Preachers' charts

Preachers are religious persons who try to convince their audience. They look alike, at least: their charts do. I have several examples and the chart drawing of Oral Roberts, one of the first famous television preachers. What they share is the Jupiter-Neptune and Mars-Jupiter combination, and a prominent Saturn. Oral Roberts has a grand trine of Mars-Jupiter and Sun and the Sun is in aspect with Jupiter and Neptune. His Saturn was ‘calling’…And he had a controversial Mercury semi square Uranus, too. He died in December 2009. But first the preaching Sagittarians, born in the first 5 days of December.

The chart of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 at 7:55 a.m.

This is the map of the heaven above Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 at 7:55 a.m. when the attack on the American navy started the war between Japan and the USA. What you see in the chart is the importance of Mars (symbol of the military and war) and Eris (symbol of discord). Mars is opposition Midheaven (on IC, conjunct Varuna, the god of the waters). Eris is exactly square the Ascendant. And in 1941, no one even had heard of Eris...


Mars and Eris
are prominent in the chart and that is corresponding with the moment:  war and discord. The navy and the sea are mirrored by the position of Varuna and Neptune (elevated). The chart is the astrological picture of a time and place for fire, attacks and war in a navy harbour.

Chart of first attack on Pearl Harbor

PROMINENT MARS
There are fortunate and unfortunate events each day. Mars on the meridian doesn't mean misfortune or getting hurt. It just means that Mars is prominent and that all that is related to Mars will be significant. Like, for example: work, activism, anger, the military, machinery, aggression, men, production, atletics, figting, martial sports and iron, etc. etc., depending on circumstances, genes, gender and situations. 
Unfortunately the situation was: a military place in times of war. That is why the prominent positions of Mars and Eris were extremely dangerous. The most important objects in the chart for that exact moment in time and place were the symbols of discord (Eris) and war (Mars). And it already was a hostile and dangerous era!


CHART AND CONTEXT

On that day there were a lot of places on earth with Mars on the meridian and Eris square Ascendant on a particular moment. But they were not military places. And they were not easy targets. Mars and Eris were in the same place in the chart in the days before and after the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor. On those days the Sun was not exactly trine Mars, however, like the Sun was on December 7. Sun trine Mars and opposition Jupiter shows a chance for successful attacks in a so called grand trine.

SAD ASTROLOGY?

Charts don't show right or wrong. They just show opportunities and chances or difficulties. As this chart is the chart of a first attack, it is the chart of a successful or easy attack. The trine is the symbol of the easy flow between energies, not the symbol of harmony.

The chart of the attack of Pearl Harbor shows - again - that charts should be seen in their context and again: that trines don't mean peace. The good thing about that is that danger can be avoided and precautions can be made. Destruction by humans is not 'desastres'. The chart of the attack of Pearl Harbor shows the correspondence between a vital moment in war and the positions of the astrological symbols of war, but not the 'winner or loser' and not the number of casualties. Sometimes it is like in the poem of Lord Tennyson:

A sad astrology, the boundless plan  That makes you tyrants in your iron skies,  Innumerable, pitiless, passionless eyes,  Cold fires, yet with power to burn and brand  His nothingness into man.

USA CHART AND PEARL HARBOR

One of the charts of the USA in Astrodatabank is the chart of July 4 at 17:10. The  USA chart for July 4, 1776 at 17:08:15 (105 seconds earlier) has progressed Mars conjunct natal Midheaven on December 7, 1941 and transit Eris at 4d13 Aries would be square the progressed Ascendant at 4d25 Cancer. A conjunction means a start. MC (Midheaven) is the symbol of a position/condition/status. And Mars means war (sometimes).

