1|00:00:01|040|00:00:02|920Okay, friends, hi. 2|00:00:03|560|00:00:09|060We're going to begin with Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 100. 3|00:00:11|240|00:00:21|540I tried to do that a little earlier, but was stopped by some technical issues, so we'll 4|00:00:21|540|00:00:25|300do my best at this time to continue. 5|00:00:26|720|00:00:29|920We're on page 341 of the Cancerian chapter. 6|00:00:32|050|00:00:40|440We're talking about the interpretation of the Moon and Neptune, the development of form 7|00:00:40|440|00:00:42|980and of the sensitive psychic nature. 8|00:00:45|810|00:00:53|460And the Tibetan begins by saying that These are important developments for the soul who 9|00:00:53|460|00:01:00|480has chosen to incarnate. even though in a way they represent the more irrational part 10|00:01:00|480|00:01:04|680of the human equipment, because it is sub-mental. 11|00:01:06|500|00:01:23|440The building of adequate forms—that's under the influence of the Moon—and the use and 12|00:01:25|280|00:01:30|680control of form are essential if there is to be wise and right cooperation with the 13|00:01:30|680|00:01:39|280Plan of God. Because through the expression of archetypally conceived forms, the redemption 14|00:01:39|280|00:01:41|500of lower matter proceeds. 15|00:01:41|500|00:01:41|840Needs. 16|00:01:42|960|00:01:54|360The form is the medium of redemption because it holds relationships stable in a certain 17|00:01:54|360|00:02:05|140configuration for long enough for salutary impacts to be received by the units of life 18|00:02:05|140|00:02:07|120that are held in the form. 19|00:02:08|120|00:02:11|020Jupiter guarantees this in Cancer 20|00:02:11|380|00:02:19|860I think this is a lunar factor, but also the fact that Jupiter is exalted in Cancer guarantees this. 21|00:02:20|340|00:02:25|860Jupiter exalted in Cancer is the guarantee. 22|00:02:27|900|00:02:31|200Guarantees this from the very initial stage of birth. 23|00:02:31|200|00:02:37|920The adequate forms, the control of forms, the correct and good forms. 24|00:02:39|740|00:02:48|080Love as relationship to divinity and wisdom as relationship to form lie behind the soul's intent. 25|00:02:48|080|00:03:02|420And in this case, we find, interestingly enough, we find Jupiter as the planet of wisdom in this case. 26|00:03:05|740|00:03:09|420And Neptune, the other exalted planet in Cancer. 27|00:03:12|880|00:03:15|180Wisdom is related to the first ray aspect. 28|00:03:16|000|00:03:20|400Zeus, as the thrower of thunderbolts, has some of the first ray in its nature. 29|00:03:20|580|00:03:24|080It may be sort of the seventh-ray, first-ray monad for Jupiter. 30|00:03:24|360|00:03:26|600We cannot be sure yet. 31|00:03:26|940|00:03:31|180So far, it is largely expressing both love and wisdom. 32|00:03:32|400|00:03:37|600But when we find Jupiter in relation to Pisces, we do talk about pervasive wisdom. 33|00:03:38|600|00:03:46|080And love is definitely the quality of the second-ray monadic Neptune. 34|00:03:48|360|00:03:59|280In space and time, which are conditions of illusion, of course, for long eons, the form controls and hides the soul. 35|00:04:00|340|00:04:04|140This is a connection to Cancer and Virgo. 36|00:04:04|340|00:04:23|520And even in Jupiter, even with the influence of Jupiter, the soul is engulfed at first, overwhelmed by its container. 37|00:04:24|960|00:04:30|340Jupiter is like the whale, and Jupiter rules such animals of great size. 38|00:04:31|580|00:04:42|160Jupiter swallows the soul—the whale, which is, in this case, the personality—swallows the soul, the elemental life, the lower forms of life. 39|00:04:43|360|00:04:46|840So In space and time, for long aeons, form controls and hides the soul. 40|00:04:47|660|00:04:50|880And This is equally true in regard to the fluid psychic nature. 41|00:04:50|880|00:04:56|520Because the fluid psychic nature is not really spirituality, at least with early psychism. 42|00:04:57|520|00:05:00|860It does control and hide the soul. 43|00:05:00|980|00:05:10|300So many psychics seem to think that they are spiritual because of their psychic abilities. 44|00:05:10|900|00:05:13|200But this is not really the case. 45|00:05:15|340|00:05:25|620So these—the form aspect and the psychic nature—is usually the Moon and Neptune, respectively, or Jupiter related to the Moon and Neptune. 46|00:05:25|740|00:05:31|320You notice how in the glyph of Jupiter, the Moon is included, interestingly enough. 47|00:05:31|840|00:05:36|560So let's just call it here, Jupiter and the Moon. 48|00:05:40|760|00:05:46|060These—the form and the psychic nature—and I think I'll bring this into a place where it's just a little bit… 49|00:05:47|480|00:05:55|780reveal an eventual concrete perfection in Capricorn, even in the dense physical planes. 50|00:05:55|900|00:06:03|300This is the sign of greatest crystallization, just as it gives entrance into the light sublime, 51|00:06:04|240|00:06:07|120and all concretion is really made of light. 52|00:06:07|300|00:06:11|420It is—all concretion is concretized light, all concrete form. 53|00:06:12|620|00:06:21|540These—the form aspect and the psychic nature, Jupiter and the Moon—reach an eventual concrete perfection in Capricorn. 54|00:06:22|460|00:06:28|220In this respect, we find the beauty of Venus operative in Capricorn. 55|00:06:29|000|00:06:37|580Not simply the light sublime upon the mountaintop, but the beauty of the soul's design within matter. 56|00:06:39|440|00:06:43|760So they reach an eventual concrete perfection in Capricorn. 