George Washington Horoscope

This sampling of the book begins with a deep look at the George Washington horoscope (view chart at bottom of page). We begin with an excursion into his Sabian Symbols. It is amazing how the deeper meaning of these symbols apply quite accurately to prominent historical personages. As a child, he did visualize and plan out his life. What manifested is amazing on many levels.

Sabian Symbols

Let’s start with a brief review of Washington’s Sabian Symbols. These are taken from An Astrological Mandala, authored by the 20^th 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 always dealing with men of power often very different from himself and often lacking in understanding of situations—some involving extreme danger—that he himself, with his Mercury trine Jupiter mid-pointed by Uranus, was easily able to comprehend and know what to do in an instant. Washington often kept his silence in such situations. And all his life he got along well with those he had to work under, with those he was equal to, and with those who served him. By saying nothing, as he intuitively knew it would do no good anyway, he quietly applied his gift of give and take.

Moon, 17°Capricorn 06’
THE UNION JACK FLAG FLIES FROM A BRITISH WARSHIP.
The protection afforded to individuals and groups by powerful institutions in charge of maintaining order.
A pattern of ACCELERATED GROWTH.

In this era, children at an early age were expected to assume a family role, which at times could strain their natural capacities. When Washington was 11 years old, after his father’s death, by custom of the time, his mother made him head of the family household. He began polishing this ability to carry responsibilities and burdens. As a boy and as a youth, he was always serious and always ahead of his peers in development and looked upon as more mature than everyone else in his age group. In his early twenties, as a Lt. Colonel of the Virginia militia, he fired the first shot of the French and Indian War. By the time he resigned his commission at age 27, he had grown famous all through the colonies. If this Moon in Capricorn by positional degree is correct, then his mother, Mary Ball Washington, was responsible for a lot of the early seriousness recorded in his childhood and adolescence. When his father died, transiting Saturn was opposed to his natal Sun, and it was 135° off his natal Moon. It could have activated this deep seriousness; also, it opposed his natal Saturn from January through September, 1745, when he was 13 years old. And his seriousness deepened.

The father was possibly the more important parent. Read about that at Venus/Saturn below.

This symbol also shows his instinctive need when creating a new government in a new civilization—to create powerful institutions that will maintain order. He chaired the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, in silence; yet somehow all the right people and ideas were brought together in a body of law. Then later as president, he set that law in place, as cement is poured into the foundation and allowed to set. He oversaw the maturing process of constitutional law as it hardened into an enduring tradition.

Mercury, 6°Aquarius 34’
VIEWING A CHILD BEING BORN OUT OF AN EGG. The emergence of new mutations according to the great rhythms of the cosmos. Here we see the appearance of a new type of human being, not born of ancestors, who is free of the inertia of the past. He is a new product of evolution, a mutant.

George Washington’s mature political years always involved bringing a new world order to America. From a very young age, he felt or possibly knew that that the actions he would take would be consequential in bringing something new into the world. Therefore, he saved and preserved all his writings—notes and letters from his teenage years until he died in December, 1799. Thus, there is more original source material on George Washington lodged in the Library of Congress than on any other American or European historical figure born in the 18^th century. And these writings demonstrate, and we will discuss it in depth in this memoir, that he was a new mutation, especially in the actions he used to guide the American people into this new republic.

Venus at 29° Pisces 26’
A MAJESTIC ROCK FORMATION RESEMBLING A FACE IS IDEALIZED BY A BOY WHO TAKES IT AS HIS IDEAL OF GREATNESS, AND AS HE GROWS UP, BEGINS TO LOOK LIKE IT.
“the capacity for self-transformation latent in man” …can be developed through visualization, when the emotions and the will are poured into the visualized mental image.

Venus denotes, among other qualities, your values. A Venus/Saturn conjunction gives you the gift of making your values real. Making things real takes work. Not one history of Washington mentions any laziness. Venus rules ideals, values that are born in the mind: Saturn gives them structure on the earth plane. Washington’s first goal in life was to get away from home. He was very practical about it. He studied the science and practice of surveying land. Then he took the tests and got certified as a professional surveyor. While still in his teens, he was paid well enough for his services to leave home and live independently.

The Venus/Saturn conjunction in Cancer represents his father. Even though his father died when he was young, his father was around for many of his formative years, right up to early adolescence. History tells us very little about Augustus (Gus) Washington. The only historical account comes from the Parson Weems history, Life of Washington, 1809. A few years after Washington’s death, Weems traveled around Virginia and gathered together all the anecdotes he could about Washington. The Cherry Tree Story comes from Weems: Apparently it is not true, but it was true in the story of Washington’s training in virtue, in learning to tell the truth. However, Weems is one of the few sources we have on Washington’s childhood. Many of his anecdotes were apparently true. When recounting the relationship of Washington and his father, Weems argues that they were very close, and that his father gave him a thorough upbringing in what was right and what was wrong, and in other moral values. When Augustus died, Saturn opposed Washington’s natal Sun. That marked a deep structural change in his life. Washington’s father quite possibly exerted a far deeper influence on that boy than most historians have given him credit for.

The boy worshiped his older brother, Lawrence, who was a military man and had served with the British (Mt Vernon, Washington’s estate located on the Potomac River in Virginia, is named for the British Admiral Vernon under whom Lawrence Washington served).

Washington determined early to have a military career (influenced quite possibly the exact bi-septile of Sun to Mars-Eris). Through connections (it was called “interest” in those days) he received an appointment at age 21 from the Governor of Virginia as a Major, and he was later promoted to Lt Colonel of Militia. He led patrols and guarded the frontier areas of Virginia. He later served with the British, and at one time was given the temporary appointment of brigadier general. He saw much combat and served in the thick of war for years. After the age of 30, his thoughts and studies and evolving values turned towards the creation of a new nation.

Saturn, 2°42’  Aries
THE CAMEO PROFILE OF A MAN, SUGGESTING THE SHAPE OF HIS COUNTRY.
The sustaining power of the Whole, as the individual identifies himself with its life.

….the individual person can become truly, not only an image and representation of the Whole of his natal environment…but an agent through whom the Whole may express itself in an act of creative resonance and outpouring…operates in and through an individual person and destiny who have become its outward manifestation in order to meet a collective need.

Participation in a greater life: Slowly, step by step, he would make himself that agent through which the Whole could express itself. His study of freemasonry gave him early spiritual supports. Incidentally, masonry and the building of buildings are ruled by Saturn. And Washington would design and construct many buildings. On a personal level, Venus governs your clothing. Washington designed his own uniforms: That was partly how his Venus/Saturn worked itself out. On a much larger level, Washington corresponded all his life with everyone he knew; at Mt. Vernon, and when he was out of government service, he gave numerous well-attended dinner parties at Mt Vernon.

Washington took command of the army on 15 June 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On that day, in the George Washington horoscope to the left, Saturn moving through the sky opposed his natal Saturn, exactly. At this point, the power of the Whole was working through him to fulfill a collective need, namely, to win the war.

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Further sampling of book, see below:

Introduction to Book
http://www.historicalastrology.com/horoscope-of-george-washington/

USA Astrology
http://www.historicalastrology.com/usa-astrology/

American Revolution Astrology
http://www.historicalastrology.com/horoscope-of-george-washington/american-revolution-astrology/

From the Appendix: How Aspects Work | How Planets Work
http://www.historicalastrology.com/horoscope-of-george-washington/how-aspects-work/