Donald Bradley's final 10-Day chart
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2022 11:01 am
I don't look at Enneads all that often. I've never been more than medium-impressed by them. (I've seen some good ones, but I've also seen a lot of "OK enough but ultimately boring" ones.)
OTOH, since I've been watching more often in recent years, I've seen a LOT of top-notch 1-Day charts (the Decilium, as Bradley thought it might be called). I just noticed (surely not for the first time) that Bradley's own final 10-Day is a staggeringly good chart.
Other than the SLR, which showed the great peace and relief of his death, the other charts were especially dominated by his Pluto. (This seems his key planet for the event: He even had reached an exact progressed Sun-Pluto conjunction.) But, of all these charts, the 10-Day left no question about the severity of the time.
Bradley was born May 16, 1925, 2:40 AM CST, Bruning, NE. He died April 25, 1974, 11:25 PM MST, Tucson, AZ. Only 13 minutes earlier (Solar Fire gives 11:11:53 PM), transiting Sun reached reached a 10° multiple from natal Sun, with the following:
0°50' Gem - t Moon (4°51' below Dsc)
0°20' below Dsc: Moon/Mars midpoint
5°40' Gem - Descendant
6°16' Gem - t Saturn (0°05' above Dsc)
9°08' Gem - t Mars (4°11' above Dsc)
25°09' 6H - Moon
25°11' 9H - Pluto
A 0°02' Moon-Pluto mundane square, Saturn 0°5' from Dsc, and Moon, Mars, and Saturn all clustered around Descendant - the message is very clear. Other planets in the mix included natal Mars, about 5° above Dsc with Pluto exactly squaring it:
9°00' Gem - t Mars
10°17' Vir - t Pluto
10°23' Gem - r Mars
God, what a horrible chart
In contrast, the full Ennead from April 5 was no big deal. It's not worth showing or detailing. Natal Mercury on Zenith and transiting Sun broadly foreground is about it, while some other factors seem contradictory. The one clear portent, though, is Ennead Moon - presumably as important as Moon ion a full SSR, right? - which was at 7°36' Virgo. Compare that to the positions immediately above.
And one small thing nobody has really explored about an Ennead, but worth mentioning, but perhaps worth a look? Since the Ennead is a form of solar return, is it subject to progression at the SQ rate? With Bradley's natal Saturn at 16°15' Libra, quotidian Ennead MC for the moment of his last breath was 17°06' Aries.
But the real importance and purpose of this post is to mention his 10-Day chart that occurred a few minutes before he passed from this world.
OTOH, since I've been watching more often in recent years, I've seen a LOT of top-notch 1-Day charts (the Decilium, as Bradley thought it might be called). I just noticed (surely not for the first time) that Bradley's own final 10-Day is a staggeringly good chart.
Other than the SLR, which showed the great peace and relief of his death, the other charts were especially dominated by his Pluto. (This seems his key planet for the event: He even had reached an exact progressed Sun-Pluto conjunction.) But, of all these charts, the 10-Day left no question about the severity of the time.
Bradley was born May 16, 1925, 2:40 AM CST, Bruning, NE. He died April 25, 1974, 11:25 PM MST, Tucson, AZ. Only 13 minutes earlier (Solar Fire gives 11:11:53 PM), transiting Sun reached reached a 10° multiple from natal Sun, with the following:
0°50' Gem - t Moon (4°51' below Dsc)
0°20' below Dsc: Moon/Mars midpoint
5°40' Gem - Descendant
6°16' Gem - t Saturn (0°05' above Dsc)
9°08' Gem - t Mars (4°11' above Dsc)
25°09' 6H - Moon
25°11' 9H - Pluto
A 0°02' Moon-Pluto mundane square, Saturn 0°5' from Dsc, and Moon, Mars, and Saturn all clustered around Descendant - the message is very clear. Other planets in the mix included natal Mars, about 5° above Dsc with Pluto exactly squaring it:
9°00' Gem - t Mars
10°17' Vir - t Pluto
10°23' Gem - r Mars
God, what a horrible chart
In contrast, the full Ennead from April 5 was no big deal. It's not worth showing or detailing. Natal Mercury on Zenith and transiting Sun broadly foreground is about it, while some other factors seem contradictory. The one clear portent, though, is Ennead Moon - presumably as important as Moon ion a full SSR, right? - which was at 7°36' Virgo. Compare that to the positions immediately above.
And one small thing nobody has really explored about an Ennead, but worth mentioning, but perhaps worth a look? Since the Ennead is a form of solar return, is it subject to progression at the SQ rate? With Bradley's natal Saturn at 16°15' Libra, quotidian Ennead MC for the moment of his last breath was 17°06' Aries.
But the real importance and purpose of this post is to mention his 10-Day chart that occurred a few minutes before he passed from this world.