57|00:06:43|940|00:06:49|440Interestingly, the psychic nature as well, because even though Jupiter and Neptune fall, 58|00:06:49|580|00:06:55|480and especially Neptune in the case of the psychic nature, fall in Capricorn, 59|00:06:55|480|00:07:03|740still every fall is a kind of exaltation, and there is a peak of psychic understanding in Capricorn 60|00:07:03|740|00:07:11|980related to the Ajna Center, often ruled by Venus, but of which Neptune is the higher octave. 61|00:07:12|860|00:07:20|480So you will find an exaltation, as it were, of the form aspect and the psychic nature, 62|00:07:21|260|00:07:24|060a reverse exaltation in Capricorn. 63|00:07:24|060|00:07:33|220So they reach These (the form aspect and the psychic nature) reach an eventual concrete perfection in Capricorn 64|00:07:33|780|00:07:43|060to become again in Cancer the perfect instrument of service which the initiate wields 65|00:07:44|320|00:07:51|700as he seeks to render mass service 66|00:07:51|700|00:08:03|680instead of being involved and lost in the mass. So he returns, the initiate—whoops, the initiate returns to the mass. 67|00:08:12|480|00:08:20|820Okay. So the initiate returns to the mass with what he has achieved in Capricorn. 68|00:08:21|020|00:08:28|920It almost seems like this is something that we could consider the Dalai Lama having done. 69|00:08:28|920|00:08:32|920He has a Cancer in the incarnation, but he's obviously an initiate. 70|00:08:35|120|00:08:41|880And the perfect instrument of service which can reach the mass is wielded. 71|00:08:42|480|00:08:51|320And as I said, the initiate becomes the crab who cleans the ocean of matter which flows around the soul of men, 72|00:08:51|320|00:08:57|520or as it clears the ocean of matter which flows around the soul of men. 73|00:09:00|320|00:09:08|510The crab, souls, matter. The crab, matter. Let's see if we can get that. 74|00:09:11|630|00:09:21|630Creative hierarchy, here it is. The crab which clears the ocean of matter which flows around the soul of man. 75|00:09:22|390|00:09:29|330That's what it is. From page 62 of Esoteric Psychology, Esoteric Astrology 2. 76|00:09:32|230|00:09:39|770So, something is perfected in Capricorn and utilized in the valleys with the mass in Cancer. 77|00:09:39|850|00:09:47|070You almost wonder, there is a descent from the mountain: “Lost am I in light supernal, on that light I turn my back.” 78|00:09:47|410|00:09:54|150But you wonder whether a Capricorn incarnation could not be followed by a Cancer incarnation 79|00:09:54|150|00:10:07|250or whether an initiate with the sun in Capricorn might not have Cancer as the rising sign to be developed after initiation was taken. 80|00:10:08|950|00:10:22|310So this concrete perfection is preserved and is used as an instrument of service in the attempt to reach the mass, 81|00:10:22|310|00:10:29|910not with the entirety of what was understood on the mountaintop, but with enough so that the mass can understand. 82|00:10:30|130|00:10:38|130Moses had to come down from the mountaintop as well, and it's my impression that in addition to the Aries sign, 83|00:10:38|430|00:10:48|930which is reputed to be his along with Muhammad, that there was a Cancerian aspect—excuse me, a Capricornian aspect—to the lawgiver, to Moses. 84|00:10:48|930|00:11:02|030The power of Saturn in this sign furthers the ends and purposes of the governing energies or rays of harmony through conflicts 85|00:11:04|170|00:11:08|650(the Moon and Mercury) and of Neptune, 86|00:11:09|870|00:11:12|370Now there is power there, and that's interesting. 87|00:11:13|790|00:11:23|910There is not necessarily a weakening of the influence of Saturn, even though there is a detriment here. 88|00:11:25|590|00:11:29|890There is harmony through conflict, and Saturn adds to the conflict. 89|00:11:31|750|00:11:36|230And Neptune, well, it's more a planet of harmony. 90|00:11:36|230|00:11:53|530for in this sign, Saturn is in the form, is in the home of its detriment and thus produces those difficult conditions and situations which will lead to the needed struggle. 91|00:11:53|530|00:12:04|290This is something which people with Saturn, who have Saturn in relation to Cancer, really have to remember. 92|00:12:05|170|00:12:23|370That it's not just the penalties of incarnation they may be paying, but a needed struggle is produced perhaps between the direction taken by the elemental life and that which the soul attempts to impose from above. 93|00:12:23|370|00:12:29|590As an aspect of the divine plan for the person. 94|00:12:31|190|00:12:40|930The spiritual will is delivered through Saturn among other planets, maybe also Vulcan, even Uranus to an extent. 95|00:12:41|930|00:13:01|670So the difficult situations within the elemental nature, within the vehicles are produced and one tries to struggle against the lower tendencies to establish that which should, according to Saturn, be established. 96|00:13:01|670|00:13:11|770So what's interesting here is simply because a planet is in detriment does not mean that it is not powerful. 97|00:13:12|670|00:13:30|010I'm going to emphasize that word power: The power of Saturn in this sign furthers the ends and purposes of the governing energies or rays of harmony through conflicts (the Moon and Mercury) 98|00:13:30|810|00:13:39|010and of Neptune, The and of Neptune, would be to further the growth of the Christ energy. 99|00:13:41|170|00:14:01|170Neptune is Vishnu, is the Christ, is the transcendent one, the one who offers, especially at the first two initiations, the energy impacts which lead one beyond captivity to the form, at least the process is begun. 100|00:14:01|170|00:14:15|370This makes Cancer a place of symbolic imprisonment and emphasises the pains and penalties of wrong orientation. 