In commencing this course of instruction in the method of reading a horoscope from the spiritual point of view, it is necessary to give some general advice regarding the attitude of mind which students must cultivate in order to achieve success; namely: Compassion.
It is an excellent practice for young students to study their own figure and those of their nearest friends, because that gives them a good idea of how celestial aspects are the precursors of terrestrial events, with which they are already familiar. Thus they gain valuable knowledge and a confidence not to be obtained by mere book study, and all is well if they soon branch out and become interested in the horoscopes of others to such an extent that they almost forget their own.
Right at this point in their path, however, there is a death-trap and many, alas, all too many, fall by the wayside and allow personal interests to rule. They pore over their own figure every spare minute; they tabulate aspects daily; they cast a horary figure for every move, even to the smallest affairs of life. Thus they prostitute the most sublime science extant, and nip in the bud what might have become a wonderful factor in developing soul power; namely, the faculty of spiritual delineation. I hope and pray that you may escape that dreadful quagmire. Always remember your promise to help others according to your ability.
Another serious responsibility will confront you and require great discretion when you see illness or trouble ahead of a client. Never under any circumstances tell him bluntly of impending trouble or ill health, for he will surely lose his stamina by brooding, and the blow will be twice as heavy owing to your indiscretion. You must first learn discrimination; to many people even a hint of trouble is disastrous although that class usually question the Astrologer very closely, and profess profound ability to preserve perfect equanimity, even in the face of impending death. Be careful as to what you tell them, for you will be held accountable. Neither should you mind if your ability is questioned when events come to pass which you have seen in a life and kept silent about rather than discourage a soul that is weak or heavy-laden.
An astrologer we know, once, jealous of his beloved science, told a mother that if we could only get her sick daughter past a certain day, she would recover. The mother repeated his words to her daughter. She died on the day designated, and he has always felt responsible. On another occasion a lady asked: "Would you advise divorce?" The astrologer saw her husband's death was imminent, but kept silent. He magnified her faults and his good points, and prevailed upon her to bear and forbear for a while longer. When a fatal accident severed the tie, she had no self-reproach; she blessed the astrologer for his advice, though she might not have regarded his ability to predict very highly.
In the one case he gave the prediction that he might be able to say, "I told you so", and incurred a serious responsibility. In the other he withheld information and earned blessings. The lesson is obvious:
Use 99 per cent discretion to 1 per cent blunt truth, and always encourage.
In the next self-study module we shall commence reading a horoscope. That is a study of absorbing interest, but remember, do not love it for the knowledge or the power it will give you; love it for the good you can do with it, and your treasure will be great in heaven. May God bless your efforts.
Exercise:
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1. Cast a horoscope for September 12, 1911, 12:50 A.M. Seattle WA. (optional)
Horoscope Data Sheet:
Name: Astrology Independent Study Module No. 27
Place: Seattle, WA, USA
Lat.:
Long.:
Birth Date: September 12, 1911
Birth Time: 12:50 A.M.
(Std. Time)
Std Time:
(Choose One:
Eastern
Central
Mountain
Pacific)
True Local Time:
Calc. Sid. Time:
Nearest Sid. Time:
Greenwich Mean Time:
Adj. Calc. Date:
Sun:
Venus:
Mercury:
Moon:
Saturn:
Jupiter:
Mars:
Uranus:
Neptune:
Pluto:
Dragon's Head:
Dragon's Tail:
Asc.:
M.C.:
Part of Fortune:
Aspects:
Sun:
Venus:
Mercury:
Moon:
Saturn:
Jupiter:
Mars:
Uranus:
Neptune:
Pluto:
Dragon's Head:
Dragon's Tail:
Asc.:
M.C.:
Part of Fortune:
True Local Time:
Birth Hour
according to Standard Time:
(if Daylight Saving Time
in effect, subtract
one hour):
Degrees birthplace is East
or West of Standard Time
Meridian in use at birth:
Multiply this number of
degrees by 4 minutes,
equals:
(Add if birthplace is
East of this Meridian.
