Rupert Sheldrake

Rupert Sheldrake, born on the 28th of June 1942 in Newark-on-Trent, is an English biologist and author best known for his theory of morphic resonance, the idea that memory is inherent in nature and that natural systems inherit a collective memory from all that came before them. Trained at Clare College, Cambridge in biology and biochemistry, he won a fellowship to Harvard, took a PhD in plant development, and worked as a researcher at the Royal Society and as a plant physiologist in India, before turning to parapsychology, telepathy and the psychic staring effect, work that mainstream science has widely rejected as pseudoscience.

His chart is a study in depth. The Sun sits in Cancer, the sign of the mother, but drops into the eighth house, the phoenix realm of death, rebirth and the buried and unseen: a nurturer drawn to illuminate the darkest, most hidden corners of biology. His Moon in Capricorn is the sober, disciplined mind of the one who grew up early, set in the second house of income, values and self-worth. Scorpio rises, the piercing, all-or-nothing mask of one who cannot easily be fooled, forever digging beneath the surface of the accepted world.