Mary Ann Jones
Posted: Sat May 13, 2017 11:14 pm
Mary Ann Jones, advocate for the disabled and Executive Director of the Westside Center for Independent Living, was born in Omaha, NE January 20, 1944 (time unknown) and died September 23, 2007 in Panorama City, CA from pulmonary embolisms. The chart below shows planetary positions for local noon.
It is not hard to find stories of people born with Sidereal Capricorn Suns who are figures of great accomplishment as a result of - in spite of! - substantial personal disability or deformity. As if they all were cut out of the cloth most clearly seen by Capricornian Alfred Adler, the lives of such Capricornians are testaments to courage and capacity in the face of organic incapacity. In Ms. Jones' case, she was a quadriplegic for the last 40 years of her life, following an auto accident at age 23 in which she broke her neck.
With a neck injury being so pivotal in her life, one might want to see her Moon in Scorpio instead of Libra - it entirely depends on which side of noon she was born. I actually lean toward a morning birth, though, for, while progressed Moon was approaching a conjunction with progressed Sun and opposition to Neptune for a noon birth - and would have been exact if the birth time were in the early PM - the pulmonary embolism draws me more toward sliding the time about 7 hours earlier to mature progressed Moon's square to progressed Mars in Gemini. (And, frankly, the Libra Moon seems to fit her character better.) All of this, however, is speculative. (We might settle for the partile Mars-Uranus conjunction in Taurus for referencing her accident.)
It took about 7 years after her accident - until just after her Saturn return, apparently - for her to emerge from her depression and become active. She majored in communication at Minnesota State University Mankato (graduating with honors) and became involved in political activism aimed at assisting the disabled. She had an extensive résumé in that field.
A few remarks from the LA Times obituary:
It is not hard to find stories of people born with Sidereal Capricorn Suns who are figures of great accomplishment as a result of - in spite of! - substantial personal disability or deformity. As if they all were cut out of the cloth most clearly seen by Capricornian Alfred Adler, the lives of such Capricornians are testaments to courage and capacity in the face of organic incapacity. In Ms. Jones' case, she was a quadriplegic for the last 40 years of her life, following an auto accident at age 23 in which she broke her neck.
With a neck injury being so pivotal in her life, one might want to see her Moon in Scorpio instead of Libra - it entirely depends on which side of noon she was born. I actually lean toward a morning birth, though, for, while progressed Moon was approaching a conjunction with progressed Sun and opposition to Neptune for a noon birth - and would have been exact if the birth time were in the early PM - the pulmonary embolism draws me more toward sliding the time about 7 hours earlier to mature progressed Moon's square to progressed Mars in Gemini. (And, frankly, the Libra Moon seems to fit her character better.) All of this, however, is speculative. (We might settle for the partile Mars-Uranus conjunction in Taurus for referencing her accident.)
It took about 7 years after her accident - until just after her Saturn return, apparently - for her to emerge from her depression and become active. She majored in communication at Minnesota State University Mankato (graduating with honors) and became involved in political activism aimed at assisting the disabled. She had an extensive résumé in that field.
A few remarks from the LA Times obituary:
For those who would like to play with a speculative chart, try setting this one up for 5:00 AM. It not only has the exact progressed Moon-Mars (Pisces-to-Gemini) square for her death by pulmonary embolism, but puts Pluto on the progressed Descendant for the same event. The Mars-Uranus conjunction is exactly setting in the nativity."She was a committed, hard-working yet gracious leader who dedicated her life to furthering the cause of disability rights," said Aliza Barzilay, interim executive director of the Westside center. Most recently, Barzilay said, Jones was trying to improve the healthcare system to incorporate the needs of people with disabilities, advocating for affordable and accessible housing for people with disabilities, and educating those who have experienced domestic violence. "She worked very hard on community accessibility and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act" ...
As an advocate for people with disabilities, Jones "was incredibly level-headed and calming and focused," her husband said. "Other people would get angry, write nasty letters, threaten and wail and moan, and Mary would just calmly talk to people, raise money, advocate for legislation, write grants, make contacts and just slowly bring everything together and make progress." Although she was not confrontational, "she never backed off and never took any guff from anybody at all," he said.