Sample Flash Report for Charles DickensFor this sample Flash Report, I've chosen Charles Dickens, a famous writer of the past, and picked a time in March 1835, before he had achieved success. 
Charles Dickens was born February 7, 1812, at 7:50 p.m. in Portsmouth, England. In 1824, his free-spending father was sent to debtor's prison. Twelve-year-old Charles began working ten-hour days pasting labels onto jars of shoe polish, work he was made to continue even after an inheritance freed his father from prison. Dickens never forgot his nightmarish experience as a child laborer. His novels aroused sympathy for the working poor, especially children. Two prisons were shut down because of the way he decribed them in The Pickwick Papers and Little Dorrit, and a London slum was cleared after he portrayed it in Oliver Twist. In March 1835. Dickens had already been writing humorous newspaper sketches for about two years, which would soon be collected into his first book, published in 1836 as Sketches by Boz. He had no way of knowing what a success he would become as a popular novelist. He was also unmarried. His chart suggests he may have been wondering whether he would ever find true love. If I could go back in time, with our modern astrological knowledge of Pluto (not discovered until 1930) and Chiron (not discovered until 1977), this is the Flash Report I would prepare for Charles Dickens in March 1835: Pathlights Astrology Flash Reportfor Charles Dickensborn February 7, 1812, at 7:50 p.m. in Portsmouth, EnglandYou ask: Will I ever find true love? Venus and, especially for a man, the Moon are important indicators in the birth chart for a person's experience of love. You were born with the Moon conjunct Neptune in Sagittarius and Venus conjunct Pluto in Pisces. These two conjunctions are in square aspect in your chart, and linked to Saturn in Capricorn and Chiron in Aquarius by quintile aspects. The large number of quintile aspects in your birth chart suggests you are unusually creative. You have an intense need to find meaning in life and to gain emotional security by devoting yourself to an ideal. It's hard for you to be happy without the freedom to learn, travel and pursue your ideals. But you are also a passionate person who yearns for an especially deep and romantic love. You may feel quite a bit of tension between your need for freedom and your need for a romantically intense love experience. You may often feel lonely, as though you were too different from others to be included within their warm circles of companionship. In fact, it is because you are uniquely yourself that you do fill an important and irreplaceable role in others' lives. Your feelings of loneliness may often arise in the context of health issues and your work environment. Your family can be a source of difficulty, but you take your responsibilities to family members very seriously. Currently (March 1835), Chiron and Pluto are both traveling very slowly through the heavens as they appear to come to a station and then change direction, so any transits they make to the planets in your birth chart will be especially powerful. Chiron is transiting in quintile to your Venus-Pluto conjunction and in biquintile to your Saturn, so you are likely to feel quite sensitive right now about love and companionship issues. You may feel as though you have been cruelly shut out from the kind of loving home life others enjoy; in fact, you have a special opportunity right now to reassess your potential for loving companionship and attract a new energy of love into your life by accepting yourself as an individual. Pluto is transiting in trine to your Moon-Neptune conjunction, stimulating you to transform your ideals and emotional habits at a very deep level, thereby enhancing your ability to find new ways to welcome love into your life. How Things Turned OutIn the following year, on April 2, 1836, Charles Dickens married Catherine Hogarth. He and Catherine would have ten children. It seems, however, that he did not take full advantage of the healing potential of the March 1835 Chiron transit, because over the long term, his marriage did not continue to be happy.Also in 1836, in addition to Sketches by Boz, Charles Dickens began publishing his first novel, The Pickwick Papers, in the form of a serial. It was tremendously successful and paved the way for his future success as a novelist. A longer, more in-depth report would also have discussed Neptune's slow, intense transit (also occuring in March 1835) in biquintile to Jupiter and the Moon's North Node in his birth chart. His Jupiter and North Node were in quintile aspect, indicating a special mission in life that involved publishing his creative work. Neptune's energy can often make us feel uncertain, but it also stimulates the imagination and helps us come to a better understanding of what we want to be and achieve in life. In 1857, a year in which Uranus, while slowing and coming to a station, transited his Venus-Pluto conjunction by quintile and his Saturn by biquintile, Charles Dickens seems to have fallen in love with Ellen Ternan, an actress he hired to perform in a play he wrote and produced. In Dickens's time, divorce would have led to scandal and left his wife without the means to live; they separated, but he continued to support her. He kept his relationship with Ellen Ternan secret, but it lasted for the rest of his life, and he provided handsomely for her in his will. Uranus transits can often seem like a sudden bolt from the blue, and this one does seem to have brought Dickens the intense, romantic love his chart suggests he had longed for all his life. More about Charles Dickens at Wikipedia
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