Primary angles and th U.S. Horoscope

[Jim Eshelman]

Ken Bowser wrote a book on the United States horoscope, applying the one technique of primary angles ("progressed angles") for major events, and says he has confirmed, within a minute or two, the "shortly past noon" Hazelrigg-George chart I prefer.

I haven't read the book. I've seen it discussed and have read Ken's occasional remarks about it. It occurred to me to test the chart (I use the last Llewellyn George adjustment, 12:14:42 PM LMT) against the relevant events in Sidereal Mundane Astrology and see what I got.

This is especially because I doubt Ken used the same rate that I've been encouraging over the last few years. I'm guessing he used the Naibod in RA that I used for decades, which was the Fagan-Firebrace-Bradley standard. A few years ago, examples completely flipped my view to the theory of progressing the MC by solar arc in longitude (same as Solar Arc directed MC) and then deriving Ascendant from that.

It's worth a few minutes to check the available data and see what pops up.

[Jim Eshelman]

9/11
p Asc sq. r Neptune +0°34'
L p MC (NYC) conj. p Mercury -0°53'

Bay of Pigs Invasion
p MC conj. p Mercury -0°15'
p MC op. t Mars 0°01'
-- t Mars op. p Mercury 0°24'
p Asc op. p Saturn 0°00'
p Asc sq. t Jupiter 0°01'
-- t Jupiter sq. p Saturn 0°01'

NB: Philadelphia angles are better than relocating the country to Washington, since that loses all of the above and puts progressed Sun partile to MC - not how the event came down.

Benghazi attack
p Asc conj. r Venus 0°06'
p Asc op. t Pluto 0°55'
-- t Pluto op. r Venus 0°09'

CONCLUSION: None of them are bad and, in general, they're quite good.

[Jim Eshelman]

USA Enters WW I
(Nothing for birthplace!)
L p MC conj. p Sun +0°41' [but this was partile for decades]

Armistice Ends WW I
p Asc sq. t Sun +0°30'
L p MC conj. p Sun +0°41' [same as above to the minute]
L p MC conj. t Mercury 0°21'
-- t Mercury conj. p Sun 0°40'

Pearl Harbor
p Asc op. p Neptune -0°07'
p Asc op. t Neptune -0°27'
-- t Neptune conj. r Neptune 0°20'
L p Asc [Pearl Harbor] conj. p Sun +0°11'
L p MC sq. r Jupiter 0°02'
(The last is strange; but Sun-Jupiter aspects were all over that event.)

D-Day
p Asc op. p Mars +0°05'

VE Day
p MC sq. p Mars -0°12'
p MC sq. t Mars +0°41'
p MC sq. t Neptune +0°10'
-- t Neptune conj. p Mars 0°22'
-- t Mars op. p Mars 0°52'
-- t Mars-Neptune op. 0°31'
p Asc sq. r Venus +0°35'
-- p Mars sq. r Venus 0°51'
L p MC conj. p Sun +0°45' [still partile (for decades)!]

Hiroshima Bombing
p MC sq. p Mars -0°02'
p MC op. r Venus -0°45'
p MC sq. t Neptune +0°06'
-- t Neptune conj. p Mars 0°08'
L p MC conj. p Sun +0°46' [still]

VJ Day, End of WW II
p MC op. r Venus -0°41'
p MC sq. p Mars 0°00'
p MC sq. t Neptune -0°39'
-- t Neptune sq. r Venus 0°02'
-- t Neptune conj. p Mars 0°39'
-- p Mars sq. r Venus 0°41'
L p MC conj. p Sun +0°45'

Korean War Begins
p Asc sq. r Sun 0°01'
p Asc op. t Neptune +0°58'
L p MC conj. p Sun +0°45' [sq. p Mars 17', but Mars isn't not angular]
L p MC op. r Jupiter -0°33'

Korean War Armistice
p Asc op. t Saturn -0°10', op. t Neptune +0°01'
-- t Saturn-Neptune conj. 0°11'
L p MC conj. Sun +0°45'
L p Asc op. r Saturn +0°33'
(This paints a gruesomely negative picture of the event.)

