Major Chart Patterns
wheel, while the heliocentric view is spread out to the
point of having a very exact grand trine pattern—
involving six of the nine planets. To see just how this
works, you may want to switch back and forth between
the next few pages, until it becomes clear. Let's start
with the familiar geocentric chart, the chart we already
know and use.
The Geocentric Chart (Outer Chart)
Here is a diagram of the solar system at the time of my
birth, on July 18, 1941. As you can see, the Sun is in
the center and the orbits for the planets, from Mercury
all the way out to Pluto, are shown as much to scale as
we could fit on this page, and are at least roughly
accurate. The planet in the third ring from the Sun is
Earth, and is marked by a blue dot.
From that blue dot of earth, I have drawn lines through
all of the planets to show how earth sees the planets on