Last week, Varenne, the best and fastest racehorse of all time, passed away. In his native Italy, Varenne was immensely popular because he broke all speed records during his career, the horse won more than six million in prize money. He was not only athletic and lightning fast, but also elegant and smart. He knew how to dose his strength well and often dominated the race, which earned him the nickname Il Capitano – The Captain – , another was the “Ferrari with brains” because he always ran so intelligently. In the chart of Varenne there will be some striking positions to be found!
Terebellum
The date and place of birth of the racehorse were easy to find out, but the exact time of birth was not, as was to be expected. It is known that the horse was born during a storm in the middle of the night, which earned him the nickname the “Son of the Wind”. It is not astrology but this symbolism is very appropriate for a horse that flew past all competitors so many times! To calculate Varenne’s natal chart, a time of 3:30 AM was taken, but that is certainly not exact, so the cusps and angles must be left out of the delineation, the rest can be used.
Clavis
There must be a key position in this chart, the Clavis Figuris, briefly but powerfully indicating why Varenne was a Ferrari. There is one planet moving very fast and that is the Moon, Bull’s Eye! The lightning-fast Moon is the Clavis, the central position around which it all turns. Because not only does the Moon move very fast, it is also on fate star Terebellum ( even altough we do not know the exact time it will be close ) and a natal position on one of the fate stars indicates that this position will have a decisive influence in the life. That’s not all, because the Moon is conjunct Neptune, the guardian of horses and riders! The horse is a symbol of desire and Neptune is the god of the salty sea, salt water also stands for desires.
Fast Forward
The Moon is in its fall, but in this case that gives even more forward propulsion, because a little further it will go out of its fall and it really wants to go there as soon as possible. The Moon’s sextile with slow Saturn does not seem too good for speed, but Saturn is on Markab in Pegasus, the Flying Horse! Mercury is strong in Gemini, the brains of the Ferrari and stands on Rigel the mighty Hunter, Venus of elegance strong in Taurus falls via anscion on athlethic Mars on Alphard in the many-headed and therefore versatile and difficult to beat Hydra. Jupiter of horses in its own sign is on royal Antares killing all his opponents, his retrogradation shows that it is not ordinary. The icing on this extremely tasty astrocake is the Lunar Mansion Al Badah connected to the body, so the driving force of the Centaur Chiron. Even without a precise time of birth, you still can say a lot about a chart with classical techniques!