1-Looking at Washington’s Chart

Birth Data

The quote below is taken from the historian, Douglas Southall Freeman, who spent many years researching and writing his history of George Washington. There are numerous historical writings on George Washington. Freeman’s seven-volume set, titledGeorge Washington, is acknowledged by historians as one of the best. I agree, but with the proviso that it is dry and technical.

In his seven-volume edition there is a photograph of the family Bible entry denoting Washington’s birth. It reads:

George Washington son to Augustine and Mary his wife was born 11th day of February 1731/32 about 10 in the morning. . .

So, around 10:00 AM is a validated known historical source. The exact time of birth is unknown. Some astrologers rectify it to a little before; others rectify it to a little after. I have used an LMT (Local Mean Time) version which puts the time at 10:14 AM. Others are just as valid.

Washington’s elevated Sun and Moon are exactly octile, making them a closing balsamic formation (45°). The Sun at 3° 20’ Pisces is on the 11th House cusp in an applying octile to the Moon, which sits in the 9th House. Other close aspects to the Sun are the biquintile to Jupiter and the semi-sextile to Saturn and the exact bi-septile to his Eris/Mars conjunction.

Transits

In this book, I am using only astronomical transits of the bodies of the solar system through the sky. Transits of planets have been a precise science since Kepler. Secondary progressions are fine, if you have the exact time of birth. Many historical figures do not have their exact birth time recorded. Rectification to acquire an exact time is one of the most imprecise practices I have ever encountered in astrology. Sabian Symbols will work—they resemble the philosophical descriptions of the seven heavens of medieval and ancient astrology employed indirectly by Spencer, Shakespeare, and Dante among others, and they describe archetypical energies in human nature that are unchanging and eternal.

Sabian Symbols

Let’s start with a brief review of Washington’s Sabian Symbols. These are taken fromAn Astrological Mandala, authored by the 20th Century philosophical astrologer, Dane Rudhyar. I think they will help us to more deeply understand George Washington:

Sun at 4° Pisces
HEAVY CAR TRAFFIC ON A NARROW ISTHMUS LINKING TWO SEASHORE RESORTS.
The mobility and intensity of interchanges which make possible and characterize complex social processes.
TRAFFIC: The technique for achieving social results is always based on an exchange of ideas and the interplay of activities. Sometimes there is confusion and traffic jams ensue.

This symbol represents the exchange and interaction between very accomplished people coming from differing ways of life. Washington would learn to work with the people in these “seashore resorts,” namely, in the cities like Boston in Massachusetts, and New York City in New York, and Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, and Williamsburg in Virginia, and Charleston in South Carolina, all near oceans or cities on rivers that fed into oceans. It was in these cities that everything happened, where the “intensity of interchanges” took place, and their cars were ships. It was this kind of travel and this kind of connection that would unify the colonies into a union. It was Washington’s life purpose (the Sun) to make this happen.

He possessed the gift of silence, which is ruled by Pisces. For example, in the French and Indian War, Captain Washington was a beloved staff member in the military family of General Braddock, a European general, who, however, did not understand America and did not know how to fight in its jungles. Yet, Washington got along with him well. Washington was a