You have completed our Astrology Independent Study Modules 1 through 38, and we now offer you, as an earnest student, Astrology Independent Study Modules 39 through 51, focusing on delineation, progression, transits, etc.
As you pursue your study of the marching orbs, wherein the great and admirable works of the invisible and all-glorious God are so manifestly apparent, cultivate an attitude of adoration of the divine essence in all life and a thankfulness to God for your existence. Be humble and let no natural knowledge, however profound and transcendental it may be, elate your mind, or withdraw you from your duty to God and to the service of humanity.
The more that knowledge is enlarged by the divine science of Astrology, the more will you magnify the power and wisdom of the Almighty God, if you do not prostitute it for material gain, self-aggrandizement, or personal exploitation.
If there are selfish motives behind your interest in Astrology, the moment you practice the Science with such motives, at that moment will your powers be withdrawn, and your ability to read the horoscope taken away from you. From that time on you will only scratch the surface. The inner, hidden meaning will remain undisclosed.
High truths are not suitable for low and profane practices, such as the using of Astrology for monetary gain. Remember, dear student, that when you gaze on a horoscope, you look into the inmost secrets of a soul, so beware, lest you treat it lightly and profane that which God creates.
The holier you are, the nearer you approach God in your religious duties, the purer judgment will you be able to give those who seek your help and assistance.
The divine and sacred Science of Astrology has been sadly degraded into superstition by soothsayers and erectors of horoscopes all during the middle and modern ages up to the present period where the peak has been reached of misconception, misunderstanding and stupidity, by those least qualified to practice it. Only in the ancient times was it practiced and treated as a divine
attainment.
Also remember, that at one can not be a true astrologer unless one has a thorough comprehension of the spiritual side of life, gleaned through an understanding of the Bible, as taught by those capable of correctly interpreting it. Study The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, therefore if you wish to become a true astrologer, because it will help you to understand this divine divine Book, besides explaining in a clarified manner the invisible workings of God and Nature.
Nothing is indifferent in Nature. A stone upon a road may break or modify profoundly the destinies of the greatest men or of the greatest empires.
Each star in the celestial spaces has its direct and indirect influence upon each human ego. The stars are bound to one another by the attraction which holds them in equilibrium and causes them to move with uniformity through space. From all spheres unto all spheres there stretch these indestructible networks of light and there is no point upon any planet to which one of them is not attached.
It will often be found that one part of a delineation will be apparently in direct contradiction to a statement made in another part of the me delineation. To the thinking person such contradictions, such paradoxes, are easily recognizable, therefore easily reconcilable.
In every phase of nature are to be found these manifold differences. In some phases near the surface and quickly discernible, and in other phases so deeply embedded as to be almost impossible to discover and uproot.
Some persons are parsimonious in the household and extravagant in business; others, large-handed at home and stingy at the office. Why? Diversity of character and personality so necessary to soul-growth.
All life is paradoxical, contradictory, ever-changing, and manifests under the material guise of untold and innumerable parts and phases.
Good and bad are purely relative terms. In reality, all is good. What is bad is self generated and good in the making. A horoscope is not necessarily good because its portents so imply. Sometimes it is the very reverse, for it is in the struggle of life that we develop strength. So few of us are strong enough to stand prosperity.
In a nativity that promises too much good and happiness there lurk the snares of indolence, laziness, mental and spiritual lethargy, waste, materialism, luxury and ease; so that a person does not exert himself and becomes driftwood upon the ocean of life. Another who has what we term a very afflicted radix, is roused by the adverse conditions and by sheer force of Will conquers himself and becomes master of his destiny.
In most cases, bad horoscopes are greater blessings than good ones. The purpose of suffering, adversity, sickness, anguish, sadness, and unhappiness is not vengeance but education and experience. And when once we realize that, we shall cease to fume, complain and ask, "Why is this happening to me? What have I done to deserve all this?"
Instead we shall know that we do deserve it and the only "out" is to make the best of it, endeavoring all the while to live to a set of ideals which will relegate like suffering in the future to a state of oblivion.
And remember above all, fellow student, that we must study the Western Wisdom Teachings only to develop ourselves in order that we may help those in sorrow and distress; to develop ourselves only that we may serve.
May the Light of true spiritual understanding shine within you.
Yours in fellowship, Fellow Students of
Contemporary Mystic
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After the basic, fundamental principles of a sign, aspect and house have been defined, then it is well to embellish and add thereto all that we can. But first, delineate by keywords.
We strongly advise the earnest student, the seeker of the great spiritual truths of the Divine Science of Astrology, to study
The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, for without a working knowledge of the Rosicrucian
Teachings the higher, spiritual truths of the Science and the intuitive
faculties of delineating a map will ever remain a closed book to him.
