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Harmonic Charts - An Introduction and a German Webpost i translated for you (Based on the Research of hans-Jörg Walter) - Part 2
Part One cane be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/astrology/comments/7v3sog/harmonic_charts_an_introduction_and_a_german/

3. The prime-harmonics (H 13, 17, 19, and so on until H 181)

Decoding of the prime-harmonics has been accomplished by Walter through years-spanning research. Approach can be outlined here, but the intiutive component is not possible to fully describe: He researeched the harmonics of people with remarkable fate - that have/had been controlled by striking motives. The striking ones among these harmonics he kept in mind, they "highlighted a trail". After following those trails, the realization sunk in, that for people with certain common motives certain common harmonics had been highlighted. At the same time through this process, the underlying archetype of the harmonic gained form. He for example found that the 19th harmonic has been highlighted for people that have a strong theme of sexuality and game, highlighted with planet-clusters strong aspects and midpoints. The insight, that the square 19 x 19 almost equals the numbers of degrees in the zodiac, polished the frame. Eros (sexuality and libido) is the root of all life taking place inside the 360° circle. - The confirmation of a decoding also has to be done by finding additional examples, which again can further widen our understanding of the harmonic archetype.

Important: "Harmonics always reaffirm and stengthen tendencies - and only those already present in the H 1" (Walter) A harmonic can only become active, "if a constellation in H 1 confirms it. The other way around a constellation can never fully realize a potential, if the corresponding higher harmonic is in deficit. A harmonic in H 1 harmonic, alike to midsums, adds contour and profile." This leads to insightful conclusions, for example against the argument against astrology, that people with almost the same charts have completely different tendencies in behaviour and potential - their horoscope is NOT almost the same.

Let's look at the different decodings for the prime-harmonics now:

The 11th harmonic has arleady been talked about, heroic commitment and bacchian-dyonistic ecstasy are the main "colours" of this harmonic. Examples: Hans Scholl and Oscar Romero (Typus: political hero), Albert Schweitzer (ethic hero) and Vivekananda (spiritual hero). A "wrong hero", that instigated people to berserker-like kill-rush was Josef Goebbels. This decoding can not only be shown in the "wave-charater" but also in the "particle-character" Ceres, as I have discussed in my article in the Meridian from january 2001.

In the line of 11th harmonics are the marsian (5x11th=55th) and the saturnian (7x11th=77th) from note: The 55th harmonic has linked by Walter to people that consume drugs - it is in a way the brutal (Mars) way to open the gates of the subconscious to experience ecstacy.The 77th harmonic on the other side, combines bacchian Ceres with the lord of structure Saturn in a high form of art, which puts the ecstasy of the body in a disciplined form, the dance. Dancers are highlighted harmonically in the H 77.

With Prime-Harmonics >11 there is no "particel" equivalent. If there are corresponding asteroids, is neither know to Walter nor myself.

The decoding of the 13th harmonic is outlined by Walter with the words "birth, seperation, originality". In natives with a strong H 13 you will always find variations of the theme "seperation", "going the own way" and "originality" (up to excentric). The "unqiuely personal" that everyone has, like everyone has a 13th harmonic - is highlighted in one way or another for those natives. Collectively H 13 manifests in sects that go for their own from the mainstream seperating way in the world of religion. The seperation from traditions and roots can escalate into irresponsible egomanic - the examples discussed by Walter show the full width, the lightest and darkest sides , existencial philosophers like Heidegger and Sartre, the hihglighting of "being-in-the-world" translators note, thats i think the official translation of that term by heidegger, the exact would be: thrown-into-the-world, which is more beatiful :D, innovative lone wolfs like Benz and Gates, authors like Kafka and Joyce, artists like Dali and Beuys - they all share this very special "colour" of 13 H. It is the common denominator for power-driven people and social dropouts and in the "heaven or hell" of this archetype you find Albert Schweitzer and Robbespierre, also the founders of "dissenting" religious movements can be found here: Luther, Blavatsky, Steiner, Rajneesh, Hubbard, Malcolm X.

Walter researched the square of the H 13, the H 13 x H13 = H 169, which shows the theme of "dissent" and "originality" in extreme form, think of comedians like Karl Valentin; typical for the "negative, destructive side of the scale" are people running amok - where the H 169 shows a ticking timebomb. The mass murderer, without looking at his victims, is practicioning the most extreme form of seperating from the world that surrounds him. The H 169 doesn't have the power of H 13 to define new norms and styles for the masses, to found communities - they are to individualistic.

The 17th harmonic makes people look for their source. In the spiritual search for the godly source of all existence shows the highest psychological manifestation of this archetype. But also scientists speicifcally astronomers have a strong H 17. The unprejudiced observer can almost not not notice the subconscious spiritual motive of these people. With the humanic too-humanic blend this archetype shows for artists, who always have to be very self-centered: narcicissm, vanity, navel-gazing can be the costume the archetype manifests in, if the source isn't searched in transcental spheres but is looked for in the sphere of self. Positively this can show in the autobiographic reflexion. The authors of important autobiographic writings have a highlighted 17th harmonic, like Marcel Proust und Anaïs Nin. Yogananda ("Autobiography of a Yogi"), Anagarika Govinda ("The Way of the White Clouds") and Taisen Deshimaru are examples where an autobiographic moment has given the H 17 it's spiritual impulse.

The 19th harmonic has already been discussed. Examples are Sigmund Freud, the proponent for sexual enlightenment Oswald Kolle, the founder of the Playboy magazine Hugh Hefner, the porn-actor John Holmes, and the manifestation of collective erotic phantasies Marylin Monroe. Their (or her...) H 19 is extremly impressive.

An enlighting example is Woody Allen: His fundamental theme of sexual inhibition inherent to all his movies, can not be delianted from his H 1, but is instantly recognisable in his H 19!

Not only sexdrive, but also game instinct - characterize the H 19. In it's game-like aspect sports belongs here too, especially the swim-sport with his "naked" bodily aspect, which is missing in chess-players, but not the mental game-aspect.

The 23rd harmonic associates with the buzzwords "risk, adventure, fate". Walter showed this one special attention, in that he looked into the H 1 and H 23 of people who had highlighted adventure as an important motive, if not an obsession. So Jessica Dubroff a seven year old (!) pilot who crashed to death, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry the author of "The little prince" and also crashed pilot, or Neil Armstrong the first man on the moon. His H 1 shows MC midsum to moon and uranus - which is the individual professional component of the adventure moon-landing - His H23 shows Moon conjunct Uranus and in grand trine with the social planets Jupiter and Saturn.

In literature circles a highlighted H 23 is expected for authors of adventure-novels and extraordinary examples here are Jules Verne and Karl May. In sports it shows for runners, where often equally Mars and Pluto are highlighted in H 1, H 5 and H 10. Interestingly the 23rd harmonic shows up in economical and political areas, risking entrepeneurs and political gamblers/troublemakers like Mussolini and Berlusconi are typical "23s".

With the 29th harmonic we enter a compeltely new area of the soul, one is tempted to call it a change from the right to the left area of the brain, or from the male-lines archetypes to the female ones. The H 23 has two faces, the "lunar" and the "plutonic"; it's codes are "death, dream and unconscious". Typical candidates for a strong 29th harmonic are psychoanalyticists - who long after the khaballists - steeped down into the subconscious depth of the soul, therefore Freud, Janov, Jung. The striking H 29 of C.G. Jung instantly makes obvious. why it's owner has been the pioneer of archetype-research.

But also parapsychologists and occultists, the unloved brothers of psycholgists, unravel themselves as "typical 29ers" and those authors who had occult (hidden) and death-related thematics. thanalogists, asstants for dying, as well as executioners reference the same area of the soul with their choice of employment. Another area that may strike as surprising has to be mentioned in the context of decoding this harmonic: humour. Walter wrote to this: "Who does this fit together...? This superficial paradoxon dissolves when looking at the connection between the figures of the reaper and the clown... and understand: humour is a counter-approach to "humourless" death, almost a rebellion to it. Also, this humour plays with the subconscious - the "lunar-face" of the H 29, with which it creates the material for it's paradoxical connections." - Such an overlap of thesis and antithesis in the same archetype can be shown in H 59, which operates (and this will be shown later) in justice and injustice. For the experienced psychologist this "marriage of opposition" is a known thing.

The 31st harmonic encodes with "abstraction, role, ghetto". Wherever a mental movement of abstraction and classification happens, the H 31 can be associated. Mathematicians are often owners of a strong 31st harmonic, examplery names are Leibniz, Poincare und Ramanujan. Botansits like to classify and categorize too and so do sociologists, like Max Weber and Karl Marx. For the letter the "ideologist" side of the H 31 shines through, because every ideology violates the reality by spinning a net of abstractions, which often take life of their own. In esoterical texts i found the formulation "Choking reality by thinking". On the other hand an individual and collective life is impossible without categorization.

In-role-behaviour is a way to fit into social categories, which can lead to be stuck in the mask of an office-bearer. Or on the other hand in liking the distinct role of an outsider. The original or the social-dropout, is and that shows harmonical astrology, not a one-dimensional behavioral patter, but needs to be differenciated in at least two facettes: In H 13 the lone wolf seperates from the origin and environment to gain individuality, in the H 31 he takes place in the role of the outsider. An additional facette brings chiron, the "centaurian" archetype of the odball (compare to Walters research on chiron in 1984).

The dark sphere of hell of the H 31 is where the archetype is missused and groups of people are excluded, since they don't fit into the assigned role, or are needed as scapegoats. For fanatical nationalsocialists this harmonic played an unholy role as a matrix for feelings of hate and murder, mentioned here are Gobineau, a theorist on race in the end of the 19th century, Hans Grimm (people without room) and the us-politician Duke, racist and member of the republican party. In theological circles we find dogmatics like Lefebvre and Ratzinger.

The "shadow" too is Code of the H 31. killers that lost it and schiziphrenic criminals are catched by their own shadow, when commiting their deed, just like Stevenson wrote in his book "The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" - Stevenson too is a "31er". For such kind of murderers Walter always found another harmonic highlighted, either the 11th, where the shadow melts with the blood-red rush of killing - or the lone wolf H 13, where the killing is not blood-red, but cold blue - or the sexual H 19.

The 37th harmonic, Walter once called when speaking with me, the myserious, the riddled one. "Disguise, Secret, Transformation" are some of the keywords. In science specifically associated is chemistry, in whichs focus is the transformation both organical and anorganical elements. Walter: "For almost all significant chemists and nuclear physicists, i have found a more or less significant H 37!" As some sort of base-equation can be seen the E=mc2. But doesn't try alchemy - in a spiritually higher plane - to do the same thing? Isn't it an "alchemy of heart", which tries to transform the adept into a human, through processes, which are highly symbolical and first and foremost C.G. Jung has tried to decipher in modern times? C.G. Jungs 37th harmonic is highlighted and especially in the mercurian mutliplication 2x37th as the 74th harmonic. (On this example should be noted that the magnified perspective of a prime harmonic by multiplication with mercurian two, or venusian three can further highlight - but ultimately not change it's nature - strong or weak.)

