion the non-establishment cause
Culminating when Scheat is Setting
A physically confident person, or a gifted inventor
Culminating when Altair is Anti-culminating
Bold and at times rash action
Jupiter
Anti-culminating when Zuben Elgenubi is Setting
A humanitarian who looks for the big solution
Saturn
Culminating when Spica is Setting
To be a prime mover of an idea, a founder, an originator
Anti-culminating when Arcturus is Rising
The engineer, the medical researcher, the explorer - the one who finds new pathways
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2005/pinter-lecture-e.html