In analyzing a chart, we usually adhere to a definite standard of form and arrangement, like the following in sequential order:
1. Asc. and Physical Body.
2. Individuality.
3. Personality.
4. Mentality.
5. (a) Vocation.
(b) Finance.
6. (a) Love.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Children.
7. (a) Spiritual Powers.
(b) Esoteric Abilities.
8. (a) Friends and enemies.
(b) Brothers and Sisters.
(c) Journeys
9. Sickness and Health.
10. (a) Hopes, Wishes, Aspirations.
(b) Sorrow, and Self-Undoing.
(c) Old Age.
(d) Death.
The following tables are the longitudes of the planets,
the declinations of same and the sign, degree and minute to be placed on
the necessary six houses in order to erect the horoscope of a male, born
July 4, 1932; 2:15 A.M., Standard Time, Los Angels, California. (optional)
Sun: Cancer 12:12
Venus: Cancer 4:03R
Mercury: Leo 3:26
Moon: Cancer 18:05
Saturn: Aquarius 2:52R
Part of Fortune: Gemini 10:22
Jupiter: Leo 22:15
Mars: Gemini 8:31
Uranus: Aries 23:09
Neptune: Virgo 5:50
North Node: Pisces 20:28
South Node: Virgo 20:28
Pluto: Cancer 21:35
Declinations
Sun: 22 N 53
Venus: 19 N 15
Mercury: 20 N 53
Moon: 26 N 33
Saturn: 19 S 53
M.C.: 16 S 12
Part of Fortune: 22 N 04
Jupiter: 14 N 56
Mars: 21 N 41
Uranus: 8 N 26
Neptune: 10 N 06
Ascendant: 20 N 57
Pluto: 22 N 24
Part of Fortune: 22 N 04
A complete index of this chart is required for grading.
Name:
Astrology Independent
Study Module No. 39
Place: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Lat.: 34 deg. N
Long.: 118 deg. W.
Birth Date: July 4, 1932
Birth Time: 2:15 A.M.
(Std. Time)
Std Time: Pacific
(Choose One:
Eastern
Central
Mountain
Pacific)
Sun:
Venus:
Mercury:
Moon:
Saturn:
Jupiter:
Mars:
Uranus:
Neptune:
Pluto:
Dragon's Head:
Dragon's Tail:
Asc.:
M.C.:
Part of Fortune:
Position of Planets:
Position of Sun: Cancer 12:12
House Location of Sun:
Position of Venus: Cancer 04:03R
House Location of Venus:
Position of Mercury: Leo 03:26
House Location of Mercury:
Position of Moon: Cancer 18:05
House Location of Moon:
Position of Mars: Gemini 08:31
House Location of Mars:
Position of Saturn: Aquarius 02:52R
House Location of Saturn:
Position of Jupiter: Leo 22:15
House Location of Jupiter:
Position of Uranus: Aries 23:09
House Location of Uranus:
Position of Neptune: Virgo 05:50
House Location of Neptune:
Position of Pluto: Cancer 21:35
House Location of Pluto:
Position of Dragon's Head : Pisces 20:28
House Location of Dragon's Head:
Position of Part of
Fortune: Gemini 10:22
House Location of
Part of Fortune:
(End of Chart)
Ascendant and Ruler
The Ascendant rules the physical body, the
constitution, appearance and childhood environment.
The Ascendant is the physical envelope through which man, of necessity, expresses himself in his present life.
It is the instrument through which the higher principles that make up man manifest naturally.
Everything in the horoscope, good or bad, must manifest in our daily lives through the Ascendant, the Rising Sign. Thus it is a lens through which all influences have to pass, suffering modification in doing so.
The Message of the Stars tells us that the Rising Sign, or Ascendant, is the basic factor in determining the constitution and form of
the physical body. Further investigations have shown that the reason for this fact is that at the time of conception, when the seed atom was planted in the ovum, the Moon, which is the Cosmic Agent of Fecundity, projected its fertilizing ray through the sign and degree which later rises at the moment of birth (or its opposite). (Reference, The Message of the Stars.89,90,91.)
Whatever phase of the chart is being delineated, see what agreement, assistance, or cooperation: or what disagreement, discord, or variance, it has with the Ascendant. Then qualify its manifestation accordingly.
Ruler of Chart
It is considered that one planet (of the Sun or Moon), in a special sense stands in the horoscope for the native, or person for whom the nativity is erected, while the rest of the nativity represents aspects of his life which are external to him, as, for example,
his friends, occupation, wife, children, and so on.
This planet is called the Ruler of Lord of the Horoscope.
It is usually the Ruler of the Ascendant, but not invariably so, for if that planet is very weak, whereas another is much stronger, as by rising near the Ascendant, with strong aspects, or by being on the M.C., it may become ruler. It is then the ruler of the Personal Self, much as the Ascendant and first house generally are, and in a certain sense all the rest of the map may be regarded as subject to this rulership. In other words, the spirit or Ego is limited in expression to the imperfections of the physical or personal self, the instrument through which it must express in one particular life on earth.
