Quaoar
and
Writing
Quaoar
and the use of hands to express the mind
There
seem to be a tendency to write or communicate when Quaoar is active.
This tendency could come from the connections to the planet Mercury
that we have established in some earlier writings.
It could
also come from the fact that Quaoar is related to the constellation
Ophiuchus--the Serpent Handler. This is a constellation that symbolically
emphasise the use of the hands.
| When
writing for example, we make use of our hands to express what
is on our minds. |
It can
be said that the hands are an extension of the Throat and Heart centres,
which centres are used in communication or expression of various kinds.
In a certain way these centres synthesise the energies in the torso,
just like the 3rd Ray of Active Intelligence synthesise the Rays of
Attribute into a Ray of Aspect.
Below
you will find a sample of individuals who are writers, authors, novelists,
journalists, or news-people. If nothing else is given, they had Quaoar
conjunct their Suns when they were born.
Examples:
Robert
Burns (Sun 5AQU cjn Quaoar 1AQU32):
Scottish poet and songwriter of more than 200 songs, a national hero
who was world revered, writing nearly all his works in the Scots dialect.
Burns was largely self-educated, receiving his smattering of education
from brief periods of schooling at the parish school in Dalrymple.
His first set of poems, appearing in 1786 were followed by the Edinburgh
edition in 1787, which helped establish his reputation. He was appointed
excise officer in 1789 and moved to Dumfries in 1791 where he remained
for the rest of his life. A few of Burn's better known works are;
"The Cotter's Saturday Night," "To A Mouse," "Auld
Lang Syne" and "The Banks of Doon."
Burns married Jean Armour in 1788 and he died on 7/21/1796, Dumfries,
Scotland.
Ernie
Pyle:
American writer, journalist and syndicated columnist who won the Pulitzer
Prize in 1943 and was killed in Okinawa during World War II. He wrote
a syndicated column during WW II that covered human interest stories
of the over-all war front. He is considered by many to be the finest
war correspondent of the century, and General Omar Bradley once said,
"I have known no finer man, no finer soldier than he. My men
always fought better when Ernie was around." Pyle won the Pulitzer
Prize in 1944 as a Scripps-Howard columnist and correspondent.
Born near Dana, Indiana, Pyle graduated from the University of Indiana
and began a lifelong journalism career. His early beginning was starting
in 1928 what was probably the first daily aviation column in America.
He quit the column in 1932. In 1935 he became a roving reporter for
the Scripps-Howard Newspapers and was a well known newspaper writer.
His rise to fame began when he covered the Battle of Britain during
World War II, while America was still neutral. By 1943, he was covering
the war full-time in North Africa. His dispatches and syndicated columns
at one point earned him $69,000 in one year. He wrote "Here is
Your War" and "Brave Men," which became bestsellers.
His impact was such that when he said GIs complained about the handbrake
on their jeeps, the maker redesigned it, and when he suggested "combat
pay" for the infantry, Congress provided it.
Pyle's personal life was a tragic one. His wife, Geraldine, who he
called Jerry, suffered from severe mental illness. In 1939, they had
settled in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Pyle periodically came home
to her, between visits to the war's fronts. In 1941, he came back
to the States to find that his mother had died and Jerry's severe
mental illness was further aggravated by an addiction to amphetamines
and alcohol. In an attempt to snap her out of her problems, Ernie
divorced her in 1942, then remarried her less than a year later. After
covering the Omaha landing in Normandy and the liberation of Paris,
he returned home to a hero's welcome, though, upon going home to New
Mexico, he found that Jerry's mental illness had worsened. She attempted
suicide while he was home.
After several months, Pyle left to cover the seizure of Okinawa in
the Pacific theater of the war, promising Jerry it would be his last
trip. On the island of Io Jhima, a Japanese sniper fired a machine
gun at Ernie's jeep. Just before he was struck in the left temple,
he had turned to his friends to ask if they were all right. Pyle's
death on 4/18/1945 came only six days after the death of Franklin
Roosevelt, and President Harry Truman broke the news to the nation.
In 1983, he won the Purple Heart posthumously, announced at the dedication
of the Ernie Pyle U.S. Army Reserve Center at Fort Totten, N.Y.
Rene
Crevel (Quaoar cjn Mercury):
French writer, a dada playwright, openly gay. He was the founder of
several short-lived literary magazines during his turbulent life.
