Neptune
= 021
Pluto = 041
Saturn = 100
Venus = 101
Uranus = 120
Mercury = 121
Moon = 211
Sun,
Mars = 221
Jupiter = 230
[Least-aspected
Neptune]
Alexander
Graham Bell
Alexander Graham
Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, directly under the rising position of
Tertiary Saturn and slightly east of Primary Neptune, which rises north of
Scotland. Under this narrowly focused Neptune / Saturn Transcendental Midpoint-Field,
he attended the University of Edinburgh and continued his education at University
College, London, where his father, Alexander Melville Bell, lectured on the
science of teaching the deaf to speak. The elder Melville was widely recognized
for his humanitarian efforts on behalf of those who were unable to hear: in
particular, for his design of a visual language that represented the sounds
of the human voice. Bell’s grandfather, Alexander Bell, had founded an elocution
school, in London, where he helped clients to overcome speech problems, such
as stuttering. Like his father and grandfather, Alexander Graham Bell dedicated
his life to developing a “practical / and compassionate means of assisting
those in need”: a classic equation exemplifying the Saturn / Neptune Transcendental
symbolism. (His interest in such matters was also influenced by personal experience,
as his mother had been unable to hear since her childhood.)
Because of health problems
caused by family- and work-related stress (specifically, the death of his
older brother), in 1870 Alexander Graham Bell relocated with his family to
Brantford, Ontario, where he quickly recovered his sense of well-being. The
following year he became professor of vocal physiology at Boston University
and, in 1872, he established his own school in Boston, where he continued
to promote his father’s “Visible Speech” system.
As we can see in his astrocartography,
Boston is near the center of a midpoint-field formed between Bell’s Secondary
Pluto, which runs in a vertical, Midheaven position through Nova Scotia, and
his notably underaspected neutral or Intermediary planet, Uranus, which is
positioned over Ontario in a vertical, midnight line. In this Secondary Pluto
/ Intermediary Uranus Midpoint-Field–one that symbolized “revolutionary /
inventions” (Pluto / Uranus)–Bell devised an “electronic means” (Intermediary
Uranus) of transmitting speech: the telephone. Other inventions created in
this region include the audiometer, the induction balance, the photophone,
and the wax cylinders used to record sound in the early phonographs. Typical
of Uranus, which rules “accidents” and “inventions,” Bell’s discovery was
made fortuitously. While testing another invention (the harmonic telegraph),
he had inadvertently discovered a means of transmitting sound electronically.
That night, he wrote: “I accidentally made a discovery of the very greatest
importance.” While Uranus rules inventions in general, the “very greatest
importance” noted by Bell highlights the symbolism of his Secondary Pluto,
as the telephone would “revolutionize” society and lead to “irrevocable change”1
and “social transformation affecting the masses” for decades to come.
In 1885, Bell purchased land
on Cape Breton Island, where he constructed research facilities and a summer
home that he called Beinn Bhreagh. This location placed him precisely under
his Secondary Pluto. Here, Bell conducted “research and investigation” (Pluto)
into sonar detection, solar distillation, and the tetrahedron. He designed
a hydrofoil “craft” (Primary Neptune) that weighed more than 10,000 pounds
and which set a record in 1919 for traveling at seventy miles per hour.
Bell’s biography illustrates
how the focal point of his ambition–the “compassionate, empathic urge to help
those in need”–was symbolized by his Primary Transcendental, Neptune. Besides
ruling “victimization,” Neptune rules “emotional sensitivity”2 and “compassion
toward those in need”3: qualities that made him especially suited to assist
those whose experience of reality differed so substantially from those in
the mainstream world. This sensibility was combined with a “pragmatic approach
to achievement” (Tertiary Saturn) that was handed down to him by his father
and grandfather: a “paternalistic apprenticeship” ruled by Tertiary Saturn.
In addition, his relocation to North America brought him to the vicinity of
his Secondary Pluto: an energy to which Bell had not been previously exposed.
Here, he “unraveled fundamental mysteries” in his “research” (Secondary Pluto)
“into electronic invention” (Intermediary Uranus). Transcendental Pluto combined
with the “inventive genius” of Intermediary Uranus to produce the invention
of the telephone, a “collectively transformative / innovation” (Secondary
Pluto / Uranus).
1. Sakoian and
Acker, “Keywords for Transiting Pluto,” Transits Simplified, p. 213.
2. Ibid., p. 196.
3. Ibid.
Revised
& updated:
5 August 2005
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I. Introduction
II. Transcendental Biographies
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IV. Psychic inflation
- Summary of Planetary Symbolism
- Transcendental
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V. Nodes / the Triple-zero Transcendental | Appendices: Orbs / References / Data
Additional Maps | Bibliography | FAQ
Postscript:
I. Interview in Astrolore
| II. Transcendental Nations
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IV. World Events | V. Numinous Consciousness
VI. The LAP as a metaphor of the soul | VII.
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