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1|00:00:07|900|00:00:11|000Good morning, everybody. 2|00:00:13|360|00:00:21|940This is our Esoteric Astrology adventure number 49. 3|00:00:24|140|00:00:32|680And somehow some downloads have just begun, so I hope that this does not compromise our audio quality. 4|00:00:34|420|00:00:45|480We have reached page 105 in the book, and we have been discussing the exaltations, 5|00:01:15|480|00:01:24|780the subject that the Sun in exaltation represents, and then there is Saturn that falls in Aries in two ways. 6|00:01:25|700|00:01:42|600It falls down into the lower planes of the cosmic physical plane there to administer karma, and it falls away as the individual enters the cardinal cross. 7|00:01:44|380|00:01:47|440Now let's see what we have. 8|00:01:48|620|00:02:05|680There is much that could be elaborated along this line, says the Tibetan, but the above will give a hint as to the esoteric significance of these three happenings within every sign. 9|00:02:05|740|00:02:10|220That is an exaltation, a detriment, and a fall. 10|00:02:10|220|00:02:17|400As for rulership, a D.K. seems to describe these quite extensively. 11|00:02:18|840|00:02:24|660They can indicate much concerning the man whose horoscope is under consideration. 12|00:02:25|880|00:02:36|360And perhaps that is the spiritual opportunity presented to the individual, as long as we know something about the place at which he stands. 13|00:02:36|360|00:02:52|580It does us no good to speak of the average individual who has the Sun in Aries as experiencing the opportunity of the emergence of the monad or father aspect. 14|00:02:53|920|00:03:05|300That Venus is in detriment does not indicate that such an individual is ready for the fading out of the solar angel because so much has been accomplished in the realm of the soul. 15|00:03:05|300|00:03:27|680As for Saturn in Aries, one of the interpretations that Saturn cannot follow a man onto the cardinal cross would not apply because the people with whom we are dealing, and ourselves as well, are not at all ready to enter the cardinal cross. 16|00:03:27|680|00:03:42|660But the fall of Saturn into the lower worlds where karma is administered, the way Saturn follows a man down into the lower three worlds, that particular fall, the interpretation could apply. 17|00:03:42|660|00:03:59|680The decanates can also be dealt with in two ways, according to the direction in which man is traveling upon the wheel, and therefore entering the sign, and he is speaking in symbols, speaking in symbols. 18|00:04:01|960|00:04:11|720It all depends how one responds to this, to the various decanates. 19|00:04:11|720|00:04:25|320If he enters Aries when on the common cross, he will come under the influence of Mars, Sun and Jupiter, according to Sepharial. 20|00:04:25|320|00:04:46|140Sepharial's method of assigning the decanates has to do with the orbital period, and here he is working his way, let's see, Mars, the Sun and Jupiter. 21|00:04:47|160|00:05:07|100That's interesting. I'll have to check that in my list of decanates. Usually he works his way out or in according to the period of the planet around the Sun, or around the Earth rather, geocentrically considered. 22|00:05:07|100|00:05:26|080This means conflict, which is Mars, revelation, which has to do with the light of the Sun, and the successful satisfaction of desire, which Jupiter always accords, and ambition, as the aeons pass away. 23|00:05:27|160|00:05:46|260Ambition can be associated either with Mars, well, with any of these really, Mars, Jupiter or the Sun. When he reorients himself and mounts the fixed cross, the cross of the soul, he comes under the influence of Jupiter for the first decanate, the Sun for the second, and Mars. 24|00:05:46|260|00:06:01|680For the initiate and the disciple culminates his career in any of the signs with a final and dominant struggle, and this, Mars, represents struggle and fight. 1|00:00:07|900|00:00:11|000I would remark here that Alan Leo had a glimpse of the inner significance of the decanates when he assigned Mars, the Sun and Venus to the three decanates. 26|00:06:14|860|00:06:29|420Now, there Mars would be the first, the Sun second, and Venus would be the third. He touched the truth of the inner subjective reversal upon the wheel, which brings in other energies. 27|00:06:29|420|00:06:46|260And I think what I would like to do here is speak a little bit about the decanates. This is the opportunity to do so, and I have some other charts which should help in this respect. 28|00:06:50|840|00:07:06|460So, let us look at some of the decanate assignments as they have been gathered over the years. 29|00:07:06|460|00:07:22|660We have here, well first of all, let's review what has been said by Alan Leo, and the manner in which it has been said. 30|00:07:23|460|00:07:32|400We have the Mars, Sun and Jupiter according to Sepharial, and here they are. 31|00:07:34|100|00:07:42|560Mars, Sun and Jupiter according to Sepharial. Let's see if I have, yes, there we go. Aha! This is interesting. 32|00:07:42|560|00:08:02|760All right. Yes, it will be necessary to check this because what I see has happened is that the Sepharial method has been assigned to Alan Leo. 33|00:08:02|760|00:08:15|140I wonder if this is a mistake in the text. We usually have Sepharial moving inward and outward according to orbital period. 34|00:08:15|140|00:08:27|520So the arrangement for Sepharial would be Mars, Sun and Venus according to the length of the orbits. 35|00:08:27|780|00:08:39|480And this would be followed according to length of orbit by Mercury and the Moon, and then we would go outward again to Saturn and move inward. 36|00:08:39|480|00:08:55|460This is the way Sepharial operates, so Venus would technically be the ruler of the third decanate, i.e., the first decanate on the reversing wheel. 37|00:08:55|460|00:09:13|440It's the ruler of the third decanate on the retrogressive wheel. So it would be Sepharial and not Alan Leo who would be assigning Venus to that position. 38|00:09:13|540|00:09:24|100But this has to be sorted out because I'm very hesitant to think that there are mistakes in this book, as the Tibetan did proofread this. 39|00:09:24|100|00:09:30|580We have the Alan Leo decanates as Mars, Sun, and Jupiter. 40|00:09:33|280|00:09:41|320And let's see, they are found here. Let's see if I can… it's a little difficult to… yes. 41|00:09:42|480|00:09:45|700Alan Leo, yes. Mars, Sun, and Jupiter. 42|00:09:46|360|00:09:53|160Mars, the ruler of Aries. The Sun, the ruler of Leo. So we're in the Leo decanate of Aries. 43|00:09:53|160|00:09:56|460And Jupiter, the ruler of Sagittarius. 44|00:09:57|840|00:10:05|880Yes, there's no question about it. According to the way Sepharial usually operates, the order would be Mars, Sun, and Venus. 45|00:10:06|080|00:10:11|400And according to the way Alan Leo usually operates, it would be Mars, Sun, and Jupiter. 46|00:10:11|560|00:10:19|500And we have to question why it appears to be other than that in the text. 47|00:10:20|360|00:10:39|060So what we generally have, here is a description of this, is that with Sepharial or with the wheel going backwards in the clockwise order, 48|00:10:40|820|00:10:44|180we would enter from the third decanate. 