Astro-Vintage 1902

A wine's vintage simply tells you which year the grapes were picked. The growing season's weather in a particular region is the factor making one vintage so different from another. Different grape varieties respond to different climatic conditions in their own individual way.

Can you tell where this is going?

"We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more". ~Carl Gustav Jung

Some astrological years are better than others for "growing" humans of a certain type.

1902, for instance, was a very good year for "growing" humans who would excel in the arts. Prevailing astrological climate brought forth numerous men who were later to become film producer/directors....not only well known among their peers, but becoming internationally famous, iconic in some cases. A few names: David O.Selznick, Vittoria de Sica, Anatole Litvak, Harold Schuster, William Wyler, Darryl F. Zanuck - and there are others. Composer for musical theatre, Richard Rodgers, writers Ogden Nash and John Steinbeck, aviator Charles Lindbergh, TV personality Ed Sullivan, astrologers Grant Lewi and Carl Payne Tobey, and photographer Ansel Adams are also of this excellent vintage. SEE HERE for more.

Positions of the outer planets contributed to this vintage cornucopia of talent. Pluto lay between 17 and 19 Gemini, Neptune between 29 Gemini and 3 Cancer, Uranus between 18 & 20 Sagittarius. For a good part of the year Pluto (and sometimes Neptune) opposed Uranus in Sagittarius. An outer planet Gemini-Sagittarius dynamic in their astro-bloodlines would likely have laid a fertile base for future communication (Gemini) of a variety of talents to the masses (Sagittarius).

As well as being a fertile year for the arts many events of 1902 reflect the Uranus/Pluto/Neptune dynamic: several "firsts" and inventions (Uranus); an earthquake and a couple of volcanic eruptions, and a discovery relating to radioactivity (Pluto); a couple of events relating to cinema history (Neptune)

Feb 21st - Dr Harvey Cushing, 1st US brain surgeon, does his 1st brain operation

Mar 10th - Earthquake destroys Turkish city of Tochangri

Mar 18th - Enrico Caruso becomes 1st well-known performer to make a record

Mar 10th - A United States court of appeals rules that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera.

Apr 2nd - 1st motion picture theater opens: "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, Los Angeles, California.

Apr 13th - J C Penney opens his 1st store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.

Apr 14th - Marie & Pierre Curie isolated the radioactive element radium.

Apr 18th - Denmark is 1st country to adopt fingerprinting to identify criminals.

May 7th - Soufriere volcano on St Vincent kills 2-5,000.

May 8th - Mt Pelee erupts, wipes out St Pierre, Martinique, kills 30,000.

May 15th - Lyman Gilmore is 1st person to fly a powered craft.

May 17th - Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.

Jun 9th - 1st Automat restaurant opens (818 Chestnut St, Phila).

Jun 10th - Patent for window envelope granted to H F Callahan.

1902: With human comfort the last thing on his mind, a young mechanical engineer completes the schematic drawings for what will be the first successful air-conditioning system.
http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/07/dayintech_0717/

Sep 2nd - "A Trip To The Moon," the 1st science fiction film released
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JDaOOw0MEE


AND...
Auguste Rodin finished his famous sculpture The Thinker in 1902:

A very good year......and Ansel Adams

1902 was a very good year for the arts. Oddly (or perhaps not), the prevailing astrological stew brought forth numerous men who were later to become film producer/directors. A few of the better known names are: David O.Selznick, Vittoria de Sica, Anatole Litvak, Harold Schuster, William Wyler, Darryl F. Zanuck - and there are others. Composer for musical theatre, Richard Rodgers, writers Ogden Nash and John Steinbeck, aviator Charles Lindbergh, TV personality Ed Sullivan, astrologers Grant Lewi and Carl Payne Tobey, and photographer Ansel Adams are also of this rare vintage. SEE HERE for more.

The position of the outer planets almost certainly contributed to this cornucopia of talent. Pluto lay between 17 and 19 Gemini, Neptune between 29 Gemini and 3 Cancer, Uranus between 18 to 20 Sagittarius. For a good part of the year Pluto (and sometimes Neptune) opposed Uranus in Sagittarius. Saturn remained in Capricorn throughout the year.

From amongst that line-up of luminaries I've already blogged about Ogen Nash (here),. I've mentioned the two astrologers in several blog entries too. Next up is famous photographer and conservationist, Ansel Adams.

Ansel Adams was born 20 February 1902, allegedly at 3am, in San Francisco. That 3am birth time is so convenient that I do wonder if it's a guess or rectification (I must learn to be more trusting and less cynical!)




A birth time of 3 am puts those magical outer planets near to the ascendant/descendant angles, giving them extra importance and strength. They are trining or sextiling his most personal planets, Sun, Venus and Mercury which lie in the last degrees of Aquarius and 00* Pisces. His Moon at 4 Leo opposes Jupiter at 3 Aquarius. This time of birth puts MC in Libra, ruled by artistic Venus - but no planets are there.

I see Ansel Adams as a clear blend of Aquarius and Pisces, with extra dynamism coming from his Moon in Firey Leo and the Sagittarian ascendant. Sun Mercury and Venus trining Neptune and sextiling Uranus are likely to be the key features here.

Neptune rules photography and is also the ruler of his (just in) Pisces Sun. Uranus, ruler of his Aquarian planets rules the technology involved in cameras generally, so the sextile to his personal planets will have been helpful.

It's becoming a little clearer now why so many film director/producers featured in that list of 1902 luminaries !

Below is a small sample of the work of Ansel Adams, with two quotations attributed to him.

"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment".(The more things change, the more they remain the same!).

"It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators."