Michael Jordan
128 Kenyon Avenue
Kensington, CA 94708
Cell Phone: (510) 612-7802
Home Phone (510) 526-2153
Astrologer
Experience:
Publications and radio work:
'The Astrological Review Quarterly' of the Astrologer's Guild of America, NY, NY
'Times', Congress of Astrological Organizations , NY, NY
Psychic Times, Berkeley, CA
The Oracle, Phoenix, AZ
New Times, Tempe, AZ
'The Berkeley Monthly', Berkeley, CA
'Monthly Newsletter', The Arizona Society of Astrologers , Tempe, AZ
Publications Department, The American Federation of Astrologers, Washington DC,
KALX fm 90.7, 'Astrologically Speaking', Berkeley, CA
Education:
MONTGOMERY JUNIOR COLLEGE, Takoma Park and
Rockville, MD .
ARIZONA WESTERN COLLEGE, Yuma, AZ.
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, Tempe, AZ
LANEY COLLEGE, Oakland, CA
CONTRA COSTA COLLEGE, San Pablo, CA
VISTA COLLEGE, Berkeley, CA.
Volunteer Work:
Berkeley Free Clinic Switchboard, The
Information Resource Collective
Ongoing: KQED Listener Sponsored TV and Radio Switchboard for
Pledges and Support. Building computer hardware and configuring
Linux software for the Alameda County Computer Recycling Center
which donates computers to the third world at home in the US, and
at-large throughout the world.
Hobbies and avocations:
Musical Harmonics. Blues Harp. Journaling. Astronomy, Mushroom hunting,
Michael Jordan
astro@transbay.net
http://www.transbay.net/~ballgame/index.htm
http://www.apollotomorrow.blogspot.com
Phone: 510-612-7802
The author remains a student of astrology after 34 years of
continuous study, having been introduced to celestial influences
on earthly affairs in 1969. He began serious study in 1970 and
worked for the American Federation of Astrologers in 1972. He
started writing astrology articles using original methodology in
1973 for the Astrologers Guild Quarterly (under Al H. Morrison,
Doris Doane, Katy Houston and John Townley) and the Congress of
Astrological Organization Times in 1973, 1974 and 1975. In 1975
he joined other avant-garde astrologers in making rigorous
scientific astrology more visible in the media and more
accessible to students. Toward this goal Jordan started writing
'Contemporary Astrology', for the New Times alternative weekly in
Tempe, Arizona. While in Arizona he went back to college at
Arizona Western College in Yuma, Arizona to teach the first
astrology course recognized by the Arizona system of higher
education. Moving to the Phoenix area residing in Scottsdale,
Arizona, the author served as publicity director for the Arizona
Society of Astrologers while lecturing on various subjects within
the structure of the new scientific astrology he and others were
developing. The author created a Geophysical Astrology which
defined the quality of geo-political relationships according to
the angular relationships between cities on the earth and created
an index of relationships based on those relationships. An
interesting example is the opposition of Hanoi and Saigon, Viet
Nam and Washinhgton D.C, "The Snake Bites It's Tail.",
1977.
Allergies forced the author to seek new surroundings, and so he moved to Berkeley, California on August 23, 1976 where he practiced astrology and taught classes, wrote for local magazines The Psychic Times, The Berkeley Monthly, and hosted a weekly radio program on station KALX, the student station of the University of California at Berkeley on Sunday evenings.
In 1978 the author felt that his writing lacked a certain sense of street savvy and that the remedy would be for him to seek more rooted worldly experience. To this end, he became a taxi driver for the Yellow Cab Company in San Francisco, keeping his residence in Berkeley, and remained in that occupation for 17 years where he continued to study and develop astrology and in addition began to study the use and programming of personal micro computers (which were then in their infancy).
