How do you determine the correct chart for the birth of the USA? There are so many possibilities for charts with so many expert rectifications, you can get dizzy trying to wend your way through them. Intelligent, articulate, skilled astrologers over the centuries have put forth their best efforts. It would have been far simpler for those knowledgeable Founding Fathers (several of whom were Freemasons and knew of the value of astrology and timing) to have made an accurate record. But, no, they were targets of the Crown because they were thought to be traitors to that Crown. Minimal records were kept to protect the members and the territories they represented. Scarce personal notes are a bit confusing. Excellent minds have researched that thoroughly. We thread our way through the labryinth of possible charts, do our own research, and still we don’t agree with one another. Well…I joined that particular club last fall.
Over the 35 years I have been a student of astrology, I used the very popular Gemini Rising chart. It worked for me for the simple applications I attempted. I wasn’t a political astrologer so I slid through on the popular chart and did little true research. I did, however, in 1973 have a strange awaking in this subject when I literally and physically awakened in the middle of the night, kneeling in front of my tiny bookcase in the hallway outside my bedroom, in the dark, reaching for a book that had a pertinent U.S. chart in its pages. The book? Jess Stern’s A Time for Astrology. The chart? It was the inauguration of George Washington. Why was I doing such a thing in the middle of the night? I have no clue. I wasn’t studying political astrology. I was not scratching an astrological itch. But I did pay attention and have kept and used that chart throughout all the rest of my minuscule studies into political astrology. Over the intervening years I did what many of do, tried to predict various elections, and I did have success using my own personal technique. Enter the 2008 election.
I didn’t really work on the primaries. The charts were scarce and not reliable. That’s too much work offering unreliable results. In October, the true birth times of the candidates seemed to stabilize and support the work involved. McCain’s birth certificate became available and totally changed his previously accepted chart. He too was born outside the continental U.S. Obama’s birth certificate became available and now the effort was worth it. I obtained Biden’s and Palin’s birth certificates. I have no reason to question Biden’s, but Palin’s remains speculative. Who would win according to my method? Obama and Biden. What? And they did. Now my Gemini rising curiosity was on overload! Research (my Scorpio Sun) was mandatory.
I read every old rectification and dissertation on which I could put my hands. Sibley, Merriman, Munkasey, and many more…dizzying. How do you sort through all this? There was no point reinventing the wheel, better minds than mine had done that thoroughly. Each was convincing in his/her own way. So I tried something different, the technique I used to determine the elections. In addition, I set charts for every major date leading up to the inauguration of George Washington, starting with the First Continental Congress, , the declaration of war and surrender of Britain, the ratifications, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, the installation of Congress, you name it, I charted and researched it.
Then I looked for commonalities between those charts. First I whittled the plethora of charts and dates available down to four charts for the 4th of July, 1776. I eliminated John Adams and Ray Merriman’s choice of July 2nd because it just didn’t work for me. I selected the Gemini, Virgo, Scorpio and Sagittarius rising charts as the strongest possibilities. I took the first ten presidents and compared them to those four USA possibilities plus charted the USA progressions to those four natals. What worked best? The Virgo rising chart of Mike Munkasey and other astrologers.
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