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Judy was a student of the Bristol School of Astrology since it first started up in 1998. She was a keen student and became the holder of the School's Diploma after she successfully finished its 4-year course. She still attended the advanced lessons as she found them so interesting and never missed a lesson, though her continual late arrival in class became a standard joke, which she took very well.When asked to help out to teach the first year students she was excited and could not wait to start. She managed to complete one year but unfortunately, her health did not allow her to take on another year.The article below is an excerpt from Judy's thesis on Ernest Shackleton, which she researched to the point of getting his t.o.b. from a family member. It is our way of remembering Judy and of saying 'thanks for everything'. She would be very proud to have it included in our website. Ernest Shackleton’s Journey“I have served with Scott, Shackleton and Mawson and have met Nansen, Amudson, Peary, Cook and other explorers and in my considered opinion, for all the best points of leadership, coolness in the face of danger, resource under difficulties, quickness in decisions, never-failing optimism and the faculty of instilling the same into others, remarkable genius for organisation, consideration for those under him, and obliteration of self, the palm must be given to Shackleton, a hero and a gentleman in very truth”.Frank Wild, crew member, Nimrod; second in command, Endurance and Quest.An extraordinary testament to an extraordinary man. It was this manner of eulogy that spurred me on to look deeper at those things that contributed to Sir Ernest Shackleton’s character and achievements in life and to delve beneath the obvious in his natal chart to find out more about the person who became the remarkable pioneer. There has been much made of his exploits in recent times and it seems the charismatic charm that held in its sway most of those who met him, has also conveyed itself to many of us through the written word or visual manifestation of drama and documentary.My first task was to find an acceptable time of birth for Sir Ernest. And, while one could make a case for several rising signs and house placements, I have to place my faith in the one that I was given by a member of the Shackleton family, which was 05.00 am LMT, ( 05.28 am GMT) on 15th February 1874, at Kilkea House, Co Kildare. I was also delighted to discover, through some diligent research, the dates of birth of his father Henry and mother Henrietta. As Shackleton’s chart was unveiled before me I was excited to see that it gave an Ascendant-Descendant of Capricorn-Cancer as I had wanted to see more earth and water added to the predominantly air-fire planetary set-up. Even better, when I drew up father Henry’s chart, I found Sun Capricorn, Moon Cancer! When one knows he was brought up mainly by his father, this suggests the important bearing this parent had to play, and it also helped to underline the acceptability of Capricorn rising.Born into a family whose motto was “By Endurance We Conquer”, Ernest Henry Shackleton was the second of ten children and first son in a predominantly female household, which was said to be happy, supportive and secure and the foundation for his eternal optimism and self-belief. Although he was said to be ‘up and down’ and did not have a submissive temperament, he was adored by his eight sisters, who taught him how to charm women into submission, and admired by his younger brother Frank. He was forever playing the role of protector with his siblings (a role he would continue later in life with fellow crewmembers and all around him). He knew only approval and good will and in his large family he learned to approach people cheerfully and with genuine interest. He had the courage of complete confidence and always took people at face value.Ernest was six when his father gave up farming due to the great potato famine in Ireland. He moved his family to Dublin and after attending Trinity College at the age of 33, went on to qualify as a doctor. In 1884 they moved to South London and Henry practised there for the next thirty years.Henry had a grave and cautious exterior but was apparently kind and gentle. He loved poetry and was tolerant, affectionate and strong, disliking mean and petty behaviour. While Ernest’s mother was said by her children and grandchildren to be warm-hearted, happy-go-lucky and unconventional as well as energetic and amusing, it is nevertheless reported that she mysteriously became an invalid and spent all her waking hours of the last forty years of her life in her sick room. One can only conjecture what this ailment may have been and how it must have affected her children, perhaps particularly her elder son. And this could be seen in the Moon-Saturn conjunction. This not only represented his mother’s long-term illness or depression but produced in him an underlying sadness, aloneness and restraint of emotion that was not obvious to the outside world but may also be where his capacity for emotional courage and stalwartness was formed.The fact that Ernest was said to have been brought up largely by his father and maternal grandmother can also be seen in this placement, as Moon-Saturn as well as representing the older woman, could also be seen here as father playing the maternal role added to Henry’s Sun-Moon on Ernest’s Asc-Desc axis. If we look at the parents’ chart we see also that there are some very difficult aspects between Sun and Moon and, despite some happier planetary associations, Henry’s Mars, Saturn and Neptune are in hard aspect with Henrietta’s Moon. We can speculate. Ernest’s own chart comparisons with his father and mother are by no means easy ones. I imagine that although the bosom of his family was a secure and affectionate place, there was an underlying feeling that he was different from the rest and needed to plough his own furrow, which he did by going to sea at the age of sixteen. This was with the blessing of