Joel Solomon Goldsmith (March 10, 1892 – June 17, 1964)

Christian Science is a very potent spiritual process. This man was introduced to it when his father was healed by a Christian Science practitioner in London.

Goldsmith’s stated that the “original unfoldment [] was given to me some time after 1909.” “[W]hen I was nineteen, whether it was the Voice or an impression, Something within me said, ‘Find the man Jesus, and you will have the secret of life.’ That was a strange thing to say to me because I knew nothing of Jesus Christ beyond the name and that Christmas was a holiday celebrating his birth.”

Goldsmith recounted, “Thus the search began: Where is God? What is God? How do we bring God into our experience? Eventually, late in 1928, the Experience took place, that first God-experience. […] an experience that could not be described. Whereas in one moment I was like every other human being, in the next moment my body was well, and many undesirable human habits were gone. I found that a healing power was present and that I was on the threshold of a whole new life. The old life was dead; a new one had begun […].

Goldsmith described the Experience in greater detail elsewhere. “I was taken sick in the city of Detroit, went to a building that was filled with Christian Science practitioners, found the name of a practitioner on the board, went up to the man’s office, and asked him to help me. He told me that it was Saturday and that he didn’t take patients on Saturdays. That day he always spent in meditation and prayer.” Goldsmith convinced the practitioner to allow him to sit with him. “He talked to me about the Bible; he talked to me of truth. Long before the two hours were up, I was healed of that cold, and when I went out on the street I found I couldn’t smoke any more. When eating my dinner I found I couldn’t drink any more. The following week I found I couldn’t play cards any more, and I also found that I couldn’t go to the horse races any more. And the businessman had died.” He noted that soon after, people began approaching him for healing.

Spiritual Awakening (Wikipedia)

The Experience of the old life dying and a new life being born happened when he was 36 years old.

I knew I could rectify Joel Goldsmith’s birth chart if there was something special about his planetary configurations. Ha! That Neptune/Pluto conjunction @ 6° Gemini will do very nicely. I set this aspect to occur at age 19, as suggested by his memoirs, but I also could have set it for age 36 and the aspects would have remained the same. The double inconjunct to Uranus ‘proves’ the event.

Uranus Inconjunct Neptune (1893-1896 and 1924-1927)

This aspect indicates a generation that had mixed feelings about its ideals and how to implement them. They often felt very confused about their ideals, and when they found that their ideals failed because they were badly formulated, this group became disillusioned. States of consciousness beyond the ordinary are very confusing to them, and they prefer not to get involved with such matters.

Uranus Inconjunct Pluto (1892-1894 and 1911-1913)

This aspect indicates changes in the world of the people who were born at these times, changes that were difficult to understand because they were very revolutionary but subtle in many ways. The people born during the first period experienced the consequences of these changes through having to fight in the First World War. The second group reached maturity at the time of the Great Depression. Both the First World War and the Depression were expressions of the breakdown of the nineteenth-century world order that was dominated by Western Europe.

But there is one other inconjunct, which cannot be ignored.

Venus Inconjunct Saturn (perhaps yes, perhaps no)

You need and want love, but you may not be able to get it easily. You may feel that your parents, teachers or other persons in authority makes demands on you that you must fulfill before they will give you any love and support. If this demand is carried to an extreme, you will become cold-hearted and unable to love others even when you want to. You may also feel that you cannot indulge yourself in any pleasure or even love. When you are older, you may feel that duty and ambition must come before love and human relationships. Unfortunately, if you follow that path, you will become very lonely, and when you realize that you belong to no one and nothing, you will go through a spiritual crisis.

Now, that’s what I call a life-long process. But, like Tina Turner, he overcame all of his challenges.

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But, before we become too complacent about his becoming spiritual perfection, remember that no one is perfect, as can be seen even on the day of Goldsmith’s death. Uranus and Pluto are (widely) conjunct, both in opposition to Saturn. And two inconjuncts reformed into new aspects: Moon and Saturn; Mercury and Neptune. Obviously, these aspects will be the new challenges for his next incarnation.

Amen.