49|00:10:44|180|00:10:50|180Now the third decanate for Alan Leo is Jupiter and for Sepharial it's Venus. 50|00:10:51|420|00:11:02|200So that is Jupiter-Venus for the first… well actually we enter from 20 to 30 degrees. This is the way it operates. 51|00:11:08|540|00:11:15|200Okay, I've had to make a few changes here. I haven't reviewed this chart for quite a while, 52|00:11:15|340|00:11:23|900but suffice it to say that the average individual enters the sign in what we normally call the third decanate. 53|00:11:23|900|00:11:35|980And this is a chart to show that. The average individual on the wheel of form is entering under Mars, 54|00:11:37|360|00:11:48|120as far as the third decanate rulership is concerned, and is proceeding towards the Sun in the second decanate, 55|00:11:48|120|00:11:57|780and finally ends up with Jupiter or Venus. Sepharial says Venus as far as I can understand, and Alan Leo says Jupiter. 56|00:11:58|820|00:12:07|560But what Master D.K. tells us is that the first decanate for the disciple is really ruled by Jupiter, 57|00:12:07|780|00:12:15|320and he says that Alan Leo has the Venus in sight with respect to the first decanate, 58|00:12:15|320|00:12:21|900but it's really, you know, it is Sepharial that certainly would indicate Venus. 59|00:12:23|240|00:12:30|240Let's see if we see here. In the larger sense, yes. 60|00:12:31|240|00:12:39|640Yeah, because Sepharial continues when he does the Taurus decanates to work with Mercury, the Moon, and Saturn, 61|00:12:39|640|00:12:44|740and then he comes back in with Jupiter, so that is correct. That is correct. 62|00:12:45|720|00:12:52|860And so Jupiter-Venus is ruling the first decanate for the disciple, the Sun the second decanate, 63|00:12:53|220|00:13:03|040and Mars is ruling the final decanate, giving a climaxing battle, we are told, in the sign for the initiate. 64|00:13:03|040|00:13:10|380As for the Alan Leo decanates, they are Mars for the first decanate, Sun for the second, and Jupiter for the third. 65|00:13:10|880|00:13:15|600So we have some doubling up here, doubling up in the decanates. 66|00:13:17|840|00:13:28|220Now let us take a look at some of the extra zodiacal constellations that are associated with the various decanates. 67|00:13:28|220|00:13:38|400We have three constellations which are associated with Aries, and they are Cetus, the whale or the sea monster, 68|00:13:39|160|00:13:52|240implying the engulfing of the soul, the little fish, which has gone forth into matter, and which is again seeking form. 69|00:13:52|240|00:14:04|160So there is a tendency for the great subconscious forces to swallow or to engulf, and Jupiter can represent engulfment, 70|00:14:04|720|00:14:13|420to engulf the consciousness. Then there is Cassiopeia that rules associated with the second decanate, 71|00:14:13|420|00:14:23|720and that is the Queen, and matter is on the throne in these early days, and the sense of self-importance and the Ahamkara principle, 72|00:14:24|280|00:14:35|420ruled by the Sun, is pre-eminent. So matter has not yet been dethroned; matter is enthroned, as a matter of fact. 73|00:14:35|420|00:14:48|520And then in the final decanate, from 20 to 30 degrees, we have Perseus, the hero, the champion, who does save Andromeda, the soul. 74|00:14:50|540|00:15:01|120Now Cetus, I think, correlates very well with Jupiter; Cassiopeia, the enthroned queen with the Sun; and Perseus, the hero under Mars. 75|00:15:01|120|00:15:08|260The thing with the study of the decanates is that we are moving backward and forward simultaneously, 76|00:15:08|560|00:15:14|600so in some cases it's difficult to assign a precise ruler to each decanate. 77|00:15:15|560|00:15:27|580Master D.K. has his own assignments, and oftentimes they are at variance with the Sepharial method, which is Chaldean in origin, 78|00:15:27|580|00:15:33|600and the Alan Leo method, which relates more to Indian astrology. 79|00:15:34|660|00:15:46|400For instance, one takes the triplicities, let us say the fire triplicity, Aries, Leo, Sagittarius, and assigns in the following manner. 80|00:15:46|400|00:15:55|600The first ten degrees of Aries are Aries sub-Aries, the next ten degrees from 10 to 20 are Aries sub-Leo, 81|00:15:55|680|00:16:03|420we're taking the second fire sign of the triplicity and making it the sub-ruler, and then the third decanate from 20 to 30, 82|00:16:03|840|00:16:12|040we're taking the third sign of the fire triplicity, Sagittarius, and making the rulership Aries sub-Sagittarius. 83|00:16:12|040|00:16:21|000And accordingly, the rulers are Aries sub-Aries is Mars, because Mars is the ordinary ruler of Aries, 84|00:16:21|520|00:16:29|440Aries sub-Leo is the Sun, the ordinary ruler of Leo, and Aries sub-Jupiter for Sagittarius, 85|00:16:29|720|00:16:36|960because the Aries Sagittarius decanate has Jupiter as the ruler of sub-Sagittarius. 86|00:16:36|960|00:16:46|160Now there really is something to be said for this system, regardless of the refinements that Master D.K. has added. 87|00:16:46|740|00:16:55|040When you look at the form of individuals who are born in these signs and these decanates, 88|00:16:55|100|00:17:01|320and I hope to get into some of the astro-radiological physiognomy and morphology, 89|00:17:01|320|00:17:12|700we will see that there is a strong resemblance to these orthodox rulers, Mars, Sun, and Jupiter, 90|00:17:13|500|00:17:17|780in the general form and bearing and expression of the individual. 91|00:17:18|980|00:17:26|660That which D.K. assigns tends to be, I think, a little more subjective, maybe a lot more subjective, 92|00:17:26|660|00:17:34|680and deal more with an esoteric factor rather than an exoteric formal factor, 93|00:17:34|720|00:17:38|940which however does reflect an esoteric truth. 94|00:17:40|060|00:17:51|900So the way we would have this is that on the wheel of consciousness we have Jupiter-Venus, Venus-Jupiter, 95|00:17:51|900|00:17:59|580for the first ten degrees of the disciple who is moving in the counter-clockwise direction, the Sun, and then Mars. 96|00:18:00|440|00:18:08|120On the reversing wheel we would have Mars, Sun, and Jupiter, and possibly Venus, 97|00:18:08|480|00:18:15|020because in the usual Sepharial system Venus is the ruler of the third decanate, 98|00:18:15|180|00:18:19|440which when reversed turns out to be the first decanate. 99|00:18:19|440|00:18:23|720So some sort of Jupiter-Venus combination may be there. 100|00:18:23|780|00:18:26|540There seems to be truth to all of these. 101|00:18:27|100|00:18:33|100Sometimes D.K. points out that, “Okay look, Sepharial or Leo has made a definite mistake, 102|00:18:33|240|00:18:40|160i.e. that the old Chaldean system or that the Hindu system, the system derived from India, 103|00:18:40|160|00:18:50|560are incorrect in specific places,” but usually he seems to imply that there is something to be said, 104|00:18:50|720|00:18:53|040some value for all the systems. 105|00:18:53|760|00:19:00|960Now I tried to create a six-fold chart here, and I'll do my best to find it. 106|00:19:01|500|00:19:03|500This was done some long time ago. 107|00:19:03|620|00:19:08|980The idea here is that we're moving toward the green and toward the blue. 108|00:19:08|980|00:19:10|300I think you see that. 109|00:19:12|680|00:19:26|600Here we have, at least archetypally, a physical type of manifestation in the first decanate of the wheel of form. 110|00:19:26|840|00:19:31|480Now the wheel of form enters backwards, so you're really going from 30 to 20 degrees. 