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Who are am I ? .. there is no one answer to that .. yet they are all assemelbed in that one self and one soul .. astrology is a guide to that answer . If you are into the path .. the path of humble learning .. let’s the star guide us through the vast desert of ourselves ..
Photo credit goes to : Adam Sawyer
Spring Equinox 2018, Libra full moon …
Greeting as we enter The Aries Season, a new solar cycle marked with the Spring , moving from the mutable Water Fish , which represents our feet , to the head and the Ram.
A whole cycle that ended with unconditional love lesson , purging our emotions, testing our pschye and letting out our tears and emotions and paint big whirled dreams, releasing it the energy and having our feet touching the ground, with the whole body map laid on it where the earth in us and the ground try to connect , and the cycle continues where the Devine Spark in our brain, as Aries kicks in with the intuition of that was stored from the past and where another layer of the reflex arc can be felt, and a journey of integration and learning.
Aries, the ram the sign that investigates the self and its impulses, a cardinal known for its rash quick spontaneous flare, the child in us that tries to learn, that has enough courage to stand for what it feels, yet perhaps a bit selfish as it needs always to learn to be tamed, and the best remedy for the balance of the self is the other, that you can see right away when you consider its polarity in Libra where the polarity in balance seems to be the first and far important lesson the self to learn. The Aries Libra and the balance of that scale is representing the first polarity of the cardinal axis from a solar perspective, one can see how the self is in a relationship with its own self through others in order to learn and grow. A lesson that requires a lot of discipline integration and patience.
The first on the solar wheel, and the first of the fire elements. It reminds us with the spark through which man learnt that trees can also be the source of fire and heat. Fire grows between us and plants in a mystical link of breathing from each other and burning the energy internally recycling and brining it out to follow its course.
Suret 36 Ya Sin , Verse “Sign” 80
“He who made for you from the green tree, fire, and then from it you ignite.”
This year the Aries season is starting with a correspondence to the Seventh month of the Lunar wheel of the Hijri calendar, which is one of the Four sacred months. Both the first and the seventh month are considered sacred on the Hijri Calendar, Hijra corresponds to something similar to the Exodus in the Old Testament.
The seventh lunar month in Islam is also marked with the night ascension journey, is it a surprise that it’s linked to the seventh month , not really.
This correspondence of Rajab and spring ingress shall be witnessed again in another 30 years cycle . This along with Easter and the Passover … we are having a very specific energy that brings each on their path to celebrate a transition of spiritual metamorphoses.
As a Muslim scholar I like to point out some of the mysticism usually not that much mentioned or considered in the spiritual teachings found around in Islam… yet The Islamic sacred months have a lot of teachings in them, exoteric and esoteric ones, where the teachings put a certain discipline pointing us towards the axis of the One and Seven . For instance in the Four sacred months one is to avoid any form of violence and to practice a strict discipline of Peaceful Justice with oneself and the others as all that is done to the others shall be reflected on the self in a double fold …
Any injustice or form of aggression even minute is to be discarded and the person needs to tame their impulse .. unless if there is a major life threatening attack where then the defense is legit .. but one needs to know if a certain form of injustice occur to believe that the harm and injustice is upon themselves … where the other is extended to be a form of reflection of how one learns to deal with him/ herself .
The other two months refer to the traveling or path to Pilgrimage is intended hopefully later we can get to path thru that ..
The One and The Seven , The Aries – Libra, The Mars – Venus, The Fire and Air, The Self and its Twin axis can be seen in a very mystical doctrine where the energies gifted follows a series of behavioral discipline that expands ones awareness to realize that what ever we are taught is all coming from the One and one great lesson of wisdom is given that educates the self to align. Knowing that the other is another manifestation with your internal doctrine towards yourself.
The realm of the seen and the unseen meet visually and interact and their contract brings one to learn to tame the self.
This year we are having a solar and lunar event that brings our attention to this energy where we start with the Aries Martian impulsive self to be tamed in a month of nurturing the other .
One can see this year solar year to start with the lesson of patience and justice in a Devine lesson of purity and cleansing.
Peace and Light
A beautiful mental escapade where two sit and listen to the sounds of birds and wonder how to fill the other with the beauty it can see from within.