Subtract if birthplace
is West of this Meridian)
Gives True Local Time
(T.L.T.) of Birth:
Sidereal Time:
Sidereal Time (S.T.) at
Greenwich for noon
previous to T.L.T.
of birth:
Correction of 10 seconds
for each 15 degrees of
Longitude (10/15 or
2/3 x Long.):
(Add if West Longitude.
Deduct if East Longitude)
Interval between previous
noon and true local time
of birth:
Add correction of 10
seconds per hour of
interval:
Gives Sidereal Time (S.T.)
at birthplace at
birth hour:
Nearest S. T. in Tables
of Houses:
Greenwich Mean Time
True Local Time of Birth:
Degrees East or West of
Greenwich:
Multiply this number of
degrees by 4 minutes
equals:
(Add, if West Longitude.
Deduct if East Longitude)
Gives Greenwich Mean Time
(G.M.T.):
Interval to nearest noon:
Logarithm for this interval
(Permanent Logarithm):
Position of Planets:
Sun:
Sign:
Coming Noon Position
(after G.M.T.):
Previous Noon Position
(before G.M.T.):
Travel in 24 hours:
Logarithm of Travel:
Permanent Logarithm:
Sum of Logarithms:
Travel During Interval:
(Direct planets: add to
previous noon position if
G.M.T. is P.M.; deduct
from coming noon position
if G.M.T. is A.M.
Retrograde Planets,
reverse this rule.)
Position of Sun:
House Location of Sun:
Venus:
Sign:
Coming Noon Position
(after G.M.T.):
Previous Noon Position
(before G.M.T.):
Travel in 24 hours:
Logarithm of Travel:
Permanent Logarithm:
Sum of Logarithms:
Travel During Interval:
(Direct planets: add to
previous noon position if
G.M.T. is P.M.; deduct
from coming noon position
if G.M.T. is A.M.
Retrograde Planets,
reverse this rule.)
Position of Venus:
House Location of Venus:
Mercury:
Sign:
Coming Noon Position
(after G.M.T.):
Previous Noon Position
(before G.M.T.):
Travel in 24 hours:
Logarithm of Travel:
Permanent Logarithm:
Sum of Logarithms:
Travel During Interval:
(Direct planets: add to
previous noon position if
G.M.T. is P.M.; deduct
from coming noon position
if G.M.T. is A.M.
Retrograde Planets,
reverse this rule.)
Position of Mercury:
House Location of Mercury:
Moon:
Sign:
Coming Noon Position
(after G.M.T.):
Previous Noon Position
(before G.M.T.):
Travel in 24 hours:
Logarithm of Travel:
Permanent Logarithm:
Sum of Logarithms:
Travel During Interval:
(Direct planets: add to
previous noon position if
G.M.T. is P.M.; deduct
from coming noon position
if G.M.T. is A.M.
Retrograde Planets,
reverse this rule.)
Position of Moon:
House Location of Moon:
Mars:
Sign:
Coming Noon Position
(after G.M.T.):
Previous Noon Position
(before G.M.T.):
Travel in 24 hours:
Logarithm of Travel:
Permanent Logarithm:
Sum of Logarithms:
Travel During Interval:
(Direct planets: add to
previous noon position if
G.M.T. is P.M.; deduct
from coming noon position
if G.M.T. is A.M.
Retrograde Planets,
reverse this rule.)
Position of Mars:
House Location of Mars:
Position of Saturn:
House Location of Saturn:
Position of Jupiter:
House Location of Jupiter:
Position of Uranus:
House Location of Uranus:
Position of Neptune:
House Location of Neptune:
Position of Pluto:
House Location of Pluto:
Position of Dragon's Head:
House Location of
Dragon's Head:
The horoscope is, among many other things, a mandala
of sexuality. The life of all manifestations is the interchange made by the
Cosmic Forces as they express the dynamic and receptive polarities. That which
is dynamic we refer to as "positive," "active," "masculine;" it designates
"that which impregnates or stimulates." In physical manifestation of living,
generating organisms we call it "male sex." That which is receptive is that
which is acted upon; it is "passive," "resultant," "that which receives the
impregnation or stimulation and nurtures the new life into active expression."
