Andy Kaufman

[Jim Eshelman]

Andy Kaufman A rated: 1/17/1949 6:03 PM Jamaica, New York

Without a doubt, Mr Kaufman was the most unique, bizarre, eccentric stage performer ever by a person who was living (acting) out his planetary life, just as we all do relative to our own living environments. We are all actors and actress on our own individual life Stages with the verbs of astrology—the Planets.

American actor who performed his off-beat, highly original, stand-up comedy and impressionist routine on TV, in clubs and concerts. His act ranged from brilliant to boring to bizarre. Kaufman's twist became darker and was often offensive. Not everyone was amused at the cruelty he leveled at an audience, but eventually, his viewers simply got tired of the abuse. In 1982, after his 14th appearance on SNL, viewers voted him off the show in a call-in poll and the following year, "Taxi" was cancelled. Late in 1983, he was exiled from the TM movement, a bitter blow. His body of work maintains a cult following and he continues to be respected for his original material, performance style, and unflinching commitment to character.

Note his partile Mercury 180 Pluto. Again we see this aspect which Ebertin classifies as ‘a speaker (mostly in specialized fields).’ Mundo Pluto is 00,10 cnj Asc for his most ‘bizzar’ manners on stage and his ‘cult following’. Ebertin says about Pluto Asc:

A fascinating personality.

Also, when we look at a mundoscope we clearly see his Mercury cnj Mars straddling the Dsc opposed Pluto on the horizon as his Natal Signature which made a-lot of his audiences mad as hell. Ebertin says about Mercury/Mars=Pluto:

A fanatical critic, an over-zealous orator. The misfortune of having to suffer heavy attacks or assaults from others.

Be sure to note the bios when he was voted by the public with a huge phone survey to not ever appear on stage again.
Note Uranus cnj antivertex for his unique, original, eccentric manners on stage. Note his Sun cnj WP for being in the spotlight on Stages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Kaufman

http://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Kaufman%2C_Andy

[Jim Eshelman]

Happy birthday, Andy! - What an extraordinary example.

Capricorn, of course, is one of the two preeminent signs for comedians and, in his case, really played out the dark, bizarre size of humor. But mostly, yes, I think you've focused correctly on Mercury, Mars, and Pluto. Pluto a mere 0°10' from Ascendant shows him as utterly outside normal human convention, and with the Capricorn Sun is the type of character that would live "outside the ball park" - imagine a bright-eyed homeless weirdo that you kept running into in the ballpark parking lot.

Mercury-Pluto is often genius - unconventional thinking, certainly - thinking doesn't map to where most people's thinking goes. And Mercury-Mars is hugely creative, acerbic, etc. (Neptune trine-sextile into these adds its own notes.)

This chart was not made for happy human connection. Capricorn Sun is aloof from intimacy in most cases, Pluto rising lives outside the perimeter, Venus trines Saturn exactly.

There is also a double solar factor: a Leo Moon plus Sun less than 1° form WP.

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[Jim Eshelman]

BTW, this is the kind of chart that especially interests me about the Vertex. It isn't so much that Uranus is on the Antivertex - it's what else that implies.

Uranus is not only ecliptically conjunct the Vertex axis, it's also there mundanely: her azimuth is 90°49', meaning that, as measured along the circle of the horizon, Uranus is only 0°49' off the due east-west axis marked by the Prime Vertical. How, I wish we had an easy way to calculate positions around the 360° of the meridian circle, but, to give an approximation, visualize the following:

Uranus is 0°49' off the Prime Vertical.
Measured along the Prime Vertical, Pluto is only 0°10' above the horizon, Mars is 2°03' below the horizon, and Mercury is 4°03' above the horizon.

The entire Prime Vertical (great circle) is always exactly 90° from the entire horizon (great circle).

That means that we have a genuine paran here. Though I can't tell you the exact orbs, the least we know is that - measured around the circle of the meridian - Uranus and Pluto are in very close (probably partile) 90° aspect. Uranus is also in very close "square" to Mars (since anything on the PV is square anything on the horizon), and Uranus is in at least moderate orb of "square" to Mercury. I can't tell you the exact orbs - just that these aspects exist.

I find that fascinating.


PS - Uranus' azimuth is not the best way to confirm her proximity to the actual great circle of the PV. Run a Z-Analogue PV Amp chart - the equivalent of mapping "declination" or "latitude" off the PV. Uranus' PV amplitude is only 0°22'. She's right there on the Great Circle. - Uranus is just past due east (just south of the PV itself), so we can probably lay it out this way, at least as a close approximation:

Mercury 4°03' before Dsc [PV long]
Pluto 0°10' past Asc [PV long]
Uranus 0°38' past PV [PV amp]
Mars 2°03' past Dsc [PV long]

So I'd rule out the Mercury-Uranus paran (well, it's still under 5°). We would have, by this scheme:

0°28' Uranus-Pluto sq.
1°00' Mercury/Mars midpoint on Dsc
1°25' Mars-Uranus sq.
1°53' Mars-Pluto op.
3°53' Mercury-Pluto op. [but 0°30' in the zodiac]
4°41' Mercury-Uranus sq.