Come In Number 6, Your Time Is Up!

The Prisoner has escaped. On January 13th 2009 Patrick McGoohan died at the age of 80. Eighty! Hard to imagine Danger Man getting so old! I have written about him already in 'The Draconic Chart', but here I'd like to show you his Dwad pattern. In a Biwheel with the radix, the fantasy characters he inhabited at the peak of his television career jump off the page. Mars rises in Aquarius, but in the 12th house, and now it is joined there by McGoohan's dwad Aquarian Sun. 'I am not a number! I am a Free Man!' - and there is the danger, and there is his prison. The dwad Moon is on his Sag. MC, dwad MC/IC collects the radix Moon/Neptune opposition, and the dwad Desc joins his Pisces Sun, all showing how vividly his true inner life expressed itself through popular film drama in the outer world and brought him celebrity.

Pluto had been squaring his Sun from the end of Sagittarius; but, remembering the Reflexes, it is still on that square, as his Reflex Sun is at Aries 1. I've put his radix chart in a triwheel with the Reflex and his Q-chart for the day he died - set for his home in Pacific Palisades, California. The angles of the Q-chart foretell a day of pain and separation - its IC picks up his natal Mars and on its Descendant is his Reflex rising Ceres. Transiting Chiron had reached his Ascendant, and the Sun was on his Reflex IC - the 'end of life'.


The IC in his natal Dwad is conjunct Jupiter; remarkably, the dwad of his 2009 Annual Progression repeats the conjunction, as dwad p.Ceres comes to that radix dwad IC. The radix Progressed Descendant meets natal Saturn, while the p.MC holds the Moon/Ceres midpoint. Ending and separation everywhere you look.

The Daily Progressed chart is quite astonishing - not so much in its radix as its Dwad, again: sudden separation from the body, family and friends is decreed by the great cross of Nodes and horizon with Sun and Uranus, and the almost precise conjunction of Ceres with the MC. I have never seen anything like it.

Returning to Reflexes, lately I've been taking a look at their use with Solar Arcs. Arcs to Reflex charts deliver the same contacts as Reflex arcs to radix charts, so I go with the first option. Here's Patrick McGoohan's Reflex chart and his Solar Arcs to the day of death: again, fascinating! Here once more is Ceres centre stage, doubly reflexed with the Ascendant, while Chiron also makes twin contacts with the MC! Now, while Ceres grieves at separation, Chiron represents that immortal part of humankind that resurrects from death. We are looking at the soul's triumph over the body.