For transsexuals the theme of transformation is lived to the upmost extreme. They are a good example of how a very specific harmonics can together describe a themes life, better than it would be just possible with H 1. So among the trans-sexuals - or how they call themselves trans-identics (from "identity") - the 19th as the sexual harmonic is of cause highlighted, futher with the 31st and the theme of outsider and ultimately the H 37. In H 1 I've found, that among the Mars and Pluto, the Juno and the Moon-Perigee Priapus highlighted: The Juno as goddess of marriage-related sexuality - which in a way rearranges the sexual identiy for trans-identities and Priapus which as god of repressed sexual desire - here that of the other gender.

Also people that have a cathartic change of heart live a strong H 37. Religious converts like Huysmans, Schlier, Papini, Muhammad Ali belong here.

Each transformation is preceeded by a puppation period and during this puppation a human represents a secret, or carries it around. Like Bruno Traven a.k.a. Ret Marut a.k.a. Otto Feige carried the secret of his origin, only unravelled years after his death. Or think of Greta Garbo, whom in her second part of life almost lived hidden. The terrible secret of the preceeding pope can also be used as an example. translators note: the author is reffering to pope John XXIII, who died of cancer. A very obvious example puppation is packaging, and mentioned here the almost-obsession, which the packaging artist Christo uses to package buildings all around the world,or the packaging of the haute-couture of prominent fashion designers. It's always the same archetype! The same that on biological level puppates the caterpillar, before transforming into the butterfly, or the one a bride undergoes, when she puppates in white for the wedding, until she undresses in the bedroom, to undergo the transformation of the wedding-night.

Secret is also prevelant in espionage, cons, forgery and generally in processes of the courts of justice. For author of criminological literature, as well as for spies there is a prominent H 37. A really beatiful case is that of the reporter Wallraff who masked himself for his research to later reveal. Manfred Witmann was a criminal and murderer by lust, that had to hide his true nature, by acting socially harmless. The dark side of H 37 can be described as "wolf in sheeps clothing".

Decoding of the 41st harmonic is "Logic, Ratio, Coldness of feelings". Rationalists, positivists and marxists, mathematicians, programmers and fincancial experts - for all of them a strong H 41 is prevelant. Known names are Einstein, Kant, Feuerbach, Skinner, and the inventor of computers Alan Turing and the man who built a computer empire: Bill Gates. Also the astrologist Michel Gauquelin who tried the first statistical mass-analysis with the goal to establish a scientific proof of the effectivness of astrological constellations had a strong H 41.

The example Einstein - his H 41 is remarkable as in that almost all planets are connected by major aspects - shows the limitiations of this harmonic: He could not accept the "irrational" results of quantum physics ("God doesn't play dice.") and spent the last years of his life - according to the insight of many physicists today - with useless theoretical undergoings to refute it.

In Dante's Divine Comedy, the deepest depths of hell are not a sea of flames, but a place of eternal coldness. Walter: "By going through the 41st harmonic too, i entered the regions of hell, where an unimaginable coldness of heart meets crime." The horrible names should just be mentioned here: Mengele, Eichman and in recent years Dutroux.

The 43rd decodes as "Arrow of time, Pioneering, Future" as some of it's keywords.

Teilhard de Chardin was a theologist and paleontogist, who manifested the vision of the 17th as well as the 43rd in excellent manner. The evolution of humanity in the past and it's spiritual future interested him equally. A future he tried to graps in cosmologist christology: Past and Future will someday be in a christian earth, be one like within and without, suffering and action, an eternal breath of god will revive a salvated creation. In his H 1 he had Jupiter conjunct Saturn (breath in and out) at midpoint of Mercury and Venus - In his H 17 Mercury and Venus conjunct in the midpoint of Jupiter and Saturn, in the H 43 Mercury and Venus are in opposition and this axis is in the quadratic midpoint of Jupiter and Saturn.

Pioneering acts in science exist on the archetypical matrix of this harmonicKopernikus, Kepler, Einstein, Heisenberg, Hahn, Fermi (the names of the nuclear physicists already herald the dark side), Lindbergh, Oberth ("The rocket to the planets of dreams"), Eiffel, Barnard, Marx, Bloch ("Spirit of Utopia"), Schönberg, Nostradamus, Jungk (Futorology) - all those people belong to very different areas of science, technology, medicine, philosophy, art - but all common is this lasting innovation, the "futuristic" act of pioneering, the orientation towards a "goal".

The 43rd too has a darkside, the satanic opposite of salvation is final solution. (translators note: thats a wordplay on german "Erlösung" - salvation and "Endlösung" - final solution.) The orginization of the nazis have lead the archetype of H 43 into it's darkest depths.

The 47th harmonic has the keywords "physics, sports, music". Really different human pasttimes - on the first look. They can be categorized in the terms of "motorics", "kinetics" and "vibrations". The last term is actually to all-encompassing, because it is "the whole godly creation that is a giant carpet of vibrational patterns" (Walter). But shall be used as a guiding theme for this harmonic anyways, in it's physical and physiological meaning.