As Venus goes home in libra, we can get this chance to explore its qualities as we speak and align to one of the most controversial planets in our solar system. Why is it controversial and what is Venus ? Let’s dig in…
A planet that is known to rule two signs Taurus in earth element and the second house and libra in air element or the seventh house. A fixed and cardinal sign that mitigate the pole of our ascendant and a cardinal point that holds union and our relationship to the other or to the self and the second house that rules our desires and values. And from here we can take a leap to define what Venus is. Venus is our values and what do we value more than love, matter, ideas, relationships, harmony , sensuality, and art. The throats and words spoken may be articulated by mercury but if Venus doesn’t give it the crown the words shall lack the just recepir to make it penetrate to the heart of others, Venus is tightly linked to mercury , it either precedes it or follows it , a link that is very important to track to understand the layers of Venus. Venus stands as a companion to the self in laying the structures of values through which the self is expressed in its Taurus earthy tone , a desire that correlates to the beauty of the earth from food to trees to earthly beauty of gems and sensuality , the color of those desires set our belief system of what we want and desire in this life , upon which mercury in Gemini or third house brings them to be channeled and to be articulated out those , thus venus is like a corner stone for mercury to build its set of rules or impulse then venus joins mercury again but on a later stage where mercury leaves Virgo towards the refinement of the mind, cause a soul is not a mind, a soul has its tools of thinking but a blissful reminder that we are more than a mind where a heart and need for others still exist. Here comes Venus in libra, where Venus has just moved in, Venus in libra longs for the other and that relationship that can make the mind reach its best use by knowing how to reach out to build the link with others, the words are important cause venus has mastered that and needs to put it out in its best use, where the beauty of the mind can be tamed when the mind stops to feel how little it can also know when it stands to see how it’s can learn from others and from linking oneself to their core self, venus in libra shows the tenderness in refining our expression towards a desire where mercury knows it is never the smartest if it’s the harshest, nor are we existing in a reality where the others don’t count and need to be approached with a constructive way to our basic need where the others find interest in fulfilling our needs. Venus in libra is diplomatic and thoughtful , care for what is fair and just putting itself on the altar maybe too much self altering until the experience of internal union is acquired. Maybe seen as an energy pleasing manipulative , don’t underestimate the power of the scale to shift as it keeps shifting in order for venus to present the challenges of the energy .
You are probably aware or used to the concept of Astrological signs, or Sun signs in some form or another, perhaps also you already know by now the meaning of the natal chart, which is the celestial map at the time of your birth through which you can trace your sun sign, moon sign and the signs of the rest of the planetary bodies at the time of your birth and their interaction together which is known as aspects.
The natal chart has also another section which is more personal and specifically determined by knowing the exact time of your birth by hour, minute and you are supposed to go to as exact as possible as minutes can cause variation, and the exact location. By this information the ascendant or the rising sign is determined and the section cutting the circle to houses gets laid and it carries your personal map. The first house gets assigned as the rising sign, or the first house.
But what are these houses and what do they relate to and why are they important?
First the houses are considered specific because it takes in consideration the natal placement on earth and set the latitude which is the factor of space along with time in drawing the house wheel, making the circle division according to the earth’s rotation around its own axis for the 24 hours of the day.
So here there is a wheel that combines the celestial general to the natal or personal setting the directions by dividing the wheel by two lines, one representing the equator which is horizontal, the other is the vertical called the meridian, the line of the horizontal marks the ascendant which lies on the east side, exactly at the point equivalent to 9 clock on the watch, and right across it lie the descendant at the correspondence to the west direction equivalent to 3 o clock on the watch. The other line rise from the bottom of the chart representing the south at a point called the Nadir linking it to the North or highest point on the chart which corresponds to the Midheaven.
Now the section of separation of the houses is not always as exact as the signs which corresponds of thirty degrees, while the houses take in consideration the placement of the earth thus changes in the size of the houses is quite common.
There are twelve houses in the wheel, corresponding to the twelve signs and their ruler ship, thus the first house corresponds to Aries and is ruled by Mars, Second house Taurus and ruled by Venus and so forth.
Now the house of each sign carries the signature of its sign however its manifestation is different, for instance I shall pick here the forth house, which is the one corresponding to Cancer as a sign and the moon as its planetary ruler ship. The house in the chart represents the area of the life related to the archetype of Cancer which is the home, at the early stage of life and at the end stage of life, also it represents the psychological make up the person requires as the moon/cancer holds the reactions, and emotions, along with the mother energy and the space we go for and find security and stability which is our home. Thus the forth house and what it holds has this energy and the planets involved if they occur in this house they are affected by this energy as well since they would be located in it. Here we can see that the house holds the psychological and the yin area of the sign where it is activated by the way we engage with it and thus becomes part of our personal makeup.
