Stephen Colbert's Sun Taurus-Moon Gemini personality blend

With his exact birth hour a mystery, there are at least three potential natal horoscopes for comedian, actor, and political satirist Stephen Colbert. Tap or click for the data some of which has been rectified based on the timing of known life events and view versions of his natal chart while you're there.

Born May 13, 1964 in Washington DC, Mr. Colbert, now host of CBS's The Late Show, has Sun in Taurus with a chatty Gemini Moon. His rising sign may be Jupiter-ruled Sagittarius (4Sag21 in the 9:02 pm version, 22Sag42 in the 10:30 pm chart) which loudly hints at a comedic persona (Jolly Jupiter!)

This is an Earth-Air blend of energies that supply him with innovation, efficiency, and rationality. Abstract thought melds with practical considerations to form the clear-headed, scientific approach of a pragmatic idealist. When Sun is in creative Taurus and Moon is in communicating Gemini ruled by Mercury, the messenger and trickster, we see hilarity concerning everyday issues and satire of the public figures who well deserve the ridicule.

Other traits many include the wit and flippancy of a penetrating conversationalist graced with 'the gift of gab'--a bit of an Irish signature. A charming opportunist, Mr. Colbert has an ability to sway the views and perspectives of others which makes a job on TV the perfect soap box for his Gemini Moon to broadcast from while the Taurus Sun keeps things down-to-earth. Of course, parenting children tends to puncture big heads, too!

On a difficulty level, Mr. Colbert may have to adjust some bullying tendencies and work on his lack of consideration for the emotional side of things if he should overdo his reliance on rational analysis. 'Unflappable and detached' describe his style but there is also a great sense of playfulness which the public sees in each episode of The Late Show and in every facet and stage of his comedy career.

Then if we check for an apt 'Image for Integration' describing Stephen Colbert's solar conscious mind when working harmoniously with his lunar unconscious, we find this: "A wealthy publisher launches another new project." (Sun Sign-Moon Sign, Charles and Suzi Harvey) which reminds me of his hilarious books!

Unsurprisingly, the list is impressive of famous folk who share the Sun Taurus-Moon Gemini personality blend such as: Edward Lear, Teilhard de Chardin, Sigmund Freud, Catherine the Great (Russia), Empress Marie Theresa (Austria), Fred Astaire, David O. Selznik, explorer Robert Peary--and the brilliant George Carlin.

And for the sake of Jolly Jupiter, here is a popular illustration by Edward Lear from his Nonsense Drolleries, The Owl and the Pussycat (1889):

Public domain, published prior to January 1, 1923; freereaders.org

Today's 8th anniversary of 9/11 attacks and the Initiate

First let me express my heartfelt condolences to all the family members and friends of those whose lives were so callously extinguished in the attacks of 9/11/01, and provide a link to the newly created National Day of Service and Remembrance website.

With today being the 8th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, President Obama has called for renewed resolve for chasing the perpetrators.

Wonder if he includes the attacks' enablers (and possibly their co-perpetrators) in America within his resolve? If so, he wouldn't have far to chase, imo.

Astrologically speaking we know that today the Sun has returned to its '19Virgo' degree as on the morning of Sept 11, 2001, and is in conjunction with depressive, realistic loss-bringer, Saturn, planet of accountability. Sun = the leader in a national chart so we hear the president's shout-out to find those accountable.

But I don't think he actually means all of them, do you?

'19 Virgo': "A Swimming Race"...ELIMINATION.

positive expression: man's capacity for any extreme of self-pointedness he may find valuable in a given case;

(As in using 9/11 to score political points? We've had 8+ years of that in America. jc)

neg/unconscious/shadow side: inadequate self-dramatization. (The Sabian Symbols in Astrology, Dr. Marc Edmund Jones.)

Quoting in part from Dane Rudhyar, in his An Astrological Mandala, for '19Vir':

'Keynote: The stimulation that comes from a group effort toward a spiritual goal.

A seeker after spiritual rebirth actually does not strive alone. It is Man who, acting through the most advanced individuals of the race, is taking a step toward "rebirth," or toward a new mutation. The personal ego-centered ambition to succeed and to be "first" is indeed a sign of expectable spiritual failure.

What is needed is EMULATION, not competition.'


And since I occasionally include a Sabian Symbol's opposite degree as its Illumination Point (because it's one of the coolest things about the Sabian Symbols - you can peek beneath the hood of awareness for more info), here is the symbol for...

'19 Pisces'" "A Master Instructing his Pupil"...ELUCIDATION.

pos: high executive ability through patient investigation and genuine psychological insight;

neg/unconsc/shadow side: a desire to live by rule and a conceit of empty knowledge.

And Rudhyar adds quite a few more details for '19Pisc' which you may or may not think apply to today's observances. Or perhaps, like me, you agree the symbol relates on a deeper level to the transfer of power and propagandistic 'terror-fighting' from Bush to President Obama - "renewed resolve" indeed...

'Keynote: The transfer of power and knowledge which keeps the original spirit and creative Impulse of the cycle active and undeviated.

The Hindu ideal of the sacred relationship between guru and chela (disciple) has of late become familiar to a vast number of young and not-so-young people. The doctrine of "the Apostolic succession" in the Roman Catholic Church has a similar significance. The Power and archetypal knowledge released "in the beginning" of any cycle (or at Creation) must be perpetrated until the very Last Day -- the Omega state of which Teilhard de Chardin glowingly speaks.

This Power is the "self" of the cyclic manifestation, the unchanging Tone (AUM) of all existence within this cycle. It can be transmitted form master to disciple at the latter's "Initiation." It must be so transmitted for when the line of transmission (in Sanskrit, guruampara) is discontinued, the cyclic process begins to collapse in futility and spiritual darkness.'

(This symbol)'... is a clue to the supreme technique necessary for the continuation of all manifestation of power and spiritual understanding. The transmission is from person to person; it follows a general, unchanging pattern, yet if operates in terms of particular and individual circumstances. Keyword: INVESTITURE.' #

You know what hay is always made of the US' "peaceful transfer of power" during our Inaugural times, so I believe that "in the beginning" and the rest may be interpreted as referring to the founding of America and the succession of power through the presidential line, which, if you think as I do, means that though the face in the Oval Office changes, the original intent and the ultimate mission of our invisible plutocracy (publicly centered in that Freemasonic White Lodge we call "the White House'), remain the same through "the baton-passing" of January 20 @ noon in Washington, DC.

And the secret message from the old president to the new - the one left in the drawer of the Resolute Desk which we-the-people are never privy to - must be some very fine occult reading for the new "Initiate."

~:~

Here's Teilhard de Chardin's Wiki bio which contains a link to his concept of the Omega Point and to his development of Vernadsky's Noosphere.

Jesuit priest, philosopher, geographer, and paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin, was born May 1, 1881. Synchronistically, I just peeked at a natal chart for him using 'noon' (as one tends to do for famous people whose birth hour is unknown) and natal Moon = 16 Gemini+, the Moon's position right now here in Georgia.