I am sitting here at this meeting and someone suggested that I look at the school’s archive page, and there I found the certificate of occupancy for the new school building, for Monday, Sept. 8, 1969. Classes began at 8:05 am when Module 1 (first mod) or A-band started. And what do you get for that? You get an astrology chart — and once again, I am astonished.
Remembering that I haven’t seen the chart till one minute ago: I have described Dewey as a radical experiment in freedom and personal responsibility. It was an educational innovation, full of the spirit of the 1960s.
Dewey opened just weeks after the Woodstock festival and two months after the Moon landing: one of many unusual events of 1969, with the signature of a social experiment. Like both of these events, Dewey was and is a group phenomenon, and also an invention.
Straight away, this chart is a knockout: Uranus occupying the ascendant, to the degree. That degree would be 4 Libra, with Uranus followed by Jupiter and Mercury.
The long aspect is the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction: suggesting something about groups, a worldly feeling and the promise of a surge forward (in the Promethean style of Uranus, and with Jupiter referencing education and knowledge).
The ascendant is the sense of identity; and the self we are growing into. So we get all the creative flare of the Uranus-Jupiter conjunction, the expressive quality of Mercury, the sense of fairness of Libra and the impact of the Aries Point — 4 Libra rising is right in the zone. The Uranus-Jupiter conjunction is described by Cosmos and Psyche author Richard Tarnas as an aspect of great meetings.