1|00:00:03|160|00:00:04|360Hello everybody. 2|00:00:05|800|00:00:09|660We are continuing with Esoteric Astrology adventure number 59. 3|00:00:09|980|00:00:15|580We are concluding the work in Pisces, and we're dealing with the Decanates. 4|00:00:16|520|00:00:20|780And I would like to read again. 5|00:00:21|660|00:00:28|780It is a very fluid area, and in some ways one does not know literally whether one is coming 6|00:00:28|780|00:00:29|560or going. 7|00:00:30|380|00:00:38|580In other words, when Leo and Sepharial give their decanate rulers, we know that unlike 8|00:00:38|580|00:00:46|940the Tibetan, they are not dealing with a retrogression through the zodiac. 9|00:00:47|220|00:00:54|360So when they say that this is the ruler of the first decanate, they definitely mean zero 10|00:00:54|360|00:00:55|260to ten degrees. 11|00:00:55|540|00:00:57|280The second decanate is always ten to twenty. 12|00:00:58|010|00:01:01|580And the third decanate they mean twenty to thirty. 13|00:01:02|540|00:01:06|080So they arrange their planets in the order of that. 14|00:01:06|300|00:01:11|200Now Sepharial has given Saturn, Jupiter, Mars. 15|00:01:12|140|00:01:16|980However, Saturn for the first, Jupiter for the second, and Mars for the third. 16|00:01:17|100|00:01:22|460However, the Tibetan would suggest that people on the ordinary wheel of form are entering 17|00:01:23|040|00:01:26|840via the third decanate, which for them is the first. 18|00:01:26|840|00:01:34|360So the order of their progression would be, in Sepharial's terms, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. 19|00:01:35|200|00:01:46|740Alan Leo gives Jupiter, then the Moon, and then Mars. 20|00:01:47|140|00:01:48|140Jupiter, the Moon, and Mars. 21|00:01:48|240|00:01:50|020Let's check that just to make sure. 22|00:01:50|980|00:01:52|780The sixfold development of Pisces. 23|00:01:55|660|00:02:00|280Going up here, that's quite a bit. 24|00:02:01|320|00:02:03|300Okay, yes, Jupiter, the Moon, and Mars. 25|00:02:03|680|00:02:07|080Yes, Alan Leo gives this: Jupiter, the Moon, and Mars. 26|00:02:07|620|00:02:17|920However, it is also possible for us to consider that his three decanates are in fact accurate, 27|00:02:17|920|00:02:25|860but we would enter on the ordinary wheel: Mars, the Moon, and Jupiter. 28|00:02:27|160|00:02:36|160So often D.K. emphasizes the exoteric nature of Sepharial's attributions of decanates, but 29|00:02:36|160|00:02:43|480he does not totally dismiss them, and we can find, if we have considering D.K., Alan Leo, 30|00:02:43|480|00:02:51|200and Sepharial, except when D.K. absolutely repudiates the choices of the other two, that 31|00:02:51|200|00:02:56|900there is something to be said for the decanates which they assign, because after all they didn't 32|00:02:56|900|00:02:57|380invent them. 33|00:02:57|520|00:02:58|640They are ancient systems. 34|00:02:59|340|00:03:09|900Sepharial's system is a Chaldean system, and Alan Leo's system is an Indian system, and 35|00:03:09|900|00:03:16|020they are very ancient. And if we check out Alan Leo's rulerships by the appearance of 36|00:03:16|020|00:03:23|040people, we will see that, let us say with Aries, the first decanate is Aries-Aries, then second 37|00:03:23|040|00:03:30|640from 10 to 20 is Aries-Leo, then from 20 to 30, Aries-Sagittarius. And given the normal 38|00:03:30|640|00:03:37|420rulers, which would be Mars for Aries-Aries, the Sun for Aries-Leo, and Jupiter for Aries- 39|00:03:37|420|00:03:44|780Sagittarius, the appearance of the person does bear this out. And appearance is not a slight 40|00:03:44|780|00:03:52|520thing; it has to do not strictly with physical matters, it has to do with inner energy patterns 41|00:03:52|520|00:03:56|720which work out as physical appearance, so we do know there is something there. 42|00:03:57|380|00:04:03|700So when we're studying the decanates, it's not just a question of choosing one correct 43|00:04:04|740|00:04:05|420system. 44|00:04:06|120|00:04:12|280There are several systems, each of which has their points of value. 45|00:04:12|440|00:04:17|420Naturally, from the esoteric and psychological spiritual point of view, we want to use the 46|00:04:17|420|00:04:22|740Tibetan system because it deals most with the evolution of the soul, but we cannot discount 47|00:04:22|740|00:04:29|360Sepharial except when D.K. tells us that it is strictly inaccurate, and we certainly cannot 48|00:04:29|360|00:04:34|980discount Alan Leo even when he differs from Master D.K., because that ancient Indian system 49|00:04:34|980|00:04:43|180does, at least somewhat exoterically, tell us what types of energies can be found in the 50|00:04:43|180|00:04:43|920various decanates. 51|00:04:44|440|00:04:54|340Now, what I would like to do is to read again this sometimes very puzzling 52|00:04:54|340|00:05:00|640paragraph over which I have labored and tried to be as clear as I possibly can, but D.K.'s 53|00:05:00|640|00:05:07|300writing itself is full of hints, and he is not writing with the concrete mind; he's writing 54|00:05:08|460|00:05:13|160to evoke the intuition of the reader. 55|00:05:14|500|00:05:15|960So I'm going to read this over again. 56|00:05:16|460|00:05:21|040The same symbolic mode of interpretation must govern also our understanding of the three 57|00:05:21|040|00:05:23|080decanates. in Pisces, of course. 58|00:05:23|760|00:05:29|020Both Leo—Alan Leo—and Sepharial give a list of the decanates and between them there is 59|00:05:29|020|00:05:30|500much resemblance 60|00:05:31|400|00:05:36|000In other words, both of them have Mars and both of them have Jupiter, but not in the same 61|00:05:36|000|00:05:37|980places necessarily, especially for Jupiter. 62|00:05:39|180|00:05:43|220but there is, however, an important difference. 63|00:05:43|640|00:05:50|280Leo approaches the closer but not exactly close, not exactly accurate, the closer 64|00:05:50|280|00:05:56|700to the esoteric interpretation of astrology whilst Sepharial is purely exoteric. 65|00:05:57|320|00:06:02|440This seems to be a generalization—a generality—that he is almost always exoteric, although 66|00:06:02|440|00:06:10|640occasionally D.K. chooses the Sepharial decanates, as in Gemini and maybe in Cancer, I think, as 67|00:06:10|640|00:06:16|760indicating the truly esoteric point of view. 68|00:06:17|280|00:06:21|100According to Sepharial, the three decanates are governed by Saturn—Jupiter—Mars, 69|00:06:21|220|00:06:26|000So that would be the first, second and third decanate, or if we reverse them: Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. 70|00:06:26|860|00:06:31|140The three decanates are governed by Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, presenting opportunity to work 71|00:06:31|140|00:06:36|580off karma—that's Saturn—and to be successful in so doing—that's always Jupiter, success— 72|00:06:37|320|00:06:42|420and indicating the method employed, that of conflict and of war. 73|00:06:42|420|00:06:48|420So we've seen some terrible things happen during the Age of Pisces, and especially as 74|00:06:48|420|00:06:58|480we approach the latter part of the Age of Pisces, in which Mars in the third decanate 75|00:06:58|480|00:07:00|480is considered so potent. 76|00:07:00|700|00:07:02|600It has been a time of many wars. 77|00:07:02|820|00:07:10|540The warring 20th century as a kind of climax. Let's hope that the 21st century is not even 78|00:07:11|400|00:07:13|000more potent in relation to war. 79|00:07:14|100|00:07:16|740Leo gives us Jupiter, the Moon and Mars. 80|00:07:16|960|00:07:21|680You see, Jupiter rules Pisces, of course. The Moon rules Cancer, which is the Pisces-Cancer 81|00:07:21|680|00:07:25|000decanate, and Mars rules the Pisces-Scorpio decanate. 