111|00:19:32|300|00:19:35|140And Mars is the ruler. 112|00:19:36|820|00:19:43|260Although you can make a case for Jupiter being present here as well and for the idea of engulfment in form. 113|00:19:45|020|00:19:52|980The next decanate is associated particularly with the astral body and with a period of astral development. 114|00:19:54|060|00:19:55|620And the Sun is the ruler. 115|00:19:56|520|00:20:01|060Alan Leo says this, the Tibetan says this, and Sepharial says this. 116|00:20:01|060|00:20:07|520Then we reach what is the third decanate from the perspective of the wheel of form, 117|00:20:07|740|00:20:10|860but since we're going backwards it's really 0 to 10 degrees. 118|00:20:12|100|00:20:15|420And from the Alan Leo perspective it's Mars, Sun, Jupiter. 119|00:20:15|660|00:20:19|300From the Sepharial perspective it's Mars, Sun, Venus. 120|00:20:21|340|00:20:27|080Then that should be connected with mental development. 121|00:20:27|080|00:20:35|460I think what I will have to do, you know I've got quite a bit on the decanates and they would make a study in themselves. 122|00:20:35|760|00:20:43|920So I will not be able to perhaps discuss the entire chart here, but at least give some indications. 123|00:20:46|700|00:20:54|200This third decanate on the wheel of form is a time when the mind per se is emphasized. 124|00:20:54|820|00:21:00|560Now I have an important caveat with respect to all of this. I'm speaking about an archetypal structure here. 125|00:21:01|540|00:21:09|580The first decanate of discipleship has the Jupiter given by the Tibetan, 126|00:21:10|740|00:21:21|640and Venus, which he seems to imply, we would have to reverse this direction. 127|00:21:21|640|00:21:28|380Since Venus is operative at the third decanate on the wheel of form, you begin where you leave off, 128|00:21:29|680|00:21:34|380rather the third decanate on the wheel of form, we begin with the first decanate on the wheel of consciousness. 129|00:21:34|560|00:21:39|140These two are often equivalent and Venus, the solar angel, is found here. 130|00:21:39|400|00:21:45|180What we're really looking at is a decanate correlated with the integration of the personality. 131|00:21:45|180|00:21:52|280The next decanate, ruled by the Sun, the source of illumination, is to be associated archetypally with the soul, 132|00:21:53|920|00:22:02|240and the final decanate is to be associated with the spirit aspect, with the monadic aspect. 133|00:22:02|880|00:22:11|780And we have here a blue star. The green star tells us that we're on the personality path, 134|00:22:11|780|00:22:16|680and the blue star tells us we're on the spiritual path. 135|00:22:17|480|00:22:27|160Now, some astrologers have said that when the Sun is located—if a person is on the wheel of form, let us say, 136|00:22:27|820|00:22:35|560and the Sun is located, let us say, in the first decanate—it's definitely, they're definitely passing through a stage 137|00:22:35|560|00:22:38|940when they're dealing with the etheric physical vehicle, per se. 138|00:22:38|940|00:22:45|500That they definitely have an astral emphasis on the wheel of form if their Sun is in the second decanate, 139|00:22:45|520|00:22:53|460and they definitely have a mental emphasis if their Sun is in the third decanate of the wheel of form. 140|00:22:53|620|00:23:05|220I would like to take exception to this and say that it is possible for different people who are at one of those stages of development— 141|00:23:05|220|00:23:10|920let's say the Lemurian stage, there are very few on the planet at the moment, who are strictly etheric physical beings— 142|00:23:11|560|00:23:15|840their Sun can be in any of the decanates of Aries, any of the three. 143|00:23:16|700|00:23:23|400The majority of people are emotional, and I would say they can be born in any of the three decanates in Aries. 144|00:23:24|380|00:23:28|300Fewer are mental, and again I would say they can be born in any of the decanates of Aries. 145|00:23:28|660|00:23:34|340We will see how this works out on the wheel of consciousness here, which begins with Jupiter, Venus, 146|00:23:34|340|00:23:37|900the Sun, and then moves to Mars, as the Tibetan describes. 147|00:23:40|440|00:23:51|680And I would like to say that if you are born in the first decanate, it does not necessarily mean that you are struggling with issues of personality integration. 148|00:23:52|120|00:23:56|840You could be a soul-conscious individual; you could even be a spirit-conscious individual. 149|00:23:57|460|00:24:02|840If you are born in the second decanate and you are on the wheel of consciousness, which means you are a disciple, 150|00:24:03|840|00:24:13|000or attending towards becoming an initiate, it does not necessarily mean that you are working with the soul energies. 151|00:24:14|220|00:24:20|280A person who is a spirit-conscious person, or even someone who is working with personality issues, 152|00:24:20|460|00:24:26|100and integrating the personality and moving forward in that way, trying to align personality with soul, 153|00:24:26|100|00:24:27|880could still be born in the second decanate. 154|00:24:28|680|00:24:33|700And I think it becomes most obvious when you look at the third decanate. 155|00:24:34|800|00:24:42|700In the third decanate, supposedly you are dealing with monadic and spirit issues, and there are so few people who are really doing that. 156|00:24:43|360|00:24:51|660We cannot say across the board that people who are born in the third decanate of Aries—i.e., from 20 degrees to 30 on the wheel of consciousness— 157|00:24:51|660|00:24:55|220are necessarily dealing with spirit and monadic issues. 158|00:24:55|360|00:25:00|600They could certainly be dealing with the alignment of the personality with the soul; they could be dealing with soul issues. 159|00:25:01|140|00:25:03|100So I think we have to be very careful about that. 160|00:25:03|480|00:25:14|800But archetypally, at least, there is a tendency for these six decanates to correlate with the different parts of the human constitution, 161|00:25:15|300|00:25:20|800namely physical, astral, mental, personal, soul, and spirit. 162|00:25:20|800|00:25:24|500That's an archetypal correlation, but it cannot be forced. 163|00:25:24|800|00:25:32|480Now, in this chart I've spoken quite a bit about the physical, emotional, mental, personal stages. 164|00:25:33|400|00:25:39|880And what I call a fourth stage, which begins with the reversal of the wheel, is an aspirational stage. 165|00:25:40|480|00:25:43|060It's personal, and we are integrating under the soul. 166|00:25:44|500|00:25:50|200The third decanate is not strictly mental; I would call it mental-personal. 167|00:25:50|200|00:25:52|760The third decanate on the wheel of form. 168|00:25:53|580|00:25:55|660And let's go up here, and I'll show you what I mean. 169|00:25:56|500|00:26:05|320This third decanate on the wheel of form is mental-personal. 170|00:26:06|240|00:26:11|560Because the mental unit and the personality are so closely allied, 171|00:26:11|740|00:26:18|720so that when a person really begins to cultivate his lower mind, he is at once cultivating the personal side of his personality. 