For so many decades, USA astrologers have rallied around one radix for the beginning of the “United States of America,” known as the Sibly Chart (often misspelled as the Sibley Chart).
Much has been conjured up about this particular radix – so much so that it has taken on a life of its own, used as a default chart for whenever anything happens. “Here’s how this event looks as a transit to the Sibly Chart,” etc. Examples are here, here, and here, but there are probably too many to count.
The chart was popularized by the great Dane Rudhyar in the 1970’s, though there were iterations of it floating around perhaps 50 years prior in certain corners of the astrological world. The basic gist of the chart is that it has 13° of Sagittarius on the ascendant, with the chart’s data being the very unlikely time of 5:13 PM in Philadelphia.
I have spent a good part of the last 20 years attempting to debunk the chart as astro-vaporware. It is based on a graphic in a book by an English fellow named Ebenezer Sibly (thus the namesake), but the graphic does not actually show the chart that modern astrologers use in his name. Strange, eh? In fact, the Emersion blog began as a project to focus solely on what Sibly had encoded within the graphic, because that’s the fun part of forensic research. (The first five entries in this blog are devoted to deconstructing the graphic.) In this chapter, therefore, I will investigate the original Sibly chart further, and explain how it and the July, 1776 independence is rooted in the celestial Holy Trinity, within which the exaltation of Mars is tightly woven.
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