George Washington, An Astrological Memoir

By Doug Walker

This biographical memoir covers the astrology of George Washington. It focuses on the George Washington horoscope. It also discusses in depth the various parts of USA astrology. A deep study is made of the astrology of the Declaration of Independence and of US Constitution astrology. It incorporates the cycles, transits and charts of much of American Revolution astrology. It employs the Sibley horoscope of the USA, as Sibley, the accomplished astrologer, philosopher, and visionary who predicted the greatness of America, conferred with original sources to get the exact time of the event.

WHAT ASTROLOGY CAN SHOW US
While he saved everything he wrote from childhood on, and these archives make up the foundation of much good scholarship, there is much we do not know about him. What was his father like? His father died when he was ten years old. Scholarship does not tell us much, and some historians speculate that the relationship was distant. Washington's astrology implies that he had a close and nurturing relationship with his father. I discuss his childhood, and the influence of both parents.

WHAT WAS HIS MIND LIKE?
Some historians fault Washington for not having formal university training, like Madison and Jefferson and Adams.

Yet he had genius.

Washington's grand trine in air signs gave him an illumination of mind, especially when deciding on matters of war; it conferred on him a total understanding of the issues, when he chaired the Constitutional convention; and it imparted to him a deftness of decision and execution, when he served as president.

His profound intuition, one of the gifts of his grand trine, assisted him in choosing the most capable sub-ordinates. Alexander Hamilton was one of his associates, and Washington put his brilliant mind to use for 20 years. I show by astrology how they quite possibly had been working together in past lives.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Oct 17, 2018
• ISBN: 9781543942729

Doug Walker

Doug Walker is an Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, journalism graduate. He served on metropolitan newspapers, mostly in Ohio, for twenty years, as political reporter, both local and statehouse, along with stints as city editor and Washington correspondent. Teaching English in Japan, China and Eastern Europe were retirement activities. His first novel was “Murder on the French Broad,” published in 2010. Now occupying an old house in Asheville, NC, with his wife, he enjoys reading, tennis, short walks, TV and writing.

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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, titled George 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 from An 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 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 18th 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 visualizon, 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 worshipped 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, 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.

Neptune, 14° Gemini 40’

TWO DUTCH CHILDREN TALKING TO EACH OTHER EXCHANGING THEIR KNOWLEDGE.

The need to clarify one’s experiences by talking and corresponding with like-minded individuals. Making a great dream manifest on the earth plane through validation with others.

Washington throughout his adult years corresponded with thousands of individuals. Hamilton, Madison, and Jefferson often traded deep philosophical observations back and forth with him on how to create a free republic, also on how to make the Articles of Confederation work better, and they often assisted him in writing his speeches. Madison assisted him at the Constitutional Convention, kept all the notes, and during this time there took place much back and forth between the two of them. Many decades later these would be published as Madison’s Notes on the Convention. Hamilton was Washington’s right hand when he served as president, and the two of them talked things through. Further, Hamilton assisted in writing Washington’s Farewell Address (September 17, 1796), now famously engraved everywhere on public buildings.

Neptune was part of Washington’s grand trine in air.

Jupiter, 8° Libra 37’

THREE OLD MASTERS HANGING IN A SPECIAL ROOM IN A MUSEUM.

The need to return to source during a confused search for new value in a chaotic society. Great moments of the historical past are the seeds of transformation for a new world.

Washington worked to establish in human law the laws of nature, the ancient eternal laws given to humanity by a higher power, named God, Providence, Creator, that apply to all civilizations, all people everywhere. These laws of nature were first discussed in Aristotle and Cicero, then in the Renaissance by Bacon and Machiavelli and others, and in Washington’s day by John Locke, Montesquieu, and many other political philosophers. The laws of nature imply that basic human rights come from a higher power, not from bureaucrats and politicians, that they include the right to life, liberty, and property. The laws of nature are the foundation of American civilization. For further reading on natural law, I recommend Alexander Hamilton’s A Farmer Refuted. Don’t let the fact that it was written when he was 19 years old deter you. It is a philosophical and historical classic.

Pluto, 17° at Libra 41’

TWO MEN PLACED UNDER ARREST

A breakdown in the constructive relationship between the individual and society, and the expectable result. Running the risks of being punished for bringing in a transformative vision to society.

The King of England, George III, placed a price on Washington’s head. It was a reward for capture. And the king confidently stated that he would hang Washington. Washington, like many others, had pledged his life, his sacred honor, and his possessions on winning the Revolution. The breaking away from England was explained best here:

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

1st paragraph of the Declaration of Independence

The above paragraph, penned mostly by Thomas Jefferson, who was also condemned to death, was the reason why Washington was waging war against the most powerful empire in the world. The Founders were bringing a transformative vision to society, and they were being condemned to death for it. Plutonian energy at work here.

Mars/Eris at 23° and 24° Scorpio

23° Scorpio A RABBIT METAMORPHOSES INTO A NATURE SPIRIT

The rising of animal drives to a higher level.

The transformation of generative powers into a more ethereal and subtle form of potency.

Transubstantiation. The raising of sexual desire to a new level.

In addition to being sexual energy, Mars is anger. Washington was a deeply emotional man. When he was a teenager, he had bouts of extreme anger. His mentors, and he had several, told him he had to cool down or he would have no life at all in society or in politics or in military life. He learned soon to internalize these angers which allowed him to maintain a calm exterior, which brought many advantages to his professional life. Yet this internalization caused various illnesses, and sometimes boils appeared on his legs and arms; they would not go away for weeks or months. Sometimes fox hunting would help him to assuage his angers and frustrations. Other times he found that dancing with women, often for hours at a time, would calm him. What he was learning, was how to transform this anger into a higher power. Again, this was the same power that after months of defeats impelled him to cross the Delaware River on a Christmas night, defeat the British, and go on to drive the them out of New Jersey.

Washington’s Dancing

Washington loved dancing. He loved to dance with young, beautiful women. For example:

In 1774, [General Nathaniel] Greene married the exceptionally pretty Catharine Caty Littlefield, who was a dozen years younger and a preeminent belle of the Revolutionary era. (from Washington by Chernow p. 202)

His Excellency [George Washington] and Mrs. Greene [wife of Nathaniel Greene] danced upwards of three hours without once sitting down.– General Nathanael Greene to Colonel Jeremiah Wadsworth, Middle Brook, New Jersey, March 19, 1779.

He (George Washington) attended the ball of the 22nd of February; opened it by dancing a minuet with some lady, and then danced cotillions and country dances; was very gallant, and always attached himself, by his attentions, to some one or more of the most beautiful and attractive ladies at the balls. – Judge Francis T. Brooke (1784).

His Moon located in the 9th House was quintile Venus in the Eleventh House, meaning that in social occasions where he did not like small talk, he chose to fill up the time dancing with beautiful women instead.

And the Mars/Eris conjunction might be the same power that made him bulletproof against all the projectiles that came his way in all the battles he fought.

Eris is known to confer a protection of sorts. And oddly, many of the Founders had powerful Eris configurations.

24° Scorpio

HAVING HEARD AN INSPIRED INDIVIDUAL DELIVER HIS ‘SERMON ON THE MOUNT’ CROWDS ARE RETURNING HOME.

The need to incorporate inspiring experiences and teachings into everyday life.

How to assimilate what