his father, who had originally urged him to go into medicine.As a boy Ernest had a passion for funerals and was known to try and dig his way to Australia. So it would seem that the mysteries of life and the urge to travel and explore had already caught his fancy. He was educated at home by a governess until he was eleven years old. It must have been something of a shock when he first attended school in England, being teased for his Irish brogue and gaining the nickname ‘Mick’. He had a reputation as a fighter and was good at boxing and gymnastics - just what one might expect from a Mars in Aries. Tales suggest that he was an ordinarily troublesome boy and was incapable of staying put, always seeking adventure. A teacher at Dulwich College described him as ‘a rolling stone’, an introvert more interested in books than games, yet had a hard time with his studies. “He could do better”, was the common refrain in school reports. However, it was a major part of Shackleton’s personality and character that he was capable of working immensely hard where there was a goal to be achieved. Not for him the labouring on details of something for which there would be no sight of an end-product. So it was lack of incentive he suffered, not brain. It was at this time that he was drawn to the sea. He had always had a liking for foreign lands and his sisters recalled he enjoyed sea stories and games centred around nautical life. One particular novel that was going to make a considerable impact on him was Jules Verne’s 20.000 Leagues Under The Seas and the mysterious Captain Nemo. Shackleton went so far as to sign himself ‘Nemo’ when first writing from the sea to his future Emily Dorman, and he subsequently used that pen-name for poetry and prose. An individualist and survivalist himself, Henry Shackleton supported his son’s wish to make a career at sea but family fortunes were not good enough for him to join the Royal Navy and at the age of sixteen Ernest tried for the Mercantile marines as an apprentice. He was accepted and joined the Hoghton Tower, a sailing ship, on April 30, 1890, in cargo.The captain described him as “the most pig-headed, obstinate boy I have ever come across”, but said he could not find fault in him. He was always cheerful but was unwilling to be checked and impatience with routine characterised Shackleton all his life. Letters home showed he found drunkenness on the ship hard to accept (he joined the children’s temperance movement as a child but this was to become one of his several vices in later years). He read and recited poetry and would stay in his cabin with his books and this seems to have been accepted by the rest of the crew. He consoled himself with writing poetry, which he was later to publish. He also initiated and edited the South Polar Times and, at a later date, briefly went into journalism and wrote several books. When at sea, he was initially home sick and provided himself with home comforts on board ship. He always continued to feel the pull from those he loved and left at home and felt it important to try and provide these little niceties for his fellow crewmembers.Shackleton was seen as cheerful, energetic and hard-working. Of a restless nature and disliking petty detail, nevertheless, he saw the practicality of doing things properly and painstakingly. He would travel on several expeditions under the authority of other men, including Captain Scott (a man with whom he felt a rivalry and considered to be weak and unprepared), and would learn the necessity of thorough preparation. Despite his need for regular seclusion, Shackleton was an insatiable talker and good mixer, diplomatic and curious about his fellow men. He was wise-cracking, exuberant and noisy at times, had a passion for fresh air and exercise and an outsize share of physical energy. Never idle, he always liked plenty to do and was very adaptable. When he had to turn his hand to physical hard work at any time, he would just knuckle down and keep on going until he had finished. Yet when keeping a diary on board the ship he wrote:” What an egotistical production a diary is”.Shackelton qualified as master mariner eight years later and his years at sea took him to Japan, America and South Africa, but he dreamed of exploring the Poles. It was the ”heroic age” and he wanted his share of fame and fortune. Keen for glory, his first polar experience (in charge of provisions) was under the captaincy of Robert Falcon Scott on board the Discovery, 1901-1904. However, he was to be invalided home with scurvy, the scourge of lengthy polar exploration, and in 1904 he married Emily Dorman, they went on to have three children together. He also left maritime service, doing a stint as a journalist, and then working as secretary of the Scottish Geographical Society, and in 1906 unsuccessfully stood for parliament as a Liberal-Unionist in Dundee. He then joined an engineering firm in Glasgow but was already preparing for his next journey south.Shackleton’s various expeditions can be thoroughly explored in the many books on his life, travels and endeavours. His most famous exploration was the one to the Antarctic with the Endurance, the ship he named after the family motto, where he and his men were due to make the 1800-mile crossing of the Antarctic on foot. Sir Ernest gained most fame for one of the greatest failures of all time, as the ship became stuck fast in ice and subsequently sank, the men having to take to lifeboats after nearly a year and a half on the ice. Shackleton, known as “The Boss”, took five men and sailed in an open boat to Elephant Island, then went back and saved the rest of the crew, all of whom survived. Almost two years after starting out, they reached safety in South America in September 1916.These are some of the salient points from a book on leadership called “Shackleton’s Way”, of Ernest Shackleton’s character and personality and what made him the great commander of men he became. “He was essentially a fighter, afraid of nothing and of nobody but, withal, he was human, overflowing with kindness