82|00:07:25|480|00:07:28|120So it's just following the system—that's what he does. 83|00:07:28|820|00:07:36|940He indicates, therefore, the success of Jupiter, which is incident to proved discipleship and 84|00:07:36|940|00:07:38|960consequent readiness for initiation, 85|00:07:38|960|00:07:50|980Now this success will be operative both upon the ordinary wheel and upon the wheel of consciousness. 86|00:07:51|320|00:07:56|600See, the individual is moving backwards: Mars, Moon and Jupiter. So in the third decanate, 87|00:07:56|600|00:08:02|340which is, in the normal order, the first, there will be some sort of success. And as we begin 88|00:08:02|340|00:08:10|880to reverse the wheel, we have Jupiter indicating the kind of success in relation to discipleship 89|00:08:10|880|00:08:12|620which the Tibetan is discussing. 90|00:08:13|460|00:08:22|060See, we may have the same rulers here if we go moving counterclockwise, moving clockwise 91|00:08:22|060|00:08:22|920or counterclockwise. 92|00:08:22|920|00:08:31|860Actually, I've just realized here that by listing these as 0 to 10, 10 to 20, 20 to 93|00:08:31|860|00:08:39|52030, that in a way it appears that for the ordinary wheel of form I am moving counterclockwise. 94|00:08:39|520|00:08:46|720But don't pay attention to the way the arrows seem to be moving—they're simply moving backwards 95|00:08:46|720|00:08:53|220through the degrees towards the first 10 degrees, and then they begin again with the 96|00:08:53|220|00:09:01|620first 10 degrees and move forward towards the last 10 degrees, where the blue star can 97|00:09:01|620|00:09:05|220be found indicating spiritual results. 98|00:09:07|680|00:09:16|020Yes, I guess there's no way to put this down in a totally clear manner. It is clear enough 99|00:09:16|020|00:09:28|320here, and if you check this, you will see that the inner wheel is the wheel of form, and it 100|00:09:28|320|00:09:32|120is moving in a clockwise direction. 101|00:09:32|320|00:09:37|100The wheel of consciousness here we can portray is moving in the counterclockwise direction. 102|00:09:37|220|00:09:42|260This is a diagram prepared by Nicholas Nillon, which is a compendium of a number of points 103|00:09:42|260|00:09:42|720of view. 104|00:09:42|720|00:09:48|920In certain particulars, Nicholas differs from my choices and from the choices of Stephen 105|00:09:48|920|00:09:49|300Pugh. 106|00:09:50|360|00:09:57|320Those are the theorists who I think have paid the most attention to decanate rulership. Also 107|00:09:57|320|00:09:58|340in Denmark, Holger 108|00:09:58|880|00:10:05|100Stansberg has done a lot of work in this area, and he differs in certain particulars as well. 109|00:10:05|100|00:10:11|140And there's no way that we can completely confirm the accuracy of choices. 110|00:10:11|440|00:10:19|440Even D.K. leaves certain open possibilities, certain ambiguities, and we just have to live 111|00:10:19|440|00:10:19|980with that. 112|00:10:21|440|00:10:27|220Now, continuing with the reading: Leo gives us Jupiter, the Moon and Mars. 1|00:00:03|160|00:00:04|360He indicates, therefore, the success which is incident to proved discipleship 114|00:10:32|700|00:10:39|200So in the first decanate of Pisces, we will find examples of proved discipleship. 115|00:10:41|120|00:10:49|300Examples in the first decan of proven discipleship and consequent readiness for initiation, 116|00:10:50|900|00:10:56|400I think some of this initiation will come in later decanates, although you can take 117|00:10:56|400|00:11:01|860initiation really in any decanate. And I'm sure when we look at the biographies and astrology 118|00:11:01|860|00:11:06|400of initiates, we will see that they've been born in all the decanates and have taken initiation, 119|00:11:06|400|00:11:17|820but some initiatory potential existing in the last two decans also. 120|00:11:18|500|00:11:23|800the seeing of the vision with which Jupiter rewards the disciple, 121|00:11:23|960|00:11:26|740Now it can be a vision of the Sun, or it can simply be the vision. 122|00:11:26|740|00:11:32|200If it is the vision, it is still operative in the first decanate. 123|00:11:32|420|00:11:37|180If it is a vision of the Sun, we have in the second decanate Vulcan giving way to the Sun 124|00:11:37|180|00:11:45|000and hints about the third decanate which tell us that only the Sun remains as the ruler 125|00:11:45|000|00:11:45|880of everything. 126|00:11:46|180|00:11:52|000So there is some Sun potential in the second decanate and in the third decanate in the 127|00:11:52|000|00:11:53|540clockwise or normal order. 128|00:11:54|540|00:12:01|680and the experience which Vulcan confers.—well, it's usually the Moon conveying experience. 129|00:12:03|540|00:12:11|460Usually the Moon conveys experience, but we also remember we were discussing the Earth, 130|00:12:12|100|00:12:19|180and among the rulers of the mutable cross, the esoteric ruler of Earth in relation to 131|00:12:19|180|00:12:21|700the Leshteros provided the field of experience. 132|00:12:22|380|00:12:39|120So both Earth and Moon provide experience, but Vulcan is substituted for the Moon. 133|00:12:40|120|00:12:42|240Vulcan has been hitherto hidden, 134|00:12:42|900|00:12:49|140but its influence has steadily superseded all lunar control, 135|00:12:49|320|00:12:54|540This I have discussed because lunar control is instinctive and irrational, and Vulcan has 136|00:12:54|540|00:13:01|980to do with purpose and will and full consciousness, at least in the later stages of the Vulcanian 137|00:13:01|980|00:13:02|640experience. 138|00:13:03|320|00:13:06|660139|00:13:06|820|00:13:11|780for the personality or form side of life—and let's call that the Moon—is lost to sight 140|00:13:11|780|00:13:14|780in the radiance of the Sun, the soul. 141|00:13:15|660|00:13:19|660So Vulcan and the Sun are one, you see, at this point. 142|00:13:20|760|00:13:24|320Vulcan—because he's still talking about the second decanate, isn't he? 143|00:13:24|720|00:13:26|440Vulcan and the Sun are one. 144|00:13:26|860|00:13:33|960So we have a progression from the Moon to Vulcan to the radiance of the Sun. 145|00:13:33|960|00:13:44|140So wherever Vulcan is found, there can be lunar imputations, but there are also solar imputations. 146|00:13:45|300|00:13:47|440Vulcan is a planet of blinding light, I say. 147|00:13:48|320|00:13:49|100Represented by Vulcan. 148|00:13:49|480|00:13:49|560Okay. 149|00:13:50|680|00:13:57|200The light of Vulcan and the light of the Sun are one light so this does relate to the second 150|00:13:57|200|00:13:57|540decan. 151|00:13:57|660|00:13:58|480It definitely does. 152|00:13:59|390|00:14:06|500So this statement relates to the second decan, and these three—now he's calling on Mercury 153|00:14:06|500|00:14:12|040here because Mercury is a falling planet, but it's not ruling any decanate particularly. 154|00:14:13|220|00:14:25|040Except that, kind of interestingly, I just realized it: Mercury is the hierarchical ruler of Scorpio. 155|00:14:25|960|00:14:34|040So perhaps the presence of Mercury in the third or Scorpio decanate is possible. 156|00:14:34|720|00:14:39|600Presence of Mercury in the Scorpio decan is possible. 157|00:14:40|560|00:14:45|740and these three—Mercury, Vulcan and the Sun—stand for a synthesis and a radiance 158|00:14:46|160|00:14:52|000which eventually dims the light of Mercury and it “falls” into the background 159|00:14:52|000|00:14:56|420Now, is this happening in the second decanate or the third decanate, or just in general? 160|00:14:56|980|00:15:05|660Is this happening in general, or in the second or third decan? 161|00:15:06|060|00:15:08|980and Vulcan too becomes invisible and only the Sun remains. 