An Astronomer's Magnetic Theory of Astrology | Percy Seymour

In 1997 Percy Seymour, Director of the William Day Planetarium and principal lecturer in astronomy at the University of Plymouth in the U.K., published The Scientific Basis of Astrology. He is holding doctorates in astronomy and astrophysics, and his expertise in magnetic fields had won him academic acclaim. Percy Seymour outlined his “Magnetic Theory of Astrology” as follows:

 

 » A practica concerning the major and extensive interaction of the planets

which will appear in the year 1524 and without a doubt will bring many wonderful things. « 

Woodcut from Nürnberg, Germany, showing a Seven-Planet-Conjunction in Pisces in 1524.

It is now accepted by almost all scientists that the sunspot cycle effects the magnetic field of Earth, and the agency responsible for this effect, the solar wind, has been detected. It is also beyond doubt that the Moon causes tides in the upper atmosphere which give rise to electric currents, and these generate the lunar daily magnetic variation. There is also plenty of evidence that both the steady state as well as the fluctuating behavior of the geomagnetic field can be used by organisms, including man, for purposes of finding direction and keeping internal body time. This much is all well documented, and widely accepted. There is evidence, largely ignored, that positions and movements of planets as seen from the Sun, play a major role in the solar cycle. 

Furthermore, there is some evidence - highly controversial but difficult to dismiss - that some positions of the planets as seen from Earth at time of birth and linked to personality characteristics of individuals. This evidence exists. What my theory does is to prepare an interpretation, based on this evidence, which can be scientifically tested. Very briefly the steps are:

1. Planets effect the solar cycle in specific ways.
2. The solar cycle effects the geomagnetic field.
3. The geomagnetic field affects life on Earth in certain observed ways.
4. Specifically, many species, including man, can be influenced by particular states of the geomagnetic field.
5. The particular influences appear to correlate with the planetary positions.
6. I propose that the behavior of the fetus at the time of birth is linked to the cycles within the geomagnetic field, which in turn are influenced by the solar cycle and positions of the planets. Resonance is the phenomenon by which the fetus is phase locked to specific cycles.

To put this in more specific terms, my theory proposes that the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune control the direction of the convective motions within the Sun, which generate the solar magnetic field. They do so because they play the major role in moving the sun about the common center of mass of the solar system. As the solar cycle builds up to a maximum, so certain configurations of all the planets, at different stages, play a part in the disrupting the magnetic field of the sun, by means of the tidal tug (due to gravitation) of the planets on the hot gases in the Sun. Thus the planets play a role in the modulation of Earth's magnetic field by the solar wind. I am also proposing that the tidal tug of the planets on the hot gases trapped within our magnetosphere will, because of resonance, lock some of the vibrations of the Earth's field in step with the planetary movements. The resulting fluctuations of Earth's field are picked up by the nervous system of the fetus, which acts like an antenna, and these synchronize the internal biological clocks of the fetus which control the moment of birth. The tuning of the fetal magnetic antenna is carried on by the genes which it inherits, and these to some extent will determine its basic genetically inherited personality characteristics. Thus the positions of the planets at birth are not altering what we have inherited genetically but are labeling our basic inherited personality characteristics.

A Theory of Astrology | L. Edward Johndro

In the 1930s electrical engineer and astrologer L. Edward Johndro (1882-1951) and astrologer Charles Jayne (1911-1985) simultaneously contributed to the development of the GEM Theory (Gravity, Electrical, Magnetism). In 1929 Johndro presented his Theory of Astrology as follows:

"Tesla demonstrated years ago that the earth is at a relatively constant electrical potential or charge of some seven million volts. It may now be accepted that all material bodies are in a state of relative charge, negative or positive, with respect to each other - man, atoms, earth, planets and stars, and that this manifests as love, cohesion, magnetism or gravitation, or their wholly illusionary opposite (repulse), according as the law manifests in a magnitude series ranging from the microcosm to the macrocosm.

[...] We cannot escape the fact that the earth is a charged body at a potential of millions or volts, nor can we easily escape the conclusion that the other planets are in a state of high charge. While that man is a charged body, with an accompanying electromagnetic field, is easily demonstrated by countless experiments [...] Suns and stars (not planets) are radioactive [...] they emit electromagnetic waves which, because of their exceedingly high frequency, we term light [...] The sun and stars, the planets, the earth, and man upon the earth are charged bodies, and that all their accompanying electromagnetic fields intersect and interact.

[...] The planets reflect light waves and they each, have a different natural frequency of oscillatory response to the solar and stellar light waves which constantly bombard them (consequently their reflected light is variously tinted) and that the phase angles of their field couplings, as their relative movements in space change them, changes the power factor at these frequencies; accept also the fact that these planetary frequencies, being of a far lower order than those of the sun and stars-a mere octave of lower harmonics, since they emit no light of their own, are within the range of man's sensibilities to subconsciously detect and respond to. 

