The Aspects of and $ with G>d.
59 Seen from the earth Mercury, being so close to the Sun, removes not farther than 28° from the Sun, and so can only form a few aspects with the Sun.
It comes next to the Moon in velocity of movement.
Its nature is fluctuating, changeable, cold and dry.
When in a strong position in the horoscope it influences the build of the body and the character: viz.
it makes the body lean and slender, the arms long, face narrow-cheeked and long, nose protruding, often sharp.
Hair and beard are black and thin.
Movements and gait quick.
The forehead is well-developed and so are the brains.
Its influence produces students of literature and exact sciences; they are very receptive, quick and sharp at argument and often good speakers and writers.
The faults that Mercury produces are egoism and self-conceit.
One might typify this fault by saying: "God knows all, but an unharmonic Mercury-type knows all better." Like the Moon, takes the colour of the sign in which it is placed e.g.
in fiery signs it makes the thoughts sharp and keen, in the airy signs it makes idealistic and fond of art, in water it gives a penetrating and acute intellect, in earth it makes sarcastic and at times fickle etc.
Everything depends further on the aspects which receives from the other planets.
Every aspect of the Sun is favourable and produces adaptability, but the bad aspects bring at the same time much changeability and difficulty to concentrate the t thoughts.
A good aspect of ♃ gives a pure feeling of right and makes tolerant and generous; a good aspect of Saturn makes the intellect fit for concentration and for profound studying in general.
Saturn shuns all haste and superficiality.
A good aspect of ♀ gives taste and love for art and all that is elegant and beautiful, in some cases, however, sensuousness and superficiality.
It produces people that seek only the bright side of life.
A good aspect of ♂ gives courage, self-reliance, spirit of enterprise, sharpness, love of argument and power to conquer obstacles whereas e.g.
a bad aspect of ♂ gives the contrary viz.
want of courage and of self-reliance, want of firmness, fear, timidity and despondency.
A good aspect of ☿ makes the intellect original, inventive, intuitive departing from the commonplace and everyday things.
The character may seem strange and incomprehensible under this influence, but original and interesting it most surely is.
These people are enemies of all that is conventional, enemies of all imitation.
A good aspect of ♆ will have no more effect than a dreamy, absent and strange tendency with a lower developed individual, as regards his thinking and feeling; but with a higher developed individual that begins to respond normally to the high vibrations of this occult planet, it will produce a high and fine feeling for art, a gift to decipher the secrets of nature, i.e.
it allows him to see somethin g there, where nothing exists to others, it gives some genius, it endows with insight into 60 things metaphysical.
We need only study the nativities of P.
Shelley, John Keats, Franz Liszt, Anton Rubinstein, Rudolf Steiner and others to understand the truth of this Neptune-influence.
As regards the environment of the native, Mercury represents in the horoscope the younger brothers and sisters.
The action of Mercury in the various signs is treated later on.
Mercury (Hermes) was the son of Jupiter (Zeus) and Maia.
He is represented as the messenger of the gods, and as early as God-child, great restlessness, mendacity, sharpness and thievishness show with him.
He steals 50 head of cattle, but lies so cleverly that Apollo begins to laugh.
As a pastoral god he is represented with a ram, which he leads or carries.
For the rest he has winged feet and a felt that on his head.
Type: the Emperor Francis Joseph.
He has ♀ rising and the ruler of this sign ♀ in M.
The Aphrodite of the Greeks.
She was called Astarte with the Phoenicians.
Nona with the Babylonians, Isktar with the Assyrians, Astoreth is the Hebrew name.
The return of the banished Isktar from the kingdom of Hades to the earth is the Assyrian symbol of the coming spring.
(The Sun enters Taurus in April; ♀ is the ruler of Taurus).
It was Freya, Lakshmi (the wife of Vishnu); it was the goddess of matrimony, love and beauty.
It is also known under the names of Lucifer and Hesperus.
Venus was the wife of Vulcanus.
Its influence is good, next to Jupiter it is our greatest benefic.
Its note is A, its colour yellowish-blue.
It governs the uterus, the genitals, ovaries, the throat, the Eustachian auditory tube, the veins, the breasts, the kidneys, jaws, and chin, and its illnesses are often the consequence of an excess of sensuality.
In the horoscope it represents elder sisters, wife, mother, sweetheart.
Its nature is feminine, cold and humid.
Where Venus occupies a strong position in the horoscope it leads to early attraction to the other sex, to love of all that is beautiful and harmonious, but also to amusement and gratification of the senses.
As long as the Venus-influence is not purified by Jupiter and Saturn, the last mentioned quality remains the dominating one in Venus.
Mars (passion), the other pole of Venus, must be overcome in order that the delicate action of Venus in all its purity and beauty can manifest.
We can distinguish 2 kinds of Venus-types, the high type, seeking "beauty", all that is idealistic and the low one, seeking sensuous pleasure.
Venus produces a fairly short, plump body with a round dimpled face, bright, kind eyes, dimpled chin, and pleasant voice; its good influence makes the native kind, helpful, philanthropic, artistic; but when strongly afflicted careless and sensual.
The latter especially when 61 aspected by Mars.
So we must regard in a sense every aspect of Mars and in fact of Uranus as well, as unfavourable, because the latter always gives a strange touch to the tendencies of Venus.
A badly aspected ♀ in a masculine horoscope denotes that the native cannot manage well with the other sex in the long run.
The same is indicated in a feminine horoscope where Mars (the antipode of ♀) is badly aspected.
With good aspects respectively the reverse may be accepted in a general sense.
In mythology Venus is represented now as naked, and now in a sea-green veil (born from the foam of the sea), she is usually accompanied by Swans and doves and by her son Amor (Cupid).
Aphrodite is usually brought into connection with the departure of spring and this is symbolized in the legend of Aphrodite and Adonis.
Type: Kaiser Wilhelm II, though he has ☿ as ascendant, yet the influence of ♂ in M.C.
is strong enough to be shown in appearance and character.
The purest Mars-type is certainly the English poet Swinburne.
Mars was the God of war and of hunting.
He was the son of Jupiter (Zeus) and Juno and was held in high honour in the Roman Empire.
Mars is the God of force.
In the Bible Mars is symbolised by the Devil.
In Greek, Ares; Egyptian, Artes; Sanscrit, Avahoek = sharp.
Mars governs the face, the bile, the taste, the genitals and the muscular system and causes illnesses of these parts.
Its illnesses are of an inflammatory kind, such as fevers, the pox, pimples, tumours, acute abscesses, wounds of cutting or burning, especially occurring in the face and further in the parts represented by the sign in which Mars is placed.
Mars marks its children by impressing them with its stamp!
Thus he or she that is born with Mars in the ascendant will usually be marked in the face.
In the horoscope Mars represents the elder brothers and in a feminine horoscope the husband.
Its note is G, its colour red (the dark Mars-red).
Taken in a general sense, Mars governs the animal kingdom and in man the animal tendencies and qualities.
When strongly posited in the horoscope it gives a dry, muscular, tall body with a lean head, broadened at the temples.
The bones are strongly developed.
Mars gives often red or fair curly hair, especially i ♂ is in the ascendant.
Its nature is malefic, hot and dry, choleric, passionate and fiery.
The character is combative, courageous, generous, vehement; wild at times.
The Mars-type shrinks from nothing and by his strong desire, !) The very small planet Eros which is between the Earth and Mars, need not be taken into account by us.
Its influence is not known.
Some arrange it among the Asteroids, it is, however, in another place as these.
62 which spurs him to action, and his perseverance, though it is not long-lived, he usually succeeds in all his enterprises.
Where he does not succeed, it is his superabundance of push and zeal, which often spoils his own affairs.
The lower Mars-type, especially with a strong affliction of Mars, is decidedly dangerous, often cruel, treacherous and always rude.
If Saturn moreover cooperates with (or fights) Mars in this direction, a regular ruffian or murderer type will be the effect.
With a higher-evolved Ego Mars, of course, does not express itself in this way, but when in a strong position in the horoscope, it cannot help impressing its stamp on the personality viz.
as impulsiveness, passionate-ness, sensuousness etc.
The calling of those who come strongly under Mars has to do with iron and sharp instruments, orbiting-influids; they are metal-workers smiths, stokers, butchers, "barbers, carpenters, soldiers and military men in general, surgeons, chemists, dentists.
Mars is the son of Zeus and Juno.
As the god of war he symbolises force, courage and audacity especially.
He is symbolised as a young, strong hero, or naked in full armour with a helmet on his short thick hair, a small mouth and deep-set eyes.
He is armed with a shield and a spear and cries and shrieks; there is quarrel and discord in his company and that is why he is avoided by the gods.
March-showers *Y*, November-storms it.
In both cas escf is the ruler of the sign in which the Sun is in March and November.
He had rising and the ruler ♃ on the ascendant.
Also the ex-president Taft.
The expansive nature of ♃ shows itself freely here.
The great benefactor of humanity.
Jupiter is the symbol of wisdom.
With the old Greeks he is the father of the gods - Zeus; with the Norse Thor; with the Egyptians Ammon; with the Chaldeans and Babylonians Merodach or Bel Merodach.
He is the God of righteousness and of justice.
The temples of Ammon and Dodona were devoted to him.
Jupiter governs the lungs, the liver, blood, digestive organs, and when afflicted it can cause disturbances and illnesses in these parts.
Taken in a general sense Jupiter governs the vegetable kingdom and the idealistic tendencies of man.
Of the native's environment ♃ represents the mostly optimist of the family.
As soon as the lower qualities in man have been suppressed it evolves in man the imaginative consciousness, the fore-runner of intuition and in inspiration.
Jupiter's symbol means that the spirit (here the intellect), symbolised by ♃, has risen over the limitations of matter (+) and thus has become free in its imaginative flight.
63 Its nature is moderately warm and humid, its colour is violet and indigo, its note is B.
Jupiter in the ascendant or in good aspect to the ascendant or to ☉ and ☽ is a token of good health and of success in life.
As its action is an enlarging one, so causing expansion, both on the material plane and on the higher planes, it does not only enlarge our consciousness, but if it is placed in the house that represents the body viz.
the ascendant, it makes the body large and robust.
The Jupiter-type has a robust, well-built body, a tendency to stoutness, a high forehead, is likely to be soon bald-headed.
The glance is open and prepossessing.
The hair is usually fair and the complexion is fresh and fair.
It is by far the largest planet of our solar system.
A strong position of Jupiter, e.g.
in the ascendant or M.C.
or a good aspect of Jupiter to sun and moon or to the ruler of the ascendant, further also a good aspect of ♃ to ☉ will improve a strongly afflicted horoscope very much.
The good things may linger, but under a strong Jupiter-influence they are sure to come at length.
The Jupiter-type therefore is jovial (Jove), hopeful, optimistic, he trusts in his "good stars" he says, and in using that expression he is as a rule ignorant of the real meaning of the word.
Jupiter makes one kindly-disposed, humane, honest, devout, popular and esteemed, but if it receives strong afflictions or is posited in a sig n that is in harmonious to its nature, it makes one proud, vain, selfish, conceited, hypocritical and the honesty of Jupiter's influence changes into a tendency to follow the general current and to be on good terms with everybody.
The tendency of desiring to be jovial and of liking to impress forcibly is natural to the Jupiter-type.
Jupiter is usually represented in the myths as sitting on a gold throne with lightning in his right hand and a sceptre in his left and a diadem on his head and he has a long undulating beard.
The eagle at his feet is his favourite bird.
Zeus is also represented sitting on the trunk of a tree, with a cock in his lap as the symbol of the rising day.
Under Saturn more will be said about Zeus as a god.
Type: Abraham Lincoln, ft in the asc.
() gives him the typical Saturnine appearance.
is the channel through which all have to pass if we are to raise our consciousness to a higher phase, and through imagination, intuition and inspiration come to a better conception of man and the Cosmos.
It is the "Watcher on the Threshold" that makes clear to us what we have to overcome of lower tendencies and qualities, before we may pass the threshold.
It is the purifier, the refiner, symbolised in the Bible as Satan, the tempter, represented in man as the lower self.
It is Ahriman, who gives us false ideas of everything and makes us overlook the real background of things as is, indeed, expressed in his symbol 64 (ft) i.e.
matter (-h) oversoul Q)).
In other words he makes the spirit appear as being subjected to matter and so limits thought to matter.
Saturn, therefore, represents cold brain-thinking.
As soon as, however, the lesson is learnt the spirit begins to master the lower self, the symbol becomes reversed to the symbol of Jupiter (♃), where the soul is put over matter.
Then, however, Saturn appears as a higher Jupiter, viz.
not as the bringer of imaginative consciousness, but as the bringer of intuition and by that the source of the knowledge collected in previous lives becomes opened to us and our view immeasurably enlarged.
Beforehand, however, we must by training (thinking) develop the latent brain cells in order that they can serve as channels for our knowledge, gathered in former existences.
Our physical brains therefore are, here too, the instrument.
Saturn has 10 moons x).
Its colours are grey, black and green, its note is D.
So we see that Saturn's good influence leads to the highest goal, whereas its bad influence expresses itself in all forms of limitation, such as coldness, hardheartedness, indifference, carelessness, avarice, mistrust, falseness, cowardice, fear, despondency and indolence.
Those who come strongly under this lower Saturn-influence have a most miserable life and often end by committing suicide.
Such a one can be known out of a thousand by his lean, somewhat bent body, black hair, th in beard, long and emaciated face, dark, gloomy eyes that never look one straight in the face, but are usually fixed to the ground.
Whatever he begins, fails, he does not succeed in his enterprises, and he spreads an atmosphere of misery and sadness round him which repels people.
Indeed, he prefers being by himself.
It governs the bones and joints, liver, spleen, and knees.
In a general sense we can say that the mineral kingdom is ruled by Saturn and so it governs in our body those parts that serve for support and affixing, such as the bones and calcareous formations.
All that is concrete, in our thinking also, comes under Saturn.
If Saturn is strongly posited in a horoscope and receives good aspects, it gives perseverance, power of work, a deep thinking intellect, the gift of concentration, intuition and it endows the native with skill and tact.
especially and in the 4th house it is very badly posited, if it receives here bad aspects from other planets.
it causes great difficulties in all enterprises, the honour is continually threatened and a fall is pretty well sure, however firm the native may stand.