The control of the body which is set into vibrations, is an athletes foremost goal to accomplish performance. It is about controlling the motorics of the muscles, in group sports it is about to synchronize the movement of different team-members. Similar in musics when handling sounding, vibrating instruments, be it the throat, or the orchestra. The list of natives with H 47 is the longest in Walter's book on harmonics, it covers athletes of all sports, and covers classical and modern virtuosos, as well as componists and dancers. One of the most beatiful examples is that of tenor and conductor Placido Domingo.

The H 47 manifests in the chriping of the cricket, in the songs of the whales, and in the "music of the spheres" the mystics talk about.

The equivalent of physical vibration shows up in the fact, that those physicists show up in the list of H 47 that have researched vibrational and wave-related phenomena: Ohm, Hertz, Fraunhofer, Marconi as examples.

In the 53rd harmonic we find an archetype far away from the happy and practical H 47, or the rational H 41: It goes down into the reptiles brain, archaic emotions and motivations of the human, away from the light. Light only reaches the archetype only in the colour of figurative speach of the myth. Next to "myth", "symbol", "Violence" and "killing" are the keywords coding this harmonic.

Symbolism is a common form of art for H-53-artists and -authors. Among the surrealist poets, almost all have a highlighted 53rd harmonic. Calligraphs and illustrators - especially when working with archaic motives - like Alfred Kubin. The tellers of tales, researches of mythology and psychologists that work with the symbols of the unconscious (and have a strong H 29 at it's side). Considering astrology, it is not surprising that almost all important astrologers have a H 53 - astrology is the symbol-system per excellence. A beatiful example would be the H 53 of Dane Rudhyar.

Wars are conflicts between people/nations, where the ability to communicate has collapsed on a subconscious level - they encounter each other just as carnivors and are no longer responsive, how recent history shows , to reason and humanity, but open to the most absurd mythologilisation of their situation. Walter lists a great list of military leaders as 53rs. "Blood rituals" could be another keyword for the dark side of the harmonic, as bullfighters also have a strong H 53.

Criminals and political murderers , as well as their victims are "marked" by a strong H 53. This shouldn't lead to the idea that such "horrific experience" is god-given and terrible death (not death as in H 29) and violence is inevitable. However the important H 53 shows how influential archaic powers in the soul are still an a humanity lead by reason. If myth and symbol are the appropriate instrument to access those depths of soul and to civilize them, than this also means a stupid overestimation of the power of reason in new-age philosophy (example Harbermas) is doomed to fail and a certain "bringing home of archaic depths" into social life is necessary, to integrate those archetypes, like the H 53.

The H 59 encodes in "ethics" and "law", but also in "contempt of law". Law in the sense of H 59, means not just juristic, but also natural law and theological dogma. The human, the society, makes up laws as universally binding - as nature did always. The list of natural scientistswith a strong H 59 is long and some names also could be found in other harmonics: Kopernikus, Kepler, Newton, Einstein, Heisenberg. Interesting is that doctors and therapists that try to implant an "observing the law of the body", or their "reinstatement" have a strong H 59. The archetypical width of this harmonic is wide, but always stringent: Doctors and therapists try to lead the client, his soul, or his body back to the "laws of functioning", where they have been thrown out by illness.

Laws of church are another area of H 59, whereas a tendency can develop towards dogma and encyclicals. Ethicists who work on the question of theodicy (the justice of gods order of the world), are another example. And how previously mentioned the "lawless anthithesis" also belongs to this harmonic: people, who declared "lawlessness" almost as a personal rebellious program also are highlighted by a strong H 59: Jesse James, Billy the Kid, the members of the RAF translators note: the leftist german terror organization Red Army Fraction, or the black magician Aleister Crowley, who formed the order of "Thelema" with the motto "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law!". In a harmless variant it's poeple who silently or provokong break the conventions and society and violate taboos.

Table of prime harmonics, middle shell:

Harmonic Keywords
13 Birth, Seperation, Originality
17 Origin, Centre, Narcicissm
19 Sexuality, Libido, Game
23 Fate, Risc, Success
29 Death, Dream, Unconscious
31 Abstraction, Role, Ghetto
37 Chemistry, Disguise, Secret
41 Logic, Ratio, Cold Feelings
43 Arrow of time, Pioneers, Utopia
47 Physics, Sports, Music
53 Symbol, Myth, Killing
59 Justice, Ethics, Therapy
4. The "Golden 60-Distance Rule"

The 60 is of special interest for harmonics-astrology. First as the seperation between both spheres of harmonics: the "inner-sphere" with harmonics of up to 59, and the "outer-sphere" with harmonics>60, there connects the "Golden-60-Distance-Rule", which Walter found during the work on his book (after already decoding most of the harmonics) and which confirmed the decoding, in that it connected individual harmonics of the "inner-" and "outer-sphere" in a reasonable way.

In the example of H 7, H 67 and H 127 Walter explained this rule: "These harmonics relate to one another - metaphorically speaking - in the relationship of octave to higher octave. The prime-harmonic H 7 represents the saturnian principle, where the term of "structure" belongs. For the first secondary prime harmonic H 67 i found empirically the wholistic symbol-association of "system". Systems are integrated wholes, whichs properties can not be reduced to smaller units. In fact to the theme-complex of H 67 for linear connect material systems, like machines, but also non-linear open systems like organisms, ecosystems, social systems, which are able to self-sustain. The next higher octave is the prime harmonic H 127: It encodes according to my research structures from symbols which interconnect/combine to writing, formulas and software - letters, numbers and signs.

