As long as I can remember, genius has fascinated me. One of the first elective papers I did in college was about developing genius in children.

The workings of the mind and its interrelationship with Soul, psyche and emotional well being has been a lifelong interest of mine. An excellent movie about this is A Beautiful Mind: the movie and the book. The subject of the book, John Nash, is a Nobel Prize Economist. His doctoral thesis, "Noncooperative Games" was published in the early 1950s and is regarded as laying the mathematical foundations for game theory.

"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men -- that is genius." [Ralph Waldo Emerson]

 

Please click here to read my complete analysis of John Nash's astrological chart.

 

This is what to look for in an astrology chart as signs of genius. Some of the characteristics discussed are found in Sex and the Outer Planets by Barbara H. Watters.

 

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The Chart of Genius

• The chart is unbalanced.
  There is a lack of planets in one element or quality
• Overstressed or afflicted 3rd house (the mind)
• A malefic in the 3rd (Mars, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune or Pluto)
• The ruler of the 3rd is in close aspect to one or more malefic(s)
• The 10th house (career, public recognition, fame) is often afflicted
• A close, stressful connection between the 3rd and the 10th
  The way this person's mind works interferes with his or her reputation and work in the world.
• The Ascendant is often afflicted.
  A malefic is rising or the chart ruler may be in close aspect to a malefic, indicating that the person has difficulty "adjusting" to society or may not be able to at all
• Connections between the Ascendant and the 3rd house
  The way this person's mind works interferes with his ability to adapt to everyday life. He also has difficulty expressing his thoughts in a way that others can understand.
• Mercury is often afflicted by a malefic, especially an outer planet
• Indications of sexual frustration, inhibition, or transference of sexual values upon other things (art, music, guitar playing, surfing the internet)
• Jupiter (success) or Venus (money) are often afflicted by Mars, Saturn or Uranus
  Money is often denied or slow to come. Recognition is hard won if at all. There is a lack of concern for her or his own health, comfort and physical well being that sometimes amounts to shocking negligence, as if s/he were deliberately sacrificing himself or herself for some higher ideal.

  At one time in high school, for reasons lost to me now, I had to sit in a study hall with the educably mentally handicapped, as they were called at that time. It quickly occurred to me that there was virtually no difference in the social behavior of my high-IQ classmates and these presumably polar opposites.

Both groups wiggled and fidgeted. They were nervous interacting socially, could not express themselves, often giggled inappropriately and displayed immature emotional responses to sexuality and the opposite sex. (You know, like your favorite Computer Nerd Pal.)

 

I later discovered that Freud noticed this, too, when he said that his psychoanalytic theories worked well for all but the genius and the psychotic.

 

The charts of these two groups will have the above qualities in common. What distinguishes the genius is that there is a tight grouping of planets. Psychotics have a spread of planets, resulting in a lack of ability to focus and concentrate that distinguishes them from their odd-man-odd partners, the geniuses.

 

The charts of genius will often have a prominent Pluto as well, sometimes through such subtle aspects as parallels and contra-parallels or mutual receptions.

 

In interpreting Margaret's chart in The Royals, Part I, our example, we see many of these qualities; however, her Grand Cross dictates that her planets are spread across the entire chart.

 

For a closer look at a Grand Cross in action, click here. Nancy anlysizes the chart of a man with a Grand Cardinal Cross.

 

 

I also see genius in a prominence of the planet Uranus, the sign Aquarius and in 11th house placements. It surprises me how many people have been so brainwashed by teachers (or parents!) who were threatened by their intelligence that they think they are stupid rather than brilliant.

 

This was exactly the case with a man who came to me for a reading with a Stellium in Gemini in the 11th house. His father, a Latin and Greek teacher in a village in the Alps, contributed to his feelings of intellectual inferiority by being didactic and insufferable. Actually, the son's mind worked so much more quickly that those around him, including his own father, that important others in his life failed to relate to him intellectually at all. It is very healing for an astrologer to be able to point this out, to say the least.

 

There are more than a few brilliant women who have come to me through the years who were so battered by their husbands that they seriously questioned their basic intelligence. It is reassuring to consult the astrologer and discover the truth in such matters.

 

Of course, Uranus rules astrologers and we are a sharp bunch. You'll know that if you set foot in your local astrologers' association meeting. (Did they invent the computer just for us ;-)

 

Another sign of brilliance can be many of sextiles. This is based on harmonics. This harmonic relates to the 3rd and 11th house or Gemini and Aquarian energy.

 

Well, now you know what to look for, try it out. Let me know how it goes.

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