NEVILLE JOHN LANG
30th Aug 1949 ~ 28th APRIL 2011
This page is a tribute to my uncle, Neville
LANG, who died of cancer aged 61 years on 28th April 2011.
Neville was the eldest child of Harold Alexander LANG (1924-1980) and
Shirley Margaret ALLAN, and brother to Ross and Wendy (my mother).
Neville grew up in Sydney, but moved in 1979 to Melbourne where he lived for
the majority of his adult life before his last move to the Gold Coast in 2008
with wife Georgie. Neville had 2 children.
Neville started off his career as a trainee for Telecom Australia in
Sydney. He had a passion for computer programming and later became involved in
astrology. Neville started software application programming for the clothing
industry in 1986 in Melbourne. Neville owned and operated a computer software
company in Melbourne that specialised in developing software for the clothing
industry. Neville and his wife, Georgie, purchased a half share in Estoeric Technologies Pty Ltd. This company specialises
in astrology software and owns the astrology program Solar Fire, which Neville
worked on. Neville had been associated with Estoeric Technologies since 1994 as
an agent for the sales of Solar Fire and other programs. In 1998 Neville became
the Lead Technical Support person and then from the end of 2007 to mid 2009,
Neville was the Technical Director.
In 2004, Neville completed the development and released the Astracadabra
astrology program for the Pocket PCs and Windows Mobile Phones.
Neville`s other passion was astrology. Neville often printed off
astrology computer charts for his family members. His interest in astrology
gave him a better understanding of people in general and what motivates them.
Neville used astrology in his personal and business life. Neville claims that he was the only person in the world at the time to
have predicted (through astrology) the date and time (within 15 minutes) of the
US bombing of Afghanistan, in retaliation to the September 11, 2011 World Trade
Centre catastrophe.
Neville made a great impact on the Australian Astrology community. He
was a member of the Victorian
Astrology Association (VAA) after joining in 1990 and was the President
between 1995 until 2000. He was awarded Life Membership of the VAA in 2006. The
VAA website has a tribute to Neville: http://www.vicastrology.net/in-memoriam
Neville was also involved with the Federation of Australian Astrologers (FAA) through his
membership with the VAA. In the FAA Journal (June 2011, Volume 41 Number 2) is
a memorial section to Neville.
Neville taught Vedic Astrology and was awarded the Certificate of Honour `Jyotish Kovid` from The Systems Institute of Hindu Astrology India
in 2011. From 1997 until about 2006, Neville conducted Vedic astrology classes
and presented quite a number of lectures on astrology and computer programming
topics. In 2000, Neville convened the 13th FAA International
Conference in Melbourne, Australia at the La Trobe University.
In 2009, Neville also started his own internet marketing business
company called `Web Breakthroughs`.
In other interests, Neville auditioned and appeared on the Channel 9
`Millionaire` TV show in 2004 in Australia (though he didn`t make it to the
`hot seat`). Neville also passed auditions for the TV show `Temptation` and
`One versus 100`, but was never called up.
Sports wise, Neville enjoyed golf, tennis and racquet ball. He was competitive
in Tenpin bowling and played a number of tournaments in Australia in the 1970`s
and 1980`s. He won a tournament where the first prize was a trip to Noumea where he represented Sydney in a tenpin bowling
contest with the team from Noumea.
Neville bowled a `perfect 300` (12 strikes in a row) only once in his life and
on that day also bowled 15 strikes in a row. In the 1970`s, Neville was a
tournament director for one of the top Australian men`s tenpin tournaments ~The
Sydney Cup~ and at those tournaments, was a coordinator for the TV telecasts.
In 1977, Neville created, organised and promoted the
first major national tournament for women only bowlers ~ The Southern Cross
Cup.
In January 2010, Neville returned to playing in a once a week tenpin bowling
league after a few years break.
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Neville uploaded blogs to his website with astrology details regarding
my family, plus some other activities.
Here are some of his blogs that I saved:
Inherited
Astrology Signs
Published
on 10/03/2010
Yesterday, I was running an astrological chart for Jade, my niece Lesa`s youngest child ~ it was her 5th birthday! I simply
wanted to give Lesa Jade`s rising sign (Ascendant),
her Moon sign and her Sun sign, the latter was already known as most people
know their Sun signs. Sun signs are also known as Star signs, such as Aries,
Taurus, Libra, and so on. The Sun signs are the things that are usually
published in newspapers and magazines.
After running the chart for Jade, I then ran the charts for Lesa`s other child, Dylan, as well as her husband Cameron,
again just listing the rising sign, Moon sign and Sun sign. That process in
itself was an interesting exercise but I began to see one or two astrology
signs repeating so I thought I would extend this exercise to Lesa`s mother (my sister), her father and her three
brothers. I began to see a pattern emerging where the rising sign, Moon sign
and Sun signs were mostly shared amongst the family members. While I had known
about these sort of shared sign patterns before, I had not bothered to study
our family, so what a surprise!