But in most cases the ruler of the ascendant is the ruler of the horoscope and in the chart we are delineating Mercury is the ruler.
Physical Description
Ascertained by the Ascendant, planets in the first house, Ruler of the Sagittarius, Sun, Moon, and any group of planets in any one sign. (Reference,
The Message of the Stars.)
Gemini Rising: Common, Airy, Flexible, and Mental.
Ascendant Square Neptune: Wily and subtle in times of temptation.
Ascendant Trine Saturn: Great persistence, courage and dependability.
Ascendant Parallel Mercury: Frankness, open mind, quick perception.
Ascendant Parallel Saturn: Balance and depth of mind when other factors are favorable.
Part of Fortune in Ascendant and Parallel Ascendant: Furnishes pabulum for soul-growth in the personality and environment through efforts of the Physical Body.
Mercury Parallel Part of Fortune: Furnishes incentive and reason for the accumulation of material wealth and possessions.
Questions:
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to us. Please be sure to include the course name and self-study module number in your
e-mail to us. You will find the answers to the questions below
in the next Astrology Independent Study Module.)
1. Synthesize in one short paragraph the following configurations:
(a) Ascendant square Neptune.
(b) Ascendant trine Saturn.
(c) Ascendant parallel Mercury.
(d) Ascendant parallel Saturn.
(e) Part of Fortune in Ascendant and parallel Ascendant.
3. Give briefly, in keywords, the following effects:
(a) Mars conjunction Ascendant.
(b) Mars parallel Ascendant.
(c) Mercury in the third house.
(d) Mercury sextile Ascendant.
(e) Mercury parallel Ascendant.
(f) Mercury sextile Mars.
(g) Mercury parallel Mars.
(h) Mercury parallel Part of Fortune.
Supplemental
Student Material:
Childhood
"Child-hood" simply means "being in a state of
involution" — on any octave of experience or unfoldment.
There is not much poetry but there is a great deal of
truth in the statement that "the child is father to the man." The man is the
result of all of the processes of involution which emanate, in sequence, from
the time of conception to fullest incarnated maturity. All involutions are, of
course, phases of the one life-direction: evolution. They are timings for
organization and focus of faculties; they culminate at the "points" when the
faculties can be consciously used and directed. "Conscious directive" is just
another way of saying "Maturity."
Before we can undertake a technical approach to
analyzing the charts of children, we must get a picture of what our various
"childhoods" are; the structure of the Great Mandala will be used for
illustration of the involution — and evolution — of human being-ness. The Law of
Correspondence will be seen, here, to apply in this way: from Virgin Spirit
through incarnations to liberation-from-form corresponds to from Virgin seed
through incarnation to transition. From virginity — or innocence — on any Life-
octave — we proceed through a succession of emanations, which we call "child-
hoods," to cyclic maturities. A concrete example — the process of education:
students on the first day of kindergarten, the first grade, the ninth grade,
and freshmen in college are "virgin spirits" in relationship to the phase they
are entering; the "most virgin" are, of course, the kindergarten students —
they have no educational experience in this life at all. All of these are
"children" because they are still in the process of becoming educated. The
"childhood of being educated" stops when the person first puts to use that
which he has learned; on entering this phase, he enters into the "childhood"
of his work-experience; as he applies that which he has learned, he "emanates
toward" his maturity as a worker.
So, let us remember that "childhood" is the process
between relative points of maturity on any — or all — octaves of Life-
expression, as — let this be added — unfoldment of potentials is the process
between relative points of happiness.
The start of your incarnation was the timing that
determined the end of your necessary experience on the inner planes. From that
point, qualified entirely by your karmic requirements, things began to happen
that served the purpose of removing your consciousness from subjectivity to
objectivity. The seed, nucleus of your vehicle-to-be, was matured within the
maternal body; again, at the exact required timing, that seed received the
effect of the paternal impregnation and the subjective phase of your
incarnation was finished — the objective phase was begun. New childhood.
Now begins the involution, into the composite vehicle,
called the pre-natal period. This is the first of your "objective childhoods."
For illustration draw a large circle, add the horizontal and vertical
diameters; place the symbols of the cardinal signs, as they are in the Great
Mandala: 4th — Cancer, 7th — Libra, 10th — Capricorn, 1st — Aries. From a point on
the Cancer-line, near the center, draw, through comparable points, a line up
through Libra and Capricorn, then down to Aries — three-quarters of a circle.
This is the "line of the gestation period" — nine months of time symbolized by
nine astrological house-signs — three quadrants. This is the gathering and
focalizing of generic consciousness into the etheric matrix and its physical
condensation. The ending of this gestation (prenatal) line at Aries brings
this particular "childhood" to an end by its "maturity" at birth. Now the
composite vehicle is objectified as an individualized expression of the
archetypal idea — "humanity." It is not a "new human being" but "a human being
reappearing newly."