For decoding the secondary prime harmonics, it is important in any case to look at the harmonics divided by the factor 60. The hereup research-results of Walter are outlined in the next table. The comparison with the table of the inner prime harmonics can be enlightening.

Harmonic Keywords
61 Sacrifice, Dedication, Religion
67 Systems, Machines, Organisms
71 Performance, Show, Speaker
73 Living Being, Biosphere
79 Child, Maturation, Upbringing
83 Father, Rulership, Power
89 Mother, Creating, Forming, Burning
97 Aura, Charisma
101 Social Critique, Enlightenmnet (social sense)
103 Macrocosm, Space, UFOs
107 Physics, Sports, Musics
109 Living Beings, Biosphere
113 Suggestion, Trance
127 Formulas, Writing, Software
131 Propaganda, Advertisement
137 Breaking of boundaries, Emancipation
139 Research, Analysis
149 Intuition, Seventh Sense
151 Paranormal, Psi
157 Sense of Smell, Aroma
163 Microcosm, Atoms
167 Physics, Sports, Musics
173 Sense of Colour, Painting
179 Law, Ethics, Therapy
181 Sacrifice, Devotion, Religion
Astrological resarch can not come to new conclusions via statistical analysis. One could create giant databases, define with harmonics, which are categorized as weak, middle and strong and then get out the descripiton of significant personalities - but the mental tie would be missing, which distilles the psychological meaning from the data. Astrology is to be understood as a human science translators not: like philosophy, psychology and so on... not a natural one. Without psychological insight it remains a cold collection of methods, symbols and archetypes. It is art, art of interpretation not unlike that of the psychoanalyst. Walter: "To seperate a strong harmonic, from a weak, a chaotic one, it takes a certain sensorium, like the art-critique has, who can seperate between ingenious pieces of art and pretentious bricolage." Or the psychoanalyst, who has a fine sense for important elements of dreams to filter them out of the dream-descriptions of his patients. I am convinced that harmonic astrology with it's decoding of the deep structure of archetypical humans can be a useful tool for a psychologists work - if the psychologist is ready to accept it.



Credit is given to Bernhard Rindgen the original author in german, Hans-Jörg Walter the original resarcher and /u/vheart for encouraging me to do this :) and green icetea because it's awesome :D

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Harmonic Charts - An Introduction and a German Webpost i translated for you (Based on the Research of hans-Jörg Walter) - Part 1
Hi r/astrology,

so I am trying to wrap my head around minor aspects, harmonic aspects and harmonic charts. They are all interconnected, but since the idea in western astrology is rather new, it's hard to come by sources.

I am not hear to convince you of their usefulness, I am not even convinced myself yet, but sometimes people ask questions about harmonics and I have put time into a bit of research, so i thought i do a little compiling it together. If you have insight/sources or ideas yourself, feel free to add them in the comments, we are all students, right? :) And of cause discussion. This is a giant wall of text, but i think it's worthy of that.

For the start on minor aspects i recommend looking into Johannes Kepler - The introduction minor aspects quintile, biquintile and sesquiquadrate: http://www.skyscript.co.uk/kepler.html

As you can read, the whole idea of harmonics is based on harmonics in music-theory. The idea that there are subtle overtones in the chart, that are not covered by ptolemic/major aspects is an exciting one in my opininon and it's not new. The idea of harmonic charts is one that is prevelant in vedic astrology for a very long time.

But what is a harmonic chart and what is the connection to the the harmonic aspects? Now I will add an explanation, which i put together from various sources, that i find easiest to understand and the explanation covered in the article that i have translated later is a really hard to understand one in my opinion.



Computing a Harmonic Chart

The first thing you need to compute a harmonic chart is the question: What harmonic do i want to compute. There is an arbitrary number of them, but the challenge is in interpreting them. Let's take the fifth harmonic that highlights the quintile and the biquintile.

Assume you have a a sun at 18° aries and a mars at 0° cancer. They are 72° apart - a quintile. To compute the fifth harmonic takes three steps:

Compute the absolute degree of a placement, starting at 0° aries. In our example the sun is at 18° absolute, the mars is at 90° absolute - Remember how each sign covers exactly 30°.

Now you mutliply the placement by the order of the harmonic. Every harmonic has a number n, therefore called the nth harmonic - the order is this n. So for our example n equals 5. We take the absolute degree of the sun 18° and multiply it by five. 18° x 5 = 90°. And for the mars: 90° x 5 = 450°.

The last step is to project the absolute degrees we now have back on the chartwheel, which is 360°, no more no less. To do this, we divide our absolute degree in integer division by 360 and take the remainder as the result in our harmonic chart. (If you have difficulty here - because i explained it badly - just substract 360 until you get a number smaller than 360 - I use the modulo [%] as an operator for this operation). So our sun is in 90° % 360 = 90° and our mars is in 450° % 360 = 90°.

In table format:

Placement Step 1 Step 2 Step 3
Sun 18° 90° 90°
Mars 90° 450° 90°
You follow up with this for all placements and you get the fifth harmonic chart. Changing the multiplier changes the harmonic. Thats all there is to the computation.



Now what you see is that the quintile turns into a conjunction in the fifth harmonic. That is the main use of harmonic charts, highlighting aspects. Interpretation of signs and houses in harmonic charts is something that is not recommended by most sources. If you think a bit about what we just did, you can see why.