Here are the results:
|
Person |
Rising |
Moon |
Sun |
|
Jade |
Aquarius |
Aquarius |
Pisces |
|
Dylan |
Sagittarius |
Libra |
Aquarius |
|
Cameron |
Taurus |
Capricorn |
Scorpio |
|
Lesa |
|
Aquarius |
Scorpio |
|
Mother |
Aquarius |
Cancer |
Capricorn |
|
Father |
Aries |
Gemini |
Aries |
|
Brother1 |
Taurus |
Gemini |
Aquarius |
|
Brother2 |
Aquarius |
Gemini |
Virgo |
|
Brother3 |
Libra |
Pisces |
Pisces |
|
Grandmother |
Aquarius |
Pisces |
Taurus |
In looking at this array of signs, we can see a proliferation of Aquarius
running through the family and its seems that it is coming from Lesa`s Grandmother.
Since Lesa`s Grandmother is my mother, today,
I thought I would look at my side of the family, and here is what I found:
|
Person |
Rising |
Moon |
Sun |
|
Father
(Harold Lang) |
Sagittarius |
Pisces |
Cancer |
|
Mother
(Shirley) |
Aquarius |
Pisces |
Taurus |
|
Me
(Neville) |
Sagittarius |
Scorpio |
Virgo |
|
Brother
(Ross) |
Aquarius |
Sagittarius |
Capricorn |
|
Sister
(Wendy) |
Aquarius |
Cancer |
Capricorn |
|
Son
& Daughter`s Mother (Yvonne) |
Scorpio |
Aries |
Virgo |
|
Daughter
(Melanie) |
Capricorn |
Aries |
Capricorn |
|
Son
(Steven) |
Sagittarius |
Libra |
Cancer |
|
Grand
Daughter (Taylah) |
Libra |
Gemini |
Cancer |
|
Daughter`s
Husband (Matt) |
Capricorn |
Sagittarius |
Cancer |
From the above table, I can see that on my side of the family
Sagittarius, Capricorn and Cancer being repeated, with some Aquarius in my
brother and sister, so my side is slightly different from Lesa`s
side of the family, as you would probably expect.
While this is not an exhaustive study of astrological signs that are
passed down through the family (there are many other planets as well as the
ones stated above), nor even a full scientific study, nonetheless I did find
some repetition in some signs so the results of this exercise ended up being
quite interesting.
Inherited
Astrology Signs (Updated)
Published
on 08/08/2010
With a time of birth correction for Lesa and new birth details for
Megan, Paul and Megan`s new baby Hunter, and Susan, I have now updated the
table of signs that was published in an earlier post:
|
Person |
Rising |
Moon |
Sun |
|
Jade
(daughter) |
Aquarius |
Aquarius |
Pisces |
|
Dylan
(son) |
Sagittarius |
Libra |
Aquarius |
|
Cameron
(husband) |
Taurus |
Capricorn |
Scorpio |
|
Lesa |
Gemini |
Aquarius |
Scorpio |
|
Wendy
(Mother) |
Aquarius |
Cancer |
Capricorn |
|
Laurie
(Father) |
Aries |
Gemini |
Aries |
|
Darren
(brother) |
Taurus |
Gemini |
Aquarius |
|
Christopher
(Brother) |
Aquarius |
Gemini |
Virgo |
|
Paul (brother) |
Libra |
Pisces |
Pisces |
|
Megan
(Paul`s wife) |
Gemini |
Virgo |
Taurus |
|
Hunter
(Paul`s son) |
Scorpio |
Gemini |
Aries |
|
Susan
(sister) |
Gemini |
Virgo |
Aquarius |
|
Shirley
(Grandmother) |
Aquarius |
Pisces |
Taurus |
It is interesting to see a second sign pattern emerging from this new
and corrected birth data. Lesa`s corrected time of
birth has changed her rising sign from a very early degree of Cancer to Gemini,
which just happens to be the Moon sign of her father and two of her three
brothers. Interestingly, the new baby, Hunter also has a Gemini Moon sign too.
What was surprising was that Gemini was also the rising sign of Megan and Lesa`s half sister, Susan.
Once again, we see that Susan`s Sun sign is Aquarius, and as I reported
on my previous post, this sign has most likely emanated from Lesa`s Grandmother`s rising sign and Susan`s biological
mother, who also has an Aquarius rising sign.
Hunter shares his ascending sign, Scorpio, with Lesa`s
Sun sign (Hunter`s aunty) and his Aries Sun sign with his Grandfather.
I would say that Megan`s addition to the family (Paul`s wife) has
brought in her Aquarius ascendant (keeping that sign in the family line) and
her Virgo Moon sign she shares with Christopher`s Sun sign.
It is still very interesting (to me anyway), how some zodiac signs
continue to be inherited down family lines.