CAPRICORN

In Honor of Martin Luther King. Born Michael King in Atlanta Georgia 1929.

King started school at the age of 5 and after his age was discovered he was forced to leave until he was 6. In high school at the age of 15 he was advanced to Morehouse College without formal graduation from Booker T. Washington skipping both the ninth and twelfth grades.

In 1948, he graduated from Morehouse College with a B. A. degree in Sociology. That fall he enrolled in Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania. While attending Crozer, he also studied at the University of Pennsylvania. He was elected President of the Senior Class and delivered the valedictory address. He won the Peral Plafkner Award as the most outstanding student, and he received the J. Lewis Crozer Fellowship for graduate study at a university of his choice. He was awarded a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Crozer in 1951.

In September of 1951, Martin Luther King, Jr. began doctoral studies in Systematic Theology at Boston University. He also studied at Harvard University. His dissertation, A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman, was completed in 1955, and the Ph.D. degree was awarded on June 5, 1955. Dr. King was awarded 20 honorary doctorate degrees from colleges and universities in the US and in several foreign countries.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a vital figure of the modern era. His lectures and dialogues stirred the concern and sparked the conscience of a generation. The movements and marches he led brought significant changes in the fabric of American life through his courage and selfless devotion. This devotion gave direction to thirteen years of civil rights activities. His charismatic leadership inspired men and women, young and old, in this nation and around the world.

Dr. King’s concept of 'samebodiness,' which symbolized the celebration of human worth and the conquest of subjugation, gave black and poor people hope and a sense of dignity. His philosophy of nonviolent action, and his strategies for rational and non-destructive social change, galvanized the conscience of this nation and reordered its priorities. His wisdom, his words, his actions, his commitment, and his dream for a new way of life are intertwined with the American experience.

In 1994 Congress passed the King Holiday and Service Act, designating the King Holiday as a national day of volunteer service. Instead of a day off from work or school, Congress asked Americans of all backgrounds and ages to celebrate Dr. King's legacy by turning community concerns into citizen action. The King Day of Service brings together people who might not ordinarily meet, breaks down barriers that have divided us in the past, leads to better understanding and ongoing relationships, and is an opportunity to recruit new volunteers for ongoing work.

PISCES

In Honor of Albert Einstein. Born March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Germany.

Born into a non-practising Jewish family, Einstein did well even with a speach impediment while attending Catholic elementary schools. At an early age of 10 he was introduced to Emmanual Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, and Euclid's Elements giving him the fundamentals of deductive reasoning. His family moved to Italy when he was 15 of age in search of business and while there Albert wrote his first scientific work on magnetic fields. The family moved again but insisted Albert stay behind with his studies. He did not do well without them and was persistent in rejoining them with a doctor's excuse without finishing his education. He applied to a university in Switzerland, but without a certificate of education he had to take an entrance exam in which he did not pass. Thus his family sent him to finish secondary school in Switzerland to live with Professor Jost Winteler. He eventually graduated and went on to Zurich to study and graduate in Physics and Mathematics. He denounced German citizenship to avoid the military and became a Swiss citizen in 1906.

Einstein is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass-energy equivalence, expressed by the equation E = mc2. Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Peace Prize in Physics for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect. Einstein's many contributions to physics include his special theory of relativity, which reconciled mechanics with electromagnetism,, and his general theory, which was intended to extend the principle of relativity to non-uniform motion and to provide a new theory of gravitation. His other contributions include advances in the fields of relativistic cosmology, capillary action,critical opalescence, classical problems of statistical mechanics and their application to quantum theory, an explanation of the Brownian movement of molecules, atomic transition probabilities, the quantum theory of a monatomic gas, thermal properties of light with low radiation density (which laid the foundation for the photon theory), a theory of radiation including stimulated emission, the conception of a unified field theory, and the geometrization of physics. Einstein published over 300 scientific works and over 150 non-scientific works. In 1999 Time magazine named him the Person of the Century. In wider culture the name 'Einstein' has become synonymous with genius.

Einstein is a great example of some typical Piscean characteristics i.e. attachment to the family but unable to find peace and equilibrium independently. An example is falling in love and marrying an older woman who was never accepted into the family, thus ending in divorce. Unable to be alone without relationship... marries a cousin to manage personal affairs and reestablishing the needed family. An interesting notable Piscean trait is the inability to take a definite stance because of the nebulous nature Neptune emits. An excellent and welcomed example is his various un definable ideas about God. The quote above is just one view.