Episode 002 · The Missing Wire

What Is Electric Astrology?

What happens when the inherited patterns of astrology are placed on the workbench of electrical engineering?

By William Edwards · September 22, 2026 · the Autumnal EquinoxWatch on YouTube ↗

The short answer

Electric Astrology investigates three things: the inherited patterns of traditional astrology, the measurable electrical environment of the solar system and its space weather, and your birth schematic, the point where those two converge on an individual human being.

It is a systems essay, not a daily horoscope. It separates measured observations, engineering analogies and open questions, and it does not claim that space weather has proven personality or horoscope causation. It asks whether the Sun–planet environment, a timestamped birth schematic and the human nervous system can be investigated as one coupled system.

Two halves of one circuit, meeting in you

Astrology kept the ancient timing. Science built the new meters. Each walked away with half of the circuit.

01 · The pattern

What the skywatchers recorded

The ancient, inherited patterns of traditional astrology: seasons, cycles, angles and recurring rhythms.

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02 · The environment

What the instruments measure

The measurable electrical environment of the solar system: plasma, magnetic fields and space weather.

See today’s space weather →
03 · The birth schematic

Where the two converge on you

The exact point where pattern and environment meet an individual human being: your commissioning record.

See a schematic run live →

Chapters

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  1. 01The Missing Wire
  2. 02Kepler and the Music of the Spheres
  3. 03Source, Medium, Receiver
  4. 04The Sun as Solar Substation
  5. 05Planets as Circuit Components
  6. 06Aspects and Phase Relationships
  7. 07The Russell–McPherron Test Case
  8. 08The Body Electric
  9. 09The Natal Chart as Commissioning Record
  10. 10Enter the Control Room
  11. 11The Planetary Logic Controller
  12. 12Electric Stress Score and Flow State Potential
  13. 13Nashville, WSM, and Music City
  14. 14The Parthenon and the Music of the Spheres
  15. 15The Question Remains Open

The full transcript

From the film's captions, lightly corrected for obvious caption errors.

01

The Missing Wire

For thousands of years, skywatchers have recorded relationships between the heavens and human life. They tracked the seasons, cycles, angles, and recurring patterns in history. That empirical work evolved into the practices of astrology that we know today. But, what if there was still one missing piece? Centuries ago, when science couldn’t find a physical mechanism to explain those connections, it dismissed the entire subject as superstition.

The irony is that modern science has unwittingly given us everything we need to uncover this mystery. Its own satellites, probes, and magnetometers have mapped a living electrical circuit connecting the sun and the planets to Earth. Science built the instruments, it just hasn’t recognized the implications of its own data.

Astrology kept the ancient timing, and science built the new meters, and both sides walked away from the workbench with only half of the circuit. That is where electric astrology begins. Electric astrology investigates three things: the ancient inherited patterns of traditional astrology, the modern measurable electrical environment of the solar system and its space weather, and your birth schematic, the exact point where those two forces converge on an individual human being.

This moves us out of the realm of fortune telling and into the realm of architecture. We aren’t guessing at fates, we are tracing the physical flow of power from the sun through the planets and the solar system, and directly into the human nervous system.

Skywatchers recording the night sky
From the film · 0:10
02

Kepler and the Music of the Spheres

History remembers Johannes Kepler as the mathematician who unlocked the equations and the patterns of planetary orbits. But most people don’t know that he was also an astrologer and a musician of the cosmos. Kepler believed that the solar system was a living instrument, a musica universalis, a music of the spheres, and that celestial geometry could mark a newborn soul in the same way an interval shapes the ear. His intuition was audacious.

He had the math and the music, he just lacked the medium. He lived in a world that treated space as a dead vacuum. A master musician playing a silent violin because nobody knew what carried the vibration. For centuries, astrology has been forced into the realm of metaphor and belief because the space between planets was treated as a vacuum of nothing, incapable of carrying a signal.

Title page of Kepler’s Harmonices Mundi
From the film · 2:05
03

Source, Medium, Receiver

Modern spacecraft and satellites measured that signal in the form of charged particles, plasma, and magnetic fields filling the heliosphere. We now know that more than 99% of ordinary matter exists in the plasma state. That does not prove astrology, but it gives us a place to start and a medium to investigate where there was not one before.

Earth’s magnetic field lines
From the film · 3:10
04

The Sun as Solar Substation

In this model, the sun, the solar substation, is the source. Plasma and magnetic fields are the medium, and the Earth, including you, is the receiver. The sun drives a continuous solar wind throughout the heliosphere. We call it wind, but a moving stream of charged particles is by definition an electrical current.

Watch the solar wind live →

The heliosphere model with the planets
From the film · 3:40
05

Planets as Circuit Components

Now, that’s not a copper cable running to your front door, but it is an intricate coupled system of magnetic fields, particles, boundaries, and electrical signals. In this model, the old symbols become useful in a new way. With what we know today of the electrical properties of the planets throughout the solar system, we can draw as an analogy a circuit board and place each planet on that circuit board with its own unique electrical properties, such as filters, resonators, transformers, and grounds.

