Today, on the subject I would like to talk about life and astrological birth chart of the writer of the French-Belgian origin, made famous by his novel "Mémoires d'Hadrien", born with the resonant name Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie de Ghislane Cleenewerk Crayencour (betraying his aristocratic lineage) just on 8 June 1903 in Brussels, around 8 am, as she writes: "Being that I call" I "came to a world Monday, June 8, 1903 at about eight o'clock in the morning in Brussels, came from a French and a Belgian ... ... female creature, already taken in the coordinates of the Christian era and Europe of the twentieth century, that piece of pink flesh crying in a cot blue .... " 
So astrologically speaking began as Gemini and a Leo ascendant emphasized Moon in Scorpio in the Fourth House (Receives only harmonic aspects respectively by Venus in Cancer and Jupiter in Pisces): an index of Amazonian femininity, androgynous and disturbing, in which the blue eyes of Celtic origin in large part had to give her a magnetic charm and a unique charm that made she was born a seductress (Moon in Scorpio). 
Descendant of a family of ancient nobility, which goes well with her regal and proud Leo ascendant (father is de Michel de Cleenewerck Crayencour, a wealthy landowner recently settled in Lille, and the mother is Fernande de Cartier de Marchienne, aristocratic Belgian origin, who died a few days after giving birth to the only daughter) did not never been proud of these noble birth, to the maximum occasionally betrayed a certain snobbery of the fund and a harmless flirtation that led her to not be portrayed as almost never with glasses, although it was short-sighted, indeed typical defects of his birthmark. 
Despite the loss of his mother just born, crushed by septicemia and peritonitis, the excellent Luna (symbol of childhood and maternal) tells us that the thing has troubled to a certain point, perhaps because they are too small to yield very essersene account, or perhaps because his father Michel, nonconformist (Sun in the eleventh house) and a great traveler, has never done miss all the attention the case since the early years of his life. 
The fact the father took with him on his travels, and personally took care of education in the vast family estate, surrounded by the beauty of the French countryside, the Villa Mont Noir, the north end of France, governed by his paternal grandmother, who at least until 1909 (the year of his death and consequently the sale of property) supply in some way the absence of the maternal figure, though not in terms of affective (Venus / with opposite Saturn / deprivation) and where he learned the love and respect for nature and animals. 
Together with his father knew and then attended to immediately in different geographic areas (Brussels, Lille, Mont Noir, the Netherlands, Paris and the French Midi, and later Switzerland, London, England) and this, in addition tireless desire to impress the travel (as Jupiter quell'insaziabile injured in the ninth house), helped to develop the small Marguerite broad and deep cultural curiosity and the ability to enjoy the pleasure of adventure and freedom (of typical 'Moreover, in the eleventh house of stellium-Gemini) which characterized his whole life. 
On the other hand Marguerite showed early extreme curiosity, deep intelligence and an unbridled thirst for culture, all characteristics typical of her birth sign (where in addition to the Sun, Mercury and Pluto have also all joined together, indicating the extreme fertility of its literary) precocious reader, just 8 years he became interested in the works of Racine and Aristophanes, learning with the help of a tutor in Latin and greek 10 years to twelve, and, alone, to read the Italian language poets ! 
Often the father leaves her alone (Venus / suffering in the twelfth / loneliness, as opposed to Saturn / deprivation), but this only increase its dedication to the study (Saturn-Aquarius is redeemed by a beautiful trine to Mercury-Gemini) so that in 1918, returned to France after a stay in England (where he could also learn English), following the first conflict World, Marguerite, having never set foot in a classroom, he graduated in philosophy at the University of Aix-en-Provence in 1919 and obtained a BA in Latin and greek in Nice, composing at age 17 his first poem dialogued , inspired by the legend of Icarus, with the title of "The Garden of Dreams," dedicated to his father, and later "The gods are not dead", a tribute to ancient mythology, devoted friend Christine Havelte, published (with the help the father) respectively in 1921 and 1924. 