In physical terms we call this polarity-expression "female sex." People are
familiar with the terms "male sex" and "female sex" because the generative
impulses are a natal factor in their own experience and they are evidenced in
the life-experience of other forms, such as animal and plant life, perceived
on every hand.
However, the word "sex" is much more extended in its
meanings. It is life in action and movement; the eternal interchange of
vibratory powers and their effect on each other is that which makes
manifestation what it is. And this applies to all planes, from the most dense,
slowly vibrating level of material manifestation to the very essence of the
Creative Source itself. Every moment of our existence is an expression of
cosmic sexuality; this will be seen if we consider a few things that
demonstrate our ability to stimulate and to be stimulated.
We ask a question; we are receptive to the information
given to us by the person who projects the answer. We speak; we take in breath
as pabulum for our words and we project the thought which we incarnate in
sound-symbols called words. Our sense-perceptions are agencies of receptivity,
by their exercise we receive impressions by which we identify the world
exterior to ourselves. We make ourselves perceptible to others by our action
in movement and sound. Someone projects himself into our awareness; we react
to his expression according to our vibratory state of consciousness.
These simple, everyday illustrations are just a few of
the many that could be considered; however, they are sufficient to show that
we, as expressions of life, are composite expressions of Cosmic Polarity. We
are so constituted that we demonstrate throughout our lives, in one way or
another, our essential bi-polarity. To understand "sex" to mean only the
attributes of physical generation is to keep our understanding at mud-level.
The philosopher comprehends that a principle — whether of sex or anything
else — is omnipotent.
In creative activity the essential bi-polarity of the
human organism is wonderfully illustrated. The artist, in his inspirational
at-one-ments, opens his consciousness to realizations of the perfect patterns
resident in the inner planes; he draws down, as it were, the stimulating power
which makes it possible for him to conceive the ideal pattern in terms of his
particular artistic medium. By concentrated meditation he molds this
realization into form on the mental planes. Then, by the agency of his highly
developed physical technique, he gives birth to this particular version of the
ideal pattern. In short, he projects this manifested concept into the Physical
World and it, in turn, is perceived by other people who derive from it a
stimulus of their own idealism and inspiration. Thus the creative artist
exercises both the receptive and the dynamic polarities; he fuses his own
"maleness and femaleness" into one intensely focused creative act.
Incidentally, this is astrologically illustrated by the planet Uranus, which
is exalted in Scorpio; Uranus is the fusion of Mars-Venus — the synchronization
of the essential symbols of the planets whose points of rulership initiate the
two horizontal hemispheres — self-awareness and soul-awareness.
Pupils — as children — are in the process of integrating
their faculties through the functions involved in "growing up." They receive a
stimulus from the teacher and they absorb the effect of this stimulus; sooner
or later they give life to their knowledge by putting it into action in their
work as adults. The teacher, who, in relationship to his pupils, acts as a
"stimulator" has, in his turn, been stimulated by those who radiated teaching
to him. We are all dynamic and receptive links in the eternal chain of
becoming.
"Masculine and male" and "feminine and female" are
personalized expressions of Cosmic Polarity. The ultimate abstraction of these
terms — their composite essential truth — is summed up in the simple phrase:
cause and effect.
As the essential sexual maleness of the human organism
acts on the essential physical femaleness, so the creative source acts on and
through material manifestation for the ongoing of its total Life. The material
dimension — in all of its immensity of spatial expression — is female to the
cosmic male. Matter has been defined as the "negative Pole of Spirit," "Mother
Earth," and many other such feminized expressions, or figures of speech.
Neither pole exists — or can exist — without the other; the essentials of each
are inherent in every expression of life. The horoscope bears this out in a
simple, beautiful way:
Use three blank circles as illustration: in the first,
place a dot in the center. This is analogous to the creative source
manifesting a universe, a galaxy, a solar-system, or an individual human
being. The "Life" of the wheel is not shown; its area is, except for the dot,
entirely blank. Meditate on this wheel as it represents a specific life-
expression.
In the second circle place a central dot and then add
the vertical diameter; the circle now has "Life" — its area is differentiated
in the simplest possible way: division, by one line, into two hemispheres.
