This looks very reminiscent of the chart of another famous Buddhist, his holiness the Dalai Lama. Her Saturn in Pisces is making a gorgeous trine to her personal planets in Cancer giving her strength, endurance and stability. Since I do not have her birth time I do not know which house this impressive group of planets falls in. That is one massive, power-house stellium in the sign of the crab. Pema has her Sun, Venus, Pluto, Mars and Mercury in sweet, emotional, watery Cancer. She was the first American woman to be ordained as a nun in the Vajrayana tradition. She has been married twice and has two adult children. She obtained a bachelor’s degree in English literature and a master’s in elementary education from the University of California, Berkeley in the 60s. Pema led the life of a householder before she became a nun. Pema Chodron was born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown in New York City, NewYork on July 14, 1936. Chodron will be celebrating her 80th birthday this upcoming month. She has detailed the obstacles she has endured in her best-selling books. She very openly admits to her struggles with the darker and lower emotions in her life. One of the things that has made Pema Chodron so endearing to her followers, is that she is a very relatable and humorous recanteur. Pema Chodron has become a leading voice for the feminist Buddhist movement in the west. To get a sense of how declinations can be used in astrology, I will take the chart of Tibetan Buddhist nun and author, Pema Chodron. They march to the beat of their own drummer. What the folks from the list above have in common is that they do not fit into the cookie cutter mold. Some famous people with out-of-bound planets in declinations are Babe Ruth, Kurt Cobain Louis Pasteur, Ram Dass, Oprah Winfrey, Al Gore, Peter Gabriel, Albert Einstein, Roman Polanski, Augusto Pinochet, John Wilkes Booth, Jimmy Hoffa, Catherine The Great, Annie Oakley, Davy Crockett, Leonard Nimoy, Amelia Earhart, Giovanni Casanova, Yoko Ono, Elvis Presley, Donald Trump, Mark David Chapman, Cher, Liberace and Wolfgang Mozart. It can be a genius, outlaw or a naughty, petulant child.
It behaves outside the box and it represents a more concentrated energy of that planet. When they do, they are referred to as an out-of-bound planet.
Of special note, the Sun can never go beyond 23 S 26 or 23 N 26. It then continues to make its journey back to 0˚ Aries during the vernal equinox. The Sun reaches the Tropic of Capricorn at 23 S 26 at 0˚Capricorn at the winter solstice. The journey of the Sun continues in the southern hemisphere and is reflected back in similar fashion. It then retraces its journey back to the equator to 0˚ Libra at the autumnal equinox. The Sun reaches this point at 0˚ Cancer on the summer solstice. In the northern hemisphere, the Tropic of Cancer is at 23 N 26. The declination of a planet is its distance north or south of the celestial equator, measured in degrees in latitude. It is also an amazing to tool to use in synastry. When used in conjunction with traditional zodiac chart reading, it gives you a well-rounded interpretation of the native and lets you zero in on important themes in the chart. Magi astrologers work extensively with these measurements and have re-introduced astrologers to this ancient chart-reading method.ĭeclinations are not meant to replace the longitudinal form of planets listed in the astrological chart but is a method that can be used in conjunction. Looking at declinations in the natal chart is slowly gaining ground in the astrological community.