Take Jupiter for instance. Spacecraft actually measured a magnetic circuit connecting Jupiter to its moon that carries roughly 5 million amps of current. Calling Jupiter an amplifier isn’t mythology. It’s an engineering model built on measured current. And across the schematic, Saturn acts as the heavy system resistor.

Any electrician knows an amplifier without resistance just burns up the board. Saturn provides the boundary, the load, and the structure. We aren’t just renaming mythology. We’re asking whether electrical engineering finally gives the old pattern a physical medium.

Enter the Electric Sky Lab →

The solar system drawn as a circuit board, each planet a component
From the film · 4:25
06

Aspects and Phase Relationships

And as solar current pours through these moving components, their changing angles determine how they interact. In astrology, those angles are called aspects. On an electrical schematic, they are phase relationships, geometry that can reinforce the current, create heavy resistance, or redirect the entire load.

Read: Aspects as Circuitry →

Constructive and destructive interference: a 120° trine reinforcing current, a 90° square as reactive load
From the film · 5:30
07

The Russell–McPherron Test Case

Now, the skeptic’s question is fair. Even if space weather is electrical, what has that got to do with human life? Start with a real seasonal effect.

Around the equinoxes, Earth’s geometry makes coupling with the solar wind more likely, increasing geomagnetic activity. Scientists call this the Russell-McPherron effect. Traditional astrology calls Aries and Libra cardinal signs, directional and dynamic. That is not proof a sign creates personality, but it is an intriguing correspondence between old seasonal map and a real environmental change.

Electric astrology treats that correspondence as a test case, not a smoking gun, but a place where old pattern and measurable environment can share the same workbench and be put to the test.

Watch geomagnetic activity (Kp) live →

Earth’s tilt and magnetic field beside a seasonal zodiac dial
From the film · 6:15
08

The Body Electric

So, how could an electrical environment meet a human being at the ground? Let’s start with what we know for certain. Your nervous system runs on electrical signals, and decades ago, researchers like Robert Becker proved that the body generates its own electrical fields to heal and regenerate tissue.

We aren’t just a bag of chemicals, we are a living biology running on electricity. Your own heart produces the strongest electromagnetic field in the entire body, radiating outward so powerfully that you can measure it feet away. Now, that doesn’t prove a daily horoscope, but it does prove that a human being is an electrically active receiver operating inside of a larger circuit.

And whether that connection to the cosmos is direct, subtle, or indirect, the ancient skywatchers were mapping a relationship that science is only now learning to measure. The honest answer remains an open question.

Hear the Earth ring: Schumann Resonance Today →

The human heart and its electromagnetic field
From the film · 7:10
09

The Natal Chart as Commissioning Record

That is why I do not think of the natal chart as a sentence handed down by the stars. I think of it as a commissioning record, the starting conditions of an electrical rating of a particular human system, the initiation parameters, if you will.

A Scorpio, for instance, might resemble a NEMA 4X enclosure, sealed, durable, and built to hold internal pressure without leaking. Whereas, a Gemini might resemble an open drip ventilated drive, built for continuous airflow, heat dissipation, and high-speed switching. In electric astrology, these are considered more design constraints and operating ratings, built to equip a human to operate within the environment that they entered into.

Despite the language that we use of the trades in electrical engineering, the human soul is not just a circuit board. A meter can describe a field, but it cannot describe consciousness, love, or grief, or the divine spark that makes a life more than a machine. Electric astrology does not completely replace the wonder of the cosmos with a formula.

It gives wonder a grounded place to stand and permission to investigate without pretending that we are finished or that we already know the answers.

The Commissioning Record: starting conditions, environmental input, initiation parameters
From the film · 8:00
Scorpio system profile drawn as a sealed NEMA 4X enclosure
From the film · 8:08
Gemini system profile drawn as an open, ventilated drive
From the film · 8:16
10

Enter the Control Room

In every industrial plant, there are two worlds, the production floor and the control room. On the floor, a stopped conveyor line can feel like unfortunate fate.

A tripped breaker feels personal. Everyone reacts in panic to the failure in front of them. But, when you step into the control room, you open the cabinet, inside the modern machinery, operations aren’t driven by mystical hunches. They’re governed by a PLC, a programmable logic controller. It scans sensor inputs, evaluates deterministic ladder logic, and energizes the outputs.

An industrial production floor
From the film · 9:15
11

The Planetary Logic Controller

In our work, we call it the planetary logic controller. For thousands of years, traditional astrology wasn’t computational, it was intuitive. Astrologers applied archetypal flavor of the planets to geometric angles, relying on human experience and tradition to infer the meaning. But the human mind cannot possibly calculate dozens of planetary vectors, aspect harmonics, and house boundaries all at once.