101|00:14:17|050|00:14:18|210I've seen this in action. 102|00:14:19|770|00:14:35|970The orientation, if it is wrong, incorrect, is an orientation towards the strengthening of matter form against the refinement that the soul would see occur. 103|00:14:37|170|00:15:00|670So a person is held within a struggle with Saturn impelling towards liberation through discipline and a certain aspect of Cancer seeking to hold the individual where he or she may be. 104|00:15:00|670|00:15:17|610So in this confined place, and Saturn contributes to that confinement, says “you shall not move out of this place until you succeed in the right way within that struggle.” 105|00:15:18|490|00:15:26|610In this confined place, the consciousness and the life activity of the individual is imprisoned. 106|00:15:28|370|00:15:38|990And because of this imprisonment and some of the repetitive actions which have to occur in order to lead to increasing liberation, there is pain. 107|00:15:39|750|00:15:46|750And there is felt to be a penalty, a penalty even in sports. Sometimes you're taken off the field and you cannot play for a while. 108|00:15:46|750|00:16:00|930You have to sit out the action and the good effect of your services will not be benefiting your team during that time. 109|00:16:02|530|00:16:05|510It is the conflict of the soul with its environment. 110|00:16:06|510|00:16:14|210The environment is so much Cancerian and that which engearths and circumscribes is Jupiter. 111|00:16:15|590|00:16:27|210Jupiter surrounds and Saturn represents circumstances and their limitations. 112|00:16:27|210|00:16:38|830So it is the conflict of the soul with its environment, consciously or unconsciously carried on, and very often unconsciously carried on. 113|00:16:38|950|00:16:47|470People simply complain about the limitation of their scope during such periods. 114|00:16:47|470|00:16:58|350When you kind of think about parenthood, or maybe, well, these days more parenthood, in the old days more motherhood, let us say. 115|00:17:00|170|00:17:10|470Where the mother is confined to a small space, carrying on the duty, Saturn, of taking care of the new lives in form. 116|00:17:11|810|00:17:16|290And this, of course, leads to a sacrifice. Well, just think about Sanat Kumara. 117|00:17:17|190|00:17:38|490How in a way he is the great parent and is confined to a space, a small space, where he has to look after those who are far below him in their development and who are human beings in form seeking to evolve. 118|00:17:39|190|00:17:50|750So there always is a higher analogy. It is the conflict of the soul with its environment—consciously or unconsciously carried on—which leads to the penalties of incarnation 119|00:17:52|330|00:18:01|650and which provides those conditions of suffering which the soul has willingly undertaken though the personality may not remember it. 120|00:18:01|650|00:18:19|150when—with open eyes and clear vision—the soul chose the path of earth life with all its consequent sacrifices and pains, in order to salvage the lives with which it had an affinity. 121|00:18:19|150|00:18:33|030The forgetfulness of the personality, I think, personality consciousness leads to impatience under such symbolically imprisoning circumstances. 122|00:18:34|730|00:18:40|810So this is one of those very good descriptions of a planet in a sign from the esoteric perspective. 123|00:18:42|290|00:18:54|170Symbolic imprisonment, emphasizing the pains and penalties of wrong orientation probably from the past, and these orientations have to be corrected, dutifully corrected. 124|00:18:55|650|00:18:57|830And that brings in the saturnine element of duty. 125|00:18:59|010|00:19:09|570It is the conflict of the soul which works for the fulfillment of responsibility. 126|00:19:09|570|00:19:15|910When we feel responsibility, a just type of responsibility, it is a soul impulse. 127|00:19:17|630|00:19:27|330So the desires of the individual want to break free of this Cancerian ring-pass-not, this Cancerian imprisonment. 128|00:19:27|330|00:19:50|850But the soul utilizing Saturn holds the personality to its redemptive duty, and until the situation is mastered and the desires no longer are carrying one towards that which is lower than what the soul intends. 129|00:19:52|850|00:20:08|810So it is the conflict of the soul with this environment, consciously or unconsciously carried on, which leads to the penalties of incarnation, and which provide, maybe all incarnations have their penalties. 130|00:20:09|850|00:20:15|330But when the personality deviates too much, the karmic corrective comes in. 131|00:20:15|330|00:20:37|330Saturn is the planet of karma, correcting within our vehicles tendencies which lead away from those the soul intends, which leads to the penalties of incarnation, and which provides those conditions of suffering, that is the unfulfillment of desire, of lower desire, 132|00:20:38|030|00:20:48|090which the soul has willingly undertaken, but the soul is also willing to confine itself to a circumscribed space in order for redemption to occur. 133|00:20:48|090|00:21:08|470When, with open eyes and clear vision before incarnation, the soul, that is the consciousness within the higher, within the ego on the higher mental plane, chose the path of Earth life with all its consequent sacrifices and pains. 134|00:21:08|470|00:21:21|590And this occurs not only before every incarnation, but in a sense before the entire series of incarnations as the soul visualizes that which lies ahead. 135|00:21:22|790|00:21:31|290Although you wonder how much consciousness per se there can be within the causal body of those early times. 