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Moore, Marcia M.
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MOORE, MARCIA M.
Marcia M. Moore, astrologer and occultist, was born May 22, 1928, in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Her father was Robert L. Moore, the founder of Sheraton Hotels, and
her sister was Robin Moore, a novelist who used the pen name Robert L. Moore, Jr.
Marcia Moore was a graduate of Radcliffe College, where she wrote a B.A. thesis on
the subject of astrology. The thesis was later published in book form by the Lucis
Trust. Moore became an active astrologer and a well-known figure in the American
astrological community. Moore’s second husband, Mark Douglas, collaborated with
her on several of her books. Her third husband was Howard Alltounian, Jr. In her final
years, Moore was experimenting with mind-altering drugs, which contributed to her
death on January 15, 1979, in Bothwell, Washington.
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MORIN, JEAN-BAPTISTE (MORINUS)
Jean-Baptiste Morin (Morinus), the French astrologer and physician, was born in
Villefranche, France, in 1583. He received his doctor of medicine degree at Avignon
in 1613. Over the next several years, he was a physician to a bishop, an abbot, and the
duke of Luxemburg. In 1630, Morin became royal professor of mathematics. He was
appointed to draw up the horoscope of the newborn Louis XIV.
Morin developed a method of determining longitudes at sea using the distance
of the Moon from a fixed star. He divided the universe into elemental, ethereal, and
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