In 4, it predestines a sad old age, usually in solitude, far from one's people!) The moons of Saturn move all in the direction of the plane of its ring, except Japetus, whose course forms a rather large angle with that ring.
Japetus is about the size of our Moon and its ever changing brightness has caused men to accep that it has an atmosphere, which made Proctor and other astronomers suggest that it is inhabited.
In 2 it brings poverty; in 5 childlessness or sorrow through the children, in 6 illness, in 7 it delays and works unfavourably on marriage and on all that belongs to the united life etc.
A strong Saturn is of great value in a horoscope.
It makes a true friend, on whom one can rely in all circumstances.
He has become this under its discipline.
Abraham Lincoln is a very striking Saturn-type.
When the lower influence of Saturn has been overcome, it gives great force by its favourable effect on thinking and by doing away with all haste and impetuosity.
Such a one has learnt to be silent and has stopped all argumenting and criticism.
He is a man of few words and is seldom positive in his decision, but what he says is correct.
By his attitude he proves the truth of the proverb: "Silence is power".
The majority of great men who have made the world speak about them and have enlightened us by their knowledge, had Saturn very strongly in their horoscopes.
A few examples: Goethe had Saturn on cusp 1, Napoleon in 10, P.
Shelley had Saturn on cusp 4, Abraham Lincoln on cusp 1, Lord Byron in 4, Charles Dickens in 4, Martin Luther on cusp 10, Edison has it in 4, Stanley in 1 etc.
This shows again the necessity of knowing the moral standpoint of the native in judging his horoscope; for with the low type a not very "well aspected Saturn in an angular house, especially 1 and 10, is very unfavourable.
Saturn in 10 is the token of a sure fall, as it in deed was in the life of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Saturn is represented in mythology as an old man, who holds in his right hand a scythe and in his left a serpent that, curled in a circle, holds the end of his tail in his mouth.
Saturn, the youngest of the sons (Titans) of Uranos, bereft his father of the reign and took the latter's place (physical manifestation of the earth).
It had been predicted that one of his sons would drive him from the throne and he therefore devoured all his children (the overcoming of the lower qualities of r))- The youngest, however, Zeus (Q|.), was saved by his mother.
With his brothers' help Zeus began to wage war against Chronos and the other Titans; which war ended by Zeus being conqueror (the sign ft becomes reversed in the symbol of Jupiter, 21, instead of matter ruling spirit, spirit now rules matter.
The Titans were thrown in the Tartarus, i.e.
the lower tendencies return to the place whence they took their origin.
Zeus shares the universal empire with his brothers; he himself gets dominion over the heavenly empire, Poseidon gets the sea and the waters, Pluto becomes ruler of the nether-world and the abode of the dead, where he marries Persephone, daughter to Demeter (Ceres).
Uranus Type: Emmanuel Swedenborg, he had 9 in strong aspect to O and !
This planet, also called Herschel after the discoverer, though it also owes its origin to the Sun according to the nebular theory of Kant-5 66 Laplace, does not quite belong to our three-dimensional natural kingdom.
It forms just like Neptune, a transition from the third to the fourth dimension and that is why the influences which come from these two planets are so confused and weird.
Both give the impulse to the origination of eccentric art which however incomprehensible and deformed for the eye, yet is the transition, the fore-runner of the art of the future that will gradually ripen under the mysterious influence of these planets.
The attempts made nowadays are no more than the stammerings of a child.
Only those who have developed their consciousness to a higher plane, can somewhat answer these high vibrations and there are but very few of those.
The greater part do not respond or respond but imperfectly.
The latter are those who have Uranus strongly posited but are not evolved far enough to understand it.
The result is eccentricity, a great independence and impulsiveness, strange, sometimes silly manners and habits; it produces odd people that are often not understood by others and usually scarcely by themselves.
They act under impulses, of which they themselves do not know the origin.
A clear example of this peculiar Uranus-action may undoubtedly be seen in some Futurists, e.g.
the Cubists, who viz.
produce a kind of positive chaos, there is something hard and decided in it, which does not occur with the Neptune-chaos (see Neptune p.
If the ind individual is higher evolved the influence of Uranus will be expressed, besides in oddity, in love to anything extraordinary, in a strong attraction to occult science, astrology, love for antiquities and in general for something that is closely connected with genius.
With aeronauts we shall always find a strong Uranus-influence in the horoscope.
Van Maasdijk, the unhappy Dutch aeronaut, e.g.
had $: in n (airy sign) n cf and cf in the 10th house.
They excel by their inborn gifts of intuition, inspiration, and clair-voyance in studies connected with life and nature in general; they find solutions where others see no light.
That is the reason why inventors must be sought under the Uranus-types.
Their lives are as it were, in a higher octave than that of ordinary men.
Thus it is that Uranus is looked upon as a higher octave of Mercury; that is why..
that which is feeble, in the lower type is expressed in thinking.
It is the planet of the higher intellect.
Neptune is in the same way a higher octave of Venus and we see that the weakness with the lower Neptune-type is expressed in feeling (see Neptune).
Uranus is in its action malefic and sudden; like lightning does its action strike us and in quickness of activity it surpasses the planet Mars, though it is much less malefic than Mars.
Astrologers, occultists, spiritualists, hypnotisers, aeronauts, electricians, antiquaries com e strongly under Uranus' influence.
Uranus hates all convention, is original in everything and very 67 impulsive; of course, much depends on the aspects and of the sign.
In airy signs it is best.
Uranus is counted with ♄ and ♂ among the malefics and such it is in its bad aspects.
Its conjunctions and parallels can work in a malefic way only on characters holding on to what is old.
These aspects just denote to them that they have to tear themselves away from old things and from convention.
Uranus accomplishes here its calling of "awakener" or "stimulator" to broader, progressed things.
We cannot and must not think and act as our fore-fathers, however good and beautiful their thoughts may have been, we may learn by their example, but must ever bear in mind that everything evolves and widens, our consciousness and thinking as well.
Uranus is the pioneer, the reformer and any one who cooperates in this progressing spirit will get to know Uranus not as a malefic but as a benefic.
Uranus symbolises the transition to a higher phase of consciousness and at the same time the transition to a higher dimension, for together with the widening of consciousness there will be revealed to us a world that is manifested in more dimensions than the three of the physical world.
"New life goes then along new paths." So Uranus reveals to us a four-dimensional, new world (the astral world) which always surrounds us on all sides but which becomes observable only under the awakening influence of this planet that belongs to a higher octave.
That is why Uranus is also called the planet of clairvoyance.
According to mythology Uranus arose from Chaos, the infinite empty space and became heaven, which vaults Gea (the earth) thus being united in wedlock with the earth.
Their children were the Titans of whom Chronos (Saturn) was the youngest.
In Greek mythology we read that Saturn has been castrated by Uranus.
So, here too, we find hidden in a symbolic form the deep truth that Saturn must do away with his lower inclinations in order to rise to the higher consciousness of Uranus.
Type: Leo Tolstoy, he had tj fin VII.
