Celebrity Focus 04: Kennedy, Graduate of an Elite School
AI translated from the original Chinese.
From "The Education of John Fitzgerald Kennedy"
Writing course materials paused my updates for several weeks again. Now let's talk about Kennedy's excellent academic record.
Kennedy came from an elite school, a Harvard graduate. At just 24 he wrote the thesis Why England Slept, which, with encouragement, was later published as a book; it was well received in both Britain and the US and sold out. It was also the first time Kennedy made his name widely known.
Can a chart show whether a person is good at studying, whether they can study well?
Of course.
But having a chart pattern suited to study doesn't mean one can attend an elite school. Whether one studies also depends on the environment. Kennedy could attend Harvard because his environment was naturally excellent. If someone were born at the same time as Kennedy in a primitive tribe, at most we could say this person learns quickly and adapts well. So from the chart we can see whether someone has the potential for study, but we can't be sure a person will definitely get into a top school. All we can say is that when we see a good chart for study, we can encourage them and help them as much as possible to earn a better degree; that's all.
Below, let's talk about what state Kennedy's chart shows that let him graduate from Harvard with distinction.
As usual, transformed:
This chart is the same as in the previous article. Because this variant chart can speak of every event in a person's life, a person's potential for study is naturally included.
Whether a person is good at studying is judged first and foremost by 昌曲 (Chang Qu) and 化科. Let's use this angle to see why Kennedy came from an elite school.
How 文昌 (Wen Chang) shows up
- 文昌 in 卯 sits with 天相 (Tian Xiang). 天相 is Water, which also governs wisdom and a person's ability to coordinate. 天相 and 文昌 in the same palace show that this person uses wisdom well to coordinate and achieves good results.
- 文昌's three sides gather 左輔 and 右弼 (Zuo Fu, You Bi) and 魁鉞 (Kui Yue), plus 文曲 (Wen Qu) in 亥: all six auspicious stars meet. 天相 and 文昌 here form a grand pattern. During Kennedy's presidency the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred and was successfully defused; perhaps this chart pattern explains it.
How 文曲 shows up
- 文曲 in 亥 sits with 天府 (Tian Fu). 天府 governs leadership ability; sitting with 文曲 and 天魁 (Tian Kui), it means this person leads very intelligently, not through authoritarian leadership but through excellent coordination, and so naturally makes a very good leader.
- 文曲 in 亥 sees 文昌, 左輔 and 右弼. These are also key to raising the pattern of 天府 sitting with 文曲.
How 化科 shows up
Everyone has 昌曲, but 化科 don't necessarily concentrate where they should.
- 化科 concentrate in 亥, strengthening Kennedy's ability to learn. And 天府 in 亥 can also symbolize that he was especially outstanding at learning leadership. Harvard has always been a university focused on training excellent leaders; many world leaders and politicians come from Harvard. So 天府 with 文曲 and concentrated 化科 let Kennedy stand out amid fierce competition among Harvard's many elites.
- Kennedy's main star 天機 (Tian Ji) falls in 辰. Though 化科 don't concentrate in 辰, it still has the blessing of 化科. As the saying goes, 天機 and 天梁 (Tian Liang) are good at discussing strategy; add the power of 化科 and the influence of 地空 (Di Kong), and this person is eloquent, cites the classics, and has free-ranging organizational ability and imagination.
- The main star 天機 in 辰, stem 甲: 武曲 (Wu Qu) becomes 化科, which together with 天府 化科 auspiciously transforms the 巳 Palace. 巳 is his 太歲 palace; blessed by 化科, we know this person's learning ability is excellent.
A further note
In fact 天梁 with 地空 also speaks of religion. Kennedy was the first Catholic president in American history, which also speaks of his religious devotion.
Conclusion
To see whether a person is good at studying, just watch 昌曲 and 化科. But can every child with good 昌曲 and 化科 attend an elite school? Of course not. Learning ability is innate, but the environment one grows up in is what matters most.
So if a child has concentrated 昌曲 and 化科, encourage them to study if you can, as far as they can go. I believe they'll reap rich results later.