172|00:26:18|720|00:26:22|380But there's also an aspirational side to the personality, 173|00:26:22|380|00:26:27|920and there one is moving forward personally. 174|00:26:28|120|00:26:33|520Instead of simply indulging the personality, one is aligning the personality with the soul. 175|00:26:34|400|00:26:38|740So I've dealt with all this, but I don't want to get tedious about it. 176|00:26:39|340|00:26:45|400I think we're most interested in the wheel of consciousness, 177|00:26:45|400|00:26:50|560in which the zero to ten degrees is ruled, according to the Tibetan, by Jupiter, 178|00:26:50|860|00:26:55|160with Alan Leo having an insight about Venus there. 179|00:26:57|040|00:27:01|400And with the sun representing ten to twenty degrees, 180|00:27:02|000|00:27:09|020and the final ten degrees represented by Mars. 181|00:27:09|700|00:27:13|460So if we have the disciple, discipleship person, 182|00:27:14|580|00:27:21|620we are ruled here in the first decanate by Jupiter. 183|00:27:21|840|00:27:24|360Now there are three rulers of Aries, 184|00:27:24|860|00:27:30|020and at the different phases of development over the long course of human evolution, 185|00:27:30|960|00:27:32|680different planets will rule. 186|00:27:32|900|00:27:38|460Mars is ruling in the physical stage, the emotional stage, and the mental stage, 187|00:27:38|540|00:27:40|440which lasts a long, long time. 188|00:27:40|440|00:27:42|940Many millions of years. 189|00:27:43|840|00:27:47|000When we begin to reverse the wheel, 190|00:27:48|360|00:27:51|420and begin to orient ourselves towards the higher of the pairs of opposites, 191|00:27:52|000|00:27:53|820we are coming under the Mercury rulership, 192|00:27:54|140|00:27:58|460and so both for the aspiring personality and for the person who is truly the disciple soul, 193|00:27:59|760|00:28:03|880the soul incarnation, as a disciple, Mercury is the esoteric ruler, 194|00:28:04|400|00:28:06|860and then when we're in the initiatic phase, 195|00:28:07|740|00:28:09|960when we're coming under the influence of the monad, 196|00:28:10|180|00:28:14|140then Uranus is the esoteric ruler, the hierarchical ruler. 197|00:28:14|280|00:28:15|580So you see how I've done this. 198|00:28:16|360|00:28:19|060I've taken the six phases. 199|00:28:19|320|00:28:20|740You see, once I do this once, 200|00:28:21|980|00:28:25|900we will see how it can work for all the signs. 201|00:28:26|340|00:28:28|600I've taken the six phases of human development: 202|00:28:29|220|00:28:34|660etheric physical, emotional, mental, mental personal—that's the third one— 203|00:28:34|660|00:28:40|760then aspirational personal, the reorienting personality, 204|00:28:41|360|00:28:43|360then the fifth phase, discipleship soul, 205|00:28:44|240|00:28:46|760and then the sixth phase, initiatic monad, 206|00:28:47|360|00:28:51|800and what I've done is I've used the following chart. 207|00:28:52|440|00:28:57|440This chart is on page 332, and I've referred to it before. 208|00:29:00|020|00:29:00|900And there it is. 209|00:29:01|040|00:29:03|400The three phases of human development. 210|00:29:03|400|00:29:08|600The undeveloped man, and I think we can consider him the personal man, 211|00:29:08|780|00:29:11|120the man who's heading towards the development of personality. 212|00:29:12|000|00:29:14|020Then the advanced man. 213|00:29:14|820|00:29:18|580He is the integrating personality, tending towards the soul, 214|00:29:18|620|00:29:19|980and then the disciple initiate. 215|00:29:20|340|00:29:25|160This chart is not laid out exactly the way my chart is laid out, 216|00:29:25|160|00:29:28|140because I developed six strict categories, 217|00:29:28|140|00:29:32|260and I separate the discipleship category from the initiate category. 218|00:29:32|260|00:29:35|840Here, disciple and initiate are put together, 219|00:29:35|840|00:29:41|280and what the disciple begins to do in terms of recognition and work with the plan, 220|00:29:41|880|00:29:45|360the initiate completely accomplishes and uses the will. 221|00:29:45|460|00:29:49|460But this is the general paradigm that I have been using. 222|00:29:51|000|00:29:53|220Okay, so if we get back to this, 223|00:29:54|780|00:29:59|600let's just say that Jupiter is the ruler here in the first decanate, 224|00:29:59|640|00:30:00|960and so is Venus. 225|00:30:00|960|00:30:05|720So there is for the discipleship individual, 226|00:30:06|680|00:30:09|900coming under Mercury in general, 227|00:30:10|800|00:30:14|080where the divine ideas are touched, 228|00:30:14|560|00:30:16|940and the intuition is beginning to register, 229|00:30:17|500|00:30:22|400and the new ideas which must descend into human life are beginning to register. 230|00:30:22|580|00:30:26|000We have under Jupiter a growing sense of the all-embracing one life, 231|00:30:26|020|00:30:29|520because we know how inclusive Jupiter can be, 232|00:30:29|520|00:30:32|480and it always brings things together and embraces the whole. 233|00:30:33|620|00:30:35|780Now we come next. 234|00:30:38|960|00:30:42|820Okay, so you know, and the sea monster is found here, 235|00:30:42|920|00:30:44|120but in this case, 236|00:30:46|160|00:30:51|720the sea monster is not swallowing the consciousness of the soul—quite otherwise. 237|00:30:52|160|00:30:56|760The consciousness is embracing all of the factors, 238|00:30:56|760|00:30:59|540even the lower factors which Cetus represents. 239|00:31:00|580|00:31:08|600Cetus is in this way the soul capable of devouring all levels of consciousness 240|00:31:08|600|00:31:10|980and including it within itself. 241|00:31:11|240|00:31:16|540We can reverse even such a symbol as the Cetus, the sea monster. 242|00:31:16|700|00:31:18|260It doesn't mean only one thing, 243|00:31:18|340|00:31:23|540because many high individuals can be born in that first decanate. 244|00:31:23|540|00:31:27|480It doesn't mean they're all subject to the lower aspect of the sea monster. 245|00:31:28|160|00:31:29|860By the way, I want to say, 246|00:31:30|800|00:31:34|740with respect to these constellations, 247|00:31:34|920|00:31:37|780that all of them apply to every Aries individual. 248|00:31:38|760|00:31:41|240Some of us, in working with esoteric astrology, 249|00:31:41|400|00:31:46|880have attempted to take three constellations and assign them to the decanates. 250|00:31:47|980|00:31:51|080Well, that is a reasonable thing to do, 251|00:31:51|080|00:31:54|400but we should not be too cut and dried and too exclusive. 252|00:31:55|280|00:31:57|720Every Aries individual has the sea monster, 253|00:31:58|000|00:32:00|660the enthronement of matter, 254|00:32:00|880|00:32:03|840and the champion or hero in him. 255|00:32:04|520|00:32:07|780Although there is a tendency when you look at the rulers 256|00:32:08|380|00:32:14|540to want to assign one of the constellations to each one of the decanates, 257|00:32:14|600|00:32:16|860and perhaps that can be somewhat successfully done, 258|00:32:16|860|00:32:20|700but in a larger sense we should bear in mind 259|00:32:20|700|00:32:29|480that each of these three extra-zodiacal constellations 260|00:32:32|700|00:32:35|820applies to every Aries individual, 261|00:32:36|520|00:32:38|440and so forth for the other signs as well. 262|00:32:38|860|00:32:41|480A lot of work on this has been done by Nicholas Milen, 263|00:32:41|480|00:32:48|140who made various assignments of the extra-zodiacal constellations 264|00:32:48|140|00:32:51|240to the three decanates, 265|00:32:51|360|00:32:55|180and Stephen Pugh has done a lot of excellent work on the decanates. 266|00:32:55|320|00:32:57|480We all have our points of agreement and disagreement, 267|00:32:57|640|00:33:00|800and I'll just try to justify mine. 268|00:33:02|380|00:33:04|120But you know, you'll have to get into it yourself. 269|00:33:04|540|00:33:09|420Now, for the disciple or the soul under Aries, 270|00:33:10|360|00:33:15|360you know, in general we're having unselfish directed personality effort, 271|00:33:15|800|00:33:20|400which is aiming at the recognition and work with the divine plan 272|00:33:20|400|00:33:22|260and cultivating the will. 273|00:33:22|760|00:33:26|460You saw how here we had for the disciple initiate 274|00:33:28|600|00:33:31|840recognition and work with the plan and the will. 275|00:33:32|000|00:33:35|380Well, the disciple is cultivating that, 276|00:33:35|460|00:33:37|460is coming increasingly under soul consciousness. 277|00:33:37|460|00:33:45|340In the second decanate, there is that sun identification, 278|00:33:46|240|00:33:49|770so I say here that the individual has the potential of identifying 279|00:33:50|080|00:33:52|400as the soul-infusing personality. 280|00:33:53|260|00:33:58|920There is increasingly fuller revelation of the soul on its own plane, 281|00:33:59|440|00:34:02|520which fits with the illuminative power of the sun. 282|00:34:03|220|00:34:08|560Finally, we enter the third decanate where a battle is supposed to occur, 283|00:34:08|900|00:34:11|140both for the disciple and the initiate, 284|00:34:11|300|00:34:13|340and probably also for the aspiring personality. 285|00:34:16|320|00:34:20|140This is seen by me as a mentally focused battle 286|00:34:20|140|00:34:22|500to be rid of glamour and illusion. 287|00:34:22|680|00:34:25|580A person is becoming, as it were, Perseus. 288|00:34:26|700|00:34:30|560Here, the person is becoming Cassiopeia, 289|00:34:30|560|00:34:34|020but it is not just matter that is enthroned. 290|00:34:34|720|00:34:37|320It is the sense of soul consciousness, 291|00:34:37|700|00:34:40|680which is increasingly enthroned. 292|00:34:43|420|00:34:46|280And in the third decanate, then, the Perseus decanate, 293|00:34:46|680|00:34:49|520there is a battle upon the plane of mind 294|00:34:49|520|00:34:54|780to be rid of glamour and illusion so that the soul can shine forth. 295|00:34:55|900|00:34:58|100Over here, for the aspiring personality, 296|00:34:58|100|00:35:02|660a little in the earlier stages, I have some other things stated, 297|00:35:02|940|00:35:08|300and I'll have to decide whether I go through all of this, 298|00:35:08|420|00:35:12|840because technically we're supposed to be discussing what the Tibetan has said, 299|00:35:13|020|00:35:17|380and I know some of this is my own, based upon what he has said. 300|00:35:17|820|00:35:21|040Then we get into the initiatic or monadic stage, 301|00:35:22|060|00:35:24|580and we're definitely under Uranus at this point, 302|00:35:24|620|00:35:27|540and we're treading some of the final burning grounds. 303|00:35:28|200|00:35:31|080We're, you know, getting ready for the third initiation here, 304|00:35:31|080|00:35:33|560or have passed it, getting ready for the fourth, 305|00:35:33|680|00:35:37|120or are beyond it and Uranus ruling the final burning ground. 306|00:35:37|720|00:35:43|860We'll give us, in general, and for all Aries people born at this time, 307|00:35:44|520|00:35:48|720selfless directed effort of the soul-infused personality, 308|00:35:49|100|00:35:52|880which has achieved integration and worked with the plan. 309|00:35:53|680|00:35:59|800So we are definitely here receiving archetypal ideas under Uranus, 310|00:35:59|920|00:36:03|960not just good ideas, not just ideas coming through under Mercury, 311|00:36:04|100|00:36:08|040but we're receiving the real thing from the world of being. 312|00:36:08|800|00:36:14|200We've given up ourselves, and our will is very much identified 313|00:36:14|200|00:36:19|200with the divine will and plan and as much of the purpose as we can bring through. 314|00:36:19|200|00:36:23|980So Uranus and archetypal purpose are very closely related. 315|00:36:24|960|00:36:30|220So here in the first decanate, which is ruled by Jupiter-Venus, 316|00:36:30|600|00:36:35|200the Venus part, the soul is shining forth, 317|00:36:35|460|00:36:40|940and the Jupiter part reflecting the positive part of Cetus, 318|00:36:41|240|00:36:43|800we are engulfed by the One Life, 319|00:36:43|800|00:36:50|700and we are in this vast, unitive, first triadal and then monadic consciousness. 320|00:36:51|960|00:36:55|880So I will say, yes, first triadal and then monadic. 321|00:36:57|380|00:37:02|660When we're in the Sun decanate, we're identified as the soul-infused personality 322|00:37:02|660|00:37:05|940as an expression of the triad or spirit, 323|00:37:06|400|00:37:08|720and there is increasing revelation of the monad. 324|00:37:08|820|00:37:11|840The monad can stand for the Sun, the triad can stand for the Sun, 325|00:37:11|840|00:37:17|740the higher ego can stand for the Sun, so we are in a strong fullness of soul consciousness. 326|00:37:18|420|00:37:24|520In none of this are we yet speaking of taking the fourth degree. 327|00:37:24|720|00:37:26|920We're holding ourselves below the fourth degree. 328|00:37:27|040|00:37:32|160I think that's wise because we cannot speculate too much about what might occur beyond that point. 329|00:37:32|860|00:37:38|440And finally, in the Perseus decanate, I call it that, even though, you know, 330|00:37:38|440|00:37:45|160as I said, all these meanings of Cetus, Cassiopeia and Perseus apply to every area and every individual, 331|00:37:45|320|00:37:49|500but in the end, Mars is the final, indicating the final battle, 332|00:37:50|080|00:37:53|360and we have the victory in battle with illusion. 333|00:37:53|680|00:37:58|040The jungle of illusion, the jungle of experience dissolves in flames, 334|00:37:58|220|00:38:04|160even that is happening under Mercury, and the path stands free. 335|00:38:05|300|00:38:07|700Let's see what that exact quote is. 336|00:38:07|700|00:38:10|060I want to… 337|00:38:10|060|00:38:17|240The jungles of experience, yes, jungles, j-u-n-g-l-e-s, jungles, there's only one. 338|00:38:18|140|00:38:21|940The jungles of experience are set on fire and dissolve in flames, 339|00:38:22|080|00:38:26|060and then the path stands clear and unobstructed vision is achieved. 340|00:38:26|180|00:38:29|440That's the full quotation, and it's a very beautiful one. 341|00:38:29|560|00:38:33|540The jungles of experience are set on fire and dissolve in flames, 342|00:38:33|540|00:38:37|600and then the path stands clear and unobstructed vision is achieved. 343|00:38:38|140|00:38:42|060So there is a final conquest with illusion. 344|00:38:42|240|00:38:45|300There is a battle with the dweller going on here, 345|00:38:45|400|00:38:50|300and all the illusory aspects of the dweller are contended with. 346|00:38:51|180|00:38:53|620Perhaps there is not a complete victory, 347|00:38:53|700|00:38:59|060although I think in any sign a person can achieve very close to that complete victory. 348|00:38:59|780|00:39:02|960Well, you know, I've kind of plunged into this a bit. 349|00:39:03|540|00:39:05|460I have a lot here. 350|00:39:07|060|00:39:12|960But as I say, I think we're strictly, we're most interested in the stage 351|00:39:12|960|00:39:18|180on the reversed wheel, the counterclockwise wheel, the wheel of consciousness, 352|00:39:18|600|00:39:22|160which will be occurring under the esoteric and hierarchical rulers, 353|00:39:22|420|00:39:24|140so therefore in Aries under Mercury, 354|00:39:25|380|00:39:29|120for two stages, which I call aspirational personal, 355|00:39:30|640|00:39:33|680integrating under the soul, and disciplic soul, 356|00:39:34|620|00:39:37|200and hierarchical for the initiate and the monad. 357|00:39:37|900|00:39:41|880I didn't really say much about the person who is integrating the personality 358|00:39:41|880|00:39:45|160and having it, seeking for it to respond to the soul, 359|00:39:45|240|00:39:47|540but I will say a little, because I think I should. 360|00:39:48|360|00:39:54|920We must recognize under Jupiter, for zero to ten degrees, 361|00:39:55|120|00:39:58|900we have to recognize the way the form devours the consciousness, 362|00:39:59|080|00:40:03|300and we must seek to expand our consciousness and grow beyond it 363|00:40:03|300|00:40:06|880by expanding the soul awareness. 364|00:40:07|120|00:40:10|600Now, either Jupiter or Venus would suit here. 365|00:40:11|180|00:40:14|560Remember that the way we have it, according to the Tibetan, 366|00:40:15|740|00:40:24|140that Jupiter and Venus are the rulers of the first decanate on the wheel of consciousness, 367|00:40:24|680|00:40:25|940Sun the second, and Mars the third. 368|00:40:26|020|00:40:33|860That's how the Tibetan gives it, and he suggests that Alan Leo has given Venus as the ruler, 369|00:40:34|460|00:40:39|800but what I find is that it's Sepharial that has done that. 370|00:40:40|040|00:40:43|700So, I don't know, there's some kind of reversal going on there. 371|00:40:43|700|00:40:45|400But either one will do. 372|00:40:45|960|00:40:49|300Venus and Jupiter both relate to the causal body. 373|00:40:50|060|00:40:55|740Venus is relating to the growing quality within the causal body, 374|00:40:57|180|00:41:02|420and its beauty, and its loving magnetism, 375|00:41:02|540|00:41:07|180and Jupiter is relating in general to the expansion of the causal consciousness. 376|00:41:08|580|00:41:12|580The Sun is related to illumination and to enlightenment in general, 377|00:41:12|580|00:41:20|820and Mars, as we know, to conflict, and he tells us the initiate climaxes his work within any sign with a battle. 378|00:41:22|660|00:41:29|520So, OK, going on here, yes, I have to go back and forth. 379|00:41:30|060|00:41:34|440So, in the aspirational or higher personal or integrating under the soul stage, 380|00:41:34|540|00:41:39|160we do have Mercury, and we have what the Tibetan calls directed personality effort, 381|00:41:39|320|00:41:41|400but it's towards being unselfish. 382|00:41:41|400|00:41:44|120We have to try to become the unselfish personality, 383|00:41:44|140|00:41:47|360and it's so easy for Aries people to be self-centered 384|00:41:47|360|00:41:52|040and have their eyes strictly upon their own activities and energies. 385|00:41:52|600|00:41:58|200So, in the Jupiter-Venus decanate, we are recognizing how the form usually devours consciousness. 386|00:41:58|380|00:42:00|620We want to grow beyond it, and we want the soul to shine. 387|00:42:01|400|00:42:05|960When we're in the Sun decanate, which we have been associating with Cassiopeia, 388|00:42:06|500|00:42:09|660we are identified here as consciously as an aspirant, 389|00:42:09|660|00:42:15|340and we're having the higher self, which is also a Sun, revealed. 390|00:42:16|340|00:42:19|200And we are striving towards the higher self. 391|00:42:19|360|00:42:25|920We know how much striving power is found in Aries. 392|00:42:26|580|00:42:33|820Finally, Mars is the ruler for those born in the last 20 to 30 degrees, 393|00:42:34|080|00:42:38|200and we have an aspirational fighting to be free of illusion. 394|00:42:38|200|00:42:49|100We aspire, we seek to battle our illusions, sometimes not possessed of our full mental capacities, 395|00:42:49|520|00:42:53|380which are much stronger for the disciples. 396|00:42:53|500|00:43:01|020So, I think you get the idea here, and you know, since you do have this on your screen, 397|00:43:01|660|00:43:06|480you can freeze your screen at any time and simply study what I've said, 398|00:43:06|480|00:43:09|920which is certainly not the complete story by any means. 399|00:43:09|980|00:43:15|300You can study what I've said about the first, second and third decanate on the wheel of consciousness. 400|00:43:16|060|00:43:20|180And you know, just to go up a little bit, if you want to freeze the screen here, 401|00:43:21|260|00:43:29|100you can study what I've said about the Lemurian, Atlantean and Aryan, early Aryan stages of consciousness, 402|00:43:29|100|00:43:39|060and how the different constellations and planets working in a more personal, elemental manner, 403|00:43:39|660|00:43:47|640can affect the individual. Just freeze your screen and study it, or print it or copy it, you know, something of that nature. 404|00:43:48|920|00:43:53|480Okay, well this has been sort of my unexpected plunge into this decanate work, 405|00:43:53|480|00:44:01|360and the reason it was unexpected, in a way, D.K. began talking about the decanates a little bit earlier in Aries, 406|00:44:01|480|00:44:06|240than he does in the other signs, where he seems to leave it towards the end. 407|00:44:07|400|00:44:14|280And for that reason I was taken a little by surprise, so I had to excuse a few of the glitches in the beginning of the discussion. 408|00:44:15|500|00:44:19|640I wanted to take out the material that I have on the decanates. 409|00:44:19|640|00:44:25|440Some of us have thought about this long and hard, maybe not as long and hard as some have thought about it, 410|00:44:26|120|00:44:31|940but it is an important sub-qualifier, this question of the decanates. 411|00:44:32|620|00:44:39|240We all may know, let's say we're born in Aries, or with the Sun in Aries, or under Aries, with Aries rising, 412|00:44:39|360|00:44:43|460but what section of Aries are we born in? 413|00:44:44|380|00:44:53|660And there's even a way to make day faces and night faces of each one of the decanates. 414|00:44:54|640|00:45:01|860So on the wheel, which is going counterclockwise, the first five degrees would be the day face, 415|00:45:02|060|00:45:04|420and the second five degrees would be the night face. 416|00:45:04|880|00:45:12|120I need to study a little bit more about that, but it seems that one is more expressive and one is more internal, or introverted, 417|00:45:12|120|00:45:18|080and thus it goes from the second decanate from twenty to twenty-five, the day face from twenty-five to thirty, the night face. 418|00:45:19|040|00:45:23|800And similarly for the third decanate from, oh, no excuse me, I made a mistake there. 419|00:45:24|040|00:45:29|860From ten to fifteen in the second decanate is the day face, and fifteen to twenty the night face. 420|00:45:30|080|00:45:37|440Then in the third decanate from twenty to twenty-five is the day face, and then from twenty-five to thirty the night face. 421|00:45:37|440|00:45:42|180So much experiment needs to be done there as well as work with the 422|00:45:42|180|00:45:51|360Dvadesamshas or D-W-A-D-S, whereby we divide the zodiac of 12 into the 30 423|00:45:51|360|00:45:56|060degrees of any sign and get two and a half degree sections, one two and a half 424|00:45:56|060|00:46:02|140degree sections for every zodiacal increment of the sign. So 0 to two and a 425|00:46:02|140|00:46:09|320half degrees is Aries Aries, two and a half degrees to five is Aries Taurus. I'm 426|00:46:09|320|00:46:12|560not going to go… you know, you get the idea, right? Five degrees to seven and a half 427|00:46:12|560|00:46:18|480degrees is Aries Gemini and so forth. So that is also a sub-qualifier and you 428|00:46:18|480|00:46:22|440know it can begin to zero in on the specific type of energy which has built 429|00:46:22|440|00:46:27|580the form of any Aries individual and so it goes through the other signs. Always 430|00:46:27|580|00:46:32|120beginning with the sign itself… well there's… there's different ways of doing 431|00:46:32|120|00:46:36|940it, for instance, if you begin with Taurus from 0 to two and a half degrees, 432|00:46:36|940|00:46:42|280would be Taurus Taurus, and from two and a half degrees to five would be Taurus 433|00:46:42|280|00:46:46|880Gemini, and eventually you get around at the very last decanate to Taurus sub 434|00:46:46|880|00:46:58|320Aries. But some people always begin with Aries, and that would be another way of 435|00:46:58|320|00:47:05|000operating. We have to test that out, of course. The final method of 436|00:47:05|000|00:47:12|160refining and discriminating very minute differences between individuals would be 437|00:47:12|160|00:47:16|300through a study of the degrees themselves, because each one of the 360 438|00:47:16|300|00:47:21|560degrees, at least according to the ancient Chaldean knowledge, would have 439|00:47:21|560|00:47:28|600its own specific quality. And then each degree can be approached numerologically, 440|00:47:29|280|00:47:33|700so there are a number of the different types of degrees in the zodiac which add 441|00:47:33|700|00:47:38|060up to a one or to a two or to a three, and they all would have something in 442|00:47:38|060|00:47:43|300common. So this is a more mathematical approach to discriminating the fine 443|00:47:43|300|00:47:48|640points of identity. OK, but I hope I haven't, you know, been too confusing here. 444|00:47:49|320|00:47:59|280I think I finally got into the subject, and here you can have a snapshot, if you 445|00:47:59|280|00:48:07|620will, of this decanate chart where we see the extra zodiacal constellations: Aries 446|00:48:07|620|00:48:16|420Aries sub Leo and orange Aries sub Sagittarius in this rich blue color. Then we have 447|00:48:16|420|00:48:21|580Cassiopeia, Perseus—we have the names of these constellations and what they are— 448|00:48:21|580|00:48:28|220and then we have the wheel of consciousness and then the wheel of 449|00:48:28|220|00:48:35|860form as we reverse the decanate order on the wheel of consciousness. Here are some 450|00:48:35|860|00:48:42|100of the things that Nicholas Nelenn has said. He is agreeing in general here, and 451|00:48:42|100|00:48:46|760here are the Alan Leo decanates, and here are the Sepharial decanates. I really don't 452|00:48:46|760|00:48:54|400know why there has been that reversal. I haven't ever read Alan Leo speaking 453|00:48:54|400|00:49:02|960about Venus as the ruler of one of the decanates, but I'm certainly willing to 454|00:49:02|960|00:49:06|800learn—certainly willing to learn. I don't have the book immediately at my 455|00:49:06|800|00:49:16|220disposal. Maybe it is in his esoteric astrology book. I'm not sure, but let's 456|00:49:16|220|00:49:20|820read one more time what the Tibetan has said, because he is the authority here. 457|00:49:21|500|00:49:25|360The decanates can be dealt with in two ways according to the direction in which 458|00:49:25|360|00:49:28|520a man is traveling upon the wheel and therefore entering the science, speaking 459|00:49:28|520|00:49:35|560and symbols. In other words, entering from 30 to 20 as an average individual 460|00:49:36|540|00:49:42|220and going apparently backwards in the clockwise manner, or entering from 0 to 461|00:49:42|220|00:49:47|60010 when on the counterclockwise wheel and going on the wheel of consciousness. 462|00:49:47|780|00:49:50|960If he enters Aries when on the common cross, he will come into the influence of 463|00:49:50|960|00:50:01|480the Mars, the Sun, and Jupiter according to Sepharial. Now, you know, here is the 464|00:50:01|480|00:50:08|140problem: you know, Sepharial is obviously not counting the decanates 465|00:50:08|140|00:50:15|560backwards. He's counting the decanates in strict order. He is only thinking of 466|00:50:15|560|00:50:20|320every sign as progressing from 0 to 30 degrees and not from 30 degrees to 0 467|00:50:20|320|00:50:32|200degrees. So then, do we put Mars in the 0 to 10 degrees and Jupiter or Venus in 468|00:50:32|200|00:50:38|060the 20 to 30 degrees, or do we do as the Tibetan suggests: take the early ruler, 469|00:50:39|040|00:50:45|640the first ruler, and assign it to the 20 to 30 degrees section, and the last ruler 470|00:50:45|640|00:50:53|240on the wheel of form—assign that to the 0 to 10 degrees section? So there are 471|00:50:53|240|00:51:01|900some ambiguities here, and this has to be worked out. The red Venus is my own 472|00:51:01|900|00:51:06|780there because of the way Sepharial usually proceeds. This means conflict, 473|00:51:06|780|00:51:11|960revelation, and successful satisfaction of desire and ambition as the eons pass 474|00:51:11|960|00:51:19|240away, and that, you know, that makes perfect sense. We understand why D.K. 475|00:51:20|500|00:51:24|820assigns these qualities to these planets. When he reorients himself and mounts the 476|00:51:24|820|00:51:33|140fixed cross, he comes under the influence—whoops—he comes under the 477|00:51:33|140|00:51:39|140influence of Jupiter, the Sun, and Mars. Now that's in the ordinary— 478|00:51:40|080|00:51:45|880that's in the reversed wheel progression on the wheel of consciousness. Now it's a 479|00:51:45|880|00:51:51|720little strange because, you know, normally you would think that Mars would 480|00:51:51|720|00:51:56|340be the ruler of the first decanate, which is sub Aries, and Jupiter the ruler of the 481|00:51:56|340|00:52:02|860third decanate, which is sub Sagittarius. But the Tibetan changes this, so he 482|00:52:02|860|00:52:06|600really puts Jupiter in the first decanate. He comes under the influence of 483|00:52:06|600|00:52:11|560Jupiter, the Sun, and Mars, for the initiate and the disciple culminates his career 484|00:52:11|560|00:52:16|560in any of the signs with a final and dominant struggle in a struggle to 485|00:52:16|560|00:52:23|400dominate lower forces and fight. Now, here is the unusual statement: I would hear 486|00:52:23|400|00:52:26|840remarked that Alan Leo had a glimpse of the inner significance of the decanates 487|00:52:26|840|00:52:31|860when he assigned Mars, the Sun, and Venus to the three decanates. Well, maybe he did, 488|00:52:31|860|00:52:37|520and I'm no one to doubt the Tibetan, but I remember it otherwise, and I know that 