What has been said of Uranus relating to the height of its vibrations and the impossibility for nearly all mankind to respond normally to them, holds true for Neptune in a still higher measure.
This planet also is not purely in the three-dimensional condition in which our earth is and in which our senses observe the surroundings; hence the great difficulty to answer its vibrations.
Neptune, the Psyche, the Poseidon of the ancient Greeks, is in a still stronger measure the planet of chaos, than Uranus.
That which is chaotic expresses itself here more in feeling than in thinking, because, as we saw, ^ may be regarded as a higher octave of $.
All that is nebulous, vague and indefinite comes under Neptune and further also the fine arts, violin-playing, (play of feeling).
A good aspect 68 of it with ☉ gives often a tendency and talent for the fine arts; sometimes also, with highly evolved individuals it brings genius, as may be shown by various horoscopes of ingenious people.
Very little is known of this planet, seeing that it was discovered so late as 1846 and the investigations therefore are of a relatively recent date.
Neptune has one moon.
Where it occupies a strong place in the horoscope e.g.
in an angle, one might expect some peculiarity; sometimes a tendency or characteristic which the native does not like to give information about because it is a riddle to himself.
With aspects to Sun, Moon or Mercury we may expect a little spark of genius, but as already said, only with the highly evolved man.
With the lower type Neptune has a chaotic or perverse action.
In the ascendant it gives large, light blue eyes and a much wrinkled face.
Psychometry, clairaudience and telepathy are qualities which come under this planet.
Neptune is no malefic, but because so few can respond to its good influence, it is counted among the malefics by many.
A few examples of strong and harmonic Neptune-action we have in the horoscopes of the two occultists Dr.
The former has ♆ 5° in Pisces and the latter and ♆ 10° in Aquarius.
With the former the action is expressed on the mental plane especially, with the latter on the astral.
Neptune is distinguished from all other planets by its moon moving ro undit in a direction opposite the movements of the moon so all other planets.
This is an interesting point for those who study esoterics.
Neptune is best in watery signs especially in Pisces.
As Venus is called the planet of love, we may call its higher octave Neptune, the planet of higher, universal love of mankind.
Many artists and would-be artists come very strongly under the perversed action of Neptune, expressed in showy dress, long hair, and often a manifold use of the "wet" of the earth.
It seems as if they, by strange conduct and dress want to make up for what they fall short of in artisticity.
They feel nebulously, and interpret nebulously and vaguely in their accomplishments.
The sharp contrasts in line and tone which are the characteristics under Uranus influence are never found here; that which is extraordinary and incomprehensible is expressed in quite a different way with this mysterious planet.
Neptune, the God of the Sea, is represented as a strong man armed with a trident and surrounded by dolphins and tritons.
Though he is known as an unfaithful, adulterous husband, he is highly honoured as a God, especially on the coasts.
His palace is situated in the depths of the sea at the coast of Nehaia and, in the neighbourhood of Samos, the twelve towns of the Asia-Minor-Jonic-union held the festival of the Sea god Neptune.
The places of the earth which are turned over by the wheels of his chariot (a gigantic shell He makes fertile and, joined with the nymphs, he gives being to a strong generation.
His living attributes are the horse, the bull, and the dolphin.
The Sun: Regular circles, full curves and spirals.
The Moon: Irregular, crooked lines.
Mercury: Short, sharp lines and gentle, fine curves.
Venus: Rhythmic curves and curves.
Mars: Sharp angles and hooks; fine, straight lines.
Jupiter: Full, firm lines and curls.
Saturn: Hard, short and straight lines, shrunken forms.
Uranus: Weird, original, fine curls and hooks.
Neptune: Vague indistinct curls and curves, here and there broken off, and rhythmic.
It will undoubtedly give surprising results to study the handwritings of the different planetary types in connection with the above list.
Parallels as well may be drawn between the planetary type and the style of writing which corresponds to it.
Geocentric Movement of the Planets, etc.
3) goes through all signs of the Zodiac in 27 days 7 hrs.
♄ 12 years, ♅ 29 1/2 years.
The time on an average is given.
By their movement the time is sometimes a little less, sometimes more.
The rotating upon their own axis, so the length of the day is on ☉ about the same as the earth's, so 24 hrs.
on ☽ 10 hrs.; on ☿ 10.30 hrs.; on ♀ 9.30 hrs.
Moons 70 The Senses and the Planets.
clairvoyance.) Two senses that still have to psychometric sense.} be evolved.
An electric hypothesis.
How the planets can influence us, and what the real essence of those influences are, I mean the spiritual substance of them, is a question that should be answered by esoteric astrology, inasmuch as it can be put in words.
I can only say here that we must represent that which we call a planet to be an infinitesimal part of its real, almost infinite sphere which influences us.
It is only the physical centre of its power, just as we should regard the visible Sun as the physical centre of power, or as the heart of our planetary system.
The real, higher spheres of the planets permeate each other, and the Sun in its turn permeates the whole.
The Sun, as the heart sends its vital power (Prana) through the whole body of the Cosmos, just like the human heart provides the body with the nourishing blood.
"As above so below." Because we usually observe with our material senses only and as these play us tricks in all regards, we have a very limited representation of the planets and we see only that small part which manifests physically to our eye.
The real planet escapes our observation and so it is with everything around us; we observe only the outer side of things; the real substance is beyond us.
So we can imagine that the substance of the planets permeates the earth i.e.
manifests on and through our earth and in all that lives and evolves.
Thus we arrive at a better insight in its actions and influences.
Am a material explanation that may be of assistance, might be found in the following: Science teaches us that in and on the surface of our earth constant magnetic and electric currents move, ever subject to change.
With regard to our earth we speak of positive and negative magnetic and electric currents; the earth has its magnetic poles etc.
In short we may regard the earth as a gigantic electro-magnet, and surely the other planets as well.
With this representation agrees what is known of the specific weight 71 of the earth, viz.
if we take the average of the spec.
weight of that part of the crust of the earth we know, (taking land and sea as an average) we arrive at a S.W.
of the earth's crust of about 2.5.
It has, however, been shown that the S.W.
of our earth is about 5.4, so the conclusion must be made that the greater part by far of our earth's core must have a S.W.
of at least 6.57 which is pretty nearly that of iron.
We may expect the same with the other planets, seeing that they originated from the same source; on the understanding, however, that there, through more or less density, the aggregate may differ considerably.
It is only another condition of vibration and it is just this vibration occurring in infinite change, that is the real reason of the maya, the illusion, of all that is material; it is the condition of vibration which hides that which is really virtual behind an unvirtual mask, the godly thought crystallized as it were.
Something else however makes this logical supposition a certainty.
For what is it we see?
The meteorites which now and again come down on our earth and which are looked upon as the remains of a vanished heavenly body, consist principally of iron, so-called meteor-iron.
It is only reasonably to suppose that the component parts of our cosmos (except a part of the Comets) took their origin from the Sun (according to the Kant-Laplace theory) and the difference in composition cannot be large therefore.
We m may take it that the earth's core also consists of meteor-iron.
The sun constantly shines on the gigantic magnet of our earth which means that this is constantly being laden with electricity.
All data, therefore, are supplied to compare as pointed out in the above treatise, our planets, to gigantic electro-magnetic bodies (in a merely physical sense, of course), exercising a reciprocal action on each other, changing continually, according to the positions they occupy with regard to each other.