The reason why the house behaves this way is due to the integration of the day and night in the chart, since the 24 hours of the day holds 12 hours in day time ruled by the Sun and 12 hours of night time ruled by the Moon which means more integration of life force energy and layers in our understanding making this chart more private and more inclusive. The moon is the fastest celestial body and in calculating the moon sign the time of birth can also cause a great change especially if the moon happens by the end or the beginning of a sign, as its cycle takes around 2 and half days approx. in each sign.
This already bring the moon to ask us to go more private and deeper to enter the dark dimension of the feminine and psychological breakdown of the natal and also of the signs house. Dividing the chart to include both as equal factors allow us also to locate the night and day in the chart, the personal and the psychological, showing us also pointers of our ascension and north point through which we grow.
When dealing with a house you get introduced with the psychological or darker realm, the inner built up, the needs and requirements and its relation to us and its various areas of manifestation.
So many can be seen when we go deeper and personal and astrology is a mystic art, it brings the obvious and the disclosed together. It gives us pointers to our inner self, I personally find the houses as a tool for the inner dynamic rather than a way of prediction as I am not a fan or any sort of predictive astrology. Astrology is a tool to look inward in order to look better on the outward. A way to integrate more of ourselves as a being responding to earth and sky all in the same way.
It’s usually quite easy to relate to the sun in the natal chart since it is how we are seeing ourselves and how we present ourselves in this world, however not always how we see ourselves is actually corresponding to who we are, the inner dynamics and whatever is concealed in you is hugely corresponding to your moon sign.
Now also lets not oversimplify matters as we are still bigger than just one placement no matter how important it is, let’s say the moon can tell us a lot about how we react to the world and since many of our actions happen to be form of a reaction then the moon happen to guide a big chunk of how we integrate ourselves in this reality.
The moon or the second luminary is the second ruler of our manifested life, since we live in a day time and a night time , however the moon in life is also as the moon in the chart , it doesn’t omit the light, it just happens to reflect it back to us in a rotation that is directly specific to the earth. Unlike the sun around which we revolve, the moon is revolving around us, yet don’t be mislead by feeling it as a follower, it is quite the passive pole to the sun , it is feminine and rules the forth house, which is a cardinal house and cardinals are initiators.
Some argue that the moon is our satellite, I personally see it as our soft drive , the moon is an absorber and a reflector , it reflects light and with that it also absorbs and stores feelings and memories. The moon as a forth house marks the Phase a around which we start to store in a memory of the events happening around us, to use them as a reference to center ourselves and react upon , making the moon the natural ruler of the sign of cancer, thus the moodiness of cancer is explained.
The absorbs all the energies around internalizing it in our memory and subconscious . We live in a duality however we rarely both of our activities . At the day when the sun is out we are brought to interact with life and create ourselves with actions, in order to present our deeds, it’s a vital time as the sun is masculine and motivating our actions and our ego. Then the night comes and our activities grow melancholic for the need to rest and sleep and from there we travel to the moon realm where our subconscious takes the lead to initiate dreams, storing all our new experiences and channeling us back to the source, there you are as a human where the ego is subsidizing and the subconscious is integrating itself through your feelings and through these feelings it shall communicate back to you and to the world in form or reactions.
If you ever grew with a pet you will see that the kitty or puppy when introduced with a new toy at night they will dream of it and if your attentive you can catch them mimicking the action while in their dream. Now this toy is integrated and their reaction to it is stored. And thru this storage they shall react next time while meeting the same toy as the lesson is learnt.
The same way the subconscious of a human works, storing events and attaching feelings right from the very first day , however not all of that you are conscious of or can easily access as the accumulation of patterns weaves the inner identity if who you are. Many of the obstacles we meet is created by our subconscious to repeat a pattern for its validation or alteration however not until you can access you can bring your subconscious conscious then you can start to adjust your reactions , and that’s why accessing your moon and integrating it is quite vital for your integration and nurturing. The moon is the a representative of the mother, Gaia, that is mostly water as we are as humans , the water is directly affected by the moon as her ruler, and you can see that through the tides and through our body in terms of emotions and hormones, this cycle is a lunar guided cycle as we are always reminded that we are here to give our best self by watching out for ourselves, our emotions and interactions is one of our biggest quest to learn to handle and to also channel.
