In the November 1963 issue of American Astrology, under the pen name Leslie McIntyre, Donald Bradley became AFAIK the only astrologer to predict President Kennedy's assassination in print. In a style reminiscent of Clark Kent protecting Superman's secrets, Bradley then, in the March 1964 issue and under the pen name Garth Allen, praised and celebrated Leslie McIntyre's great success and elaborated the astrology of the event.
Under the nom de plume of Lewis Howard, Bradley had written a top-notch book on the U.S. horoscope - in the Tropical zodiac but with two important technical divergences from standard Tropical approach of the time. First, transits were considered with precession deleted (i.e., as if they were Sidereal). Second, he used the Q1 rate of secondary progressions. (The difference between Q1 and Q2 is explained in Chapter 2 of Sidereal Mundane Astrology.) This one result - the Kennedy murder - is the single outlier event that makes the Q1 seem valid. Every comparative test I've ever won has the Q2 coming out on top, and this is what Bradley reported to me in the early '70s. However, the most remarkable public astrological prediction in the 20th century was accomplished using the Q1. Dems da fax!
Garth Allen begins by praising McIntyre and pointing out that his successful prediction was based on the Tropical "LIbra-rising chart" for the U.S.A., and using what Cyril Fagan called "Bija-corrected progressions," i.e., the Q1. Without that approach to secondary progressions, the forecast would have anticipated the assassination the prior spring. Instead, "the McIntyre forecast stands as one of astrology's brightest achievements."
The USA Chart
Here is the main point, and one specifically cited in the original forecast: The U.S. chart has a Mars-Neptune square. Here, in the Tropical zodiac (orbs are identical in Sidereal), are the natal Mars and Neptune positions, and Q1 progressed Moon for each of the peacetime presidential assassinations. (I've given better calculations in brackets, since we have better resources today than in 1964.)
U.S. natal Mars 21°14' Gemini
U.S. natal Neptune 22°27' Virgo [22°25']
President shot - Prog. Moon:
Garfield - 21°21' Sagittarius [21°18' - for death, not shooting]
McKinley - 22°14' Virgo [22°10' for death]
Kennedy - 22°12' Sagittarius [22°04']
Garth Allen went on to note the two closest major transits prevailing in the national birthchart" when Kennedy was killed, in the precession-free Sidereal framework:
t. Saturn trine r. Saturn 0°09' [actually 0°06']
t. Neptune trine r. Sun 0°11'
"...the planets of loss and tears [Saturn and Neptune] were both within a fifth of one degree from exact trine to key bodies in the U.S. chart when our President was struck down by the coolest madman [see the Saturn-Neptune keywords he slipped in?] of modern times. The key bodies were, appropriately, the Sun and Saturn, and what could be more fitting than that Sun-Saturn symbolizes the death of the nation's figurehead?" He observed that the Sidereal lunar ingress closest to the Saturn-Neptune exact square had it angular in Washington. (Sun-Saturn are square in the U.S. natal chart, providing the hard aspect underbelly for this.)
A digression on interesting math I don't mention much. "Equal distances" always point us to midpoint contacts. These trine transits normally wouldn't have much more, but the fact that two aspects of the same distance-gap, occurred simultaneously tells us there is a important midpoint contact. Consider:
t. Neptune 21°42' Libra
r. Sun 21°31' Gemini
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t. 23°05' Capricorn
r. Saturn 23°11' Virgo
(If you were to draw these two trines on a wheel, you'd see that the gaps between r. Saturn / t. Neptune, and r. Sun / t. Saturn look, to the eye, to be about equal. In fact, the midpoint of t. Neptune and r. Saturn is 7°07' Libra-Aries, and the midpoint of t. Saturn and r. Sun is 7°18' Libra-Aries. The midpoints are exact within 0°13'.)
Kennedy's Chart
"McIntyre" had cited Kennedy's chart, too, saying, "...in view of the grievous attack by Saturn on the President's natal trio of Mars, Mercury and Jupiter, along with Uranus square his Sun..." Garth Allen remarked that this is, "Right on the nose sidereally."
Bradley gave two double chart wheels that combined information of four charts I'll let everyone setup for themselves. (BTW, we only know Kennedy's birth time because Donald Bradley had previously gotten it from Rose Kennedy, the president's mother. He was born May 29, 1917, 3:00 PM EST, Brookline, MA. Obviously the exactly round-houred time can be taken with a small pinch of salt, though it appears to be very close.)
Chart 1 was Kennedy-s PSSR - cusps for PSSR, natal planets on the inside and transits on the outside. Chart 2 was Kennedy's Anlunar, with SSR on the inside and Anlunar on the outside.
These orbs aren't close enough for my tastes, including the transit itself; but perhaps the birthtime was slightly off and everything managed to creep within angle orbs just right. For the given birthtime, the factors he just cited are here:Garth Allen wrote:One glance at figure 1, the PSSR map for Dallas, is more than adequate to demonstrate astrology's effectiveness. The U.S. chart, both progression-wide and transit-wide was "ripe" for what was to transpire. And horror or horrors, to the shame of those whose business it is to protect our President in every feasible way, the President was permitted to visit a particular locality where, on the day of the visit, his natal Mars was crossing the meridian, squared by Saturn, at the same time his natal Neptune was on the Descendant.
r. Mars 24°51' Aries
PSSR MC 26°03' Libra
t. Saturn 23°05' Capricorn
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PSSR Asc 8°02' Capricorn
r. Neptune 9°05' Cancer
What he doesn't say is that the Anlunar was calculated for Washington. This is one of two good options, since he was still in Washington on November 10 when it occurred. With calculation methods available to him at the time, he had the MC a couple of degrees off, so the factors he mentioned boil down to this with better calculations:GA wrote:His lunar return's Ascendant for Dallas was 18°01' Aquarius with Mars at 17°27' Scorpio, square Uranus at 15°16'Leo, his natal Sun being at 14°15' Taurus. How true rang McIntyre's warning, "November is obviously frought with perils of several varieties.
It is possible, however, for such dire circumstances to prevail in a person's charts without a disaster happening as a result. That death itself was "in the stars" for John Fitzgerald Kennedy that month, nevertheless, is shown bluntly and unquestionably in his Anlunar return chart.
There's no other way tp read the chart... Sun closely conjunct Neptune in the 1st house, woefully square Saturn within one degree of the Nadir [IC] ("the end of life"). The solar return conjunction of Mars and Uranus was elevated in the 10th house [correct, but it wasn't all that close to MC - JAE], but the more forthright "last straw" was Mars in close square to the anlunar Moon-Uranus-Pluto triple conjunction...
Neptune 21°14' Libra
Saturn 22°33' Libra [1°24' from IC]
Sun 23°06' Libra
MC 24°18' Cancer (He calculated 21°55')
s. Mars 3°58' Leo
s. Uranus 7°07' Leo
[Middleground:]
Uranus 15°15' Leo
Mars 17°11' Scorpio
Moon 18°55' Leo
Pluto 19°38' Leo
For Dallas, the angles were 2°14' Libra and 4°50' Capricorn. That's not bad either, since his natal Saturn is 3°34' Cancer.