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1|00:00:00|000|00:00:01|400And we must then go on. 2|00:00:02|000|00:00:11|060Okay, so now we are beginning Esoteric Astrology, adventure number 79, section D, fourth section, 3|00:00:11|920|00:00:14|680page 222, actually. 4|00:00:15|880|00:00:22|060And we've been seeing how we can build up a horoscope based on the personality ray where 5|00:00:22|060|00:00:24|860the average non-aspiring individual is concerned. 6|00:00:24|860|00:00:30|700And so, without aspiration, we will not have soul influence. 7|00:00:31|120|00:00:34|260That is what D.K. seems to be telling us. 8|00:00:34|260|00:00:45|780If we do not aspire, we cannot receive the energy of the soul, and we cannot be considered 9|00:00:45|780|00:00:52|560to be true disciples, centered increasingly in our soul energy. 10|00:00:52|560|00:00:55|620That is what he is saying. 11|00:01:00|780|00:01:02|700Okay, everybody, let us go on. 12|00:01:03|700|00:01:10|300This is Esoteric Astrology, adventure, section D, page 222. 13|00:01:11|180|00:01:21|000We're concluding with the idea that there should be, in setting up the horoscope of 14|00:01:21|000|00:01:27|120the average non-aspiring man, the attempt to determine what is the personality ray, 15|00:01:28|580|00:01:38|780and then to work from that personality ray, considering the orthodox planets, or I guess 16|00:01:38|780|00:01:44|980the orthodox rulers, laid out in the horoscope of the houses I added. 17|00:01:46|600|00:01:49|080And D.K. seems to say that elsewhere as well. 18|00:01:51|320|00:02:06|340We recall that the rays given by the esoteric, well, by the rulers of the signs of the fixed 19|00:02:06|340|00:02:09|340cross were to be considered sub-rays of the soul ray. 20|00:02:09|440|00:02:10|560Well, this is something different. 21|00:02:11|720|00:02:13|480We're not yet talking about the soul ray. 22|00:02:13|480|00:02:14|780We will in just a moment. 23|00:02:16|880|00:02:19|700But we study the personality of the man. 24|00:02:19|860|00:02:25|580We look at the physical indicators as the personality puts its stamp very much upon 25|00:02:25|580|00:02:27|320the physical apparatus. 26|00:02:27|660|00:02:32|340We look also at the emotional qualities and the type of, presumably, lower mind, because 27|00:02:33|120|00:02:38|300the personality ray will put its stamp there as well, and the nature of the environment 28|00:02:38|300|00:02:42|560which the personality ray has evoked. 29|00:02:44|060|00:02:53|780The associates of the individual, the placement of his activities and so forth, the kind of 30|00:02:53|780|00:02:57|020work, profession, etc., the general environment. 31|00:02:57|900|00:03:03|340The personality ray will be… the environment will be declarative to a degree of the personality 32|00:03:03|340|00:03:04|220ray. 33|00:03:05|280|00:03:12|120And he'll be able to lay out then, the astrology will, a far more useful chart with the orthodox 34|00:03:12|120|00:03:12|820planets ruling. 35|00:03:12|940|00:03:19|640It doesn't mean that we will not have sacred planets ruling, because many of the sacred 36|00:03:19|640|00:03:22|040planets are orthodox rulers precisely. 37|00:03:23|420|00:03:32|220But they will operate in an orthodox manner rather than in a specifically spiritual manner, 38|00:03:32|960|00:03:40|700because the individual is non-aspiring and the aspect of the soul is not playing a large 39|00:03:40|700|00:03:43|940role in the life, certainly not a conscious role. 40|00:03:44|880|00:03:51|780Now, this is important for all of us, those who study Master D.K.'s work seriously. 41|00:03:53|840|00:04:00|580In the case of the horoscope of a disciple, he should do the same, endeavouring to discover 42|00:04:01|320|00:04:02|840the ray of the soul. 1|00:00:00|000|00:00:01|400And I've oftentimes pointed to page 335 of Esoteric Psychology, volume 2, for simple 44|00:04:15|400|00:04:18|700methods of discerning the soul ray. 45|00:04:18|700|00:04:25|220There will be physical and psychological indications, and there will be the indications of the individual's 46|00:04:25|220|00:04:32|820profession and his associates, but also the life struggle that sometimes occurs, the so-called 47|00:04:32|820|00:04:37|920midlife crisis, not necessarily occurring in midlife, sometimes earlier, sometimes later, 48|00:04:39|440|00:04:46|240in which the normal orientation of the man gives way to something quite new, which is 49|00:04:46|240|00:04:51|320dominated, a way of life dominated by the ray of the soul. 50|00:04:51|320|00:04:57|820Sometimes this can go on for years, this kind of struggle, and sometimes it can happen, 51|00:04:58|480|00:05:00|240let us say, much more suddenly. 52|00:05:01|940|00:05:08|060So check out that page, Esoteric Psychology 2, page 335. 53|00:05:11|300|00:05:18|700The soul ray only sets its mark and emphasises its quality and nature 54|00:05:19|560|00:05:26|600in the case of advanced people, So we pretty well realize that individuals who are dealing 55|00:05:26|600|00:05:37|420with the fifth petal of the egoic lotus, being the petal which is the first one to which 56|00:05:37|420|00:05:43|440the solar angel really pays attention, or should we say he pays more meditative attention 57|00:05:43|440|00:05:50|500to the man when the process of organizing and opening the fifth petal is underway, this 58|00:05:50|500|00:06:03|200fifth petal marks the period when the soul ray is operating upon the advanced human being. 59|00:06:03|300|00:06:10|820Before that point, before there is an integrated personality, which is also one of the factors 60|00:06:10|820|00:06:15|400involved in the expression of the fifth petal. 61|00:06:16|480|00:06:19|120Before that point, we really don't have the advanced human being. 62|00:06:21|460|00:06:27|720So the soul ray is setting its mark and emphasis, its quality and nature, in the case of advanced 63|00:06:27|720|00:06:28|240people. 64|00:06:30|440|00:06:37|400and when that emerges clearly, and D.K. is saying it's not profitable necessarily to look at 65|00:06:37|400|00:06:39|060everybody and say, “Well, what is your soul ray? 66|00:06:39|880|00:06:41|800I'll try to find that,” because it just hasn't emerged. 67|00:06:42|000|00:06:45|720I mean, to the expert diagnosis of the master, of course, he can see it. 68|00:06:45|820|00:06:50|280He can see it visually and in terms of color and note and so forth, he knows. 69|00:06:51|780|00:06:56|680But in terms of the emergence on the physical plane and from the usual methods that we might 70|00:06:56|680|00:07:00|580be able to discern it, it just hasn't happened. 71|00:07:01|980|00:07:07|900The soul ray only sets its mark and emphasises its quality and nature in the case of advanced 72|00:07:07|900|00:07:13|880people, and when that emerges clearly, the man is obviously a disciple 73|00:07:14|840|00:07:20|340So he's saying here that the emergence, the clear emergence of the soul ray indicates 74|00:07:20|340|00:07:21|440the disciple. 75|00:07:31|220|00:07:35|220And when that emerges clearly, when the soul ray emerges clearly, the man is obviously 76|00:07:35|220|00:07:35|800a disciple 77|00:07:36|980|00:07:46|340and the esoteric planets will then govern his chart. presumably all of the various rulers 78|00:07:46|340|00:07:52|720in their esoteric positions, and the signs of the zodiac towards which they point. 79|00:07:52|820|00:07:59|380In other words, Mars in the exoteric chart will point to Aries, and to a degree Scorpio, 80|00:07:59|380|00:08:06|420but Mars in the esoteric chart, as an esoteric ruler, will only point to Scorpio and not 81|00:08:06|420|00:08:07|020to Aries. 