The moon has the fastest cycle it travels the whole zodiac each month teaching us to let go and flow , teaching us the inner dynamics of the zodiac each month so we learn to integrate them all and ourselves as whole.
The sign , house and aspect of the natal moon are all to be considered when learning about it, from there you can start to watch your instinctual reactions and how you can upgrade and channel yourself in a nurtured way, it’s a pretty psychic realm as sleep is and as water is essentially a psychic of absorbing nature.
Paying attention to your moon as in knowing how to nurture yourself through your moon placement can be a great uplift to many psychological and emotional drainage, thus if you are not that much into astrology I highly advise you to be a little concerned with your moon , at the end astrology can be of service as a tool for healing through better understanding of ourselves and unlocking our potential powers .
This is not all what the moon is about but just a general sketch of what the moon s significance in the chart , more is to be said hopefully and we can get through the moon signs and placements , phases and cycle .
Astrology is a vast realm but so are we
Whatever that happened can happen again but in reverse …
Old fashioned as I am I shall be using some of the original rulership for the sake of this sign , libra , the scale.
From the day humanity started integrating the belief of life after death and we see its relationship to what is called the judgment day, you can find it depicted in the pharaonic papyrus and decorating tombs where the scale is rise and duality of deities standing as pillars for the final call , whether the soul shall pass or not is the matter of the deeds carried out and stored in the heart. That can not be anything than the role of the scale in the chart of life .
This the sign of weaving patterns, the indecisive libra that would swing along the pendulum right and left , left and right, verse and reverse.
The earth and air terrain as much as they share reality of closeness, they also happen to share similarity in their decands with the exception of the planetary upgrade of Aquarius that changed its day rulership to Uranus and thus any aquarian manifestation is now ascribed to Uranus , however back in the old time it was Saturn and that made the earth and air decands consisting of the same planetary composition yet with a different sequence of manifestation , except for the Virgo libra axis which hold a sense of mirroring hard to dismiss especially with the old rulership . This doesn’t come as a surprise as you get to investigate the Virgo archetype and the libra one . Virgo the seeker of perfection through the investigation of the details , holds the yin and yang of the earth terrain with its saturnian inner balance , a true worker in the web of reality assimilating mercury and Venus in our earthly manifestation. In constellation of Virgo was found Astraea or the goddess of innocence in Greek mythology, she was daughter of the Titans Astraeus, god of dusk, and Eos, goddess of dawn. Her mythology goes to summarize the quest of Virgo and she is said to have been assigned in the constellation of Virgo to set the scale of libra . Her name meant “star-maiden” and she was said to have stayed on earth along with humans during the Golden Age of Man. A time where man was living in his best form however When the Iron Age dawned, bringing along misery and the foul human traits , Astraea fled this world to the skies as she couldn’t handle the pain of seeing the human ugliness corrupting this world , this she was assigned justice and here comes the libra scale . The scale and duality of the ugly and beauty , the dark and light as the dark of man had been enacted out and we are all meant to dwell in this duality of manifestation .
This myth of Astraea and its presence linking the Virgo libra traits , brining the essence of perfection quest to the external and internal realm. Brining them also to align, as the above can show the below and below is similar to the above . The intentions with the deed, the balance of the heart and mind , self and soul.
This journey has Virgo with mercury Saturn venus , to follow Air venus Saturn ( Uranus ) air mercury if the chart to close its hemisphere this would be the link to the most direct ascension of manifestation from an earthly venus to an air venus and so with mercury Earth mercury and air mercury . Both signs hold mercury and venus rulership and Saturn in between or Capricorn Aquarius where Saturn once shifted cloak to pass from the earth to link of outer space , and still does but in the shades of the darkness it passes its wisdom this time against the laws of time , going beyond the earthly time to make himself the link of all that needs to pass to man.
The beauty of Astraea is that it gives us the link of succession to on of the highest quests of our hearts , it guides the nurturing Virgo to its highest goals to the quest of balance where the internal voice of judgment is laid there by Saturn to perfect the blending of the heart and mind .
When we usually get to relate to the ascendant, we immediately link it to the moment when a person is born, where we get to hand in our soul contract. Right in front of the ascendant or the rising point lies the descendant point occupying the seventh house.
