Mundane parans - tipping point people
Written on November 6, 2007 by Bernadette
In the November newsletter I am looking a person’s mundane parans and comparing them with their natal parans. I am suggesting, that when a person is a “tipping point person” to borrow from Malcom Gadwell, then what they bring forward into the collective consciousness is the nature of their mundane parans.
So if anyone else wants to comment or share some examples, or disagree 
.. that would be great.
Bye for now
Bernadette Brady
www.bernadettebrady.com
I have another idea.
I base it on the unlooked-for “angles” in one’s fixed star setup: the Zenith and the Nadir. No, not the MC (Mid Heaven) or the IC (Lower Heaven). The Zenith is the place where, when you go outside, and look straight up, is directly overhead - 90 degrees from the horizon. When you look down at your feet, the Nadir is the point directly under you, all the way through planet Earth to the opposite side of the sky.
Not everyone has culminating stars in their natal setups. But as far as I’ve yet been able to determine, when a star is culminating it doesn’t usually mean “conjunct the MC”. In the charts I have researched so far, it can frequently mean at the *Zenith* when a planet is on an angle. Often the star is only the highest it will be in the sky for that day. But I now wonder: does a Zenith culmination somehow mark one as possibly special, someone capable of being a tipping point person?
Let’s look at Robert Oppenheimer: he has Vega as both a mundane culminating star AND a personal culminating star, configured, in both cases, with his Jupiter. During the day Oppenheimer was born Vega was, at one point, conjunct his Zenith. He was a ‘tipping point’ person of the second type Bernadette describes, the kind who becomes a mover by devotion to a sustained line of effort.
Paul Tibbetts, on the other hand, was the other kind of ‘tipping point’ person, the Everyman who was simply in the place to do the deed that needed to be done at the critical time (for a magnificent rendering of this kind of tipping point person, read C.S. Forrester’s _The Ship_). Paul Tibbetts has no culminating star patterns like Oppenheimer’s. We don’t know his birth time so we can’t know the precise details of his nativity, but there is this: Vega does cross the Zenith on the day that Tibbetts was born, and both Stings of the Scorpio cross the Nadir, that INVISIBLE point which opposes the Zenith. THESE stars are both in personal paran to his Mars. However, none of these stars show up in the mundane parans for the day of his birth.
So what is it that I suppose? If what I am groping toward is on track, stars that cross your Zenith during the day of your birth, AND have both mundane and personal parans to them MAY mark you as a tipping point person of the Oppenheimer type. Perhaps, at this point, one can - with moderate reliability - guess at the existence of an Oppenheimer. This must be further researched and tested in our databases of notables.
But can one reliably guess at the existence of a Paul Tibbetts? Might YOU be a Paul Tibbetts? Might you have stars in personal paran which will also cross your personal Nadir on the day of your birth? And will the opportunity present itself to use them? It need not be so blatant an example as Tibbetts has provided. It might be more subtle. Here is my own story.
On the day of my birth, Acumen and Aculeus crossed my Nadir. Acumen is my heliacal rising star, as well. While in college, a friend of mine, caught in one of those regrettable affairs that often grace our youth, was talked into lending her boyfriend her car. “Oh, Susan,” I groaned. “Can’t you tell him you won’t do it?” “He’ll only talk me back around,” she admitted sadly. I suddenly sat up. “Why not make a contract with him and get it notarized?” (She worked at a bank and had easy access to notary publics.) I wrote up the little paragraph stating that between Date X and Date Y this man had complete financial and legal responsibility for her car, and provided the License and VIN numbers. They signed and notarized the contract, she went away for the summer, he had the car. When, in due course, she returned, the car was a virtual wreck. She quietly set about having everything repaired when she got the summons from traffic court. 15 unpaid violations of various kinds. She called me in a panic. I told her, “Go to court, and take your contract with you.” She tremblinglingly handed it to the judge who looked it over and said, “Thank you very much, we’ll take care of this. Next case.” The boyfriend, who was in the US Army, was busted back to his lowest rank, had his pay garnisheed to pay the fines, and spent two weeks in the base lockup. I did a victory dance when she told me the news.