162|00:15:09|240|00:15:14|480So if Vulcan is in the second decanate, we have to be talking about the Sun in relation 163|00:15:14|480|00:15:15|900to the second decanate, definitely. 164|00:15:16|240|00:15:22|980We have to be talking of the Sun in relation to the second decan, but this does not mean 165|00:15:22|980|00:15:28|160that we will not or cannot talk about it in relation to the third decanate, which is ruled 166|00:15:28|160|00:15:32|980by Cepheus, the king, the king of Shambala. 167|00:15:33|260|00:15:39|800It all ends with the king and Shambala, and as I have said, Pisces is a very Shambolic 168|00:15:39|800|00:15:44|540sign, and Vulcan too becomes invisible, and only the Sun remains. 169|00:15:44|540|00:15:49|320Now he seems to have been talking about the second decanate, but he has a way of talking 170|00:15:49|320|00:15:55|500where he seems to cross borders, cross lines, and he seems that it's possible that he's 171|00:15:55|500|00:16:01|480talking into the third decanate in the counterclockwise order as well. 172|00:16:02|020|00:16:04|840And Vulcan too becomes invisible, and only the Sun remains. 173|00:16:05|180|00:16:11|780So definitely the second decan is involved here, because otherwise he wouldn't be mentioning 174|00:16:11|780|00:16:12|860Vulcan, would he? 175|00:16:13|580|00:16:16|880We have consequently a vision of the Sun, 176|00:16:17|620|00:16:19|540Now Jupiter provides the vision. 177|00:16:22|220|00:16:27|660So the vision of the Sun and a great vision of light, we shall see light, etc., and that 178|00:16:27|660|00:16:36|960it's Jupiterian and this vision can be the Sun which eventuates in the second, whoops, 179|00:16:36|960|00:16:43|660eventuates in the second decan or even in the third by implication. 180|00:16:44|780|00:16:46|600Okay, it's a great vision of light. 181|00:16:46|720|00:16:49|120So we have the vision of the Sun provided by Jupiter in the first decanate. 182|00:16:49|120|00:16:54|740We have the experience of the personality which is Vulcan Moon and effort, which 183|00:16:54|740|00:16:57|940is the mode of attainment governed by Mars. 184|00:16:58|040|00:17:04|500But effort towards what? As I have said, it is effort towards a great solar synthesis 185|00:17:04|500|00:17:12|100which may prevail in relation to Pisces because Pisces and Aries in a way are going to be 186|00:17:12|100|00:17:12|900the same sign. 187|00:17:13|040|00:17:19|640So the great synthesis, the final synthesis of Pisces is the beginning of the initial 188|00:17:19|640|00:17:26|500synthesis of Aries wherein the Brahman or the great absolute being or at least the one 189|00:17:26|500|00:17:28|220being is realized. 190|00:17:28|480|00:17:31|500You see how subtle this thing about the decanates really is. 191|00:17:31|500|00:17:36|440D.K. is absolutely not using the concrete mind per se. 192|00:17:37|340|00:17:48|180He is attempting to call upon our intuition and much is left to us as we attempt to understand 193|00:17:48|180|00:17:49|980exactly what he's saying. 194|00:17:50|220|00:17:57|360So I wanted to reread that because when I finished last night I realized that there's 195|00:17:57|360|00:17:59|960more clarification to bring here. 196|00:17:59|960|00:18:08|380Where I was, well here's the landscape view of Pisces and we were dealing with three constellations 197|00:18:08|380|00:18:13|960which apply to all Piscean people but the band which we are attributing to the first 198|00:18:13|960|00:18:22|420decanate, binding via consciousness or the power of life itself, the two fishes, we're 199|00:18:22|420|00:18:26|020dealing with the chained woman, Andromeda in the second decanate. 200|00:18:26|020|00:18:34|620She, as matter, she is rightfully chained; as soul she must be liberated, and then Cepheus 201|00:18:34|620|00:18:35|340the king. 202|00:18:36|220|00:18:42|600Okay, so there are some, you know, Pisces is a very subtle sign and naturally therefore 203|00:18:42|600|00:18:46|700there are implications which are not exactly straightforward. 204|00:18:49|560|00:18:52|140The six-fold development of Pisces, that's where I was. 205|00:18:52|700|00:19:05|460Now coming down here I had shown us, I need to repeat that, that there are six decanates 206|00:19:05|460|00:19:06|740to be considered. 207|00:19:07|700|00:19:11|420Three on the clockwise wheel and three on the reversing wheel. 208|00:19:11|560|00:19:15|540Now some theorists have said that the first decanate is strictly physical, the second 209|00:19:15|540|00:19:21|200strictly emotional, the third strictly mental, the fourth and reversing decanate is strictly 210|00:19:21|200|00:19:27|780personal, the fifth decanate is strictly the soul, fifth or second, and the third or 211|00:19:27|780|00:19:29|420sixth decanate is strictly the spirit. 212|00:19:29|540|00:19:35|880I don't think that any of this rigid strictness is advisable. 213|00:19:36|040|00:19:42|240There may be tendencies toward the cultivation of those different areas of the human energy 214|00:19:42|240|00:19:42|840system. 215|00:19:43|660|00:19:50|640You know, such as a life in which physicality of some etheric, physical, etheric vital physicality 216|00:19:50|640|00:19:53|940is cultivated even if the person is already fairly advanced. 217|00:19:54|080|00:19:54|820This is possible. 218|00:19:55|200|00:20:02|960Or whether emotional work is going on even though you may have quite a soul conscious 219|00:20:02|960|00:20:09|440individual or where spirit is being contacted for the first time if one can do that. 220|00:20:10|340|00:20:12|800But that is not of course always the case. 221|00:20:13|680|00:20:21|860Basically it's on a case by case basis and we must examine each individual and see what 222|00:20:21|860|00:20:25|940is possible in their particular case. 223|00:20:27|300|00:20:29|560Now what I'm going to do here just for one moment. 224|00:20:32|480|00:20:41|100Now what I did before, I'm trying to keep this microphone level steady if I possibly 225|00:20:41|100|00:20:41|640can. 226|00:20:44|440|00:20:45|660It's a little bit tricky. 227|00:20:47|020|00:20:53|340What we did before is that we said, okay, it's very important to know something about 228|00:20:53|340|00:20:59|120the clockwise wheel but we're not essentially dealing with the clockwise wheel when we're 229|00:20:59|120|00:21:00|580working with esoteric astrology. 230|00:21:00|580|00:21:02|180We're dealing with the counterclockwise wheel. 231|00:21:02|600|00:21:09|680So what I did was I went down here and I discussed not the physical, not the emotional, not the 232|00:21:09|680|00:21:12|940mental, which are all in a way under orthodox Jupiter. 233|00:21:14|180|00:21:22|940But I went and discussed the, not the mental lower personal, but the aspirational, personal, 234|00:21:23|120|00:21:25|240aspirational and integrating personality. 235|00:21:25|600|00:21:27|100And I discussed that last time. 236|00:21:27|880|00:21:37|840And I gave some meanings that would be under, if you follow the cursor here, under Jupiter, 237|00:21:37|840|00:21:43|080under the moon, Vulcan, and under Mars for the personal aspirational stage. 238|00:21:43|760|00:21:46|440Now obviously, you could feel these kinds of things in yourself. 239|00:21:46|640|00:21:50|280I'm simply giving indications of how they might work. 240|00:21:50|720|00:21:55|740Now we would reach the disciple, disciplic, or soul stage in general. 241|00:21:56|400|00:22:01|880This is occurring because the individual is an advanced man and he's also at the point 242|00:22:01|880|00:22:07|940of the first initiation at least, and maybe beyond that. 243|00:22:10|640|00:22:16|420We are dealing with here the idea of Pluto as the ruler. 244|00:22:18|100|00:22:25|120The mantrum is no longer “go forth into matter,” matter being basically the type of energies 245|00:22:25|120|00:22:30|240found in the personality area, but rather “I leave the father's home and turning back, 246|00:22:30|240|00:22:30|680I save.” 247|00:22:30|680|00:22:37|780Now at this point, there is no real idea of what the monad is from the experiential point 248|00:22:37|780|00:22:38|180of view. 249|00:22:38|840|00:22:43|160There is, however, increasing sensitivity to soul and the person is becoming a mediator 250|00:22:43|160|00:22:49|280as we see on Esoteric Psychology—excuse me, Esoteric Astrology page 333. 251|00:22:49|980|00:22:55|740So in general in this phase, not just considering the decanates, the disciple is often selflessly 252|00:22:56|440|00:22:58|340committed to the welfare of others. 253|00:22:58|340|00:23:02|840The urge to help is very strong in Pisces, especially once the wheel is reversed. 254|00:23:03|560|00:23:08|520He communes with the soul increasingly and is increasingly open to the spiritual dimensions 255|00:23:08|520|00:23:13|380of his life rather than merely the psychic dimensions, because I think it's very important 256|00:23:13|380|00:23:19|540that we realize that psychism is not spirituality—rather than merely the psychic. 257|00:23:20|140|00:23:27|680Though his use of psychism may also increase, but put into a spiritual context, psychism 258|00:23:27|680|00:23:33|860exists in the animals we are told, and in underdeveloped or undeveloped human beings it exists, but 259|00:23:33|860|00:23:36|260it is no indication of real spirituality. 260|00:23:36|480|00:23:43|800It is simply an ability to tune in with a certain level of phenomena that we call astral, 261|00:23:43|800|00:23:51|480and that can certainly cover or clog or in some way inhibit the spiritual influence. 262|00:23:52|230|00:23:59|180Under Pluto, the disciple—he is detaching from concern for his strictly personal fate, 263|00:23:59|180|00:24:04|820and under Neptune, which is beginning to be operative for disciples in a spiritual way, 264|00:24:05|540|00:24:09|410he is mastering the lessons of selflessness and self-abnegation. 265|00:24:10|280|00:24:12|520In other words, he is beginning to dissolve his ego. 266|00:24:13|640|00:24:18|860We realize that when the sun veils Neptune in Leo and we are moving towards the second 267|00:24:18|860|00:24:22|820initiation, we can have the dissolution of the lower ego. 268|00:24:23|820|00:24:31|660Pisces, which has such an affinity for Neptune, is a very good sign in which the lower ego 269|00:24:31|660|00:24:39|020can be dissolved or at least widened into the sense of the group self or the group ego. 270|00:24:41|800|00:24:49|920His sensitivity to others as souls—that should be a “his”—his sensitivity to others as souls 271|00:24:49|920|00:24:52|340is well established. 272|00:24:52|780|00:24:59|000It began to be developed as an aspiring personality in the previous of the six levels, and under 273|00:24:59|000|00:25:03|420Jupiter he is the proven and successful disciple. 274|00:25:03|420|00:25:11|380So now let us look at how Jupiter, the moon, Vulcan, and Mars might operate here in relation 275|00:25:11|380|00:25:16|900to these three decanates considered in the counterclockwise order and therefore in the 276|00:25:16|900|00:25:19|480normal order as we consider the astrological science. 277|00:25:20|320|00:25:26|540So we will apply Jupiter to this particular stage of disciplic development, and what can 278|00:25:26|540|00:25:27|240Jupiter give us? 279|00:25:27|800|00:25:32|640The disciple is expanding his vision to include the reality of the soul. 280|00:25:32|640|00:25:39|440In other words, he is expanding his consciousness—I will put that in as well—expanding consciousness 281|00:25:39|850|00:25:47|400into soul consciousness, increasingly through meditation, study, and service. 282|00:25:48|760|00:25:51|380Expanding, let's make that correct. 283|00:25:52|340|00:25:58|100Okay, the band which stands for the Antahkarana, the constellation called the band standing 284|00:25:58|100|00:26:03|160for the Antahkarana is operating between the pairs of opposites. 285|00:26:03|300|00:26:11|020There's the first level of the Antahkarana, and that unites two phases of consciousness: 286|00:26:11|460|00:26:13|540soul consciousness and personality consciousness. 287|00:26:14|300|00:26:19|840But that's not so much the Antahkarana that we are building with D.K.'s specific visualization 288|00:26:19|840|00:26:20|220methods. 289|00:26:20|220|00:26:26|840We are building an Antahkarana ultimately between the consciousness aspect and the life aspect 290|00:26:27|540|00:26:31|680which is the monad and is represented by the spiritual triad. 291|00:26:32|380|00:26:36|580Let's see if there is anything else here which should be said—yes, Pluto is the esoteric 292|00:26:36|580|00:26:38|620ruler, it dominates, yes. 293|00:26:39|340|00:26:46|860Okay, now we will look… I'm not going over this excessively, although I do have a tendency 294|00:26:46|860|00:26:53|960to repeat and ruminate, you know, because I realize that in my presenting of this book 295|00:26:53|960|00:26:59|500in this particular fashion, I'm pondering it and speaking of my ponderings, and I'm offering 296|00:26:59|500|00:27:04|480you the results of my ponderings. So whether they are in perfect order as they would be 297|00:27:04|480|00:27:08|000in a written book, well, simply they're not, you know. 298|00:27:08|440|00:27:13|580But I'm doing the best I can under the circumstances, and perhaps something additional will come 299|00:27:13|580|00:27:17|280through through this method that could not come through in the other methods. 300|00:27:18|040|00:27:21|880Now, if we apply for the second decanate, the moon is the ruler, but really it's Vulcan, 301|00:27:22|060|00:27:28|180and ultimately it gives way to the sun, and Mercury begins to fall away in its normal 302|00:27:28|180|00:27:28|660function. 303|00:27:31|980|00:27:37|740The disciple masters his vehicles through the spiritual will—that's Vulcan—and the 304|00:27:37|740|00:27:43|580vehicles, of course, are the moon, and they become increasingly radiant, and that's Vulcan too. 305|00:27:43|580|00:27:45|860Andromeda is bound. 306|00:27:46|100|00:27:51|960Andromeda, in her guise as matter and not soul, is bound. 307|00:27:52|940|00:28:08|560And let's just say Andromeda, as the soul bound to matter or to form, is preparing to be 308|00:28:08|560|00:28:15|420released, which Perseus will do in a different decanate. 309|00:28:15|560|00:28:23|540So the woman is chained, but she is also the soul, and she must be released into freedom, 310|00:28:23|540|00:28:30|880and Vulcan, at the fourth initiation, will be active in the release of the imprisoned soul. 311|00:28:30|880|00:28:40|620Under Vulcan, the disciple is spiritually empowered, and I want to add that illumination increases. 312|00:28:41|620|00:28:51|180Mercury, as intuition, is operative, but as concrete mind, it falls—it falls—that's the 313|00:28:51|180|00:28:53|860word: falls away. 314|00:28:55|180|00:29:01|420So that's a very complicated kind of second decanate there, because we have many things 315|00:29:01|420|00:29:06|680going on, and it's not just the moon, as Alan Leo said. It's the moon, Vulcan, and Vulcan 316|00:29:06|680|00:29:09|680giving way to the sun, and Mercury falling back. 317|00:29:11|960|00:29:17|680Now we go to the third decanate. We're talking about the disciple, and I've simply put something 318|00:29:17|680|00:29:23|600here that Mars is fighting towards the sun—Mercury is falling away—fighting towards 319|00:29:23|600|00:29:36|160the sun, and I want to add the sun of synthesis, because if any sign is synthetic, it is this 320|00:29:36|160|00:29:42|160climactic, consummatory sign, Pisces, which takes from all the signs, as we're told, and 321|00:29:42|160|00:29:48|420blends and merges them, and they become, as it were, one final energy. 322|00:29:48|420|00:29:56|940The disciple struggles to establish the predominance of the soul—the sun—and I would say, and 323|00:29:56|940|00:30:11|020even of the spirit, because Pisces is often… is… is… sometimes the sign in which the 324|00:30:11|020|00:30:24|120last incarnation is taken, and for those with a Shambolic destination—destiny. 325|00:30:24|540|00:30:25|780But of course, we're not there yet. 326|00:30:26|600|00:30:30|100Not there yet, because we're only dealing with the disciple. 327|00:30:31|440|00:30:38|100And the disciple is still not yet the initiate of the third degree, though even all third 328|00:30:38|100|00:30:40|020degrees and those beyond are disciples. 329|00:30:40|020|00:30:41|360So I think you get the idea. 330|00:30:41|460|00:30:45|560The important ones in these six-fold charts that I've prepared… Of course, it would be 331|00:30:45|560|00:30:52|900interesting, when studying the history of humanity, to review, you know, what the people in the 332|00:30:52|900|00:30:57|840Lemurian stage—not many of them now—many in the Atlantean stage, operative, and many 333|00:30:57|840|00:31:03|720in the mentally focused stage, what they would be doing with these particular energies. 334|00:31:03|720|00:31:08|240And it's, you know, a very deep study, and eventually the esoteric astrologer will also 335|00:31:08|240|00:31:18|640have to study such people, because we want to be able to help give the picture of what 336|00:31:18|640|00:31:22|700the entire process of human evolution really looks like. 337|00:31:23|280|00:31:29|400But for our purposes and at this time, we need to apply these things to ourselves, who are 338|00:31:29|400|00:31:35|200aspiring personalities. We are on the probationary path, we are disciples, we are probationary 339|00:31:35|200|00:31:41|240initiates and moving towards initiation. Only very few have achieved that, and then a whole 340|00:31:41|240|00:31:45|060new type of astrology, which we can hint at, begins to occur. 341|00:31:46|460|00:31:48|080All right, now we move on. 342|00:31:49|160|00:31:55|220I've tried to be, you know, a little meticulous about all this, but well, you know, I'll get 343|00:31:55|220|00:31:56|340it in order one day. 344|00:31:56|940|00:32:03|540Now we come to that stage of the Pisces experience which is initiatic, triadic, and monadic. 345|00:32:03|540|00:32:11|000Now, you know, we could say, “Okay, when we're dealing with the aspiring personality, we should 346|00:32:11|000|00:32:16|420really focus on the first decanate,” but not the first decanate alone—no. 347|00:32:16|920|00:32:23|000We do have to apply second and third decanate indications to that stage, because certainly 348|00:32:23|540|00:32:28|680not all those who are aspiring personalities and born in Pisces are born in the first decanate. 349|00:32:28|760|00:32:29|720That just doesn't make sense. 350|00:32:29|720|00:32:40|120When we deal with the disciple, disciple soul, then we are, we might say, well, we should 351|00:32:40|120|00:32:44|960really focus only on the second decanate, the moon, Vulcan leading to the sun, Mercury 352|00:32:44|960|00:32:50|760falling away. But no, while there may be that kind of emphasis, there are certainly disciples 353|00:32:50|760|00:32:59|700who are born in all stages, all places in Pisces, and the energies there have to be used 354|00:32:59|700|00:33:08|060in a particular way suitable to the level of attainment which is theirs. 355|00:33:08|700|00:33:17|160Now we go to the final stage, which is the initiatic coming in touch with the monad, and 356|00:33:17|160|00:33:22|800we could say, well, we better just concentrate on the third decanate where Mars is the ruler. 357|00:33:23|130|00:33:31|460And I would like to say, Mars leading to the final sun of synthesis. 358|00:33:33|240|00:33:39|640But again, it doesn't make sense to say that, because we well know that there are many individuals 359|00:33:40|600|00:33:45|280who are, let us say, at that initiatic stage who are not simply going to be born in the 360|00:33:45|280|00:33:47|060final degrees of Pisces. 361|00:33:47|060|00:33:49|620I'm thinking about Ramakrishna. 362|00:33:49|760|00:33:55|400He was born with Aquarius as his sun sign. 363|00:33:56|040|00:33:57|040Let's see if I can find that. 364|00:33:57|060|00:33:57|900That might be interesting. 365|00:33:58|400|00:34:05|480And he had quite a few Pisces indicators, but they were, I think, in the early degrees of 366|00:34:05|480|00:34:05|760Pisces. 367|00:34:05|840|00:34:06|800Let me check this for sure. 368|00:34:06|880|00:34:09|540Maybe his moon was in the latter part of Pisces. 369|00:34:10|240|00:34:15|080Just looking to get this Solar Fire thing heating up here. 370|00:34:15|500|00:34:15|760Okay. 371|00:34:16|280|00:34:18|020The moon is in Gemini. 372|00:34:18|360|00:34:19|100I see that. 373|00:34:20|220|00:34:24|540Okay, so let's see if we can find Ramakrishna. 374|00:34:27|580|00:34:30|580Rama, Ramakrishna. 375|00:34:31|860|00:34:41|040And if we can, we have quite, quite… Yeah, he was born in the last part of Aquarius, 376|00:34:41|340|00:34:41|760they say. 377|00:34:42|120|00:34:43|32028 degrees of Aquarius. 378|00:34:43|320|00:34:49|620And they say Capricorn rising, but if you see all those Pisces planets that he has, 379|00:34:50|560|00:34:55|000we cannot be sure, you know, 5 a.m. local mean time. It's possible, but it probably could 380|00:34:55|000|00:34:55|460be adjusted. 381|00:34:55|660|00:35:01|960Look, Uranus is in Pisces, first decanate. Mercury is in Pisces; it's a ruler of his, 382|00:35:02|280|00:35:10|420and you know, we cannot be sure. It says he has 29 and 59 of Aquarius rising. 383|00:35:10|420|00:35:13|580That's so suspicious because he acted like such a Piscean. 384|00:35:13|880|00:35:22|520So my sense of the matter is that just in another minute or so, maybe at 5:01 or maybe 385|00:35:22|520|00:35:29|360less, just a few seconds, he would have been born with zero degrees of Pisces rising. 386|00:35:29|940|00:35:32|840And, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 387|00:35:33|460|00:35:34|720I have to take that back. 388|00:35:34|880|00:35:36|120This is 29 Capricorn. 389|00:35:36|580|00:35:38|200Maybe, maybe that is the case. 390|00:35:39|800|00:35:44|040I thought it was Pisces for a minute, but I was mistaken, but there are three Pisces 391|00:35:44|040|00:35:52|900planets, and two of them, Uranus and Mercury, are in the first decanate of Pisces, and Uranus 392|00:35:52|900|00:35:59|820is a ruler, potentially, of the Aquarius. It is the ruler of the Aquarius sun, and it 393|00:35:59|820|00:36:04|700is the ruler, potentially, of zero degrees Aquarius rising. 394|00:36:04|700|00:36:12|540He certainly did, shall we say, manage a group in India through which he sought to build 395|00:36:12|540|00:36:16|220the evolutionary energy for humanity. 396|00:36:17|060|00:36:22|840So this is a chart with a lot of Pisces in it, and then we go to the second decanate of 397|00:36:22|840|00:36:27|280Pisces where we have the moon, and that's in the Cancer decanate, interestingly enough, 398|00:36:27|440|00:36:34|280and Jupiter, which is the esoteric ruler of his sun because he is an initiate, is found 399|00:36:34|280|00:36:35|940in the first decan of Cancer. 