This form of initiation does not happen in one form of manifestation, in fact manifestation follows a pattern just as anything else in this universe, as above so below, as below so above , our first spark of existence happens in a sacred union where an egg is penetrated by a sperm. An act of courtship might have proceeded, a relation between a man and a woman whether physical or not yet the two entities existed to create the polarity and their union in a womb results in a first spark of physical creation through out which a fetus is growing amid water and liquids as we all are created in a water vessel, reaching our growth by the seventh month and it’s completion to be expelled by the ninth where you are brought to restart again from another phase of initiation and back to the first house.
The four cardinal pillars tracing the chart from ascendant in first house to the nadir or the fourth house then the descendant or the seventh house then back up to the tenth mid heaven .
When the spark of initiation happens on the moment where the Martian sperm penetrates the egg, to carry us by the forth house where the water cancer or the moon is initiated in the fetus where it is said the child receives his soul, to continue internally growing and then a kick of perfection is sought by the seventh house that is only completed by the ninth month, the restart has a similar pattern with a different time span , where a child is born and not until fourth year that a child starts to recollect memory , an activation for the subconscious occurs to carry us till the seventh house where a child passes his teenage years to start craving intimacy and partnership, the same act of craving that had him started in the first place. And here comes the descendant. In The descendant or the seventh house lies the need that can bring union between the heart and mind, self and soul, yin and yang, the balance that is between them is pursued by an act of discipline thus Saturn happens to be exalted there, the seven year stations along the cycle is a clear sign of how important this seventh pillar is as it has the Saturn the father of time to set the work with his pace to the whole wheel making the seventh point to be of an ultimate layered placement. Bringing ascension to the descendant point, and the seventh chakra to align the self, and the union that is followed by death and rebirth of another phase.
Where Saturn lies in exaltation, the sun is exalted in its face , the action and the collector of deeds, setting the symmetry of the conscious phase, with mars and Venus rulership putting the pillars of the scale values or desires and drive or will. And in the center of this lies the soul to process all this , these two Venus and mars or Saturn and sun , lie the quest or the homework we face. Will the drive be consistent with the vessel or actions bringing them to be aligned , and the values can they dig deeper to follow the pace of Saturn . A very hard lesson , watching oneself in our actions and putting our values to the test of time , that balance or scale and it’s point of descendant can bring us the manifestation of the ultimate desired other or the enemy that shall bring the worst of us. Everything can happen in this house and not until we learn to internally face it that we grasp the meaning of life. Any planet in this house is a sort of an impact onto your relationships and onto yourself. You can only learn to handle its external energy when you dig deeper through your subconscious and access your moon to find the soul need as the seventh house is the forth house of the nadir thus it’s another form of need a subconscious need to be met to bring us to the mid heaven pillar where up north we try to access to reach a higher plane within ourselves.
*Photo credit to” Creation-de-toni-carmine-salerno”
*This article is the second sequence following the axis of the Virgo third decand.
The Virgo/ Pisces axis or the Initiation axis…
Right across the axis of the sixth and seventh, comes the 12 th and first house axis and here we get to see the mirroring of the venus earth / venus air union and merge in the house of the merging , Pisces the Higher octave of Venus and holds the soul/self-initiation.. it’s a point where the two octaves of the desires meet right across to the point of earth and heat desires of Venus .
Why is there is this link and what does it show us?
Now Mars is the planet of the earthly desire sparked into action thus it is represented as in form of Will, what we fight for and what we want and since its associated with action and fire and it rules the First house through which we ascend and rise, a spark of desire to live and accomplish and its associated with the Self.
Venus on the other hand holds the values or the desire of the heart as in terms of living …eating, stability, sensuality we all live on this earth to experience the desires of earthly Venus and trying to find the air Venus from union ship, ideas, beauty and art. That desire for love and harmony along with the call for the soul mate or soul union, point directly to the Pluto / Mars axis where the two octaves of Desire meet, the will or the self and the Soul.
The Pisces decants are amazingly orchestrated to hold union between Neptune and its unconditional love, the Moon in between right to balance the axis of Saturn in the middle Decant of Virgo ( notice Moon or forth house is the polar axis of the 10 th house of Saturn) the other other line of the cross holding the line between south and north , earth and heaven, home and public and back to the final home. And right after the moon starts the last decand of Pisces the Pluto decand that assimilates and integrates this cycle and gives the spark for the mars to ascend back since the chart is round and swirling is what we do, giving back the secrets learnt as pluto is the best keeper of that, whispering the soul desire for the mars to initiate right with childish self, innocent to begin as it must forget to experience otherwise it shall not go forward , as we are meant to forget to carry on, we are meant to sleep to wake up, we are meant to clear the conscious and allow the subconscious to hold the luggage so we can carry on with a clear head to what’s to come.
