Astrology...Relating the natal birth chart to the charts of the major cycles preceding birth
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(Excerpt from 'Working with Astrology' by Michael Harding and Charles Harvey)
But if Margaret Thatcher's natal ACG can tell us a great deal about her personal relationship to, and impact upon, the world, we can also use this same basic approach to study the relationship between the individual and the state of the larger cosmic dance into which they are born...The significance of our own personal natal chart can only be fully understood when it is related to the larger cycles in which it occurs. The events and circumstances with which we find ourselves involved are not simply the product of the moment of their occurrence. This web of unfolding events called Life arises out of the interaction of that myriad of cosmic cycles, great and small, which is forever unfolding the enfolded order of Eternity. Put simply, if we want to understand Margaret Thatcher's 'appointment with destiny' at 9 AM on October 13, 1925 we need to relate her natal birth chart to the charts for the major cycles preceding her birth. From the interaction between these patterns we can begin to gauge something of the kind of role that Thatcher, given her position, will be likely to play in unfolding the ideas represented by those cycles.
To express this in another way, we know from studies of the ACGs for lunations, eclipses, and ingresses that the lines of planetary angularity in such maps remain sensitive long after the moment for which they are set. Such maps establish a pattern, a matrix, which remains sensitive to subsequent transits. Thus, for example, the longitude on the earth at which Uranus was on the MC at the Capricorn ingress will carry that Uranian potential for many months afterwards. Depending on other factors, along that longitude we can expect to see sudden, unexpected events, upsets, possibly changes of government, even earthquakes. Indeed theoretically we can say that the Uranus position at the beginning of any annual cycle will remain sensitive throughout the life of that cycle. (This idea in relationship to world events has been discussed in some detail in Chapters 9 and 10 of Mundane Astrology by Baigent, Harvey, and Campion. In that work some examples are also given of the way in which the individual birth chart can be seen to be related to the charts of major cycles.)
In theory, to fully understand the part we each are here to play we would need to study the relationship between our natal chart and the for the conjunction phase of each pre-natal cycle. In practice we can simplify things by saying that in general we will each tend to be most closely related to the cycles of those planets which are most prominent and closely aspected in our natal chart.
Returning to Thatcher's chart (Grantham, Lincolnshire, October 13, 1925 at 9:00 AM), with it's closely rising Saturn, we can see that she is obviously going to be very closely tuned to those cycles involving Saturn. In particular, being born at the outgoing -60- phase (Sextile) of the Jupiter-Saturn cycle, her life is likely to be particularly related to the practical working (-60-) expression and application (-60-) of Jupiter-Saturn ideas. Note how this is phrased! We are saying that Thatcher's life will ne involved in helping to express the idea of the Jupiter-Saturn cycle, not that the cycle will give importance to Thatcher, though this prominence may be a consequence of the role she has to play in helping to unfold history. For at this level of analysis we are looking at the role of the individual within the collective wholeness and larger purposes of things. Indeed to a medieval astrologer who saw Jupiter and Saturn as the Great Chronocrators, the Great Markers of time, which unfold society and civilization, this outgoing Jupiter-60-Saturn would have been seen as the hallmark of someone who would 'make their mark' on their society, and be able to play a significant role in the work of the Creator.
To understand Thatcher's role in this creative process we can look at the chart for the seed moment of this Jupiter-Saturn cycle in relation to her own birth chart. The conjunction took place on September 10, 1921 at about 4:14 AM (four years and one month prior to Margaret Thatcher's birth. Theoretically we can say that this chart contains the seed ideas that Margaret Thatcher's Jupiter-60-Saturn phase will work out (6th Harmonic), and will embody into the rhythms of her life (6th Harmonic) and consciousness...The American ephemeris, gives the time of as 4:14 PM. The angles given are for Thatcher's place of birth, Grantham, for we want to assess in what way her particular moment of birth connects with and expresses the cycle.
This chart symbolizes, among other things, the cycle of 'social structuring' into which Thatcher was born. Such cycles have two levels of expression. First they have a 'contemporary' life, which unfolds during the course of the cycle itself, which in this case would have lasted until the next Jupiter-0-Saturn (conjunction) in 1940/41. Second, but no less important, they have a 'generational' life, which will express itself through all the millions of people, those cells of consciousness, born during the course of the cycle. These people both individually and collectively 'embody' and give continuing living expression to the significance of the cycle long after it has been completed in temporal terms.
In ' contemporary' terms this Jupiter-0-Ssturn cycle, which began at 26 degrees, 36 minutes of Virgo, closely -90- (squares) the galactic centre, covered the period from the great 'boom' period of the 'roaring twenties', and reached it full at the -180- (opposition) in 1931 at the depth of the world economic depression and social austerity. Perhaps the most striking features about the general pattern of the chart are the -90- of the moon to the conjunction and the close -45- (semi-square) to it from Venus: the Pluto (exactly with the 1066 and UK chart MC/IC and Sun axes) in close -45- of Mars and -120- Of Uranus (trine); the Moon-135- Neptune. When set for London/Grantham we see the conjunction is brought strongly to the fore by being exactly-120- the MC from the 2nd house , indicating that the 'social structuring' of this cycle will have profound financial and economic implications for the UK and her people (-90- the Moon exactly on 1066 Uranus-90- the Moon). This was all too tragically true. We see that the AS is on the midpoints of the Venus-45-Jupiter-Saturn, and Uranus is nearly setting. In terms of the 1066 chart this AS-Uranus falls right on the Pluto-180-Jupiter, indicating that this Jupiter-Saturn cycle will be likely to have a dramatic impact on Britain's 'power and plutocracy'. The MC of the chart localizes the powerful Pluto-45-Mars, an indication of a social cycle which is likely to be focusing on military and militant social issues, and when there could be strong pressure for social changes. All in all this Jupiter-0-Saturn cycle was clearly one which would deeply affect Britain, both at the time and through its children.
Around the outside of the chart are Margaret Thatcher's natal positions. We are immediately struck by the fact that her natal MC-0-Mercury/Pluto, her aspirations in life as a 'successful speaker' who can 'attain public recognition' and 'influence the public' is exactly conjunct the AS, while her all-important Jupiter-180-Pluto, her 'appreciation for the need for social...regeneration' falls exactly on the MC/AS. We note that her Sun/Midheaven, her 'goal or objective in life', and her Moon/Mercury, herself as a 'mentally active woman', are within minutes of the exact conjunction with the 2nd house Jupiter-0-Saturn, while her 'revolutionary' Sun/Moon-180-Uranus falls exactly across the 2nd/8th axis of economics and finances! We note that her Neptune-45-Mars, her 'inspired action', is exactly locked in with the very tight Mars-45-Pluto-45-Midheaven pattern. Additionally note that her Sun is exactly 9 minutes from the North Node of this chart while her Moon is -120-the Jupiter - Saturn/Moon to the minute! Looking at this synastry we cannot but recognize that there will be a very deep resonance between Margaret Thatcher's life and goals and this cycle of 'government' and 'social structuring'.
While few individuals can have the impact on national affairs of a determined prime minister, an examination of the natal chart of any individual in relationship to the preceding cycles would seem to be an important factor in such matters as vocational guidance and an understanding of the individual's place in the larger scheme of things.
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Working with Astrology' by Michael Harding and Charles Harvey
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