About The Astrological MARS

*** About the astrological MARS ***

During the more recent past (of the long existence of this our Science), the astrological ergie represented by planet Mars has been often connected to the term and notion of "power" – with a tendency of moving toward a trend of this getting accustomed as the way we generally perceive, and speak about, Mars.

This is a misconception, though, and it leads us away from actually better understanding Nature, as well as understanding of astrological planets themselves, the planet Mars included!

In our current cultural framework, it has become habitualized to perceive the meaning of the word *power* as something that indicates an activity or process of over-powering, or over-whelming, or dominating something; this notion includes, at its root, a specifically *competitive* mutual relating, a struggle/strife, between a given two sides, and with an either-or in it as a necessary quality of conditions.

Yet, *power* as such is not this - this is solely one of manifold possible ways how that which, in Nature, is *power* can manifest.

Power, in simplest terms, is the *vital movement of energy* itself - it is akin to a river current; it's the very *how* of the Being of the space-time continuum; it's not something that can be contained-within or represented-with only one or another definite, specific form. Every form, and every planetary ergie, is just an expression, a “subset”, of this -- the Vital stream of Energy as such. The Earth itself is one expression of it, the Sun, or any star, is another kind of expression of it, etc - everything that is or can be is simply one manifestation or expression of it.

We can not use one single planet to, in a wholesome way, actually fully and accurately represent this. - If we'd somehow *have* to do that, the closest we could get is to attribute it to Uranus, from the perspective of prioritizing the "current" quality of it (the streaming, akin, say, to the river-streaming phenomenon, or the electricity-streaming, or the Kundalini within our human systems).

But this, in truth, is not adequate - none of the specific forms, not any one single-among-the-many this or that particular expressions of this Stream-of-Energy itself, or a single astrological planet, can be a representative of it in a wholesome and defining manner.

So, there really isn't such a thing as "power needs" within the human psyche. Power doesn't "look for" to in some way "win-over", or "overtake" something or other, nor to "achieve" anything in specific; it simply *is*; without it none of us would at all in any way be!; and it is not something that one can "have", as a "possession", nor something that one can "have more of it or less of"; to talk about a person's "power needs" is akin to speaking about their "sky-needs", or "water-needs", and the like!

If we want to define or speak about astrological Mars, with orientation toward understanding, and the desire for accuracy in this, we can, rather, talk about practical directed-energy needs, or physical-activity needs, etc ( - and, in pathological expressions, this can turn into *domination-over*, or *overcoming* of something/someone from environment, and so forth).

In simplest terms, Mars is about specific, particularized channels of the energy moving, so that it moves with intensity and in a definite manner (look at the planet's glyph!); and it's fundamentally connected to practical immediacy of the physical realm, and making changes within it.

If a single sentence describing concisely the nature of this planet is to be used, we could say it is:

FOCUSED APPLICATION OF ENERGY, and such that it introduces-changes-to/affects the physical realm.

Each of us has this tendency as an "ergie" within own psyche/system, and for each it is uniquely different how it "works"/operates, so we look at the peculiar position and configurations of natal Mars, for these "details" about it.

Whether it will tend to manifest in a pathological (damaging for individual and their environment) or a healthy manner is *not* defined by the Natal Mars aspects or its zodiac position!

It is primarily defined by the overall cultural conditions, and the how (quality) of the collective-patterns for the energy-movement; for, each of our individual activity-patterns (the "channels", the energy-pathways created through action itself, and through experience, and habitualized/established as "normal" through repetition) exists within the context of the given person's environment.

Mars itself, as it is, or this capacity-for-focused-application-of-energy in practical sense, is entirely *neutral* - it is neither "good" nor "bad"; as with each of the planetary ergies, it is simply a phenomenon of Nature. But with Mars in specific, given its unique quality as an ergie, it is easy to -- by observing the consequences of actions, or observing the results or such-and-such peculiar channel-patterns (energy-application-pathways) -- practically determine the "good" and the "bad", and to in a specifically emphasized manner perceive these aspects of the phenomenon represented by this planetary principle.

Before there is the outward, physical expression (via activity/movement of body), there is an internal initial movement of this directed-application-of-energy: this is what we generally know by the term/notion of *choice*; when the choice is perceived within the realm of one's conscious operations/processes, that's the Choice proper; when it is initiated from the subconscious level, and from within the deeper psycho-biological layers, that's what we generally don’t perceive as a “choice” and instead, call *compulsion* (or otherwise, a necessity).

But in both cases, it is about the pathways, the channels-established via *application-of-energy* (the focused-movement of it), whose particular quality will determine whether the further movement of energy (from the more basic, primal, primordial levels/layers, into the surface-expressions of it) comes out as that which we call "a choice" or as that which is "a compulsion", or as that which we can definitely determine as "good" or as "bad".

Unlike *power* as such, which is unlimited, what is represented by astrological Mars necessarily contains in it the existence of *limitation*: the focused-movement/application of energy happens, as process, within some environment, and it is this context that makes it possible for there to at all be such a peculiar phenomenon as this! --- So there are choices/compulsory-tendencies, and peculiar channels which get formed by actions taken (directed/focused-energy motion itself) , and specific consequences of this (in accordance to its quality) - with the either-or, and the mutually-conflicting duality aspects, of it: *physically*, one can be at one place at one given time, and not simultaneously at more than one places; one can apply the energy streaming through one's system during a given life-time in one way or in another; at each moment of time-space continuum, while existing as a human on Earth, we abide within this either-or context. And Mars is specifically the ergie of directing, applying the energy *within* this context.

So, Mars in one's chart, its peculiar position and configurations, describes one's individual, unique overall *doing-qualities* -- the peculiar "colors" and "flavors" of it, and the how-exactly-it's-connected to the rest of the chart. But whether these qualities, the peculiar composition-and-coloring of it, will tend toward the "good" or the "bad", toward the pathological, or the healthy (the harmonious or harmful - and so in a smaller or wider context of environmental-operations) we can not somehow determine-in-advance *solely* from the astrological chart itself --- the full practical context, the cultural conditions and actualities of one's existence, provide the specific framework, within which a given natal-Mars, with its unique configurations, will get to develop and be expressed.

And in the so-called "esoteric" tradition which has been vitally existing alongside Astrology itself for ages, it is Mars – not Jupiter! not Saturn! – which has been connected to the principle of JUSTICE.

This, of course, is not coincidental, and we can get a better understanding of this now through the approach to, and observation of, the Mars ergie devoid from the misplaced attachment of the notion of "power" to it:

The consequences of every action, every instance of the focused-application, the directed-movement, of energy, are in their quality *precisely* adequate to the action itself.

( - we can see the record of human deeper awareness of this, reflectively formulated, and kept as collective-knowledge throughout time, in the folk-wisdom-sayings such as "what you sow is what you reap", "by their fruits shall ye know them", etc. …)

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NOSCE TE IPSVM
~ Know Thyself! ~

Thomas Charles Lethbridge - Life events

Thomas Charles Lethbridge - Life events

 

This analysis is a detailed look-up into charts for three life-periods of the Native, written primarily to be of use for the experienced astrologers familiar with Sidereal prognosticating techniques, but with aiming at directness and simplicity of elaboration so that the currently-students may also, hopefully, find practically-useful and valuable information in it as well.

 T.C. Lethbridge born:
March 23rd, 1901   4:00 GMT  Dunster, England 

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In is not always easy to directly & immediately see the difference in quality of information provided between the use of the SSR-SLR and the SL-LS Luminary-related period charts as the basic technique tool-kit for individual annual & monthly periods. - And actual analysis of period charts becomes, over time, less & less possible to perform adequately (and thus, to be able to give accurate prognosis), as one gets accustomed to habitually merely superficially glancing at these charts, for the sake of "harvesting data" from them toward building up a "statistically proven case" about how "splendidly perfectly working" is something which suits one's own bias-patterns.

 

When one uses the actually functional-for-prognostics Luminary period-techniques, there is no need to seek to "prove" anything - Life itself is proving the functionality of that which actually does work; it requires statistics to be "proven" as much as gravity requires statistics in order to be acknowledged as practically existing for a human on Earth.

Here we have an example of a Natus with abundance of biographical information and a well-recorded birth-time, providing us with a nice opportunity for an attentive detailed look-up.

 

I have selected three periods from his life which can serve best for a written analysis like this, with intent to encourage you to not be satisfied with that only, but to go on and proceed with further investigation on your own.

 

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The second half of year 1921 was very dynamic and eventful for Lethbridge:
during August, he engaged in an Arctic Expedition, experiencing such daring and adventurous voyage for the first time (and being part of the team who was first to successfully climb the Beerenberg), as well as getting the opportunity during this journey to excavate at an abandoned Eskimo settlement, as own first & unique practical archeological work; and upon return, in October, begun attending the classes at Cambridge Trinity College [where he, not being very interested in abiding by the 'academic standards' and 'authority rule' requirements, graduated in June 1923 with "a third class B.A."].

 

The two different annual technique-charts that cover this same period are his Solar Return 3/23/1921 and the Soli-Lunar 4/30/1921; he resided in Crowthorne, England, before starting to attend the college at Cambridge.

Let's look at the angularities and the Lunar aspects of each of these charts! - I will list these factors, avoiding to comment too much, and primarily allowing the naked data to speak for itself.

 

--- As you observe the picture formed by each of the two charts, keep in mind the question:to what extent would we be able to in advance accurately (non-vaguely) predict the key themes, the nature/quality of (now in retrospect, obviously, already-known) events and experiences for the Natus, by using one or the other of these charts as our basic annual-period technique?

 

SSR 3/23/1921

 

t Sedna AC 1*36'
t Mars AC 3*01'
t N.Node DC 3*27'
t Neptune ND 2*42'
t Venus AC 6*23'

r Sedna AC 28'
r Moon AC 1*09'
r Saturn MC 1*25'
r N.Node DC 5*52'

 

SSR Moon aspects:
oct s Neptune 1*09' a
oct s Venus 1*10' s
opp s Uranus 4*09' a
cnj s Saturn 4*16's
oct r Moon 40' s
sq r Neptune 2*56' a

 

--- configurations of the progressed Moon pertinent to the time of known events and experiences (orbs for mid-month):

 August 1921 :
sq tr Saturn 23' s

 ---> from which we'd to conclude this is one of the personally worst months of the year for the Natus, primarily themed by them experiencing some major kind of suffering/constraint/loss --- and it's probably connected to their personally closest, intimate or family relationships, based on what the whole picture of the chart's Angularity and the s Moon's aspects, shows ...

 

 October 1921:
opp r Sun 50' s

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SL 4/30/1921

t Neptune DC 1*11'
t Jupiter WP 1*16'
t Uranus EP 1*26'
t Moon AC 7*59'
(Ju opp Ur 10' ecl.;
AC = Mo/Ur m)

r Mercury EPa 1*26'
r Mars DC 6*57'
(r Me cnj t Ur 13', opp t Ju 23' ec.)

 

SL Moon aspects:
sq SL Sun 54' a
opp SL Neptune 2*42' a

 
--- configurations of the progressed Moon for the noted periods (orbs for mid-month):

 August 1921:
opp SL Neptune 47' s
oct r Neptune 01' s

 --> with a team of people engaged in adventurous exploration of the territories yet-uncharted, he was sailing through the seas, and walking through the unknown lands, fueled by the dream-aspirations from own early childhood!! - if we knew nothing about the events, and have only seen this Lunar progression during this particular SL picture as it is, we'd be able to clearly say that this month brings focalized something of importance with a vision/dream quality to it, and within the context of: discovery/exploration-expansion/revelation, exposure-to-entirely-New, with opportunity for pronounced expression of own physical and mental capacities, and in a focalized way themed with intensified shared adventurous group/collective joy and excitement, annual period.

 

October 1921
oct SL Eris 42' a

 

 

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A quite different kind of eventitude has befallen the Native during January 1948: he has received the information that his younger son, 21.5 years old at the time, has committed suicide.

The exact date of this I didn't find online - which invited for the look-up of the bi-weekly charts during the month, as well, in addition to the annual-period related preview.

Again, I'll avoid to comment in great detail, allowing, instead, primarily the astrological data itself to say what it has to say.

Look at the exact picture formed by all the prominent factors together, exactly as they are, in each chart, and the wider picture of "tides within tides" when all the layers - the Annual, the Lunar progression of it, and the bi-weekly charts - are considered.

 

Solar Return 3/24/1947
(Cambridge orbs)

t Uranus WPa 41'
t Mars IC 1*22'
t Jupiter AC 1*57'
t Venus ND 2*16'
t N.Node DC 8*20'
t Mercury IC 9*42'

r N.Node AC 17'
r Uranus EPa 1*15'
r Pluto WPa 1*30'
r Venus IC 8*04'

 

SSR Moon aspects:
oct s N.Node 56' a
cnj s Sedna 3*47' a

 

--- configurations of the progressed Moon on 1/15/1948:
oct r Mars 37' a

 -> Don't miss to notice that this is natal Mars!

Without knowing anything about events, and with seeing this SSR as it is and this progression, we'd conclude that this is the period when the Natus is especially emphasizedly physically engaged/active, very likely pronouncedly competitive, or otherwise angry and generally in a more-than-usual aggressive mode, expressing their own Mars - perhaps engaging in a fight, or being belligerent, or simply being very self-assured, with the sexual drive high and incentive to penetrate/conquer/overpower/attack/enflamedly-defend something or other from within the framework of immediate experience-stream.

 The transiting Uranus-Mars-Jupiter trio in the sharpest fore, and accompanied by t Venus as it is, indicates risky/adventurous undertakings of a pleasurable, gusto-for-life, kind, as the main theme of the events and circumstances of the year - and when the whole picture is considered, with acknowledging that Uranus both tr and rx is in the sharp fore, we see that it's primarily about the individual Freedom and renewal, the Natus is experiencing a being-reborn kind of inner revolution, with own authentic desires re-kindled to expressiveness ...)

 
So, how was the month of January 1948 for him?

 
SLR 12/23/1947

t Uranus MC 1*04'
t Mercury IC 2*39'
t Eris DC 3*19'
t Sun AC 9*32'

r Venus WPa 1*24'
r Neptune MC 4*59'
r Uranus IC 6*06'
r Sun DC 6*58'
r Pluto MC 7*29'
r Sedna DC 8*35'

 

DSLR 1/5/1948

t Moon WPa 1*16'
t Jupiter DC 2*47'
t Eris AC 3*20'
t Uranus AC 6*31'
t Chiron DC 6*45'
t Sedna AC 8*18'
t N.Node AC 8*24'
(Ju opp Er 27' m,
Se cnj Nod 06' m) 

r Moon EPa 2*05'
r Uranus DC 2*57'
r N.Node DC 7*36'

 

 SLR 1/20/1948

t Venus EPa 12'
t Mars WP 36'
t Moon ND 1*47'
t Mercury AC 2*54'
t Sun AC 3*24'
t Saturn DC 5*34'
(AC = Me/Su)

r Mars DC 9*08'
r Mercury AC 9*10'
(Me opp Ma 02' m)

--> a very exciting month, with the themes of Freedom/renewal and Change pronounced in particular between 12/23 and 1/19; emotionally stimulating, related to his ideal romance or dream/vision in this regard, during the 12/23-1/4 period, requiring a lot of adaptability to shifting circumstances and with focus on sudden, unsuspected tide of Joy in this all, during the 1/5-1/19 period, and quite heated from 1/20 onward, with the Natus being under attack (perhaps experiencing physical violence) and in some passionate way, with presence of authority-figures, and with it all limiting Native's own expression/movement, while he's being called to especially be verbally aggressive/penetrating, express own precision/speed/dexterity with mind and with hands, in some specific manner ...

 

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SL 4/30/1947
(Cambridge)

t Sun WPa 48'
t Chiron EP 1*11'
t Saturn MC 1*24'
t Mercury DC 2*49'
t Sedna DC 7*47'
t Pluto MC 9*26'

r Moon WPa 22'

SL Moon aspects:
sq SL Uranus 3*43' a
sq r Pluto 41' a
sq r Uranus 1*49' a

--- configurations of the progressed Moon on 1/15/1948:
oct pSL Sun 06' s
oct pSL Pluto 39' a

 
This month of January in the bi-weekly-tide rhythm, from what the LS charts show:

LS 12/21/1947

t Venus ND 1*33'
t Sedna DC 7*45'
(Ve sq Se 49' m)

r Moon WPa 1*04'

 

dLS 1/2/1948

t Venus DC 47'
t Pluto AC 2*10'
t Sedna MC 9*08'
t Neptune IC 9*23'
t Eris MC 9*55'
t Saturn DC 10*00'
(Ve opp Pl 1*23' m;
MC = Se/Er;
Ne opp Er 32' m;
Sa sq Se 52' m)

r Saturn WPa 1*21'

LS 1/17/1948

t Venus AC 38'
t Pluto DC 1*37'
t Saturn DC 3*34'
t Mars DC 3*50'
t Uranus IC 6*04'
t Mercury AC 8*40'
(DC = Ma/Sa)

r Mercury AC 00'
r Mars DC 14'
r Venus AC 5*17'
r Sun AC 6*26'
(Su cnj Ve 1*09' m)

  

--> for the event of this specific nature & scope (of impact to the Natus), it's not surprising that we see a sequence of charts showing very similar planetary tone as the main-themes marker -- it is not something that comes up as a "temporary disturbance" and then within two-to-four weeks entirely "evaporates" from the Natus' awareness and life-experience.

The specific planetary combinations of these charts eloquently speak for themselves - the whole picture of angular factors in each chart, together with their unique peculiar groupings (clusterings).

 

Even if this was NOT happening during the period when the pSL Moon is within 1* of orb in dynamic aspect with both pSL Sun and the pSL Pluto, and "merely" appeared as this exact given sequence of Luni-Solars during the annual chart, SL, with the angularity and the Moon aspects of it as they are, we could do nothing but predict, based on such combination of charts, a period emphatically themed with a high-impact event/s with quality of profound emotional loss, for the Natus - or at least such that the changes, related to a close/beloved someone, which this period brings are emotionally heavy, irrevocable (of the "door forever further closed" kind), and that even if there's not someone they love/care-about who physically died, for the native themselves the experience is quite akin to exactly this.

 

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For the third example, we'll look at the charts pertinent to the event of 9/30/1971, Lethbridge's death. 
He was residing in the Branscombe village next to Seaton, at the time, and died in a hospital in Exeter.

 

SSR 3/24/1971 (Seaton)

t Mars AC 20'
t Chiron ND 1*18'

r Jupiter AC 1*59'
r Saturn AC 4*11'
r Chiron AC 7*51'
r Moon IC 8*03'
r Neptune DC 9*02'
(Mo sq Ne 59' m)

 

SSR Moon aspects:
oct s Chiron 30' s
cnj s Venus 1*22' s
cnj s N.Node 1*48' s
oct r Sedna 49' s
sq r N.Node 10' s
opp r Mars 05' a

 

- configuration of progression of this Moon at the time of the event:
sq s Neptune 12' a

 

SLR 9/9/1971 (Exeter)

t Venus IC 8*22'

r Venus MC 2*02'
r Neptune EPa 2*08'
r Saturn DC 4*11'
r Chiron DC 6*48'
r Jupiter DC 7*58'

 

DSLR 9/23/1971

t Uranus AC 1*49'
t Chiron DC 1*16'
t Venus AC 7*46'
t Sedna DC 9*56'

r Saturn IC 3*05'
r Jupiter IC 8*13'
r Sedna DC 8*51'

---> this describes a month themed primarily with romantic-ideal/loving-relationships experiences, with the second part of it focalizing the refreshing changes for the native, and in whole, by what the orbs of included factors are showing, not a period with events of some especially great significance.

What exactly does the s Neptune with the progressed s. Moon indicate we could only vaguely guess - the age of the Native at the time is, by itself, certainly not a "warrant" of such aspect bringing death, and within the context of this Lunar Return, the monthly chart, we'd expect this primarily to be focused on the aesthetic, sensual and/or romantic-related phenomena.

 

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SL 4/30/1971 (Seaton)

t Jupiter AC 44'
t Neptune AC 1*31'
t Pluto MC 7*36'
t Saturn DC 9*31'
(Ju cnj Ne 1*59' ecl.;
AC = Ju/Ne)

r Neptune EPa 27'
r Pluto DC 3*44'
r Venus IC 5*28'
r N.Node AC 7*02'
r Sun IC 7*48'
r Eris IC 9*50'

 

SL Moon aspects:
sq SL Mercury 17' s
opp SL Mars 4*44' a
oct r Mercury 36' a

 

- configuration of progression of this Moon at the time of the event:
opp SL Mars 29' s

 

LS 9/6/1971 (Exeter)

t Saturn DC 32'
t Moon IC 2*44'
t Neptune AC 4*13'
t Jupiter AC 4*23'
t Pluto MC 7*01'
(Ju cnj Ne 10' m)

r Pluto DC 2*40'
r Neptune WPa 2*11'
r Sun IC 5*02'
r Venus AC 7*57'
r N.Node AC 8*17'
r Eris IC 8*19'

 

dLS 9/20/1971

t Mercury AC 24'
t Saturn MC 2*50'
t Jupiter IC 3*36'
t Neptune IC 4*00'
t Pluto AC 10*00'
(Ju cnj Ne 24' m)

r Mercury DC 46'
r Eris DC 7*36'

---> We see the monthly chart bringing the exact same combination of foreground factors as the annual chart has, and this with the t Moon in the picture for the month added to it.

The t Jupiter-Neptune, as a duo, indicates the religious/mystical/ceremonial themes, or otherwise, the "between-the-veils" conditions of the subtle/invisible/immaterial realm and the mundane overlapping, the borderlines between them being thinned, if not entirely disappearing.

With that, we see the presence, in the annual chart, as well as the monthly and the bi-weekly, of the combination including: t Neptune, t Saturn and t Pluto (all of these three, in each chart), and with the annual and monthly having, along with this, the natal Sun, Neptune, Pluto and Node.

Being aware of Natus' age at the time, and seeing this peculiar clustering, repeated exactly as it is, during a period when the pSL Moon is going partile with the SL Mars, would beyond doubt alert us he is quite likely to depart the physical realm of living-as-human-on-Earth during this LS'a time-framework.

The bi-weekly, within this, puts also emphasis on Mercury, both tr and rx, repeating the theme shown in the SL Moon's aspects, and speaking of a peculiar kind of communication-intensified experience (I say peculiar due to the context of this chart itself, as well as the monthly/LS in whole, and with the t Ju-Ne combo pronounced as it is, along with the t Saturn & Pluto presence, in each of these three "layer-tides").

The whole picture of these charts shows that there was no "suddenness" to the event - the Natus expected it, and by everything we can see, was internally well-prepared and fully ready for the moment of its arrival.

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           The Natal chart:

 

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NOSCE TE IPSVM 

~ Know Thyself! ~

Jack Whiteside Parsons

Jack Whiteside Parsons - Natal, and preview of a few period Charts 

Throughout Jack's life, there was no ambiguity nor "controversy" about his birth hour - it has been, by Jack himself, communicated to and recorded by the astrologers of the time to be 23:00h.

It is only during the very recent past, not longer than a few years ago from now the most, that there has appeared another information, putting his birth time at 20:45h, and with the description of this source as "birth record". 

This, then, opens the question:

If the Birth Certificate is available now, after his death, it must have been in existence during his life too; why would someone, with a birth hour recorded in a precise, specific way, as this purported "BC info" is (20:45 h) be informing the astrologers from their environment, and consistently so, that their birth time is different than that? 

The event of birth was certainly witnessed (in the sense of living, experiential presence) by the mother, and his mother was alive during his life, and able to provide the info.

When two Natal charts are compared, the one with 20:45h birth hour, and the one with 23:00 birth hour, we see two fully different pictures of life and character.

The 20:45h chart shows:

Virgo Sun, Pisces Moon native, with Venus as sole angular (1*51' WP), and Su oct Ve (22'), Mo oct Ju (02') and cnj Er (1*19') as strongest dynamic Luminary aspects (in eclipto).

The 23:00 chart shows:

Virgo Sun, Pisces Moon native, with the angular, by orb:

Moon MC 06'

Sedna ZN 1*16'

Pluto AC 6*42'

Saturn AC 9*23'

And the strongest by orb dynamic aspects of Luminaries (ecliptical) being: Su oct Ve (21'), Mo cnj Er (1*48') and oct Ju (1*10').

This is not "a tiny, negligent difference" between the two core-pictures shown by these two charts. 

This wasn't a caretaker, or a musician, or a perfume or fashion designer, or, say, a nursing assistant, or, a school chemistry teacher; nor was it a fragile and meek soul, strongly motivated by personal ease & comfort, avoiding conflict and controversy, a person of highly emphasized gentleness, primarily focused onto nurturing others (as the 20:45h birth time would indicate) - not even remotely so! 

It was an one-of-a-kind in a clearly Plutonian manner, intense and controversial character, daring to delve into the depths that the environmental "normal" and "common perspective" considers "insane", a rocket fuel scientist (at the time when rockets that can fly up&out from Earth's atmosphere were thought as "impossible", and the very mention of it was being mocked by his contemporary scientific circles), a worldly-famous character, with strong, life-long interest in the "occult", and open, active engagement in this , and, with it all, especially in-famously known for his "Babalon working" (look at the specific picture that the 23:00h time angular planets provide!).

Neither Sedna nor Eris were known & used by astrologers during his life, nor were there at the time tools for angularity calculations available that we have now, so we can beyond doubt discard the possibility that some then-contemporary astrologer took these factors into consideration in order to come up with 23:00 as a rectified hour.

So, given the timing when this purported 20:45h birth info appeared, the actual source of it must be someone who has been both active and influential within the wider Astrology community between the time when Jack died and the present, and who has had some peculiar kind of personal stake in proving something specific, for which the 20:45h as "birth hour" is exactly suitable - so much so of a "stake" that this eventuated with a fully new "birth record data" appearing, all-of-a-sudden, about 70 years after the death of the Natus (as well as their mother as the only actually reliable first-hand-witness)  -- for an event of birth of which, during the Natus' life, the time of it has not been unknown, uncertain, nor in any way some kind of a "disputable" or "mysterious" information.

People sometimes, indeed, do go to a great length with intention to, retroactively, present historical actualities different than these actually have been, when some or another projected imagery better fits their personal preferences than the actual data; and we for sure know that astrologers have by no means been immune to this (quite on the contrary...). But this, in the long run, although bringing some meager & temporary "personal-benefit" to such people, inevitably comes to eventuate in causing huge damage - effectively obstructing, and, if kept as a tolerable, "acceptable practice" and adopted as a "norm", over time leading toward the whole of the vital stream of the given Scientific endeavor itself becoming thwarted. 

There is no need here to further dwell on such appearances; for the sake of Science, and in order to not allow anything of this kind to be "pestering" unaddressed for too long until so much time has passed that it becomes practically fully impossible to see through the thick veils of obscurity, this that has been said above was necessary, and we'll let it suffice.

Now let us put attention onto what the actual data shows - acknowledging what Life itself has clearly brought up to be seen, and looking into Charts so that we can learn from what this reveals to the sight.

 

Looking merely at the Natal as such, the chart itself speaks with astounding precision and astrological "eloquence" of details about the character and the life; verily, it's hard -- granted one is not entirely devoid of any authentic passion for this starry-oriented-science -- to not feel, simply put, mind-blown by the perfection with which the chart depicts the known actualities of the person's life.

For a more in-depth observation, after taking a thorough look at the whole Radix chart as such, I recommend looking also at what the Novien (with strongest dynamic aspects within Novien itself, and between the Novien and Radix) has to say. 

It's impractical to attempt to cover all of it in a single post like this, so here's just one facet of it, hopefully to inspire your own further observation:

It isn't a surprise to see a Virgo Sun with Mercury as intensely "spiced-up" as this (cnj Mars 1*11', sq Neptune 1*14', tri Sa-Pl 47') growing up into a chemist and showing interest in combustion. But obviously, there's far more to it than simply this in Jack's life and character. 

- This peculiar "one of the most influential figures in the history of American space program" (quote from one of many internet biog.) has been engage since before he was 12 years of age in seeking & effectively-finding ways how to intentionally use and direct the energy of combustion so that it streams in a longer-term, sustained way, propelling a vehicle thus moving far, far Up and Above - through the layers of Earth's atmosphere, into the open vastness of the infinite space! - look at that clustering of Mars-Jupiter-Saturn-Pluto in the Novien itself, together with the Novien Uranus being as tightly as it is tied to the Radix Saturn-Pluto conjunction! 

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When it comes to events, this is fortunately one such excellent situation when we don't need to limit ourselves to checking only one, or two-the-most, of them (as is the case when we have such very limited information to work with); in cases like this, then, for the purpose of learning, and for the scientific inquiry in general, a full look-up into all the events for which the time and the location of pertinent charts is available to know is always the best way to go.

Within the context of this post, I will only go through a few examples, utilizing the period charts, leaving the rest of it for your own joy of further investigation. 

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The SL annual period 3/19/1934 till 3/19/1935

is the time during which Jack met two people that turned out to be among the most important personal connections for till the rest of the incarnation, Helen (with whom got married in April 1935), and Malina (who came as the essential "third part of the basic triangle" to the Parsons-Forman duo). Connection with Helen introduced him to the long-term intimate and sexual-partnering relationship; and Malina brought with his presence all the intellectual rigor of a Caltech academic into the established practices and habits of Jack & Edward, two "wildlings" experimenting to develop rocket-fuel propulsion technology - which certainly came in many ways as restricting and demanding, but also "consolidating", complementing the "older" duo with knowledge from the academic context, and bringing for Jack perfect practical conditions for further intensified learning.

Angular planets of this chart 

(orbs for Pasadena):

t Chiron WP 43'

t Mercury IC 5*41'

t Saturn IC 6*41'

t Moon DC 7*42'

(IC = Me/Sa m; 

Mo cnj Chi 1*40' m)

r Venus AC 4*36'

r N.Node IC 5*28'

The aspects of the chart's Moon:

cnj SL Chiron 2*14' a

sq SL Saturn 4*10' s

opp r Venus 2*45' s

oct r Sedna 11' s

From the internet sources, I couldn’t find the precise info about the time of meeting Helen, only the month is given, July of 1934; with the p SL Moon having entered orb to SL Sedna on 7/19, I suspect this event took place between 7/19 and 7/31. 

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The SL annual period 3/19/1938 till 3/19/1939

is the personal year of life during which, in May '38, Jack was invited by Forrest Ackerman to give lecture "on his rocketry" at the local L.A. Sci-Fi League (remember, the term "rocketry" was at the time considered to be something entirely within the fantasy/science-fiction realm, and was generally a subject of mockery by all the "wise", serious and esteemed members of the scientific academic community); and in January '39 the Baxters took him and Helen to the local Agape Lodge, where he experienced presence at the Gnostic Mass for the first time, and met Wolfe and Smith. 

The chart's angularities:

t N.Node  AC 1*15'

r Venus AC 2*59'

r Chiron IC 3*51'

r N.Node IC 4*32'

The SL Moon's aspects:

oct SL Eris 1*01' a

sq SL Jupiter 2*58' a

oct r Saturn 13' s

oct r Pluto 11' s

sq r Jupiter 4*54' s

What the pSL Moon's movement reveals, for the important periods outlined above:

May 1938

--- lecturing about rocketry at the LASFL, and the shift/expansion of this in relation to his social status, cultural-position-within-environment, and the overall publicity:

p SL Moon entered orb sq SL Jupiter on the night of 5/16

January 1939

--- attending the Gnostic Mass first-time, meeting the local Thelemic community and getting introduced to Wolfe and Smith;  absent exact date info, we look at 1/15 for general preview; 

pSL Moon at Noon on 1/15:

cnj pSL N.Node 40' a

oct pSL Mercury 51' s

oct r Sedna 33' s

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The SL  3/20/1942 till 3/19/1943

during which, at the very "dusk" before the "dawn" of this annual period, on 3/19/42, the Aerojet Engineering Corp was launched, and the year unfolded as an intense, and increasingly so by the day, demand for the Corp's production of JATOs for the U.S. Air Army Corp (the Aerojet turning, between the day of its launching and the following December from a group of under 15 employees, to a company of about 150 employees), with Jack finding himself "up to his neck" actively engaged in "doing the impossible", manufacturing, and improving the technology on-the-go, of rockets and propellants.

In June of 1942 an important scientific break-through took place, with Jack suddenly being "hit" by an epiphany re how to improve the efficiency & functionality of the solid-fuel he's been long working on (the Insight how to use the molten asphalt came, while he was watching a group of workers pouring this into roof tiles for repair), and "Galcit-53" was born, the "precedent changing the future of rocket technology" [as the biographer John Carter has put it].

 

Angularities of the chart:

t Mars DC 06'

t Jupiter DC 5*32'

t Neptune MC 8*08'

t Sun IC 8*15'

t N.Node MC 8*31'

(Su opp Ne 07' m; 

MC = Ne/N.No)

r Moon IC 7*27'

r Chi IC 8*23'

(IC = Mo/Chi)

The SL Moon's aspects:

sq SL Chiron 54' a

sq SL Pluto 4*00' s

cnj r Mars 4*39' s

sq r Uranus 31' a

The situation of the pSL Moon on 6/15 (mid-month w/o exact date at hand):

p SL Moon 16*38' Aries

sq 03' the

r Jupiter/Uranus direct Midpoint (16*35' Capr.)!!!

[-- on the days 6/15-6/16 tr Sun came to touch exact this peculiar configuration]

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The SL  3/19/1952 

covers the final ~three months of Jack's life; after being effectively prohibited from further immediate rocketry-related work within the U.S. in January 1952, he engaged in the pyrotechnic & explosives manufacturing, intending to immigrate to Mexico with Marjorie (the trip was planned for 6/18/52), toward moving further to gradually come to conditions which enable his rocketry-work to continue. These plans were abruptly cut short with the explosion on 6/17/52 which ended his life. 

The angularities of the chart:

t Mercury MC 01'

t Eris MC 2*16'

t Saturn IC 3*00'

t Jupiter MC 4*34'

t Neptune IC 5*21'

(Ju opp Ne 47' m)

r Sedna MC 10'

r Neptune AC 3*02'

r Sun IC 7*10'

r Eris MC 7*50'

(Su opp Er 40' m)

The SL Moon's aspects:

opp SL Uranus 39' a

sq SL Eris 1*38' s

opp SL Chiron 2*33' a

sq SL Saturn 3*21' a

sq r Sun 30' a

oct r Venus 59' a

sq r Sedna 3*15' a

-- The transiting angular combo of Mercury-Eris-Saturn, together with the natal Sedna & Neptune, give the core outline of the central themes; but the whole needs to be considered for the actual full picture.

We see that: there is the Eris presence highly emphasized (both tr and rx Eris are angular; and the SL Moon is sq SL Eris - second of its two strongest-by-orb aspects with the SL planets); there is the Sedna theme also prominently pronounced (with rx Sedna being merely 10' from MC, and SL Moon sq rx Sedna); and together with this, there is the Saturn presence emphasized as well, and in specific as Saturn-from-the-environment (the SL Saturn ang., and the SL Mo sq SL Sa).

It is no surprise that such a chart brought up surprisingly-sudden in its abruptness turn of events, and that later the phrase "under mysterious circumstances" in some way got to be directly attached to what has transpired! ( - One needs to see the Amelia Earhart's SL 6/3/1937 & LS 6/26/1937, Victor Segalen's SL 5/13/1919, Michel Gauquelin's LS 4/30/1991, or the trio of Gandhi's charts for 1/30/1948, for a full-blown & rich in details more-immediate picture of the pattern intricacies that we see showing up here.)

Sedna's presence this strong, whether it be transiting or radix (angular, only 10' from MC would itself be enough, even without having the aspect with the Moon!), speaks of events/processes which, although coming to happen via activities of specific individuals, seemingly as simply primarily some "personal affairs" of the given human/s involved, serve as channel or manifestation-substrate for peculiar energy-movements which are of larger Collective importance  --- in one or another way bringing to the surface, to be purged, or "rectified" (balanced-out), some aspect/thread of the deeper "knots" from within the realm of our collective Being that we usually call "the collective unconscious" (some or another peculiar energy-pattern or a thread thereof ripening into its open surface-emergence, so that it can be directly faced and adequately resolved). 

-- What looks like "merely some personal affairs" serves, in these cases, to carry-through into expression, as a vehicle, the tremendous force of the energy that otherwise most of the time (within what's considered "normal" and "usual" circumstances in our present culture) abides fully suppressed/oppressed/deeply-hidden and blocked from its open, free surface-streaming, out-and-upward-tending, expression. 

We also see the engulfment in hopes and the dreamy-naivete of the Native in the circumstances, with the tr Ju-Ne opposition across the Meridian, paired with the rx Sun on IC --- the desire and plans to gradually work on finding-a-way-out of what was undeniably felt as being-caged-in situation. 

And we see the renewed vitality, and the psyche being Ready-For-The-Fresh-Start, in the closest aspects of the SL Moon (sq SL Ur, sq r Su, oct r Ve)...

This is what has colored the final cca three months. Let's then take a look more closely into the active factors at the time of death itself, 6/17/1952.

The pertinent monthly chart, LS 6/3/52, has the combo of:

t N.Node, Mercury and Venus (with this Ve being strongly tied with t Pluto, but Pluto being slightly out of the 10* orb zone), and accompanying this, 

rx Jupiter and Uranus.

And its "demi", the bi-weekly chart LS 6/15/52 has:

t N.Node very tight on Nadir (and tightly aspected by t Pluto, but with t Pl again slightly out of the 10* angular-proximity zone), and together with this,

rx Venus and N.Node.

-- Both of these charts emphasize that whatever it is that is happening, the primary theme of the period is: it's about Connection of life-important scope and kind. 

On the day (at 17:45h PDT),

the pSl Moon came to participate in the following exact aspect-configuration:

sq pSL Saturn 11' 

cnj pSL Chiron 58'

opp t Uranus 20'

While the transiting Eris and the N.Node, came, in pair, exact to the SL Moon's position:

t Eris sq 59' a ( = just entered orb!)

t N.Node oct 57' a

And during the time when the transiting Uranus was conjunct Natal ASC, orb 40' a, at the day and time.

The transits to SL picture (the dynamic partile aspects not existing in the SL itself!) then gives further valuable information; here's the full list -- the info about tr planets to the SL Moon is repeated, but I don't want to leave it out in the listing, so that you can get the complete picture of all of it present at the exact moment of death:

Neptune oct Venus 04' s

Mercury sq Eris 06' a

Uranus sq Saturn 30' s

Saturn opp Eris 46' s

N.Node oct Eris 50' a

N.Node oct Moon 57' s

Eris sq Moon 59' a

So, we see, however it may look from the outside and at simple-glance on the surface, this event was not a primarily Mars-kind of event! - yes, Mars was present (as will be seen in the tr to rx listing), and acted as a peculiar "trigger mechanism" within the whole context of the active combination of factors, but the main tone (the theme, the key-quality) of the event and the experience for the native was Eris with the Lunar Node, together with the Saturn-Uranus combo.

Transits to radix at the day and time:

Chiron oct Venus 15' a

Mars cnj Mercury 22' a

Mars oct Chiron 27' s

Uranus sq Sedna 36' s

Chiron sq Sun 37' a

Uranus cnj Asc 40' a

Sun sq Eris 41' a

Mars sq Neptune 51' s

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The Natal chart [eclipto]

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NOSCE TE IPSVM 

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