From the point on the Aries-line where the "gestation-
line" ended, move your pencil-point outward — away from the center — a little.
From that point draw a quarter-circle down to the comparable point on the
Cancer-line. New octave — new dimension. This quadrant is the involution into
conscious use of the physical vehicle — the individualized physical childhood.
Astrologically, this period is represented by the "parallel voyages" of the
progressed Moon and transiting Saturn (the form-builders) from their natal
positions to the first square. The last time that transiting Saturn, in direct
motion, squares its natal position terminates this quadrant. More of this
later.
Move your pencil-point down the Cancer-line a little
and draw a quarter-circle to the comparable point on the Libra-line. This
quadrant is the childhood of mental exercise — the training represents the
schooling that is obtained by the child in the grades of grammar school. He
takes his first steps in learning to understand the symbols we call letters
and numbers which is for the (basic) purpose of coordinating and organizing
his mental faculties. Then, a new and most vital "child-hood." This point on
the Libra-line symbolizes the dawn of adolescence, the emanation of sex-
consciousness and the awareness of polarity. On the gestation-line, this point
represents the timing in the pre-natal period when the sex-characteristics of
the incarnation to-be were objectified and those of the opposite sex were
subjectified. At adolescence the physical body manifests the chemicalization
of sex-consciousness; the subjective sex-consciousness is manifested by the
vibratory response of the person to persons, for the most part, of opposite
physical sex. (More of this in the following article.) This subconscious
"emanation" of polarity-consciousness represents the "childhood of mate-love."
The basic astrological pattern is: Progressed Moon opposition its natal
position and Saturn transiting to the opposition of its natal position. Now
move the pencil-point out a little on the Libra-line and draw a quarter-circle
to the Capricorn line; three quadrants of the wheel and the second square of
progressed Moon and transiting Saturn to their natal positions.
At this point — the second on the Capricorn-line — the
first maturity after birth is reached. The person has evolved the use of his
physical body, his conscious mentality and his erogenous, generative powers.
He is now qualified, as far as equipment is
concerned, to leave the status of life-taker and emerge into the status of
life-giver. In other words, he can now become a parent. He not only can
provide body-substance for another's incarnation but he should be qualified to
assume and fulfill the responsibilities attendant on that expression. Anyone
with physical equipment, desire-power, and a partner can become a parent, but
being a parent involves the exercise of love-power and wisdom-power, as well
as desire-power. Therefore, in the fourth quadrant after birth, the person
enters the childhood of culminating maturity. This "childhood" is pictured by
moving the pencil-point upward a little on the Capricorn-line and drawing the
remaining quarter-circle downward to the Aries-line, completing one circle
from birth. This period is the psychological-spiritual "childhood" — fusion of
all of the personality-elements — physical, generic, and mental. On the wheel
it encloses the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth houses. Since the twelfth house
abstractly symbolizes unfulfilled ideality, it symbolizes here the testing-
time of the 28th, 29th, and 30th years. This period marks the end of the first
cycle: progressed Moon and transiting Saturn (direct) conjunct their natal
positions. During this "super-birth" time the essentials of the entire
horoscope are brought into intense focus. On its octave, it is analogous to
the struggle of the infant to emerge from the maternal body. Only this is
emergence of consciousness from the gravitational pull of psychological
(psychic-emotional-mental negatives, rather than the struggle of one physical
body against another. The aspects made by the first solar-eclipse after the
progressed Moon's conjunction of its own place are very important to indicate
the focus of testing until Saturn has completed its cycle.
It is true that, from a standpoint of karmic
conditionings, the gestation-period of a child's body may be attended by very
difficult vibratory conditions due to the distresses, negative emotions, and
tensions of the parents, particularly of the mother. However, since
incarnation is made by vibratory attraction to specific parents and to
specific environment, these conditions are outpicturings of vibratory
patterns. The conditions are not "causes" — they are, in fact, specific effects
of causes which the "child" himself has built from the way that he exercises
his consciousness in the past. When we recognize that parentage and
environment are effects, not causes, we recognize that we can
redeem the quality of our relationship with our parents and the quality of our
memory-pictures of our early environment by decrystallizing tension-thoughts
and tension-feelings in substituting thought-patterns and feeling-patterns
based on Love-Wisdom. Is this not, in essence, one of the principal meanings
of the phrase "the Art of living"?