Natal and progressed chart USA 5:08:15 PM

PS Prominent placements are the positions:

- rising before the Sun

- without major aspects within sign or orb 5 degrees

- on an angle

- square the Ascendant

(c) Astropost, written July 4, 2010, published December 8, 2010

Chart of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 219 years after death

The Astrodatabank-chart of Mozart is a B-rated chart. The source of the hour of birth is a biography quoating his father's letter. This chart has Uranus on the Descendant. In the movie Amadeus you can see how Uranus on the descendant, opposition Northern Node sometimes gave the impression that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was shocking, ‘an idiot’ or just ‘hyper’, different than the rest...That seems to be in line with Uranus. But he was also special, different than the rest of us, extremely talented. What makes his chart so special? What in his chart tells us about his early death? The answer is, that it is not just one thing, it is a combination of impressive indications. I listed 12 of them. For those interested, continue for the chart drawing, the talent in the chart and see how the progressions and transits mirrored his life. 

Astropost: The progressed chart and how one grows into a position (like Obama)

One year ago on Astropost: The progressed chart and how one grows into a position (like Obama)

What are progressions?
The movement of the positions in a day = the movement of the positions in a year, in progressions. Why? It is because from a particular place on earth the whole surrounding sky is visible in a day and the movement of earth around the Sun shows the complete sky, too, I have been told. So what you see in a day is what you will see in the year to come. The progression of a person in a day reflects the progression of a person in a year. The solar return chart completes the picture with the true position (transits) related to the position of the Sun at birth.

Progressed charts are strongly related to natal charts and should be read and considered in combination with the findings about the birth chart and the transits of the moment. People grow from the minute that they were born. People develop in a certain direction. That development in astrology is symbolized by progressions*).

Now what if a person was not a 'born leader' but developed and progressed to become one? I see that this development is visible in the progressed chart of Barack Obama. Follow the link to see this example and more of them.For example: the progressed chart of Joe Biden on Inauguration Day, the progressed chart of Pope Benedict when he was elected, the progressed chart of Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands on the day of her coronation, the progressed charts of Grace Kelly and Christopher Reeves on the day of their accident… There are crucial angular placements in these progressed charts. And how about the EXACT position of Mars in the middle of Saturn and Pluto in the progressed chart of Jacqueline Bouvier on the day that violent death changed her life.

Also visit: Astromarkt.net

Julian Assange: Mars in Aquarius biquintile Pluto

Julian Assange's hour of birth is a mystery, like the man himself. But we know his day of birth (July 3, 1971) and so we know the most important positions on his day of birth, like for example the focal planet in the funnel pattern in his natal chart: Mars in Aquarius, biquintile Pluto. 

Mars in Aquarius is a team player and so is Assange. What he does is teamwork. Aquarius is the sign of changes, surprises and technology. The biquintile is a creative aspect. And Pluto is for power, politics, defense and strategy.  Mars biquintile Pluto means that there is a creative and strong drive to win and ...creative self defence...and a possible creative use of strategy in the field of technology. The sextile between Jupiter and Pluto increases this effect.

Also, his Saturn is rising before the Sun, for ambition and for the serious approach. The combination of Venus square Pluto and trine Mars says a lot about passions and the problems that they give. And we see Sun in aspect with Jupiter and Uranus: that is the combination of the helicopter view (see Astromarkt)

The narrow aspects of a day of birth are important for the natal chart. The impact of the aspects will be mirrored by the positions of the planets and lights in the chart (elevated, square Ascendant or angular). Without an hour of birth you don't have a complete picture but parts of what we know seem to resonate what is important in the chart. For example: Assange has the Moon in Scorpio. I quote this blog (about Scorpio):

Moon in Scorpio

You are used to have to defend yourself when you have Moon in Scorpio, so you start defending immediately. If not yourself than your intimates. You need challenges and if there are not any you make them by making difficulties. 

There are many persons born with the same positions on the same day of birth and they all have different aspects with the angles, a different Ascendant with different aspects, different genes, genders, social/economical situations and backgrounds. But if astrology is true, all those born on July 3, 1971 will have the same strongly driven nature to achieve a position of authority and they might all like to create some discord, perhaps. How else should one read Venus quintile Eris in this chart?


VENUS QUINTILE ERIS
Venus quintile Eris knows how to enjoy discord? Or should I see this aspect as a creativily thrown apple in the middle of a group of diplomats. causing discord in diplomatic relationships? 


Here is the chart of the day of birth: