Planets, Lights and Angles
in Aries
Sun in Aries
1.
Major
Personality Focus:
The personality demonstrates
through driving action focussed within any one, two or all three personality
vehicles.
2.
The
“potency of the Sun of Probability”:
When Aries is the Sun-sign the probability is that the individual concerned will
be energetic, assertive and focussed upon the immediate fulfillment of his
desires and intentions. There will be a factor of ‘irresistibility’ in his
manner of wielding energy. His immoderate use of personality force may blind
him to the impacts his expression of such force is having upon others and the
environment.
3.
The
Factor of Personality Integration:
The personality will be integrated forcefully and under the command of the personal
will. Personality integration is directed from the head, and insufficient time
and space may be allowed for a true and organic integration to occur.
4.
Responsiveness
and Lack of Responsiveness to the Soul:
a. The personality will fail to
respond to the soul because of its excessively “head-strong” attitudes and its
lack of reflection before taking action prompted by desire.
b. The personality will successfully respond
to the soul through an eagerness to carry out all that is ideal and
representative of a higher life. The inherent courage conferred by the Aries
Sun-sign will make such an individual refuse to hesitate in carrying out
soul-behests, and, thus, spiritual accomplishment may be accelerated.
5.
Ego
and Ahamkara:
Those with Sun in Aries may be blind to self and others. They are so carried
away by their own ‘energetic intensity’ or by the ‘intensity of the act’ in
which they may be engaged, that they do not reflect upon the value of other
alternatives to the manner and mode of their expression. Caught up this personal
intensity, a mode of thought chiefly centered on the little self (its desires,
impulses and apparent needs) is not uncommon. Such people are ‘naively selfish’
rather than premeditatively so. Because they cannot easily stand back from the
little self, they cannot escape the overwhelming energy streams which pour
through it under the Aries influence. Only by the loyal service of something
greater does there develop sufficient perspective to free themselves from the
lower ego and its naïve self-importance.
6.
The
“Secret of the Personality Ray”:
It cannot be said that individuals having an Aries Sun-sign will necessary have
sixth or fourth ray personalities (because the orthodox and esoteric rulers of
Aries, Mars and Mercury, transmit the sixth and fourth rays respectively). Nor
can it be said that people with an Aries Sun-sign will necessarily have ray one
or ray seven personalities because the constellation Aries transmits the first
and seventh rays. Among the majority of Aries people, these rays may be probabilities,
but not certainties.
Individuals
with the Sun in Aries
Hans Christian Andersen
Bela Bartok
Charles Pierre
Baudelaire
Otto von Bismarck
Marlon Brando
Leo Buscaglia
Giovanni Casanova
Charlemagne
Ram Dass
Rene Descartes
Anthony Van Dyck
Eric Fromm
Vincent van Gogh
Francisco Goya
William Harvey
Franz
Thomas Hobbes
Henry James
Thomas Jefferson
Moses ben Maimon
Abraham Maslow
J. Pierpont Morgan
Modest Moussorgsky
Raphael
Wilhelm Reich
Wilhelm Rontgen
Dane Rudhyar
Charles P. Steinmetz
Algernon Swinburne
Arturo Toscanini
William Wordsworth
Wilbur Wright
Moon in
Aries
1.
The “Prison of
the Soul”; A Major Handicap or Limitation original within the Lunar Vehicles:
An unregulated, impulsive form life. The prison of misused, ill-directed,
unreflectively expressed personality force.
2.
A Major Fear
Originating within the Form Life:
The fear of discipline and regulation. The fear of restraint in pursuit of the
satisfaction of desire
3.
The Challenge of
a Possible Transformation and Transcendence of the Tendencies of the Lunar
Vehicles:
The major challenges presented by this position can be met by the initiatory
will to overcome the unguided tendencies of the form. The Aries Moon can
indicate (once transmutation and transformation have occurred) an immediately
soul-responsive collection of lunar vehicles, rapidly ready to ‘follow the
orders’ of the soul. The customary inertia of the lunar vehicles is easily
overcome. The lunar vehicles stand ready for rapid mobilization in the cause
of the soul.
4.
The Moon in Aries
as the Veil of Vulcan:
The Moon always veils a planet. In the case of the undeveloped man, the Moon
(in most cases) veils Vulcan, the planet of the obduracy of matter. Crude,
impulsive and unmeasured response may be expected when such a veiling is in
effect. The individual does not yet have sufficient incarnational experience to
know how to co-measure his responses in a manner appropriate to circumstance.
As a result great mistakes and blunders can occur.
5.
The Moon in Aries
as the Veil of Neptune:
When the Moon in Aries veils
6.
The Moon in Aries
as the Veil of Uranus:
The Moon in Aries veils Uranus in the charts of disciples and initiates. Such a
placement inclines towards strong initiatives to transmute and transform the
lunar nature through the agency of fire. Detachment from the emotional life is
achieved without much difficulty; the lunar life is subjected to a “new order”
to which it readily responds. Breaking from established habit patterns is a
natural tendency. At this stage of evolution, the emotions are readily
controlled by the will and mind, which both Aries and Uranus represent.
Individuals
with the Moon in Aries
Sir Francis Bacon
Cyrano de Bergerac
Sarah Bernhardt
Leonard Bernstein
Lucrezia Borgia
Marlon Brando
Robert Browning
Al Capone
Benvenuto Cellini
Michel de
Cervantes
Gaetano Donizetti
Enrico Fermi
Galileo Galilei
Bill Gates
Heinrich Himmler
Jim
Immanuel Kant
Martin Luther
Edward Bulwer Lytton
Abraham Maslow
A.A. Michelson
Mongkut
Sir Thomas More
Dr. Francis Regardie
Pierre Auguste Renoir
Maximillian Robespierre
George Sand
Albert Schweitzer
Algernon Swinburne
Rabindranath Tagore
Giuseppe Verdi
Henry VIII
Noah Webster
Duchess of
Earth in Aries
(Heliocentrically Considered)
1.
The
Earth stands for the sphere of experience” (EA 126):
Those who have the Sun in Libra have the Earth placed heliocentrically in
Aries. All astrologically impinge upon the Earth, and it is there/here that
these energies must be applied in conformity with the Divine Plan.
The Earth,
therefore, represents the field in which dharma must work out in practical
action. When
Aries qualifies the Earth position, the practical dharma should be pursued with
vigor, independence and considerable expenditure of energy. We are told that
Libran individuals are particularly effective upon the physical plane; perhaps
the energy of the Aries Earth position contributes to this effectiveness. The
Earth Represents the Base of the
The base of the spine represents
survival, endurance and the activation of that aspect of the Divine Will which
is latent in matter (kundalini). When Aries qualifies the Earth position in the
chart, the kundalini experience can be fiery, which is perhaps why Libra (where
the Sun is found when the Earth is heliocentrically placed in Aries) rules the
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2.
The
Earth Represents the Spleen and Pranic Absorption:
The Earth is presently a non-sacred
planet, and, when the seven sacred planets are assigned to the seven usual
chakras, the Earth is given an assignment in relation to the spleen. The
Sun/Earth Axis is a ‘vitality axis’ and aspects to that axis affect for good or
ill the access to and absorption of pranic vitality. Theory will reasonably
indicate that when Aries energies influence the Earth position, access to
vitality should be immediate, but expenditure may also be rapid. Aries is a
physical sign but not an “earthy” sign, and so the natural absorption of prana
may be somewhat compromised by that attitude in many Aries people which
prevents them from paying sufficient attention to the body’s natural needs. All
this will have to be researched more extensively. Certainly access to various
energies is rapid when the Sun is in Aries. It will be necessary to confirm the
degree to which this is true when the Sun is placed in Libra.
3.
A
Lesson for those with Earth in Aries:
Libran people are bent on cooperative endeavors and like to work in
partnership. Their position of Earth in Aries, however, tells them that the practicalities of dharmic task is their own responsibility,
and they cannot rely upon others to see that the dharma is fulfilled.
Individuals
with the Earth in Aries
(Heliocentrically:
Also see Sun in Libra)
Francis of
Annie Besant
Niels Bohr
Jimmy Carter
Paul Foster Case
Michel de Cervantes
S.T. Coleridge
Aleister Crowley
Dwight D Eisenhower
William Faulkner
Enrico Fermi
Mohandas K. Gandhi
George Gershwin
Martin Heidegger
Charlton Heston
Heinrich Himmler
Charles Jayne
Dr. Samuel
Marc Edmund
Timothy Leary
Franz Liszt
Bela Lugosi
Mongkut
Friedrich Nietzsche
Eleanor Roosevelt
Girolamo Savonarola
Cyril Scott
D.T. Suzuki
Margaret Thatcher
Henry V
Giuseppe Verdi
Noah Webster
Oscar Wilde
Ralph Vaughn Williams
Duchess of
Ascendant
in Aries
1. The Ascendant is the most important
directive factor in esoteric astrology:
It should
legitimately be considered the first topic of discussion, however, for the sake
of clarity, the decision has been made to discuss the two “Lights” (Sun and
Moon) first, then the six Angles (and then the planets and asteroids).
In
esoteric astrology, the meaning of the Ascendant and Sun-sign are significantly
reversed. The Ascendant becomes the indicator of spiritual approach and the
Sun-sign the indicator of the perpetuation of personality tendencies. In the
advancing disciple, Sun-sign and Ascendant energies/forces are intended to
combine, with the Sun-sign energies placed under the direction and guidance of
the spiritual-tendencies of the higher aspects of the Rising-sign. When this
happens, the personality may be integrated with the soul, and the soul will
have at its disposal a spiritually responsive personal instrument.
2. The “Sun of Possibility”:
When the Ascendant is in Aries, there exists the
possibility of an entirely new beginning and a great departure from previously
established personality trends, whether such trends have been established in
the present incarnation or former ones.
3. “The remoter possibilities, and the
spiritual goal and purpose of the immediate incarnation and of the immediate
succeeding incarnations”:
The “remoter possibilities” are keyed to the archetypal soul-purpose resident
within the identity of the human-being-as-soul. The entirety of that purpose
can only be realized in a long series of incarnations, but there is always a
next, soul-intended phase to that complete realization. There is a drive
forward towards that next accomplishment, pushing obstacles out of the way, focussing full energy with great effort upon the goal. A
direction and trend is being set for immediately succeeding incarnations.
4. How the disciple may be “nearer the
centre of his life, closer to the centre of his group and approaching the
centre of divine life”:
The disciple pushes towards the center, refusing to be hampered by that which
lies behind. He is ‘intent upon the new’.
5. The Way in which Personality
Acquiescence is Achieved:
The personality is almost forced to acquiesce in the new direction leading
‘soul-wards’. Personality tradition, well-established habits, various inertias
and resistances—none of these is allowed to interfere with the newly-willed
direction inspired by soul contact.
6. The Way in which the “Death of the
Personality” is promoted:
The personality dies in the rush of energy directed towards the achievement of
the new. Its desires are overcome by the greater will-to-achieve that which the
soul ‘desires’.
7. The Way in which Soul-infusion is Achieved:
Soul-infusion is achieved as the personality learns to forget that which lies
behind. A new soul-related identity faces the individual with Aries-rising
(perhaps a sequence of ‘new’ identities leading to a more archetypal identity
resident within the soul). When the pattern of these identities is accepted by
the personality consciousness and vigorously pursued, the soul energy can more
readily flow into the personal, infusing and pervading.
Individuals
with the Ascendant in Aries
Annie Besant
Simon Bolivar
Willy Brandt
Oliver Cromwell
Isadora Duncan
Dwight D Eisenhower
Benjamin Franklin
Michael Gorbachev
Billy Graham
Alexander the Great
Thomas Hobbes
Genghis Khan
Herbet Horatio Kitchener
Douglas MacArthur
Eva Peron
Girolamo Savonarola
Rabindranath Tagore
Nikola Tesla
Descendant
in Aries
The Descendant, DSC, is the ‘Point of Engagement’ or
the ‘Point of Relationship’:
When the DSC is located in Aries one must assert oneself in the making and
sustaining of relationships. One takes the initiative in these matters and
attempts to bring the ‘essence of one’s being’ into the relationship. Those
with Libra-rising may be more directive in
relationship and reciprocal engagements that one might suspect. With Aries on
the seventh house cusp, self-fulfillment requires one to “take the lead” in
establishing in cooperative enterprises and close mutual exchanges.
Individuals
with the Descendant in Aries
Rosa Bonheur
Jimmy Carter
Winston Churchill
Bill Clinton
Desideius Erasmus
Stephen Foster
Eric Fromm
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Uri Geller
Hermann Helmholz
Adolf Hitler
14th Dalai Lama
Robert E. Lee
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Modest Moussorgsky
Sir Isaac Newton
H.S. Olcott
Louis Pasteur
Auguste Piccard
Emily Post
Giacomo Puccini
Albert Schweitzer
Walter Scott
MC
in Aries
The MC is the ‘Career Point’ or the ‘Dharmic Point’:
When the MC is located in Aries dharma calls for initiative based upon as much
of the soul-pattern or ‘Plan-pattern’ as can be realized. A willful and
innovative approach to career is required, one in which the individual
(responsive to his inner alignment with the Plan, or with his purpose as he
conceives it) becomes the initiator of activities—focused within any number of
possible vibrational dimensions—which will allow him to embody his portion of
the Divine Plan or more personal purpose. The approach to be taken will
resonate with the planets Mars, Mercury or Uranus, depending upon the stage in
evolution reached by the individual.
Individuals
with the Midheaven in Aries
Alice Bailey
William Blake
Benvenuto Cellini
Michel de Cervantes
Charlemagne
Aleister Crowley
Gaetano Donizetti
Anthony Van Dyck
Anne Frank
Galileo Galilei
Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi
Paul
Elbert Hubbard
Czar Alexander II
Edward Bulwer Lytton
Franz Anton von Mezmer
Charles P. Steinmetz
Meryl Streep
IC
in Aries
The IC is the ‘Foundational Point’ or the ‘Ashramic Point’:
When the IC is located in Aries, the
work of establishing a personal or spiritual anchorage calls for initiative,
assertion, pioneering effort. One
can only rely upon oneself to create the ‘place of personal or spiritual
refuge’. Some may labor for a personal home or security; others, more advanced,
will labor for the Ashram as directed by the Master’s will. The ‘place of
belonging’ must be created through individual effort.
Individuals
with the IC in Aries
Hans Christian Andersen
Vincenzo Bellini
Robert Bly
Robert Browning
Lewis Carroll
S.T. Coleridge
Princess Diana
Fyodor Dosteovski
Bob Dylan
Mary Baker Eddy
Manly Palmer Hall
Herman Hesse
Jim
Gottfried von Leibniz
Yehudi Menuhin
Michelangelo
Sir Thomas More
Nero
Eleanor Roosevelt
Dane Rudhyar
Earnest
Jean Paul Sartre
Mother Teresa
Andreas Vesalius
Noah Webster
Frank Lloyd Wright
Vertex
in Aries
The Vertex is the ‘Point of Fate’ or the ‘Point of
Necessary Restitution’:
When the Vertex is located in Aries, the necessary and
inescapable encounters which fate will bring (as a balance for encounters
evaded or insufficiently worked through in the past) must be approached
dynamically and without hesitation. Fate brings all manner of ‘appointments’;
how shall the individual respond? In this case, frontally and
bravely.
Individuals
with the Vertex in Aries
Winston Churchill
Bill Clinton
Eric Fromm
Hermann Helmholz
14th Dalai Lama
Mongkut
Anti-Vertex
in Aries
The Anti-Vertex is hypothetically considered the ‘Point
of Freedom’ or the ‘Point of Unrestrained Willful Initiative’:
When the Anti-Vertex is in Aries, there is an opportunity for great freedom in
the acts of origination. If the Vertex represents that which cannot be
avoided, the Anti-Vertex is a point in the chart with few restraints upon it
(and, in this way, is very much like the sign Aries in its meaning). It is
always possible to create streams of action (in thought, sentient magnetisms,
or physical behavior) which are not strongly conditioned or determined by already
established patterns of energy/force. The Anti-Vertex is a kind of ‘Point of
Free Origination’ where relatively free action of a certain quality (depending
upon sign and aspects) may be introduced into the life, for better or for
worse. With Aries qualifying this point, the act of origination is unusually
free and self-determined.
Individuals
with the Anti-Vertex in Aries
Marc Antony
Elias Ashmole
Karl Barth
Annie Besant
Simon Bolivar
Willy Brandt
Oliver Cromwell
Father
Isadora Duncan
Amelia Earhart
Dwight D Eisenhower
Enrico Fermi
Benjamin Franklin
Michael Gorbachev
Billy Graham
Ulysses S. Grant
Alexander the Great
Thomas Hobbes
Genghis Khan
Martin Luther King
Herbet Horatio Kitchener
Douglas MacArthur
Gioacchino Rossini
Carl Sagan
Girolamo Savonarola
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Konstantin Stanislavsky
Rabindranath Tagore
Nikola Tesla
Queen Victoria
George Washington
Walt Whitman
Eli Whitney
Note: To a degree, and with caution, some of these
indications may be transferred to the interpretation of the first house,
which is naturally associated with the first sign, Aries. Houses carry no
formative energy; rather, house conditions are formed by formative energy. For
instance, the third house does not confer the power to communicate; it simply
relates to life’s communicative possibilities. Gemini, however, as the third
sign, does confer the power to communicate.
Vulcan in Aries
Vulcan
in Relation to Aries
1.
Vulcan has a
natural relationship with Aries through a fivefold relationship: Pointer II,
Aries, Earth, Vulcan, Pluto.
2.
Vulcan and Aries
have a special affinity, as Vulcan is one of planets most conditioned by the
first ray and Aries is presently the primary transmitter of the first ray.
Some Questions to Ask in Relation to the Influence of
Vulcan in the Life of the Individual
These Questions Can Also be Applied to Vulcan in the
Signs.
1.
What is the
nature of the “divine design” being inwardly forged in the life?
2.
To what extent
(and, if so, how) is the “Jewel in the Lotus” active in the life? Is there the
capacity to hold an adamantine point of tension?
3.
To what extent
are the seven head centers [which can reasonably be inferred to be ruled by
Vulcan] a prominent factor in the disciple’s energy system? To what extent do
they dominate the normal, ‘lesser’ centers?
4.
What is the
manner in which the soul (Solar Angel) grips the personality, and bends the
personality to its will and enforces that will?
5.
From a soul
perspective, in what manner and with what quality does the soul’s will impact
the personality?
6.
In what ways does
the personality experience the pressure of the spiritual will?
7.
Has the life been
one in which circumstances and things have been periodically shattered?
8.
To what extent
and in what fields is the life of the individual impactful? Is the dynamic of
the “hammer” noticeable in any of the energy fields or in relation to the
environment?
9.
When the
individual uses the energy of destruction in the life, how does the individual
exercise this energy and upon what or whom?
10.
How is will (whether personal will or spiritual will) generally
evidenced in the life? What qualities of will are demonstrated? To what extent
is the individual capable of steadfastness and endurance?
11.
What, if
anything, does the individual seek to fashion and how does he or she go about
this fashioning?
12.
To what extent
and in what manner is the light value of matter manifested in the individual’s
energy system, especially through what we normally call the “matter aspect”?
13.
To what extent
and how is the individual engaged in the process of the “uplift of matter”?
14.
How does the
individual go about dominating or controlling the astral body, the body of
desire?
15.
What is the
nature of the interplay between sacral center and throat center, and is the
will brought into this interplay in any potent or noticeable manner?
16.
In what manner
and to what extent does the physical form prove obdurate, resistant and even
obtuse to the will of the soul?
17.
To what extent is
the individual given to self-will and stubbornness?
18.
How are
‘crystallizations developed within the personality? What role does ‘hardness’
play in the life?
