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Last night I taught a webinar for the Astrology University on the theme of Meetings with Remarkable People, during part of which I looked at the remarkable relationship of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan, her youthful teacher. Helen was made both deaf and eventually blind at 19 months old by a severe childhood illness. Distressed by the world around her that she sensed but could not participate in, Helen became a wild and disruptive child, wreaking havoc in the gentrified environment of her southern country home.

Anne Sullivan, herself partially sighted, had escaped the poorhouse as a young teenager by pleading with a visiting dignitary that she receives an education. With that education finally under her belt she accepted the first job that could pay her enough to continue her life - until on the 3rd of March 1887, she stepped off a train in Tuscumbia, Alabama full of prejudice against the south, and yet full of determination to reach out to her wilful charge, Helen. Helen Keller, with the transiting nodes on March 3rd, exactly square her natal Pluto in Taurus, later described that day as her soul’s birthday.