Another dramatized version of naturalist, zookeeper and conservationist Gerald Durrell’s books and family, is now on television. He was the younger brother of the novelist Lawrence Durrell, so a talented family.
Gerald Durrell, 7 Jan 1925, in India, lost his engineer father at 3, moved to the UK and then to Corfu when he was 10 when he started collecting local animals as pets. He was a Capricorn Sun opposition Pluto square Mars in Aries – so ultra-determined, fearless, short-tempered and overflowing with initiative. He had a tough Water Grand Trine of Saturn in Scorpio trine Pluto trine Uranus in Pisces, formed into a Kite by Pluto opposition Sun – so quite a powerful and private personality. He also had a Gemini Moon opposition Venus (Mercury) in Sagittarius square Uranus giving him a restless and adventurous spirit.
There’s no birth time but his chart has striking similarities to Rudyard Kipling’s.
His brother Lawrence Durrell, 27 Feb 1912 1am Jullundur, India was similarly strong-minded though in a different way. He had a Pisces Sun (Mercury) on the point of a T Square to Mars in Gemini opposition Jupiter in Sagittarius – so creative, ego-centric, acutely restless.
He had Neptune in the 8th and Pluto on the cusp of the 8th conjunct a 7th house Gemini Moon.
He became friendly with Henry Miller and his seminal work was the Alexandrian Quartet, especially Justine, a dark and erotic picture of Egypt during World War 11, which was shortlisted for a Nobel Prize.
His emotional life not surprisingly with Mars Moon Pluto in the 7th and a Venus Uranus conjunct in Aquarius was tumultuous; and he married four times, all of them parting company. His only daughter committed suicide five years before his death in 1990.