82|00:08:08|700|00:08:14|200The connection, therefore, between the planet and a particular sign of the zodiac will be 83|00:08:14|200|00:08:16|540determined by the level of the individual. 84|00:08:17|840|00:08:22|080And Jupiter in the ordinary sense can point to Sagittarius or Pisces, but in the disciple 85|00:08:22|780|00:08:27|500it will connect with the energies of Aquarius, and about this we have discussed earlier. 86|00:08:29|040|00:08:36|700The esoteric planets will then govern his chart, I suppose especially the esoteric ruler 87|00:08:36|700|00:08:42|980of the rising sign, and later the esoteric ruler of the sun sign as well. 88|00:08:43|720|00:08:50|100Having determined the ray of the man undergoing tests in Scorpio I assume he means the soul 89|00:08:50|100|00:08:58|460ray here the astrologer can then place the other rays in relation to him and his 90|00:08:58|460|00:08:59|680probable experience. 91|00:09:00|800|00:09:08|360Well, the other rays are the six rays we've been speaking of, which are conveyed by the 92|00:09:08|360|00:09:20|080rulers of the fixed cross, but maybe most specifically the sixth ray of Mars and the 93|00:09:20|080|00:09:21|100seventh ray of Mars. 94|00:09:22|280|00:09:27|960If we're really undergoing tests in Scorpio, you are an advanced human being. 95|00:09:28|960|00:09:44|860So only the advanced human being can undergo such tests, and thus the esoteric rulers 96|00:09:44|860|00:09:46|020will apply. 97|00:09:48|460|00:09:52|440So that would be most interesting to build up these two different kinds of horoscopes. 98|00:09:52|580|00:10:01|360It would be around the soul ray plus the indications of the rising sign, just the way the horoscope 99|00:10:01|360|00:10:08|120for the average non-aspiring individual would be built around the personality ray, its planet, 100|00:10:08|440|00:10:09|660and the sun sign. 101|00:10:09|740|00:10:15|180Of course, you can't throw that out when you're dealing with the disciple, because the disciple 102|00:10:15|180|00:10:21|580definitely has a personality with which that disciple is attempting to deal in a spiritual 103|00:10:21|580|00:10:22|020manner. 104|00:10:22|760|00:10:31|080And it causes a lot of opposition and is significant for the resolution of the disciple's problems. 105|00:10:35|380|00:10:43|120Okay, so right here on page 222 and 223, D.K. has given us some very important indicators 106|00:10:43|120|00:10:51|340about how to set up that more useful charts for two kinds of people—those on the ordinary 107|00:10:51|340|00:10:53|520wheel clockwise and those on the reverse wheel. 108|00:10:54|720|00:10:59|500And he didn't say, “Go to the horoscope and attempt to determine the personality ray and 109|00:10:59|500|00:11:01|720the soul ray.” 110|00:11:01|820|00:11:10|580As I say, one day, given sufficient statistical sample, we may find some infallible indicators, 111|00:11:10|580|00:11:17|620but so far, I don't think it's the profitable way to operate or the way likely to produce 112|00:11:17|620|00:11:18|280accuracy. 113|00:11:20|480|00:11:28|020I think it's far better, as D.K. says, to study the physical, emotional, and mental characteristics, 114|00:11:28|220|00:11:34|280study the character of the individual, study the environment, because the environment will 115|00:11:34|280|00:11:41|540be declarative of the rays which are in expression. 116|00:11:42|320|00:11:47|840Just think about that: the people you know, the environments in which they find themselves. 117|00:11:49|020|00:11:55|980Those environments have predominating rays, and it's very probably the ray of the individual, 118|00:11:57|080|00:12:02|880whether personality or soul ray, which has somehow created a magnetic link with that 119|00:12:02|880|00:12:03|900particular environment. 120|00:12:05|540|00:12:11|340And so the environment proves revelatory of the ray in question. 121|00:12:15|280|00:12:21|080A little thought is required to come to accurate conclusions. 122|00:12:23|960|00:12:30|240The other point to which I sought to refer is the constant use of the word “relation” 123|00:12:30|240|00:12:34|640or “relationship” and analogous phrases. 124|00:12:36|100|00:12:37|620I guess it's a secondary word. 125|00:12:39|100|00:12:46|580Has to do with the magnetic attraction or repulsion between various factors. 126|00:12:47|040|00:12:48|460It's a Mercurian word also. 127|00:12:49|260|00:12:52|780Particularly, the 2-4-6 line is involved with this word. 128|00:12:55|160|00:13:01|260But the science of all relations, let us say, is a second-ray science, I think. 129|00:13:02|420|00:13:08|120And when we look towards producing an idea of the relations between the different signs 130|00:13:08|120|00:13:12|420of the zodiac, we find that Gemini's second-ray sign is prominent. 131|00:13:12|620|00:13:20|040Gemini triangulating all of the pairs of opposites except the one in which it is involved with 132|00:13:20|800|00:13:30|300Sagittarius, and that is triangulated by Pisces, a sign intimately related to Gemini 133|00:13:30|300|00:13:32|300for its second-ray qualities. 134|00:13:34|080|00:13:43|300Perhaps Pisces is the most ostensibly cosmically second-ray constellation sign with which we 135|00:13:43|300|00:13:48|420have to deal, even though Virgo brings in more second-ray at this time, and Gemini is 136|00:13:48|420|00:13:53|080even shaped like the number two and is an obvious relational factor. 137|00:13:55|900|00:14:01|040So he wants to discuss the constant use of the word relation and relationship. 138|00:14:01|840|00:14:08|420This is unavoidable for the reason that the entire Science of Astrology is, in the last 139|00:14:09|340|00:14:13|240analysis, the Science of Relations 140|00:14:15|400|00:14:21|160and there is consequently no use in avoiding the term, especially when there is no other 141|00:14:21|160|00:14:26|740which seems to meet the requirements as adequately. I guess in the English language and maybe 142|00:14:26|740|00:14:27|200in more. 143|00:14:28|700|00:14:31|940The Science of Relations. 144|00:14:32|760|00:14:39|680This is in a way—well, it has to have both third-ray and second-ray factors. 145|00:14:42|480|00:14:47|160But a second-ray is the ray of beauty in relationships, the ray of the divine pattern. 146|00:14:48|040|00:14:53|740Patterns are created by magnetic relationships. 147|00:14:55|300|00:15:01|680So we really want to know the effect of every factor upon every other, and reciprocally. 148|00:15:06|380|00:15:13|240So this will be one of those words which in a second-ray approach to a basically third-ray 149|00:15:13|240|00:15:14|860science we're going to use frequently. 150|00:15:16|340|00:15:21|820There's no use consequently—there's consequently no use in avoiding the term, especially when 151|00:15:21|820|00:15:24|920there is no other which seems to meet the requirements adequately. 152|00:15:27|920|00:15:30|960Inter-relation, inter-dependence, inter-communication, 153|00:15:31|820|00:15:33|520There's a good Geminian word for us. 154|00:15:33|960|00:15:35|780interplay another Geminian word. 155|00:15:37|500|00:15:38|760Even interrelation is. 156|00:15:40|120|00:15:45|660—these are words governing the scientific basis of astrology, and they are beginning to be 157|00:15:45|660|00:15:50|820words in general use today in connection with human affairs and human conduct. 158|00:15:50|820|00:15:57|280Maybe we think back—it's so common for us today, 80 years later. 159|00:15:58|660|00:16:03|820The science of relations is everywhere before us and has been developed along many modalities, 160|00:16:04|980|00:16:13|860especially I suppose psychologically and in terms of international relations and the psychology 161|00:16:13|860|00:16:14|780involved there. 