ESSENTIAL DIGNITY PART
2
Another point that is often
argued, in the disrupting of the principles of essential dignity and debility,
concerns the planets discovered beyond the orbit of Saturn[11].
The events of their discovery have been believed by
many modern (and ironically dated) astrologers, to throw the ancient tradition
of dual rulership, therefore the process of essential dignity and debility, into
complete disarray (not to mention also capturing the naivety of
sceptics).
As a transpersonal planet becomes
declared the modern ‘lord’ of one sign, note the loss of the important dual
awareness. Therefore it is
suggested that it is a mistake to fulfil the compulsion to ‘have to’ fit the new
planets into the model of dignity that was already existent. This appears to
dishonour the astrological heritage of the Art, in addition to not honouring
these ‘new’ planets for what they may be in their own astrological
right.
These three contemporary
astrological archetypes, which do offer a progression of symbolic skill and such
like, are seen to be ‘stuffed’[12] back into a model that requires no such addition, rather
than applied as the obvious enhancements that they are.
It seems that these outer celestial
bodies may have a further philosophical and figurative understanding that is
calling for reconsideration. For
instance, even an ‘outer’ astrological archetype may have its own essentially
‘yin’ or ‘yang’ form of basic expression, as the principle of duality may
attest[13]. It is not that the transpersonal planets
are ineffective, or ‘wrong’, in their functions as astrological chart
components.
It is just that they
are apparently displaced in their use, when said to ‘rule’ any sign, as it is a
different relationship to the signs that is inferred. If anything, it
comes down to semantic points, which seems to belie the point of a deeper
philosophic regard that truly requires the
consideration.
Perhaps
it is that the trans-Saturnian bodies have what may be called an ‘affinity, or
‘resonance’ with a sign, or classes of signs, however this is not necessarily
via the model concerning the traditional planets and the same philosophic
mechanisms of essential
dignity.
To date in natal astrology, Uranus has
been declared to ‘rule’ Aquarius and its original lord, Saturn, becomes
‘co-ruler’, or even moot and therefore the Aquarian symbolism (sign) becomes
eventually considered as ‘Uranian’(planet). Popular astrological press[14], of the early times of modern history
appears to have assigned Uranus to the sign of Aquarius, simply as this is the
‘second’ of the Saturn-ruled signs and Uranus is the first body beyond the orbit
of Saturn.
Although superficially logical line of
reasoning, this was done prior to any consensus of understanding as to this
planets astrological nature and as noted, the sign becomes as the ‘new’
planet. The
same logic then unfolds, backward in order of orbit, into
The same outer planets have also been
‘assigned’ a variety of other domiciles, exaltations, falls, detriments, for a
plethora of creative reasoning. It
appears that, in the over-eagerness and focus of the esoteric zeitgeist of the
times that unfolded[16], some degree of historical ignorance
and loss of metaphysical nous has become a form of mystical creative bliss. Thus it is
astrology in itself that suffers, in the timbre of its elegance and integrity,
appearing to become more glamorized, stereotyped, or ‘brassy’ in its tone of
symbolism.
It cannot be
stressed enough---these ‘rulerships’ were assigned after the concept of
rulership had been largely lost.
Thus again, the suggestion is made for a philosophical/symbolic
re-visioning, in terms of this rulership debate, in the astrological
approach.
The traditional system of dual
astrological rulership honours the basic esoteric awareness of complementary and
dual principles, as the faces of the One.
Thus the energies of the masculine and the feminine, within the zodiacal
and the planetary models, may get evenly addressed and symbolically
expressed. The ancient
astrologers, alchemists and magical philosophers were always aware of the
principle of the masculine and feminine, plus the symbolic creativity of their
interrelationship.
Here the lights, as the most
important and primary of the celestial components, are each assigned, to only
one very masculine (hot/dry Leo) and one very feminine (cold/moist Cancer) of
the zodiacal archetypes.
So directly, the Sun and Moon reflect
the symbolism of the masculine and feminine principles, in brief, the
essentially creative and receptive.
Thus, in the essence of this symbolism, represented are the principles of
the ‘father’/god and ‘mother’/goddess, in the fullness of their authority. This is said to be
as, in the seasons of the northern hemisphere, the full power of natural light
is seen to peak, when the Sun is transiting the signs of Cancer and
Leo.
Accordingly, in the traditional ‘order’
of their rate of orbit, dual dignity/rulership is assigned to the remainder of
the traditional planets (those that could be viewed in the range of the naked
eye). Clearly and respectively, as
emulating the principles of the Sun and the Moon, each planet reflects a dual
familiarity to the masculine/’yang’ and feminine/’yin’ faces of expression. Note, in the preceding list of domicile rulership, all the ‘yin’
(earth/water) signs are listed on one side and the ‘yang’ (fire/air) are upon
the other.
As seen, these familiarities (or
relationship of ‘service’, between a sign and a planet) have been essentially
developed according to the nature of a holistic symbolic structure of an entire
tangible ancient solar system. When
esoteric philosophy is plumbed, the deeper nature of the correspondence is not
simply developed upon that of every sense of apparent similarity. However, it is feasible that any
appearances of similarity, when valid, are essentially stemming from that of an
actual deeper familiarity[17]. One of the hallmarks of a
universal principle is that of paradox.
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DIGNITIES
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