19.
What are the
nature and quality of the individual’s initiative? To what extent and how, does
the individual “get things going”?
20.
To what extent is
the individual concerned with the strength of the physical body?
21.
To what extent
and how is the individual related to the mineral kingdom?
22.
In what ways, if
any, does the individual will to construct? To what extent is such constructive
activity utilitarian or artistic? To what extent is the individual deeply
concerned with matters concerning the structure of form?
23.
How does the
factor of isolation manifest in the life? For what reason is isolation pursued,
if it is pursued?
24.
To what extent is
the “Will-to-Love” active in the life, and in what
manner is it active. (This question is in relation to Vulcan’s connection to
the “Heart of the Sun”.)
25.
Etc.—these sorts
of questions. I probably have overlooked some really important ones, but a
rounded-out point of view will arise through the group interplay.
The following are answers to these
questions, in relation to the position, Vulcan in Aries.
It is not yet possible in all
cases to detect whether an individual actually has this position. According to
present hypotheses, if his Sun is located between 9° and 21° Aries, then Vulcan
will be Aries. But if the Sun sign position is before
9° and after 21° it cannot be presumed with certainty that Vulcan will be in
Aries. Positions in Pisces or Taurus are also possible.
The responses to the
questions are derived from as much from reasoning as from experience and
experimentation (as the sample of such people with this position is too small
and too uncertain).
1.
What is the
nature of the “divine design” being inwardly forged in the life?
The “divine design” being forged in the life of a disciple or initiate with a
prominent Vulcan in Aries would be strongly archetypal and ideal rather than based
upon expedient practicality. The individual “divine design” would be imposed
2.
To what extent
(and, if so, how) is the “Jewel in the Lotus” active in the life? Is there the
capacity to hold an adamantine point of tension?
The power to hold an adamantine point of tension by sheer force of will, would be very strong. If the point of evolution is
sufficient, the effective will-force of the monad would be considerable.
3.
To what extent
are the seven head centers [which can reasonably be inferred to be ruled by Vulcan]
a prominent factor in the disciple’s energy system? To what extent do they
dominate the normal, ‘lesser’ centers?
There would be a tremendous head center focus (crown chakra). Aries can very
reasonably be associated with the head center (for, zodiacally, it is directly
related to the head), and Vulcan is given as ruling the head center of disciple
(p. 517, EA). Vulcan, as well, may be reasonably associated with the seven
controlling head centers by the following analogy: Great Bear is to the Seven
Head Centers in the One About Whom Naught May Be Said as the planet Vulcan is
to the seven head centers of our Solar Logos, as Vulcan (in its microcosmic
mode) is to the seven head centers in a human being.
4.
What is the
manner in which the soul (Solar Angel) grips the personality, and bends the
personality to its will and enforces that will?
The Solar Angel would grip the personality, bend the personality to its will,
and enforce that will in a manner not characterized by an
particular subtlety or gentleness. There would be a potent, fiery display of forcefulness
from the soul field and the personality would experience a powerful ‘Vulcanian
impact’ (a tiny reflection of a Shamballa Impact—as both Vulcan and Aries are
easily associated with Shamballa, the Planetary Head Center).
5.
From a soul
perspective, in what manner and with what quality does the soul’s will impact
the personality?
From the soul perspective, the soul will would impact the personality with a
certain forceful incessancy; the pressure would be unrelenting .The would be
little moderation or restraint in the soul’s effort to bend the personality to
its will.
6.
In what ways does
the personality experience the pressure of the spiritual will?
The personality, depending upon its quality and structure would (more or less)
experience the pressureful impact of the soul as onerous and unrelenting. There
would be a sense that inner pressure was persistently being applied, and that
one was always being forced forward. The soul, in this case, could be sense as
a kind of ‘slave-driver’, for no matter what might be the ray of the soul,
Vulcan in Aries represents a powerful combination of ray one forces. “…Aries
which, through the ruling activity of the first ray, both strengthens the will
of the man (no matter what his ray)…” (EA 119) On occasion there would be a
kind of ‘crashing through’ of soul force which is typical of the movement of
the first ray.
“The will which brings fulfilment demonstrates through the second ray by the
means of that driving force which enables the second ray soul steadily to
achieve its goal, relentlessly pushing forward, permitting itself no let-up or
leeway until the desired goal is reached. This is a different expression to the
will of the first ray which is dynamic and which crashes forward in spite of
all obstacles; the latter does not require the slower methods of the steady
drive.” (EA 624, Italics, MDR)
Actually, with Vulcan in Aries, both qualities of the will as just described
would be present—both a crashing forward and through, and the quality of
unrelenting persistence (at least for the duration during which energy was
applied, which periods would be lengthened through the influence of Vulcan). Although
both Aries and Vulcan are known for their transmission of the first ray (and
thus for bursts of energy), they are both also known for their uncompromising
intent to achieve the goal. Vulcan is always associated with the principle of
endurance, with the refusal to give up, and Aries (though discontinuous) is
relentless in the pursuit of its objectives (during the period of pursuit).
Vulcan would add endurance to the usual Aries approach, and Aries would add
fire and insistence to Vulcan.
7.
Has the life been
one in which circumstances, things and personality states have been
periodically shattered?
The effect of shattering in the life would be pronounced. At least, enough
spiritual power is applied inwardly to readily produce shattering (unless
modified and buffered by ameliorative forces). Soul-driven will-currents would
be unusually strong, and this (in a weakened or unprepared personality vehicle)
could easily produce shattering.
8.
To what extent
and in what fields is the life of the individual impactful? Is the dynamic of
the “hammer” noticeable in any of the energy fields or in relation to the
environment?
The “hammer aspect” of Vulcan would be readily and easily expressed when Vulcan
is in Aries. Aries individuals have always to learn to co-measure the force
they release; this combination does not tend towards co-measurement but towards
the application of excessive force. Force can be expressed in an overpowering
manner, and with strong, rhythmic accents‑hammer blows. Aries is related
to the ‘dance’ (the “Dance of Life”); the sense of rhythm in this combination
would be strong, and the rhythmic impacts would be powerful. D.K. speaks of the
first ray type’s love of “crashing choruses” (EP I 202); Vulcan in Aries would
give the love of what might be called ‘crashing impacts’.
9.
When the
individual uses the energy of destruction in the life, how does the individual
exercise this energy and upon what or whom?
Destructive behavior would be expected through the immoderate application of
force. Whether upon people or things, destruction would be used to be rid of
obstacles; these obstacles would be faced “head-on”. There would be very little
subtlety in the destructive process.
10.
How is the will (whether personal will or spiritual will)
generally evidenced in the life? What qualities of will are demonstrated? To
what extent is the individual capable of steadfastness and endurance?
In the terminology of the spiritual psychologist Robert Assagioli, (unless
other astrorayological factors contra-indicated) the “strong” will would be
predominantly in evidence, rather than the “skillful will” or the “good-will”. The
quality of unrelenting, though discontinuously applied, will would be
prominent. There would be steadfastness during periods of intense application,
but the application of will over long periods would be punctuated by short
bursts of great intensity rather than by a continuous steady and even pressure.
11.
What, if
anything, does the individual seek to fashion and how does he or she go about
this fashioning?
With this combination there would not be an inherent and especially deep
understanding of matter per se (though Vulcan, in itself, always confers this
kind of understanding). The fashioning, then, would take place not so much in
the more tangible realms, as one might expect with Vulcan in Taurus or in one
of the earth signs. Depending upon the point in evolution (though, let us
remember, we are talking principally about disciples and initiates when
thinking of the conscious application of the energy of the sacred and
undiscovered planet, Vulcan) the process of fashioning would relate more to the
realm of thought and ideation. These types would be more likely to ‘hammer out
a theory’ than to fashion or craft an object or structure in matter. The
relationship with the matter and material would, in many instance,
tend to be destructive because of an unrealistic assessment (Aries) of how much
pressure a particular material object or structure could “take”.
12.
To what extent
and in what manner is the light value of matter manifested in the individual’s
energy system, especially through what we normally call the “matter aspect”?
Such “light value” would manifest to a rather lesser extent in an individual
energy system than would be the case with Vulcan in Taurus, Virgo or Capricorn
(all earth signs). In some ways, soul light is obscured in Aries (for Venus is
in detriment) though the light of the spirit is not. Aries is not known for the
refinement of the matter aspect; its natural ruler, Mars, is ‘profane’ in an
important sense (“outside the temple”) and is astrologically opposed to Venus,
planet of light. But it can be reasonably supposed that the matter aspect could
be raised to great heat with Vulcan in Aries, and this heat is a predecessor of
light.
13.
To what extent
and how is the individual engaged in the process of the “uplift of matter”?
Perhaps Vulcan in Aries is more involved in forcing the compliance of matter
than in uplifting it. This combination, however, would definitely force matter
into the fire, which, again, would (through inevitable fiery purification) end
in revealing the ‘light value’ in matter thus leading to its upliftment. We
should also be aware of a certain ‘resurrection value’ in this combination.
14.
How does the
individual go about dominating or controlling the astral body, the body of
desire?
It is reasonable to say, ‘by brute force’. Aries is such a mental sign (at this
stage of evolution). We would see the combination mind/will oppose desire.
There would simply be the tendency to say ‘No’ to desire, without necessarily
understanding it or transmuting it. Therefore, (in a disciple or initiate) this
combination could be repressive where desire and the astral body are concerned.
15.
What is the
nature of the interplay between sacral center and throat center, and is the
will brought into this interplay in any potent or noticeable manner?
With Vulcan in Aries (especially if prominent in the life through strong
aspects or by ray sympathy {i.e., when first ray is naturally a part of the
energy system}), the will would always be brought into play in the interchange
between the sacral and throat centers. There might be the tendency to deny the
one (the sacral) and force the other (the throat). With this combination, Cain
is all too ready to kill Abel. The danger is that force will be used against
nature; the will, will impose its design without giving time for the process to
operate in a reasonably natural manner. With Vulcan in Aries there would be a
sense of “forcing the issue” whether or not a process can respond positively to
forcing. It must be noted, however, that Vulcan is not a particular verbal
planet and the throat center is the seat of verbal creation.
16.
In what manner
and to what extent does the physical form prove obdurate, resistant and even
obtuse to the will of the soul? To what extent is the individual given to
self-will and stubbornness?
Vulcan in Aries is “head strong”, whereas Vulcan in Taurus is “bull-headed”.
Perhaps there is a difference, but maybe not much. In any case, the potential
for self-will and stubbornness is very strong. But we might say that Vulcan in
Aries would incline a person to be more changeable about the matters about which
he or she were stubborn—perhaps we might say, ‘unpredictably stubborn’. While
this is not really an esoteric interpretation, we are dealing with a very esoteric
planet whose ways in exoteric matters are, perhaps, somewhat obscure, and
therefore worthy of discussion.
17.
How are
‘crystallizations developed within the personality? What role does ‘hardness’
play in the life?
With Aries transmitting both R1 and R7, hard attitudes are to be expected, but
perhaps they do not become hardened as one would expect with Vulcan in
Capricorn, for instance. There would be some intermittency; thus the
combination would harden the attitude on occasion.
18.
What are the
nature and quality of the individual’s initiative? To what extent and how, does
the individual “get things going”?
Aries is the sign of all beginnings and Vulcan sets things in motion (including
the whole evolutionary process). One can imagine that the tendency to initiate
would be prominent and forceful. We might think of this dynamic as ‘original
impact’‑or what has been called in theology, the “Prime Mover”—the “Fiat
of God” as it creates Divine Activity.
19.
To what extent is
the individual concerned with the strength of the physical body?
The individual would be very much concerned with the strength of the physical
body, and inclined to force the physical body into feats of strength. The
Uranian planet (in “Uranian AstrologyJ ‘Vulcanus/Samson’ would be implicated in such
demonstrations of strength. It will be necessary to discriminate between the
effects of Vulcan and “Vulcanus/Samson” in their effect upon physical strength.
Perhaps, too little is presently known to make that discrimination reliably..
20.
To what extent
and how is the individual related to the mineral kingdom?
Aries, per se, is not closely related to the mineral kingdom, but the first and
seventh rays coming through Aries are thus related. However, the tendency to
forge weapons, or, even more, to use forged weapons would be very strong. Other
placements of Vulcan would, perhaps, be more inclined to fashion the weapon,
but the Aries influence rarely hesitates to wield the weapon.
21.
In what ways, if
any, does the individual will to construct? To what extent is such constructive
activity utilitarian or artistic? To what extent is the individual deeply
concerned with matters concerning the structure of form?
It would seem that construction in matter would be limited. Construction within
the realm of mind would be more common (for disciples and initiates). Impatient
Aries is not a sign which inclines toward a knowledge of the laws of matter.
22.
How does the
factor of isolation manifest in the life? For what reason is isolation pursued,
if it is pursued?
The tendency towards isolation could be pronounced. On a lower turn of the
spiral, Aries inclines towards a “go-it-alone” attitude. The first ray emphasis
in this combination would reinforce the tendency towards isolation. Isolation
might be pursued to facilitate independence of action. There would be a
pronounced tendency towards self-reliance, and an inclination to “take matters
into one’s own hands”. The capacity (at a later stage of evolution) to
centralize in the Self would lead initially to isolation.
23.
To what extent is
the “Will-to-Love” active in the life and in what manner is it active? (This
question is in relation to Vulcan’s connection to the “Heart of the Sun”.)
The ‘will-tendency’ would incline more towards the “Will-to-Be”, though Aries
(at a
24.
How will Vulcan
(when it is in a particular sign) operate with respect to the various
initiations in which it is said to play a part?
Vulcan in Aries would certainly enflame the “burning ground” phenomenon which
precedes the first initiation (during which Vulcan and Pluto are so prominent).
We might also say that Vulcan (related as it is to the monad and Shamballa)
forces the spirit into matter at the beginning of the initiatory regime. (The monad
is active in relation to the soul and subtly in relation to the personality and
its ‘matters’, even at the first initiation.) The prologue to the first
initiation must necessarily be destructive because there are many impediments
to a fundamentally new orientation which must be destroyed; the habit nature
(Vulcan/Moon) of aeons must be broken, even shattered. We might see, with
Vulcan in Aries, the inauguration of the new and the burning of bridges (or
shall we say, the dynamiting of bridges?).
Aries is active at the third initiation (EA 387-388).
Also, at that initiation, Mars and the Moon (veiling Vulcan from one reasonable
interpretation) are also active. The monadic will (active to some extent at the
second degree) becomes an irrevocable influence at the third initiation. Aries
give a strong orientation toward spirit, for spirit is the “One and Only”, and Aries is the One. Vulcan is the emissary of the
Will of the Spirit (sometimes called “Spiritual Will”). We can see, then, how
Vulcan and Aries are prominent at the third initiation initiation, at which
time, the will of the monad becomes irrevocable (though, at first, tenuously
so). Having passed the point of no return some mid-way between the second and
third degree, the now trusted disciple is committed to the initiatory regime of
the Great While Lodge and cannot turn back. Vulcan in Aries represents a new
appreciation of the Divine Will, and a new (though incipient) ability to wield
the same. All personality inclinations and desires are burned away (another
burning ground for Vulcan in Aries) in the will of the monad, and the beginning
of real isolation takes place, for the man is never more attracted to the three
worlds simply for that which he may acquire from them.
With respect to the fourth degree, Vulcan is greatly
involved, as the “depths of aloneness are plumbed”. At the fourth degree we
find the man (detached from “that which is above and that which is below”)
renouncing all desire. Again, we see Vulcan as the enemy of desire per se, for
will and desire (though related) are, in one sense, opposites. Vulcan confers
the strength to prove that all desire except the desire to manifest the Plan
has been renounced. As the fourth Degree represents an entirely new departure,
and a repolarization within the vital body of the planetary Logos (and even the
solar Logos) we can see how Aries, the sign of life is particularly implicated.
An initiate begins truly to live at this point, and Aries inaugurates this
process of living. We can see as well since the causal body must be destroyed
to admit into the ‘realm of Life’, the combination of Aries in Vulcan would be
most suitable to both shatter and burn the causal body. At the fourth initiation,
burning takes place for all, but there are different methods of ‘causal
dismemberment’; for the first ray, it is shattering, peculiarly related to
Vulcan in Aries. What kind of force will “shatter the rock” (reference not only
to matter, but to the Jewel in the Lotus which is also destroyed and consumed
by fire at the fourth initiation). The fourth degree represents an adventure
into the realm of “free souls”, and Aries inaugurates all such adventures. This
is an adventure into the ‘realm of will’ (for which the combination Vulcan in
Aries is peculiarly useful). Destruction, Fire, Inauguration,
Life.
25.
What can be
expected of the combination Vulcan in Aries based upon the rays which are
transmitted through Aries and the rays which are transmitted through Vulcan.
Aries as a constellation, transmits rays one and
seven. The planets ruling Aries transmit ray six and (hypothetically ray one—Mars;
rays four, three and hypothetically five—Mercury; rays seven, one, three and
five—Uranus. Vulcan transmits ray one definitely, ray four probably, and rays
five and seven are definitely associated with it through Vulcan’s connection to
the mineral kingdom.
Some rays listed (other than the customary) are based
upon various available references, and also upon speculative inference. Rays one,
seven and three for Uranus are given by the Tibetan, and ray five is inferred
because of the close connection of Uranus with occult and orthodox science as
well as with electricity. The inference regarding the association of ray one
with Mars arises for DK’s brief description the occult school on Mars.
Mercury’s third and fifth rays are easily and reasonably inferred.
In relation to Vulcan, rays one and seven can be
considered prominent. Vulcan’s association with ray seven arises through the ‘factor
of rhythm’ and through Vulcan’s association with the mineral kingdom. Vulcan
has a close connection with all that is concrete and dense hence its
association with ray five which promotes concretion and density. A study of the
“Primary Lotuses” (TCF 841-842) seems, by inference and some intuition, to
connect Vulcan with a strong ray five component. Let each student attempt to
arrive at a reasonable judgement for himself/herself.
With respect to Primary Lotuses (emphasizing the first and third petals of the
egoic lotus, ray five can be considered, in one way, a subset of ray one).
If we were to ask the meaning of the Aries/Vulcan ray
seven connection, we might think of enforced regimentation, and the fortifying
of the law, rigidly considered. But the seventh ray connection with Vulcan is speculative,
whereas Vulcan’s first ray is assured and its fourth ray strongly suggested
through its association with Taurus and with humanity (the “Fiery Stones” and
the “Living Stones”)
Specific
Expression of Vulcan in Aries
Vulcan in
Aries for the Advanced Human Being
Vulcan in
Aries for the Disciple or Initiate
5. Imposition of the Divine Plan
6. Monadic access and power
7. The irresistible impression of the
spirit aspect
Individuals
with Vulcan Necessarily in Aries
(Sun will
be from 9° Aries to 21° Aries)
this list includes only those Sun signs within longitude
of 9 to 21
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Hans Christian Andersen
Charles Pierre
Baudelaire
Otto von Bismarck
Marlon Brando
Leo Buscaglia
Giovanni Casanova
Charlemagne
Rene Descartes
Francisco Goya
Vincent van Gogh
William Harvey
Franz
Moses ben Maimon
Abraham Maslow
Ram Dass
Raphael
Charles P. Steinmetz
Algernon Swinburne
William Wordsworth
General
Questions Concerning
the Spiritual Function of Mercury
1. What type of
messages are carried from soul to personality?
2. What are the qualitative and
quantitative dynamics characterizing the carrying and reception of such
messages?
3. Qualitatively and quantitatively
what is the nature of the dialogue between soul and personality?
4. What is the specific type of right
relation or bridging which Mercury establishes between soul and personality?
5. In what way does the individual
with Mercury in a particular sign give ‘voice’ and ‘word’ to higher
realizations?
6. In what manner does Mercury in a
particular sign contribute to the building of the “
7. What is the nature of the
individual’s intuitive process and access—its strength, its quantity, its
quality?
8. What is the nature and quality of
the thoughtform-building process?
9. How is the fusion of spirit and
soul facilitated?
Mercury
in Aries or in Relation to Aries
Evolutionary Mantram of the Sign Aries: “And the
Word said: Let form again be sought”
Spiritual Mantram of the Sign Aries: “I come forth,
and from the plane of mind, I rule”
Quotations from Esoteric Astrology, relevant to the meaning of Mercury
in relation to Aries.
1. Mercury in Aries:—Involved in
Harmonizing the Cosmos and the Individual:
Aries and Virgo, through Mercury and the Moon, are related to Ray 4. Harmonising the cosmos and the individual through conflict,
producing unity and beauty. The birth pangs of the second birth. The
Cosmic and Individual Christ” (EA 67)
2. Mercury in Relation to
Aries—Setting the Jungles of Illusion on Fire:
“Through the lesser fire of mind, the ‘jungles of illusion are set on fire and
dissolve in flames and then the Path stands clear and unobstructed vision is
achieved’.”(Old Commentary) (EA 95)
3. Mercury in Relation to
Aries—Purification Through Vision:
“This same purification [as in the case of Mars], but this time through vision,
comes to the developed man through the activity of the subjective ruler of the
planet, Mercury, who is the illuminating principle which releases the mind,
directs the way of man through life and enables him to be aware of the divine
Plan which underlies all his fiery experience.” (EA 96)
4. Mercury in Relation to Aries—Birth:
“At the same time, Aries is related to birth, through Mercury who rules Aries
esoterically, and also Virgo, of which Mercury is the exoteric ruler.” (EA 98)
5. Mercury in Relation to Aries—Leads
Aries to Virgo; Mercury and the Sun are One:
“Mercury and the Sun are one, we are frequently told in the occult literature. The
Sun is the symbol of the Son of God, Who is the mediator between Father-Spirit
and Mother-Matter. Mercury, therefore, leads Aries to Virgo (again speaking symbolically)
where the idea or Word of God begins to take form, and consequently the latent
life in Aries comes to the ‘crisis of the birth hour,’ prior to the birth of
the Christ, cosmically considered, though the birth of the individual Christ
takes place in Capricorn, at the close of the needed gestation period.” (EA
100)
6. Mercury in Aries—Related to the
Birthplace of Divine Ideas:
“Aries, the ‘birthplace of divine Ideas,’ whether these ideas are souls brought
into incarnation and controlled by Mars until they reach the point of
reorientation and become sensitive to the influence of Mercury, or whether they
are the birth of the ideas of God in the form of the hierarchical plans to
which the initiate becomes sensitive.” (EA 102)
7. Mercury in Relation to Aries (and
Gemini)—Will-to-Be in Form, and Will-to-be-Free of Form: “The potencies of
Gemini-Aries, instilled into our planetary life via Mercury, focus the energy
of the conditioning will-to-be upon the Earth, producing initial beginnings as
in incarnation, or initiation, or the start of organisation as well as
organisms. It should be remembered that there is the will-to-be in form and the
will-to-be free from form, but all these aspects of will are achieved through
conflict and interplay of which energy both Gemini and Mercury are the eternal
symbols.” (EA 358-359)
8. Mercury in Aries—with Gemini,
Inciting to Trial Efforts and Beginnings:
“The influence of Mercury, as it relates Aries and Gemini to our Earth,
establishes in time and space a unique situation, for it incites to trial
efforts or initiates a series of beginnings in order to relate opposing forces
and produce certain planned and definite effects upon our planet, thus
influencing the kingdoms in nature or an individual soul-in-form. A conflict is
thus initiated which leads finally to balance.” (EA 360)
9. Mercury in Relation to Aries—Leads
into the Mysteries:
“2. Mercury is the expression of fourth ray energy and this is, as you know, peculiarly related to the fourth kingdom in nature,
the human kingdom. It is the esoteric ruler of Aries (hence it ‘leads into the
mysteries’)…”(EA 548-549)
10. Mercury in Relation to
Aries—Bringing Illumination and Intuitive Understanding:
“… in the evolution of the will aspect, you have the influence of Mars and
Mercury—the one bringing conflict and the death of the form and the other
bringing illumination and the development of the intuition as a result of that
conflict and death. New cycles of Being and of
consciousness are initiated by conflict. Such seems as yet to be the law of
life and the governing factor in evolution. If, however, the result of this
initiating, energising will is to produce such beneficent effects of intuitive
understanding and the activity of Mercury as the messenger of the Gods, it can
be seen how truly through conflict the will-to-good can be wrought out.” (EA
619)
Specific
Expression of Mercury in Aries
Mercury in
Aries for the Average of Undeveloped Man
1. Energetic pursuit of novelty for
its own sake
2. Combative, argumentative mind,
thought which causes friction
3. Chaotic, disjointed thinking,
discontinuity of thought
4. Hasty thinking, overly rapid
conclusions
5. Inability to
develop thought, elaborate it, or carry it through—all beginnings and no endings.
Mercury in
Aries for the Advanced Human Being
1. Rapid reaction to
new ideas and the tendency to implement them with immediacy.
2. Great mental
energy. ‘Fiery thought’. The raging fires of mind are pronounced.
3. Fertility of thought, a fount of
‘new ideas’, the scattering of mental ‘seeds’ or “seed ideas”
4. Intrepid mind, fearless mind,
daring to ‘think the un-thought or unthinkable’ forcing the issues mentally.
5. The mind which
rejects that which is pre-established—ignoring previous patterns of thought,
feeling and behavior. Under this independent influence, the individual must “see for
himself” and “think for himself”
Mercury in
Aries for the Disciple or Initiate
(The usual
exoteric and psychological interpretations are purposely not here emphasized).
1. The kind of mind
that discovers new Archetypes, (i.e., those which are on the point of
revelation). It
is a mind open to that which is as yet unrevealed. Shedding
the light of the Archetypes, especially of the light of “idea(s) whose time has
come”.
2. The bringer of
‘new light’ via the intuition.
3. Soul messages arrive with a
‘blast’, augmenting the conflict between soul and personality. A vigorous, interactive soul/personality dialogue. Sharp and ‘argumentative’ exchanges between soul and personality
providing creative ferment and possible mental stress.
4. The pioneering, demanding
mind, penetrating into the formless worlds by the force of will.
5. Willful and assertive ‘bridging’. Bridging with strenuous effort, ‘throwing or ‘hurling’ strands of
substance across the “gap in consciousness” during the “projection” phase in
the building of the Antahkarana.
6. Mentally, “taking
the
7. The intuition
which reveals the Will and Plan of God. The mind is unusually responsive to the Will and
Purpose Aspects of Deity.
8. Mental fertility,
and the pouring forth of creative ideation. The creation and
propelling and scattering of “seed ideas” inspired by soul and spirit.
9. Soul messages are authoritative.
10. The soul/personality conflict
(brought about by increased soul/personality communication) centers upon
whether the personality is willing to live according to the new archetypes
which the intuition reveals.
11. A mind useful in
discovering ‘First Principles’, ‘Causative Principles’.
12. A mind conducive
to the achievement of mental synthesis (produced by the ‘burning away’ of ‘thought
barriers’ to that synthesis).
13. The tendency to
think in and respond to ‘mental fiats’, commands. “I come forth and from the plane
of mind I rule”.
14. A mind contributing to the willful
regulation and suppression of the emotional, and
physical-etheric vehicles.
15. A mind given to
thinking in terms of absolutes. (Of course this will vary with the nature of the mental
ray).
16. A mind
particularly responsive to the power aspect of ideas.
17. A mind (at a certain point in
evolution) characterized by the ‘Will to Identification’, determined to weld
subject/object into a sameness. (The higher mind of
Individuals
with Mercury in Aries
Hans Christian Andersen
Karl Barth
Lucrezia Borgia
Marlon Brando
William
Sir
Leo Buscaglia
Teilhard de
Chardin
Rene Descartes
Albert Einstein
Eric Fromm
Vincent van Gogh
Francisco Goya
Ulysses S. Grant
Catherine the Great
Franz
Adolf Hitler
Queen Elizabeth
II
Henry James
Immanuel Kant
Guglielmo Marconi
J. Pierpont Morgan
Modest Moussorgsky
Eva Peron
Wilhelm Rontgen
William Shakespeare
Algernon Swinburne
Rabindranath Tagore
Arturo Toscanini
Leonardo da Vinci
Wilbur Wright
General Questions Concerning the
Spiritual Function of Venus
Venus in Aries or
Venus in Relation to Aries
(from
Esoteric Astrology)
Quotations from Esoteric Astrology, relevant to the meaning of Venus in
relation to Aries.
Venus is in Detriment
in Aries:
“The power of Venus
is lessened in this sign (Aries). It is
a detrimental sign to Venus. The reason for this is that when the Sun is
exalted and blazes forth in all its glory, the other lesser luminaries fade
out. Just as the personality is lost
sight of in the light of the soul, the solar Angel, so the soul itself
disappears and its power and radiance fade out when the Presence, which it has
hitherto veiled, appears and dominates the scene at the end of the greater
world cycle. We are told that the
incarnating Minds, human beings, the solar Angels, came originally from Venus,
but they in turn give place to the monad, the One. Mind gives place to intuition and reason to
pure perception.” (EA 104-105)
1. Venus is one of the planets which rules
the intellect, and Aries is a mental sign. Aries is more related to Mercury
than to Venus. If Venus is a planet which evaluates, then the rash and
precipitous nature of Aries does not give Venus a chance to complete its
evaluation. As a result, there is rapid attraction to that which may not be
truly suitable or worth while. The values are distorted by ‘heat’ from fiery
Aries. The true love aspect of Venus cannot be so easily activated in Aries,
though the mentality represented by Venus (fifth ray) may be stimulated in this
first ray/seventh ray sign associated with the head. However, it must be
considered that Mars is the orthodox ruler of Aries, and this Martian presence
tends to stimulate more the lower aspect of Venus relating to desire. Venus may
become hasty and overexcited by the Martian quality. Thus, in this Venus
position, we have combative Mars related to a planet (Venus) for which peace is
consummately important
2. In the phase of evolution during which Mercury rules
Aries, the brilliant, mental aspect of Venus may be enhanced. There is possible
an affection for and love of mental things (the “things of the mind”), but the
heart aspect may be somewhat missing from this ‘love’.
3. With Venus in Aries, there also may be a
cerebralization of the affection. In its highest expression this will be what has
been called “Platonic Love”. Impersonally, this may be seen as a love of ideal,
archetypal patterns. More personally applied, there may be a love of the ideal
person, or the archetype of the individual, but not of the entire,
“flesh-and-blood” person. Self-love may also be pronounced, as Aries does not
promote skill in reciprocity. There may be a degree of narcissism, and the love
of one’s own mind and its process.
4. Anticipatory desire and an eagerness
to experience with immediacy, tends to overcome the light value of Venus, as
well as its good judgment.
5. The fruits of Aretian initiatives bring a greater
fusion of soul and personality (the Venus process).
1.
Immediate
Enthusiasm for What is Desired:
With Venus in Aries there is a tendency to follow, immediately and without
reservation, that which is seen as beautiful. There is instantaneous ardor for
that which attracts—whether for good or ill.
2.
Coarsening of
Magnetism:
Venus in Aries can contribute to a coarsening of magnetism—an attraction to
that which is less refined than would be the case, for instance, with Venus in
Libra.
3.
Strengthens
Kama-Manas:
Venus is already associated with kama-manas, and Aries (in early evolutionary
days) is passional. This combination, therefore, strengthens kama-manas
(desire-mind). Venus in signs like Virgo and Capricorn may make it easier to
dissociate the mental from the feeling function.
4.
Hastiness in
Evaluation:
Venus in Aries contributes to hastiness in the evaluative function. On a
mundane level this can work out, for instance, as buying anything that
immediately appeals to one without taking time to properly evaluate it.
5.
Falling in Love
Quickly and Superficially:
Similarly, Venus in Aries can incline one to fall in love with ‘almost anybody
who is appealing’ without really gauging the quality and suitability of the
person to whom they are attracted. This can be called “love at first
sight”—often, with later unhappy results.
6.
Indiscriminate
Attractions:
Aries (upon the Mutable Cross) is an energy inclining towards proliferation as
well as towards non-discriminative response to stimuli; therefore, during the
early evolutionary period, an abundance of indiscriminate magnetisms and
attractions are likely.
7.
Assertive
Approach to That which One Loves:
Under this combination, the one who is attracted does not wait for the
attractive object to “come to him”. Instead, he pursues the object. There is,
therefore, an eager going-out towards the object of attraction.
8.
the “Assertive Woman”; the “Amazon”:
The combination symbolizes the “assertive (Aries) woman (Venus)”. There is more
assertion here than magnetism. In mythology, Pallas Athene carries this
quality, and, indeed, she was a warrior goddess born out of the head of her
father, Jupiter.
9.
Heart Energy
Needs Cultivation:
The energy of the heart, a patient energy, may be more difficult to activate
due to the energy of impatient Aries. The solar plexus and ajna are more easily
activated. One wants (solar plexus) what one sees (ajna).
10.
Unsettled Nervous
System; Ill-regulated Expenditure:
Venus and prana (the “treasure of vitality”) are intimately related; Venus also
rules the “nervous system” (EH 143). Because Aries is prodigal, there may be a
diverse and ill-regulated expenditure of prana. This is an unsettling
combination; the nervous and etheric systems may have less equanimity than with
other combinations.
11.
Unclear Vision:
Symbolically, Venus focuses the light just like the magnifying glass; ability
to focus, however, is often a problem under the influence of Aries. Venus is
related to good eye sight—the clarity that comes from focus and appreciation;
Aries is not. Thus, this combination may give some unclarity or obscuration
with regard to external and internal vision. The situation would be quite
otherwise with Venus in vision and light-related signs like Taurus, Sagittarius
and Capricorn.
12.
Insufficient
Understanding of those who are ‘Loved’:
True love requires that the ‘object’ loved be deeply understood. Because Venus
in Aries inclines towards haste, perhaps there is a lack of true appreciation
and understanding of the ‘loved’ object. Rash, impulsive attraction towards an
object—an attraction misnamed “love”—means, fundamentally, that one does not
know the quality of that object and does not have the patience to register and
assimilate that quality.
13.
Looking for a
Partner “Just Like Me”:
The factor of projection is very strong with this combination. There is not
much interest in getting to know the true nature of any ‘loved object’. Rather,
there is the tendency to see oneself in such an object. The love of another
becomes, really, a love of self.
14.
Superficial
Accumulations and Lack of Assimilation and Appreciation:
The accumulative faculty may be stimulated, but accumulations tend to be of
superficial value and of short duration—easily dispersed. Real assimilation of that which is gathered
(a real “taking in”) is difficult. Because of a sense of rush, Aries is
classically resistant to assimilation (which always takes time). Venus in Aries
is also insufficiently or superficially appreciative. This lack of real
appreciation may apply to the world of personal relationships, but also to the
world of business and investment. Even in the financial world, the word
“appreciate” means to gather, and to expand the qualitative worth of what is
gathered. This takes time and patience. Thus, with respect to the resources
gathered under this influence, there is little “appreciation of value”. This
may also apply to the interpersonal field, where love of new attractions may
take the place of the appreciation of those relationships already established.
15.
Disappointment in
Love:
With this combination, the result of attraction is so often disappointment,
because the focus of attraction does not live up to expectation.
16.
The Love of Death
and Destruction:
Venus bring love and appreciation (and awakened intelligent interest). The sign
Aries provides strife and violence. This may bring violence, and even death,
into love/‘desire’ relationships.
17.
Human Love is
‘Hot’:
This is not a warm position for Venus (such as in Leo). Rather it is ‘hot’ and
passionate. The serenity of Venus is diminished in the Aretian ‘atmosphere’.
Venus in
Aries for the Advanced Human Being
1.
Mental Beauty:
This combination confers an appreciation of “mental (Aries/Venus) beauty
(Venus)”. This can work out as aesthetic appreciation or, for instance, as an
appreciation for the beauty and elegance of mathematical formulae.
2.
Enthusiasm for
Ideal Beauty:
Venus in Aries is associated with the beauty of Archetypes—those guiding
subjective patterns, which condition all formation below. Under this influence,
one can appreciate the beauty (Venus) of the Divine Concept (Aries) and the
Divine Purpose. The beauty (Venus) of the Divine Plan can be found with Venus
in Capricorn.
3.
Aesthetic Theory:
There may be a capacity for aesthetic theory, because Venus is the planet
related to aesthetics (or the philosophy of the beautiful), and Aries (when it
begins to be ruled by Mercury) becomes, often, mental-theoretical in
expression.
4.
The Mind as an
Organ of Sentiency:
Under this combination the mind can be used as an organ of sentiency; one feels
with the mind.
5.
Love of Concepts:
Much of the energy of love may be directed towards mental concepts: “What a
beautiful idea!” This is a fine position for an architect (who creates patterns
of beauty in the mind) but less so for a builder of concrete structures, unless
the ability to do so comes from other sources. One may also collect examples of
inspiring thoughts.
6.
Concepts of Love:
There may be the concept of love, but will the love express through the heart,
becoming “more than just a concept”?
7.
Theoretical
Approach to Experience:
Venus is experiential (entering experience not only mentally, but sentiently).
Aries (under the esoteric rulership of Mercury) may have a tendency to “remain
in the head”. Thus, under this combination, there may develop a more
theoretical than participatory approach to experience.
18.
A relatively strong ajna center focus would be anticipated because Aries is
associated with the head in general, and with the directing power of the Ajna
center, and Venus is always associated with the ajna center. Venus in Taurus,
however, tends towards a more stable ajna functioning and with Sagittarius and
Capricorn it becomes increasingly focussed and powerful.
19.
“Platonic Love”:
At the point of evolution when the ajna center is functioning more powerfully
than the solar plexus and sacral centers, this combination can incline towards
“Platonic Love”—a mentalized (ideally, soul-inspired) form of love which does
not involve the passions as does normal human love. “Let us not to the marriage
of true minds admit impediment.”
8.
Mental
Affilia-tions:
Venus in Aries promotes the idea of the community of friendship that is
mentally sponsored—a “society of the mind”.
9.
In Art,
Brilliance, but is there Heart?
When poetry or music is produced, the result may be brilliant, but depth of
heart and deep magnetism may be missing. There may be fire and flash, but the
beauty may be more superficial than profound.
10.
‘Athena-like’
Women:
Venus in Aries can represent the Athena-like woman—brilliant and beautiful, but
not exactly soft, compliant and “cuddly”. We might also call this quality,
‘Amazonian beauty’.
1.
The Contents of
the Causal Body Initiate Effects in the Lower Worlds:
Venus rules the qualitative content of the causal body. Aries,
governs the initial impulses towards incarnation. The human soul, or
consciousness, (when liberated from the personality) is focussed within the
causal body. Before each incarnation, this causally-conscious human soul
‘consults’ with the supervisory Solar Angel, and (through the instrumentality
of the powers and patterns of the causal body) initiates causes which work out
as personality patterns in the lower worlds. Venus in Aries represents this
causal initiative. That which is initiated under this combination is to reflect
the idealism and values of the soul.
2.
Soul Impulses:
Venus in Aries is a position associated with “soul impulses”, for Venus is,
paramountly, the planet of the soul or Solar Angel, and Aries, the sign of
impulse. Soul-impulses begin upon the higher mental plane which is ruled by
Venus (though other co-rulers, like Mercury, can be justified). Aries
represents the first steps of descent into incarnation, and Venus (the soul)
enters into a weakened position, detrimental to its full expression. There is,
therefore, something self-sacrificial about this combination (at least for
disciples or initiates, who are beginning to remember the origin of individual incarnations, and the origin of the entire cycle of
incarnations).