His poetry was obsessed with death (his dad was a suicide) and fear
of castration (as he vividly remembered his circumcision at age three).
Crevel's play "Le Coeur a Barbe," a dada spectacle in June,
1923 became a near riot when Andre Breton leapt on stage and broke
de Massot's arm with a flow of his cane, a fight by surrealists who
thought the movement was being taken over by homosexuals.
Crevel died of suicide 7/01/1935, Paris.
Curt
Siodmak (5 degree orb to Mercury and Sun):
German-American author and screenwriter of such 40's and 50's sci-fi
classics as "The Wolf Man" and "I Walked With a Zombie."
Escaping from Hitler's Germany he became an "American" author
and an icon among science-fiction writers.
The second son of a Jewish fur merchant, he earned a doctorate in
mathematics. It was in Berlin that his career took off when he found
work as a reporter. His first scoop involved being hired as an extra
by Fritz Lang for "Metropolis" and becoming the only journalist
to get to see the closed set. In the late 1920's he had an idea for
"Menschen am Sonntag" (People on Sunday) and with his friend
Billy Wilder expanded the basic idea into a loose shooting script.
Siodmak financed a large part of this semi-documentary, a masterwork
of neo-realism before neo-realism was even invented. Edgar Ulmer and
his brother, Robert Siodmak, directed. The movie became an instant
hit in Germany which brought in a dozen more scripts. It was during
this time that Siodmak got to write his first score of novels. But
when the movie was released, Siodmak's world was falling apart as
night after night they lay in the dark listening to the shouting and
frightening songs of the Nazis marching by.
The Siodmak's left for Paris but neither France nor Great Britain
granted them permanent residency. Shuttling between countries, a migrant
author, he often worked under assumed names. Finally realizing they
could no longer live in Europe, the Siodmak's went to Hollywood, CA
where he wrote "The Wolf Man," 1941, "I Walked With
a Zombie," 1942 and "Son of Dracula," 1943, directed
by his brother Robert. His novel "Donovan's Brain" was rejected
over and over again, but finally accepted for serialization and then
a book in 1942. .
Married to Henrietta for more than 70 years, she is still his angel.
They have a son, Geoffrey born in Great Britain.
Phil
Andros (Venus cjn Quaoar):
American writer, a gay pornographer, a tatoo artist and a literate
and good looking hustler. Formerly an English professor, he began
writing for underground paperbacks in the '40s and moved on to gay
porno writing which has been accepted as literature. He once worked
with Dr. Alfred Kinsey providing information about the alternate-sex-scene.
Later he wrote an autobiography.
Your
host Raymond (Mercury cjn Quaoar):
American radio personality who always introduced himself as "Your
Host". He had multiple sclerosis.
Leo
Guild (Moon and Mecury cjn Quaoar):
American writer of fiction, non-fiction, paperbacks, mysteries, sex
and shock, radio scripts and TV presentations. He wrote a column in
the Hollywood Reporter and worked as a public representative for Warner
Brothers Studios. Guild was the author of "Hollywood Screwballs,"
1962.
Neri
Pozza (Venus cjn Quaoar):
Italian writer, editor and publisher of "Montale Gadda."
Died of heart failure 11/06/1988.
Salvatore
Luria:
Italian writer, teacher and biologist. Receiving an MD in 1935 in
Turin, he taught bacteriology from 1943-1964 and moved to the U.S.
in 1970. Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1969 for Physiology and Medicine,
he was the author of "General Virology" in 1953.
Married 4/18/1945, with one son. Luria enjoys sculpting for a hobby.
Julia
Child:
American chef and writer of over nine cookbooks, appearing in more
than three hundred television shows. She achieved celebrity status
with her book, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," 1961.
Child was raised in a well-to-do Pasadena family that hired a professional
cook to cook elaborate family meals. Her father worked as a farm consultant,
and her mother was a homemaker with poor cooking skills. When she
was a 15-year-old student at Branson School in Ross, California, she
dreamed of becoming to a novelist or basketball player. She was a
history major at Smith College with "C" average and a reputation
as a prankster. After her graduation in 1934, Child worked for a time
with W & J Sloane, a furniture store in New York doing publicity
work.. She had no interest in cooking, but took a job as a file clerk,
with an ambition at that time to be a spy for the secret service.
In 1942 Julia met Paul Child in what was then called Ceylon (now Sri
Lanka), when they both had clerical jobs during WW II in the office
of strategic services. Paul was a poet, photographer, artist, violinist,
and judo expert. He was ten years her senior and almost four inches
shorter, with Julia standing slightly over six feet tall. After the
war ended, they returned to California and she enrolled in the Hillcliffe
School of Cookery in Beverly Hills. They were married in September
1946, and moved to Washington DC.
Encouraged by Paul's love of food, Julia's interest in cooking picked
up during the six months they spent in China in 1945.
Paul, a member of the Foreign Service, was assigned to the American
embassy in Paris and they lived in France for the six years after
1946. Her first meal in France was a lunch of oysters on the half
shell, and her introduction to French food brought her to an epiphany.
Going daily to refine her college French at the Berlitz Language School,
she then enrolled in Cordon Bleu, the world-renowned school of French
cooking. Child also studied privately with experts such as master
chef Max Bugnard, who became her favorite teacher.
She then began teaching classes at L' Ecole des Gourmandes, a school
she founded with Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, two Frenchwoman.
They became her collaborators on the famous cookbook "Mastering
the Art of French cooking." Ten years in preparation, it was
finished in 1958, and published in 1961. She and Paul settled in Cambridge,
Massachusetts that year, following Paul's retirement from the service.
A year later she was in her own PBS show, "The French Chef."
She was a natural clown on camera, as she improvised and joked.
Child, who is unpretentious and outspoken, had Noel Riley Fitch write
her biography called " Appetite for Life." She continues
at age 80 to lecture and write articles, and in 1993 created a new
show for PBS, "Cooking with the Master Chefs," for which
she does the introduction.
She had a radical mastectomy of her left breast in 1966. Her husband
went into a nursing home in 1992, and died in 1994.
Ring
Lardner Jr.:
American noted family, writer and reporter. The son of writer Ring
Lardner, he was a child prodigy, a journalist, reporter and screenwriter.
He won an Oscar as co-author of the film "Woman of the Year"
1942 and was an organizer of the Screen Writer's Guild. A student
of Marxism, he was a victim of the McCarthy red witch-hunts, testifying
and jailed for ten months for contempt of Congress. Blacklisted for
18 years from writing, he started his first novel, writing for the
screen and TV while in jail using pseudonyms.
He returned to using his own name with the script of M.A.S.H. in 1970,
winning his second Oscar. He later wrote an autobiography, "The
Lardners: My Family Remembered" in 1976, with a second novel
in 1985. Two marriages, five children and two step-children.
Jacqueline
Susann:
American writer, the most prosperous woman novelist in the history
of U.S. publications. She was a former actress on Broadway and in
TV commercials with a modest success for some 20 years. Her first
book "Every Night, Josephine," released on 11/14/1963, sold
a million copies, followed by two other noted novels, "Valley
of the Dolls," February 1966 and "The Love Machine,"
May 1969. A schlock writer, Susann was a woman of great drive and
determination, aided by media hype and her own genius at self-promotion.
Susann graduated from high school at 15 with an I.Q. noted as 140.
She adored her dad, an artist. At 18, she moved to New York and followed
the casting couch route to stardom, having affairs with Eddie Cantor,
Joe E. Lewis, George Jessel, Carole Landis and Walter Pidgeon. Tough,
mean and self-centered, she slept her way to the middle, getting bit
parts in various productions and living a life of recreational drugs
and booze.
When she teamed with Irving Mansfield, Susann found her niche. They
married on 4/01/1939 and he helped promote her work, managing her
career. They had one son, Guy, born on 12/06/1946, who was institutionalized
at the age of three.
She entered the hospital for a breast cancer operation on 12/25/1952,
followed up by cobalt treatments. Exactly ten years later, 12/25/1972,
she entered the hospital again with cancer of the bronchi and lungs.
Less that two years later, she died of cancer on 9/21/1974, New York,
NY.
Barbara Seaman published a biography, entitled "Lovely Me: The
Life of Jacqueline Susann." David Hanns published "Jacqueline
Susann," 1975.
