Denis Saunders
Born: 7:38 AM EET, 28th July 1920, Kimberley, South Africa [data from Denis] Died: 7:23 pm EET, 14th July 2005, Johannesburg.
We are deeply saddened by the loss of our good friend. For many years he has been an immensely popular and insightful contributor to these pages. Considerations and Sandy Saunders first made contact through the late Anne Cilliers, the German-born Cape Town-based astrologer, who was one of our strongest supporters in the early years. I had asked her who were the better astrologers in South Africa and she told me of Cancri 5, the teacher who had been and still was very much responsible for the enthusiasm and knowledge of so many of the then-current members of the Johannesburg group. I once asked Sandy about his choice of Cancri 5 as his appropriate1 and novel pseudonym. “One tries to keep a low profile,” he told me. 1
55 Cancri is a binary star system (star B is about the size of our q) that lies within the Hyades group in s. It was closely conjunct the Midheaven at Sandy’s birth, which by tradition is a portent of eminence and fortune. Astronomers have discovered four o-sized planets orbiting star A.
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