162|00:16:15|780|00:16:25|780We think this way, in a rapidly uniting one world in which we can see the way anything 163|00:16:26|480|00:16:38|100said or done affects a host of recipients—individuals and nations, and groups. 164|00:16:39|460|00:16:45|160So This will be increasingly the case. and now some 80 years later, after the book I 165|00:16:45|160|00:16:47|300suppose began to be written, it is the case. 166|00:16:49|940|00:16:57|800The preparatory stages for world fusion, blending and synthesis are present at this time, and 167|00:16:57|800|00:17:08|080certainly we see this in the one world presented by the Internet, and all the happenings upon 168|00:17:08|080|00:17:15|400which people can comment because it touches their lives or at least touches their psyches 169|00:17:15|660|00:17:16|580or their minds. 170|00:17:17|880|00:17:24|460We are in that stage now of world fusion and of blending and synthesis, and so much of 171|00:17:24|460|00:17:31|000the conflict that we have is the resistance against this synthetic inevitability. 172|00:17:31|000|00:17:38|140The ego, the lower ego, will fight like mad to preserve its individualistic prerogatives. 173|00:17:39|620|00:17:47|000I'm interested in the philosopher Ayn Rand, who had quite a reaction against Soviet collectivism 174|00:17:47|800|00:17:56|280and developed an extremely individualistic philosophy which a number of political figures 175|00:17:56|280|00:18:06|560on today's political stage seem to accept that individualism is the way, and can we 176|00:18:06|560|00:18:16|100really separate individualism from capitalism, even if we look at the corporation as an individual? 177|00:18:17|680|00:18:24|510It is the advancement of the one at the expense of the many, although it is philosophized 178|00:18:24|510|00:18:33|530as other than that, as if competition rather than cooperation and the advancement of an 179|00:18:33|530|00:18:36|530excellent few will lift the whole. 180|00:18:37|730|00:18:44|470There's a sense in which that can be the case, but usually this individualistic advancement 181|00:18:44|470|00:18:53|990is selfishly pursued, no matter how rationalized in various euphemistic terms. 182|00:18:56|470|00:19:02|750The preparatory stages for world fusion, blending and synthesis are present at this time, 183|00:19:04|050|00:19:11|370and in this fact lies the hope of the world and the surety of the ultimate solution of 184|00:19:11|370|00:19:13|410the world problem along right lines. 185|00:19:13|410|00:19:15|190And what is this world problem? 186|00:19:15|350|00:19:22|390You know, all under the great heresy—well, how do you spell that? 187|00:19:25|410|00:19:27|210Heresy of separateness. 188|00:19:29|830|00:19:36|430This is the problem: having the limited consciousness which simply sees the part and its welfare 189|00:19:37|850|00:19:42|410independently of the whole and oftentimes at the expense of the whole. 190|00:19:43|410|00:19:54|030The little ego grabs what it can to fulfill its materialistic desires, desires which are 191|00:19:54|030|00:19:59|770not in accord with the divine plan and with the still more remote purpose. 192|00:20:00|770|00:20:02|590Consciousness has not reached that point. 193|00:20:03|050|00:20:07|730That's the whole purpose for fighting the battle with the hydra: the elevation of consciousness 194|00:20:07|730|00:20:13|870into a more Aquarian, group-centered, whole-centered perspective. 195|00:20:17|250|00:20:26|930Anyway, this study of astrology is the study of all these relations which are part of the 196|00:20:26|930|00:20:28|230whole with which one is dealing. 197|00:20:28|410|00:20:30|990I mean, we're obviously not dealing with the entirety of the whole. 198|00:20:30|990|00:20:38|350We're simply dealing with individuals, groups, nations, our planet, our planet in relation 199|00:20:38|350|00:20:43|710to other planets, all in relation to our solar system, and then vaguely our solar system 200|00:20:43|710|00:20:49|790in relation to other solar systems and to great constellations which are still of a 201|00:20:49|790|00:20:51|770relatively local nature. 202|00:20:52|210|00:20:54|270The whole setup seems vast to us. 203|00:20:54|370|00:20:57|930It is vast, relatively, but it's just minuscule 204|00:20:58|890|00:21:05|250in our tiny little galaxy, which is only one of billions, hundreds of billions, so the 205|00:21:06|190|00:21:08|050dwarfing scope of the whole. 206|00:21:09|510|00:21:11|850It rather works against individualism. 207|00:21:12|310|00:21:13|790It works towards synthesis. 208|00:21:14|010|00:21:18|010The individual really fades out, and only the whole is seen. 209|00:21:18|910|00:21:26|350The whole matters, but against that, the personality, the little self, the lower ego, fights strenuously, 210|00:21:26|350|00:21:28|630and we're in the middle of a fight right now. 211|00:21:29|490|00:21:33|870The Piscean forces seem to embrace lower egoism. 212|00:21:34|050|00:21:40|570The Aquarian forces, although not properly schooled and eliminative of much individual 213|00:21:40|570|00:21:45|310excellence, do seem to embrace a fuller picture. 214|00:21:49|250|00:21:54|480And this, I think, you know, we'll see this in America and Russia, both of which have 215|00:21:54|480|00:21:56|400the Aquarian soul. 216|00:21:57|880|00:22:04|660There are experiments which have been inadequate up to this time, but much better can be expected 217|00:22:04|660|00:22:11|300in the future when a deeper meaning of Aquarianism emerges because the 6th Ray and Piscean influences 218|00:22:11|300|00:22:16|340have faded out in the 21st century and early 22nd century. 219|00:22:17|500|00:22:23|360In connection with the vertical and the horizontal life of the Fixed Cross, it is instructive 220|00:22:23|360|00:22:30|540to note that the vertical life of the man upon that Cross (no matter in what sign his 221|00:22:30|540|00:22:36|500sun may temporarily find position)—see how he really emphasizes the Fixed Cross for the 222|00:22:36|500|00:22:42|380disciple, regardless of where in one tiny little life one may have one's sun positioned— 223|00:22:42|560|00:22:43|840is ever Aquarius-Leo. 224|00:22:45|680|00:22:46|520Excuse me. 225|00:22:46|760|00:22:51|700The Aquarius factor, the group factor, the universal factor being the dominant. 226|00:22:54|080|00:22:59|560And Leo, representing the individual, but also in another sense the group and the whole, 227|00:23:00|820|00:23:03|040is the subsidiary, the receptive. 228|00:23:04|340|00:23:14|720It's almost as if Aquarius in some way represents the cosmic ethers and the universal perspective, 229|00:23:14|780|00:23:21|780and Leo represents the more localized individual perspective, which must become imbued with 230|00:23:21|780|00:23:24|780this more cosmic perspective. 231|00:23:26|180|00:23:32|640So this indicates that the self-centered individual in Leo, that's in the beginning at least, 232|00:23:32|640|00:23:39|540learns the lesson of the cross and becomes decentralized, group conscious, and given 233|00:23:39|540|00:23:40|000to service. 234|00:23:40|200|00:23:42|620That's so very Aquarian. 235|00:23:42|760|00:23:55|200Those words describe Aquarius to a T—more than adequate description of Aquarius. 236|00:23:57|660|00:24:00|620Decentralized, group conscious, and given to service. 237|00:24:00|620|00:24:07|960Well, of course, there are undeveloped Aquarians, too, in which decentralization is no virtue, 238|00:24:07|960|00:24:12|700and group consciousness is simply following the crowd, and the service is the service of 239|00:24:12|700|00:24:13|140the self. 240|00:24:14|220|00:24:15|920But Leo, as we know, is centralized. 