GRANT WEISBROT

(1948-2003)

 

Grant Weisbrot was an astrologer since 1968 and used modern Uranian and Cosmobiology methods. He specialized in charts for self-knowledge, compatibility, synastry and event periods in one’s life.  Grant’s sister, Jill Stern, states that he was a ‘Renaissance Man’ as he was intellectual, artistic and musical.

He specialized in charts for self-knowledge, compatability, synastry and event periods in one’s life.  Grant also made significant contributions through the UseNet community.

 

Grant graduated from City College of New York and worked at the New York Post as a type editor and then as a proof reader at the Accountant’s Institute.   As an astrologer, he was certified by National Council for Geocosmic Research (NCGR).  Grant was a former Research Chair of the Uranian Society and a founding member of alt.astrology.tropical.  His articles were also published in Considerations and Uranian Astrologer magazines.  

 

To quote from the Wayback Machine, “Grant sold source code to Halloran Software for the planetary picture and sensitive points list added to Version 5 of AstroloDeluxe Report Writer.”  He often suggested ideas for new features in astrology software to John Halloran.  Grant also made significant contributions through the UseNet community.

 

In addition to astrology, Grant was an adept musician and played piano, violin, guitar, mandolin and harmonica.  He moved to New Orleans to pursue his love of music.  American songwriter, guitarist, singer and long-time friend, Alex Chilton, mentions in an interview, “I fell in with a mandolin player down there and we were good buddies.  His name is Grant Weisbrot.  He’s the guy who’s on the Lost Decade (1985) album as Grady Whitebread.”  ”  

In New Orleans, Grant also pursued other artistic media.  He discovered a love of woodworking and made many pieces of furniture.  He also enjoyed sculpting, painting and he wrote fables calligraphing and illustrating them.  Grant was learning to gold leaf and used the small frames that he made.

In addition to his sister, Jill, Grant is survived by his brother Eric.

 

 

TRIBUTES:

Hello astromemorial,

I was a long time music friend of Grant Weisbrot...we dropped out of touch around 1972...I think maybe he moved around then.
I was so saddened to just learn of his passing. I remember him as a really decent guy, a dear friend and a very talented musician.
I went to my first Bluegrass Festival in August 1969 in Shade Gap, PA with Grant, his lady friend and one other friend named Cindy, whose last name I can't remember. We drove out in a rented car from Hertz and we camped BACKSTAGE in sleeping bags!
My heartfelt condolences go out to his family...
Yours Truly,
Bill Turner
Old Bridge NJ
Enclosed are 3 attachments: one of Grant in 1971; and 2 of me, how I looked back then and today.

BIRTH AND DEATH DATA:  Source: John Halloran and Social Security Death Index

BIRTH: May 20, 1948, 01:00 PM., Brooklyn, New York.

DEATH: June 8, 2003 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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