Jordan continued to develop his astrological techniques and computer programming abilities and in 1995 he stopped driving and started working in the computing industry. His special interest was spreadsheet programs and database applications. The present work originally began in 1997 as a spreadsheet and was converted to text for ease of publishing while making it more accessible to electronic searching. The entire book is viewable/useable on the web at http://www.transbay.net/~ballgame/index.htm
The author enjoyed personal and sometimes all to brief relationships with the major astrologers of his era including Al H. Morrison, Charles Jayne, Reinhold Ebertin, Dane Rudhyar, Zipporah Dobbyns, Ronald C. Davison, John Addey, Charles Emerson, John Townley, Mark Edmond Jones, Carl Payne Tobey, Donald Bradley, Neil Michelsen, Michael Munkasey, Katey Houston, Eleanor Bach, and Michael and Stephen Erlewine.
The majority of these relationships were initiated while the author worked at the American Federation of Astrologers in 1972 with Bob and Sara Cooper. Doris Chase Doane signed his certificate of competency from the Astrologer's Guild of America in New York dated June, 1973. John Townley was President and Al H Morrison as executive secretary sponsored him for membership into the Astrologer's Guild of America.
Al Morrison introduced the author to John Townley who was then pioneering new approaches to composite charts, which we developed further with a unique insight that was based upon the book "More Than Human" by Theodore Sturgeon. This book was a study of triads and coalitions in human partnerships. Massachusetts’s astrologer Robert Hand in his book “Planets in Composite” subsequently codified these insights.
Jordan's primary interest in astrololgical innovation was the integration of the meaning of the structured order of planets based upon their cyclic identities, individually and in sequentially ordererd pairs, and triads. It was necessary to develop a mathematical theory of planets that displayed their cyclic relationships in a coherent system. The first step was to show mathematically that the planetary aspects could be represented by the prime numbers.
In addition to contributing insights to composite charts work which were eventually taken up by Hand and others, Jordan presented "The Inevitability of Aspects", CAO Times, vol. 1 No 3 (cover) and pp22-23 (1975) an independent proof of the harmonic assumptive theory which states:
"If the aspect is evaluated not in terms of intensity but in terms of the number of harmonics appearing at each aspect point, the aspect intensity spectrum is unchanged because:
1. The number of harmonics at each aspect point = (the number of terms in X)/N.
where X = (1/1) +(1/2)+(1/3)+(1/4) +...
2. This expression is a divergent series in which the number of terms (N) = the number of harmonics.
In other words the number of harmonics at each aspect point is, like the intensity at each aspect point, simply proportional to 1/N.
In 1974 Joseph Frederici of Italy published his "A Theory of Aspects." in The Astrological Journal, UK vol. 16, No. 4, pp.21-28, (1974), which closely parallels Jordan's work.
There is an absolutely excellent discussion of aspects and their developing role in astrology in the 20th century in the astrological reference work entitled " Recent Advances in Natal Astrology a critical review 1900-1976.", compiled by Geoffrey Dean PhD, assisted by Arthur Mather, Analogic, Australia, (1977). Dr. Dean is an analytical chemist, science writer and astrologer who lived in Perth, Western Australia. Arthur Mather received his Masters of Information Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Information Science, and worked as a geologist, information scientist, astrologer and Research Coordinator of the Astrological Association and lived in Cowes, England, in 1977. The book is 600 finely printed pages and was the collective work of 52 collaborators. Of particular interest in this discussion is the chapter on Aspects starting on page 277 extending to page 354 with 196 separate citations just on that chapter alone. Because of these findings, harmonic resonance once and for all took precedence over orbs and astrology became modern.
Harmonics were destined to relegate the timeworn arguments over zodiacs to the dustbins of history. Working with planetary orbs became like playing an out-of-tune piano most of the time. The aspects were rarely exact so that the measurements had a sour quality to them. After five millenniums astrology was at last becoming scientific. As a guitarist knows by purposely "bending" notes harmonics come into play that either support, distort, or augment the fundamental tones without actually going to the next interval of the scale. This is important in the study of harmonics because perfectly constructed intervals don't exist in nature. Nature is inexact. Perfection is an abstract concept.
