1 OCTOBER 2025
“My next great adventure, aged 90, is going to be dying. There’s either nothing or something. If there’s nothing there’s nothing, that’s it. If there’s something I can’t think of a greater adventure than finding out what it is. I happen to think there is something because of the experiences I’ve had, because of experiences other people have had. Very powerful ones.”
Jane Goodall
3 April 1934 Sun conjunct Mars Aries, Moon conjunct Ascendant Sagittarius
https://www.astrotheme.com/astrology/Jane_Goodall
The news has just broken that Jane Goodall has passed away aged 91. Tributes are already pouring in, and rightly so, for a woman who leaves a breathtaking legacy of work in the field of nature and animal observation and conservation. She’s the female counterpart to David Attenborough.
Earlier this year, Goodall received America’s highest civilian honour from outgoing President Joe Biden, when she was awarded the Medal of Freedom at the White House. In the speech given to praise her achievements we can hear her chart come to life – a pioneering Sun – Mars conjunction in Aries, and her Moon conjunct her Sagittarius Ascendant, making Jupiter (vision/hope) her chart ruler –
“Jane’s activism, vision, and message of hope have mobilised a global movement to protect the planet.
Above all, she has taught us that when we search for humanity in the natural world around us, we discover it within ourselves.”
JANE GOODALL NATAL CHART
Yet again we see the recent Eclipse degrees at work. The Lunar Eclipse on 7 September fell at 15.32 Pisces, exactly conjunct her natal Mercury 15.48 Pisces. The shadow fell, and as Mercury can be linked to breathing it looks as if it may have been something like pneumonia. She was also in the middle of two long transits, an extraordinary combination of Uranus and Chiron, working both ways –
- Uranus transiting conjunct her natal Chiron in the 6th House (where we locate health) at 00.36 Gemini
- Chiron transiting conjunct her natal Uranus 26.34 Aries
Uranus links to suddenness and am glad that this amazing woman was lucid and active until her journey’s end. The quote above is just perfect for leaving us with no doubt as to her own thoughts about the end of her time on planet Earth – a planet that owes her a debt of immeasurable gratitude …
