I'm a couple chapters into a book on Lewis & Clark's travels across the Louisiana Territory, and I thought that it would be kind of fun to take a close look at the 3rd president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson's birth chart. Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose regards Jefferson as a social butterfly and an excellent host. Here is a paragraph from Chapter 2:
Most guests found Jefferson to be the most delightful companion they ever met. He charmed and delighted his political enemies as well as his friends. "Spent the evening with Mr. Jefferson," John Quincy Adams wrote in his diary in Paris in 1785, "whom I love to be with." He later added, "You can never be an hour in this man's company without something of the marvelous." Before the election of 1800, Abigail Adams wrote of Jefferson, "He is one of the choice ones of the earth." (34)
Jefferson's Sun is in Aries on the cusp between the 2nd/3rd house. It's trine to Mars in Leo in the 7th House means that both planets fall in each other's sign, showing that Jefferson thought very highly of those that he dealt with, regarding his partners (business, personal, ...) as equals, and finding value in himself, therefore finding equal value in his day to day communications with other people. Mars then trines his Moon in Sagittarius in the 10th House. Sagitarrius is incredibly cultural, bold, and intense, so via the 10th House of public image, Jefferson truly wore his stories and feats on his sleeve. His sense of action, and mastery of himself, Mars in Leo gives him a creative and noble zest, so his fiery sense of humor was definitely the talk of the town. Obviously, there is more though! Uranus, his chart ruler (As well as Saturn ruling Capricorn, but I'll get to that), gives him a genius eccentricity, and sometimes his wiz attitude could take over conversation, for it's connection to Mercury in Pisces (Uranus is in the 12th, Pisces' home) allowed fluidity to even his more eccentric thoughts, yet Uranus' square to the Sun sometimes didn't give his ideas room to the public eye, and the value of his words didn't express themselves as well, except to his more learned guests and friends. Capricorn's ruler Saturn conjunct Jupiter (Ruler of 11th), square Venus (Ruler of 4th and 9th), square Pluto (Conjunct, and ruler of MC), form a T-square leading into Aquarius in the 1st House. Jefferson was a mighty, yet eccentric host, as well as leader, and the people who stuck with him and paid him heed, despite him being a bit of a crazy, were the ones that accommodated for his need for partnership, and therefore helped him grow into the independent that he was, the president of the people.
Jefferson was famous for entrusting him close friends, Merriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the unknown parts of the country and find a trail leading to the west coast. He took their voyage as an extension of his presidency, a quest into the unknown. I see this especially with Neptune (Ruler of 2nd) in the 6th house trine Pluto in the 9th, conjunct the MC, as well as the conjoining T-square. Hard work requires faith in friends, and the value associated with expansion and exploration into the unknown, creating generational, idealistic change. Jefferson's signing of the Declaration of Independence, and also his liberal position regarding slavery, can be seen through this too, with the helpful addition of the healing Chiron, directly conjunct Neptune in the 6th. Slavery was a day to day regime, so it was represented by the 6th house of work and vocation. Also, because it was a standard of the day, it was sort of occult, in a sense, so to be conjunct Neptune is to heal a dark stab within society. The fact that this planet and asteroid are both fairly slow-moving, and therefore generational, gave the preseident much help in terms of his idea toward societal progress. Pluto conjunct the MC shows that Jefferson had a generational effect of peeling the ground forward, which is something that he was heavily remembered for, as well as his respect for fellow man.
I feel as if I knew the gentleman as a friend. 'Merica! Respect!
Peace, Edward
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