241|00:24:17|220|00:24:20|640Although there's a type of centralization later, which is centralization within the 242|00:24:20|640|00:24:24|800one as the one, and that is a supremely advanced state. 243|00:24:24|800|00:24:29|120Leo is individually conscious until the individual becomes the whole. 244|00:24:30|740|00:24:38|540And Leo demands service of others until later heights of service are reached in this sign 245|00:24:38|540|00:24:39|640as in Aquarius. 246|00:24:41|260|00:24:45|780This indicates that the self-centred individual in Leo learns the lesson of the 247|00:24:45|780|00:24:51|960Cross and becomes decentralised, group conscious, and given to service. 248|00:24:51|960|00:24:57|120Now, remember, to be a Leo is not necessarily an indication of a lower stage of evolution 249|00:24:57|120|00:24:58|160than to be an Aquarian. 250|00:24:59|420|00:25:04|920One can be at any stage of evolution and have various signs in the chart. 251|00:25:06|960|00:25:19|000The horizontal arm is Taurus-Scorpio, indicating that desire for materiality presumably in 252|00:25:19|000|00:25:23|100Taurus, is finally superseded by desire for the spiritual values, 253|00:25:23|960|00:25:29|180Now, remember, again, this is just a general statement because it's possible to have 254|00:25:30|000|00:25:39|940the Scorpio person who wants to really corner the market and selfishly, following the monster 255|00:25:39|940|00:25:45|000of selfishness—the hydra—grab all it can for itself, and to have the very selfless, 256|00:25:48|320|00:25:53|000illuminated individual desiring nothing but spiritual values in Taurus, such as the Buddha 257|00:25:53|000|00:26:00|860was, and Socrates, and many great thinkers and philosophers found in Taurus. 258|00:26:02|720|00:26:07|000Statistically, it's been shown, I think, that there's a close association of Taurus 259|00:26:07|760|00:26:14|540and Virgo to modern-day philosophy, I guess—the pursuit of the light in Taurus and the 260|00:26:14|540|00:26:18|280cultivation of wisdom in Virgo give us this tendency. 261|00:26:20|520|00:26:25|140So the horizontal arm is Taurus-Scorpio, indicating that desire for materiality is finally superseded 262|00:26:25|140|00:26:27|180by desire for the spiritual values, 263|00:26:27|300|00:26:32|860And interestingly enough, the illumination found in Taurus is also the fourth stage of 264|00:26:32|860|00:26:41|500meditation, ruled by Scorpio—illumination, beginning, as we know: concentration Leo, 265|00:26:41|500|00:26:47|180meditation Virgo, contemplation Libra, and illumination Scorpio. 266|00:26:48|040|00:26:52|020So the opposites are opposites in some respect and meet in others. 267|00:26:52|180|00:27:00|760Even in terms of physical appearance, one can oftentimes confuse an individual of a 268|00:27:00|760|00:27:03|280certain sign for an individual of the opposite sign. 269|00:27:03|280|00:27:12|280There are some, perhaps, discriminative perceptions which can differentiate even appearances which 270|00:27:12|280|00:27:14|260look quite closely related. 271|00:27:15|380|00:27:20|040If only that particular sign's physiognomy were simpler. 272|00:27:20|800|00:27:33|260But there's a way in which energies blend and fuse in the most complex manner, and the 273|00:27:33|260|00:27:36|400relation between the various factors. 274|00:27:37|140|00:27:38|180And each face is unique. 275|00:27:39|700|00:27:43|500So occasionally there's something that just stands out as absolutely identifiable, but 276|00:27:43|500|00:27:49|480often the skill in physiognomy has to do with reading the fusion of these energies. 277|00:27:50|400|00:27:53|600And one day it will be possible. 278|00:27:54|600|00:27:57|260I think maybe some can already do it to a degree. 279|00:27:59|920|00:28:05|760Maybe portraitists, portrait painters, if they were astrologers too, would have a special 280|00:28:05|760|00:28:09|080ability along this line. 281|00:28:11|180|00:28:16|800So spiritual values have come in as we have conquered our lower tamasic nature in Taurus. 282|00:28:16|980|00:28:22|760They've come in as we conquer our hydra in Scorpio, and this is demonstrated through 283|00:28:22|760|00:28:24|380the tests in Scorpio. 284|00:28:24|380|00:28:26|800Notice that word: demon-strated. 285|00:28:27|540|00:28:32|560Well, or demon-strated in the way we demonstrate the soul, the demon. 286|00:28:33|540|00:28:35|640Some people have thought that the demon is the demon. 287|00:28:36|360|00:28:38|020Have confused the two. 288|00:28:38|980|00:28:46|120Interestingly enough, the sort of elemental religions, the religions that seem to worship 289|00:28:46|120|00:28:50|060the personality in one form or another, consider the demon as a demon. 290|00:28:50|740|00:28:54|600They consider the solar angels as asuras instead of suras. 291|00:28:55|800|00:29:00|480So much so that the solar angels have come to be called asuras, even though they are 292|00:29:00|480|00:29:03|840really suras—they are really representatives of the sun. 293|00:29:03|960|00:29:09|060So we've managed to invert a lot of things by our worship of the ancestral gods in the 294|00:29:09|060|00:29:09|640lower sense. 295|00:29:16|460|00:29:28|560So, Scorpio can go beyond many of the traps of Taurus, but Taurus, bringing in the light, 296|00:29:28|840|00:29:34|300you know, we can turn it around the other way, can shed great illumination on many of 297|00:29:34|300|00:29:38|760the traps that are found in the earlier Scorpio individual. 298|00:29:40|300|00:29:47|800No one sign being better or higher than another, although there are constellational lords which 299|00:29:47|800|00:29:50|000are probably more evolved than others. 300|00:29:51|740|00:29:56|860Setting up that hierarchy would be perhaps the difficult thing, but… D.K. is already 301|00:29:56|860|00:29:58|940dependent for the planets in a way. 302|00:29:58|940|00:30:05|520He's given us non-sacred planets, sacred planets, and among the sacred planets, certain 303|00:30:05|520|00:30:10|560of the synthetic planets, synthesizing planets, which are probably the most developed of all. 304|00:30:13|580|00:30:16|140Although not necessarily the most unfolded, they are the most developed. 305|00:30:16|880|00:30:22|180As I said, it's like having someone who's a third-degree initiate who's 10 years old 306|00:30:22|660|00:30:26|440compared with an average human being who's 80 years old. 307|00:30:27|460|00:30:31|500The 80-year-old person is more unfolded, but the 10-year-old is more developed. 308|00:30:33|100|00:30:35|100At least that's one way of looking at it. 309|00:30:36|880|00:30:37|580Earth and water 310|00:30:37|880|00:30:45|360(Taurus and Scorpio) must be blended I suppose, to create the proverbial garden, the new Garden 311|00:30:45|360|00:30:55|580of Eden. They must be blended and related and it is this truth 312|00:30:55|580|00:31:02|000connected with these two signs of the zodiac which lies behind all teaching upon baptism 313|00:31:02|000|00:31:02|800and purification. 314|00:31:02|980|00:31:13|320I guess the earth and the mud of Taurus must be washed away by the experience of the drastic 315|00:31:13|320|00:31:15|040waters of Scorpio. 316|00:31:17|080|00:31:18|440Baptism and purification. 317|00:31:19|370|00:31:24|720Well, we can have a miry situation produced in many ways. 318|00:31:26|120|00:31:33|740Perhaps all earth and water signs can be combined somehow to create the mire, but eventually 319|00:31:34|720|00:31:45|860the mire and the slime and the strictly earthly remnants of bygone times which inhibit the 320|00:31:45|860|00:31:53|800response that only the pure can give to the divine—that must be washed away. 321|00:31:54|320|00:32:02|940Sometimes, the tears of Pisces are very adequate to wash away our earthly adhesions. 