The California Homeopath
Journal of the California Homeopathic Medical Society

At midnight April 10, 1755 during the 'Dark of the Moon', a time traditionally associated with the powers of darkness, the underworld, and the unconscious Samuel Hahnemann was born.  In fact, the 'Lord of Darkness', the god whose distinguishing gift was a helmet which rendered him invisible to others, the god-planet Pluto -at that time not yet discovered, unseen, and even now invisible to the naked eye- was exactly aligned with the Eastern horizon and rising in the zodiacal sign of the teacher-prophet, Saggittarius.  At that moment Pluto put his seal of invisible transforming power on the teachings of the man whose occult life-path would lead him directly into contact with the subtle energies of the medicine way he called 'homeopathy', totally challenging the resistance and inertia of the collective unconscious.    

There was no moonlight at all at the moment of Hahnemann's birth.  The moon remained out of sight below the horizon leaving only the light of the stars and the bright shine of the planet Jupiter visible in the night sky of Meissen, Germany.  But Jupiter is the planet of the teacher-prophet ruling Saggittarius and just before its' light faded over the Western horizon, the even brighter combined light of Venus and Mars rose in the East.  For a brief moment then, the light of the Warrior-Goddess (Venus + Mars) in the sign of the mystic (Pisces) opposed the light of the teacher-prophet (Jupiter) in the sign of medicine (Virgo) signifying the beginning of the life long work of a warrior's struggle to integrate mysticism and medicine.

By Donald Grabau

Donald Grabau is a poet-astrologer living in Santa Clara, New Mexico who has been steeped in the stars since 1968. Well, he’s a man in love with the Stars. He saw them as a child growing up in Baltimore, Maryland; he saw them twinkling in the night sky above his backyard. They sang to him; he sang with them. It was the start of a life-long and deeply musical relationship which is currently continuing into his 64th year of life!  He welcomes the opportunity to interpret birth charts through writing and tapes.

His formal educational background includes a BA in English Literature and Philosophy/Psychology from Loyola College of Baltimore, Maryland and an MA from the University of California (San Francisco State, vintage '68) in World Literature and Creative Writing. He's taught astrology to alternative healers in Switzerland, France, and in many states on the mainland US, as well as on the Hawaian Islands. Other education includes working as a formal school teacher, a salesman, a fisherman, a postal employee, a dish washer, a performing poet, a gas station attendant, a house painter, a gardener, an actor, and a video-television artist-teacher-editor. Toot-toot!

A sample of his published writings include Attack Of The Archons, What Is Patriotic Astrology or A Hobbit Is A Habit By Any Other Name, Samuel Hahnemann And The Future Of Homeopathy, Last Tango In America; An Astrological Study of the Patriot Act, AMERICA  ATTACKS ITSELF: Progressed Mars Turns Retrograde In America's Birth Chart : Visit his website at http://www.starpathvisions.com/.