The Wynn Key Cycle — a Sample Chart

Recently I’ve been rereading some old texts by Sidney K. Bennett, aka Wynn, and I came across a short article he did about the death of Douglas Fairbanks Sr. in the March 1940 edition of Wynn’s Astrology Magazine.

According to Wynn, in 1925 Douglas Fairbanks Senior had requested a natal chart report for his son, for whom he gave the birth data as 9 December 1909 at 3:38 AM EST in New York City. Here is the birth chart which Wynn used for the younger Fairbanks.

Natal chart of Douglas Fairbanks Jr based on data provided by his father to Wynn in 1925.

Douglas Fairbanks Sr. died on 12 December 1939 in Santa Monica, California, and a few months later (March 1940) Wynn published an article about the impact of the death on his son from the perspective of the Wynn Key Cycle. Here is the son’s Wynn Key chart for the date of his father’s demise. The chart contains the transits of 12 December 1939, and the Angles and houses cusps in Santa Monica, California, based on Wynn’s method of progressing the son’s current solar return.

Wynn Key Cycle chart for the date and place of the death of the father of Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Wynn notes that Mercury rules the natal 8th house of death and in the Key chart natal Mercury conjoins the Key Chart’s Ascendant, showing “the presence of death in his environment.” Natal Mercury is also closely conjunct the transiting Sun (a father symbol) of the Key Chart. Natally, the Sun rules the 10th house, which Wynn regards as representing the same sex parent of the native. The natal MC occupies the Key Chart’s 8th house.

He also remarks that natal Jupiter conjoins the Key Chart’s MC, indicating some type of expansion. In the birth chart, Jupiter rules the first decan of Gemini which contains the cusp of the natal 8th Placidus house, which signifies legacies and goods of the dead. In addition, Jupiter rules the natal 2nd of the son’s income and finances.

In the Key Chart, transiting Moon and Venus conjoin the Part of Fortune, bringing together 8th and 10th house significations in the very personal 1st house of the native.

In addition, transiting and natal Saturn and the transiting South Lunar Node occupy the 4th house of endings of the Key chart, and both the natal and transiting Sun (a father symbol and ruler of the natal 10th) occupy the Key chart’s 12th of terminations.

Here is the Wynn Key Cycle chart with the transits and progressed Solar Return house cusps for the date and place of the father’s demise, and the son’s natal planets in the outer wheel.

Inner: Wynn Key Chart with transits and progressed Solar Return cusps for date and place of father’s demise.
Outer: natal planets.

As an aside, this is a link to an interesting natal chart report prepared by Wynn for one of his clients: https://www.guggenheim.org/blogs/findings/hilla-rebays-astrological-chart?gallery=HillaHoroscope_cover_web