Roger
Stephane:
French journalist and the founder of France Observateur, 1950. He
was a TV producer 1959-1969 with a special of nine broadcasts on Times
of the Cathedrals in 1980. He founded the French Picture Agency in
1969, and also founded the Star Auditorium and the Video Art Collection.
He was the writer and author of many works, including "Portrait
of the Adventure," for which he won the St. Beuve Award in 1965,
and "Glory of Stendhal," 1988.
An outstanding success in many areas, Stephane was single. He committed
suicide in Paris on 12/04/1994.
Emanuele
Rocco:
Italian TV journalist and newscaster.
Died in an auto accident 6/02/1983.
Geraldine
Saunders:
American writer, author of "Love Boat" which was bought
by TV for a successful eight-season series starting in 1977. Ironically,
as a school girl she consistently failed high school English. In her
late 20's, she modeled and acted in television commercials.
Saunders married three times; her second husband was the astrologer,
Sidney Omarr. She married for the third time in 1977. After her daughter's
marriage, she worked as a hostess for Princess Cruises where she conceived
and executed the book. She never appeared or wrote for the series;
however, she continues to receive royalty checks.
In 1998 she published "Love Signs," Llewellyn Publications,
a breezy, informative description of sign-synastry.
Alison
Lurie:
American writer. A professor of English at Cornell since 1976, her
first novel was published in 1962, "Love and Friendship."
She won the Pulitzer Prize for "Foreign Affairs" and her
fifth novel, "The War Between the States" was her best seller,
later made into a TV mini-series.
She married 9/10/1948; three sons and separated in 1975.
Clancy
Sigal:
American writer, a first rate novelist. His works include "Weekend
In Dinlock," 1960 and "Going Away," 1962. He contributed lively, sympathetic
and informative articles and stories to major American and English
magazines. From 1944-1946 he served in the U.S. Army during WW II.
Eleven years later, after a period as a free-lance writer and journalist
in America, he settled in England as a full-time novelist.
Carl
Weschcke:
American astrological publisher, the owner of Llewellyn Publications.
He is a pagan, a Wiccan high priest and a writer. Married; he has
one child.
Allan
Fotheringham:
Canadian writer, a top political columnist who spares no-one, simultaneously
hilarious and cynical in his writings. His readers either love or
hate his work, but he's too well informed to be ignored. Brilliantly
witty, he draws a fine distinction between influence and power.
Bruce
Herschensohn:
American broadcaster, media commentator and author who was the one
time head of the U.S. Information Agency's film division. He is the
author of "Gods Of Antenna," and has held a lifetime interest
for politics. The highly intelligent son of a physician, he became
a TV commentator in 1977, capturing huge ratings. He later became
a political critic on the news, adding radio commentary in January
1980.
Charles
Kuralt:
American broadcast journalist who won virtually every major award
for TV journalism. A bit round and slightly rumpled, he was a genuinely
friendly man with warmth, charm and grace. He connected to the essence
of America better than any newsman of his generation; truly loving
his country and the people with whom he set-a-spell. He searched for
the insignificant, elevating it to prose and visual poetry, the light
and funny stories of everyday foibles and striving. His first report
was a paean to New England's glorious fall foliage, on 10/26/1967.
He published his "On the Road" essays in 1985.
Kuralt had two marriages; two daughters with the first. After his
death, Patricia Shannon, 64, made a claim on the estate inasmuch as,
for 29 years, she and Kuralt had been secret lovers. They had first
met in 1968. She claims that a handwritten letter from Kuralt stated
his intent for her to receive the land and house in Montana, valued
at over $600,000. Shannon also claims that Kuralt paid for her children's
college, property in Ireland and money to start a business. The courts
ruled that his will legally left his estate to his wife of 35 years,
Suzanna, who died in October 1999 after which his two daughters took
up the legal battle. The suit was settled on 3/22/2000 when a Montana
judge awarded Shannon the Montana property where she had made a home
with Kuralt.
Kuralt had quadruple by-pass heart surgery in the mid-90s. He died
of heart disease and complications from lupus, an inflammatory disease
that can affect the skin, joints, kidneys and nervous system 7/04/1997.
Kate
Millet:
American writer and artist, radical feminist leader noted for lecturing
and writing extensively on behalf of feminine liberation. After gaining
honors at Oxford in 1958, she earned her PhD at Columbia in 1970.
She went to New York City to paint and sculpt while supporting herself
as a bank clerk and kindergarten teacher.
Millett moved to Japan where she had her first one-woman show at the
Mirami Gallery, 1961-1963. She operated on an international level
between Tokyo and New York, designing furniture, painting and teaching
English. Bi-sexual, she married sculptor Fumio Yoshimura in 1965.
She is the author of "Sexual Politics," 1970, which became
the cornerstone of the modern feminist movement, followed by another
novel in 1974 and her autobiography in 1977.
Leonhard
Cohen (Sun-Venus/Neptune midpoint on Quaoar):
Canadian novelist and songwriter-folksinger who became a Buddhist
monk, shaving his head and living part-time in a monastery on Mount
Baldy, outside of Los Angeles, CA. Cohen separated from his wife,
Painter Suzanne Elrod, in the mid-'70s. Though he spoke for years
of his interest in Zen, it was still a surprise to the establishment
when the highly successful songwriter and poet left his finely tailored
suits for modest robes, and Hollywood mansions for a small cabin with
a narrow cot. The pop icon, whose classic takes include "Bird
on a Wire" and "Suzanne," does the cooking for the
small community.
Raised by a well-to-do couple in Montreal, Leonard grew up in a house
filled with music. As he grew older, he enjoyed a wide range of musical
styles from commercial country and folk to synagogue music. During
his teens, he had his first stint with a country group, "The
Buckskin Boys." As a student at McGill, he gravitated toward
poetry and prose, eventually gaining acclaim in Canada for his poems
and two novels. The books did not sell well, so for income, Cohen
returned to songwriting. Judy Collins soon bought his "Suzanne"
for her 1966 album, "In My Life." His creaky baritone was
distinctive enough that he was signed to a record contract himself
by Columbia with a debut album in 1968, "Songs of Leonard Cohen."
Sales were modest but critics hailed the collection.
During a period of deep depression in the '70s, Cohen began to embrace
Zen. Turning to a friend who had an aura of calm, he was introduced
by the friend to an old Zen teacher. He found the spiritual training
rigorous. For a time, he worked in both worlds, the commercial world
of music and the spiritual world of striving, until he finally yielded
completely and moved to the Zen Center.
Cohen stopped recording in 1992 and touring in 1993 when he moved
up the mountain. With enough time, he is working on an illustrated
book of poems and songs for a future album. His workroom contains
an old computer and a synthesizer, tools for his music and his graphic
art. He rises at 3:00 AM for morning meditation and to begin preparing
the day's menu. His graceful, confessional songs have been described
as "elegant, bittersweet mood music for the dark nights of the
soul." A tribute album was released by A&M Records on 9/26/1995,
"Tower of Song."
For his worldly involvement, Cohen heads down the mountain to visit
his daughter in the Wilshire district or his son, Adam, who began
making his own mark in the music field in 1998 at the age of 25. In
July, Adam released his debut album, "Adam Cohen," to critical
applause.
Joan
Kennedy (Venus cjn Quaoar):
American author and wife of 1960U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy 1958-1982.
A shy, retiring person, Joan is often to described as vulnerable.
A biography, "Joan the Reluctant Kennedy" by David Lester
was published in 1994 and an unauthorized biography, "Living
With the Kennedy's: The Joan Kennedy Story" was written in 1985
by Marcia Chellis, a confidant Joan had met in AA. Arrested twice
in three years on DWI charges, she finally lost her license in May
of 1991.
Born into the upper class and living only three blocks from the Kennedy
mansion in Bronxville, Westchester, NY, Joan Bennett had Golden Girl
striking good looks. She did very well in school attending Sacred
Heart Convent School, of which Rose Kennedy was an alumna, then Manhattanville
College with Jean Kennedy. Hand picked because of her background,
she was the most likely candidate for the youngest of the Kennedy
sons, Edward. Rose asked son Teddy to give a speech at the dedication
of a new gymnasium donated in honor of his sister Kathleen at Manhattanville's
new campus in Purchase, NY, October 1957. Jean introduced Ted to Joan
who was immediately attracted.
After her graduation in June 1958, Teddy asked her to visit the family
in Hyannis Port, MA. An interview visit with Rose didn't bother Joan.
She was invited to visit the family several times during the summer
of 1958 at their compound. All their dates that summer were well chaperoned
which suited Joan as she wished to remain a virgin until marriage.