and generosity, affectionate and loyal to all his friends. There was nothing petty in his own nature. The one thing he demanded was cheerfulness from us all …..what he received from every man was absolute loyalty. He led, he did not drive” – these are just a few.Shackleton returned to England to join the war effort but he was resolved to make one last expedition to the South Pole. By this time, he was a changed man, drinking and smoking heavily. His finances were also in parlous state and although he had ingenious plans for making money and managed to charm both men and wealthy women into parting with it for his expeditions, somehow it seemed to slip through his fingers. But he was determined as always, and set out in 1921. On the way to South Georgia, Shackleton had a heart attack and when they arrived, he suffered a second, fatal heart attack. He died on January 5, 1922, aged 47; but his legacy would grow and in death he would finally receive the fame he long sought in life.But the thing I shall remember best and for me the most moving moment and typical of the man was when The Boss and his five men arrived at the whaling station on Elephant Island. On their way to the manager’s office their dishevelled and extraordinary appearance, after more than 18 months away from civilisation, scared a couple of young boys and an old man. The manager came out to see them and looked at them in horror. When they were questioned as to their business and who they were, Sir Ernest said: “My name is Shackleton”. And the whaling manager wept. The Natal HoroscopeSir Ernest Shackleton was a good-looking, well-built man with broad shoulders and slate blue eyes. He had courage and willpower, a quick brain and the ability to think ahead, with a very fair sense of discipline. He was at his best when things were blackest - a tower of strength and endurance, never panicking in an emergency.Shackleton was basically an up-front man, strongly Aquarian in the sense of his humanitarian, progressive, group-conscious personality. He was able to switch on the charm (Sun conjunct Venus) when it suited him but was also capable of being quite manipulative when he wanted his own way with a friend or within his partnerships, particularly where money was concerned (square to Pluto).Shackleton had a strongly aspected Moon. Conjunct Saturn, sextile Mars, trine Jupiter, opposite Uranus – all of which would have made him come across as rathe cold and aloof at times, not given to open displays of emotion. However, he could also be generous, good-hearted and adventurous, enjoying the company of others, who would be willing to help him in his goals. The Moon conjunct Saturn also bears out the sadness, fear and rejection he felt at his mother’s ‘disappearance’ into her sick room for forty years. It may also be an indication of the care he received from his father and grandmother, who took mother’s place. Or it may have been an indicator of his parents’ relationship, which may not have been all it appeared. This can be borne out by some simple synastry between the two charts and the fact that Shackleton had Mars and Chiron in the 4th house, suggesting emotional tension in the home. Chiron is also on the Mars/Neptune midpoint, which could further a feeling of inferiority brought on by his mother’s lack of presence. At the same time this might have given him some understanding and compassion for those who suffered a similar fate. It was one of the character traits most notably mentioned about Shackleton.Neptune is on the Chiron/N Node midpoint and also on the Mars/Pluto midpoint and reinhold Ebertin's 'The Combination of Stellar Influences' suggests a 'disaster or catastrophe caused by water' with this combination. And with The Sun and Venus sextile Neptune, Shackleton was given the opportunities to see some of his dreams come true.When he and his men were walking over the mountains of Elephant Island to reach civilisation for the first time in more than 18 months, he is said to have talked of feeling the presence of another person. With Mercury in Pisces he may have been inclined to mysticism and an ability to see more than he would say. Perhaps another link with his alter ego, Captain Nemo. Unflagging energy was the order of the day with Sir Ernest and this can be attributed to Mars in Aries. The opposition to Jupiter and the trine to Uranus ( a wedge) is an indication of his explorational nature, to go where no man had gone before. But Mars was also square the Capricorn ascendant and this could have been experienced as frustration and impatience at times. The sextile to Saturn would give the ability to structure his life and probably tempered some of that. Mercury in Pisces on the Moon-Saturn/Mars midpoint indicates his love of poetry and prose as well as his ability to meticulously plan his expeditions. Scorpio on the mid-heaven and the Sun-Venus square Pluto most certainly made an appearance in Shackelton's life and behaviour. There seemed to have been an air of brooding about Sir Ernest and there was no doubt he was not prone to forgive and forget. He did not like his orders being countermanded. When one of his crew exhibited mutinous behaviour, Shackleton never forgave him and he was one of only two of the crew passed over for a medal on their return from Antartica. The second house is well-occupied and there is no doubt with Saturn there that self-esteem was an issue in Sir Ernest's life. To be free to pursue his own interests was what he valued but he needed money to do that and so a lot of energy was put into erratic moneymaking schemes (opposition to Uranus in the 8th house).The Cancer descendant brings more water into the chart. Shackleton said of himself: " I am a curious mixture with something feminine in me as well as being a man..... I hate to see a child suffer or be false in any way". He could be nurturing and gentle, generous without seeking thanks, and was once described as 'a Viking with a mother's heart'. Judy malone To see all content, you will need the current version of Adobe Flash Player to view it. |