Annie Besant: Astrological Relationships
Fohat Magazine (Summer 2007 - by Elizabeth Swoboda and Robert Bruce MacDonald)
Annie Besant was born in London, England, October 1,1847. A considerable amount of information regarding Besant’s life has been given by numerous articles, horoscope delineations and biographies. What all of these investigations agree upon is that Besant was greatly influenced by relationships during her life and as she moved from one relationship to another, these often marked major shifts in her world outlook. Once again, the horoscope might be a most effective tool to describe what is happening.
A birth chart, or horoscope, plots energies that correspond to the various planets that circle in our magnetic field, and it involves the relationship between the larger universe outside and the personal universe within. The energies that correspond with the planets affect us and describe the basic pattern that continues throughout life.
Besant was born with a tight t-square in cardinal signs — most of the planets retrograde — indicating negative traits carried over from a past lifetime. Negative traits are very often simply good traits taken to extreme or used inappropriately. In this context, life is about finding balance and learning wisdom. Looking at her being influenced through relationships, it could be surmised that Besant’s best path would be to identify noble individuals working for causes she admired and who exhibited balance and wisdom, and then use her talents and abilities in the service of the cause they shared. She would then have a friend capable of checking the negative use of her talents, and this would give her a way of using her talents and abilities for good rather than letting her talents and abilities rule her. Does the horoscope support this surmise?
