J. K. Rowling and the Birth Place of Harry Potter

Elephant House on George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, Scotland, birthplace of Harry Potter where J.K. Rowling wrote Harry Potter. Photo: Nicolai Schäfer,ccbysa3.0 — “**Elephant House” on George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, Scotland where J.K. Rowling wrote the first parts of Harry Potter is located in the first decades of Gemini as well as of Aquarius.** Photo: Nicolai Schäfer,ccbysa3.0

The Elephant House on George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, Scotland is famed as the “birthplace of Harry Potter” since J.K. Rowling reprotedly wrote the first parts of the Harry Potter here.

The Elephant House in Aquarius with Gemini

Astrogeographical position for morphogenetic field level 4 (exact position of the café, appr.: 80 m x 100 m zones): one coordinate of the building is located in the first decade of practical air sign Gemini the sign of pathways and bridges and indicator for the position of the bar on a bridge. Gemini also indicates puberty, schools, learning, education, technology and practical magic. All these analogies could describe the setting of the story around a school, its pupils, teachers and learning contents as such.

The 2nd coordinate of the café is located in the first degrees of creative, innovative, spiritual air sign Aquarius sign of the sky, heaven, paradise, inspiration, self-finding, abstraction, spiritual quest, illumination and indicator for the options of multidimensional activities in the Harry Potter books.

In my astrogeographical field study work I found 2 outstanding eaxamples for the combination of these two elements: Mount Tabor – place of the supposed “Transfiguration” of Jesus Christ and Yuanming Yuan – the Garden of Perfect Brightness in Beijing. See my article: Aquarius in Astrogeography.

The Elephant House in relation to J.K. Rowling`s birth chart

JK Rowling was born with the Sun in Leo the sign of light, the heart and of power stations. When I say that Leo is known for their particular capacities that qualify or support them in theri placing their own subjective light on the process of a narrative. I`m aware that few astrologers may think that way. But its known to me.
And she was born with Jupiter aka Guru in house 4 – the house of her own emotional identity indicating the assumption that whatever has got to be resolved she would need to find the solution out of her own interior understanding.
In other words: :I assume that this aspect explains that she was born with the habitual assumption that she would need to solve things herself. This aspect in the house of childhood and the pre-natal stage is sth extremely positive because it allows and supports aspects of self-responsibility for ones own experience and life.

JK Rowling in Astrology and Astrogeography — K Rowlings astrogeographical aspects at the birth place of Harry Potter. Her birth time has a Roden Rating C. According to Lois Rodden Rowling has specified to her an Aquarius AC. The time has been rectified to 15° Aquarius at 21:10. Of course that doesn´t mean that time is correct. But for astrogeographical purposes I will use the chart taking the possible extent of inaccuracy into account.

Field Level 4

In the rectified birth chart for J.K. Rowling the position of the Elephant House Café in the first degrees of Gemini and Aquarius support the 12th (or 1st) and the 3rd (or 4th) house in her birth chart.

I will interprete both potential options. Please keep in mind that the position in house 1 is possible only if the birth ascendant of J.K. Rowling was less than 10° Aquarius. This is because the Elephant House is located at 3°-5°Aquarius and I use a 5°orbis for positions close to the cusp of the next house.

Aquarius in House 1 (less probable)

From my astrogeographical experience it is actually possible that the position of the Elephant Cafe at 3°- 5°Aquarius stimulated the 1st house in Rowling´s birth chart here in way that supported the writing process.. This is because personally I live and write at a place that is precisely on my ascendant.
Yes house 1 is not really a relaxed stimulation of one´s imagination and fairy tale settings.. But ascendant and house 1 is an indication of a stimulation of mobilization to become real and put into practice “the ideas that we have been pregnant with”..
And I doubt that it is the actually the channeling of inspiration and creativity that JK Rowlings needed the coffee house for. But rather a stimulation of her self-confidence and mobilization of action to overcome paralysis (house 1). And that is how house 1 could have helped her ground her imagination, spirit and thoughts and to dare writing in her own style, narrative and pratice the story-telling in her own tempo, rhythm and mindspace.

