"In the vital power of the human being that is ignited at birth there glows that remembered image..." --Johannes Kepler, World Harmony(1619)
The First Outragious Case in Point :
In trying to instigate a drawing task which would allow a psyche to sneak out and wave at me from somewhere behind the bulk of a socially defined personality and the always misdirecting front stage ego, I thought of this, Self-as-Island, scenario. This, if only to be iconoclastic and demonstrate that every person is, in a way, very much an island. I always thought that there was more socio-political propaganda than understanding in our characteristic denial of human Individuality, its very real existence. Burying Individuality in a ton of group defining statistics seems a heck of away to look for our personal singularity...our unique soul...our very own island universe
Fig. 1 Lori's Personal Island Kingdom Map
Nifty map, huh? It appears that young Lori kind "knows" something about astrology, without ever being taught anything about it ! Carl Jung would be even more proud than usual, and Kepler would be doing his first backflip.
Now, It doesn't matter what anyone thinks is supposed to happen, and, or, why it happens; that preconceived notion is a scientific sin called observer bias-- a big no-no in elitist academic circles, or so I'm told. We are here just looking to see if there was any empirical evidence that people are influenced in any way by what astrology calls a natal chart.--an Earth-centered "map" of the solar system as viewed from one's birth place. Because astrology is an Art, not a Science, few practitioners agree on the exact details of how these things are supposed to be drawn, exactly. But, this example is a common sort of birth chart , and we can see that Lori's "Moon" object is placed so that, *if* we didn't know what time a day she was born, we could easily figure it out...get awfully close...see what I mean? We are merely observing ontic empirical evidence of non-random event patterning. And, as well, Dr. Geoffrey Dean , Rudolph Smit, et al, it is falsifiable.
Of course its not really evidence if we don't have a lot of repetitions to back it up. We always need repeatable experiments that keep finding the same thing; like, say, we actually do keep seeing what time of day people were born just by comparing an astrological chart to their Self projective drawings...if and when we can subjects to put out. The lack of free flowing self-expression is a bit of an obstacle; most people stop being creative and naively expressive at about age eleven or twelve, I hear. I truly think that inhibition is the only real stumbling block, not our lack of talent for expressing an individual self, or Self. My best guess is this imaginary map drawing task is the best task to centerpiece any formal experimentation.
Forensic Hogwart-ery: JK Rowling's birth time no longer a secret.....Jo's actual map sketch on display here:
The birth time of Harry Potter's creator is officially unknown. Shall we solve that mystery for her....? Pssst..., it's about 7 AM, Jo .
Not "just any" map or natal chart can be thrown together, and declared "just as good" as any other. The half-hearted melange thereby produced, such as in the case of a disingenuous seeming, hyper-skeptical, James Randi, styled disclaimer, doesn't really fit. The devoted fan and author of this unofficial website draws his carefully deduced map of Hogwarts and environs. When we do try to match this deduced map to the natal chart , of JK Rowling, it is awkward at best--just doesn't have any kind of elegant fit. Close, but no cigar. (So now I guess we''ll have to get a hold of one, Steve Vander Ark, and see if we can learn any thing about how his attempted map of Hogwarts was altered by the injection of his own birth pattern expression...:)
The Jungian Rhizome
Fig. 2 "Roots" -- Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo has here also made an unitentional reference, via an admixture Mimesis and symbolic Diegesis , to the pattern her birth chart. Having found only her birth date and place, I was able to make an experiment of this abstract self portrait : by cycling through the pattern possbilities for the correct date and place, I merely adjusted the time being charted until the two images looked most alike, more or less. We see she has a "Moon"-looking object placed high in the portrait, depicting the bottom of here dress, but it is not as correctly postioned as Lori's token "Moon" , in Fig. 1. For the record, Lois Rodden eventually found a photo of Frida's birth certificate, as filed in Mexico, it cited 8:30 AM, exactly. But we are of course required to accept that science defines this as just a lucky guess.
An image in the process of being composed seems to have all kinds of artistic forces working on it simultaneously. So the postion of a crescent shape, which is the essential character of the glyph astrology uses to indicate the moon, might be urged into a given location on the painting by the psyche in the process of projecting it's Self. Here Carl Jung meets Johannes Kepler. The pattern of Kepler's astrological idea, his "remembered image", (see quote above) , well , I say, "there glows" the Moon as the psyche remembers it in her natal chart, (which of course could not possibly exist in what we call reality) .
The Case of Amazing, Wholly Unreasonable, Totally Unexpected, Empirical Nature of Horoscopic Expressionism, and the .03% Error.
Fig. 3 "Self Regeneration" -- Emanuela Ligal
Here is an "experiment" I conducted using our priceless internet access to images an birth data: an abstract self-portrait, entitled "Self Regeneration", by one Emanuela Ligal:
Fig. 3a http://pedantus.free.fr/Ligal_E_SelfRegeneration.gif
I saw the crescent moon's token/glyph, and Mars appearing as the projecting ignition switch depicted on the neck of this figure. Here's is how I "measured" it:
Fig. 3b http://pedantus.free.fr/Ligal_E_Fig.3.gif
I emailed the artist. I disguised the expected birth time by adding two hours to my estimated of birth time, 3:14 PM. I did this to prevent a false positive response, some people either don't remember the correct time, or may even just try to please the "astrologer" by politely letting him seem to be correct. This was a good chance to find out if I had the right stuff going on in my head, so I was very careful to let the artist come up with her birth the time all on her own. Well, she wrote back and confirmed my "guess":
| Dear Roger L. Satterlee I was born on 17th May 1958 at 3:10 PM. Does this makes any sense to you? I hope so. Thanks for yours appreciations and many greetings for yours studies. Ciao Emanuela Ligal |
Yes, Emanuela, this does make wonderful sense. It was supposed to be a self-portrait, and I think we just proved that it is a *Self * -portrait.
And then there are some things that are just too good to be true!
Fig. 4 "CityEscape" -- Kenji Toyooka
http://kenjitoyooka.com/
Fig. 4a Comparision of Drawing-vs-(suspected) Chart
Come on, Kenji! Lets find that birth time, huh?
Update May 23, 2006
Thank you so much, Kenji..:)
Fig. 4b Comparision of Drawing-vs-Actual Chart
There is a rare if not completely unique experience/phenomenon which occurs in this overlay. It is as if a mimetic parallelism involving Uranus exists between these two graphics. Each graphic is the product of two differnt, separate, seeming unrelated, human arts. Note that the glyph for the astrological planet , Uranus (itself being but a symbol) has here somehow been projected and expressed in the visual form of an automobile stick shiter and gearbox shifting pattern. It just blows me away. It may not be "real" but we *can* use it, empirically, to accurately identify the artist's birth time. We can either see it as confirmation of his given birth data, or the means to make an accurate, observable, "prediction" guess of his birth, accurate to within with a few minutes. I just didn't beleive it was probable enough to honestly suspect it to be as it apparentlty is, just there...capable of being, astrologically speaking, "real"....:)
Roger L. Satterlee
Elmira, New York
May 21, 2006
email: me
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