On Metaphysics…

Letter to Gillas June 14 1960

“… One thing that my description does not say is that I am fond of children. In fact, I am beginning to think that it is my most marked characteristic. Wherever I go I am surrounded by a group of children. I love them at all ages and have been told that I am a teacher of children in the new age…”
Continue reading Henry In His Own Words: Double Capricorn, Desert Philosopher and Authentically Interesting Person – Part 6

This is my grandmother, Henry’s wife. I only met her once. She was a Cancer with Venus in Cancer, a Gemini Moon and a stellium in Leo. Henry met her when he was in his early 30′s. She was 19 and they fell in love.

They married and he built her a house. He built her an adobe house, which is interesting in light of her chart which has the Moon (home) square Uranus (eccentric) and Saturn (dirt)!

So she winds up living in this odd mud house with a double Capricorn. Henry was a father figure who provided security to her Cancer sun.
Continue reading Henry’s Wife – An Interlude

Henry was a very early user of dating clubs. He wrote women all over the country in an effort to find a mate. He wrote dozens and dozens of them over thirty years…

Letter to Essense June 3 1962

“…Altho I think I am a pleasant and agreeable person with a smile for everyone, I have to admit that I doubt if ever I could bring myself to smile into a mirror. In fact, I have grown so old and ugly that I avoid mirrors and never peer into one except when I shave…”
Continue reading Henry In His Own Words: Double Capricorn, Desert Philosopher and Authentically Interesting Person – Part 5

Henry on relationships:

Letter to Toombs May 6 1959

“… Sorry to hear of your son’s unsuccessful marriage. However, I think your attitude towards the experience indicates motherly wisdom. My daughter and her husband both have hot tempers and bad dispositions. Neither of them believes in divorce, but they have some terrible disturbances at times. When I see either of them in a bad mood and the possibility of trouble, I excuse myself and go elsewhere. My motto is peace at any price. I try to love everyone and will make most any sacrifice to avoid an altercation.

Letter to “Spencer” May 18 1954

“… Hermits are peaceful and live in complete harmony but it is an unnatural life, and I have come to believe that to be at ones best, one should meet and talk to lots of people…”
Continue reading Henry In His Own Words: Double Capricorn, Desert Philosopher and Authentically Interesting Person – Part 4

With all those planets in Sagittarius, Henry got around…

Letter to my mother Oct.19 1955

“…I am still here in Mazatlan swimming and resting. Now I can walk 30 or 35 feet on my hands. I do this on the beach, just before I swim…”

Letter to Lowther June 7th 1959

“In July I plan to go back to Los Angeles to attend the annual convention of the Vegetarian Society and also another big flying saucer convention. But I am not sure about the race up Pikes Peak yet. It depends on how the pain in my chest develops after I try another climb or two. If it has anything to do with my heart, I may have to stop running up mountains.
Continue reading Henry In His Own Words: Double Capricorn, Desert Philosopher and Authentically Interesting Person – Part 3

These excerpts are all from letters to my mother. My mother is a double Aquarius and you can see the Aquarian themes here. He is making sure she knows he is no impinging on her freedom…and “friendship” is an Aquarian concept.

Henry was born in 1900, so it is easy to track how old he was when he wrote these letters. He is 55 when he can walk on his hands, for example.

Letter to my mother June 14, 1954 (My mother is fifteen here)

“…I thought you might want to visit your mother while they came over. I am not telling you what to do, just asking for information; you just do what you want to do.”
Continue reading Henry In His Own Words: Double Capricorn, Desert Philosopher and Authentically Interesting Person – Part 2

For the new Moon in Capricorn… Meet my grandfather. Henry. Here is a partial list of his claims to fame:

- Spontaneously standing on his head in grocery stores to demonstrate the benefits of a healthy diet.
- Climbing the same mountain 127 times, over a 50 year window, last assent at 83 years old.
- A vegetarian, from the early fifties until he died
- Attending flying saucer conventions
- Oldest person in the 20 mile walkathons year, after year, after year
- Taking me to meet Peace Pilgrim
- Living in a three bathroom, no bedroom house.
- Building an underground house.
- Coaxing the #2 ranked ping pong player in China to his house to play a few games on his homemade adobe ping pong table.
- Having his truck stolen by me.
- Keeping a carbon copy of every bit of correspondence he wrote for more than 50 years, personal or otherwise.
- Never raising his voice, and I mean never.
- Being first in line to volunteer when the first organic food co-op was opened in the city, and being at least 40 years older than anyone else there.
- Sleeping outdoors in front of his house in the desert, ten months a year
Continue reading Henry In His Own Words: Double Capricorn, Desert Philosopher and Authentically Interesting Person – Part 1

A few days ago someone wrote me with a question about Jupiter in synastry. I couldn’t quite coax it into a post but I’ve come up with this… the story (Jupiter) of the unlikely connection between two men with Jupiter in Sagittarius.

My grandfather, Henry was extraordinary by anyone’s standards and as a double Capricorn with 4 planets in Sagittarius (including Jupiter and Saturn), I’d have to say he was born that way. The soldier is also extraordinary however I’d say he was born with his work cut out for him.
Continue reading The Soldier And Henry: Jupiter In Sagittarius Across The Generations

While writing the bit about the soldier and his martial music, it occurred to me my grandfather, Henry also used to listen to music in the morning specifically to set the tone for his day.

Henry was a peaceful man who did not raise his voice even once in 50 years. With five planets and his north node in Sagittarius, he was a contemplative man focused on spiritual and philosophical things in the habit of taking an hour each morning to sit in the “sun room” of his house each morning and listen to an hour of classical music before heading outside to work sun up to sun down in double Capricorn style. He said the beautiful music soothed his soul and to look at him, you’d have to believe it.

I think the soldier gets the same effect listening to his martial music…. he’s just got a different soul, is all. So what about you?

What kind of music soothes your soul?

Eliza wrote on the “Too Old to Leap, Mars / Saturn in Synastry” blog:

“… I’ve been pondering about the effects of the Mars (me) square Saturn (him) synastry aspect I have with my boyfriend. I always seem to be the keen ‘leaper’ and am starting to feel a little rejected by the ‘I’m too old’ rebuff I get from him. Is this Mars/Saturn at work then? I wonder how we can get round this satisfactorily…”

I responded:

Yes that’s Mars Saturn but I don’t have much I can add. I really think if Saturn won’t work its end, Mars is going to be incredibly miserable.

Continue reading Astrology and Relationship: Too Old To Leap Redux – Saturn In Aspect To Mars in Synastry, Happy Capricorn… Etc.