Mystery Chart #5 - Male
November 7, 1942; 7 AM; Dallas, Texas
Birth information received directly from native.
What can you say about his career, for example? His wife? His children?

Ascendant 3 Scorpio 12
Midheaven 6 Leo 51
Moon 29 Libra 08

Hmmmm. Nobody seems willing to take up the challenge to interpret this chart. Did I state the problem incorrectly? There is much documentation on the Net from those who know him and detailed information from the subject himself which will verify or not what you may conclude. He is an interesting subject with a life of remarkable events.

Is anybody willing or able to say something significant about this native?His career, his family, his personality, his priorities, health matters, money matters, etc.

Nobody seems willing to take up the challenge to interpret this chart.

It may not be a lack of interest in the chart. With the holidays this week it's been hard to find the time to devote to analyzing this mystery chart.

Tony

Tony - Thanks for responding. You're probably right, everyone's on holiday. I could repost this after the new year if that would be better. This is a remarkable person with an interesting life.

Hi Libra29,

I made some research about profession. At a quick glance it appears that we are dealing with a military person (commandant probably), and since there is a thread on this forum about doriphory I think that this chart is a good example. There is a strange combination between the need to be drastic, severe and the need to be wise, to be humanitarian (the father, protector of all).
I have something of an intuition mingled with some indications (so we need to take a deep analyze here) that these person is going to end up worse.

That?s all for now. I hope it?s not so far from the truth.
If you want I will give the technical explanation behind the conclusions, but only if it is correct.

Hi Sasha -

Thank you for your input. He's not a military person although I can see how you might have concluded that. With this subject conflicts are usually handled verbally and those close to him would understand and prefer this. In an argument though he is formidable.

What you said:

"combination between the need to be drastic, severe and the need to be wise"

is very true from my experience of him and gives him more range of emotion than most.

Thanks for the feedback. I was superficial in my research. Latter I realize that.
But as good thing, I started to read Bonatti, Ptolemy, Ibn Ridwan, Haly, Vettius Valens, Rethorius, Firmicus and others, and I am going to make a step by step indication for finding the nature of activity. I will apply for the mystery chart that will come to see if I will succeed.

My first inclination was to suggest a military career as well, but other possibilities are marriage counselor, attorney or private investigator. Whatever his career, he is seen as a leader in his chosen field; a very powerful leader!

This person is probably married and his spouse may be involved in his career in some way. His 12th House Moon leads me to guess that his Mother or Wife either died or became absent early in the relationship.

I would also guess that he has children ... he may even have taken on a part-time parenting role at some point.

There's no doubt that Mars rules here. It's his chart ruler and also his final dispositor. That Scorpio stellium adds to the Mars energy.

Lastly, the fact that he has no oppositions, he looks to colleagues, friends & family for perspective .... or that he may do some kind of counseling for a living to fulfill the opposition energy.

Just some thoughts!!

I realize I am out of place in a traditional astrology site. I am interested in being a part of a serious astrological discussion group and I found yours to be such a group. I will keep looking for a group where I feel at home. Thank you to those who participated in this mystery chart.

This is the chart of Stan Rice, the husband of Anne Rice, author of the famous vampire chronicles. He is in fact the inspiration for Lestat the vampire. Anne Rice even gave Lestat the birthday of Stan (Nov 7) and Lestat was given his looks: lanky, tall, blond, sensuous mouth, moves with the grace of a cat, with an intensity that could overwhelm you and a brilliant mind.

Stan Rice was a gifted poet and professor of the creative writing department at San Francisco State College from the early 60's while only in his young 20's. He soon became assistant chairman of the Poetry Center and ultimately chairman of the Creative Writing Department.

Their daughter, Michele, died at the age of 5 from Leukemia which devastated both the parents who began drinking heavily after her death About that Stan has said: ?if it happened during the 70's I don?t remember. But upon the death of Michele, both Anne and Stan published their first work. Anne - ?Interview with the Vampire? and Stan a book of poetry: ?Some Lamb? with heart-breaking poems about the last year with Michele.

Stan was a dynamic teacher, loved and admired by his students but possibly feared by his co-workers. He continually gave more of himself in the classroom than any of his students. In a poem ?My Trip to Hades? he writes ?...my colleagues elected my chairman. Then one day one of them treated me as if I were Satan; and then another. They thought I wanted power. All I wanted was to be desired.?

The San Francisco literary community was unkind in their reviews of Anne?s work which hurt her deeply. So Stan retired from teaching after 20 years since they were now quite rich and they moved to New Orleans. Stan continued to write daily and had 8 books of poetry published. He also took up painting and produced remarkable and original images full of wit, color, darkness. They went on to have a second child, Christopher Rice who is now a young novelist living in Hollywood. It is a family as literary as the Bronte?s.

I remember Stan telling us in class about an artist who lost both his hands and told his friend to ?tie the brush to my foot.? Stan Rice died of a brain tumor in 2002 at the age of 60. At the end they had to carry him up the stairs in a wheel chair to his studio where he painted until the very end, as if they had ?tied the brush to his foot.? He described the artist as someone who does not necessarily want to write or paint but instead as someone who has to.

Well, I guess that pretty much ends this thread.

Hi Libra29,

Sorry if you felt a little bit ignored but I'm sure it wasn't anything personal. The only problem with this thread for me was the timing of it. I?m still catching up with some pressing commitments after the Xmas backlog and imagine that other astrologers are in the same position. That said, there were some interesting responses.

Regards
Deb