322|00:32:04|400|00:32:09|520I think D.K. uses that word “adhesion” somewhere, but it has to do with the kind of an attachment 323|00:32:09|520|00:32:10|760which shouldn't be. 324|00:32:11|660|00:32:17|240The earthly material desires of Taurus must in due time be brought under the influence 325|00:32:17|240|00:32:22|660of the purifying water in Scorpio. and it's sometimes, I think, sometimes hot water. 326|00:32:23|760|00:32:26|340In Scorpio, we get ourselves into hot water. 327|00:32:28|000|00:32:30|580We experience the crises that make us sweat. 328|00:32:32|380|00:32:40|040Cold sweat, hot water, cold sweat—those things which perhaps we had rather not faced but 329|00:32:40|040|00:32:41|380are forced to do so. 330|00:32:43|660|00:32:49|980He's giving it the slant to us in only one way, but elsewhere in the Cancer chapter we'll 331|00:32:49|980|00:32:51|980see that he reverses it. 332|00:32:52|260|00:32:56|060Taurus going to Scorpio, Scorpio going to Taurus, ending in illumination. 333|00:32:56|920|00:32:59|160I'll just give you an idea of that right now. 334|00:32:59|200|00:33:07|120You probably already know it, but it's Esoteric Astrology, approximately page 329, something 335|00:33:07|120|00:33:07|520like that. 336|00:33:07|520|00:33:08|440Or that's the light. 337|00:33:09|500|00:33:10|940That's the discussion of the light. 338|00:33:12|320|00:33:17|440Maybe the pairs of opposites come in a little later. 339|00:33:20|860|00:33:21|840And yes, here it is. 340|00:33:22|080|00:33:27|140Taurus-Scorpio: powerful, focused, lower desire leads to death and defeat. 341|00:33:28|680|00:33:33|680The triumph of the lower nature—that's Scorpionic—which eventuates in the awakening to satiety 342|00:33:33|680|00:33:34|080and death. 343|00:33:34|080|00:33:35|480That's a Scorpionic realization. 344|00:33:35|480|00:33:44|280The man is prisoner of desire, and at the moment of consummation knows his prison. 345|00:33:44|460|00:33:51|040So this has something to do with the whole sexual realization as binding one to Earth. 346|00:33:52|300|00:34:02|140But it comes later, and we see that Scorpio eventually leads to Taurus, which is an extension 347|00:34:02|140|00:34:03|780of the idea we've just been studying here. 348|00:34:03|780|00:34:06|560The final victory of soul over form. 349|00:34:09|140|00:34:10|200The form is that of the hydra. 350|00:34:10|360|00:34:14|420Death and darkness demonstrate—death and darkness of the hydra demonstrate as light 351|00:34:14|420|00:34:17|820and life, as a result of this energy relationship. 352|00:34:18|040|00:34:23|900The dark night of the soul, presumably in Scorpio, when all kinds of horrors are realized 353|00:34:23|900|00:34:30|020and one experiences the bitter woe on the fixed cross, the dark night of the soul becomes 354|00:34:31|040|00:34:35|480radiant sun, becomes the radiant sun in Taurus. 355|00:34:35|740|00:34:36|720“I see the greatest light.” 356|00:34:36|920|00:34:41|560So you see how there's, I guess, kind of an upward spiral here. 357|00:34:41|720|00:34:49|960You know, it would probably be, let's say, Taurus-Scorpio, Taurus-Scorpio, and so forth. 358|00:34:51|060|00:34:54|900Taurus always leading to Scorpio, Scorpio always leading to Taurus on the still higher 359|00:34:54|900|00:34:55|640turn of the spiral. 360|00:34:56|800|00:35:06|500Every movement is an increase in altitude, and so it goes for all the pairs of opposites. 361|00:35:07|760|00:35:13|140Now, so there's this, you know, perhaps scalding experience. 362|00:35:14|360|00:35:20|620The heat of the emotions, the heat of the mother, is involved in the Scorpio experience, 363|00:35:20|620|00:35:26|020and this, I've sometimes noticed, you know, one of those rare occasions when I'm doing 364|00:35:26|020|00:35:32|980the dishes, instead of the dishwasher doing the dishes, that when you turn the water very, 365|00:35:33|140|00:35:40|980very hot, very hot, and here in Europe it's very hot, you get rid of the adhesions much faster. 366|00:35:41|060|00:35:47|220Let's say there's peanut butter, to use a homely example, attached to a knife, adhering 367|00:35:47|220|00:35:49|820to a knife, an adhesion, peanut butter adhesion. 368|00:35:49|820|00:35:53|400Well, you can run a lot of cold water, it just stays there, adhering. 369|00:35:54|080|00:35:59|360Run the hot water, and the peanut butter will melt away, same for butter in general, melting 370|00:35:59|360|00:36:00|560away under hot water. 371|00:36:02|060|00:36:08|160So there is this Martian heat we do experience in these trying emotional experiences, which 372|00:36:08|160|00:36:15|320are typical of the second initiation, though Scorpio was testing on all the levels we have learned. 373|00:36:16|320|00:36:24|820Baptism by water (a name given for the second initiation) needs a preparatory period of 374|00:36:24|820|00:36:27|420testing and purification, 375|00:36:29|220|00:36:39|960Before the initiation can be administered, we have to pass these tests before the portal 376|00:36:39|960|00:36:41|780of initiation. 377|00:36:41|780|00:36:47|320We have to prove something, we have to prove that we have a certain quality which is resonant 378|00:36:47|320|00:36:48|860with that on the further side of the door. 379|00:36:49|240|00:36:52|260It's a familiar idea to us as students of occultism. 380|00:36:53|220|00:36:57|460Baptism by water, a name given to the second initiation, needs a preparatory period of 381|00:36:57|460|00:36:58|740testing and purification. 382|00:36:59|640|00:37:04|080Purification comes in along many signs, of course. 383|00:37:05|220|00:37:07|540Virgo is one of the preeminent signs of purification. 384|00:37:07|540|00:37:09|500Many of the fire signs can do it. 385|00:37:10|060|00:37:16|700But the water signs as well, the purificatory tests of fire and water, the baptisms by water 386|00:37:16|700|00:37:23|580and fire, fire being the medium of baptism more in the new age, the age which Christ 387|00:37:23|580|00:37:24|080predicted. 388|00:37:25|700|00:37:31|480But somehow Scorpio is hot and watery at the same time. 389|00:37:31|940|00:37:37|520And thus the experience in Scorpio, and this the experience in Scorpio is intended to give. 390|00:37:37|740|00:37:38|740baptism by water. 391|00:37:39|760|00:37:45|420Now we're told that John the Baptist was a Gemini, but he certainly had to have had 392|00:37:45|420|00:37:46|340one of the water signs. 393|00:37:46|500|00:37:48|820He was passing through the second degree. 394|00:37:49|000|00:37:58|040Gemini can be associated with the second degree, but so can Scorpio, and maybe Pisces too. 395|00:37:59|080|00:38:07|600Anyway, finding his way into the River Jordan and washing away the sins, as it were, in 396|00:38:07|600|00:38:15|980anticipation of one who could do it ever so much better, was indicative of the second 397|00:38:15|980|00:38:21|600degree for him and probably some preliminary testing for others. 398|00:38:21|760|00:38:23|200It could have been Scorpio, it could have been Pisces. 399|00:38:23|200|00:38:29|880One of those water signs though, I suspect. Won't it be wonderful to study the real horoscopes 400|00:38:30|520|00:38:35|840of real figures, historical figures, and to know what they actually were. 401|00:38:35|920|00:38:41|080We're so far away from that, but we know enough historically about certain figures. 402|00:38:42|020|00:38:46|700We actually had the real horoscope, and the horoscope of several lives, just imagine. 403|00:38:46|860|00:38:47|720I mean, that day will come. 404|00:38:47|820|00:38:52|760You can be sure that many of us were interested in esoteric psychology and astrology. 