It’s an axis that shows the axis of transcendence, the moment where we start to hold in a secret place the soul desire that years to complete its round, aligning Pluto/ Mars with the Venuses or back before Pluto was to us the Double Mars with the Double Venus, the Water /Fire Mars (water from where we come, Fire is what we are) to the Earth/ Air manifestation on which Mars is to carry out its role.
Aligning the Venusian dream in the deepest part of our heart can bring us the union of the self and soul as we access the seventh sign of the seventh chakra. Union of the self, Union here aligns the opposite to a naught where is the point of clearance all ancient teachings ask us to reach. Seeing the other in us manifested and lent to others, rising with a soul contract that is the ascendant that points to the Descendant cause for every rise there is a fall and for every fall there is a rise, we switch and turn in a flow where the two dimensions unfold to the third with the quest of time that Saturn holds and the moon stores.
As we are experiencing right now a lot of Virgo energy in the air , moon and Venus shall also unite soon , sun to leave the sign in a week to join libra , I personally found this moment to be a great chance to go much in details with the sign of Virgo as it is it’s message to look closely analytically and not to dismiss a thing, and since the signs show themselves in many ways I decided I take a look in the Virgo decands and specifically it’s last final decant that takes the leap the energy to join the leap of soul initiation.
But let’s start with explaining what is a decand and what it represents, basically each sign has a ruling planet and house and element, now the element here is our link , let’s take for example Virgo, it is the 6 th sign of the zodiac so it’s linked to the sixth house and it is ruled by Mercury as a planet , it is mutable and it is an earth element sign.
Why are elements important? Elements is life and the manifestation of energy is its basics language , a denser element has characteristics relating it to its form of manifestation, now without getting too much into physics lets go back to the zodiac and look for what elements represent in this language and manifestation.
The four elements are water, earth, air, fire.
Each element holds three signs joining in its characteristics expressing it in different way, whether cardinal , mutual or fixed.
Now the earth element has three signs representing it, capricorn for cardinal, Virgo for mutual and Taurus for fixed.
Now in each sign as the above is as the below , the three planets of ruler ship join together to rule through decands the sign ,where the thirty degrees of each sign is divided into three tens and each ten holds rulership of the planet that shares the same element . In this case Virgo will have Mercury as it starts with, then Saturn for capricorn and then Venus for Tuarus.
Now I would like to travel thru this manifestation and mediate its lessons as we are here talking about a sign that ends a cycle and it takes us to the next cycle , don’t try to limit the cycles to be turned on a one manifestation where the outer cycle of spring and summer is always as is, since the outer is also inner if you just flip across the hemisphere and for that flip we are to learn that the cycle continue turning and each axis is both , the cycle of the sixth house to make it respire sensitive to the summer final harvest is another harvesting of a self growth that takes a leap to the soulful inner realm and it shows us the link of what lies to its polar opposite Pisces Aries , where the finish and another start is also there.
What are we to start and what are we to harvest , well Virgo is a good teacher through details so I ll follow the details of its first and last decand, mercury and Venus , and what are they, the mind and heart if we can simply put them , the what is said and that what is felt and in between lies Saturn to teach and to ground, remember we are here in an earthly realm and we are as humans as such, earthly beings trying to communicate and love meanwhile growth occurs.
But here Saturn the teacher of time makes us plant our words with deeds and our feelings with service , making the Venusian earthly beauty that the earth speaks appear in its best form of representation the mother, and spicia in the constellation of Virgo can show us that, the Venus ends the decands and the sixth house is to turn the wheel to initiate the seventh house of libra and here for the only time on the wheel the two Venusian manifestations meet, earth and air, in the song of balance 😉 , it’s a beautiful manifestation that leads us again to Pisces axis that tells us that it’s all about love, the neptunium teacher is sitting right there across to point it out in its 12 th house axis a formation of a trinity number that is again part of the puzzle and an answer in itself, the third dimension we live in, and the message of the heart that we are here to express in all it’s forms and to upgrade, Virgo has just spoke the words that the heart is to express and to manifest , with its nurturing to the earth as our mother and us as her mother on a metaphysical realm, taking care of what she holds and taking more care of what we express , as the Venus air shall fly the word into the air to communicate the love and the union it yearns for .
