I came across this artist quite by accident while beginning some mild research on another.
The first video (just under 6 minutes long) puts in a nutshell much of Eddie Owens Martin's story.
Here's the man himself:
More photographs at Google Image, HERE
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From Georgia Encyclopedia.com: where I gathered Martin's date of birth:
A 12 noon chart for 4 July 1908, Buena Vista, Georgia.
Wow! Lots of Cancerian input: a stellium (cluster) Sun, Mercury, Neptune, Venus conjoined, and Mars all in Cancer. Self, communication style, creativity, imagination, drive and artistry all have the sensitivity and home-loving (here home-enhancing) style of Cancer. This artist was all about home! Natal Sun and Mercury conjunct Neptune clearly reflect what he saw as his visionary nature.
There's a T-square formation involving an opposition from Uranus (eccentricity), and challenging squares from Uranus to Saturn and Uranus to the Cancer stellium. Though eccentric Uranus is in practical Capricorn it's in challenging aspect to practical and limiting Saturn, as well as to that stellium in Cancer. I'll translate that, as regards his art, as representing the artist's gravitation to putting his eccentric artistry on a grounded, practical background.
Martin's Moon would have been somewhere in Virgo, quite likely in helpful sextile to one or more of his Cancer planets - a second indication - this time via his inner self, anchoring his potentially wilder Neptunian imagination, bringing it down to earth.
The first video (just under 6 minutes long) puts in a nutshell much of Eddie Owens Martin's story.
Here's the man himself:
More photographs at Google Image, HERE
.
From Georgia Encyclopedia.com: where I gathered Martin's date of birth:
Eddie Owens Martin
Self-taught artist and Georgia native St. EOM established the visionary art site Pasaquan in the mid-1950s. Located in Marion County, Pasaquan is maintained and operated today by Columbus State University, which assumed control of the site in 2016.
St. EOM was born Eddie Owens Martin on July 4, 1908, in Marion County to Lydia Pearl and Julius Roe Martin, a sharecropper. In 1922, seeking to escape the rural life of his parents, he left home and ultimately moved to New York City, where he began to study art in the city's museums and libraries.
After living in New York for about a decade, Martin had a series of visions while suffering from a high fever. In his visions, three "people of the future" from a place called Pasaquan selected him to depict, through art, a peaceful future for human beings. After receiving these visions, Martin began to call himself St. EOM.
A 12 noon chart for 4 July 1908, Buena Vista, Georgia.
Wow! Lots of Cancerian input: a stellium (cluster) Sun, Mercury, Neptune, Venus conjoined, and Mars all in Cancer. Self, communication style, creativity, imagination, drive and artistry all have the sensitivity and home-loving (here home-enhancing) style of Cancer. This artist was all about home! Natal Sun and Mercury conjunct Neptune clearly reflect what he saw as his visionary nature.
There's a T-square formation involving an opposition from Uranus (eccentricity), and challenging squares from Uranus to Saturn and Uranus to the Cancer stellium. Though eccentric Uranus is in practical Capricorn it's in challenging aspect to practical and limiting Saturn, as well as to that stellium in Cancer. I'll translate that, as regards his art, as representing the artist's gravitation to putting his eccentric artistry on a grounded, practical background.
Martin's Moon would have been somewhere in Virgo, quite likely in helpful sextile to one or more of his Cancer planets - a second indication - this time via his inner self, anchoring his potentially wilder Neptunian imagination, bringing it down to earth.