So basically we have constructed a lense through which we can see the chart from a different perspective.

It is obvious that the first harmonic is our birth-chart, but what about the rest? Like I said in principle it is possible to compute arbitrary harmonics, which could allow to understand aspects that are not exact in the chart on a deeper level. This is primarily gated by a) the exact birthtime - the higher the harmonic order, the bigger is the error induced by an incorrect birthtime, as the error in the orb gets multiplied by the order of the harmonic. b) because of the question of interpretation of the harmonic - we will get to that.

In the fifith harmonic it is not just quintiles you see as conjunct, it's also conjunctions themselves as conjunct. Another thing is that it's not only the conjunctions in the harmonic chart that become relevant, but also oppositions, squares, trines and sextiles. If you have understood the core quality of those, you can start your interpretation of the harmonic chart.



Interpretation

Wait. No you can't, because now comes the most important question: What am I actually looking at? What is the core quality of the harmonic?

So a starting point could be this document: http://www.astrosoftware.com/harmonicfirst32.pdf

A lot of other sources, that do not reference vedic astrology, quote the same sources as this document, just without actually referencing. Yeah thats plagiarizing, but whatever, we are not in the academic world, right... The problem is to find out where a source got it's knowlegde, if everyone is just quoting the same hack, who can tell then?



Which brings us to a source that i think is interesting but gated by language barrier. It's this site: http://www.astrologiedhs.de/html/harmonics.html

Now the first part covers basically this link verbatim (and references it right at the top): http://www.astro.com/astrologie/in_harmon_g.htm?lang=e

The second part is a compilation of Hans-Jörg Walters research on harmonics. Born 1925 in Zurich - Switzerland. A chemist and astrologist, who did publish in german language and put quite some research into harmonics, with focus in prime-numbered harmonics. Prime numbered harmonics are specifically interesting, because they do not appear in some form in other harmonics and are therefore alone harder to decode. The most prominent prime harmonic aspect is the Quintile propably.

Now Herr Walter has put really quite some time into the research of those harmonics and had finally published a book - as far as i am aware only in german - the "Divina Commedia Astrologia" about exactly this subject. The following translated text is based on the book.

Beware that I am not a professional translator, i tried to do it as verbatim as possible, while trying to make it readable, without loosing to much of it's meaning in the process. It's always a bit of a balancing act.



TRANSLATION

Bernhard Rindgen: About Harmonics

1. The technique of harmonics

Harmonics have been introduced to the german speaking community in the 1992 published book "Die Feinanalyse des Horoskops" (The finer analysis of the horoscope-chart), by Michael Harding and Charles Harvey. In the english language John M. Addey has first introduced the harmonic idea with his 1976 published "Harmonics in Astrology".

I want to ask and answer two interrelated questions here: What are harmonics in the technical sense and what dimensions psychologically do they open? Only if they actually unlock a new dimension to interpret the horoscope and understand the human soul, does it make sense to use them - they also have to prevail in astrological practice on the basis of assured interpretation and decoding approaches for individual harmonics. Harding and Harvey have tried to do the latter in their aforementioned book, but Hans-Jörg Walter has gone far beyond in his multiple decade spanning research, that he summarized 1999 in his "Divina Commedia Astrologica" after he published first results with the 19th and 29th harmonic in the "Meridian" in 1987.

Hans-Jörg Walter writes: "The harmnonic chart is not a replacement of the natal chart, it is no alternative to the natal chart. It is merely the natal chart itself... represented in such a way that certain aspects are easier to spot." Are harmonic charts therefore "nothing but" new aspects?

The normal natal chart is the "H 1": A circle divided by the twelve signs, or 360° respectively and there the factors are stringed together and make up in this matrix the aspects and midpoints. The "H3" is: the same circle divided by three and each of those three parts is a new complete circle with twelve signs/360° each; now those three parts are "overlayed with one another". A best illustration to this would be an example: In "H 1" - the natal chart - The sun is on 10° Aries and the mercury is 20° apart at 0° degree Taurus. In H 3 the sun now is in 0° Taurus, Mercury to 0° Cancer. Both now create a sextile - an aspect they could never have in the H 1! Every 20° aspect in the H 1 now becomes a sextile in the H 3, therefore the harmonics make up a "new found" group of aspects - and yet they are more. Because in the natal chart 20° is not an aspect and can not be interpreted, only in H 3 the aspect can be intepreted since it "transforms" into a sextile. The idea of harmonics therefore does not "flood" the natal chart with a number of undifferentiable new aspects, which are now supposed to become a meaning, but add a new dimension and with this background new differences of angles (translators note: difference between placements - so aspects) get an astrological significance, since they have a psychological one. Of cause they are "hidden" in the natal chart, they highlight what the midpoint-idea already implies: Anything is connected with everything - in the myriad of harmonics eventually all planets get in aspect to one another, under the colour of the new harmonic. (translators note: i prefer to think of it as lense and not colour...) The harmonic idea therefore creates a complete, a hollistic view of the natal chart, the whole, but extremly differentiated.

A counter-argument to harmonics is: They are mathematical constructs and for that alone can be dismissed. This argument ignores that the zodiac itself, who every astrologer works with is nothing but a mathematical construct, without relationship to the cosmological zodiac of star-formations, yet the zodiac proves relialbe every day, because the underlying math is a "math of the soul". Aspects and midpoints to are nothing but "mathematical constructs". If it is not offensive in physics - why should it be irritating in astrology.