Some who interpreted these findings concluded that just like sound, planetary relationships had to be evaluated in terms of their harmonic resonance. This was intuitively understood by Kepler, and Witte; but it did not receive the empirical proofs until computing arrived and the vast number of calculations supervised by Addey , 1971. These findings were hinted at in the work of John Nelson, 1951 in a series of articles on his research in the effects of planetary positions on short-wave signal properties. Nelson was viewing results of radio waves and their being bent by planetary fields and theorizing on harmonic effects. Edward Johndro was doing similar work with his researches as a radio engineer and published his book on the subject in “The Stars How and Why They Influence”, Weiser, New York, 1973. And the companion book the "Earth in the Heavens." Johndro was in touch with Nelson, and Charles Jayne in those days along with the New York maverick, Al H. Morrison.
John Addey set the whole thing on fire though, when in 1970 he started publishing his research findings, "The Nature and Origin of Degree Influences", in the Astrological Journal (UK) in 1970, vol12, No 1, pp 14-22. This was the beginning of his harmonic work and it laid the foundations of the subsequent work of Harvey, Kemp, Heleus, and Jordan. The years 1968-1972 were very important for astrology because all of these new concepts were coming together with the aid of computers.
Jordan continues to study and practice astrology with a primary interest on human relationships, politics and finance. His website "The Harmonic Astrology Project" includes the largest collection of interpretational material for practicing astrologers on the internet, including the most comprehensive bibliography on astrology and ancient astronomy in the world. The site is also a repository of many of his recent writings. Jordan is a regular contributor and forecaster to the alt.astrology.moderated USENET newsgroup.
Jordan nailed the anthrax attack date in a warning post to
alt.astrology.moderated on 17 September 2001
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=astro%40transbay.net+group:alt.astrology.moderated&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&as_drrb=b&as_mind=12&as_minm=5&as_miny=2001&as_maxd=23&as_maxm=12&as_maxy=2001&selm=27710082.0109171604.1c44ac96%40posting.google.com&rnum=4
exactly one day before the letters were mailed from a New
Jersey post office box. The first reports of the letters to the
media were not made until October
12-13 First reports of any letters to media.
Jordan rallied the world's astrologers to come to the defense
of Elian Gonzalez who was being kept from his father after being
kidnapped and brought to the US in a boat.
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=85ue7b%24qab%241%40nntp2.atl.mindspring.net
Jordan has been particularly hard on the illegal Bush
administration pointing out the celestial evidence of their real
and intensely damaging policies.
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=bush+%22jordan%22+group:alt.astrology.moderated&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&as_drrb=b&as_mind=12&as_minm=5&as_miny=2000&as_maxd=23&as_maxm=12&as_maxy=2001&selm=jWdp6.84%242f3.8005732%40den-news1.rmi.net&rnum=2
Aided by astrological insight, Jordan has been at the
forefront in setting forth the evidence and the mis-steps of the
American coup leadership being able to see where the bodies fill
the closets and where the hypocrisy overflows into the lives of
"normal" Americans.
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=bush+%22jordan%22+group:alt.astrology.moderated&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&as_drrb=b&as_mind=12&as_minm=5&as_miny=2000&as_maxd=23&as_maxm=12&as_maxy=2001&selm=cjhj6.39%24H07.10547312%40den-news1.rmi.net&rnum=10
The earliest indication of the US oil cartel having completely
taken over the agenda of the US.
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=0ZXJ6.742%24Y96.53751913%40den-news1.rmi.net
September 11, 2001 and the end of the United States as
formerly known. Jordan offered this analysis and prediction of
the bombing and what it meant for residents of these United
States:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=bush+%22jordan%22+group:alt.astrology.moderated&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d&as_drrb=b&as_mind=12&as_minm=5&as_miny=2000&as_maxd=23&as_maxm=12&as_maxy=2002&selm=u1nodn3lqa9u24%40corp.supernews.com&rnum=2
In addition in 2002, Jordan started a prediction web log at http://www.apollotomorrow.blogspot.com to provide a space for astro-political analysis.