Simon Wickham-Smith Consultant Astrologer & Researcher, Musician, Painter. The archetypal masculine and feminine are symbolically embodied by the astrological chart, no more so than the Sun/Moon and Mars/Venus configurations. In the interpretation of any chart, of course, we have to remember the holistic principle -- that, for instance, withing the masculine Sun there is also the female -- without which an analysis would lack depth. This is all the more necessary when considering the chart of a transsexual subject, since the interplay of self and gender will be especially subtle and complex." -- Simon Wickham-Smith ("Transsexuality and Astrology") DATA: 2 February 1968, 17:55 (5:55 PM) WEST/GMT (00e/w), Rustington, England (50n48, 00w31). RR: A. (From him to Sy Scholfield). FEATURES: PERSONALIZED PLANETS: JUPITER (conjunct Ascendant, quincunx Moon); URANUS (opposite Moon, disposits Sun); NEPTUNE (conjunct Base, trine Moon); MERCURY (conjunct Descendant); SATURN (conjunct Moon, sextile Sun). PATTERNS: T-SQUARE (Moon/Saturn opposite Uranus, all square Venus), T-SQUARE (Chiron opposite Venus, both square Moon/Uranus); STELLIUM (Chiron, Moon, Saturn, all in 8th). SHAPE: LOCO~MOTIVE (Jupiter Leads). CHINESE SIGN: EARTH MONKEY. NUMEROLOGY: "10/1" LIFEPATH.

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Simon Wickham-Smith has been involved in astrology since the age of twelve (when the progressed Sun conjunct both his Descendant and the Neptune discovery degree of 25° Aquarius, while the dispositing progressed Uranus trined his natal Aquarian Sun). Apart from the personalized Uranus/Aquarius, his chart contains another indicator of the astrologer: the Uranus discovery degree of 24° Gemini appears on the cusp of his Eleventh House.

With Neptune being the most aspected of his planets and placed at the base of his chart, Wickham-Smith has grounded himself in many Neptunian activities. He has been a Tibetan Buddhist monk (see his ongoing 6th Dalai Lama page), a painter, and a musician. His Venus in Capricorn in the Fifth in quite a stressed T-square set-up with Moon, Saturn, Pluto and Uranus, may explain the catchy title of one of his compilation pieces: "Breaking the Plastic Hymen: Vinyl Virgins and Lo-Fi Whores" (1996)!!! Since 1999, he has worked with acoustic and computer instruments (progressed Neptune on creative Fifth cusp square natal Uranus in musical Second), and is now working with another "airy" instrument -- the didjeridoo (as progressed Mercury conjuncts his natal Moon and opposes his natal Uranus). With his Sun in the Sixth House ruling his Ascendant and Jupiter in Virgo rising, he's presently teaching English to foreign students in Oxford.

Since 1998, he's been researching the astrology of transgenderism and intersexuality, and his article "Transsexuality and Astrology" was published that year in The Astrological Journal (as progressed Mercury conjunct his Moon). He's now engaged in writing a book on this topic (Jupiter in Virgo opposes his Mercury in Pisces in an interesting sort of Mutual Reception). In a recent article, "Black Moon Lilith and the Tabu of Gender Dysphoria: Some Preliminary Thoughts," Wickham-Smith proposes that True BML indicates "the way in which the subject deals with tabus and the way in which his or her society works with tabus [including those] surrounding sex and gender and sexuality." He also welcomes input from other folks interested in his research.

Simon Wickham-Smith tends to approach astrological consultations "from a psychological point of view, identifying patterns from which the various aspects of an individual's personality radiate" (The beaming Sun in Aquarius -- his least aspected planet -- rules his Leo Ascendant). He is available for consultations and can be contacted by email or via his Astrological Consultant and Researcher webpage. In the Inuktitut language of Canada, the word "qamutiik" means "sled" (and he has a locomotive shape pushed along by transportational Jupiter on his Ascendant)...

* Wickham-Smith, Simon. "Transsexuality and Astrology" The Astrological Journal (UK) 40.6 (Nov/Dec 1998): 19-26.