Aspect-relationships in the H 1 change in another harmonic. Assuming the H 1 Venus is in 10° Taurus, she now creates a semi-sextile aspect to H-1-Sun in 10° Aries. In H 3 the Venus is in 0° Leo, whereas the Sun is in 0° Taurus, creating a square. The relationship now changes character in H 3 compared to H 1, but this relationship is only different in context of the "new dimension of H 3".

The three, through division of the H-1-circle, created zodiacs are to be "overlayed", they can be imagined as connected by a compressed spiral: One can imagine the zodiac to be cut up at 0° Aries and curled three times and those three curles are in perfect concordance; 0° Aries, 0° Leo and 0° Saggitarius are perfectly "on top of each other" - as are 22° Gemini, 22° Libra and 22° Aquarius by the way. In different harmonics of cause different degrees are "overlayed" of cause.

The tradition of indian astrology consider mainly the 9th harmonic, which it calls "Navamsa". A zodiac in H 9 encompasses a width of 40° in the H 1 (360°/9 = 40°), the nine points of Aries are : 0° Aries, 10° Taurus, 20° Gemini, 0° Leo and so on. Inside this mini-zodiac each sign only has one ninth of the original size in H 1, it is only of size 3°20'. Here already it becomes clear that the exactness of position is of utmost importance! Is for example the sun only exact to the degree (known birthday, with unknown birthtime), then aspects in H 1 can be recognized and interpreted - in H 9 the imprecission is nine times as large, that means such a sun would be impossible to place more exact than with an error of ± 41/2°. The moon is even more extreme, even more so in even higher harmonics. Therefore the exact birthtime and exact software is immiment to the harmonical interpretation.

What is possible with three and nine is in principle possible with any number. The zodiac can be divided by nineteen, the resulting mini-zodiacs are 360/19 = 18,95° in size and an aspectless uninterpretable distance of 19°, 38° or 1701/2° in the natal chart becomes a conjunction of highlighted importance in H 19. Therefore unaspected planets in H 1 can become aspect-figures, which allows a completely new interpretation, interpretation in the colour of the harmonic - which is yet to be discovered.

There is the question if it is useful to look at every single division of the zodiac and further, if there are affinities between different harmonics - "families" of sort, whereby the number of harmonics would be reduced due to "kinship".

Due to their character of being a root - prime numbers, e.g. 19 and 29 - had catched Hans-Jörg Walters' attention. If every harmonic chart opens up a new dimension, then it is most likely for prime-numbered harmonics to open up a completely new dimension of depth-psychological importance, which woul be hard, or impossible to grasp by just looking at the H 1. Each prime is an "original number" and can only be related to it's multiples. The H 19, only with the H38, H 57 and so on. Therefore mathematically the H 13 and the H 19 can not be brought together, like the H 3 and H 9, and therefore also not psychologically. (Theoretically this could be done by multiplication, so for H 13 and H 19 the H 247, but such a high harmonic is practically without meaning. Walter regards the H 181 as a "chaotic boundary" of exponential errors after which there is no reliable basis to work with astrologically). The archetypical dimension of H 13 can be regarded as completely different from that of H 19. Both harmonics - all harmonics - have the H 1 in common, the "Sun-harmonic", the natal chart, because the one is the divisor of all numbers. The sun truly is the center of all existence/being.

The correlation between 3rd, 6th, 9th, 12th and so on, is obvious a "trigonal-family". The 4th, 8th and 12th create a "quadratic-family". Therefore the H 12 has synthetic character, which brings together the trigonal and quadratic "lines". In a mathematical sense it is therefore easy to create "families", but does it make psychological and astrologocal sense to do so? Here only research can help in finding the answer.

With "interpretation of harmonics" is to be understood in harmonics-astrology: First and foremost, recognizing if a harmonic is strong or weak, if the matrix of mini-zodiacs have strong and clear aspect-patterns, or not - and secondly what the underlying theme, the specific coding, of the harmonic is. If i can recognize significant aspect-patterns and midpoint constellations in a specific harmonic, then it does not mean that i as an astrologist have gained a deeper insight or access into the natives subconsciousness, to the underlying motives of the soul of the native - because i have recognized the importance of the harmonic in the life of the native - but i am still missing the underlying specific code of the harmonic. Therefore i can not yet continue, i can see the mathematical significance, but can't "read it psychologically", which is the method of astrology overall.

Because the depth-psychological importance of individual harmonics is not common knowledge of astrologists, this must be the true reason for the continuing ingorance towards harmonic charts by astrologers in theory and practice.

2. The first 12 harmonics

Walter correlates the planets in useful order to the known aspects. The base idea is that there exists an underlying planetary principle, e.g. Venus has a double-character - like the light has both wave and particle properties, as the physicists assure us. The planet Venus is therefore the "particle aspect of the principle venus", the trine-aspect is the "wave character". In the relation of "particle" (planet) to "wave" (aspect), Walter was influenced by the heliocentric distances of the "particles".

translators note: i skipped the next part and compiled it as a table - i decided to use the names of the link, but i've never heard e.g do-decile, 30° is semi-sextile and 150° is inconjunct/quincunx:

