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John Quincy Adams's Human Design: A Second Adams, a Different Cross

John Quincy Adams's chart carries a caution rating in Astro-Databank's own listing. Two boundaries sit inside the day, and his recorded time clears the nearest one by over two hours.

John Quincy Adams in an early photographic portrait, seated in a dark coat.

A note on the form of this chart. This is a nine-centered bodygraph, and the nine-centered being dates to the 1781 mutation. This birth is from 1767, 14 years before it. The sky is not in question and neither are the Sun and Earth gates or the incarnation cross; what does not transfer cleanly is everything that depends on the shape of the graph, which is to say type, authority, definition and which centers read as open. Those describe a vehicle this person did not have. Why there are no pre-1781 bodygraphs sets out what that costs and what survives it, and works through a thought experiment about the form that came before.

John Quincy Adams is the second Adams in this series, and unlike his father’s unsourced C rating, his own carries a specific Astro-Databank flag: accuracy in question, without further detail on why.

The record

Astro-Databank: astro.com/astro-databank/Adams,_John_Quincy

Field Value
Birthname John Quincy Adams
Date July 11, 1767
Time 11:00 AM
Place Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts
Rodden rating C
Source Accuracy in question

His 1767 birth predates Maia Mechanics’ own 1800 floor, the fifth chart in this series to run into that limit, joining Washington, Madison, John Adams, and Polk.

What the in-house engine shows

I ran the full twenty-four hours of July 11, 1767, at one-minute resolution. At the listed 11:00 AM:

John Quincy Adams’s natal chart

John Quincy Adams’s natal bodygraph, 5/1 Sacral Generator: Design and Personality, activated at birth. Drawn on this site’s own engine, not exported from Maia Mechanics, whose chart entry stops at 1800.

Two boundaries sit inside the day, both in the early morning: at 5:29 AM the cross gates shift and Profile turns from 4/6 to 4/1, and at 8:38 AM Profile turns again, to 5/1. The listed 11:00 AM clears that second boundary by better than two hours, comfortably inside the surviving window. Type, Authority, and Definition never move at all across the full twenty-four hours, so the “accuracy in question” flag mainly threatens the finer detail here, not the structural read.

In memory of an ICONIC Human Design,

LaVeena B. Archers, PhD


Chart computed against the in-house engine (src/lib/hd/chart.js, src/lib/hd/timezone.js) at one-minute resolution across all twenty-four hours of July 11, 1767, Braintree, Massachusetts. No cross-check against Maia Mechanics, Human Design Professional Software licensed from Jovian Archive, was possible; its chart-entry form is limited to dates between 1800 and 2100. Astro-Databank record: astro.com/astro-databank/Adams,_John_Quincy, Rodden rating C. This is a chart and a data-quality case, with no partisan framing or commentary on any administration intended or offered.

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