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Star Patterns, published by Alphabet Magazine, Issue no. 4, June 2026

Alphabet Magazine Editor In Chief, Donatien Grau

Extract – for full text visit: https://alphabet-magazine.com/

The science of astronomy was developed five thousand years ago by the Sumerians in Mesopotamia. The Sumerians believed that the movement of the stars and planets influenced every aspect of their lives, which led them to develop the art of astrology to be able to apply their observations of the cosmos to their lives. The original connection between astronomy and astrology has not survived into the present. I therefore found it very curious that physicists and cosmologists often name their discoveries after ancient archetypes. Contemporary cosmology backed up by electro-magnetic and gravitation data and the universal language of mathematics is the creation myth of our society.

I was born one second into Capricorn with Virgo ascending and my moon in Taurus. Luckily for me they were all earth signs, since Neptune seemed to have a great influence in my chart providing me with imagination and a visionary disposition. I was told that had I not had three earth signs, Neptune and its watery world might have led me to drugs and madness. Uranus gave me a rebellious character unsuitable for employment. Saturn slowed everything down and put obstacles in my way.

My first horoscope was cast in Athens by Haskell Wexler, who at the time may have been shooting America America with Elia Kazan. A summer in the early sixties, the ease of chance meetings in Athens, Haskell was a friendly, unassuming man, and after a conversation about birth signs, he offered to cast my horoscope. I only found out later that he was a great cinematographer.