This vertical line is the abstract symbol of the dynamic polarity of the
cosmos; it is the essential symbol for the generative action of sex; it is the
root-symbol of cause. Apply it to any human horoscope and recognize that this
vertical is the composite of the cusps of the fourth and tenth houses — the
"houses of parentage." Our parentage is the "first step," the "initiating
agency," the cause of our manifestation on the physical plane as human beings.
But, note this clearly: we have, as our parentage, a composite of male and
female sex; one is focalized in male polarity as its physical expression and
the other is focalized physically in female polarity. The two together
generated our physical vehicle.
Now, to the third circle add the central dot and the
horizontal diameter. This is the picturing of that which is acted upon by the
generating agency — the subjective aspect of life, that which was generated and
is the result of generation. The vertical is cause, the horizontal is effect.
The third circle, with the horizontal diameter, is also differentiated into
two halves but, since they are "focalized horizontally," they appear as the
"counterparts of the vertical halves. This horizontal diameter is,
astrologically, the composite of the cusps of the Ascendant (first house) and
the Descendant (seventh house). The person represented by the chart — the
native — stands at the Ascendant, his consciousness enveloped in his physical
garment; he "looks across the wheel" and, at the furthermost point, opposite
to his own place, he sees (in the same way we see our reflections in a mirror)
his counterpart, his "other Self," his needed fulfillments, his — in short —
mate.
The thrilling, stupefying marvelousness of
astrological symbology is nowhere more evident than as the composite of four
halves in one circle. Add to the second and third wheels the complementary
diameter; the result pictures the four quadrants of the individual horoscope
but, in simple form, it pictures the bi-polarity of that which generates and
that which is generated.
You are a man; your seventh house is a woman; one of
your parents is a man and the other is a woman. Yet the vertical line of
parentage represents the bi-polarity of the dynamic essence of life; the
horizontal represents the bi-polarity of the receptive essence. Continuing
this approach in a more extended way we see that every factor of the
astrological wheel is a composite of dynamic and receptive polarities. Any
male or any female can have any of the signs on any cusp; the ruler of the
chart, the Sun and the Moon, or any of the planetary positions can be found in
any of the zodiacal signs regardless of whether the signs involved are
considered "masculine" or "feminine."
So we are able to recognize that if our physical
bodies are specializations of polarity into male or female generative sex, our
consciousness is a vibratory composite of both polarities. Understanding human
relationship is really understanding the vibratory sexuality of the human
consciousness. The astro-philosopher must cultivate this understanding if he
is to unlock the deepest secrets of astrological patterns.
The astro-philosopher who is a parent — father or
mother — starts to understand his children's charts when he starts to
understand his own chart. To the degree that he "turns away" from anything in
his own vibratory picture, will he be deficient in interpreting those of his
offspring. His eighth house is his generative life particularly in
relationship to his mate, but his fifth house is the area of love-
consciousness by which he extends an "invitation to life" to other Egos who
come in as his children. All parents, to a degree, express the fifth house
love potential, but parents who are astro-philosophers combine the powers of
the fifth house with those of its spiritualized polarity, the eleventh. They
are not just parents, they are friends; they are not just nurturers of the
body, they are nurturers of the mind and Spirit; they are not just "the old
man" or "my ma" — they are elder brother and elder sister who have offered to
share their understanding of life with those who come in through them. And, as
astro-philosophers, they offer to their young ones a viewpoint based on
understanding of principles plus the warmth and consolation of a loving heart.
He, the parent, will seek to understand the bi-polar vibrational constitution
of each child and prayerfully seek guidance to clear awareness of the patterns
of the children's charts as they represent potentials for unfoldment. He must
understand the principles of life as they are pictured in the fifth-house
pattern of his own chart and align his consciousness more and more with the
essential meanings of parenthood as a factor in Life-experience.