As to the Sun I need only point out the fact that the violent electric and magnetic storms which sometimes make such ad havoc here, appear to be connected with the becoming visible of solar spots, so the disturbances in the electric emanation of the Sun (Prana) entail disturbances in the electric equilibrium of the earth.
So there is an electric current from the Sun to the earth and logically also vice versa.
The Sun sends out no heat, but its electric currents meet resistance in the atmosphere and at the earth's surface and consequently heat arises.
The atmosphere acts as a protection here, for the earth would be scorched, if the electric currents, without this protecting atmosphere, met the full resistance of the earth's crust.
There where the earth's atmosphere is very thin e.g.
on high mountain tops, the effect of the Sun's rays on the skin is much stronger than down below.
Every mountaineer knows this.
The cause of it i snot absolutely the reflexion of the Sun's rays by the snow on the fields of ice.
72 As a matter of course, if we go further, after the existence of electric sources in the Cosmos has been shown, we accept that these electric currents undergo modifications according to the sources (the centres of power) changing their places in relation to each other, (the Aspects of the planets).
We should not imagine that the planetary influences serve to bring only our earth and all that is on it, to perfection.
It would be very absurd to suppose that we signify so much more than the inhabitants of the other planets, and that our planet, one of the smallest, would signify more than all other planets taken together.
Our earth in its turn works at the evolution of our entire Cosmos and the other planets experience our influence as well as we theirs.
We have enough to do in our earthly household without bothering with these others, but of those who doubt whether the other planets are inhabited I should like to ask if they can imagine a single spot where no life manifests itself in some form?
Life is everywhere, evolution is everywhere, only the form and the way in which it expresses itself, changes of course, according to the given conditions, and the conditions on the other planets differ greatly with those on our earth.
Our solar system is the objective original of all that we can observe in nature as copy and seeing that the solar system is subject to endless and numerous changes, the number of different copies and reflecti on so fit is also endless, endless not only in man, but in animal and plant as well and if we look for it, we can find in every plant, flower, and animal the relation it bears to a certain constellation.
Man, animal, plant and mineral are, as it were, the symbols of the Cosmos in its different stages and it must be possible to indicate this in numbers.
The planets are in reality in us and the reverse, we are in the planets, just as the planets and the earth are in the Logos and the Logos in us.
Our physical senses show us only that which we might call the symbols of the Cosmos, viz.
the physical manifestation of the heavenly bodies.
In the same way we might regard all that we observe physically, as symbols of the real Essence of the things we cannot observe with our senses.
Everything around us in nature, down to the slightest atom of matter bears the stamp of the whole Cosmos, of the Sun and its planets and according to a certain part of the Cosmos expressing itself stronger than the other parts, we may arrange the creatures of the four kingdoms man, animal, plant, mineral, under the Sun, Moon and the various planets.
Paracelsus has pointed out the way to do so very ingeniously.
Our knowledge of physics improves ever and with every new discovery new prospects are opened.
This was the case when Maxwell discovered the connection between the velocity of light and the electric and magnetic constants.
73 In the electron is found the negative atom-unit of electricity i.e.
in the microcosmos of the atom is discovered the planets; and in course of time the positive atom-unit will possibly also be found, i.e.
the Sun of the atom-microcosmos.
The atom with its electrons is believed by material science to be the prototype of a complete planetary system on a small scale and in this the electrons represent the planets, while the positive atom-unit, which they are searching for, of our atom-microcosmos, represents the Sun.
It is the great discovery of our century; the electric theory of matter and we have been brought to accept adhesion, cohesion, magnetism, radiation to be products of electricity.
And the Sun is the inexhaustible source of all that electricity.
As the earth is being influenced, so does it influence in its turn the other planets and their inhabitants.
We must look upon the planets as spiritual beings with a body, a soul and a spirit like man; and together with man these cosmic beings are included in evolution.
That, in reality, every heavenly body we know under the name of star, planet etc.
is a living being, is a doctrine which has been proclaimed at all times, from the philosophies of the olden times down to the occult teachings of nowadays.
We find this doctrine also in the various periods of time between these extremes.
Plato says (I quote from an English translation), "The Sun, the Moon, and each of the Stars , has a distinct soul inherent in itself or peculiar to its own body.
Each of these souls invested in the celestial substance and in each of the visible celestial bodies, is a God.
However highly evolved and individualised, their life and their consciousness is in a sense, the life and the consciousness of the Logos.
However strange it may seem on the surface of it, to represent the real planets as permeating each other, in reality it is not so passing strange if we accept the development of the physical planets according to the Nebular-theory, in which the ring from which later the planet contracted itself, represents the outward boundary of the real planet.
All that lies inside the ring, was therefore originally the substance of the planet and this it remains, also when later there reforms itself inside the ring a centre of power that manifests on the three-dimensional plane the physical planet.
The Essence of the Sun-Logos comprises and permeates all planets, which we may regard as the organs of the Sun-Logos, with the physical Sun as heart.
The four elements in the Cosmos (1 earth, 2 water, 3 air, 4 fire) correspond to 1.
the heat of the body of the microcosmos, and so we might go on drawing parallels between Cosmos and man.
"As above, so below".
x) Plato and the other Companions of Socrates by Georg Grote.
Further see about this the Secret Doctrine by H.
74 That man is a close copy of the Cosmos as it is at the moment when man is born, does not appear only from the shape the body takes and the qualities that typify the character, but also from the possession of special characteristics of the soul, such as psychism.
We find that those natures that are strongly psychic and magnetic are born at a moment when the magnetic intensity of the earth is strongest i.e.
The Sun is then in the horoscope near the lowest point of the Meridian (Nadir).
We see that the ☽, and ☿ also, when they are at this point at birth, bring out psychism.
The Sun and the Moon, however, being the more powerful.
It makes the native very negative and therefore receptive to all changes in the magnetic conditions of the environment.
The reverse holds also good, viz.
many planets in the M.C.
makes man very positive.
Mars especially does this its colour is red and it strengthens the red colour of the M.C.
Another proof might be taken from the experiments which Carl von Reichenbach took with sensitive people, during a great number of years and by which he discovered that both earth as well as man show the same colours in the aura.
This aura appeared most distinct with man when he lay in a horizontal posture with his head northward.
Then the aura around his head is blue, and at his feet dark red, and in between transitions through greyish-blue at the right side to yellowish-green at the left side.
The heavens also s how these colours, viz.
the magnetic blue in the Nadir (North), and the electric red in the Zenith (South), grey on the eastern, and yellow on the western horizon.
The representation of the Sun and the planets in one, seems less absurd to us when we understand that we can in no way rely on our limited material senses and that our representation of time and space is also false.
As it is, we cannot but connect our representations with conceptions of time and space.
It is so simple to say "space is infinite" i.e.
nothing can be added to it or subtracted from it but by stating this we should at the same time conclude that it does not exist, and the same holds true for time.
Time and space are conceptions arising from the faulty imaginative faculty of the human spirit i.e.
limitations in our power of observation.
In reality neither of them exist.