489|00:52:37|520|00:52:43|560Sepharial would be working with Venus in the third decanate because he always 490|00:52:43|560|00:52:50|840proceeds inward towards the geocentric Earth according to the length of the 491|00:52:50|840|00:52:56|740period of the planet involved, including the Sun. So the way that Sepharial 492|00:52:56|740|00:53:03|260proceeds is outward, starting with the outermost—none of the trans-Saturnian 493|00:53:03|260|00:53:07|000planets. He starts with Saturn, then he goes to Jupiter because it's a smaller 494|00:53:07|000|00:53:12|340orbit and takes less time, then he goes to Mars—still smaller orbit and less 495|00:53:12|340|00:53:17|960time—then he goes to the Sun, which geocentrically has a period of one year, 496|00:53:17|960|00:53:22|960whereas Mars has a period of two years from the geocentric perspective. Then 497|00:53:22|960|00:53:33|460from Mars, he skips the Earth and goes to Venus, then he goes to Mercury, 498|00:53:33|460|00:53:40|320then he goes to the Moon, and that is in order of the orbital periods. So when 499|00:53:40|320|00:53:43|880we're looking—you know, don't want to beat a dead horse here, but I tend to do 500|00:53:43|880|00:53:53|980so—when he is offering these decanates, Mars would be a longer orbit 501|00:53:53|980|00:54:00|260than the Sun and Venus—not Jupiter would be the longer orbit, or would be the 502|00:54:00|260|00:54:05|320shorter orbit. So Mars is longer than the Sun, the Sun is longer than Venus, but the 503|00:54:05|320|00:54:08|560Sun's orbit from the geocentric perspective is not longer than that of 504|00:54:08|560|00:54:13|460Jupiter, and that's what the Tibetan says he has chosen, whereas I do remember that 505|00:54:13|460|00:54:19|820Leo really chose Mars, Sun, and Jupiter and not Mars, Sun, and Venus. So that has to be 506|00:54:19|820|00:54:27|060worked out, but I don't think there's any loss there. The idea here is that Venus 507|00:54:27|060|00:54:34|360represents the solar angel, and when the man is no longer mental and lower 508|00:54:34|360|00:54:38|440personal, he's becoming aspirational and higher personal and integrating under 509|00:54:38|440|00:54:46|860the soul. He's turning around, and Venus as the solar angel with its power is 510|00:54:46|860|00:54:51|600coming into focus, and the man is orienting himself towards Venus. Even 511|00:54:51|600|00:54:56|920though Venus is in detriment in Aries, it seems to be quite important in this 512|00:54:56|920|00:55:04|980first area—this first degree, first ten degrees—because there is a reorientation. 513|00:55:04|980|00:55:12|140Remember that according to the Tibetan, if we go to page 472 and we look 514|00:55:12|140|00:55:22|820at crises, we will find the crisis of the soul that Aries in fact does rule—a 515|00:55:22|820|00:55:26|840crisis of orientation and a kind of reversal where man begins to face the 516|00:55:26|840|00:55:35|180soul. The soul is Venus, and when we look at the decanates here for the 517|00:55:35|180|00:55:41|700aspirational, higher personal man, we are reorienting towards the soul. We are 518|00:55:41|700|00:55:46|720bringing in the new ideas under Mercury in general, and we are reorienting 519|00:55:46|720|00:55:54|540towards the soul, which is always symbolized by Venus, the solar angel. So 520|00:55:54|540|00:55:58|720we're seeking to grow beyond the form—that's the Jupiter part of it and the 521|00:55:58|720|00:56:08|020Venus—and under Venus, we reorient towards the energy of the solar angel. 522|00:56:08|840|00:56:14|020Okay, I think that's fair enough. Now you have to test this out in your own life, 523|00:56:14|020|00:56:20|760obviously. You know, the way to do it is experiment with the energies and just 524|00:56:20|760|00:56:27|580see which of these energies seem to be sub-rulers for you in a decanate—in a 525|00:56:27|580|00:56:34|760decanate sense—and maybe more than one will come in. You should look at the 526|00:56:34|760|00:56:39|980sub-sign of the triplicity in which you are born. You should look at the ruler of 527|00:56:39|980|00:56:47|800the sub-sign—usually the orthodox ruler. You should definitely, since you are on 528|00:56:47|800|00:56:53|900the wheel of consciousness, look at the ruler of the decanate which the Tibetan 529|00:56:53|900|00:57:01|240has assigned when it differs from what Alan Leo has given, or on occasion what 530|00:57:01|240|00:57:06|100Sepharial has given when the Tibetan accepts Sepharial's as the best 531|00:57:06|100|00:57:12|340expression. Whoa, okay, I got into something here that I didn't know I would 532|00:57:12|340|00:57:17|320get into, but hopefully there's some clarity there and that you can see the 533|00:57:17|320|00:57:21|400charts on your screen and you can understand what I'm attempting to drive 534|00:57:21|400|00:57:28|740at. This is not as complete, of course, as it could be or would be, but I 535|00:57:28|740|00:57:31|900don't want to get excessively tedious about this because we're trying to move 536|00:57:31|900|00:57:35|680through the books, and it looks like it's going to take, you know, 300 of these 537|00:57:35|680|00:57:43|320programs to do that anyway, maybe more, hopefully not. All right, friends, let us do 538|00:57:43|320|00:57:48|600The Great Invocation together, as we always do. 539|00:57:54|760|00:58:00|260All right, so we begin with the Om. 540|00:58:10|340|00:58:17|820From the point of light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the 541|00:58:17|820|00:58:22|320minds of men. Let light descend on earth. 542|00:58:25|300|00:58:30|740From the point of love within the heart of God, let love stream forth into the 543|00:58:30|740|00:58:34|640hearts of men. May Christ return to earth. 544|00:58:40|000|00:58:44|860From the center where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little 545|00:58:44|860|00:58:55|360wills of men, the purpose which the Masters know and serve. From the center 546|00:58:55|360|00:59:01|000which we call the race of men, let the plan of love and light work out, and may 547|00:59:01|000|00:59:13|520it seal the door where evil dwells. Let light and love and power restore the 548|00:59:13|520|00:59:15|380plan on earth. 549|00:59:56|460|01:00:05|580Okay, friends, we have reached the point almost exactly, and I guess we haven't 550|01:00:05|580|01:00:17|340gone very far in the process here. I guess we are simply… we've simply dealt 551|01:00:17|340|01:00:25|180with one paragraph and attempted to expand that paragraph. If I can get my 552|01:00:25|180|01:00:30|620computer to function here properly, we are ending then Esoteric Astrology 553|01:00:30|620|01:00:41|740Adventure. Okay, this is the… well, it's coming. No, I thought it was… I thought it 554|01:00:41|740|01:00:49|860was… well, it seems to be… it seems to be operating in an interesting manner. Yes, 555|01:00:49|860|01:00:57|780okay, so basically we are simply ending at the page we began, and I will 556|01:00:57|780|01:01:02|100straighten all this out. I'm not going to take your time here to get these page 557|01:01:02|100|01:01:10|960numbers correct. So for the time being, my computer is doing strange things. All 558|01:01:10|960|01:01:16|260right, we will talk to you soon, and we start with number 50 very soon. All right, 559|01:01:16|260|01:01:17|520talk to you soon. Bye-bye.