Solunars by Aldebaran Sidereal Academy

David, Sep 16, 1972, 1:01 PM EDT, Auburn, ME

Dr. Millard wrote:David was a normal child at birth, but at fourteen weeks was involved in a car accident in which the left cerebral hemisphere was destroyed. There are not many cases when this happens and the patient survives. It seems, however, that he will learn to compensate... The child is having special speech training, for the left hemisphere normally serves speech... He is doing reasonably well.

I would not expect this condition to show in the birth chart. I'm surprised to see that it appears to show quite clearly. Having half the brain destroyed in an accident is not a matter of any innate weakness or vulnerability in the body that later gives way to disease; rather, it's an outside force that would affect more or less anybody who went through the same thing.

Calculate the chart, including the mundoscope, and you will see certain basics. David is a Leo-Sagittarius (Jupiter most angular) with a triple conjunction of Sun-Mercury-Mars - especially Mercury-Mars! - west of MC and square Saturn. A Moon-Pluto square suggests something extraordinary and outside the norm. The mundoscope shows a 0°07' Saturn-Pluto square widely foreground, which seems catastrophic. There is also a mundane Moon-Uranus square of uncertain import.

But, just outside the foreground zone, we see this simple pattern for a brain physically damaged in an accident:

26°00' Tau - Saturn
26°28' Leo - Mars
26°48' Leo - Mercury

It doesn't get clearer than that! I can also add that there are many indications in the chart of high intelligence, so I would have expected him to do better than average in his recovery, especially since his accident was at such a young age.

For timing on the accident, we only know that it occurred at 14 weeks. If this is exact (it probably isn't), the accident is placed at December 23, 1972. There were no transits or progressions maturing at that time. A December 5 Ennead (NSR) is mixed, having Jupiter closely setting and Saturn exactly on EPa opposite Moon. A December 16 10-Day Solar probably marks the event, with Mars setting closely, probably showing the start of the 10-day period in which the accident occurred.

The December 20 Demi-SLR has transiting Pluto 0°00' from Descendant, transiting Uranus partile square MC, and Uranus-Uranus and Pluto-Pluto transits on angles. This is the chart! The crisis itself plus the raw unusualness of the whole thing explodes off the chart. (There is even a little Mars.)