We may perhaps approach this conception if we compare our observation of nature through the window of a railway-compartment of a moving train to our ordinary observation.
In the first case we see telegraph posts, and trees etc.
rush past our view and we see them one by one, but getting out of the train we see the whole and at rest.
The latter would correspond to observation without the limiting factors of space and time, whereas observation from the railway compartment window corresponds to the condition of our physical perceptive faculty.
See Carl von Reichenbach: The Od.
By long observation it is known that the planets and cusps of the houses in certain degrees of angular distances exercise their strongest influence.
The earth with all that is on it, is constantly subjected to these influences.
The strongest action occurs under the following degrees: Sign Aspect c/Conjunction A Y.
A P Opposition Square or quadrate Semi-square Sesquiquadrate Trine Sextile Semi-sextile Quincunx Parallel Degrees 180 90 45 135 120 60 30 150 Influence Variable, dependent on the nature of the planets.
In harmonious Harmonious Inharmonious Variable.
The f, 8, D, A are very strong in their action, the *, Z, Q weaker, the v and A very weak.
Many astrologers accept also the Quintile = 72 harmonious, the Bi-Quintile = 144.
These very weak influences, however, are usually neglected.
With aspect is thus meant the distance between two planets, expressed in degrees.
If two planets are placed, each in about the same degree in a different Sign of the same trigon (see p.
34), they form a trine (A) aspect (= 120 distance).
d 12 V = AQ $ 2n = Af?
For instance, planets in the fiery trigon V, 14 & = A 2j.
9J or in the airy trigon n, = 0 = .
In the same way planets placed in a different zodiacal sign, belonging to the same trigon in about the same degree in the watery trigon (23, til, x) or in the earthy trigon (V, np, rff) form a trine (A) aspect, as they are at about 120 distance from each other.
When two planets are posited in two different signs of the same trigon, the difference in degrees being 15, they form a 135 (120 + 15) = Q aspect e.g.
3ft 18^ or 2SB Q 17m..
Planets in about the same degree in different signs of the three crosses (see p.
34) form a square aspect (D), i.e.
90 distance; or an opposition aspect () when the planets are placed opposite, at half a circle's distance.
The cardinal cross is formed by the signs V, SB, = o =, J?, 76 the fixed cross by V, Q..
"1.~, and the mutable cross by n, w,, ?, 3C- When a planet is in one of the last degrees of a zodiacal sign, it can form an aspect to a planet in one of the first degrees of another trigons oe.g.} 2X is about 120 from Q 29, ?; the distance is 123.
d 12V forms a Daspect to 2J.
An aspect need not be full (complete) to come into operation; the action of the planets on each other can be observed, though there is a difference of some degrees.
The extent of the sphere of influence varies for each planet, experience having taught that a special limit (orb) l) has to be accepted for each planet.
These limits (orbs of the planetary aspects) will be mentioned in one of the following chapters.
It is thus not difficult to compute in a horoscope when planets will be in conjunction (tf) or when at about 30, 45 or 60 distance from each other and so take down the dv., Z or * etc.
aspects in the scheme of aspects, (see chapter Judging the Horoscope, birth-scheme p.
145.) When we regard these aspects, or angles closer, we find that they are all angles of regular polygons described in a circle.
The angle is formed either by the sides at the circumference or by the radii drawn from the centre to the angles.
So is the angle of 30 characteristic of the regular dodecagon, 45 of the reg.
octagon; 60 of the reg.
triangle, 90 of the reg.
quadrangle; 120 of the reg.
hexagon, 135 of the reg.
decagon, and the 8 and & correspond to the straight line.
It is universally known that nature works along mathematical lines; we see this a.o.
in the ratio of forms of crystal; we see it in the ratio of the golden cut (1 to 1-62) which recurs everywhere in the four kingdoms of the Cosmos as well as in the distances of the celestial bodies which constitute the Cosmos (more about this later).
We can conceive how in a glass of water when freezing, the invisible, ethereal dynamic rays are present, along which we see the ice-crystals form.
Further this can be traced in the forms of crystal of most metals e.g.
in which all the above-mentioned angles are to be found.
This may throw some light on the way in which the planets influence us.
If we represent the Sun and the planets as one whole body (of course no 3-dimensional physical body is meant) the component parts of which are harmoniously arranged in the real (etheric) body of the Sun and we imagine that in this enormous body of the Cosmos the lines of splitting which we find in crystals are present, we begin to With orb is meant the limit of an aspect, within which the action of a planet is observable.
Thus cf 13V and 113V are a conjunct, but also rf 13V and y 6V form a conjunct; Q 9.n.
and J 9yz is a AQ]), but also Q 5^* and 3 11~z form a AQ"]) The Q and ^) are within the orb of a A aspect.
77 understand how these must be formed after the great model of the Cosmos and how the Cosmos must influence us as well, along these lines.
Thus the crystal-forms might put us on the track of possible new aspects.
Outlines of the Aspects in Relation to the Evolution of Man.
Of the different standpoints from which we may regard the aspects to search into their meaning, the point of view of Karma and Character is to us surely the most interesting, because it is especially the aspects between the planets that show us the consequences of our actions in former lives.
78 We divide the aspects into harmonious and inharmonious ones and we know already that they are called thus after the nature of the action they produce.
We saw that this cosmic influence cannot be inharmonious in reality, but that we feel them such by our own disharmony, which expresses itself in illness of our body, or disturbances in our consciousness, either in our thinking or in our emotions.
Harmony and disharmony are, just like good and bad, only the opposite poles of the same quality, the evil comprises the abuse of the good and when we have been excessively guilty of transgressing in former incarnations, we find it denoted in this incarnation in our birth-horoscope as an inharmonious aspect.
If we in short characterise the planets as follows: ☉ = the Higher Self (Ego) ☿ = Egoism, ☿ = Intellect ♃ = Higher Intellect ♀ = Love ♃ = Higher Love, and ♂ = Passion ☽ = the transmitter, the temporary self.
☊ = Devotion (personality), it will not be hard to arrive directly at a rough conclusion concerning the aspects of the various planets.
An aspect between ☉ and ♂ (☉♂) is expressed e.g.
in the character as selfishness and in all our experiences in life, as limitation and hindrance (adversity); so we may rightly suppose that we having cultivated that selfishness in former lives e.g.
by being too little ready to help others have put the stone that hinders our progress (limitation) in our way ourselves.
It indicates a conf conflict between our higher self and the lower tendencies, in our past and the latter proved to be still too strong for submitting willingly.
In this life we shall often knock against that stone till we have learnt our lesson.
A aspect between ☉ and ♄ (☉♄) shows us the good side, the opposite pole of limitation.
This aspect is expressed in the character as frugality, simplicity, earnestness, power of will, concentration and depth of thought, qualities cultivated in former lives, by doing our duty with punctuality under any circumstances.
Thus a ☌ and an ☍ aspect between ♂ and ♀ will denote a conflict between passion (♂) and love (♀), and the stone which we on account of this, find in our way, keeps causing new conflicts which are to lead us to ultimate victory over that which is lower.
These examples will suffice for a general illustration.
The inharmonious aspect indicates an abuse of the good, in former lives, it indicates a resistance we have to overcome, a stumbling block.