We have come to a point in our approach to human
nature when we no longer put men into packages labeled "masculine qualities
only" and women in similar designations of "feminine qualities only." This
outmoded approach has been proven to be out of line with the spirit of
truthful inquiry. Males can, and sometimes do, manifest a marked tendency
toward elements of the feminine personality and the converse is true of many
females. The astro-philosopher, who is a parent, knows — and knows with his
deep understanding — that his sons and daughters are composites of vibrational
polarity and that their purpose in living and his purpose in nurturing and
guiding is not to become "all man or all woman" but to cultivate the power to
express the best of both, according to the essential requirements shown in the
charts. Here is a significant point which is presented as a basis for a parent
to determine his vibratory effect on the consciousness of a child: compare
your chart with the child's and if you have a planet conjunct the child's
Ascendant, then know that you stimulate in a very marked degree the vibration
of that planet in the child's chart. This is a basic example of the Principle
of Sympathetic Vibration — the "tuning-fork-principle." If you, a man, have
your Mars or Sun on your daughter's Ascendant you, as an astro-philosopher,
are bound to cultivate the most constructive expressions of that planet in
your own living. You are the first "living man-picture" your daughter has and
to the degree that you can represent regenerate Sun or regenerate Mars, as the
case may be, you assist in a remarkable way to help her "register" a favorable
reaction to the opposite sex. Other planets work the same way but Sun and Mars
are used in this illustration because they are in composite — the basic or
essential "masculine pattern of consciousness." Unregeneracy on your part, in
relationship to her, will stimulate her (she, being the child and
impressionable, is very sensitive to your vibration) to intensify any
unregenerate "male-picture" that may register in her chart and make it
correspondingly difficult for her, when she is grown, to "clarify her
pictures" of the opposite sex.
The same principle applies to your effect on your
sons, your wife's on the children, and the children to each other. This
"planet on Ascendant" is a vital vibratory tie-up and must be studied with
great care — and the results of the study applied conscientiously in daily
living. Further study can be given to any inter-relationship between two
planets and charts; note particularly those exchanges in which the dynamic
planets of the boys conjunct the planets of the girls; this is a variation of
the "planet on Ascendant" pattern. If a girl has a "masculine-plus" vibratory
pattern and a boy has a "feminine-plus," and they seem to be strongly drawn to
each other in their growing up together, then study the Uranus of each in
relationship to each other. Uranus, as has been said before, is the "composite
of masculine and feminine." In relationships between people it indicates
spiritual attractions of great depth and intensity, and the child who has
Uranus affecting the other one's chart in a noticeable way can be potential
"illuminator" of the other one. Help your children to understand themselves as
expressions of the Goodness and Beauty of Life — which, in truth they are — and
make yourself a "mediator" — through your astro-philosophical understanding —
between that which they tend, instinctively, to be, and that which their
charts indicate they can become.
If one parent is an astro-philosopher, the other one
should try to learn something of the subject so that a degree of mutuality of
understanding and approach can be found as a basis of training and guiding
those to whom incarnation was given. Each child has, innately, a unique
"father-mother" picture: perhaps there is a deep and difficult karmic tie-up
between one of the children and one of the parents, or between two of the
children. Mutuality of astro-philosophical understanding can be a wonderful
"at-tune-ment" for the parents in their cooperative service as parents. These
tie-ups must be understood by both parents to be manifestations of the Law of
Cause and Effect — to be perceived as energy-patterns that are in the process
of regenerate fulfillment through Love. They are not to be side-stepped,
avoided or "shrugged off."
Astro-philosophy provides a wonderful channel by
which parents who are inclined to live excessively in their centers of
feeling-response and emotion may gain perspective in their seeking to
understand their children; further it gives the parents a wonderful "joint-
hobby" — something they can use to help other parents and to enjoy together as
long as they live. Through it they can realize the truth that marriage is
fraternity, its life is mutuality, its flowering is true friendship.
Involuntary
Military Experience
Since the beginning of our incarnated experience,
strife on any level or involving any quantity of persons has never been
anything but a dramatization of the individual's struggle to evolve. The
destruction, pain, and sorrow which the entity, humanity, has inflicted on
itself has never been anything but an expression-in-action of ignorance of
life-principles. This ignorance has always basically been — how could it be
otherwise? — an individual matter.