136|00:21:31|490|00:21:42|650Certainly there is the redemptive consciousness of the monad that has a very full view of the entire pilgrimage which is to be undertaken. 137|00:21:45|390|00:22:02|670So when with open eyes and clear vision the soul chose the path of Earth life with all its consequent sacrifices and pains in order to salvage the lives with which it had an affinity, not necessarily all lives, right? 138|00:22:04|710|00:22:16|470But certain ones with which it has an affinity. It is not for the limited unit to attempt to do all things. 139|00:22:18|890|00:22:30|870Now, we seem to be reaching the place of discussing the decanates. It is as curious as it is Sepharial who places the rulers of the decanates more accurately than does Leo. 140|00:22:30|870|00:22:47|090Of course you can wonder whether there really is placement here or whether there is simply the application of the Chaldean system based upon distinctive planetary periods as understood from the geocentric point of view. 141|00:22:49|490|00:22:56|970Usually this is reversed and Leo is the more correct of the two astrologers. Neither is as correct as the Tibetan. 142|00:22:58|410|00:23:09|190Sepharial gives us Venus, Mercury and the Moon and you see these in descending order of periods from the geocentric perspective. 143|00:23:12|690|00:23:25|910Sepharial gives us Venus, Mercury and the Moon whereas Leo apportions in the Hindu system the Moon ruler of Cancer sub Cancer, Mars ruler of Cancer sub Scorpio, and Jupiter ruler of Cancer sub Pisces. 144|00:23:25|910|00:23:42|930And there is something to that. These rulerships do actually work out, maybe not so much from the esoteric point of view, but when you look at the average human being, you do see these influences. 145|00:23:44|150|00:23:54|810Although we notice that the Moon is reversed and is the only planet that is shared in common in the two systems. 146|00:23:55|110|00:24:05|370And in the case of Sepharial, it's in the third decanate, and in the case of Alan Leo, it's in the first. 147|00:24:05|370|00:24:20|610We have sometimes discussed whether we should reverse the Sepharial decanates according to the Tibetan statement that the average man enters the sign from 30 degrees to 20, then 20 to 10. 148|00:24:20|750|00:24:26|850But Sepharial was not thinking in those terms at all, nor was the Chaldean system. 149|00:24:27|650|00:24:40|570When we deal with Venus, Mercury, Moon we're dealing with 0 to 10 Venus, 10 to 20 Mercury which would be the same in both cases, and 20 to 30 the Moon. 150|00:24:42|890|00:25:00|570Let's see here, going down here to Cancer in this constellations and extra-zodiacal constellations… 151|00:25:01|870|00:25:12|710…decanate rulers we do see as we descend Taurus, Taurus, Taurus, Cancer. 152|00:25:13|290|00:25:19|130Okay, here is Cancer. And here are the Sepharial decanates of Venus, Mercury, and the Moon in that order. 153|00:25:20|030|00:25:35|430Here are the Alan Leo decanates: the Moon, Mars and Jupiter to these decanates. Or perhaps Neptune, as Alan Leo did emphasize the Neptune connection to Pisces, and we are dealing with the Pisces decanate. 154|00:25:35|430|00:25:59|030Even though we have diverse planetary rulers, I think we cannot avoid the implication that the first 10 degrees is Cancer-Cancer, the second 10 degrees Cancer-Scorpio, the third 10 degrees Cancer-Pisces, as we see over here in the appropriate colors. 155|00:26:00|970|00:26:07|850So on the wheel of consciousness, according to the Tibetan, we take Sepharial's planetary rulers. 156|00:26:10|730|00:26:25|890The extra-zodiacal decanates are Argo the ship, or also Shess and Fent the great ox enclosed. It's the enclosure that's important. 157|00:26:25|890|00:26:45|090It's also all of the personality powers on their way together in integrated cooperation towards some objective, and this is led by Jason, the captain or the leader of the Argonauts. 158|00:26:47|670|00:26:58|330And Venus will be the planet correlated with that, but we can wonder whether this really will hold. 159|00:27:01|070|00:27:11|570Whether there is a good connection with Venus and Argo. There certainly can be considered a connection with the Moon and Argo because the Moon represents the vessel. 160|00:27:12|510|00:27:23|010The personality vehicles containing all of their various powers and different capacities. 161|00:27:24|250|00:27:31|650We move to the Ursa Minor in the second decanate, and that has a Mercury rulership. I think Mercury is correct. 162|00:27:32|750|00:27:43|670We deal here with the little bear and possibly with the Ajña center when considered from the perspective of the one about whom naught may be said. 163|00:27:44|210|00:28:00|590Certain of these great constellations do provide chakric localities in that great being, and I think it is legitimate to think of Ursa Minor in relation to the little bear. 164|00:28:00|590|00:28:10|830And at a certain point we know that Mercury is associated with the Ajña center, just as the little bear can be associated in the one about whom naught may be said. 165|00:28:11|610|00:28:18|350It's the lesser sheepfold, and it's the lesser ashram from a certain perspective. 166|00:28:19|670|00:28:27|350Meaning not the great ashram of hierarchy but the subsidiary ashram, the subsidiary ray ashrams. 167|00:28:28|330|00:28:41|810The idea of enclosure is always found here. As a matter of fact, you think of the entire universe, the great egg of the universe, as a Cancerian structure. 