coriolanus amy in red what is remarkable about wm shakespeare's birthchart - apart from the national security bullshit that i somewhat share with him, in my chart - is that he only has one retrograde for most of his life and that retrograde is for uranus. uranus brings out the eccentric nature of us all, and with shakespeare it is the only major planetary energy he had to turn inward. shakespeare was in tune with the way life hummed along in a forward direction, and the news was not, in a sense of history, 100% favorable. he possesses these conditions until about 1608, when pluto for shakespeare turns retrograde by progression. he buries his mother. he finishes "Coriolanus" and eventually T.S. Eliot regards it as better than "Hamlet". then, it seems he wrote "The Winter's Tale", and wikipedia tells us " early in The Winter's Tale, the royal heir, Mamillius, warns that "a sad tale's best for winter." " a lack of coherence, perhaps. And "Cymbeline" and "The Tempest" are self-parody and apologies. Shakespeare's self-esteem not performing well under a retrograde. he was not a literary giant yet. romance couldn't be comedy, tragedy, history, or faery. perhaps he found his failing. at his death, in 1616, the asteroids lucifer and psyche match my own at birth. i have been tracking this somehow. several bows have been tied this year, and i was ear-perky and wondering why. i will allow that linking it to The Bard might be a youthful and empty precociousness, upstarting, ambition and pride, but i'm betting it is only for humanity. i can imagine making a (to be or not to be pretentious) art out of many pasttimes, weaving new ways to tell a story if only you stared at it long enough, and if only i had the backup and the time. and yet, i've always had the backup and the time perhaps not the discipline determination and sanity. should i depend on others so much, should i live to 113 to see what happens when my own jupiter retrogrades by progression back to shakespeare's endowment of mercury. yes and yes. are there other less crazy people who have more of a case for recognition? always. and mark. 160227 ... epitome of incomprehensibility Coriolanus, I remember you; you were a Shakespeare play I read when I was 18. All the female characters seemed to have flowery names beginning with V. Valeria, Viburna, and Voluminia? Probably not. Vegeta, Velveeta, and Virginia Woolf? Exactly, and everyone is afraid of Virginia Woolf. Carry on. 220125 what's it to you? who go blather from