Until certain self-directives have been established
mankind functions primarily by response to stimuli to the collective thought,
collective instinct or collective subconscious feeling. In this way, Nature
provides that karmic return may be experienced collectively. A group of
individuals — tribe, nation, or alliance of nations — are enabled to meet a
pattern of karmic return all together, rather than in individual timing. All
persons, in a given situation, who are at-tuned to a particular vibratory
negative — such as the sadistic frenzy of the lynching party — sympathetically
respond and express "en masse." Since we, as individuals, fall far short of
ideal expression we are, to some degree or other, "tied in" to certain
patterns of unfulfillment. This is due to our ignorance of principles and our
having expressed in action according to ignorance in past incarnations.
Expression — cause — implies its own effect. One of the most phenomenal effects
in modern times has been the global scope of warfare such as we have seen
since 1914. The opposition between Uranus in Capricorn and Neptune in Cancer,
preceding the outbreak of World War I, was the vibratory condition by which
human beings in national groups met collective karmic return through warfare
experience. This opposition was the "Full Moon pattern" from the conjunction
of Uranus and Neptune in Sagittarius-Capricorn during the last years of the
eighteenth century and the early years of the nineteenth century. It was the
timing for universal decrystallization in order that universal progress could
be made. A few moments of reflection are all that are needed to realize that
the entire entity, humanity, was affected in drastic ways by this
conjunction and its resultant opposition. New octaves of Power and Wisdom were
released through the incarnations of many people who, during the past century
and a half, functioned as "trail-blazers" toward the transcendence of the no-
longer-needed. The powers expressed by these great persons affected our
experience on all planes — intellectual, religious-philosophical, scientific,
and artistic.
A "life-wave" of incarnations was made in the early
years of this century when the opposition of Uranus to Neptune was not only
itself "white-hot," but was squared by the opposition of Saturn in Aries and
Jupiter in Libra. This life-wave — focalizing the square of Saturn to both
Uranus and Neptune — came in at a most precarious timing. That vibratory
pattern was, in the opinion of the author, the arch-challenge of
crystallization to progress. Perhaps the most important single factor in the
life-experience of those people was the choice, in consciousness, of clinging
to the old or of moving on in progress through individualized unfoldment. A
critical evolutionary point, indeed! The outbreak of the Boxer Rebellion and
the establishment of republican government in China during this era pictured
that planetary pattern applying to the evolutionary status of a great
civilization — an interesting example of the tremendous significance of those
years — and of that aspect.
We have a recorded history of many centuries of
experience from a study of which we may find — just as we may in our present
day experiences — the principles underlying the relationship between individual
and collective causes and their effects. In these days people are asking:
"After two global wars in much less than a half-century, do we have to have
another one?" The answer comes back: "If we do, it will be because we have not
applied ourselves sufficiently to learn from previous experiences about the
principles which concern mutual good between national groups." In short, the
effect — as it always does — will describe and identify its own cause.
Consider the foundation of the Great Astrological
Mandala: a circle with a dot in the center; a horizontal line emanates from
the center to the left, touching the circumference; the symbol for the sign
Aries outside the circle at that point. This much of the Mandala is the
essential picture of the potentials of each human being appearing in the
infant body at the dawn of incarnation. In this radius are implied all other
possible ways of expressing the individual I am during the ensuing lifetime.
Now add the following with light pencil line: the upper vertical — Capricorn;
the horizontal to the right — Libra; the lower vertical — Cancer. From the
center of the left radius — the Aries line — draw three-quarters of a circle
clockwise (backward) through Capricorn and Libra, ending at the middle of the
Cancer radius. This is a "motion picture" in reverse — from birth to
conception — nine months of human gestation. All four generic points are
included in this picture: moving forward from Cancer to Aries — through the
three quadrants — we see a resume of the generic qualities distilled from the
past to the present. This is the simplest way we have of "gathering" the
karmic residues from past incarnations for redemption in the present because
the incarnation structure-points — the Cardinal signs — are all represented in
sequence, from most feminine to most masculine, and each Cardinal composites
the Fixed and Mutable of its particular generic Element.