168|00:28:43|110|00:28:54|310The third decanate has attributed to it the extra-zodiacal association of Ursa Major, which is the greater sheepfold and the great bear. 169|00:28:54|310|00:29:04|090More the power of the first ray and of the greater ashram of hierarchy, and possibly even the influence of Shambhala. 170|00:29:04|230|00:29:18|410Now here the moon is found in the Saturnial decanates. It would make more sense, in a sense, for Jupiter to be found because it is the greater sheepfold. 171|00:29:18|410|00:29:39|250And the Mars assignment by Alan Leo, which is simply the Hindu assignment, makes sense as well because Mars has to do with the aspiration of the lesser workers of hierarchy. 172|00:29:39|250|00:29:50|770Just as Mars can be associated somewhat with Procyon in Gemini. We'll see that when we get into the next chapter. 173|00:29:52|190|00:30:00|790But this moon must veil a planet, and I suppose one can consider it as veiling Vulcan. 174|00:30:02|910|00:30:13|370Vulcan is associated with the seven head centers of man: the will centers within the head, or perhaps above the head, or perhaps both. 175|00:30:15|550|00:30:25|930And interestingly enough, the Great Bear, per se, is associated with the seven head centers of the One About Whom Naught May Be Said. 176|00:30:25|930|00:30:30|690So there is a parallel here between Vulcan and the Great Bear. 177|00:30:34|270|00:30:44|590And I suppose the Pisces correlation can come in with Ursa Major and the greater ashram as being a saving ashram. 178|00:30:44|590|00:30:55|250The great ashram of hierarchy. And also Shambhala as well, where the highest example of world saviorship is found. 179|00:30:57|990|00:31:10|950So there's nothing completely settled about these planetary rulerships, or especially about the extra-zodiacal associations—constellations associated. 180|00:31:11|350|00:31:25|230In a way, all of them tell us something about every Cancerian subject, and all of the extra-zodiacal constellations associated with any sign tell us something about that subject, 181|00:31:25|230|00:31:29|090regardless of what decanate he may be born in. 182|00:31:30|970|00:31:38|370We have to study human nature very closely, as the Tibetan has, to arrive at these conclusions. 183|00:31:39|570|00:31:53|430And sometimes, rather than simply have one planet be associated with the decanate, it is justifiable to have more associated because they show us some additional factors. 184|00:31:53|430|00:31:58|990I mean, the Great Bear, the greater sheepfold hierarchy, and Jupiter certainly makes sense. 185|00:32:00|210|00:32:04|010And of course Jupiter is the ruler of Pisces—that's why it's there in the Leo configuration. 186|00:32:05|570|00:32:18|210And the little sheepfold of those who are still aspiring, let us say, Mars, still transmuting, still elevating the energies toward hierarchy—that makes sense as well. 187|00:32:18|210|00:32:39|550But I've also spoken of the way that Venus bringing integration and the orientation towards the soul, and Mercury having to do with the Ajna center focus and growing intuition, and the moon having to do with spiritual will as it veils Vulcan, also makes sense. 188|00:32:40|450|00:32:49|630With the Argo the ship, or the Great Ox enclosed, the Little Bear or lesser sheepfold, and the Greater Bear or greater sheepfold— 189|00:32:50|190|00:32:52|330all of these do make sense. 190|00:32:53|570|00:33:03|730So we want to use our reason at all times, and if we are incorrect in using our reason, it will be demonstrated to us why we are incorrect. 191|00:33:03|730|00:33:09|670Meanwhile, we should go by the light of reason, which eventually will turn into pure reason. 192|00:33:22|710|00:33:38|990Okay, so we see the other chart has shown us the different possible decanate rulers and the one that the Tibetan prefers. 193|00:33:40|330|00:33:57|170The reason he prefers it: The mind, the uses of conflict and form life are the contributing factors, leading the soul along the way of incarnation. 194|00:33:57|170|00:34:11|470When he talks about the way of incarnation, this is curious because he seems to indicate by “the way of incarnation” possibly the clockwise wheel. 195|00:34:12|110|00:34:14|050We have to think about that. 196|00:34:19|430|00:34:34|430Now he says The instrument of release is, in the last analysis, the right use and control of the organ of illumination which is the mind. 197|00:34:34|570|00:34:37|010But this again correlates with Venus, does it not? 198|00:34:38|010|00:34:47|030So often when D.K. talks about the mind—he does—or the intellect, he does actually mention Venus. 199|00:34:48|910|00:34:57|810Very different type of emphasis, a more fifth-ray emphasis than is common when we understand Venus from the perspective of ordinary astrology. 200|00:34:59|890|00:35:13|710So the way of illumination: we have to see whether he means us to consider that Venus is the ruler of the first decanate, Mercury of the second, and Moon the ruler of the third. 201|00:35:15|270|00:35:24|050Because the way of incarnation can be the way of the clockwise wheel, or it can be both directions. So let us see. 202|00:35:24|050|00:35:31|070“The instrument of release is, in the last analysis, the right use and control of the organ of illumination, which is in the mind.” 203|00:35:31|730|00:35:39|950And this can involve both Venus and Mercury. 204|00:35:41|970|00:35:52|150Hence the necessary emphasis ever laid upon meditation when the aspirant awakens to spiritual opportunity. 205|00:35:54|870|00:36:04|170So once we begin to realize what the possible goal is, meditation—which is controlled very much by Venus— 206|00:36:05|650|00:36:14|710although you would wonder why Mercury cannot be involved in it, since when you look at the astrological correlates to meditation, 207|00:36:14|710|00:36:23|510concentration is ruled by Leo, and Virgo rules meditation with its ruler and exalted planet Mercury. 208|00:36:25|070|00:36:29|550Anyway, we have to achieve illumination. 209|00:36:38|090|00:36:44|590Now we also have to develop The strength which comes through conflict and constant struggle 210|00:36:45|890|00:36:54|930And this so often when he discusses Mercury, he means struggle and conflict. 211|00:36:54|930|00:37:03|290Mercury is sometimes called, interestingly enough, the star of conflict. Maybe we can see this. 212|00:37:04|190|00:37:13|070We look here. Mercury star conflict. 213|00:37:14|190|00:37:21|930Then we look it up and we see Mercury the star of conflict. This is page 357. 214|00:37:23|610|00:37:31|190It's also the major planet of relationships, conflict and relationships seemingly inseparable. 215|00:37:31|330|00:37:33|150But Mercury the star of conflict. 216|00:37:35|450|00:37:44|930conflict and constant struggle builds up steadily that reserve of strength and power which enables the aspirant to take the final tests of discipleship in Scorpio 217|00:37:45|250|00:37:51|150Now we might ask, look at Alan Leo's rulership of the Moon, Mars and Jupiter. 218|00:37:52|230|00:38:01|030Why should not Mars be involved here as well in constant conflict? Could it be considered so? 219|00:38:01|030|00:38:17|810Should Mars be involved as well in the process of conflict and constant struggle? 220|00:38:18|590|00:38:28|750But anyway, it builds up strength, that reserve of strength and power which enables the aspirant to take the final tests in Scorpio, of discipleship in Scorpio 221|00:38:29|530|00:38:38|850and to brave in Capricorn the trials of initiation Notice tests and trials, how he associates trials with Capricorn and tests with Scorpio. 222|00:38:39|210|00:38:42|790But Mars is also involved in both. 223|00:38:44|170|00:38:54|390And I think when you look at people who were born in the Scorpio decanate of Cancer, you do see the Mars influence. 224|00:38:54|390|00:38:59|130Certainly you see the Scorpio influence in their physiognomy. 225|00:39:00|110|00:39:18|850That book by David Anrias, I wish I remembered the title of the book, but it shows the facial characteristics of the people born in the different decanates and it hints at their character as well. 226|00:39:19|770|00:39:30|550And the breaking of bonds, the trials of initiation and the breaking of all the bonds which the processes of incarnation have forged. 227|00:39:30|750|00:39:41|130Now this is Vulcanian language. Definitely. Vulcanian language. 228|00:39:41|130|00:39:58|250And so, hinting that the Moon, veiling Vulcan, rules in the third decanate, third decan. 229|00:39:59|710|00:40:05|650So, he did not really give us a reason to reverse the Venus-Mercury Moon. 230|00:40:07|430|00:40:31|130I suppose what we would say is that the average person comes in under the Moon from 30 to 20, experiences Mercury, and finally Venus, and then reverses the direction to achieve the counterclockwise direction. 231|00:40:32|090|00:40:33|450And then we have Venus-Mercury Moon. 232|00:40:33|450|00:40:38|930But we cannot forget about the Moon, Mars, Jupiter as possibilities. 233|00:40:39|230|00:40:43|070The breaking of bonds is a freeing aspect, as is found in Pisces. 234|00:40:44|570|00:40:46|430But I think it is the Moon, veiling Vulcan. 235|00:40:46|870|00:40:55|250Now, let's see if we can find this from Stephen. 236|00:40:56|810|00:41:00|150He usually has quite accurate ideas. 237|00:41:01|150|00:41:23|650And, yes, his perspective is the inner wheel for him is, I think, the reverse wheel. 238|00:41:25|730|00:41:29|650And he does seem to reverse this somewhat. 239|00:41:30|610|00:41:45|790He seems to begin with Venus at 30 degrees, going backwards in a clockwise manner to the Moon, and then the Moon, Mercury, and Venus, instead of Venus-Mercury and the Moon. 240|00:41:45|790|00:41:56|910Perhaps not giving attention to the possibility that Vulcan is being veiled by the Moon. 241|00:41:58|050|00:42:01|000Let's see what Nicholas gives us here. 242|00:42:05|490|00:42:11|290He, yes, he looks at it more from Venus-Mercury Moon and Moon, Mars, Jupiter. 243|00:42:11|290|00:42:17|150He gives the Alan Leo connection. 244|00:42:18|450|00:42:30|830But, of course, again, Alan Leo meant very definitely that the Moon would relate to 0 to 10, Mars 10 to 20, and Jupiter 20 to 30. 245|00:42:30|830|00:42:36|150So, again, there is a deviation, I think, from what Alan Leo actually meant. 246|00:42:36|870|00:42:44|790But Nicholas chooses to use the Alan Leo decanates, at least in some manner. 247|00:42:48|350|00:42:50|490Now, let's see further. 248|00:42:52|610|00:42:55|510Aha, we'll come to the word later. 249|00:42:56|310|00:43:04|850Right now, we will continue the discussion of the decanates. 250|00:43:07|030|00:43:13|250And we'll turn to this other chart that I have, the six-fold comparison. 251|00:43:15|630|00:43:18|790And I wonder if I can make this any bigger in this way. 252|00:43:19|030|00:43:20|510No, that is not going to work. 253|00:43:21|330|00:43:22|270We'll do it this way. 254|00:43:34|990|00:43:37|030Yes, we'll do it this way. 255|00:43:38|470|00:43:48|210So we have here the three decanates, Cancer Cancer, Cancer Scorpio, Cancer Pisces. 256|00:43:54|850|00:44:00|790And it says here that there is some ambiguity in the way D.K. phrases the rulerships. 257|00:44:00|970|00:44:07|550Either Venus or the Moon could be the final decanate, and we must decide which way to operate. 