It was on these two occasions that he used for the first time, the anagram of his surname (his passion for puzzles and word games are typically Gemini), the pseudonym he later became its real name. In those years (exactly 1922) happened to Rome to attend the advent of fascism and Mussolini, collecting the first impressions that will map out the initial draft of what will then be the final novel "Dream of Money "(completed in 1935 and published in 1936), in which he expressed, first in Europe, his opposition against fascism, in the form of the story of a failed assassination attempt against Mussolini. 
passion for the history of the Roman Empire took her to visit the most important Italian archaeological sites (his Venus in Cancer expresses very well at the same time is a passion for history and for literature, is also in trine to the Moon-Scorpio-fourth house, indicating the importance of memory and the enormous psychological flair in probing the human mind). 
In 1924, he visited for the first time Tivoli Villa Adriana, which drew the inspiration for his initial research on the life of the Roman emperor, and began to take the first appunti per le "Mémoires d'Hadrien", quello che sarà il suo capolavoro e la cui stesura, a più riprese, la impegnerà per quasi 3 decenni. 
Questo modo di lavorare alla maggior parte dei suoi romanzi, caratterizzato da molteplici interruzioni e successive riprese, magari terminando di getto ciò che era rimasto per tanto tempo incompiuto, è fondamentalmente indicato dalla presenza di Marte-Bilancia-terza casa, che esprime proprio la frammentarietà e un ritmo altalenante nello scrivere associati ad una vera e propria mania di perfezionismo. 
Memorie di Adriano è un romanzo di historical setting, written in the form of an epistle, a kind of moral testament to his successor (Marcus Aurelius), where Hadrian, marked by personal crises such as Emperor at the end of his life, takes stock of itself and is also a witness to the twilight of the Empire initiated, as he announced to an end. 
With his Moon / Scorpio / fourth house Marguerite manages to explore, like an archeologist of the soul and memory, the most secret recesses of this man and the human sides of the second century AD, linking it to a universal dimension, which is that the man of all time, faced with the loneliness of imminent death. 
stay in Italy of those years she was the inspiration for the novel "Anna soror," which tells the story of an incestuous love between a brother and a sister, set in Naples in the '600 : once again chosen as the historical novel probe for all human emotions, even the most morally controversial and embarrassing (Moon trine Venus-Scorpio-Cancer). 
Other Country frequent destination of his trip was Greece, the cradle of classical culture that he loved so much, looking for those places in the Homeric poems sung and where rediscover those atmospheres known texts of the first Greek lyric poetry and translations of Cavafy and contemporary, with that feeling of constant juxtaposition of past and present that characterizes it as an author, in a vision of things as they continue to flow to reach an time that borders forever: current and past, present and future intersect and converge in a merging world ever made from his works. 
Between August 1927 and September 1928 by the light in Lausanne on short "Alexis or the Treaty of the fight in vain", his first published work is not at its own expense in 1929 and representing l'inizio della sua carriera come scrittrice di fama internazionale, in cui tradisce le frequentazioni delle opere di André Gide, trattando per la prima volta con estrema delicatezza il tema dell'omosessualità: si tratta di una lettera indirizzata dal protagonista alla moglie, in cui confessa le sue inclinazione e i motivi che lo hanno spinto a lasciarla (a parte Gide e Proust, nessuno prima aveva avuto il coraggio di affrontare tale argomento così esplicitamente). 
Va detto che il tema della separazione dagli affetti più cari ricorre nelle sue opere, così come nella sua vita, abbastanza frequentemente, in sintonia con quel Saturno al discendente opposto a Venere, che pone l'accento proprio sulle separations, widows, and the deprivation of emotional ties to external causes or by the will of the subject. 
In 1928 the father, who two years before he married Christine Havelte, died, leaving her as a counterpart to the loss of a love so important a freedom unthinkable in those days and especially a large inheritance, which enabled her to have no economic problems, at least until 1940. From 1932 to 1936 public over the novel "Le Denier du rêve" or the currency of the dream (of which it is said) set in Italy at that, even "Feux (Fireworks), a collection of prose poems inspired all ' unrequited love for his young editor: André Fraigneau. 
In 1934, knows, in one of his trips to Greece, Andreas Embirikos, surrealist poet and psychoanalyst greek first of which will fall in love once again unrequited, resulting in a platonic friendship intellectual background, although with considerable ups and downs. 