Since our experience is dual: dynamically masculine, a
projection from our generic consciousness; and, reflectively feminine, a
perception by our generic consciousness, we have in this simple mandala the
essential sum-total of "I am-ness" of the individual when he came into this
particular incarnation. That means his "I am-ness" of unawareness, fear-
hatred, and ignorance as well as his "I am-ness" of power, love, wisdom — the
residues and spiritual accomplishments, respectively, of his past incarnations
as male and as female. His magnetic attraction to his parents outpictures very
significant factors of his generic relationship consciousness; his at-tunement
to his race-nationality outpictures much of his collective karmic residues.
In the latter is found the reason why he has been — or may be — called into
military service during this time of universal mutation; it is, in short, a
residue of unfulfilled service and unfulfilled understanding of principles.
To the mandala now add the radius representing the
cusp of the twelfth house — place the symbol for Pisces at the cusp-point.
Connect the Pisces and Aries radii by a straight line with an arrowhead
pointing downward and touching the Aries cusp. This is the simplest way we
have, in astrology, of picturing the emanation of the past into the present.
Since every radius of an astrological wheel is an emanation of the one radius,
this shows that the "I am" of now is an emanation of the "I am" of the
past. The cusp of the second house would, in relationship to that of
the first, symbolize the "I am" of the future, the emanation from the present.
Hence the dynamic essence of the Aries radius — the "I am now" — symbolizes the
potential, the impulsion and the necessity for putting into action in this
incarnation the sum totals of our "I am's" from the past. This means action as
expression of ignorance of principles as well as of understanding of
principles; such action, from either level, emanates effects for the future.
Now, to speak of the question on the minds of most
people these days, how long are we, individually and collectively, going to
continue to set in action causes that will have warfare as their objectified
effects? How much longer is it going to take us — individually and
collectively — to recognize that certain actions — causes — objectify in warfare,
crime, suffering and disintegration? This question — and its answer — has
nothing whatever to do with any particular nation, political ideology, or form
of government. This question is asked, sooner or later, by every human being.
Its answer, and its understanding, are derived by each individual as a result
of his evolutionary unfoldment. Change the quality of causes by learning from
experience and go into action from the basis of new wisdom.
Since every radius in the horoscopical wheel is one
factor of a twofold polarity pattern, let us now extend the Pisces radius in
the above mandala to make a complete diameter; extend the line to the opposite
point and form the diameter of Pisces-Virgo — cusps of the twelfth and sixth
houses. A diameter is the unfolded picture of the potentials of a radius since
it shows both polarities. Thus with the Pisces-Virgo diameter we have the
feminine signs of the mutable cross. Virgo (Earth) is male; Pisces (Water) is
female. With reference to our subject, these two signs symbolically portray
the two types of people who engage in military service. (1) Those who enlist —
serve voluntarily — express a service consciousness from the dynamic — or
generically male — level; this quality is pictured by Virgo which, in
essence, is love-service. (2) Those who are drafted — serve under compulsion —
are moved into military service by external forces; in other words, they are
acted upon by karmic forces which are objectified by the representatives of
governmental and military authority. This type of experience represents the
generically female polarity of the service diameter; it is not only passive
but the lack of self-direction implied makes this kind of experience a
possible source of great suffering to the individual unless — repeat
unless — he makes an adjustment to the situation in his consciousness
and agrees to it within himself, moves with the karmic forces and fulfills his
responsibilities to the utmost every step of the way. Let us consider a proof
of this pattern as it has objectified in recent experiences of many persons:
The draft action of the recent war was a "mutation
point" in the life of everyone who was affected by it; just as, on a more
universal scale, those who incarnate under the vibrations of certain major
planetary aspects "tie in" with evolutionary turning points. Since mankind
basically tends to inertia — preferring adherence to that which is established
as a symbol of security — most people need to be moved by karmic forces in
order to elasticize their approaches to experience and to open up new levels
of consciousness of qualities and capacities. The authorities in charge of the
last draft organization did much to try to determine the qualifications of
individuals for suitable service. The fact that many men were assigned to
lines of work that were entirely new to them was the outpicturing of karmic
agencies at work on their lives. Their deep inner needs for elasticization of
consciousness magnetized them to specific organizations, specific branches of
service, and specific localities to fulfill responsibility patterns that may
have been, from a time standpoint, ages old. One thing is certain: the draft-
service opportunity that came to each man was the direct effect of default-
causes which he himself set in motion in the past. To be incarnate implies the
assumption, voluntary or otherwise, to serve life by improving the quality of
vibrational output and response; we can never improve anything unless we gain
a clearer and greater understanding of our realities. One of our basic
realities is to attain mastery of individual destiny; this is proven in our
possessing the faculty of choice. We can choose to make any experience a
"mutation point" of up-turning or down-turning depending on the quality of our
reaction to and action upon a given situation. We can learn how to make better
choices to the degree that we become unemotionally aware of the quality of
effects.