On her last visit Ted asked if she would like to get married and she
said yes. Joan was used to being courted, but Ted couldn't be bothered,
he was on the campaign trail with brother John. Their engagement party
was arranged and Ted didn't arrive until the party was half over,
coming in through servant's quarters, handing Joan an unopened box
containing the engagement ring his father Joe had purchased for her.
When she started having second thoughts, her parents visited with
the elder Kennedy who demanded the wedding take place as planned as
he would have nothing in the papers about a son of his being tossed
over. Their wedding took place in November 1959 with Cardinal Spellman
officiating.
She had difficult pregnancies and three miscarriages. Daughter Kara
was born in 1960, Ted, Jr. in 1961 and Patrick, 1967. It was mentally
and emotionally difficult to deal with a son with bone cancer and
a philandering husband who made headlines with an incident of driving
off a bridge near Chappaquiddick, MA on 7/18/1969, killing a passenger,
Mary Jo Kopechne.
Joan Insisted that she didn't have a drinking problem until the early
1970's though people had noticed her problems with alcohol as early
as 1963. She joined Alcoholics Anonymous in 1974, being admitted to
private sanitariums at least three times during the year. The family
hired a priest psychiatrist who flew to Washington each week to talk
with Joan, assured of his confidentiality. She separated from her
husband, moving to Boston and returning to school in April 1977, then
reuniting with him in November 1979 for his campaign. At one point
she started wearing outrageously provocative clothing thinking that
she no longer appealed to Teddy. They divorced in 1982.
In November 1992 her first book "The Joy of Classical Music"
was published. She had a mild heart attack on 5/10/1999, Boston; after
she underwent angioplasty, a full recovery was expected.
Kenneth
Kesey:
American actor and novelist who worked at various times as a logger,
a mental-hospital attendant, a farmer and musician in a band. He became
famous for writing "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" in
1962, which was made into a film in 1975 starring Jack Nicholson and
directed by Michael Douglas. He won the Robert Kirsch Award given
by the Los Angeles Times in 1991 for his body of work.
He attended the University of Oregon, receiving a BA in 1957 and going
on to study writing at Stanford, 1958-59. He was on the wrestling
team. Kesey volunteered for drug experiments run by the government
prior to the time that Timothy Leary started his experiments in psychedelics.
His job as a psychiatric attendant for the Veteran's Administration
Hospital in Menlo Park, CA in 1961 provided background for his most
famous work, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." In 1962
Kesey sold the movie rights for $28,000. The film won five Oscars
and reportedly made $50 million in gross earnings.
He was an inspiration for many young people. With an ear for dialog
and the ability to create characters that live on the page, all of
his works are about prisoners, some who realize their position and
rail against it, others who are just doing their time. An old fashioned
kind of writer, Kesey is a moral critic. His second novel "Sometimes
a Great Notion" was published in 1964. Famous for being famous,
he is not taken very seriously and finds it difficult to observe people
while being observed.
A major counter culture figure in the 1960's, he and his band, The
Merry Pranksters, made a cross-country drug-fueled trip in a psychedelic
painted bus called "Further" that was chronicled by Tom
Wolfe in his book "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test." This
bus may have inspired The Who's "Magic Bus" and the Beatles
"Magical Mystery Tour." The Smithsonian Institution has
asked several times that the bus be donated, but it is still on the
road. Described as "going a little nuts and then disappearing,"
after being arrested on marijuana charges, Kesey took off to Mexico.
He later spent some months in jail.
In 1965 he purchased a farm in Pleasant Hill, Oregon, converting the
barn to living quarters. Many of the outbuildings on the farm were
built by The Merry Pranksters.
Kesey married his high school sweetheart, Faye, and they had four
children. He has always been close to family. His son Jed, who died
on a University of Oregon wrestling team trip, is buried on the farm.
He suffered a stroke 9/23/1997 after an afternoon nap at his home
in Pleasant Hill, from which he recovered but which affected his right
arm.
Tiziano
Terzani:
Italian writer, a journalist and biographer. In 1993, a Chinese fortune-teller
advised him to not travel by aircraft, so he followed the advice and
traveled throughout Asia all year without flying. He wrote a book
about his travels, "A Fortune Teller Told Me."