258|00:44:07|550|00:44:17|690Going back to what D.K. says, he seems to begin with the idea of the way of incarnation, meaning… 259|00:44:21|850|00:44:23|430Let's see, how does he do this? 260|00:44:25|790|00:44:27|390Yes, the way of incarnation. 261|00:44:27|950|00:44:31|510He talks about the mind, the uses of conflict in form life, 262|00:44:31|510|00:44:46|670as if the mind was perhaps being used in the last decanate and form life from 0 to 10, going backwards. 263|00:44:46|850|00:44:55|470But then he seems to repeat himself with respect to the clockwise wheel, and the organ of illumination is definitely the mind. 264|00:44:56|950|00:45:02|850The way of release is, the organ is definitely the mind, the organ of illumination, and it's not the moon. 265|00:45:03|950|00:45:15|390Conflict is, in fact, Mercury in this case, and with a little bit of Mars thrown in, as we see when we use the Alan Leo decanate, 266|00:45:16|450|00:45:20|710building up strength and reserves, kind of a Martian thing. 267|00:45:21|890|00:45:36|290So he hints at that, and power being built up, which enables the disciple to take the final tests of discipleship in Scorpio. 268|00:45:37|530|00:45:42|690There's kind of a hint there when we talk about strength and power, Vulcan may be involved. 269|00:45:49|090|00:45:51|210How about spelling, huh? 270|00:45:53|290|00:45:57|350And the trials of Capricorn, and then the breaking of all bonds. 271|00:45:57|450|00:46:05|210Well, the forging of bonds is very much a lunar thing, in which Vulcan acts in a material way. 272|00:46:05|210|00:46:13|350But Vulcan is involved in the breaking of bonds as well, and I don't see that that should be correlated with Venus. 273|00:46:13|570|00:46:19|450I think that is a final moon Vulcan kind of indication. 274|00:46:21|050|00:46:34|290So I think I would go with the idea that we move from the moon Mercury to Venus, and Venus, Mercury, and the moon. 275|00:46:34|290|00:46:48|190But along with it, we would add the possibility of Mars. 276|00:46:49|410|00:46:56|030Adding possibility of Mars from Alan Leo, 277|00:47:00|810|00:47:16|690and well, adding the possibility here of Jupiter, and adding the possibility of the moon from Alan Leo. 278|00:47:22|510|00:47:28|030Nevertheless, the Tibetan says Sepharial is the more correct. 279|00:47:33|790|00:47:46|110So this is the, been called, the first decanate is the decanate of personal summation, reversal, and reorientation. 280|00:47:46|110|00:47:55|590I think we should keep those in mind. I have not always said that, but it is, I think, good to keep that in mind. 281|00:47:59|690|00:48:07|610Then the second decanate on the reverse wheel, the decanate of soul unfoldment, where we have the probationary initiate as a possibility. 282|00:48:09|170|00:48:12|310And finally the decanate of spiritual consummation and release. 283|00:48:12|310|00:48:26|210Now remember, people can be at any stage of the path, this is my assumption, at any stage of the path, and be born in or under any of the decanates. 284|00:48:27|130|00:48:43|570The Alan Leo decanates we see here: the moon, Mars, the uses of conflict, whether Mars is involved in Mercury, and also Jupiter in the last decanate, which brings release. 285|00:48:45|190|00:48:59|950Now we have three sets of rulers in Cancer. When thinking of human progress, three sets of rulers—orthodox, esoteric, and hierarchical—have to be combined with the decanate rulers and significant constellations. 286|00:48:59|950|00:49:09|410The following composite picture also takes into account Alan Leo's rulerships, which are related to the zodiacal subcategories. 287|00:49:09|750|00:49:26|950These do exist, mainly Cancer as the first subcategory of the first decanate, Scorpio as the second subcategory pertaining to the second decanate, and Pisces as the third subcategory pertaining to the third decanate. 288|00:49:30|570|00:49:42|670And it looks like I have a little bit of work to do. I've done these over different time periods, and it looks like they all have to be made more or less equivalent. 289|00:49:44|890|00:49:52|910The influence of the sign itself and the rays coming through the sign are always present. 290|00:49:54|810|00:50:00|910The influence of the zodiacal constellations should be included. 291|00:50:10|030|00:50:21|050Now we will look at the specific periods. The first period is the physical period. It is ruled by the moon. 292|00:50:22|390|00:50:33|950It's specifically the period of the developments that are occurring when the first petal of the egoic lotus is under unfoldment. 293|00:50:33|950|00:50:54|430We say of it that the blind unit is lost, and I think if we turn here to Esoteric Astrology, page 332, we call it the mass. 294|00:50:55|330|00:51:04|170A low form of mass consciousness, which is largely instinctual. This we already discussed a little earlier in the Cancerian chapter. 295|00:51:09|310|00:51:30|330The direction here will be from the moon to Mercury to Venus. The body is the main focus. This is ruled by the moon primarily because we're going in the reverse order. 296|00:51:32|050|00:51:42|310The proper order for the developing person is Venus, Mercury, moon, but now we're going moon, Mercury, Venus. 297|00:51:43|610|00:51:51|770So the body is gradually becoming sensitized to the impacts from the surroundings, its purely instinctual life in the first decanate. 298|00:51:51|770|00:52:00|410In the second decanate, the physical body is learning adaptation through incipient mind, which is Mercury. 