If we have failed — and we all have — to serve
according to principle in the past, then we recognize that life, through
consciousness, provides the opportunity to redeem the quality of deficient
service by at-tunement with group experience so that the combined
consciousness of the group may add power to the regenerative effort, and each
person who is constructively conditioned then serves all others who are
similarly conditioned to the furtherance of progress. Military service is one
of the most conspicuous examples, in time of "global stress," by which life
makes this opportunity possible, and each person is thereby placed where and
with whom his karma (self-generated destiny) decrees.
Your horoscope is a variation of the Great Mandala,
but your twelfth and sixth houses are in the same place as those of everyone
else. Study the signs on the cusps of your Mutable Houses — third to ninth,
sixth to twelfth — as the vibratory cross that, in your chart, corresponds to
the Mutable Cross of the Great Mandala. Focus your attention on the planetary
rulers — their placements, aspects, and generic quality — of two houses: 12th
and 6th. Study with great care all squares and oppositions involving your
twelfth house and its ruler. The ruler of your twelfth house gives you the key
to your at-tunement with karmic forces; its regenerate aspects will picture
your deep superconscious spiritual strengths to meet and transcend the "tough
experiences" represented by its unregenerate aspects. In such an experience
you will "tangle" with much that represents the negative astral in human
consciousness — your negative twelfth house vibratory conditions picture
your magnetization to the people thus represented who will serve as challenges
to your deep desire for redemptive action and expression. Inform yourself
of the principle of this planet and the principle of every planet that
aspects it; you will — because you need it — be tested mightily at that
point. Know that "Planets are People." Your chart, in every respect, will
be out-pictured beautifully or otherwise by the people you will have to
associate with in this period of "redemptive service."
In time of planetary conflict the individual can take
one of four choices: (1) an uncompromising abstinence from participation in
any form; (2) abstinence from combat but willingness to serve in another way;
(3) voluntary enlistment as a "self-propelled" gesture of service; (4) letting
oneself be drafted and taking what is dished out. Of these four, the last
requires the maximum of adjustability to the directives of karmic forces,
since it is symbolized by the Pisces-point of the Pisces-Virgo diameter.
Conscientious fulfillment of "everything that is dished out" is the keyword to
keep in mind to neutralize resistances and resentments — because in that
attitude of fulfillment, the service will be done — and that is the purpose
behind the whole thing. By an expansive exercise of intelligence and
expression of abilities as they are required will the person find himself
growing in an amazing way because he will be called upon to consider many
problems and situations that he never dealt with before. The Pisces vibration
symbolizes the need and necessity of the drafted man to keep himself at-tuned
to his own and everyone else's best; he must "alert" his ideality and seek to
perceive the best potentials of all and recognize every opportunity to project
his best; to encourage and hearten when it is needed; to elasticize his
appreciation of the value of each factor in the experience as an opportunity
to learn.
Students — it is worse than futile to congest on
resentment if this experience comes to you. Your life goes on through it —
though in ways which you may never have consciously planned or expected. No
one can make you waste your time if you utilize your time-material. No one can
make you waste your talents if you exercise your abilities and let yourself
become aware of deeper resources of physical, mental, and spiritual strength.
The whys and wherefores of this experience are
pictured in your horoscope. In ways which you may not even imagine, you can,
if you must and will, become more aware of who and what you really are for the
improvement of your entire incarnation and for your relationships with people
in the future.
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