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Shirley Maclaine (Uranus, Mars, Sun triple conjunction)
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Maclaine's bold Out on a Limb miniseries seemed as much an aberration at the time it was released as it does now. As much as any artifact of popular culture, Maclaine ushered in New Age phenomena into the living rooms of mainstream America. Channeling, UFO's, reincarnation, and co-creation stimulated,
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confused, shocked, and upset many a television viewer in the late 1980's. In a style typical of Uranus, Maclaine's Out on a Limb—with its talk of the meaning of human existence and religious pilgrimage—was a shocking juxtaposition to the more prosaic television diet of sitcoms, soaps, and docudramas. Through its premiere, the miniseries allowed closeted metaphysicians across the nation to feel more comfortable to disclose their private encounters with the paranormal and religious dimensions of life.
Out on a Limb drew the typical backfire that a Uranus-Sun individual can receive: ostracizing, ridicule, parody, lampooning, and satire. However, Out on a Limb was just the beginning of Maclaine's bold foray into the metaphysical. Since the late-1980's miniseries, Maclaine has written several more books about New Age phenomena, and, probably more than any other celebrity, has helped to pave the bold path into new metaphysical horizons. On her website, Maclaine states, "For me the search for Truth is paramount..."(2) Could there be a more apt statement from a Sun-Uranus individual?
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Ilya Prigogine (Uranus, Mars, Sun triple conjunction)
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Although Prigogine may not be the household name as others on this list are, his pioneering work in chemistry paved the way for an entire new set of life sciences. Winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize, Prigogine's work challenged the long standing notion of Newtonian science: that nature is completely deterministic, mechanistic, and lawful.
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Prigogine's work suggested that natural systems may indeed be much more alive and conscious than the blind and mechanical machines we assume them to be. Prigogine's work not only reversed centuries old assumptions about nature and our models of physical systems, but he also helped to initiate the sciences of chaos and complexity.
As Prigogine entered science as a beginning chemist, he was already pegged as a bit of a rebel. When Omni Magazine asked him, "You were a nonconformist, a dissident. How did you muster up the conviction to go against the prevailing ideology?" Prigogine responded, "I would say, again, this probably corresponds to a deep psychological element that isn't easy to make explicit." (3) We might say that this deep psychological need stems from the archetype of Uranus.
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