[...] The solar waves continually directly bombard half the earth [...] they are also reflected to the earth by the Moon and planets [...] These waves constantly interact with the earth's electromagnetic field [...] as the inductive couplings of the earth, sun and planets change their mutual angular relations in space.

 

Tuning In Super-Heterodyne Man
By L. Edward Johndro
Author of "The Earth in the Heavens" and "The Stars, How and Where They Influence"

 

The science of radio and astrology are one. Their sole fundamental difference, as we know them today, lies in the frequency bands dealt with, the different distances involved in the radiation of electromagnetic waves, the relatively infinite difference in the length of those waves, and the supersensitivity of the human organism, as a receiver, as compared to the super-heterodyne receiver.

 

 

The importance of the laws of radio to the technical problems involved in the exposition of astrology as an exact science, in terms of physical science acceptable to scientists, cannot be overestimated. The reason for this is simple. As radio science advances, we find more and more that in the generation and conduction of high-frequency currents, and in the propagation of high-frequency electromagnetic waves through space, there is a gradual breakdown and reversal of Ohm’s law as higher and higher frequencies are dealt with. Dielectrics and conductors take on a reverse order as the wave length of light is even distantly approached.

This has to be predicated on the assumption that relativity is true, and this fact means that the time-honored objection to astrology on the grounds that the planets are too distant to radiate, by reflected solar light, any magnetic waves capable of setting up currents of response in the sympathetic nerve fibers and brain and body cells of the human race, is entirely unfounded.

A radio receiver wholly insensitive to a weak 700 kilocycle (450 meter) wave may be made to audibly respond to the same signal intensity on a 2000 kilocycle (150 meter) wave. A receiver limited to 500-mile reception on waves within the popular broadcast band may receive from the Antipodes by the substitution of short-wave tuning coils. In other words, a wave of 40 meters may be 1000 times as sensitive as one of 400 meters, as far as distance propagation and distant reception are concerned. Considering, then, that light waves are infinitely short as compared to even a 40-meter wave, we see readily that their straight-line propagation from planets, suns and stars, is far less diminished by millions of miles of interstellar space than are our radio waves by earth distances.

While long radio waves (low frequencies) have little as yet determined direct effect upon human health or "temperature," it is *Professor J. C. McLennan, of Toronto today, has found that certain long-meter waves so raise the body temperature as to promise a means of controlling fatal collapse in pneumonia cases. This wave acts on the sodium chloride of the blood.

Editor’s Note:—This article is INTELLECTUAL DYNAMITE! It is an answer to the time-honored objection to astrology on the grounds that the planets are too distant to radiate, by reflected solar light, any magnetic waves capable of affecting mankind. Anyone interested in astrology, equipped with information contained herein, may effectively refute the strongest argument put forth against astrology by orthodox scientists. While it is quite technical for the average reader, we feel that it is necessarily so, and that its importance justifies your reading it and the space we are giving it.

It is well known that waves of five meters and less, which are still a far cry to light waves, have a profound effect upon the nervous system, and that the high end of the spectrum (violet) affects the metabolism of some body tissues to a degree second only to the ultraviolet, X, alpha and beta rays. It can thus be said that astrology concerns itself with cosmic light-wave broadcasting from planets, sun and stars, and with a more sensitive receiver—the sympathetic neurons of homo sapiens.

I have already implied that electrical conduction and insulation that holds inviolate for direct current and low-frequency alternating current, and which gave rise to Ohm’s law, places all elements and their compounds in a definite progressive series. But let me again remind your writer that when we come to deal with radio, and higher frequencies than radio does yet utilize, this series undergoes for any given element or compound a gradual reversal as the frequency is increased. 

 

That is, conduction and insulation, which to direct current are characteristics arising out of electrical pressure or voltage only, are to alternating current variables depending on the frequency or time factor, varying and even changing places in the series as the “times are shortened” (frequency increased). The electrical properties of matter, so far as alternating current is concerned, being variable and dependent upon the current frequency, it is almost certain that radio facts will in time substantiate several of Einstein’s relativity claims.

To clarify the foregoing for the general reader, let us contemplate on the fact that copper, let us say, is a good conductor of direct current and for alternating-current power circuits. It is even a good conductor of radio frequencies, though its resistance to the latter is increased as the frequency is increased, due to “skin-effect” (unequal distribution of high-frequency currents in conductors). 

 

But copper is an absolute insulator to light or light frequencies, responding only to a lower harmonic of light in the form of heat. Thus copper is opaque to light. While it remains conductive to heat frequencies it acts as a dielectric or insulator to light. In contrast such a direct current or low-frequency alternating current insulator as glass, air or vacuum, automatically becomes an increasingly ideal conductor of light frequencies, and relatively poor to impossible conductors of heat frequencies.