400|00:36:36|680|00:36:42|280And you know, it was a spiritual family relationship, Jupiter and Uranus, Jupiter and Juno. 401|00:36:42|460|00:36:51|360He did marry, but of course he was a celibate, and his family was a spiritual family, and 402|00:36:51|360|00:37:00|360not only will Jupiter be the esoteric ruler… Let's see, it is the esoteric ruler of Aquarius, 403|00:37:00|360|00:37:05|220but if in another few seconds he has Aquarius on the ascendant, because I do believe in 404|00:37:05|220|00:37:12|280a way he transcended the third degree, I look at him as a fourth degree type, almost a fifth 405|00:37:12|280|00:37:16|920degree type, and Jupiter would be the ruler of that Aquarius ascendant. 406|00:37:17|280|00:37:21|820So we have very strong signs of consummation. 407|00:37:22|480|00:37:28|280Neptune, the ruler of Pisces rising, Neptune the veiled ruler of Aquarius in the last decanate, 408|00:37:28|280|00:37:31|640One of the rulers veiled in the last decanate of Aquarius. 409|00:37:33|260|00:37:34|740We have that rising. 410|00:37:36|520|00:37:47|580We have an individual who combined the consummatory effects of Aquarius and Pisces together. 411|00:37:48|260|00:37:56|340We do have Venus in Aries, and he was very quickly attracted to people in the spiritual 412|00:37:56|340|00:38:01|840sense. And Pluto is in Aries as well, and he exerted a profound transformational effect 413|00:38:01|840|00:38:06|780upon all of his students and really students that became his all over the world. 414|00:38:07|160|00:38:10|600Whenever they say, you know, he's born at five o'clock, you have to be a little suspicious. 415|00:38:12|060|00:38:20|820I don't—he looks more like Aquarius rising to me than he does Capricorn rising, but I 416|00:38:20|820|00:38:26|600just wanted to point out how important—here's an initiate with many indicators in the early 417|00:38:26|600|00:38:32|340part of Pisces and not just in the last part, and this individual was a spiritual individual. 418|00:38:32|520|00:38:35|100He was monadically responsive. 419|00:38:35|260|00:38:41|700He was a high initiate, and we see that there's nothing in the latter degrees of Pisces, twenty 420|00:38:41|700|00:38:44|060to thirty, but only in the early parts. 421|00:38:44|500|00:38:51|680So my point is simply this: that we cannot be rigid about our categorization when we 422|00:38:51|680|00:38:55|240say those individuals who are working on this will be born here. 423|00:38:55|460|00:38:56|480It's not so. 424|00:38:56|760|00:39:02|740There may be some emphasis because they are born in a certain decanate, but it all depends 425|00:39:02|740|00:39:04|740on their particular stage of evolution. 426|00:39:05|240|00:39:11|740There are many people born in the last degrees of Pisces who are simply early disciples, or 427|00:39:11|740|00:39:17|740those born in the first degrees of Pisces who are high initiates, and I'm sure we can 428|00:39:17|740|00:39:22|560prove that if we just study the world's famous spiritual people. 429|00:39:23|420|00:39:30|080All right, now we're dealing with the initiatic, triadic, monadic level. 430|00:39:31|300|00:39:36|900It's Pluto under Pluto because it's the hierarchical ruler, and the statement is “I leave the Father's 431|00:39:36|900|00:39:41|720home and turning back I save,” and it's really beginning to mean something because by this 432|00:39:41|720|00:39:48|100time the individual initiate has the monad in sight and after the third degree has begun 433|00:39:48|100|00:39:54|560to respond to the monad, and the key phrase “spiritual responsibility” is there. 434|00:39:55|620|00:40:03|280There we seem to see something of the Saturnian effect because there is the opportunity to 435|00:40:03|280|00:40:09|260work off karma. We are told in the Sepharial decanates and to assume responsibility for 436|00:40:09|260|00:40:12|440those who have fallen and those who need to be redeemed. 437|00:40:13|580|00:40:21|880The Dalai Lama, according to one chart with Libra rising, has Saturn in Pisces. Yeah, he 438|00:40:21|880|00:40:25|500definitely has Saturn in Pisces, and it's in the sixth house. 439|00:40:26|000|00:40:31|280He has Neptune in the Pisces house, being in Virgo, and the moon there as well. 440|00:40:31|740|00:40:38|160So he is one high soul who knows how to assume spiritual responsibility, and finally we have 441|00:40:38|160|00:40:44|180the idea of the savior, which is certainly a monadic connection in relation to Pisces, 442|00:40:44|660|00:40:47|440Jupiter being very important there and Neptune as well. 443|00:40:48|500|00:40:52|680The initiate is concluding his experience in the lower three worlds as a member of the 444|00:40:52|680|00:40:53|280human kingdom. 445|00:40:54|200|00:41:01|780Under Pluto and Neptune, he is sacrificing all for the sake of redeeming his fellow human 446|00:41:01|780|00:41:02|480beings. 447|00:41:02|480|00:41:07|820He has achieved detachment from the world of personality—that's via Pluto and Neptune— 448|00:41:07|820|00:41:14|820and is centering in soul and in the perception of unity, so his consciousness is also triadic 449|00:41:15|520|00:41:18|040and even monadic shortly. 450|00:41:18|460|00:41:24|140He is surrendering to the higher will, so he understands something of the Atmic plane here, 451|00:41:24|140|00:41:32|940which is interestingly enough a plane of water, at least is described in the compilation or 452|00:41:32|940|00:41:35|940the table which D.K. made of the creative hierarchies. 453|00:41:36|280|00:41:42|740Disidentified from personality and later even from the soul—and when I say soul here, I shouldn't— 454|00:41:42|740|00:41:47|280you know, it shouldn't only be soul; it should be soul on the higher mental plane. 455|00:41:48|120|00:41:52|400He lives by the mantram “Not my will, Father, but thine be done.” 456|00:41:53|260|00:41:58|860So we can see how much Neptune—self-sacrificing Neptune—will be coming in for the initiatic 457|00:41:58|860|00:42:03|960type in the sixth phase. 458|00:42:04|500|00:42:07|980The sixth phase being really the triadic monadic phase. 459|00:42:08|160|00:42:14|520I guess I could make a seventh phase somehow and discriminate the triadic experience 460|00:42:14|520|00:42:20|100of Atma-Buddhi-Manas from the final monadic experience, but it would not really be so relevant 461|00:42:20|100|00:42:26|660to us, I think. If we consider states beyond the third where the triad is being cultivated 462|00:42:27|680|00:42:33|100and the monad is in sight and being experienced, I think that's sufficient. I think we can bring 463|00:42:33|100|00:42:33|660them together. 464|00:42:34|320|00:42:43|740Now let us go to the decanates, and it will be again Jupiter for the first decanate on 465|00:42:43|740|00:42:44|860the counterclockwise wheel. 466|00:42:45|420|00:42:48|760The initiate sees and envisions the Sun. 467|00:42:48|960|00:42:51|200The Sun of Synthesis. 468|00:42:51|880|00:42:53|600So Jupiter is conferring a vision. 469|00:42:55|100|00:43:14|560Sun… let's see, the Sun of Synthesis and Jupiter rules the monadic plane, and the initiate has 470|00:43:14|560|00:43:25|220a vibratory response to the expansive awareness of the monadic plane. 471|00:43:27|700|00:43:30|060Monadic… of the monadic plane. 472|00:43:31|480|00:43:38|240Yes, Jupiter attunes him not just to Buddhi, which of course this phase does attune to, 473|00:43:38|240|00:43:44|260but eventually to the monadic plane itself and to the great generosity of the eternal 474|00:43:44|260|00:43:55|780pilgrimage… attuned to the great generosity of the divine pilgrimage of the monad as the 475|00:43:55|780|00:44:00|840jiva descending into the lower five worlds, remembering of course that the monad stays 476|00:44:00|840|00:44:06|600on its own plane even as it descends, and that's one of the mysteries of emanation. 