So much lessons these decands can show us and for that they also exist
A person is born at a certain moment in a certain place, this moment of time and space holds a reflection of events none can know but starting from this moment this soul is being reflected and is reflecting back into the events of life. One of the first and most binding and reflective occurrences is the celestial imprint that marks the above map to the below existence.
Thus when a person is to reflect on astrology and its relevance for himself it can only be incorporated when the whole map is seen and integrated, only then astrological reference can be valid and enough to encompass and to reflect the complexity of the being born.
However as a map like all maps, it is meant to explore our soul evolution and the energies intertwined to direct us to our destination and here I insist to make the difference between destination and destiny. Consider any map of treasure hunt that is filled with tools of help and obstacles to overcome and put there to upgrade your understanding of the game and to make the final grand arrival worthy to the worthy.
The tests has patterns for clues, points of inspiration and help since you are not in a maze to be lost but rather on a path to be found. Your faith, endurance, flexibility to learn and fixation to arrive are your mantras that are designed to repeat along when the going gets tough.
By the final ascension or integration you shall find yourself stopping to harness the tools of each color shifting between the duality until we are all transparent. The kick start is a cardinal point setting your celestial axis to finally reach up north to your Midheaven and then plant the seeds to integrate and dissolve.
So what is this Midheaven point or MC as known?
Midheaven is the 10th house on the wheel, the point that directs north from the place and time of your birth, on its east is your ascendant showing the moment of your birth and soul contract signature. Right across the midheaven stands the Nadir or the IC, the base or the home, corresponding to the forth house or Cancer, ruled by the moon and it has the psychological imprint that is laid by your early childhood and the spiral goes to also indicate your retirement or final home. Rising up to the second pillar across this cross , right infront of the ascendant is your descendant the seventh mystical house, ruled by the sign of Libra, the sign of balance, that binds the self with the inner self, the person and their “other”, and the deepest need that runs to merge or unite . A need to counter the rising sign, looking for its balance and its completion. This point can make us go searching for those inner qualities in others or they maybe presented to us in form of partners as the soul needs to integrate its rising and its set.
But for now let us bring out focus to the very much deserted vital axis of the Nadir and Midheaven.
As mentioned earlier the Nadir shows us that all points on the wheel are to be revisited and to be grown, not in a vicious circle but in an evolutionary spiral whirl, the Nadir as a start is the psychological make up that is constructed by our early childhood played by the mother and the moon where our memories are stored, this point holds the key that guides us to our assessment and leads us to push ourselves to grow to an older self that can overcome and integrate all that has been planted, heading up north to the midheaven your life vocation or the area where your soul along with self needs to rise, it is constructed as the 10 th house is the master of construction and slowly build with concrete foundation to what this whole wheel is designed to be. It holds the quest of Saturn, the Lord of Karma and its timeless tests , the great benefactor after harsh endurance, the point where all those assimilated lessons integrate to end the lessons of the first nine houses, and for that reason Nine happens to be the last sole number or our last unit number, as from there we are to restart with ourselves again and again but as a whole , making this point one of the most important destinations and houses to integrate in order to truly activate our chart and rise over and over again with a illuminated head and self , as we realize the powers of each house along the way.
It is the end point where a person stops working on themselves by showing their final master piece to the world for it to be in use, the sign that sits on it and the planets that join there are your clues, and from there you start to be of service to pave a peaceful way back to the Nadir after claiming yourself in the outside world , to return back with those lessons and what you build from work and soul service to back your home, the final home. It is the house of the deeds and for that Capricon is set to be Cardinal and for that Saturn lies as the final visible planet to remind us where we are meant to reach. And as Saturn is slow to unfold , so is the midheaven… however fail this house and test and all your work shall go in vain… as nothing planted in life and no work or outlet is given to your energy to guarantee that the wheel and cycle has a base. This house teaches us just as Capricorn that humility of service is the key, bending the knees and starting from the very beginning just as a disciplined goat, regardless of all that has been build and gained, humility to learn and be a tool of service sacrificed to humanity and others. And if you like to pass to theology you can think of that goat as the Great Goat that leads to the Ram (Aries , ascendant ) of Ibrhaim to be sacrificed to rescue and serve.
The Goat to be sacrificed here is the self, that has been able to reach the skies and the Devine with its head and great philosophies of life and after life, that can only be put to its final test as a worthy being of all that it has seen and learnt and put itself as a small little goat to restart the dance knowing that the destination is up and it shall be only accessed in a gang.