299|00:52:01|650|00:52:08|670The survival struggles under Mars and Mercury in which the physical body is engaged, if we include Alan Leo's Mars. 300|00:52:12|530|00:52:24|990Okay. Then when we move into—we're still very much in the physical instinctual life—and we move into the third decanate on the clockwise wheel, 301|00:52:26|190|00:52:42|190We are finding that in general, of course, the Moon is dominating, but there is confinement within the lunar vehicle. The Moon dominates in all these places. 302|00:52:42|190|00:53:10|150Can we actually, can Venus be used here to indicate this low stage? Well, man is coming to himself, and a point, point of consciousness is being formed. 303|00:53:13|130|00:53:17|430Consciousness is gradually forming. Okay. 304|00:53:18|950|00:53:29|250So Venus represents that spark of mind, which focuses in the physical brain and on the mental plane as well, first, 305|00:53:29|250|00:53:39|510and gradually creates a reflective center of consciousness within the physical brain, and so awareness would be growing. 306|00:53:39|950|00:53:54|390Awareness of one's own identity, probably the, let's call it incipient ego, simply awareness of the lower self, the lower ego. 307|00:53:55|350|00:54:05|750The self sense, which at first is usually centered around the physical body. 308|00:54:07|590|00:54:13|290Alright, these are some things I'm adding as we go. One always thinks perhaps of more things. 309|00:54:13|290|00:54:29|030So that's the physical stage. It involves the unfoldment of the first petal of the egoic lotus. When we begin to move into the emotional phase, that is largely the focus in the unfoldment of the second petal. 310|00:54:34|870|00:54:49|750Notice I'm moving in the clockwise manner here when discussing these early phases. The Moon is the ruler of Neptune, and Neptune is still veiled in this psychic emotional stage. 311|00:54:49|750|00:55:08|750The Moon is the orthodox ruler. The blind unit is still lost. But the unit begins to be sensitive through emotion to that which is around, so we might have, let's just say, some incipient, Neptunian, consciousness emerging. 312|00:55:09|610|00:55:15|090So we would go over here because they're coming in via the 30 degree area. The Moon is dominating. 313|00:55:19|910|00:55:34|750I'm not sure whether we really should use Venus here. I'm becoming quite convinced actually that although some have directed Venus as the final decanate, 314|00:55:35|540|00:55:53|830and therefore as the starting decanate, I do believe the Moon is much, much better. So I'm going to cross off Venus here. It gives me a clearer sense of what's going on. 315|00:55:55|070|00:56:11|990The Moon is dominating here, and it is the lunar phase, and we're coming in via that phase, increasing receptivity to the emotional nature, expanding emotional sensitivity, 316|00:56:11|990|00:56:25|790more so than the emotions associated with the instincts in the strictly physical phase. And the contacts, number of contacts are growing. 317|00:56:28|390|00:56:40|810Contacts about which one feels are growing. And the reason I said that, because we might involve Jupiter here from the hierarchical perspective. 318|00:56:41|010|00:56:52|870It is, after all, the sensitive sentient Pisces decanate. See, we can say something about the decanates on the basis of the sub-sign rulership. 319|00:56:53|890|00:57:06|150So, you know, as it says in relation to Pisces, it's rather material mantra, go forth into matter. Go forth into the matter of the emotions. Go forth into emotional matter. 320|00:57:06|830|00:57:19|330Experience a wider range of contacts. The Moon is still dominating, of course, although let's just say its veil of Neptune is steadily lessening. 321|00:57:20|550|00:57:34|690This is the Mercury decanate now. Constant change and conflict in the emotional nature. What does one really want? What does one desire? What is one afraid of? What is one trying to avoid? 322|00:57:36|290|00:57:46|050And possible additional conflicts here with the sub-association of Mars as the ruler of the Scorpio phase of Cancer. 323|00:57:47|910|00:58:05|130I know that in some of these earlier signs I did not go through with any care the very early phases. I pretty much dealt with the mental phase and the reversal towards the summation of the personal phase. 324|00:58:06|370|00:58:18|530But here I am doing that, and one I suppose on the basis of what has been said can gather the influences and figure these things out. 325|00:58:19|470|00:58:27|310Okay, then we reach the Venus phase. The instinctual emotional response is still there. 326|00:58:28|310|00:58:39|450One is a prisoner of the emotional body, but let us say that Venus has an effect. 327|00:58:42|350|00:59:00|170So that the kama manas can be sensed because the manasic aspect of Venus can be somewhat felt. 328|00:59:00|910|00:59:11|350So Venus is always the intellect, or it is that center within the mental body which is associated with selfhood. 329|00:59:13|290|00:59:28|310And kama manas is a blend of mind and emotions, and Venus is much associated with the mind, so there continues to be instinctual emotional response. 330|00:59:29|710|00:59:46|030But perhaps one is the prisoner of the emotional body, let us just say, though, but greater light comes into the emotional body from Venus. 331|00:59:47|030|01:00:12|450Alright, now I think we have reached the stage when I can say that this is the end of esoteric astrology 100A, and we are in this chart. 332|01:00:12|450|01:00:29|130We are still not completing the book quite. We are still on page 343, as it were. Still on page 343. 333|01:00:29|130|01:00:40|210And beginning of EAA 100B, and the six-fold chart.
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