That is why the PLC is necessary. We replace intuitive guesswork with an architecture of deterministic logic gates. It calculates the net conductive and resistive energy flowing into your life and layers the real-time space weather environment right over the top of it. And out of that computation, we get two fundamental diagnostic readings.

See a PLC run live: Nikola Tesla’s chart →

The Planetary Logic Controller drawn as a control-cabinet display
From the film · 10:00
12

Electric Stress Score and Flow State Potential

Your electric stress score, measuring the net resistance and electromagnetic friction your system is absorbing, telling you when to shed load and protect your breakers, and your flow state potential, identifying where impedance drops to near zero and environmental current can pour effortlessly through your life.

The inputs into the PLC come in from the sky, orbital positions, aspect angles, space weather spikes, and the logic evaluates those inputs against your birth schematic. When the conditions go true, the output fires, and what you feel on the ground isn’t random luck, it’s a circuit state, a surge of current, an inductive drag, or heavy load on your system.

It’s spiritual engineering. On the production floor, a crisis feels like bad luck tossed at you by the stars, but in the control room of the cosmos, you pull the prints, you check the rungs, and you see the logic that energized the circuit. That is how you stop reacting and start learning how to operate your own life.

Electric Stress Score gauge beside Flow State Potential
From the film · 11:00
13

Nashville, WSM, and Music City

Now, if this idea of invisible electrical signals sounds like theory, think about how humanity actually learned to speak the language of the current. For thousands of years, the idea that energy could travel through empty space without a physical wire sounded like magic. Then, just a century ago, we invented radio.

We learned that you could take a signal, modulate it into an electromagnetic carrier wave, pump power through an antenna, and bounce that invisible frequency off the upper atmosphere to blanket the entire continent. And for the first time in human history, we were using the exact same electromagnetic medium that the solar system has been using since the beginning of time.

And that brings us to where I’m standing right now. People call Nashville Music City. Most people assume it’s because of the guitars and the records, but this city became Music City because it was built on transmission. In the 1920s and 30s, Nashville became the broadcast powerhouse of North America when WSM raised a massive 50,000-watt tower, a clear channel transmitter, blasting frequency straight into the ionosphere every single night.

Nashville at dusk with a transmission tower on the skyline
From the film · 13:40
14

The Parthenon and the Music of the Spheres

And in that exact same window of time, right across town, the city finished building this, the world’s only full-scale replica of the Parthenon. If you look up at the stone above the columns on the east pediment, facing the sunrise. Sitting right beside Apollo, the god of music, is Ganymede, the water bearer, the ancient apprentice of lightning, watching over the capital of radio.

Think about that convergence. A city named Music City, the ancient music of the spheres, a 50,000-watt antenna bouncing frequency off the sky, sitting in the shadow of a temple dedicated to the master of the lightning bolt. Next, we’re going to walk through the physical ground of that circuit, how human frequency, ancient architecture, and space weather have collided right here in Tennessee.

Watch Episode 001: Who Is the Water Bearer? →

Nashville’s full-scale Parthenon
From the film · 13:20
15 · The Question Remains Open ·
Because the pattern was never the question. The question is whether we can finally read the signal.

Questions people ask

What is Electric Astrology?

Electric Astrology investigates three things: the inherited patterns of traditional astrology, the measurable electrical environment of the solar system and its space weather, and your birth schematic, the point where those two converge on an individual human being. It places astrology on the workbench of electrical engineering.

Does Electric Astrology claim space weather determines personality?

No. It separates measured observations, engineering analogies, and open questions, and it does not claim that space weather has proven personality or horoscope causation. It asks whether the Sun–planet environment, a timestamped birth schematic, and the human nervous system can be investigated as one coupled system.

What is the Planetary Logic Controller (PLC)?

In industry, a programmable logic controller scans sensor inputs, evaluates ladder logic, and energizes outputs. Electric Astrology’s Planetary Logic Controller takes its inputs from the sky (orbital positions, aspect angles, space weather), evaluates them against your birth schematic, and reports two readings: the Electric Stress Score and Flow State Potential.

What are the Electric Stress Score and Flow State Potential?

The Electric Stress Score measures the net resistance and electromagnetic friction your system is absorbing, telling you when to shed load. Flow State Potential identifies where impedance drops toward zero and environmental current can flow easily through your life.

What is the Russell–McPherron effect?

Around the equinoxes, Earth’s geometry makes coupling with the solar wind more likely, increasing geomagnetic activity. Electric Astrology treats its correspondence with the cardinal signs Aries and Libra as a test case, not proof that a sign creates personality.

Why is the natal chart called a commissioning record?

Instead of a sentence handed down by the stars, Electric Astrology reads the natal chart as the starting conditions of a particular human system: its design constraints and operating ratings, the initiation parameters for the environment a person entered into.

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