405|00:38:52|760|00:38:57|740But we will have before us the opportunity to study the sequence of horoscopes and ray 406|00:38:57|740|00:39:05|400charts, which will open the door to the method of development that the individual has been 407|00:39:05|400|00:39:06|040undergoing. 408|00:39:06|860|00:39:12|040Wouldn't it be interesting for us to know that in our own case, even right now, whether 409|00:39:12|040|00:39:16|500or not you can look at your astrological chart and choose the north or south node of the 410|00:39:16|500|00:39:19|660Moon and the Moon's position and so forth and say, “Well, this is what it was.” 411|00:39:19|660|00:39:22|620I have grave reservations about that. 412|00:39:23|440|00:39:28|820I think it's an interesting guess, but unless it's accompanied by actual memories and not 413|00:39:30|600|00:39:35|720fabrications by the imagination. We don't really have the confirmation, and we also 414|00:39:35|720|00:39:37|160need true clairvoyant vision. 415|00:39:37|660|00:39:44|220And at this point, it wouldn't hurt to have the confirmation of the master when attempting 416|00:39:44|220|00:39:48|020to see one's past and/or future in the horoscope. 417|00:39:49|040|00:39:52|920Likewise, fire and air (Aquarius and Leo) must also be blended, 418|00:39:54|800|00:39:58|040So, we have the blending of the opposites and eventually the blending of all four. 419|00:39:58|660|00:39:59|760They are going to meet at the center. 420|00:40:00|740|00:40:04|100Likewise, fire and air (Aquarius and Leo) must also be blended, 421|00:40:04|820|00:40:06|480Aquarius, of course, air; Leo, fire. 422|00:40:07|220|00:40:12|800and thus the four elements as well as six out of the seven rays must all play their 423|00:40:12|800|00:40:16|580part in conditioning the man in Scorpio for the final stages of the Path. 424|00:40:16|580|00:40:28|580And you would have to ask, and why not these six rays for all those who are focusing upon 425|00:40:28|580|00:40:29|660the fixed cross? 426|00:40:31|420|00:40:37|320You see, he does talk about Scorpio here, but really the rays available are the same 427|00:40:37|320|00:40:41|580for anyone upon the fixed cross, at least through the esoteric rulers. 428|00:40:41|580|00:40:47|860So, the blending occurs of the opposites, but then there is—I don't know how we can 429|00:40:47|860|00:40:54|980describe it, but you know, sort of like this four-leaf clover idea. 430|00:40:56|380|00:40:59|540I realize that everything I'm doing would look backwards here. 431|00:41:00|540|00:41:12|980But that four-leaf clover is graded with each loop being of lesser radius and converging 432|00:41:12|980|00:41:20|900all upon the center, where the individual truly can't stand without emphasizing one 433|00:41:20|900|00:41:27|720or the other overly much and avail himself of all of these energies, which are expressions, 434|00:41:28|380|00:41:35|120basically, of his soul ray, considered sub-rays of his soul ray. 435|00:41:41|480|00:41:47|540The place of the planets in this sign, Scorpio again—we cannot forget, although what he 436|00:41:47|540|00:41:50|980says is Scorpio, you know, does obviously apply to other members of the fixed cross— 437|00:41:52|040|00:41:55|360Scorpio in this case, is also most revealing. 438|00:41:56|140|00:42:03|320And in line also with the general purpose of the experience in Scorpio as outlined above, 439|00:42:03|480|00:42:12|600you know, purification, triumph, liberation, establishing oneself firmly in spiritual values 440|00:42:12|600|00:42:17|060and with a higher polarization altogether, leading to illumination. 441|00:42:18|080|00:42:24|560So, the place of the planets in this sign is also most revealing, and also in line with 442|00:42:24|560|00:42:26|900the general purpose of the experience in Scorpio. 443|00:42:27|960|00:42:32|340Although I'm sure it can be a very diversified experience depending upon which heads of Hydra 444|00:42:32|340|00:42:38|160one is dealing with and what particular initiation one is applying for, there is kind of a general 445|00:42:39|360|00:42:43|060experience of liberation going on here in Scorpio. 446|00:42:43|680|00:42:45|620Uranus is exalted in Scorpio. 1|00:00:00|000|00:00:01|400The power of Venus is lessened in this sign and the moon falls. 1|00:00:00|000|00:00:01|400What do these facts symbolically portray? 1|00:00:00|000|00:00:01|400Let me see if I can make the beauty of these implications clear to you. 450|00:43:00|860|00:43:06|640We have talked about that exalted Uranus as a tremendous liberative expression. 451|00:43:09|140|00:43:17|420I wonder if you have the idea that the exalted planets may indeed find the most powerful 452|00:43:17|420|00:43:21|320expression in the particular sign in which they are exalted. 453|00:43:22|360|00:43:27|080Venus will here represent, I suppose, the mental nature pure and simple and the moon 454|00:43:28|660|00:43:34|200representing all the lower elemental tendencies which have to be conquered. 455|00:43:35|740|00:43:45|420I've seen in the horoscopes of some pretty prominent fourth-like degree initiates—Sir 456|00:43:45|420|00:43:53|140Thomas More, Krishnamurti, Francis Bacon—Uranus in Scorpio. 457|00:43:54|560|00:44:04|080So it really is a rising up into the cosmic ethers as a result of the liberation, bringing 458|00:44:04|080|00:44:07|040in a tremendous transformational power. 459|00:44:07|080|00:44:12|440It could be applied alchemically, it could be applied emotionally, mentally, but it's 460|00:44:12|440|00:44:14|460highly transformative. 461|00:44:14|460|00:44:20|520So let's see what it is the Tibetan is going to say about this, because we are told quite 462|00:44:20|520|00:44:26|840a story by the rulerships and the detriments and the exaltations and the falls. 463|00:44:27|840|00:44:35|500Uranus is the planet whose characteristics are the scientific mind—that's one of them—which 464|00:44:35|500|00:44:40|680at this stage of the disciple's career means that he can begin to live the occult life 465|00:44:41|900|00:44:45|800and the way of divine knowledge can take the place of the mystic way of feeling. 466|00:44:47|520|00:44:50|300Well, the mystic way of feeling, Neptune. 467|00:44:51|960|00:45:02|420Uranus, the scientific mind, and even more so the occultly scientific mind, seeing rather 468|00:45:02|420|00:45:09|940than mystically feeling what is actually happening and how he can extricate himself, the sure 469|00:45:09|940|00:45:16|180and definite science of release can become his. 470|00:45:16|380|00:45:20|720The knowledge, the methods of liberation can become his. 471|00:45:23|700|00:45:30|020Sometimes it's the scientific mind in general, and the person is not yet the disciple, but 472|00:45:30|020|00:45:35|180at this stage of the disciple's career, when he's fighting the battles during the 473|00:45:35|180|00:45:38|680phases of the first three initiations, he can begin to live the occult life. 474|00:45:40|600|00:45:49|520The scientist or the artist is not necessarily yet the disciple, nor is the disciple necessarily 475|00:45:49|520|00:45:55|740the scientist or the artist, but to be an advanced human being as an artist or a scientist 476|00:45:55|740|00:46:02|400marks a certain level of achievement, but to become a disciple is yet another step. 477|00:46:03|600|00:46:14|280So the way of divine knowledge, the ability to live the occult life, to know what one 478|00:46:14|280|00:46:21|520is doing with a degree of intuitive certainty, to have the actual science of occultism revealed 479|00:46:21|520|00:46:29|100to one and to be able to apply it in a thoroughgoing manner—these are the gifts of Uranus, and 480|00:46:29|100|00:46:32|400a major, major transformation and elevation occurs here. 481|00:46:32|560|00:46:34|460That's why I'm looking at these arhats. 