The pertinent fact here is that “everything” is immune or resistant to some frequencies, but not to all frequencies, and that every frequency band, sufficiently separated, casts the elements and their compounds into a new series of relative conduction and insulation. Consequently, once proved that each planet has a different fundamental frequency response (plus the harmonics of that frequency), and that each planet reflects solar light at its own frequency or wavelength, it then becomes clear enough that each planet affects some things and not others. Thus their individual “relationship” (to revert to astrological terms) is explained.

That a purely physical (and this includes gaseous) body has a natural frequency is easily exampled. If common salt or ammonium chloride is dissolved in a glass of water, the glass when struck will sound a progressively lower note up to a certain point of solution density, then the pitch or frequency of the note will increase over two to three octaves till the point of saturation of solution is reached. 

 

This is not due to a change of density of the solution, for a sugar solution, for example, does not manifest a range of acoustical frequencies under the same test. I mention sodium and ammonium chloride because they show in the spectrum lines of the stars and are common in the earth. We know, too, that the reason one planet or star appears red, blue, green or white can be due only to the frequency or wave length of its reflected solar light.

The piezoelectric and pyroelectric properties of crystals, as discovered in recent years through intensive research in many quarters, particularly by the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory, and culminating in the present-day radio practice of utilizing quartz crystals as frequency controls in broadcast and marine transmitters, are direct evidence that the wave length and wave frequency of a body having definite (crystalline) electrical axes is relative to its diameter, circumference and mass, as well as dependent upon its substance.

Since the planets (not to mention the stars) are of widely different size, mass and density, the light waves they each reflect to earth carry a "sideband" wave of the lower frequency of the oscillating or vibrating planet, just as the carrier wave of a broadcast transmitter carries the superimposed audio-frequency of the program as a relatively "long-wave" wave or sideband, which is “unhorsed” by the detector tube of your radio and passed on into the loudspeaker of your program, while the "horse" (the carrier wave) goes galloping on.

It is thus to be seen that the inducement (electro-magnetic wave induction) of a planet exists neither necessarily, nor probably, by virtue of its reflected solar light upon us, but is due rather to the superimposed lower (and quite invisible) frequency of the planet as an oscillating crystal that rides that light wave to us over the great distances it would not be able to travel undiminished if it did not have the "light horse" as to ride by reason of the planet’s reflected sunlight. 

 

As a simple analogy we may say that Paul Revere (the planet), carrying his message (the planet’s own frequency), would have been tired out and failed in his purpose had he not had his horse (light frequencies) to ride the distance. For, as I have earlier pointed out, long waves or low frequencies, such as are necessary to carry a program and operate the audio circuits of a radio, meet too much resistance in traveling far through space unless they are carried "on the back" of a radio wave of sufficient shortness or high frequency to convert the ordinarily insulating ether into an excellent conductor by the reversal of Ohm’s law of resistance. This is not theory. Ask any radio engineer.

By passing the carrier wave of a transmitter through a quartz crystal cut to a definite diameter and thickness and with the proper plane with reference to its electrical axis, the broadcast station is held exactly to its authorized wave length. The only thing radio engineers and scientists in general are slow to accept is the fact that each planet is such a crystal reflecting sunlight, itself an electromagnetic wave, back to earth at a definite frequency that acts upon us through sympathetic nerve response in a different way and degree from the wave reflected by a larger or smaller planet oscillating at another harmonic of sunlight because of its diameter, mass, etc.

A second important fact about piezoelectric crystals, such as quartz, tourmaline, Rochelle salts, etc., is that when they are caused to oscillate in a high (as radio) frequency circuit they change their dimensions and shape, and if certain maximum electrical potentials (voltage) be exceeded the crystal heats and cracks on cleavage lines definite to its electrical axis.

If, now, we view the earth as a composite crystal and as possessing these piezoelectric and pyroelectric properties in its quartz, etc.; and if we consider the earth’s many electrical axes, and their shifts of stress due to the moving electromagnetic planes of the Sun’s and planets’ radial electric waves to earth, as they change positions in their orbits, as at once conclusive of the relation of earthquakes to planetary cycles, and obtain further mathematical approach towards a solution of their times and location.

Space will not permit adequate discussion of this subject; but it may interest students to know that oscillating crystals manifest three fundamental frequencies and that they are rich in harmonics. For example, five different samples of high-grade quartz show fundamental frequencies of 75, 105 and 450 kilocycles. These are familiar crystalline terms (astrologically ineptly termed "aspects") in terms of "degree of oscillation per 1000 miles."

It is the old story repeated. Whether we study astrology, astronomy, physics, electrophysics, radio or electromagnetism, however, men of supposedly "different"” sciences are now beginning to come together and compare and dovetail their findings, as never before.