At the end of the period marked by the conjunction of
the progressed Moon and transiting Saturn to their natal positions — which is
coincidental to the trine, by direct transit, of Uranus to its natal position-
-the man emerges from the "emanations" of his six "childhoods" — one subjective
and five objective. To sum up: (subjective): preparation, on the inner planes,
for incarnation; (objective): (1) The prenatal period, involution into
physical and etheric vehicles, culminating at birth; (2) birth to seven years;
involution into use of physical vehicle; (3) seven to fourteen years:
involution of use of mental faculties; (4) fourteen to twenty-one years:
involution of polarity-consciousness, sex-awareness and emergence of the
erogenous nature; (5) twenty-one to twenty-eight years: completion of the
first cycle of the progressed Moon, culminated by the transit — in last direct
motion — of Saturn to the conjunction of its natal position and the trine of
Uranus to its own natal position; the latter two take place in the twenty-
ninth and thirtieth years. This period is "summing up" of total childhood of
the incarnation, the testings which serve to solidify the consciousness for
mature years, the inner struggles by which we prove how much has been learned
of Life-Principles so far, and then the action of Uranus provides a measure of
liberation for progressive emanation.
Since recapitulation is a principle in evolutionary
emanations, the next period, ending with the third square of the progressed
Moon and transiting Saturn to their natal positions (first square of the
second cycle) in about the thirty-sixth year, is a recapitulative period in
which life gives us the opportunity to learn from the results of the testing-
time of the 28th to 30th years, and to redeem, at least in part, whatever
needs to be redeemed. Life does not want us to go from one octave to another
all slogged down by burdens of accumulated congestions — the vibration of
Uranus is Nature's provision to insure some degree of inner freedom — and that
freedom is a direct derivative from whatever we have learned by our testing.
After all, the congestion we call "ignorance" is decrystallized only by wisdom
"and the truth shall make ye free." This is the period to "fix what needs to
be fixed" from the first thirty years and then we emerge, after the thirty-
sixth year — having learned things we needed to learn — into the next phase
(comparable to the erogenous-sexual period of adolescence), which is the
period of greatest creativity so far. Our polarity-powers — higher octave of
sexual powers — now dawn for a blaze of expression through the maturities of
physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual equipment.
At the end of this period, the sixth quadrant, we
come to the modulation into the fullest maturity of the incarnation; a
threefold vibratory action takes place from forty-two to about forty-five;
progressed Moon and transiting Saturn make the second opposition to their
natal positions and transiting Uranus opposes its natal position. This period
is another "birth struggle" — of great esoteric significance: it is the struggle,
in consciousness, between the "slowing-up crystallization" of Saturn and the
"progressive decrystallization of Uranus — Dying vs. Living. It is a conviction
of the author that this "struggle" and its outcome have much to say about the
"psychological foundation" and the "evolutionary status" of the next
incarnation. At this time we, by our reactions and expressions, prove whether
we intend to become inertial or to remain dynamic. Whatever in our
consciousness tends to congest and to impede progress is shaken to its roots
at this time. If we — in fear — cling to the old and no-longer-needed we build
in inertia; if we adjust to needed changes we build in progress which results
in a radiant new birth of spiritual consciousness. After this period we climb
to the summit of our life-mountain — the fullest maturity of our later years.
Now, a little technical study. Six sets of accurate calculations:
1. The months in which the progressed Moon makes its
first square, first opposition, second square, conjunction, third square, and
second opposition to its natal position.
2. Correlate to each of the above the timing of the
solar eclipse which falls (after the progressed Moon aspect) conjunct square
or opposition the natal Moon. (The succeeding solar eclipse "opens up" the
Moon-patterns.)
3. The dates on which Saturn, by last direct transit,
makes its first square, opposition, second square, conjunction, third square,
and second opposition.
4. To each of the above (Number 3), correlate the
lunation nearest the aspect-time which conjuncts, squares or opposes the natal
Saturn. These lunations "ignite" the Saturn-aspects in correlation to the
solar-eclipses in their relationship to the progressed-Moon aspects. (If your
ephemeris provides.)
5. The period when Uranus, by first and last direct
transit, opposes its natal position. Find the timing of the solar-eclipses
that conjunct, square, or oppose the natal Uranus in this period. This is the
apex of the "shaking up" time — Uranus rumbles and roars at everything he
dislikes about Moon-Saturn.
6. A composite list of everything in the above-
mentioned two-point period of Uranus-opposition-Uranus that ignites the natal
Uranus by sextile or trine. That is, the progressed Moon itself, solar
eclipses and their full-Moons, lunation-patterns and their full Moons, and
majority planetary transits that represent stimulation of Uranus according to
his powers for establishing inner liberations and progressiveness. Also, the
study of the Uranus-opposition-Uranus requires a careful synthesis of the
contrast of natal Uranus with natal Saturn to evaluate the relative powers of
gravity and progress in the individual chart.