“Chapter (20) sūret tã hã;
✨ From the earth We created you, and into it We will return you, and from it We will extract you another time. <55> ”
Genesis 22: 9-12
“Abraham looked around. He saw a ram in the bushes. God had given the ram for the Sacrifice. Abraham sacrificed the ram on the altar”
Gensis 22: 16-18
“Abraham and Issac went home. Abraham had obeyed God. He was willing to let his son die.”
2+2 (4) , 1+6 (7) , 1+8 (9) , (4+7+9) >10
As you are rising from earth as the center plane , arrive up to the north another earth element metaphysical plane (5+5) 10 , and from there you are planeted to return rise again and again .
If one cares to understand what is a birth chart, I advise you to look at any clock or watch around, not the digital one but the circular one, where you shall find 12 numbers with the number 12 at its top, a starting and end point to the marking of the day, a cycle that mirrors our life and our natal chart.
Each number in this clock is linked to a house that represents a sign, with its planetary ruler ship, your natal chart is your own constructed celestial map where each number , hour, minute, second counts and has a meaning that leads back to your existence and evolution.
Having said this, now let’s observe the 12 o’clock, or the twelfth house, if you ever wondered why the day ends with 12 oclock instead of 3 o’clock here is the reason and it is an astrological answer as 12 o’clock or 12th house is the house of Pisces, representing the end of the astrological cycle , and natal wheel.
Your rising or ascendant is your house number one, or first house, where the soul grabs its contract and unfold the compartments of your journey and life. You take the lesson of each house and ascend until you reach the 12th house, where it joins again with the first house mirrored by your watching ending a cycle of a day and night, to make a full yin and yang where both becomes a day.
The 12 th house is the counter part of the sixth house where the personal cycle ends and the soul cycle begins, and with the 12 th the soul cycle ends and an initiation of the self begins, as long as we are, making the 12th house the house of full integration of a wheel , the house that lead to the assimilation and full integration that leads us to the One. It’s the house of reincarnation passage, the numerology of it is mystical since it involves the law of trinity (12: 1+2=3). The three folds of dimensions , the lesson of One of Aries , bringing it to its duality in Libra by its opposite sign , where the yin meets the yang and the self meets itself in everyone to reach the one.
Nothing is one layered as existence is multiversed in our reality in so many way, and to see the above look deeper below.
The 12th mystical house is the house of mystery, the psychic , the one that brings the lesson of unconditional love, if you travel from the 7th house the meaning of the house becomes an inner work as much as an outer manifestation, where the the 7th brings you to your full integration to reach down to your soul partnership, and on that encounter metamorphosis has to happen with death and rebirth of an integrated being reaching out to the ninth house where you travel and run wild reaching for the missing part of the equation, since the two misses the one, and they need to be one, so they look above for the One trying to reach it, bringing the lessons of the anima and animus , the horse and the man raging their journey to the outer world for divinity, where Jupiter rules, and here Jupiter faces its question when finding the truth, it will have to take its lessons and bow down to build from scratch but this time what will it do with what it learnt as the self can present itself to the world in another form of 1 which is the 10th. A one that knows itself to be not a full one without the naught, and searches to bring another one in form of infinite ones by the lesson of the 11th house, reaching everyone as a unique one among other ones, bringing the naught of the 10th to a one by its recognition and connection.
And the alchemical reaction occurs and we learn we can only reach out to souls in forms of one that integrates us as a whole, and the 12th occur.
The secret of the 12 th lies in in a very simple lesson that is the core of our lessons and existence, in this third dimension , the 12 th has its day ruler Neptune, and night Ruler Jupiter. Neptune the higher octave of Venus and Jupiter the Devine father and first sun, Venus is 2 and 7, while Jupiter is 9.
Neptune exalted in Leo and Jupiter in Cancer , Leo ruled by the Sun and Cancer ruled by the Moon, the two celestial beings that do not retrograde, so it this third dimension life.
If the 12 h house is to spill its secrets it shall tell you to look to the sun and moon, where the actions come from the heart and the reactions come from the psychic thread linking us all to what can only be of a meaning in this life to the soul , which is the highest form of Love, thus the One.
Now step consciously in each of your house to collect what you need, use the signs, and let the sign lead you to your full self which is never integrated until you integrate your role in the 10 and bring it out to the water bearer Aquarius (Saturn and Uranus) where you stand with your foundation in service to humanity but not with your mind as no matter where it reaches it shall not top the energy of the heart , the divine heart .
Obsidian Astrology 