477|00:44:07|060|00:44:09|760How can you be in more than one place at the same time? 478|00:44:10|020|00:44:13|480Well, maybe there isn't more than one place after all. 479|00:44:13|480|00:44:16|600Maybe the idea of place is just a seeming. 480|00:44:17|800|00:44:25|340So there is entry into triadic and monadic awareness. 481|00:44:27|360|00:44:39|300And the Antahkarana, as the band, connects to all aspects of the triad and to the monad. 482|00:44:39|300|00:44:44|300See, there's different things that band can represent. 483|00:44:44|440|00:44:50|380The band of bondage, but it can represent the band of growing consciousness, and it can 484|00:44:50|380|00:44:56|700also represent the Antahkaranic band which leads all the way from the lowest to 485|00:44:56|700|00:44:59|180the highest in man's microcosmic system. 486|00:45:00|100|00:45:07|380Then when we look at what it would be like in the Vulcan-Moon area, which leads also to 487|00:45:07|380|00:45:13|380the Sun, the initiate proves the radiance of the Sun through the will-bound personality. 488|00:45:14|620|00:45:19|240So he consummates the sequence. 489|00:45:21|220|00:45:23|940Who consummates the sequence? 490|00:45:27|700|00:45:28|840Whoops, what am I doing? 491|00:45:28|840|00:45:38|180Okay, from Moon to Vulcan, and Vulcan gives way to great radiance. 492|00:45:40|800|00:45:49|820And let us say that matter is completely bound and the soul is being set free. 493|00:45:52|040|00:45:56|680So this is really the escape from bondage. 494|00:45:58|060|00:46:03|980And Vulcan… remember what we said about Vulcan, that it does forge chains of bondage because 495|00:46:03|980|00:46:06|120it's a very physical planet in the early days. 496|00:46:06|660|00:46:09|880Even a hidden, undiscovered planet can have a very physical effect. 497|00:46:10|360|00:46:21|560But later it breaks those chains and creates… let's just say, forges chains which connect 498|00:46:22|100|00:46:23|700to the spirit aspect. 499|00:46:23|700|00:46:28|320And let's just say subtle chains because they're not really chains. 500|00:46:28|580|00:46:36|280They are simply subtle chains of connection which connect to the spirit aspect. 501|00:46:37|220|00:46:41|100So there is increasing illumination coming in. 502|00:46:41|640|00:46:46|660Now, does the Sun aspect only apply to the second decanate? 503|00:46:46|840|00:46:51|160Well, Vulcan is specifically named in the second decanate, and therefore Vulcan and the Sun 504|00:46:51|160|00:46:55|480are ones that… does imply, but there is the idea that only the Sun remains. 505|00:46:56|620|00:47:02|280And I have the tendency to want to apply this phrase, “only the Sun remains,” to the entire 506|00:47:05|300|00:47:09|060experience of Pisces and to the final decanate. 507|00:47:09|820|00:47:12|040And so let us see what is said here. 508|00:47:14|040|00:47:19|880These are just sketchy remarks that I've prepared for teaching some esoteric astrology classes 509|00:47:19|880|00:47:24|240in Finland, but they can be expanded, of course. 510|00:47:25|120|00:47:34|420From 20 to 30 degrees, where we have Mars as the ruler and we are certainly under hierarchical 511|00:47:34|420|00:47:38|540Pluto, there's really an annihilation of connection with all that hinders. 512|00:47:38|920|00:47:44|280The initiate, through strenuous effort—that's Mars—and conflict, achieves liberation into 513|00:47:44|280|00:47:47|440the established Sun of soul and spirit. 514|00:47:47|440|00:47:54|260In other words, what I'm saying here is I'm taking D.K.'s words when he says like this: 515|00:47:54|520|00:47:57|940“…and only the Sun remains.” 516|00:47:58|700|00:48:08|200Certainly it doesn't seem right to end the possibly most climactic decanate in the entire 517|00:48:08|200|00:48:10|560zodiac only with Mars. 518|00:48:10|700|00:48:15|060It's got to be Mars as it leads into that great sense of synthesis. 519|00:48:15|480|00:48:21|180The initiate knows the reality of Cepheus, the monad, or King of Shambhala. 520|00:48:21|300|00:48:26|480The monad is automatically a member of Shambhala in its own right. 521|00:48:27|120|00:48:32|680The monad of the solar angel is a member of the council within the Sun, so they are a higher 522|00:48:32|680|00:48:34|980order of being all together. 523|00:48:34|980|00:48:42|040By this time, let us say Mercury and the Sun are definitely one. 524|00:48:42|760|00:48:48|140Mercury and the Sun are definitely one. 525|00:48:50|560|00:49:01|040The infallible intuition is operative, and this is the word identification as the Sun 526|00:49:01|520|00:49:04|460of synthesis takes place. 527|00:49:04|460|00:49:09|700Now we're looking at a very high level here where the man is identified as the spirit 528|00:49:09|700|00:49:18|160and the Sun of synthesis is emerging, and it is the final remaining influence. 529|00:49:18|680|00:49:27|820Everything else, all else is absorbed into the Sun of synthesis. 530|00:49:28|380|00:49:33|080So I think it's very important to follow what D.K. has said here. 531|00:49:33|740|00:49:39|120He seems to be hinting at the power of the Sun climatically. 532|00:49:39|860|00:49:47|120He does revert at the very end, you know, he just says, “Okay, a vision of the Sun, there's 533|00:49:47|120|00:49:49|260experience and then there's struggle.” 534|00:49:49|420|00:49:58|400He reverts back to the normal rulers of Jupiter, Moon, Vulcan and Mars. 535|00:49:58|400|00:50:06|620But in the body of the text he's implying some sort of great synthesis here which is 536|00:50:06|620|00:50:13|160occurring for the highest initiates who are Shambhala bound in the sign Pisces. 537|00:50:13|680|00:50:22|660And we oftentimes see that it's the last decanate where the truly spirit-oriented developments 538|00:50:22|660|00:50:23|180do occur. 539|00:50:23|180|00:50:32|100This is absolutely true in the case of Capricorn where we have Vulcan, Mercury and the Sun 540|00:50:32|100|00:50:32|920again. 541|00:50:33|600|00:50:35|840These three in a blazing synthesis. 542|00:50:36|020|00:50:44|760I wouldn't be surprised when we look at the last decanate of Aquarius which is ruled by 543|00:50:44|760|00:50:45|400Venus. 544|00:50:45|760|00:50:49|300There is a synthesis occurring there, a kind of a transfiguration. 545|00:50:49|300|00:50:59|020So the last decanate of any sign in the counterclockwise order does carry a particular kind of potency, 546|00:50:59|020|00:51:08|000but we cannot take that example too far and try to exclude others from being born in it 547|00:51:08|000|00:51:13|300or raise those who are being born in it to initiate status. 548|00:51:13|500|00:51:14|700We can't do that. 549|00:51:15|480|00:51:22|840Okay, well we are… this is taking a little longer than I thought to work through these 550|00:51:22|840|00:51:24|880decanates in Pisces. 551|00:51:26|460|00:51:30|040But I hope there is some degree of clarity about it. 552|00:51:30|120|00:51:36|840You know, I've often found in examining the rays of Piscean people that a kind of vagueness 553|00:51:36|840|00:51:44|300or fluidity, a kind of blurred image occurs due to the Neptunian effect. 554|00:51:46|240|00:51:52|140I've examined the rays of two people born in Pisces with a strong Cancerian, another 555|00:51:52|140|00:51:55|000water sign influence, and it was just very difficult. 556|00:51:55|160|00:52:00|100Both of them had the second ray and the third ray, but it was very difficult to tell in each 557|00:52:00|100|00:52:02|600case which was the soul and which was the personality. 558|00:52:02|600|00:52:07|000And I attribute that to the Piscean effect. 559|00:52:08|980|00:52:13|960There is a little bit more… well let's see, let's go back to these decanates in landscape 560|00:52:13|960|00:52:15|220view just reviewing this. 561|00:52:15|920|00:52:19|060The first decanate is Pisces. 