It is also suggested that special attention be given
to the progressed Moon aspects in this way: Make a list of the months when
progressed Moon, in sequence, makes aspect to every planet which makes
legitimate aspect to the natal Moon in the horoscope. Each of the "quadrant
turning points" is focalized by the aspects of progressed Moon and transiting
Saturn to their natal positions, but Moon-aspects in the natal chart are
personal specializations of the Moon-principles and all of these aspects have
important bearing on the "turning-points."
When you are reading the chart of anyone, keep in
mind what "childhood" he or she is in; analyze the chart for its basic values
but keep in mind the "equipment" that is presented for the time of the
experience you are studying.
In conclusion: the astrologer's "first quadrant" is
in "learning the calculation" — the body of astrological study. All of his
other "childhoods" — as an interpreter-artist — are coincidental with his
various stages of spiritual unfoldment.
Adolescence
The word "adolescence" means "to continue to grow." In
its application to human involution and evolution it refers to the periods on
various octaves which succeed each new turning-point. It is the process during
which is manifested the unfoldment of potentials after the new identity has
been established. Abstractly, "adolescence" is a part of the "childhood" of
the octave; it is not maturity — it is the unfoldment toward the maturity of
the octave. In music, each "C" inaugurates a new tonal octave — a "turning-
point" in the tonal spectrum; the "adolescence" of the musical octave would be
al1 the tones between that "C" and the next one — above or below it — depending
on the direction of the musical passage.
Abstractly, the "childhood" of human-experience
octaves might be designated as "being born," "starting school," "becoming an
adolescent," "becoming a parent, or a worker, or a teacher." All of these
designations refer to new points of experience. A man who has only one child —
only a few years old — is an "adolescent" in father experience. Another man,
who has a number of children who are all adult, or even married and themselves
parents, is in the maturity of father-experience. The younger father is in the
process of parentage-maturing; the older man has reached maturity in this
particular experience. "Fatherhood-motherhood," as a new turning-point of
identity, is established when the first child is born; the experiences between
that time and the adulthood of the last child of the family is the "growing-up
of parentage." When the "baby" of the family has reached the status of a self-
sustaining adult, the father and mother reach their maturity, as parents. The
birth of each child into the family is, in turn, a "variation" of the basic
parentage identity because each child brings in a different vibratory pattern
on which the parents must, in the ensuing years, exercise their potentials of
Love-Wisdom. The development of each child is coincidental with a different
"adolescence" of the parents, as a fraternal husband-wife "team."
Give yourself a little mind-exercise on the word
"adolescent." Turn your attention to many phases of Nature and observe the
processes of "growing-up-ness:" the growth of plants and trees and the
maturing of their flowers and fruits; the development of young animals and
birds; the unfoldment, even, of daytime and nighttime that follows the
appearance of the Sun and the Moon on the Eastern horizon. The seeming "arc"
in which the Sun and Moon travel across the sky from horizon to horizon is a
natural symbol of "manifestation and childhood," "adolescence," "maturity,"
"decline" and — with the disappearance of the luminaries below the Western
horizon — "transition." This is a natural symbol of Cosmic Beauty because it
symbolizes the essential pattern of all Life-expressions in their unfoldment
of potentials, maturity and, finally, recession into subjectivity.
The subject of this discourse is the concrete
application of the word "adolescent" as it refers to a specialized phase of
human experience. It is the timing for manifestation of the Bi-polar essence
of the individual; he manifests a new maturing of his physical organism, his
emotional potentials and a most significant evidence of his karma. (We will —
for simplicity — use the masculine pronoun "he" as the subject; but "he" will
refer to any adolescent, male or female.)
The first mandala we will study is a very simple one:
a circle with the horizontal diameter; the symbol for Aries at the left point,
the symbol for Libra at the right point. From the standpoint of the "on-going-
ness" of the individual's life, this mandala is the arch-symbol of polarity,
of which the Capricorn-Cancer diameter is the first basic variation. These two
signs are "masculine" in the sense that they picture the dynamic
individuality — "capable of initiating causes" — of male and of female,
respectively. But, in relationship to Aries, Libra is "feminine" because "she"
symbolizes the effect from (or reflection of) causes that were expressed by
the Individuality.
The two radii which comprise this diameter — appearing
as a "single line" — are the archetypes of the two semi-circles. All of the
potentials of the first six houses (of the twelve-housed wheel) are implied in
the Aries-radius; those of the upper six houses are implied in the Libra-
radius. The semi-circles are simply the unfoldments of resources initiated by
these two cardinal signs. Therefore it is shown, in a way so simple as to be
almost deceptive, that the horizontal diameter itself comprises the polarity-
potential of the entire circle.
As a result of the generative action of the parents
(Capricorn-Cancer) this line is an effect: horizontal, feminine, resultant,
matter, the begotten. But as a symbol of dynamic expressiveness of the
individual human, it is a cause — the effect of which is the Capricorn-Cancer
diameter symbolizing maturity of the individual, during incarnation in
parenthood or any other expression of "life-giving-ness."