3.
Seeding Things of
Value:
Aries represents the process of seeding, and Venus is the symbol of all that is
valuable. Thus, with Venus in Aries, ‘seed values’ are planted—whether by the
soul, or the enlightened personality. One day these will come to fruition as
manifested soul values.
4.
Uniting Spirit
and Personality:
Venus is always a planet which (in later days) unites soul and personality. But
Aries is particularly related to the spirit aspect, and transmits the first and
seventh rays (the seven ray being a concrete reflection of the first). Venus is
also the hierarchical ruler of Capricorn, which also transmits the first and
seventh rays (as well as the third). The first and seventh rays can be
considered as the rulers of spirit (first ray, first principle) and matter
(seventh ray, seventh ‘principle’—though matter, per se, is not a principle.
Matter as ether is a principle.). Magnetic Venus is instrumental in holding
them together, just as it does, eventually, in its exalted position in Pisces
(for Pisces represents both the ocean of matter and the liberation of the
spirit). Other planets also assist in the binding of spirit and matter, but
Venus (representing the soul or middle principle) is the archetypal bond
between spirit and matter.
5.
Venus in Aries in
Relation to the Third Initiation—with Reference to Capricorn:
Aries is related to the third degree as Capricorn is.
“The secret of Aries is the secret of beginnings, of cycles and of emerging
opportunity. At the third initiation, the initiate begins to understand the
life of the spirit or the
highest aspect; until that time, he has expressed first the life
of the form and then the life of the soul within that form. This experience is
of so high a nature that only those who have passed through it could in any way
comprehend anything I might say.” (EA 388-389)
“Capricorn—Guards the secret of the soul itself and this it reveals to the
initiate at the time of the third initiation. This is sometimes called the ‘secret
of the hidden glory’.” (EA 165)
Venus as the hierarchical ruler of Capricorn is powerful at the third degree.
Venus emphasizes the fusion of soul and personality. When Aries is connected to
the third degree, it represents the rising of the exalted Sun of spirit, and
the diminution of Venus (which represents the soul). Both signs (Aries and
Capricorn) are active at the third degree, but Capricorn emphasizes the light
(“supernal”) which relates it to the combined second and third aspects, and
Aries emphasizes the power and will of the monad.
6.
Considering the
Venus in Aries “Detriment” as an Advantage:
There is a difference in the light quality of Venus in Aries and Capricorn in
Aries. Venus in Aries, generally not a luminous position (because incarnation
which is sought in Aries obscures the light) touches, in relation to the third
degree, monadic light. Every planetary “fall” is can really be understood as a
“dignity”, for a “fall” can be a ‘fall away’ from that which is lowest, as the
Tibetan states: “It is to the ‘fall’ of the highest aspect that the symbolism
refers, and then later to the fall or disappearance of all that is base and
low.” Thus, too, a detriment can become an advantage, and Venus can be
considered well-placed in Aries when it comes to the task of blending the light
of the soul and of the spirit.
7.
The Soul as a
Reflector of Monadic Light:
Venus in Aries can represent the combination of soul (Venus) and being (Aries).
At and after the third initiation, the soul can become a reflector of a new
kind of light—monadic light.
8.
Soul Values
Overcome by the Brilliance of Spirit:
From another perspective, the unfettered brilliance of spirit could be
threatening to the soul and its values. Soul values could be “blotted out” by
the overpowering spirit. This could be thought of as the “blotting out the
light of form” (Rule V, R&I), or, alternatively, “blotting out all form”
(Rule XI, R&I).
9.
Venus in Aries
Represents the Threatening of the Causal Body—Soul Color Overcome:
In very high souls, the causal body could be somewhat ‘threatened’ with this
combination. One can imagine the light of spirit becoming so dominant that it
would “blot out” the multiple colors of the causal body—the many varied hues of
qualitative soul-consciousness (for quality is color). Venus, then, would
become brilliant rather than colorful—as if diamond white—and would represent
the beauty of the pure white light. The normal qualitative expression of the
soul within the causal body would be reduced, but its brilliance enhanced.
Perhaps, this is a good position for the enhancement of the functioning of the
“jewel in the lotus”, just as Venus in Capricorn would be (and perhaps Venus in
Taurus and Virgo—ruled in part by Vulcan, the “fashioner” of the “jewel”).
10.
Spirit over Soul:
The soul (Venus) cannot express itself to full advantage in an ‘atmosphere’ of
pure spirit.
11.
Beauty of
Violence, Destruction and Death:
The kind of beauty that might be appreciated by Venus in Aries (especially at
the stage when spirit is becoming positive in the life) would be of a very
assertive and destructive kind—the beauty of destruction, the beauty of death,
the beauty of the blast, the beauty of boundary-annihilating synthesis.
12.
Mental Societies;
Hierarchy as a Society of Minds:
The Hierarchy has been called the “Society of Organised and Illumined Minds”
(DINA I 788-789); the mentalized love of Venus in Aries has a natural
enthusiasm for participation in such societies and for this great spiritual
“Society”, itself. Venus in Aquarius is perhaps even more indicative of the
“Brotherhood”.
13.
The Power which
Shines through the Jewel in the Lotus:
Aries has very little to do with creating the form of the “jewel in the lotus”
(more the task of the Venus and Vulcan in the earth signs), but relates to the
power that shines through the form of the “jewel”.
14.
Pure Ideas and
their Embodiment:
Aries is the “birthplace of ideas”; at a certain
relatively
15.
Rays Expressed
through the Venus Mind:
Through the agency of Aries, the first and seventh rays are expressed through the
fifth ray of the mind ruled by Venus. The second ray, also related to Venus, is
not so congenially placed in Aries. The very high sixth ray expressed by Venus,
has some resonance to the fiery atmosphere of Aries, ruled in part by sixth ray
Mars.
16.
The Love of the
Ideal, of the Archetypal:
Venus in Aries confers the love the ideal and the archetypal. There is a
special love of ideal beauty—not only beauty as it is expressed through form.
17.
Venus in
Aries—the Magnetization of the Divine Plan:
At a high level of development, Aries represents the possibility of recognizing
the Divine Plan and working within it—intelligently and willfully. Venus in
Aries adds magnetism to this work, helping, especially, to keep the beauty of
the archetypal outline of the Plan vividly present.
18.
The Beauty of the
Divine Mind:
Aries comes forth “from the plane of mind” and rules. God’s Mind expressed the
Law. There is Divine Beauty in the conceptions of the Divine Mind. Venus in
Aries (when its usual detriment is considered an advantage) reveals the
archetypal beauty of the Divine Mind, and the beauty of the Divine Laws which
it expresses.
19.
The Attractive
Declaration of Principle:
Aries declares and enunciates laws and spiritual principles. These can come
forth seeing harsh, cold, uncaring, impersonal. Venus
in Aries renders these laws and principles more attractive, magnetic—beautiful.
This combination reveals the beauty of first principles—albeit, at a very high
point of evolution.
20.
Blending Will and
Mind:
Venus is the illumined mind and Aries, the will. Venus in Aries can blend the
two, helping to reveal and express “spirit (Aries) values (Venus)”.
Individuals with Venus in Aries
Karl Barth
Charles Pierre Baudelaire
Alexander Graham Bell
Cyrano de Bergerac
Rosa Bonheur
Charlemagne
Nicolaus Copernicus
Charles Darwin
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Anthony Van Dyck
Albert Einstein
Sigmund Freud
Francisco Goya
Martha Graham
William Harvey
Saddam Hussein
Jim
Abraham Lincoln
Carolus Linnaeus
Nicolo Machiavelli
Michelangelo
Marilyn Monroe
Sir Thomas More
J. Pierpont Morgan
Modest Moussorgsky
Sir Lawrence Olivier
Samuel Pepys
Francis Rakoczy
Ramakrishna
Raphael
Pierre Auguste Renoir
Maximillian Robespierre
Dane Rudhyar
Arthur Schopenhauer
Algernon Swinburne
Queen
William Wordsworth
General Questions Concerning the
Spiritual Function of Mars
Mars in Aries or Mars in Relation to Aries
Quotations from Esoteric Astrology, relevant to the meaning of Mars in
relation to Aries.
1. Mars in Relation to Aries is Involved in a Needed
Purification:
“Through the fiery processes of war and strife, brought to the individual
through the influence of the planetary ruler, Mars, the God of War, a needed
purification takes place.” (EA 95-96)
2. Mars Embodying Sixth Ray Force:
[Mars in relation to Aries] Mars embodies sixth ray force which leads to
idealism, destructive fanaticism frequently, struggle, strife, war, effort and
evolution. (EA 99)
3. Mars rules Last Decanate of Aries (on the Reversed
Wheel). “When he reorients himself and mounts the Fixed Cross, he comes under
the influence of Jupiter, the Sun and Mars, for the initiate and the disciple
culminates his career in any of the signs with a final and dominant struggle
and fight”. ( EA 106)
4. Mars rules the first decanate of Aries if Aries is
partitioned among the members of the Fire Triplicity. Aries, exoterically ruled
by Mars, would then correspond to the first decanate.
5. Mars and the Dynamics of Aries:
“Mars appears first of all as the orthodox ruler in Aries, the sign in which
the first move is made towards bringing about objective manifestation, or
physical incarnation.” (EA 210)
6. Mars in Aries Related to the War Between the Dualities:
[The man] “started in Aries with Mars ruling, and the great war between the
dualities which constitute the man began. The pairs of opposites were thus
brought into relation with each other.” (EA 210)
7. Mars in Relation to Aries—Producing Great Revelation:
“The effect of Mars is, therefore, largely mass effect and group results,
producing great struggles but leading to great revelation. In Aries, it is the
final revelation of the nature of knowledge and the purpose of incarnation.”