482|00:46:34|660|00:46:41|320You know, they really were lifted out of the realm of struggle and into an identification 483|00:46:41|320|00:46:43|540with the cosmic ethers. 484|00:46:43|860|00:46:51|200Uranus is a lightning-like destructive energy which finally solved the age-old problem of 485|00:46:51|200|00:46:51|660attachment. 486|00:46:51|760|00:46:57|280It's a higher octave of Mercury, and we remember that Mercury is the planet which, by dispelling 487|00:46:57|280|00:47:01|880illusion, solves the problem of the hydra. 488|00:47:03|080|00:47:08|740And by dispelling illusion, along with Saturn, Saturn-Mercury gives entree into the Buddhic 489|00:47:08|740|00:47:14|660realm and the fourth initiation, and Uranus would of course give still more complete freedom 490|00:47:16|040|00:47:20|900into the cosmic ethers and the Buddhic plane, and probably tending towards the atomic plane 491|00:47:20|900|00:47:28|140in full mastership, because Uranus is the veiled hierarchical ruler of Leo, and Leo, 492|00:47:28|140|00:47:30|880being the fifth sign, I think has much to do with becoming a master. 493|00:47:32|980|00:47:42|340So Uranus in Scorpio means that knowledge can be transmuted into the way of wisdom and 494|00:47:42|340|00:47:43|320of light. 495|00:47:44|660|00:47:51|040So it's the knowledge of Mercury, the knowledge of Venus, but there's this transmutation, 496|00:47:51|220|00:47:57|600and Uranus is, well, it's a planet of transmutation, transformation, transfiguration, ultimately 497|00:47:59|900|00:48:05|860translation—a word would suggest Mercury, but Uranus is the higher octave of Mercury—that 498|00:48:05|860|00:48:10|080knowledge can be transmuted into the way of wisdom and of light. 499|00:48:10|080|00:48:15|340Uranus is not so much a planet of love, although it is interestingly associated with the Sirian 500|00:48:15|340|00:48:19|640line of energy and with the way the second ray descends into the hierarchy. 501|00:48:21|360|00:48:24|760There are a number of ways he talks about the transmutation of knowledge into wisdom. 502|00:48:24|980|00:48:31|420Venus is one of those planets, and I suppose Mercury, being a planet of knowledge and also 503|00:48:31|420|00:48:35|420a planet of buddhi, can be involved in the transmutation of knowledge into wisdom. 504|00:48:36|740|00:48:45|140Jupiter too unites heart and mind, so the mind is knowledge and the love is related 505|00:48:45|140|00:48:49|320into wisdom, the love and wisdom of the heart. 506|00:48:50|320|00:48:55|140A number of these planets are transmutative, but we have here the way of wisdom and of 507|00:48:55|140|00:48:55|360light. 508|00:48:55|480|00:48:57|800He doesn't mention love in relation to Uranus, interestingly. 509|00:48:58|640|00:49:04|440So this necessarily brings in the will aspect, with which Uranus is richly endowed because 510|00:49:04|440|00:49:06|840of its first ray monad and all of its odd-line rays. 511|00:49:07|400|00:49:13|300This necessarily brings in the will aspect, or the influence of the first ray. 512|00:49:14|620|00:49:22|220Vulcan, at least in the soul sense, blended with the seventh ray, Uranus, is kind of a 513|00:49:22|220|00:49:23|340high and low here. 514|00:49:24|600|00:49:28|500Vulcan at the head and Uranus in many places, but also at the base of the spine, also in 515|00:49:28|500|00:49:32|800the throat center, also in the head center. 516|00:49:35|600|00:49:38|740So this necessarily brings in the will aspect, or the influence of the first ray. 517|00:49:38|920|00:49:47|500Vulcan, which is the ruler of Taurus, just as Uranus is the exalted ruler of Scorpio. 518|00:49:48|960|00:49:53|780First ray and seventh ray, crown and base, in a way, producing the desired manifestation 519|00:49:53|780|00:49:54|760upon the physical plane. 520|00:49:54|760|00:49:59|280So the divine will, Vulcan in this case, with the will of the soul, manifests with 521|00:49:59|280|00:50:03|780the materializing power of Uranus, found in the sacral center, where there's a definite 522|00:50:03|780|00:50:11|860materializing power, but also, since it's connected with the seventh manifested creative 523|00:50:11|860|00:50:16|140hierarchy, definitely connected with manifestation upon the dense physical plane. 524|00:50:16|980|00:50:18|540The moon leads to Cancer. 525|00:50:18|540|00:50:25|800The moon, as the ruler of that seventh creative hierarchy, leads to Cancer, which is the seventh 526|00:50:25|800|00:50:27|820ray sign involved with manifestation. 527|00:50:28|100|00:50:34|720So we see how Uranus, the seventh ray, and Cancer all unite to produce manifestation 528|00:50:34|720|00:50:39|540with Vulcan, representing at this stage that which must be manifested. 529|00:50:42|040|00:50:45|360But Uranus is still a higher and more developed planet than Vulcan. 530|00:50:45|360|00:50:50|520Uranus is, after all, the archetypal first-ray monadic planet, and Vulcan is not. 531|00:50:51|720|00:50:55|440So this necessarily brings in the will aspect of the influence of the first-ray Vulcan blended 532|00:50:55|440|00:50:59|860with the seventh-ray Uranus, producing the desired manifestation upon the physical plane. 533|00:51:00|040|00:51:06|000Uranus, therefore, at this… you know, excellent about Uranus… initiates a new order of life 534|00:51:06|000|00:51:06|840and conditions. 535|00:51:08|540|00:51:10|040That's a new and better way. 536|00:51:10|520|00:51:12|400That's what Uranus is meant to do. 537|00:51:12|400|00:51:18|540And just think about Uranus in Aries right now, causing many rebellions, but through 538|00:51:18|540|00:51:23|360the dissatisfaction of the conditioning, the rigid conditioning in which Saturn has landed 539|00:51:23|360|00:51:29|040so many people when improperly interpreted as a rigid authoritarian control. 540|00:51:29|780|00:51:33|460Uranus, therefore, initiates a new order of life and conditions, and this, when developed 541|00:51:33|460|00:51:39|400in the life of the disciple, in its turn produces an understanding of the causes of things as 542|00:51:39|400|00:51:40|000they are. 543|00:51:40|560|00:51:41|760Archetypes are the causes. 544|00:51:42|840|00:51:45|540Of course, this is a real high form of science, isn't it? 545|00:51:46|360|00:51:51|460You're dealing with the occult mind here, dealing with the occult science. 546|00:51:51|840|00:51:52|980These are the real causes. 547|00:51:53|400|00:52:05|940So Uranus is a major planet of occultism, and true archetypal causes, producing an understanding 548|00:52:05|940|00:52:14|000of the cause of things, as they are. 549|00:52:14|860|00:52:20|720And the desire to change the old order and old orientation into the new, and I think 550|00:52:20|720|00:52:26|240we find, you know, a lot of people in Scorpio with strong Uranus there wanting to overthrow, 551|00:52:27|420|00:52:28|560desire to overthrow. 552|00:52:30|260|00:52:35|760Aquarius has this, and some of the major revolutionaries have strong Aquarius, but Scorpio as well. 553|00:52:35|760|00:52:40|040I'm thinking about, what's his first name, is it Vladimir? 554|00:52:40|380|00:52:40|580Lenin? 555|00:52:40|840|00:52:41|040Lenin? 556|00:52:41|720|00:52:43|320Very strong Scorpio. 557|00:52:44|400|00:52:50|700And, although, yeah, and look at probably the Scorpio rising sign of Stalin, along with 558|00:52:50|700|00:52:57|900his Pluto Mars opposition with Pluto in that part of Taurus, which is near the star Algol, 559|00:52:57|900|00:53:00|280which represents piled-up corpses. 560|00:53:01|940|00:53:03|960The two rulers oppose each other, you know? 561|00:53:03|960|00:53:10|400That gives him a huge Scorpio influence, even though probably his sun was in the last degree 562|00:53:10|400|00:53:11|660of Sagittarius, amazingly. 