So now we see the "magic" of symbology: the Cosmic
Principle of Cause-and-Effect, in bi-polar expression (both abstract and
generic) pictured by one and the same line. Give this a lot of meditative
thought with reference to your own experience as a human. Your expressions as
an individual are symbolized by Aries; your emotional-reaction-awareness of
your complement is Libra. But — your expressions and your reactions are all
you; your complements are living symbols of those elements in your physical
and generic being which have not yet been fulfilled by your individuality.
Now, in reference to the four-quadrant, twenty-eight-
year cycle of the wheel, the period we designate as "adolescence" is the third
quadrant — counterclockwise — from Aries, the one that is initiated by Libra The
generic elements which were objectified in the prenatal period are now
objectified by new octaves of emotional consciousness and outpictured by other
humans. At this "new birth," "I am" is transposed — as a musician transposes
into a different key — into "We are." The subject walks around in time and
space and perceives "parts of himself" reflected by persons of complementary
polarity-patterns. The scorn, bashfulness, antipathies, etc., which
adolescents exhibit toward those of the opposite sex need not be objects of
anxiety of parents; fear is the normal, natural reaction of the human-being
when he is brought face-to-face with something he doesn't understand. However,
when boys and girls respond to the power of attraction of each to the other,
in bi-polar couples, we witness the charmingly ludicrous performances of
"young things" trying to orient themselves in the distracting, fascinating
dimensions of new emotional octaves. Such dramatizings, such tricks, such
gigglings and weepings, such dreamings — both by day and by night — such new
self-confidences and courages followed by their complete deflations, such
vanities and true beauties, such hopes and disappointments, such star-
lightings and moon-glowings, such irritations and absent-mindednesses, such
fantasies, and such ideals and worshippings!
Not only do the "young things" go through the travail
of "new Beginnings" at this time — their parents do too! Sex-consciousness is
attended by the need to understand sex; how do the parents, individually and
as a team, deal with this phase (it is not essentially a "problem" except in
their own minds) of their children's growth as individuals and their own as
parents? Family-polarity really "goes to town" at these times: the son (and
his girl-friend), the daughter (and her boy-friend), the parent who is
husband-father (as well as "older brother" to his son because he has gone
through the same experience himself) and the one who is wife-mother and "older
sister," all are in processes of union with their unfulfillments —
individually, as couples, and as a family-group.
Sex-education, as is any other phase of educative
process, is symbolized by Gemini and the third house in the sense that any
little child can learn the names and purposes of "things concerning sex" many
years before he becomes adolescent. In the third quadrant of the wheel the
educative process transcends the "mere naming of things."
When the child becomes conscious of his sexual
nature, his education must involve a learning to understand the principles of
sexuality as they manifest in his being and in all Nature. When parents,
because of "congestions in ignorance," confine their sex-instruction simply to
names (sometimes, pathetically, not even that much) they fail their
responsibility to their adolescent sons and daughters. Let us point our
attention at the third quadrant of the mandala: Three signs are represented —
Libra, Scorpio, and Sagittarius; add the symbols of the latter two to the
mandala. Libra is the turning-point, the new awareness of "We Are;" Scorpio,
Fixed Water, is the desire to sustain the "we are" as its complement, Taurus,
is the desire to sustain the individuality. "Traveling through Scorpio" is the
releasement of generative resources at puberty, the physical changes, the
magnetic processes of sexual attraction and the instinctive urges to make the
"We Are" manifested chemically in physical union. Scorpio symbolizes the
resource of most intense aspiration to realize the ideal of uniting
personality with soul. Anyone in love who addresses the beloved as "my soul"
is not being just emotionally fatuous — he is putting into words a recognition
that the vibratory nature of the loved one has ignited the lover's
consciousness of spiritual identity.
Adolescence is the "pre-natal period of parenthood"
and, as such, it is the timing for ignition of the person's inner ignorance
and inner wisdom concerning the principles of generation and polarity-
relationship. And, in this "ignition," very important facets of "secret karma"
are manifested; karmic residues of unfulfilled relationship-patterns are
"brought out into the open" after the dormancy of childhood. The adolescent's
own latent fatherhood is now emerging as an effect from his expressions as
husband-father in his last male incarnation; so with the girl — her previous
wifehood-motherhood now reappears for further fulfilling. Since the father and
mother have been, up to this time, the living symbols of "man with woman," the
emergences of adolescence can intensify the affectional patterns of the
child's feelings toward either parent or both of them, or a latent animosity
can now appear. The boy has become conscious of "female" as a Life-symbol, so
it is to be expected that his feelings toward mother and sister will
intensify — according to his generic elements — and a deeper sense of affection
and comradeliness toward the father and brother or a growing sense of rivalry
toward them (as "fellow males") can manifest. Also "transferences of
affection" from husband to son or from wife to daughter can take place in the
emotional patterns of the parents because the "new adult male" and "new adult
female" can represent, to the parent of the opposite sex, a symbol of new
love. Many times the mother tries to recompense herself for marital
frustrations by extending her wife-love to her adolescent son and so may a man
to his daughter. Absolutely nothing "evil" need be intended by these
transferences but when they happen they are evidences — effects — from having
repeatedly expressed according to emotional congestions. The often-seen tragic
congestions of intense mutual feeling of family-pairs toward each other are
evidences of past relationships of a deeply emotional type — the persons are
"nailed together" by the magnetic attraction of unredeemed desire forces. If
these attractions are not decrystallized by the exercise of mutual respect of
individuality, then the relationships take on the coloring that we call
"generic complexes" and the adolescent phase, in such case, results in a
congestion in old patterns rather than a liberation for greater fulfillment.