This was the tipping point in her relationship patterns. She now knew that she could defend herself, even in the midst of a problematic relationship. She rather casually ditched him (good riddance) and went on with her life. And I confess it is quite satisfying to think of having snuck up on this creep to nail him in his Achilles’ heel. His advancement plans never quite got back on track after that. Acumen is the sting that weakens.
There is a final interesting factor: rock-solid Rukbat also crosses the Nadir during my birth day. Standing solidly, taking sure aim at my friend’s problem man, is the image that rises to mind. However, I have no parans to Rukbat. Is it the stars without parans that cross the points which can contribute to being in the right place at the right time - a place and time totally unlooked for?
The Nadir-crossing Scorpion’s Stings do have personal parans in Tibbett’s chart, but Zenith-crossing Vega does not. Hmmm…one of the lesser known meanings of Vega is that of the Swooping Eagle. This is intuitively satisfying when you think of his critical role as a bomber pilot, is it not?
Marcia
HI Everyone
I have thoght about this long and hard. In my event or electional charts, the mundane parans seem to be more accurate in describing the event, or the type of energy that is taking place at that particular location. In natal charts, I see the mundane parans working as the WHAT and the natal parans work as the HOW. Both are of course extremely relevant. I would also take chart rulers of zodiacal charts and place emphasis on those parans, and I agree with Bernadette’s statement that if you are a “tipping point person” then your mundane parans do seep through more clearly in the biography of your life.
In terms of making this applicable, I would have to define what chart demonstrates that a person is more collectively motivated than personally - I would assume that what Bernadette might mean is people who have main luminaries to outer planets, or outer planets to angles?
If we take this stance, then looking at the planets that are with Neptune, Pluto and Uranus in the mundane parans will tell you WHAT energy was happening when they were born, and how that energy affected them in such a way as to impel them to action later on in life, and become a tipping point person. I was thinking then, that the HOW - that is the manner and form that the action will take for the collective to speak through them, would take the form of aspects to the outer planets by other planets, and their parans.
Just a theory, what do you guys think about this?
best wishes
Nicky
I suddenly asked myself: what, actually, is a tipping point person? The one who performs the final action or the iniator of an action? In the instance of the development and subsequent dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, I was reminded of the following fact, while scouring through articles in my Britannica Online and Wikipedia:
Physicists Enrico Fermi, Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner wrote a letter warning of the peril if the Fascist regimes were to develop a weapon from the nuclear fission chain reaction developed by Fermi; they got Albert Einstein to deliver the now-famous letter of warning to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt on 11 October, 1939.
Who IS the real tipping point person, the one whose single action resulted in altering the course of human history, in this entire scenario? Is it Einstein, who both developed the formula (E=MC2) that ensuing scientists used to discover nuclear fission - and delivered the warning letter to Roosevelt? Is it Fermi, who did most of the critical (but not absolutely initial) work to uncover the mysteries of nuclear fission and who first realized its weapons potential? Is it Roosevelt, who took the warning seriously and created the Office of Scientific Research & Development even though America was not yet at war? Is it Oppenheimer, who headed the Manhattan Project that developed the actual device? Is it U.S. President Harry Truman, who decided to actually USE the thing? Tibbetts is at the tail of the domino stack, the one whose final action could never have taken place if not for the actions of all those who went before.
Whose finger could be said to have tapped the first domino?
Tipping point people aside, what might a mundane paran analysis of relevant events themselves yield? The dropping of the bomb, the date of the order given by Truman, the date of the first successful test at Alamogordo, the date of the formation of the Manhattan Project, the date of the delivery of Einstein’s letter, the date of Fermi’s first nuclear fission discovery, other dates of discoveries made by other scientists on the way to that…even the date of the first publication of Einstein’s famous mass-energy equation.
Hmmm…with that, I guess I’ve answered my question about whose finger tapped the first domino: I’ll put my money on Einstein. More analysis to follow…
Marcia
Great piece of reasoning Marcia. I would go with Einstein too. It’s those long dark hallway eyes. Michael (chironmoonbeam)