Gentleman jack & her stars
This should be a Log Entry...but I needed it to have its own page.
I got to watching that show Gentleman Jack. and SHIT! It's so freaking good. Seriously. REALLY. It's the ONLY show I have liked since Xena Warrior Princess (okay maybe a slight smattering of Big Bang Theory and Community Season 1 excepted). I am fascinated by Anne Lister. I started reading her diaries (published as several books). Then I stopped because OMG SPOILER ALERT for the show!! And because Anne Lister and Ann Walker are absolutely wonderful and intricate and actually REAL PEOPLE, I am enthralled. I haven't ever seen a TV Chronicle of "lesbians" ever...well except Xena and Gabrielle. And this has been so neat to watch as my real life as a woman attracted to the fairer sex unfolds before me in Gentleman Jack.
Never have women who fall in love with a woman been portrayed so realistically. IMHO Anne Lister is a lesbian from birth and on the lesbian richter scale where 1 is you like guys and 10 is you like girls, she's a 9.9. And Ann Walker is an openhearted soul who sees the good in people--in humans, not males or females. Her love is her responsibility, no matter who others are or what they do. Evolved. I think Ann Walker fell in love with a human: Anne Lister. I don't think this is a "lesbian love story" per se...I think it's a human one between two women.
Of course it's all very exactly based on Anne's thorough diaries (really historical documents, they are so detailed). So, as someone stuck here AS a woman, and someone who is just as happy to love a female as a male physically (though emotionally, and mentally, males usually lose me), and someone sent to research the lack of evolution in humans, and someone also sent to help them evolve, I am smitten. This show pretty much accomplishes a huge part of my mission.
Anyways, I got to wondering what their Astrological signs were. I assumed Anne Lister was an Aries because WOW DYNAMIC! And, OMG singleness of purpose like I have NEVER SEEN! She didn't seem manipulative though, so I wondered about the rest of her chart. And Ann Walker fascinated me because of her purity and delicate strength...and her ridiculous amount of vacillation between Love, her truth, and societal rules and righteousness. So, I did their charts! By hand. Sadly, I do not have birth times for either so I could not determine rising signs. I did put i my best guesses though.
So, here is my PDF Astrological Assessment of Gentleman Jack: Anne Lister and her life partner, soulmate, and Love, Ann Walker.
The Astrological Charts of
Anne Lister & Ann Walker
charts & notes by Earthbound Alien
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The Planetary Placements at the Birth of Anne Lister
April 3, 1791
Ms. Anne Lister’s natal astrology chart is simply fascinating in its accuracy according to what we now know about her. Only a quadruple Aries could have done what she did. Amazingly, immaturity was mitigated somehow, and though she was perceived as “different”, she was honored as strong and powerful. Not only was Ms. Lister born during an annular lunar eclipse, she was also born in a Void-of-Course moon. A highly unusual occurrence when combined. The eclipse of the feminine celestial energy at her birth is eerily metaphorical for her life path as “Fred” or “Gentleman Jack.” Further, the bizarre occurrences in her life seem perfectly appropriate for someone born in Void-of-Course…she didn’t fit in, and she was capable of anything she chose to do despite this.
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The Planetary Placements at the Birth of Ms. Ann Walker
May 28, 1803
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Ms. Walker’s chart shows how maddening it must have been to be who she was at the time she lived. The triple scorpio certainly leant her to deeply pondering life’s mysteries, and to getting very lost down that rabbit hole if not grounded sufficiently. Her double Gemini would have been maddening with all the information gained in her Scorpio wisdom. Her only grounding would have been her Virgo, and half her Gemini (the half that was acting logically and rationally). The Gemini logic isn't predictable, though, so there would be nothing to count on there.
Geminis are known for their twin personalities …for the separation of their masculine and feminine sides. And Ann Walker was clearly torn down the middle between her love for Ms. Lister and having societal and spiritual approval and acceptance. Sadly, the only grounding being in Virgo or Gemini, this would elicit intense mental cycles and definite downward spirals considering her emotional Scorpio moon. Interestingly her Venus and Mars are both in masculine fire signs of power and passion, so she had a drive to handle things, to find the beauty, and she had a secondary foundation of power. This would likely have been her attraction with Ms. Lister, the fiery passionate connection, and Ms. Lister’s ability to move forward and act on her values. And Ms. Walker’s depth of character and emotion would likely have been unparalleled—something Ms. Lister would have highly prized. I expected to see more Libra with all Ms. Walker’s vacillation mentioned in the journals. However, clearly the wavering comes from the arguing sides of Gemini and the deep dives into the abyss provided by her three planets in scorpio.
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I thought specifically her Chiron in Capricorn retrograde was fascinating. To have the sign of Capricorn, the most earthly of them all, and to have it retrograde in your planet of universal fulfillment, of being in the highest of purposes...well it is just devastating. This would have meant that for all her deep wisdom, for all her purity of heart, for all her Light and Love, she would never feel fulfilled spiritually--or like her mission here was accomplished. She'd be plagued by thoughts of money, status, societal expectations...having a nagging voice in her head, "I need to focus on these, they are what is right!" And, she'd be constantly questioning her mystical understanding, her intuitive knowing, the essence of her femininity, which with her alignment in Scorpio, would have been extremely evolved. It is heartbreaking that such a beautiful soul would ever question her True Essence of Spirit...and yet she was doomed to without Anne reminding her of it. On the flip side: she did a stellar and practical Capricorn worthy job with the whole saving money/staying wealthy thing.
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Knowing how Ms. Walker carried on after Ms. Lister passed away, when I saw this chart come together, I actually cried. I could feel how devastating her loss would have been, and what would happen with these aspects and planets going back and forth in one’s head and emotions without the directional strength Ms. Lister’s Aries was providing as a bannister. Had I done the chart before I knew the two womens’ fates, I would have easily predicted what happened to Ann Walker after Ms. Lister died--with total accuracy.
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The charts of these two women are exceptional and rare. Both clearly with the capacity for not just inner brilliance but the ability to act on it. And when you put them together, it is overwhelming, the strength of their almost opposite energies, and how they intertwine. Anne Lister and Ann Walker truly lived beyond their years in wisdom and evolution; they lived the ultimate love story…one scrawled elegantly and heart-wrenchingly in a script infinitely intertwined across their stars.