The harmonious aspects, on the other hand, indicate a right use of the good and indicates help, and sources of help, we have created for ourselves in former lives and from which we can now profit (△ trine, ✳ sextile aspect).
79 We have laid out our road of life ourselves and we have to blame ourselves that this road often has steep slopes and sharp rocky points, but we also owe it to ourselves that the road is not void of agreeable shady resting places and splendid vistas which renew our strength as we go on.
We now understand why Karma signifies "action" and why in our birth-horoscope we have to see the road which we must walk during this incarnation.
Thus does astrology teach us as clear as day that our character makes our destiny, but we must take the word character in a somewhat different meaning from the one it is usually used in, we should consider it a temporary dress in which the Ego is wrapped for this earthly life.
Astrologers are sometimes inclined to turn up their noses at one whose horoscope has many inharmonious aspects.
It is true this often is a proof of a less elevated character, but it may also be a proof of great strength of the Ego which had at its incarnation the courage to take up a cross that would be too heavy for many people.
It did so with a view to progress quicker, by "working out Karma" as much as possible in this life.
That such a one has a hard life and will have to struggle with all kinds of adversities needs scarcely be mentioned; he has the strength for it and will conquer in the end, or succumb under it, but never will his adversities and hard experiences seduce him to do a mean deed and this it is that distinguishes him from the low type with a very inharmonious horoscope, who has not yet taken himself in hand.
"There is no death what seems to us transition, This life of mortal breath, Is but a suburb of the Life Elysian, Whose portal we call Death." LONGFELLOW.
80 Outlines of the Aspects.
Reckoned from both upwards and downwards.
We might now treat the aspects separately in their development.
The Conjunction (☌) means the beginning of a new cycle; the old one is finished, it has brought us its experiences and we begin anew; so it is a commencing.
Whether this commencing will be harmonious or inharmonious depends on the nature of the planets which form this aspect.
(This will be gone into more fully in the Chap.
The Aspect-Influence of the Planets).
We may see it in a tendency of character which is going to be formed, but in many cases a tendency of character that had already quite matured on a higher plane and only awaited an impulse to spring forth on the physical plane.
The Semi-sextile (30°) represents the tendency of character which has developed, but which has not yet become a characteristic because it is not yet hardened in the purifying fire of trial.
This aspect is expressed more as !) Aarde = Earth, Conjunctie = Conjunction, Oppositie = Opposition, Drie-hoekig = Trine, Vierkant = Square, Sextiel = Sextile, Half-vierkant = Semi-square.
81 contemplation than as action.
Only with very progressive natures it can transpose itself already in harmonious action, because here the purifying fire of the next aspect has already worked.
The Semi-square aspect (45°) represents the first difficulties on the road and it will depend on the overcoming or no of those difficulties, which work more on the mental and astral planes than on the physical, so on our thinking and feeling, whether the tendency of character will become a characteristic or no.
This aspect brings us opportunities which, however, end in disappointments.
The Sextile aspect (60°).
Here the tendency has become a harmonious characteristic and this becomes a strong source of help in life.
This aspect brings us opportunities for our further growth and helps us onward.
But in order to become an inseparable part of ourselves, it must be subjected to: The Square aspect (90°).
Here a purifying takes place, not principally on the mental and the astral planes, but especially on the physical plane, and as the resistance is greatest there, this aspect promises a hard struggle, resistance in its strongest form.
All we try to accomplish is prone to fail, because we have to overcome that resistance everywhere.
That which is highest in us, should grow and our selfishness should decrease, die out.
Then aspect is the aspect of death and the new life coming out of it.
The characteristic comes forth from the battle victorious and has now become a fixed and inseparable possession of the Ego unalienable and so a strong support on his way onward harmony.
Here the fruit of a victory gained with difficulty, are gathered.
The Sesqui-quadrate aspect (135° Q) we may regard as a second purifying on the astral plane, after the characteristic has stood the test of the physical plane and now equipped with experience, it can go onward with more certainty and arrive at a marriage in the opposition.
In the Quincunx-aspect (150° A) the same is repeated on the mental plane and in The Opposition (180°) it must appear whether the obtained quality by a mutual understanding, a combination with another, can arrive at a harmonious union and thus rise up high, or whether the result will be an inharmonious confusion.
The Aspect-Influence of the Planets.
Very harmonious is the trine and sextile between the benefics ♃ and ♀.
Harmonious is the conjunction and sextile of ♃ and ♀ to ☉, ☽, or ☿.
Partly harmonious and partly inharmonious are the <3 and P.
and $ to d1, ft, or $:.
The same aspect with tis wholly dependent in its expression on the moral standpoint of the native.
6 82 Inharmonious are the $\text{f}$ and P.
of $\text{d}$, $\text{T}$?
and $]$ to $\text{O}3)$.
and $\text{O}\text{f}$ the same may be said as of $*$.
The $\text{d}$ and P.
of $\text{d}*$ to $\text{T}$?
The $\text{c}\text{T}$ and P.
to $\text{S}$: is harmonious.
$\text{S}$ causes always heat, impulse, passion, acute inflammation, and works quickly.
causes always cold, limitation, contraction, egoism, seclusion and works slowly.
$\text{S}$: combines the qualities of these two and works very sudden, but is less malicious in its effect.
In good aspects $\text{d}1$ gives besides impulsiveness courage and strength; while $\text{f}\text{t}$, besides slowness gives caution, perseverance and punctuality.
$\text{S}$: gives always inventiveness and originality.
The inharmonious aspects of the malefics become less unfavourable if one or both is posited in its (their) own house or sign.
Viewed from an esoteric standpoint, the parallel is of quite another influence than the $\text{d}$, but the observable effect is about the same only weaker.
expresses more a tendency than a characteristic.
With the 8 the judgment depends especially on which of the planets is the stronger; e.g.
when with an 8 $\text{d}$ to $\text{O}>$ Mars by position in house and sign, is stronger than the Sun, the impulsiveness, rudeness, over-activity, pride and restlessness which this opposition brings about will be controlled with greater difficulty than when the $\text{Q}$ is the stronger.
Planets in Strong or in Weak Positions p.
With $\text{d}8\text{S}$ e.g.
disharmony exists and a fight will ensue between the higher ($\text{S}$) and the lower emotions (d1) or passions and unless $ is more strongly placed than ", there is little chance that the lower nature will be conquered.
If the aspect is waxing the difficulty will be greater than in the opposite case when it is waning.
Q9~ and 2J.15 == a waxing A aspect, the Sun moves quicker than 2J.
and will overtake Q after some time and make the A "full".
915^ and $18 IVDC is a waxing * aspect; for though $, the quicker planet, has already passed the aspect, after some time the aspect becomes full again by $'s retrograde movement.
Of course much depends on the degree of power of will (taken in the highest sense) that the Ego has developed to which degree an inharmonious aspect will be expressed.
An aspect from fixed signs offers far greater difficulties than from cardinal or mutable signs.
A Q aspect from fixed signs e.g.
might be the expression of a fault hardly possible to be conquered in one incarnation.
A D aspect from mutable signs seems to denote more a bad habit which can be broken.
The same may be said of the Z and aspects, only the expression is much weaker.