Harmonic [H] Planet [Particle] Aspect-Family [Wave]
1 Sun Conjunction (0°)
2 Mercury Opposition (180°)
3 Venus Trine (120°)
4 Moon Square (90°)
5 Mars Quintile (72°, 144°)
6 Jupiter Sextile (60°)
7 Saturn Septile (51°26' and multiples)
8 Uranus Octile (45°, 135°)
9 Neptune Novile (40°, 80°, 160°)
10 Pluto Decile (36°, 108°)
11 Ceres Un-Decile (32°43' and multiples)
12 Mercury Do-Decile (30°, 150°)
The correlations can be astrologically easily related for plausibility, the psychological character of the aspects is widely known, as is true for the related aspects. Every astrologist has to make their own experiences here: For me, Walters associations connections of planet and aspect has been a fertile seed of thought, which intuitively furthered my understanding of planet and aspect, instead of dogmatically limiting it. It's not an arbitrary system either. Critical mercury and opposition: enlightening. Harmonic Venus and trine, fitting. Moon and square, but why? After deeper reflection the connection becomes clear: the square makes the native suffer in "form and over time" to bring something from the unconsciousnes to the conscious. The moon represents the unconscious, for form and time, the humanities oldest clock. Mercury and moon are connected in the mind, as through the 4th in the second harmonic, where every 90°-(moon) is hidden inside a 90°-(mercury). The moon in esoteric psychology represents the lower-me related mind, a subfunction of the abstract power of mind of mercury.

translators note: for a little different perspective to the same conclusion, consider the glyphe of mercury. the transformation (cross) of the sickle (subconscious/moon) through the conscious (circle/sun).

It turns out that venus, jupiter and neptune too create a line/family with their aspect-associations, the neptunian novile (40°) is hidden in the venusian trine (3x40°=120°) like the jupiterian sextile (2x60°=120°).This correlates with neptune, venus and jupiter being higher octaves of one another in a psychological sense (Oskar Adler explained this in his "Testament der Astrologie" (testimony of astrology)).

Hans-Jörg Walter and myself have created tables that correlate keywords with harmonics. These can be seeds of thoughts for practical astrology, followed by the researchers mind, driven by both psychological intuition and astrological application, alike to the tarot card "The charriot".

*translators note: see picture: " https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9b/RWS_Tarot_07_Chariot.jpg

Harmonic Keywords
1 mind, vibration, whole
2 information, seperation, selection
3 form, senses, love
4 matter, reproduction, drive
5 power, movement, aggression
6 order, hirarchy, society
7 time, inhibition, structure
8 energy, mutation, sublimation
9 passive chaos, dissolution/resolution, illusion
10 active chaos, catastrophy, creation
11 commitment, heroicity, ecstasy
12 cycle, change, replacement/exchange


Walter's planet-aspect associations for the first twelve harmonics and aspects are worth reflecting over repeatedly, since they are of complex mathematical connection and mathematical connection represents - this is pure astrology - psychological connection. This can be experienced personally, as well as used for interpretation in astrology. It must be mentioned that mars and his higher octave pluto are related naturally (see the 36° aspect and it's multiples), which is completely in lockstep with previous astrology.

The correlation of Ceres to eleven is but worthy of discussion. What made Walter do this? It isn't simply the result of intuition and research. There are no classical planets further from Pluto, therefore eleven would be the first "wave" without "particle". Astrology is not just schematic and makes reasonable associations with mythological motives (which again are of psychological nature). In this perspective the continuation of the line from sun to pluto through an introverted (translators note: introjovial is not a word i know how to translate properly) dwarf-planet is not by accident. The mythology of Demeter-Ceres, which can not be further explained here, is tightly connected with the mythology of Hades-Pluto - and Pluto as lord of the underworld of the dead finds a fitting supplement in Ceres as lord of the earth of the living. (This is also explained in Dieter Koch's article of januarey 2001 in the "Meridian"). However Walter has continually found 11th harmonic charts of people that had a Ceres-quality to their lives, so people that in a heroic-orgiastic way that brought forth a Ceres way of expression - due to a very strong H 11. And the mutlples of H 11 confirm this, especially H 11 x H 11 = H 121. Especially in the last harmonic the psoitive and negative Ceres-characteristics manifest in the psyche very strong, so that a highlighted H 121 shows up for talented mystics as well as for berserkers of death-rush. (Lama Anagarika Govinda - Fritz Haarmann). This double sided nature, has been found by Walter again and again for every harmonic: the unfolded good, as well as the unleashed evil, which is the reason why his book of harmonic decoding is named after Dante's Divine Comedy: A journey from the depths of hell to the heights of heaven.

The correlation of H 12 to mercury and the semi-sextile seems inconsistent on first look, since mercury is already related with the H 2 and the opposition. Walter calls H-12-mercury the "quicksilver one", which he wants understood in the sense of alchemical hermetics. Mercury is not just the smart thinker, merchant and writer, he also is the occult inagurator who brings together opposites. Here the arcane alter ego is shown, of the otherwise rational mercury. (An astrological understanding of this has not grown yet significantly). Mathematically this is highlighted by the number twelve: Bringing together the "families" of the numbers three (Venus, Jupiter, Neptune) and four (Mercury, Moon, Uranus). Of the classical planets only Mars, Saturn and Pluto are outside of this union - and in this context it is interesting that saturn is considered the "guardian of the threshold" in the occult teachings, like the kabballah, the one to resist the thirst for knowledge of the adepts, whereas Mars and Pluto are considered "unholy planets" that represent energies to be made holy.

The continuation of this post can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/astrology/comments/7v3sw2/harmonic_charts_an_introduction_and_a_german/