Ray Kurzweil (Genius)

[Jim Eshelman]

Feb 12, 2015

Sitting here listening to Van Morrison (Van the Man) best hits drinking my morning coffee, I discover a chart and bio of a very interesting person.

Ray Kurzweil A rated 2/12/1948 11.45 PM Queens, New York

American author, inventor, futurist, and director of engineering at Google. Kurzweil was the principal inventor of the first CCD flatbed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first commercial text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition.

Mundo Pluto 1,09 cnj MC. Bradley writes about Pluto when angular:

Pluto denotes “firsts” in the life; the native usually plays the leading role in the drama which transpires.

Kurzweil has been described as a “restless genius” by The Wall Street Journal and “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes. PBS included Kurzweil as one of 16 “revolutionaries who made America” along with other inventors of the past two centuries. Inc. magazine ranked him #8 among the "most fascinating" entrepreneurs in the United States and called him "Edison's rightful heir".

Look at his tight Jupiter-Uranus opp close to the Vertex axis, with his Sun illuminating both Jupiter and Uranus with a partile 60 and 120. Also note his direct midpoint of Saturn/Pluto=MC, mundo & eclipto. Ebertin says about this midpoint:

A magician or adept.

Pisces Moon cnj Venus.

Be sure and read all his bios including the link to Wikipedia. Defintely a soul born for the TIME of this exciting new technological Age exploding in our World.

http://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Kurzweil%2C_Ray

[Jim Eshelman]

Every other school of astrological thought on the planet - whether Tropicalist or mainstream Hindu (with a zodiac about a degree later than ours) - would have marked him as having an Aquarius Sun. That would have seemed entirely appropriate, and I just wanted to voice my understanding of anyone who thinks this man should be an Aquarius.

But in the zodiac that shows itself in almost uncountable ways to be correct, he isn't an Aquarius, so I must let go of my Aquarius-envy <g>. The key is the aspect pattern you mention, Steve: That almost partile Jupiter-Uranus opposition that is tightly connected to a foreground Sun and aligned on the Vertex axis. (The Prime Vertical passes due east-west. Uranus is 1°14' from being due west. Jupiter is 2°48' from being aligned due east.) - The Sun-Jupiter sextile is so close that it becomes a partile Sun-Jupiter opposition in the Navamsa (in fact, a Sun-Jupiter-Pluto partile T-square.)

And look at that Saturn-Pluto conjunction straddling MC, Saturn being 2°20' on one side of MC and Pluto 1°09' on the other side. (Their midpoint is 0°35' from MC.) The Capricorn Sun, already Saturn-themed by sign placement, is in a foreground opposition to Saturn. Bottom line: Genius is only 1% inspiration, and this chart shows someone who also put in the 99% perspiration - who works really, really hard.

And, while I began by exaggeratedly bemoaning his Sun-sign, there is a real treasure in his Moon-sign. Moon is in Pisces. I think Kurzweil is especially a visionary. To realize the impact of this sort of vision on technology (and then on the world in general), remember that both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates also were born with Pisces Moons. Technology aside (or, rather, technology just being the arena in which they operated), both of those men have had their greatest impact as social visionaries. Kurzweil is right there with them.

PS - If the Novien has any rael significance, notice that the Novien Moon is 27° Scorpio, along his Jupiter-Uranus natal axis.

[Jim Eshelman]

Jim wrote:

The Sun-Jupiter sextile is so close that it becomes a partile Sun-Jupiter opposition in the Navamsa (in fact, a Sun-Jupiter-Pluto partile T-square.)

I noticed this when looking at his chart this morning, but I don't know how much analytical weight to place on this Vedic procedure. How do you weigh this Sun-Jupiter-Pluto T-square with your experience and practice? It appears by reading his bio this T-square is really important.