Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez
(American Spanish: (6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist,
short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo
throughout Latin America .
García Márquez started as a journalist, and wrote
many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best known for his
novels, such as One Hundred Years of
Solitude (1967), Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) and Love in the Time of
Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and
widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style
labeled as magic realism, which uses magical elements and events in otherwise
ordinary and realistic situations. Some of his works are set in a fictional
village called Macondo (the town mainly inspired by his birthplace Aracataca),
and most of them explore the theme of
solitude.
Márquez had
his radix Sun [15pi] conjunct Achernar – a great first magnitude star in the
far southern sky, marking the end of Eridanus, the River flowing into the Universal Sea . Aratus called Eridanus “The River of Many Tears ” but with the
cleansing waters of Aquarius also here many work to alleviate the sufferings of
others.
Eclipses
tend to bring about endings and new beginnings especially if they fall on natal
placements as the April 15 lunar ecplise probably did for Marquez whose radix Moon for
a noon birth is 26ar. The eclipse Sun [25ar] was conjunct Kurdah [24ar23], xi
Cepheus in King Cepheus’ breast [1]. Cepheus is portrayed as a solitary, scholarly and cultured
monarch [2] so that it is easy to see why most of Marquez’s work explore the theme of solitude.
About the
stars of the constellation Cepheus, Diana Rosenberg writes:
From King Cepheus’ breast come extremely
passionate, sensitive people – an extraordinary number of great artists, poets,
playwrights, composers, actors and dancers have placements here…. here are 1st
century BCE Roman poets Ovid, Horace and poet Martial, 14th century
lyric poet Petrarch, Norwegian rustic poet Aasmund Vinje, poets Wordsworth, Whitman,
Verlaine, Dryden and many others.
The lunar
eclipse of April 15 occurred just a day after the Sun’s entry into sidereal
Aries. A chart drawn for the Ingress at Mexico
City has the current much talked of Cardinal Grand Cross with Uranus-Pluto on the
angles. The Cardinal Grand Cross (*) symbolizes the potential to break through
as well as break free from whatever enslaves. Marquez’s soul chose to break
free from the confines of the body.
[2] Secrets
of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg (v.1, p.97)
(*) In the draconic zodiac, the Grand Cross (exact on 21 April) occupies 15 degrees of the mutable signs
straddling Marquez’s Sun (15pi) and Achernar…the River Eridanus flowing into
the Universal Sea.
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