Educated at the University of Pisa and at Columbia, New York, he married;
two kids. From 1971 he was foreign correspondent for the German news
magazine "Der Spiegel," the Italian daily "La Repubblica"
and the weekly "L'Espresso." During the '90s, he became
the correspondent from Japan for "Corriere della Sera."
Brian
De Palma (Mercury cjn Quaoar and Neptune trine Uranus and Moon):
American film director, screenwriter, and producer, one of the hot-shot
young directors of the '70s along with Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford
Coppola, and George Lucas. While other directors quickly developed
their film styles and themes, De Palma preferred to imitate his idol
Alfred Hitchcock. Critics in the '70s and '80s condemned De Palma's
blatant borrowing of Hitchcock themes and his violent treatment of
killing women in ever more gruesome ways in his films. His controversial
films "Carrie," 1976, "Dressed to Kill," 1980,
"The Untouchables," 1987 and "Mission Impossible"
in 1996 have been the stars of his film career. Fascinated by the
dark and hidden, he translates nightmares into film relentlessly and
stylishly. He writes or co-writes about half of his films and much
of the technical refinements himself. A driven perfectionist, he is
remote and haunted while the production is in process.
De Palma was the son of a Philadelphia surgeon. He had a strong sibling
rivalry with his brothers and was haunted by his father's marital
infidelities. He enjoyed science and as a child was already a Hitchcock
fan. De Palma gained access to the film industry with his work in
underground theater and films.
On 11/22/1963, De Palma watched in horror with his date, actress Jill
Clayburgh, the news coverage of the Kennedy assassination. After De
Palma became a film director, the Kennedy investigation shaped the
director into fitting into the cinema of cynicism. He made his director's
debut in "Greetings" in 1968. He worked with Al Pacino in
"Scarface," 1983 and "Carlito's Way" in 1993.
He directed Sean Connery in his Oscar winning performance as Best
Supporting Actor in 1987's "The Untouchables."
De Palma's first wife was the actress Gale Anne Hurd. The stock, salt-and-pepper
bearded director married actress Nancy Allen in 1979. She appeared
in his films, "Carrie," "Home Movies," 1979, "Dressed
to Kill," and "Blow Out" in 1981. The couple divorced
in 1983. He has a daughter, Piper De Palma born on 10/21/1996 from
his third marriage to Darnell De Palma which lasted from 1995-1997
and ended in divorce. De Palma was the godfather to Steven Speilberg's
son, Max Speilberg. He avoids Hollywood's drug use and party scenes.
Roy
Tate:
American writer and astrologer. He worked in the field of Mental Rehabilitation
for ten years with emotionally disturbed teenagers and mentally handicapped
adults. Beginning to seriously investigate astrology in 1969, he is
the author of "The Astrology of Genius" a study of Nobel
Prize winners published in 1975.
Chris
Chubock (Mars cjn Quaoar):
American news commentator. After her promotion to Public Affairs Director
of a TV station in Florida, she announced on 7/15/1974, "In keeping
with our policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts in living
color, you are going to see another first, an attempted suicide."
She then shot herself with a .38 pistol and died 14 hours later.
Claude
Vorilhon:
French writer, the author of a book of messages given to him by an
extraterrestrial in 1996 that led to world-wide centers, the Raelian
Movement.
Vorilhon never knew his father as he was raised by his grandmother
and mom. He wrote poetry from the time he was a kid and began to put
his words to music, becoming known for "Cinnamon Honey."
As a sport figure, he won awards for racing cars. Also a journalist,
he started a race-car magazine as editor.
On 12/13/1973, he felt impelled by a driving need to walk around a
volcano at Puy-de-la-Sola. While there during the afternoon, he saw
a great light. A UFO had landed and a small, short being emerged,
wearing a silver jumpsuit and long black hair and a short beard. The
beings said that they had been watching him and he was to deliver
their message. From another planet, the beings did not give their
specific origin.
From this beginning, he actually had three books dictated from Rael,
"Let's Welcome Our Fathers From Space," "Geniocracy,"
and "Sensual Meditation." The first book was published in
1986 with a fifth printing in 1992.
The movement sells a medal that gives a psychic link to the Elohim,
who made us, from Yahee, the God Spirit. Centers have sprung up in
the Orient, Europe, Asia, the near and far east, South America and
the U.S.
Vorilhon is married.
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