Aquarius in House 12 (technically probable)

Technically the stimulation of House 12 works here not from the ruling sign of House 12 which is Capricorn but from a position in the ruling sign of the ascendant in Aquarius. This differentiation is really helpful and important and far more precise than using the simple “whole sign houses” technique for beginners.
House 12 relates to the fact that Mrs. Rowling worked not in a place of her own but at a table borrowed from the owner of the Elephant House. House 12 the house of ones true identity allowed her to simply follow her own intution and the thread of her own thought and not think about judging right or wrong from the point of view of other people.
Most astrologers would probably agree that house 12 could be imagined to represent a most solid and safe space for independent writing and conceiving of characters, figures and games played or performed by them.
And anyway technically the 12th house aspect is known to stimulate imagination, mystification, perception of other dimensions, subtle reality and a spiritual outlook. It stands for a hiding place where one goes to take a time out, forget about everyday life and feel undisturbed, It so delivers all qualities needed working on pieces of art, self-reflection and self-liberation.

Gemini on the cusp between Houses 3 and 4

The 2nd coordinate of the “birthplace” of Harry Potter is located at 3°-5° in Gemini:
This astrogeographical position triggers the divide and connection between houses 3 and 4 in Rowlings birth chart pointing at the exchange between the houses of emotional self-centering and the house of language, script, practical intelligence and learning.

The combination of houses 3 and 12

The stimulation and inspiration through house 3 the house of technical knowledge and learning indicated a support that Rowlings got by the place for finding a key to communicating her fantasy to a wider public.

Field Level 1 (larger region, global impact): Edinburgh at 21°Sagittarius – 7°Cancer in Houses 5 & 10

In works of art field level 1 stands for their global significance and impact.

Why Edinburgh ? The most probable answer is that Scotlands vast mountain areas make Scotland the most plausible location for the remote setting of the “Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry“. In this respect Edinburgh served as the gate to Scotland, providing a situation in which the author of the narrative could overlook the imaginary landscapes projected on the very Nortf of Britain from the entrance without diving into their reality.

**Astrogeography Birth Chart Interpretation Text**

In the case of a world famous and influential publication like the “Harry Potter series” its impact on global culture may be explored astrogeographically through the astrogeographical coordinates of its “birth place” position in the grid-patterns of the global morphic field.
For abstract considerations of global resonance between places I found it fascinating that the astrogeograhical positions of Edinburgh has a direcrt resonance with the 2 mega centers of US culture: HOLLYWOOD at 21°SAGITTARIUS – 20°Aquarius and WASHINGTON at 6°CANCER – 27°Leo. This resonance delivers the astrological plausibility of a place that served as a key to delivering inspiration for adapting the plots, narratives, images used and technical language to the US literature and film industries as the most important key to the global market.
In JK Rowlings birth chart these positions supported HOUSES 5 and 10:
7°CANCER: This position stimulated house 5 in Rowlings birth chart. House 5 is the house of self-esteem, self-expression, birth, attempting to display magnificence, royalty, superiority and the right to stick to ones own subjective, personal perspective, experience, desires, motor.and motives.
21°SAGITTARIUS: this resonance position which relates to Hollywood triggered house 10 in Rowlings birth chart. In individual life House 10 stands for aiming at the harmony with the requirements given by effective factual reality, public space,,superiors and rhe public space of society.

The Elephant House in relation to the Publication date

There may be several possible charts for a birth moment of single stages in the creation process of Harry Potter and the materialization: the first idea, the story “making” process, the writing process, the publication process or the film making process.

But since we have so much life time for inspirations it makes sense to assume that the material manifestation by putting ideas into script is an important transfer. Not a birth of the story nor the single characters but a birth of the writing part of the materialization process.

The first publication started the long publication process and probably triggered the writing process of the series.