In 1937, during his stay in London, she meets the novelist Virginia Woolf, which had just published the novel The Waves (Waves), and on his return to Paris, he met with Wagram Hotel where he was staying, Grace Frick, his peers, teachers and American intellectual who became his partner in life and work for more than 40 years, invited as part of the United States. 
In 1936 he returned to Europe and Capri composed "Le Coup de grâce," in which emotional vicissitudes of the protagonists trasfonderà most amorous dramas lived by herself at that time. This is one of the most refined and better built yourcenariana entire production, in 1976 became a film directed by Schloendorff, in which the protagonists are some members of the aristocracy in decline, threatened by the advance Bolsheviks in the Baltic countries, and due out in 1939. 
That same year, due to the outbreak World War II, but also to follow his beloved Grace, without which he can no longer live, will return to the United States, where he will make his third citizenship (after the French and Belgian) in 1947.
begins for the writer did a decade of hardship and privation, since it is impossible to gain access to its assets frozen until 1948 in Lausanne, like all his personal property left therein to start for the United States . 
In this period, left his job as a writer, attended conferences, wrote numerous magazines, collaborated on several plays and devoted to the teaching of French at the University of New York were all activities that allowed her to overcome those years of serious economic difficulties, although she calls them years of "life estate" because he could not travel as he instead wanted to continue do. 
In this period, left his job as a writer, attended conferences, wrote numerous magazines, collaborated on several plays and devoted to the teaching of French at the University of New York were all activities that allowed her to overcome those years of serious economic difficulties, although she calls them years of "life estate" because he could not travel as he instead wanted to continue do. 
His temperament, however, pushed the independent and free to engage in the battle of American intellectuals against the Ku-Klux-Klan to participate in environmental struggles, particularly against the killing of whales and to support the cause of feminism, while not endorsing the most extreme manifestations.
In 1942 he visited for the first time on Mount Desert Island in Maine (East Coast) where six years later buy it, along with Grace, what will become their home: the villa Petite Plaisance. Only in 1951 will continue to travel, returning to Europe, and finally released at the end of "Memoirs of Hadrian," finished writing in her new home, and who will get the Femina prize-Vacaresco the following year, followed a success of unimaginable proportions for the same writer. Thanks to this, so she finally returns to the practice of writing in his exclusive new property. 
Nel 1956 inizierà il libro L'Opera al nero (uscito poi nel 1968, ottenendo immediatamente un ulteriore premio Femina) altro capolavoro dell'autrice, dove ancora una volta siamo di fronte ad un romanzo storico in chiave biografica, in cui il protagonista maschile, Zenone (questa volta di fantasia, ma ugualmente credibile grazie alla fedeltà storica e al rigore filologico) è uno scienziato-alchimista che agisce nell'Europa rinascimentale del XVI secolo. 
Ricordiamo che in alchimia, con opera in nero (nigredum) si intende la fase di dissoluzione della materia e, simbolicamente, il momento fondamentale in cui un essere tenta di liberarsi dei suoi pregiudizi e si mette in cerca della sua verità. Grazie a questo nuovo successo, Marguerite è eletta tra i membri stranieri dell'Accademia reale belga e riceve a Parigi la Légion d'honneur. 
Gli anni che seguono si caratterizzano per una irrefrenabile ansietà di conoscenza che la porterà a viaggiare instancabilmente alla volta delle mete più disparate: Grecia, Inghilterra, Svezia, Danimarca, Portogallo, Spagna, Russia, Islanda, Egitto, India, Giappone solo per citarne alcuni, fermandosi solo negli anni della malattia della sua amata Grace, tra il 1971 e il 1979, anno in cui died of cancer. 
was a break which allowed also to continue writing the autobiographical trilogy entitled "The labyrinth of the world divided into" Memory Care "(1974)," Archives of the North "(1977), and "Quoi?" Eternity "(published posthumously in 1988). In these works, the writer tells the story of his family, but only to insert them into the larger story of the century. 