Fall of Saigon
p MC sq. p Saturn -0°36'
p Asc sq. r Moon -0°42'
L p MC conj. p Sun +0°40' [still there]

2001 Afghanistan War
p Asc sq. r Neptune +0°39'
p MC sq. p Moon +0°54'
L p MC conj. p Sun +0°31' [it's even getting closer!]
L p Asc conj. r Mars -0°49'

2003 Iraq War
p Asc sq. t Mercury +0°20' [that's pretty minor!]
L p MC conj. p Sun +0°31', conj. p Mercury -0°56'
L p Asc sq. r Neptune -0°38'

[Jim Eshelman]

[I'm only taking those of a national-chart-level event.]

USS Thresher Sank
p MC op. p Jupiter -0°27'
p Asc sq. t Mars -0°30'
L p MC conj. p Sun +0°43'
L p Asc op. p Saturn -0°09'
L p MC sq. t Sun ~1°

USS Scorpion Sank
L p MC conj. p Sun +0°42', op. r Mercury -0°45'

Shuttle Challenger Explosion
p Asc conj. p Uranus -0°10'
L p MC [Cape Canaveral] conj. t Venus +0°12'

Shuttle Columbia Disaster
p MC conj. p Mercury +0°47'
L p MC (Houston) conj. t Sun +0°47', t Moon -0°49', op. t Jupiter -0°08'

COMMENT: These aren't so good overall. Perhaps they amount to smaller events.

[Jim Eshelman]

[I'll try to isolate those that should be truly national events, not just big events that got national attention.]

Selma ("Bloody Sunday")
(Nothing)

Wounded Knee Uprising
L p Asc [Wounded Knee] s. t Mars +0°47'

Waco Siege
L p MC (Waco) conj. p Pluto +0°12'

SCOTUS Affirms Gay Marriage Rights
p Asc conj. r Jupiter -0°49'
L p MC (Washington) conj. p Sun +0°27'
L p Asc conj. r Venus -0°12'

COMMENT: These don't always hit - but when they do hit, they hit really well! Notice the strength of the local progressed angles instead of the natal ones, as if (for example) these are not nation-sifting in some ways.

[Jim Eshelman]

William Henry Harrison died
L p MC (Washington) conj. p Sun +0°27' [I guess this is for our whole history]

Zachery Taylor died
p Asc op. r Uranus +0°15'
L p MC (Washington) conj. p Neptune +0°08', p Sun +0°26'
-- p Sun-Neptune conj. 0°18'
L p Asc op. r Uranus -0°41'

Abraham Lincoln murdered
p Asc op. r Mars -0°55'
L p MC (Washington) conj. p Sun +0°27'

James Garfield murdered (died)
p MC sq. r Pluto +0°03'
L p MC conj. p Sun +0°30', sq. p Pluto -0°23'
-- p Sun-Pluto sq. 0°53'
p Asc op. r Venus +0°09'

William McKinley murdered (died)
p Asc op. r Mercury -0°08', sq. t Venus -0°18''
(This is quite bad.)

Warren G. Harding died
p MC op. r Uranus +0°47', p Uranus +0°41'
p Asc conj. r Moon -0°04'

Franklin Roosevelt died
p MC sq. p Mars -0°14', sq. t Neptune -0°28'
-- t Neptune conj. p Mars 0°14'
p Asc sq. r Venus +0°27', sq. t Saturn +0°31'
-- t Saturn conj. r Venus 0°04'

John Kennedy murdered
p MC op. p Jupiter +0°16'
(Not exactly what we're looking for, eh?)

Richard Nixon resignation
L p MC (Washington) conj. p Sun +0°40' [not worth anything by itself]