If this period is to result in individual ongoing-
ness, the parents must exercise their Love-Wisdom as never before and the
adolescent must strive to learn more about the principles of generation and
relationship than he ever knew before. The parents become teachers and the
children become students; this is one of Nature's ways of encouraging
impersonalization of the emotional attachments within the family organization.
It is "Uranus at work" to decrystallize Scorpio-Taurus-congestions from the
past. The emotional and desire-resources of the adolescent male and female
must be encouraged to extend into the octaves of healthy individual mate-love.
The parent who seeks to discourage this development makes bitter karma.
Parents who "exercise this constraint" do so because their own frustrated
urges (intense desires) are permitted to transpose normal and natural
protective concern into a voracious "something" compounded of possessiveness,
egotisticalness, and fear. Herein lies one of the most important
responsibilities of parents as thinking people. The woman who makes her son a
substitute-symbol for "husband" and at the same time retains the status of
"wife" to the man she married is deflecting the reality of her marital
identity into something that resembles a terrible illusion. The same for the
man who, in compensation for marital disappointments, makes use of his
daughter's womanly affections and devotion. Such relationship-mix-ups are
tragic and "human tragedy" is summed up in "congestion in desire-ignorance."
The transmutation of "tragedy" is releasement of congestions.
When the "We Are" — the marital individuality — of a
husband/father-wife/mother team is maintained in mutual Love-Wisdom, the
individuality of the son and daughter is automatically respected, since
neither parent has need of "emotional substitute-symbols." Then instruction
regarding "facts and principles of love, marriage, and generation" can be
naturally, intelligently, and inspiringly given and absorbed. Hence the
adolescent is rhythmically conditioned to enter the Sagittarius-part of the
third quadrant as he or she opens naturally to new realizations of old wisdom.
From that, he/she is prepared, in consciousness, to "reach the Midheaven" and
enter the fourth quadrant as an adult — a "younger contemporary," as man or
woman — of the parents. To give the instruction and to absorb it is to fulfill
the Capricorn-Cancer line — fulfilling parentage responsibility and fulfilling
the requirements of parenthood-to-be.
(If "learning calculations" is the "childhood" of the
astrologer, then his "adolescence" is the study of symbols in their individual
and collective significance; "maturity" is in outgiving of what has been
learned; as consultant, writer, lecturer, and teacher, the astrologer is
"spiritual parent" and he takes his place in the ranks of World-servers; in
this service he is in the "adolescence" of his "elder-brother-ship-to-be.")
Technical: it is suggested, from the author's
experience, that the study of the adolescent's chart be made in this way:
1. Careful analysis of each natal Moon-aspect; of
squares and oppositions to planets in Cancer (ruled by the Moon) and their
correctives.
2. Analysis of squares, oppositions, and correctives
of aspects to the planet which "disposits" (rules the Moon-sign) the Moon.
3. Analysis of the seventh house of the horoscope as
the resource of the "I Am" that emerges, in adolescence, as "We Are;" that
which is to be fulfilled principally in the marital relationship.
4. List — by careful calculations and in
sequence: all aspects made by the progressed Moon to planets which it
legitimately aspects in the natal chart before and after it opposes its natal
position the first time — approximately in the fourteenth year; "pattern" this
listing so that you are made aware of each corrective to every congested
aspect; it is necessary to know to what extent the subject is capable of
decrystallizing his desire-congestions.
5. Include in this listing every solar eclipse that
falls in this period of the "progressed Moon opposing its natal position" —
even if the listing of progressed-Moon aspects extends beyond the time when
Moon-opposes-Moon — and it could.
6. Include the date when Saturn, by last direct
transit opposes its natal position; this and progressed Moon opposition-its-
natal-position is the vibratory focus of the adolescent period — the "building-
in" vibratory mechanism.
We suggest use of mandalas for focus of concentration
in order to release your interpretative awareness of the subject's generic
potentials.
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