83 The inharmonious aspects indicate a part of the Karma that must be worked out; the positions of the houses and the signs indicate the other part.
The harmonious aspects as the A, * and the good P.
and d denote good qualities gained in former lives; they help us through life.
A good aspect between e.g.
☉ and ♃ or of the ☉ resp.
☽ and ♃ or ♀, or between ☽ and ♀ may improve anotherwise very badly afflicted horoscope, provided with many bad aspects etc.
The aspects of the slow planets ♅ and ♆ must be regarded from a broader point of view; they denote less personal qualities than influences that work for some years and affect the whole world.
The aspects ☉ and ☽ to the four angles of the horoscope and of any planets in the ascendant and in M.C.
give the key-note of the character.
The strength of the aspect plays, of course, a great part.
By experience one has got to know the bounds within which an aspect exercises its action; e.g.
a ⚹ need not be exactly 90 to exercise an action as such and this holds true for the other aspects as well.
As the orbs ☽ of the planets is taken: The orb for a P.
= 18 and tf = 12 for O to D 8 and tf = 10 for Q or 3) to the planets A and D = 8* 7nnnn 'Z and = 4V 9.
^ The aspects that fall exactly within the outer bounds of the orb are very weak, but the action of them may be strengthened by another planet, e.g.
2% form a very weak opposition, but if we have at the same time J) in 6 = QI the 8O and bb becomes much strengthened by the n aspect which the moon forms with the Sun and with Saturn.
So far we have only occupied ourselves with what are known as zodiacal aspects.
There is, however, another group of aspects viz.
1) By orb is meant the limit of an aspect, within which the action of a planet is observable.
2) For the beginner it is wiser to leave the mundane aspects out of account, they are of secundary influence.
84 For these aspects the positions of the planets in the houses they occupy, are considered, and not the distance as reckoned by number of degrees of the Zodiac.
In every horoscope is e.g.
the 1st with the 4th house, the 3rd with the 6th etc.
in square mundane aspect; no matter how many degrees they are distant.
The 1st house is in sextile aspect with the 3rd, and in trine aspect with the 5th etc.
Planets which are in the 1st and in the 4th house are called in square aspect with each other.
Planets in the houses 2 and 4 are in mundane sextile aspect etc.
that is at least, if their positions are at proportional distances from the cusp e.g.
Let us take the planet 23'42 25 in the ascendant (horoscope p.
It is about 4 under the cusp of the ascendant.
at a proportional distance under the cusp of the 11th house (V 27) the planet $ were, ^ and would be in mundane sextile, while at the same time they are in square zodiacal aspect by the falling away of tf.
By proportional distance is meant the following: The 1st house in our example horoscope is only 15 (from 19 45' 25 5|), but the 11th house 3+30-h12=45 (from 27 T 12 n).
If therefore the distance from ^ to cusp 1 is 4, the distance from $ from cusp 11 (under it) must be 3 X 4 = 12 in order to be at a proportional distance and thus exactly in mundane sextile with t.
Here also, orbs are permitted.
So it may happen that at the same time there is a favourable mundane and an unfavourable zodiacal aspect, or t the reverse, between 2 planets and in that case they are considered to neutralise each other.
(More on this later) Likewise we have mundane trine aspect, mundane opposition, mundane square, mundane sesquiquadrate, mundane semi-quadrate, mundane semi-sextile aspects.
A mundane Parallel is when 2 planets are at proportional equal distances from the Meridian.
$265' Von 1 distance above the cusp of the 11th house would be in mundane P.
with a planet a little less than 1 beyond the cusp of the 6th house.
The difficulty with the mundane houses is the exact moment of birth and therefore the knowing precisely of the various cusps.
If one is not absolutely sure of this, it is wiser to leave the mundane aspects out of account.
Mundane aspects formed with the progressive planets, may in some cases by the action they exercise, put us on the track of the exact time of birth.
* 2 houses A 4 *fn3-41 P.
is equal distance to the right and to the left of M.C.
The fiery and the airy signs (positive and masculine) are also called electric signs.
The earthy and the watery signs (negative and feminine) are also called magnetic signs.
In the same way we may divide the planets: electric, magnetic.
☉ as the gatherer of the influences of all planets falls under both groups.
According as the rising sign, ☉ and ☽ are in electric or magnetic signs, the natures may be distinguished into electric, magnetic and electro-magn.
The electric or masculine natures have for the greater part electric planets in electric signs.
The magnetic or feminine natures have principally magnetic planets in magnetic signs.
The electro-magnetic natures have electric planets in magnetic signs or the reverse.
1 and 2 are harmonious, 3 is inharmonious, viz.
this character now attracts, now repels changing continually.
The same is the case when e.g.
the rising sign is magnetic and many electric planets, or Sun and Moon, or either Sun or Moon, are placed in electric signs.
It always gives a strong moral basis, when the signs of the Zodiac and the planets agree according to their nature.
The moral basis is weak when e.g.
☉ and ☽ are badly aspected and they receive not any good aspect.
When the planets agree in nature with the signs, and ☉ and ☽ are free of bad aspects, one may be sure of a high moral standpoint.
Electric nat ures radiate strength, like the Sun, they give of their abundance, they rule.
Magnetic natures absorb strength, receive, they are easily ruled.
The Astrological Houses.
We have seen that the 360 of the zodiacal circle are divided into the 12 divisions of the various signs of the Zodiac, each of 30 and that each of those divisions exercises its special characteristic influence.
Besides this zodiacal, there is the mundane division of the horoscope in 12 houses.
The 12 Houses are formed by the 12 radii drawn from the birth place to the horizon up there and under that at 30 distance, as the eye observes this.
The Houses of the horoscope form the immediate surroundings, the material circumstances of the native, in the midst of 86 which the Ego has chosen his special centre in order to learn from experience environment.
This shows that the astrological computation ought not to be helio-centric but ego-centric, that is to say, the place of birth is the starting-point.
Many very learned astronomers refuse to conceive this, they believe in their conceit that they live on the Sun, not knowing how ego-centric they are bound to their immediate surroundings!
The 1st house is the part which is under the rising degree and sounder the eastern horizon (ascendant) the 12th house adjoins it and is exactly above the eastern horizon.
The other 10 houses are in between successively, so that the cusp of the 4th house is the Nadir, the cusp of the 7th the Descendant and the cusp of the 10th the Zenith or M.C.
These 4 houses are called the angles of the horoscope.
The sign and the degree on the cusps of the houses indicate their size, which, according as one removes from the equator, differ more.
In high latitudes, i.e.
near the North- or South-pole, sometimes more than half the vault of heaven may be occupied by one zodiacal sign; and this is in this special case shared by at least three houses, whereas in the adjoining part of the heavens the signs appear closely crowded together and there e.g.
three signs may occur in one house.
At the latitude of England, for instance, two signs at most can occupy one house, in other words in England not more than one sign can drop out of an one house.
Everything in nature repeats itself with regular intervals.
in the growth of the human embryo we can follow the whole development of man in all his periods during the whole evolution of the earth, from his first origin up to his present state, so does the daily rotation of the Earth upon its axis and the passing of the Meridian by the various houses, give us a symbolic image of man's life during one incarnation.
the 4 angles of the horoscope.