563|00:53:13|740|00:53:20|800Okay, so this desire to change the old order, and even on the individual level, produces 564|00:53:20|800|00:53:22|020the reversal of the wheel. 565|00:53:22|920|00:53:25|720This dissatisfaction with the state of the kingdom. 566|00:53:26|520|00:53:32|800The state of the kingdom is Leo, and there's the staging of a kind of overthrow of the 567|00:53:32|800|00:53:39|660king, or if the lower ego is in the king position, there is an overthrow of that lower identification 568|00:53:39|660|00:53:40|680through Scorpio. 569|00:53:41|900|00:53:48|320There are so many ways in which Scorpio can undermine the kingdom. 570|00:53:49|320|00:53:52|160The kingdoms can be, of course, quite limiting. 571|00:53:52|780|00:54:03|340So if we look here, and we go to page 333, I guess, Scorpio stages the release of Leo. 572|00:54:04|820|00:54:09|520The consciousness is identified in the lower ego, and it needs to be identified as the 573|00:54:09|520|00:54:15|600higher ego, and does the group, and Scorpio, with its destructive power, stages this release. 574|00:54:16|260|00:54:21|820And Uranus is a big part of this staging, because it's out with the old order, overthrow 575|00:54:22|820|00:54:26|960the authoritarian regime, and bring in the new order. 576|00:54:27|260|00:54:33|020We can see how revolutionary, even in the sense of, you know, reversing the wheel, the 577|00:54:33|020|00:54:37|400reversal of revolution, how revolutionary is Scorpio. 578|00:54:38|240|00:54:42|000I think Fidel Castro was a Leo with Scorpio rising. 579|00:54:42|000|00:54:45|580Well, Napoleon was a Leo with Scorpio rising. 580|00:54:46|980|00:54:51|480Interesting how that drama may be working out in those people. 581|00:54:52|080|00:54:55|660Of course, you can wonder about Napoleon, I think. 582|00:54:57|140|00:54:58|340Was his moon in Capricorn? 583|00:55:00|060|00:55:05|360I don't want to go looking for it right now, but the new order which he wanted to impose 584|00:55:05|360|00:55:11|980was very authoritarian, so you kind of wonder whether he escaped his Leo energy at all and 585|00:55:11|980|00:55:14|100whether Leo was simply using Scorpio. 586|00:55:14|760|00:55:19|700It's important to know whether the rising sign uses the sun sign, or the sun sign uses 587|00:55:19|700|00:55:20|360the rising sign. 588|00:55:20|440|00:55:26|240Obviously, we want a condition in which the rising sign uses the sun sign. 589|00:55:26|280|00:55:27|420That's what we really want. 590|00:55:29|020|00:55:30|100And not otherwise. 591|00:55:32|000|00:55:36|260So anyway, this produces the reversal of the wheel when we get dissatisfied enough. 592|00:55:36|260|00:55:49|360So, if there is sufficient dissatisfaction, then there builds the impetus for the reversal 593|00:55:52|500|00:55:55|380of the wheel. 594|00:55:56|900|00:56:02|620This can be seen happening today, most clearly in connection with humanity and with world 595|00:56:03|660|00:56:04|300processes. 596|00:56:06|620|00:56:07|760Humanity is dissatisfied. 597|00:56:09|520|00:56:10|400Humanity wants something better. 598|00:56:10|680|00:56:15|120The Dark Lodge, realizing this, stages a Scorpionic rebellion. 599|00:56:16|320|00:56:21|460The big lie is told: illusion, glamour, deceit—all those Scorpionic things are put forward. 600|00:56:22|240|00:56:28|140Thinking about Joseph Goebbels with the sun in Scorpio with Leo rising. 601|00:56:29|900|00:56:35|100Well, which served which is hard to say, but certainly he was the propagandist of the big lie. 602|00:56:36|220|00:56:46|080And he justified the rise of Germany's Hydra and the Hydra of all individualistic types 603|00:56:46|080|00:56:48|700which thought themselves superior. 604|00:56:50|260|00:56:52|920Anyway, the soul rises. 605|00:56:54|420|00:57:01|640It wants to break with the old and have that revolution which will put the soul in the driver's seat. 606|00:57:03|260|00:57:09|280And this will mean changing the old order, a reorientation into the new. 607|00:57:10|100|00:57:16|080Even the Nazis thought they were going to bring in something new, even though it was rooted in a fabrication 608|00:57:16|080|00:57:19|440about the Teuton of 250,000 years ago. 609|00:57:20|900|00:57:26|340So this can be seen happening today, most clearly in connection with humanity and with world processes. 610|00:57:27|180|00:57:33|080Carried forward to its logical conclusion—see, it does quite a bit on Uranus in relation to Scorpio 611|00:57:33|080|00:57:42|120and the kind of tremendous transmutation, transformation—I won't yet say transfiguration, but for some it is so— 612|00:57:42|120|00:57:46|380kind of a reconfiguration that's possible with Uranus under Scorpio. 613|00:57:46|860|00:57:56|240When we think about Scorpio, we should never divorce that thought from the fact that Uranus is the exalted planet. 614|00:57:57|080|00:58:07|260So Scorpio has a very Uranian kind of outworking in terms of these rebellions and overthrows—death to the old order. 615|00:58:08|900|00:58:17|020Carried forward to its logical conclusion, the influence of Uranus finally produces an unfolded spiritual consciousness 616|00:58:17|020|00:58:27|440in contradistinction to the human. So we're even transcending Mercury in relation to Scorpio, which is the fully human consciousness, 617|00:58:28|440|00:58:35|980very high perhaps, giving us admission into the cosmic ethers in the Buddhic plane eventually. 618|00:58:37|040|00:58:44|780But a transcendent archetypal consciousness is given by Uranus. Uranus is somehow associated with Heavenly One, the heavenly patterns. 619|00:58:45|680|00:58:51|280And this is even beyond the elevated human consciousness. 620|00:58:51|580|00:58:59|020Whatever we are as an archetype—and maybe that's found not only on the monadic plane but on the Logoic plane— 621|00:58:59|020|00:59:11|760whatever we are as an archetype, Uranus will reveal that: our ultimate, the ultimate seed of the spirit, 622|00:59:12|400|00:59:19|800the will to unfold the purpose which we are, and the purpose is our identity. Uranus seems to govern that. 623|00:59:20|640|00:59:29|780And for this reason, then says the Tibetan, Uranus is exalted in this sign and assumes a position of power and directed influence. 624|00:59:29|900|00:59:36|240So if you are a Scorpionic type, Uranus is very strong. And simply by being on the fixed cross, 625|00:59:36|440|00:59:45|260he did bring in the rulerships of the various elements of the fixed cross, but he didn't bring in the exalted planets, 626|00:59:45|260|00:59:55|680which in the case of Taurus is the moon with its fourth ray and many other rays. 627|00:59:56|480|01:00:04|560In the case of Leo, well, there is no exaltation in Leo. 628|01:00:05|800|01:00:12|260In Scorpio it's Uranus, and in Aquarius, well, again, no exaltation. 629|01:00:12|260|01:00:21|280No exaltation in Aquarius, Leo. Although some have said that Mercury is to be considered the exalted planet in Leo. 630|01:00:21|520|01:00:22|520Some have said so. 631|01:00:25|020|01:00:32|860People in astrology, they say many things, and time remains for us to prove them or not. 632|01:00:32|860|01:00:46|500Well, okay, so we've come now to page 225, and this is the end of esoteric astrology adventure number 79, section D, page 225, 633|01:00:46|500|01:00:54|640and I'll see whether this is quite long enough to try to produce a program with, or whether I'll go on and do one more. 634|01:00:57|200|01:01:06|500But four hours have been spent in this program, and I think Brett will divide them in such a way that they become more accessible 635|01:01:06|500|01:01:10|060and your downloading time is like not forever. 636|01:01:10|680|01:01:11|880But let us see, let us see.