In any case, all his artistic and literary writing in the same way he sees the need to move and change the environment while traveling, as an essential need, a medium through which to express itself, a mirror in which to meet and know itself and the world, with completion so its full membership in the Gemini, and his books are those children who by choice or fate never had (Pluto-fertility / creativity in eleventh casa-equilibrio/moderazione/rinuncia opposed to the fifth Urano-volontà/tecnica/opportunismo casa-eccessi/riproduzione/consumismo): the refusal to motherhood was also related to his horror the world overpopulation.
While the writer, already young, attended the lesbian bar in Paris, "The Columbine" in the Rue Mont-Thabot and "Wagram" in the Rue Rivoli at 208, the other has always hidden in the eyes of society, his sex life (Venus-twelfth house trine the Moon / Scorpio) and the same Venus / twelfth took her to say that "perhaps Ironically, the clandestine affairs are the most happy, "why Grace Frick in life defined as" the friend with whom I share the house, "my American translator" or "my secretary" and when he died of cancer, will, at least publicly, to deny and erase the companion of a lifetime. 
in 1980 to 77 years Yourcenar was named the Academy of France is the first time a woman joins the Académie Française, (literary institution created by Cardinal Richelieu in 1635 and imposing a maximum of 40 members) and simultaneously takes to travel (Gemini eternal teenager on the go) with Jerry Wilson, a beautiful young American student of only 30 years, entered into a very gay, so he lost his head and that will be the companion of the last years of his life, but still managed to die a year before her, leaving her alone once more affectively , as he wishes that his Venus in the twelfth opposite his Saturn in the seventh . 
In 1982 eletta all'Accademia Americana di Arti e Lettere. Sempre nello stesso anno pubblicò un libro di tre racconti storici dal titolo "Come l'acqua che scorre" (che comprendeva oltre ad Anna soror, anche L'uomo oscuro e Una bella mattina) ambientati tutti nel '600; nel 1983 pubblicò un'altra parte di sue produzioni saggistiche che chiamò "Il tempo, grande scultore" dal titolo di un breve brano contenuto in questa raccolta di παραλιπόμενα, in cui la grande scrittrice riflette sul destino delle opere scultoree in pietra, e sulla loro natura di breve intermezzo tra un'eternità trascorsa in forma di roccia ed una seconda eternità consumata sotto forma di rovina, paragonando la pietra the fate of human life which is also the time worked by the technique of subtraction. 
again then done other trips to Japan, Thailand, India, Kenya and even Greece, Italy, France and Canada. In the latter part of his life he embraced the Buddhist belief (Neptune in the eleventh house) with respect to the environment and nature in all its forms, including animals, characteristic of this religion that will say: "There would be fewer children martyrs if there were fewer animals tortured, not sealed wagons carrying the victims to the death of any dictatorship if we had not got used to the vans where the animals without food agonizing e senz'acqua dirette al macello...» 
Lo stesso anno in cui si ammalò Wilson, Marguerite Yourcenar dovette subire un'operazione a cuore aperto con impianto di cinque by-pass coronarici. Tanto è vero che quando l’8 febbraio 1986 morì a Parigi il suo amato Jerry Wilson, la Yourcenar non poté raggiungerlo come avrebbe voluto, a causa del cattivo stato della sua salute. 
Marguerite Yourcenar morì per un’emorragia cerebrale presso l'ospedale Bar Harbor di Mount Desert il 17 dicembre 1987, a 84 anni. Le parole conclusive del suo Memorie di Adriano, rispecchiano in pieno il coraggio his Leo ascendant, when you say the emperor, when his end: ".. We are looking to enter into death with open eyes ..." and we can be sure that she also, at the time of death, and did likewise. 
By his will he was cremated and his ashes were laid in the little cemetery of Somesville on the island of Mount Desert Island (Maine), not far from his residence Petite Plaisance, near the tomb of Grace Frick.
little farther on we find a plaque that indicates the burial place of Jerry Wilson.
all you can say about her except that has not lived intensely, living still, and always free to the end, despite all the constraints and limitations imposed by society, in full harmony with the eleventh house and its values \u200b\u200bin perfect harmony with its highest energy.
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