George H. W. Bush's Human Design: A Recorded Hour, Not a Minute
George H. W. Bush's own family record gives a range, born at home 'between 10:00 and 11:00 a.m.,' not a single minute. Maia Mechanics reads the chart at the stated midpoint as Low reliability.
Every other chart in this series is anchored to a single stated minute, even when that minute is a memory or a guess. George H. W. Bush’s own family record does something different: it gives a range.
The record
Astro-Databank: astro.com/astro-databank/Bush,_George_H._W.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Birthname | George Herbert Walker Bush |
| Date | June 12, 1924 |
| Time | 10:30 AM (family record states “between 10:00 and 11:00 a.m.”) |
| Place | Milton, Massachusetts |
| Rodden rating | B |
| Source | Bush Family Scrapbook, Dorothy W. Bush Collection |
The Astro-Databank entry uses 10:30 AM, the midpoint of the recorded range, as its working time. That’s a reasonable convention, and the source itself never claimed that precision.
What Maia Mechanics shows
Computed directly in Maia Mechanics at the midpoint time:
- Type: Generator
- Authority: Solar Plexus, Emotional
- Definition: Single Definition
- Profile: 5/1
- Incarnation Cross: Left Angle Cross of Confrontation 1, gates 45 and 26 personality, 36 and 6 design
Bush in Maia Mechanics at 10:30am, the midpoint of the family record’s stated hour. Left Angle Cross of Confrontation 1, gates 45 and 26 personality, 36 and 6 design.
Birth Time Reliability: Low, even at the midpoint of the recorded range. That’s a meaningful finding on its own: a family record explicit about its own hour-wide uncertainty happens to sit close to a real boundary at its best-guess center point, which means the true chart, wherever inside that hour it actually falls, has a real chance of landing on the other side of whatever that boundary governs.
What his cycles show
Bush’s natal cross, the Left Angle Cross of Confrontation, carried on a 5/1 profile, runs on facing down a crisis through the friction of close relationships, backed by a persuasive, tested self-confidence. He lived to 94, long enough for all four returns.
- Saturn Return, 1952, age 28. Under the Right Angle Cross of Service (58/52 | 18/17), he co-founded Zapata Petroleum Corporation with the Liedtke brothers the following year, the independent oil venture that built his fortune before politics.
- Uranus Opposition, 1966, age 42. Under the Right Angle Cross of Tension (48/21 | 39/38), he won election to the U.S. House of Representatives that November, a jump from Houston oilman to freshman congressman.
- Chiron Return, 1974, age 50. Under the Right Angle Cross of Eden (12/11 | 36/6), he was chairman of the Republican National Committee through the last months of Watergate, and on August 7 wrote Nixon urging him to resign, two days before Nixon did.
- Second Saturn Return, 1982, age 58. Under the Left Angle Cross of Wishes (50/3 | 31/41), he was two years into the vice presidency under Reagan, a role already tested the year before when he presided as acting head of government during Reagan’s recovery from the March 1981 assassination attempt.
In memory of an ICONIC Human Design,
LaVeena B. Archers, PhD
Chart computed directly in Maia Mechanics, Human Design Professional Software licensed from Jovian Archive, at the stated 10:30am midpoint. Astro-Databank record: astro.com/astro-databank/Bush,_George_H._W., Rodden rating B. This is a chart and a data-quality case, with no partisan framing or commentary on any administration intended or offered.