Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)

Jupiter in Cancer = political theory of social movements

I choose Hannah Arendt to initiate the House of Wisdom’s natal database.

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Hannah Arendt was a German-born political philosopher whose work reshaped modern thought on totalitarianism, moral responsibility, and the nature of political life. Born in Hannover and raised in Königsberg, she was the only child of secular Jewish parents. Intellectually precocious, she studied philosophy under Martin Heidegger at Marburg and later completed her doctorate with Karl Jaspers at Heidelberg in 1929. Her early relationship with Heidegger—who would later join the Nazi Party—remained both personally and intellectually formative, even as their lives diverged amid the moral upheavals of the century.

Arendt’s first marriage to the philosopher Günther Stern ended in divorce; she fled Nazi Germany in 1933 after a brief arrest, working in Paris with Jewish refugee organizations until her internment by Vichy authorities. In 1940 she married Heinrich Blücher, a German Marxist intellectual, and together they escaped to the United States the following year. Settling in New York, Arendt mastered English, entered the circle of émigré thinkers around Partisan Review, and began a prolific career as scholar and writer.

Her first major book, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), traced the emergence of Nazi and Soviet systems to imperialism, mass ideology, and the destruction of the public sphere. This was followed by The Human Condition (1958), a study of labor, work, and action as the fundamental modes of human existence, in which she argued that the vitality of politics depends on public engagement rather than private necessity. In On Revolution (1963), she contrasted the political ideals of the American and French Revolutions, identifying in the former a more durable model of civic freedom.

Arendt became an American citizen in 1950 and taught at Princeton, the University of Chicago, and ultimately the New School for Social Research. Her 1963 report on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, serialized in The New Yorker and later published as Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, provoked fierce controversy. She argued that Eichmann was not a monstrous sadist but a bureaucrat whose thoughtlessness enabled vast crimes—a claim that challenged conventional ideas of moral evil and personal responsibility.

Throughout her career, Arendt explored the tension between thinking and acting, private conscience and public responsibility. Her unfinished final work, The Life of the Mind (published posthumously in 1978), returned to these themes through the faculties of thinking, willing, and judging. She died in New York City on December 4, 1975. Arendt’s legacy endures as one of the 20th century’s most penetrating voices on freedom, totalitarianism, and the fragile conditions that make human plurality—and politics itself—possible.

ADB Rodden Rating AA, Quoted BC/BR, 9:15 PM, ASC 8CA53

Proposed rectification: 8:55:54 PM, ASC 4CA50

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Victor model: factors favoring Jupiter in Cancer as victor are:

• Angular in the 1st house in the sign of its exaltation

• Moon’s separation from Saturn and application to Jupiter

• Moon’s reception of Jupiter by sign

• Jupiter’s generosity with Venus by bound

Physiognomy model: factors favoring Cancer as the primary significator

• Ascendant sign is Cancer

• Rising decan is Cancer

• Jupiter occupies the Ascendant sign of Cancer

• Cancer physiognomy best seen in early photographs showing ovate face and center part hairstyle.

Moon’s Configuration

• Moon separates from Saturn and applies to Jupiter, nocturnal, waning Moon

• Movement from Saturn, the greater malefic, to Jupiter, the greater benefic, is given favorable treatment by Maternus and is consistent with Arendt’s transition away from the statelessness imposed on her by totalitarian regimes toward a teaching career in political theory and moral philosophy. The figure is nocturnal, which means both superior planets are out of sect; this makes Saturn harsher and Jupiter less benefic. For Maternus, the waning Moon is less favorable than a waxing Moon. Instead of the "rich, famous, and powerful" delineation for a waxing Moon separating from Saturn and applying to Jupiter, the waning Moon yields administrators, managers, and the like—all with a lower level of authority. Arendt was a prominent intellectual within her field, but she did not operate on the highest level attained by society’s power brokers.

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