Aug 22: Ray Bradbury & Valerie Harper

[Jim Eshelman]

Bradbury, Ray. August 22, 1920, 4:50 PM CST, Waukegan, IL (AA).
Harper, Valerie. August 22, 1939, 4:30 AM EDT, Suffern, NY (AA).

The prolific Bradbury, whose most famous work is surely The Martian Chronicles, was indeed born with Mars near MC (but more than 7° out), his closest angularities being the fantasy-infusing Mercury-Neptune conjunction on WP. He had a close mundane Sun-Uranus opposition that is much wider in the ecliptic.

Harper's chart shows a figure of enormous strength, endurance, and vitality - "power" in general. While she is known to most for her comedic TV roles, Marion and I visited with her and her husband in the last year or so of her life, when she had already beaten one round of serious illness and was fighting ferociously against her cancer. Her strength of will seemed unwavering, and she was unmistakably upbeat and her heart wide open. It's all in the chart.