(Harmony, Disharmony.) The Sun is the symbol of individuality and its position in the horoscope indicates the nature of the limitations imposed on the inner man, the Ego.
The sun, therefore, indicates the real man, who should guide and rule the lower dispositions, that which is animal.
It is the symbol of the will, of the heart, and is positive.
It is limited in its expression and opposed by the personality which is symbolised by the negative and receptive moon.
The moon absorbs the influences of all planets that form an aspect with it and these influences combined with the signs of the Zodiac which produced them, form the limitations of our personality and these limitations hinder us from giving expression to that which the sun expresses in our horoscope.
The moon symbolises the intellect.
Only when intellect and heart cooperate, we might expect harmony of spirit, soul and body.
In the horoscope, the body is represented by the ascendant i.e.
the sign which at birth is rising up on the eastern horizon, and the three combined we find back in Mercury.
It is the mission of , the symbol of mental thinking, to bring home that which the Cosmos sets to be learned.
Not before we have fulfilled that through 8, the moon and the ascendant can no longer darken and limit our real Being.
Then the O will rule 3) and ~K whereas in the 3) plays the chief part.
In ft the cross (+) is placed over the 3), i.e.
the soul is limited in its expression by matter, ft is the symbol of limitation and where Saturn is in bad aspect to sun or moon, this limiting influence is expressed as melancholia, fear, care, coldness etc.
This is especially the case when the moon and Saturn are in bad aspect.
A good aspect of sun or moon and Saturn is a great help.
Saturn is the planet of Karma and where that is not overcome, no rising is possible.
Saturn is the purifying power which possesses us and works in us, before it is given to us to lift our consciousness.
Nobody gets to that without Saturn's guidance.
It is the "Watcher on the Threshold", symbolised in the Bible by Satan.
In astrology it is called "the greater evil" opposed to Mars, "the lesser evil", symbolised in the Bible by the Devil.
So we see that evil is relative and serves to make us wiser by hard experiences and prepare us for a higher state of consciousness.
The vehement appearance, therefore, of the depressing and limiting Saturn-influence in anyone's life is usually a token that the time for higher spiritual development has come.
It is, as it were, a feeling of home-sickness for the real Home.
Man is born at the moment when the positions of the planets and signs are in exact accordance to his Karma and character and that point of time is in fact already defined by the moment when the sperm comes into contact with the ovum.
This moment is called the epoch.
J) Symbology will be spoken of at greater length later on.
21 The rule of Hermes (See Chap.