562|00:52:19|200|00:52:21|380Pisces, the second Pisces, Cancer. 563|00:52:23|060|00:52:27|980And we, you know, often with Cancer there is this type of bondage which occurs. 564|00:52:27|980|00:52:32|740And then Pisces, Scorpio, bringing a kind of liberation. 565|00:52:33|620|00:52:38|040The constellations are the band for the first decanate, Andromeda for the second decanate, 566|00:52:38|160|00:52:44|060Cepheus for the third, and yet all three of them operative in the case of all Piscean 567|00:52:44|060|00:52:44|640people. 568|00:52:45|620|00:52:50|940The Alan Leo, the Tibetan's decanates, well Alan Leo's decanates are Jupiter, the Moon 569|00:52:50|940|00:52:56|920and Mars, and Sepharial's decanates Saturn, Jupiter and Mars, remembering though that 570|00:52:56|920|00:53:06|160these astrologers are working in a counterclockwise manner, the ordinary direction, and we have… 571|00:53:06|160|00:53:11|840so therefore they're moving from 0 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30, even though we as 572|00:53:11|840|00:53:20|700esoteric astrologers may assume that some people are entering the decanates in the reverse 573|00:53:20|700|00:53:26|860order, with the 30 to 20, then 20 to 10, and 10 to 0. 574|00:53:27|320|00:53:34|260The Tibetan's decanates, as he gives them is Jupiter, the Moon, but the complicated second 575|00:53:34|260|00:53:40|360decanate gives us the Moon, Vulcan, and finally the Sun replacing Vulcan, and then in the 576|00:53:40|360|00:53:46|000last decanate we have, with Mercury falling away, and in the last decanate definitely 577|00:53:46|000|00:53:53|360Mars, but this struggle in Mars is towards a final victory which places the Sun of synthesis 578|00:53:53|360|00:53:59|120in a prominent position and Mercury falls, I want to say, entirely. 579|00:54:00|200|00:54:05|260And I will also say that in a way, at this point, and I didn't include the exaltation 580|00:54:05|260|00:54:18|200but I should have, that Venus is exalted here in this final decanate as the solar angels 581|00:54:19|770|00:54:28|720return to the heart of the Sun due to the liberation of the human being. 582|00:54:30|660|00:54:37|040Okay, so let me just see here. If I go to home, and this is an 8, yes. 583|00:54:37|940|00:54:40|200Alright, so Venus is exalted here. 584|00:54:40|800|00:54:48|060You see, we're dealing with several kinds of rulerships at the same time. 585|00:54:48|900|00:54:54|420We are dealing, of course, with the esoteric ruler, the esoteric ruler, the esoteric ruler, 586|00:54:54|520|00:54:55|880and the hierarchical ruler, yes. 587|00:54:55|880|00:55:03|280We are dealing with exaltation—whoops, hopefully that's not going to do something strange— 588|00:55:03|860|00:55:08|380we're dealing with exaltation, detriment, and fall, yes. 589|00:55:08|920|00:55:15|140And then we're dealing, and they all mix into this whole expression of the decanates. 590|00:55:15|800|00:55:20|740Then we're dealing with the rulers of the decanates presented in the Chaldean system 591|00:55:20|740|00:55:28|100by Sepharial, in the Hindu or Indian system by Alan Leo, and in a deeper esoteric sense 592|00:55:28|100|00:55:29|760by the Tibetan. 593|00:55:30|120|00:55:37|840We're also dealing with constellations that are pouring their energies into various decanates 594|00:55:37|840|00:55:39|820and into the sign entirely. 595|00:55:40|300|00:55:43|840What a great mix of energies we have. 596|00:55:44|560|00:55:50|060But some confusion could result, and we have to rely upon the intuition to help us choose 597|00:55:50|640|00:55:54|500that which is most appropriate in the case of any individual. 598|00:55:54|640|00:55:58|120Really, when you're doing the decanates of somebody, you really have to sit down with 599|00:55:58|120|00:56:03|320them and sort of determine where they are and what that decanate can really mean to 600|00:56:03|320|00:56:03|520them. 601|00:56:03|560|00:56:06|780The decanate in which their sun is found, the decanate in which their rising sign is 602|00:56:06|780|00:56:07|220found. 603|00:56:07|220|00:56:16|800The appropriate rulers of that decanate by several systems, the connection of extrazodiacal 604|00:56:16|800|00:56:22|280constellations to the system, to that decanate. 605|00:56:23|120|00:56:31|980And then just the ordinary division: what triplicity, what other factor in the triplicity 606|00:56:31|980|00:56:34|260in which they are born is operative. 607|00:56:34|260|00:56:38|900If they're born in the Pisces-Cancer decanate, it's different from the Pisces-Scorpio decanate, 608|00:56:38|900|00:56:41|660just on the basis of the signs alone. 609|00:56:42|780|00:56:47|700So, you know, and then of course the question is: are you coming, or are you going, or are 610|00:56:47|700|00:56:49|560you operating in both ways? 611|00:56:50|040|00:56:56|360D.K. has said that humanity as a whole is entering the age of Aquarius under Venus because they're 612|00:56:56|360|00:57:01|600going in reverse order in a larger sense, but at the same time he said we're all undergoing 613|00:57:01|600|00:57:07|480that Saturn experience of the first decanate from zero to ten, whether we are disciples 614|00:57:07|480|00:57:10|560or everybody—we're all entering via Saturn. 615|00:57:11|380|00:57:15|260So, you know, you can kind of have your cake and eat it too here. 616|00:57:15|660|00:57:20|440It's not just isolating one little box in which you are operative. 617|00:57:20|740|00:57:28|040The fluidity of the decanate study has to be kept in mind, and the intuition has to be 618|00:57:28|040|00:57:28|560operative. 619|00:57:29|600|00:57:34|660Okay, well, I think we have reached the point where we can together do The Great Invocation, 620|00:57:34|660|00:57:48|900and if all goes well, I should be able to finish the Pisces work in the next time around. 621|00:57:49|120|00:57:49|580Let's just see. 622|00:57:50|120|00:57:55|420Yeah, I think—yes, yes—I will be able to finish Pisces the next time around. 623|00:57:55|440|00:58:12|020So this is the end of EAA 59 and still on page 133 on decanates and using also the six-fold 624|00:58:12|020|00:58:18|760table and the large decanate tabulation. 625|00:58:19|620|00:58:29|700All right, so we will then conclude with The Great Invocation, and there it is. 626|00:58:29|940|00:58:32|080All right, we're fortunate—it's right there. 627|00:58:32|320|00:58:33|720So let's work together. 628|00:58:38|980|00:58:39|620Om. 629|00:58:45|340|00:58:50|940From the point of light within the mind of God, let light stream forth into the minds 630|00:58:50|940|00:58:54|360of men. Let light descend on earth. 631|00:58:56|920|00:59:02|460From the point of love within the heart of God, let love stream forth into the hearts 632|00:59:02|460|00:59:05|700of men. May Christ return to earth. 633|00:59:08|180|00:59:13|840From the center where the will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men— 634|00:59:14|240|00:59:17|620the purpose which the masters know and serve. 635|00:59:20|080|00:59:25|020From the center which we call the race of men, let the plan of love and light work out, 636|00:59:25|180|00:59:28|960and may it seal the door where evil dwells. 637|00:59:29|560|00:59:35|340Let light and love and power restore the plan on earth. 638|00:59:39|120|00:59:40|520Om. 639|00:59:48|900|00:59:50|300Om. 640|01:00:10|300|01:00:18|820Okay friends, thank you, and we will return with Esoteric Astrology Adventure number 60, 641|01:00:18|820|01:00:23|640concluding Pisces and moving forward. And we'll see you then. Bye-bye.
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