Babies May Come From the Stars

A Cesarian section-born child was born Wednesday morning, March 17th, 1999. Little "Lilliana," as her brothers and new parents had already been calling her, chose the time of her birth with a little help from a surgeon. She showed up with all ten toes (in good health) at 8:16 a.m.

The history of the astrologer and this client begain In October ' 97 when I was invited to a party. As an astrologer, a chart is always handy to make a social choice. I don't  remember the aspect but it was a definite "meet someone interesting tonight" kind of chart, so I accepted the invitation. A boyfriend maybe? As it turned out, no. But something very interesting, nonetheless.

A client.

At the party I was introduced to the hosts and several guests. They wanted to know my line of work. When I confessed my unconventional choice of career, their mouths gaped open with obvious dismay, "But you LOOK so intelligent!"

I received some good-natured teasing, and could only astonish my hosts, but I did make a new friend with one of the guests. I'll  call him "George," for confidentiality's sake. He's the divorced father of two young boys (in 1999, ages 5 and 7) and a business owner in San Francisco. He's educating his children at the Chinese school in SF where they are learning to speak and read in this "Pacific Rim," language. A week or two later he called to schedule an appointment. During the consultation he asked, "Can I ever have another baby?"

I had to rule him out as boyfriend material right there. But I was touched. It took a few minutes to "get the picture." There was indeed a possibility. Jupiter would spend some time transiting the man's 5th house of children, and would go retrograde there conjoined his natal Jupiter--expansion. That would be around July 17th, 1998--a good nine or ten months later. So there it was, a fairly plain, textbook description. If that isn't a baby, I don't know what is.

"Yes" I told him, and when. He looked into my eyes.

"How?"

For a moment, neither of us could answer. The current girlfriend was leaving the picture, thus the reason for the reading. Not a thrashing for him emotionally, just a time to assess his life, and the idea of our reading came as a natural extension. But, I tried to demonstrate the future possibilities as signified by the same planet, Jupiter.

"It's a question of following the signals around things international in your life," I remembered saying. He was already in the import business, so that seemed for the moment, unhelpful.  In January 1998, he e-mailed me. " My ex-wife and I are really getting along well," he said, giving me her birth information. I already knew she was not about to have another child. I could see without actually looking at the chart that this was a temporary delusion, not worthy of a fee.

We talked for a half an hour. I reminded him that Jupiter was "the long journey" long distance, foreign country, legal affairs and Internet marketing symbol of his chart. The ninth here is ruled by Jupiter's  exaltation: Cancer. The Moon is in the 1st house, 23 Scorpio, trine to the Jupiter in the 5th. This should be like falling off logs.

"Have you listed yourself as "Single and Available" in the personals on the Internet?" I asked, thinking "International." As a matter of fact, he had. In March he phoned for an appointment. "I met this wonderful woman on the Internet, " he said. He had been in contact with her only ten days, but the thought raised the hackles on the back of my neck. I was ready to pounce on anyone who wasn't  going to be perfectly lovely to this really great man. "Oh yeah? Gimmee the birth data." The astrologer requires time, place and date of birth to start any project.

Off I went to work this out. When I consulted with him that mid-March evening, I was all smiles. "Cool, George. This could happen. You two could have a baby within the year. I hear wedding bells." He stopped the tape. He wanted it to be something she could hear also. Since he was still wooing her I obviously had to remove that statement; they had not yet met. It turns out she's from South America, working for the her country's consulate, and only lately her post to the government transferred to a Chinese-speaking country. 

On the e-mail, he learned that she had been diagnosed as incapable of carrying a baby. In early June 1998, they met in San Francisco. We picnicked together and I was really happy for them both. They were really, truly in love. By 17 of July, she was already suspicious: never in her life were her periods late, ever. Against all the medical establishment's opinion, we later learned, "Oh yes, you are!"

The rest was history on March 17th, exactly a year after George and I discussed this beautiful woman's chart. Because of her delicate womb (the subject of all the physician worry) she had a C-section instead of a natural child birth.

This child is going to be very international. And she's got two brothers who are learning to speak Chinese. What is interesting to the astrologer is the experience was marked in the man's chart for July 17th, 1998. The potential in the woman's chart was marked for March of 1999, describing the conception and birth periods between their charts.

In retrospect, this couple might have found their way without the help of an astrologer. But, ignorance of the opportunities in front of them might have delayed high-risk events, perhaps past the point of opportunity. I give credit to the father who knew what he wanted, and to the mother looking for love late in life (almost 40).

To both of them goes the credit of willingness to design their lives around their personal potentials.

©1999-2001 Claire-France Perez