V. Using the Harmogram

THE EUREKA EFFECT by N.Kollerstrom PhD
	The Eureka Effect index page
I	Eureka! The moment of Insight
II	Aspects: Quintiles & Septiles
III	Uranus & Invention
IV	The Celestial pattern
V	Using the harmogram
VI	Data
VII	Invention & Eureka Anniveraries
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V. Using the Harmogram

We can look at the ebb and flow of any given kind of aspect, for example the septiles, using a harmogram. Over any given time-interval it will depict the varying strength of a given harmonic. The program scores all such celestial aspects present at any moment, in proportion to their closeness of orb. One selects the required interval of time, which will normally be centred on a moment of especial interest. (The Harmogram program may be downloaded from http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ koenvandemoortel/harmogrm.htm). We here give examples of a eureka-moment, using the 7th harmonic, a birth-moment using the 5th, and an invention-moment, using the 2nd harmonic.

Laser Beam Eureka-moment
The idea for the laser beam dawned upon the physicist Charles Townes, while he was sitting on a park bench in Washington DC, admiring the azaleas. He suddenly realized how light could be configured into a very pure form. This was early in the morning of 26th April, 1951, when he was on his way to a conference. A decade later, the first laser was built in California by Theodore Maiman. Later on, Townes wrote, 'There is a tremendous emotional experience (in scientific discovery) which I think is similar to what some people would normally describe as a religious experience, a revelation.'
The 7th-harmonic Harmogram for this event depicts the ebb and flow of 'septile energy,' measured by the number of septiles in the sky and how strong (close to exactitude) they were. It shows six days either side of the Eureka-moment at the center, when there were seven septiles present.

Kepler's Quintiles

The Astronomer Johannes Kepler invented the quintile aspect. Strictly, he invented both the quintile and biquintile, what we are here calling the fifth-harmonic aspects. These were not included in the traditional astrological aspects as defined by Ptolemy. Kepler reached the conclusion that these were valid aspects, for geometrical and musical reasons. He could only see two quintiles in his chart, but we can see all five of them (using the outer planets). Kepler's birth synchronised with this peak in quintile power. If one takes a 'close-up' harmogram of just the day of his birth one can see the peak as being within minutes of his birth time.

Birth of the Computer
A computer ,in the sense of a programmable electronic device, appeared in the mid-1940s. Manchester University built the first stored-program computer, and its first program was run on 21 June 1948 just before lunch (built by F.C.Williams). On that day, the Manchester team 'successfully ran the first program on the first working stored program electronic digital computer in the world' (Alan Turning, The Enigma of intelligence Andrew Hodges 1983 p385.
Its strongly-Uranian chart for that moment shows intense oppositions (180º) going on. These oppositions are relevant to the principle of duality then working, of yes/no, on/off, plus/minus, true/false, then embodied for the first time in a machine.

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