Llewellyn George & Donald A. Bradley

[Jim Eshelman]

Lewellyn George was born August 17, 1876, 4:19 AM GMT, Swansea, Wales. A Leo with a Gemini Moon, the man who most dramatically transformed the face of astrology in America was remembered to me by Gary Duncan as a great, general papa of a man (in fact, the boys called him Papa IIRC).

His Sun had the most extraordinary configurations:

0°11' Leo - Mars
0°21' Sco - Jupiter
1°32' Leo - Sun
1°34' Tau - Pluto

This powerful pattern landed right on the 1°15' Taurus Sun of Donald A. Bradley!

Bradley - born May 16, 1925, 2:40 AM CST, Bruning, NE - was a young man already bright in the ways of astrology who was taken under wing by LG in what was surely the most important mentorship of his life. LG recognized Bradley's gifts, put him to work editing and writing for Llewellyn magazines, and eventually subsidized (from his personal funds, not the company's coffers) the Llewellyn Foundation for Astrological Research, in which he placed Bradley as research director. The foundation published a series of works including Bradley's Profession & Birth Date, Fagan's Zodiacs Old & New, and Bradley's Solar & Lunar Returns that revolutionized what was knowable about astrology.

Their chart comparison is worth study. In addition to the above, there are other important aspects, especially LG's Moon 0°14' from opposite Bradley's Jupiter. Considering that LG was already on a path of trying to strip astrology of any aura of occultism and base it on objective, observable fact, I think we may never know the depth of the impact of his partile Mercury-Saturn opposition aligned with Bradley's Moon. (Part of this effect was introducing him to a junior high school kid six years his junior named Neil Block, that we know as Gary Duncan) Bradley's Mercury was in the same degree as LG's MC.

What startles me is that there are no Venus aspects (other than 5°+ opposition of one Venus to the other Jupiter). I had always thought there was much affection between them, but that doesn't seem to be the case. There was generosity and fortune between the charts, there was powerful impact, but outright affection isn't stated.

I think there may even be meaning to get from LG's Uranus partile conjunct Bradley's Neptune - especially because these fall near LG's Ascendant.