“The soul of the newly born baby is marked for life by the pattern of the stars at the moment it comes into the world, unconsciously remembers it, and remains sensitive to the return of configurations of a similar kind.”

—  Johannes Kepler , book Harmonices Mundi

Harmonices Mundi (1618)

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German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer 1571–1630

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