(EA 210-211)
1. Mars (in Aries) in Relation to the Dense Physical
Vehicle: The physical nature tends to be highly energized and strong
(especially for short applications of energy). Acute physical conditions appear
without warning; sudden fevers which burn away impurities are common.
2. Mars (in Aries) in Relation to the Etheric Vehicle: The
etheric body experiences bursts of energy leading to action. Etheric flows are
irregular.
3. Mars (in Aries) in Relation to the Astral Vehicle: The
astral nature is fiery, restless and turbulent—rajasic rather than tamasic or
sattvic. Reactivity is sudden and strong; there is little emotional restraint.
There is a tendency towards emotional outbursts, sudden “flare-ups” which
rapidly subside. The “blood boils” easily. Blood (symbolized by Mars) rushes to
the head (ruled by Aries). There is strong impulsiveness—acting “on the spur of
the moment”—prompted by keen and insistent desires. Thus, initiatives are
rapidly undertaken; there is a rapid and unrestrained response to the
impulsions of desire.
4. Mars (in Aries) in Relation to the Concrete Mind: Mars
in Aries sharpens the concrete mind (depending upon the level of evolution),
making its expressions incisive and oriented towards rapid action. The mind
becomes the servant of the personal will creating thoughtforms which both
direct and impose.
5. Mars (in Aries) in Relation to the Personality as a
Whole: The entire personality is highly energized, mobilized and inclined
towards great efforts, whether these efforts are impulsed by desire or more
directed by will. The personality confronts life, insisting upon its own way,
and forcing the environment to conform to its thoughts.
6. Mars (in Aries) in Relation to Glamors and Necessary
Transmutation and Transformations: Glamors derive from impatience,
impulsiveness, a too-eager, too-emphatic response, and an excessively combative
attitude. Idealism may be over-emphasized to the point of fanaticism. A
condition of too much heat and too little light, leads astray. Disproportion
estimation blinds the eye to true values. The instinctual, desire-driven animal
nature is accentuated, and prevents a more refined response to the soul. This
ill-regulated animal nature requires subduing, taming and training, and, then,
culturing.
7. Mars (in Aries) in Relation to Sex: Sexual energy is
spontaneous and easily aroused, with a tendency to be unregulated or, at least,
insufficiently regulated by thought. The urge to fecundation, to the scattering
of the seed is pronounced in Aries—the sign of all beginnings.
8. Mars (in Aries) in Relation to the Management and
Expenditure of Energy: There is a tendency to towards the excessive expenditure
of energy. Through over-estimation, more energy is often applied than needed;
thus there is waste.
9. Mars (in Aries) in Relation to Courage: The
personality tends to be courageous and willing to fight for what it thinks and
believes. There is a ready will to confront obstacles (even if that
confrontation is hasty, impulsive and insufficiently thought through).
10. Mars (in Aries) in Relation to Aspiration: The
aspirational life is fiery, potent and easily ignited
11. Mars (in Aries) in Relation to Idealism: Mars in Aries
greatly stimulates the idealism of the personality and its tendencies towards
fiery devotion. Such individuals tend to commit themselves fully (if at times
inconsistently) to their beliefs, visions, causes—in short, to their ideals.
12. Mars (in Aries) in Relation to Life’s Battlefield and
the Readiness and Willingness to Fight: Mars in Aries gives, above all, the
ready willingness to fight—be it for one’s desires, one’s personal will, or
one’s ideals. Four directives are given in relation to Aries. One of them is
most related to this combination of influences: “Enter into battle for the
Lord.” (EA 93) Resistance (whether from persons, places or things) is the
‘enemy’ and must be overcome. Such persons force their way through life
engaging in many necessary (and very many unnecessary) conflicts.
13. Mars (in Aries) in Relation to the Nature of
Personality Rebellion against the Soul: In general, during the early period in
which there is an interplay between the soul and its
personality, the desire-driven personality is in frequent and energetic combat
with soul tendency. The rebellion of the personality is accentuated, aggravated
by rampant, unrestrained forces expressing through the various personality
vehicles.
14. Mars (in Aries) in Relation to Personality Cooperation
with the Soul: After some experience upon the reversed wheel, Mars in Aries can
stimulate the personality into becoming an energetic ally of the soul—a ready
fighter for the promotion of soul-inspired ideals. The “good soldier”.
Specific
Expression of Mars in Aries
Mars in Aries for the Advanced Human Being
1. Vigor, abundant energy
2. Courage, bravery, daring, valor
3. Hope and enthusiasm
4. Initiative
Mars in
Aries for the Disciple or Initiate
Individuals with Mars in Aries
Charles Pierre
Baudelaire
Cyrano de
Bergerac
Simon Bolivar
Tycho Brahe
Frederick Chopin
Oliver Cromwell
Claude Debussy
Charles Dickens
Albrecht Durer
Hermann Goering
Francisco Goya
Stephen Hawking
Alduous Huxley
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Nicolai Lenin
Claudio Monteverdi
Norman Vincent Peale
Girolamo Savonarola
Franz Schubert
Socrates
Andreas Vesalius
Queen Victoria
Swami Vivekananda
Walt Whitman
Paramahansa
Yogananda
General Questions Concerning the
Spiritual Function of Jupiter
Jupiter in Aries or
Jupiter in Relation to Aries
Quotations from Esoteric Astrology, relevant to the meaning of Jupiter
in relation to Aries.
Jupiter in Relation to Aries—Conferring Success:
[On the ordinary wheel, the third decan of Aries is ruled by Jupiter,
conferring] “…the successful satisfaction of desire and ambition.” (EA 106)
1.
Jupiter (in
Aries) in Relation to the Three Personality Vehicles: This combination will
energize the three vehicles, increasing their positivity towards the
environment. An increase in physical-etheric energy with added buoyancy; a
sense of optimism and enthusiasm in the astral vehicle; a tendency towards
mental fertility—the conceiving of many possible initiatives—such would be characteristic
results of this combination.
2.
Jupiter (in
Aries) in Relation to the Personality as a Whole: The personality becomes
eager, ready and willing to begin. Aries is the sign of commencement and
Jupiter believes and is optimistic. This combination influences the personality
towards a positive, expectant outlook that initiatives begun can and will be
fulfilled. If anything, there may be too many initiatives, accompanied by
over-confidence and unrealistic estimation of possibilities.
3.
Jupiter (in
Aries) in Relation to the Fusion of Soul and Personality: This combination will
reveal to the personality those soul initiatives which seek to manifest and be
fulfilled. The personality becomes “more than willing” to undertake,
immediately, what the soul reveals. To the extent that these “seed ideas” are
accepted and put into action, the soul and personality will draw closer
together.
4.
Jupiter (in
Aries) in Relation to the Synthesis of Human Dualities—Head/Heart; Mind/Love;
Will/Wisdom: By the time Jupiter, a sacred planet, can be effective in the
fusion of soul and personality as well as the lesser dualities, Aries has
become a ‘mental’ sign, ruled by Mercury. Aries rules the head and Jupiter the
heart (EA 517); Jupiter is related to higher mind (EA 369) as well as to love;
Aries is related to will and Jupiter to wisdom. This combination, therefore,
touches each member of each duality concerned. Jupiter in Aries influences
towards eager entry into experience. High things are undertaken under the
impulse of the soul, and one learns because one has dared. A confident entry
into big and demanding projects calls upon all available resources; the
opposites learn to cooperate because they must if there is to be success.
5.
Jupiter (in
Aries) in Relation to the Means by which the Expansion of Consciousness may be Sought: Experience is the best teacher; once learns by
doing, “on the job”. Fearless beginnings lead to revelatory engagement with
circumstance. Those who are more timid and hesitant do not learn so quickly. The
willingness to undertake in response to soul vision throws one into the field
of revelation, and one learns more and more through success, and also through
the failures due to overestimation.
6.
Jupiter (in
Aries) in Relation to the Fulfillment of Desire and the Satisfaction of
Demand—1) initially, fulfillment for the little self; then .
2) fulfillment of desire for the good of the whole—a
fulfillment achieved through the outgoing expression of love: Jupiter in Aries
dares greatly and expresses fully. Tasks are undertaken simply because they are
part of the Divine Plan; there may be personal sacrifice involved, but it does
not seem important compared to that which must be done. Confidence and
optimistic unselfishness attracts cooperation and resources. That which man
desires, he can have, especially if he does not bock his own way with
negativity. The belief that difficult undertakings lie fully within the range
of accomplishment makes accomplishment that much easier. People love and
circumstance supports those who dare greatly.
7.
Miscellaneous
Meanings of Jupiter in Aries:
a. Jupiter in Aries, expands the
mentality and mental initiative. Aries rules the head and Jupiter confers
enlargement; the head, itself, may be increased in size.
b. The Jupiter in Aries person enters enthusiastically
and joyfully into uncharted territory; he is always “up for the new”. His is
the joy (Jupiter) of new beginnings (Aries).
c. The Jupiter in Aries person is always ready to expand
the present ring-pass-not. Is he over-eager? Are expansions of consciousness
superficial and without depth? Will they last? These are important questions
for those born with this combination.
d. For the Jupiter in Aries person, expansion occurs
through initiative, through trying new things, through undertaking that which
has not been done before.
e. For Jupiter in Aries expansion occurs in bursts of
enthusiasm. One can expect impulsive and intermittent expansion, rather than
steady expansion.
f.
The Jupiter in
Aries person grows (Jupiter) through assertion (Aries).
g. Since Jupiter is the planet of fulfillment and
completion, (and is exalted in Cancer, a sign of completed form) the Jupiter in
Aries person will at least attempt to bring his initiatives to fulfillment—but
may well need the help of other planets and signs to do so.
Specific
Expression of Jupiter in Aries
1.
Underestimation;
“biting off more than one can chew”
2.
Over-optimism;
“thinking too big”
3.
Exaggeration and
excess
4.
Foolish, careless
and reckless
5.
Bombast and
pretense
6.
Immoderation;
improvidence; prodigality
7.
Grasping power;
expansion through unlawful means
Jupiter in
Aries for the Advanced Man
1.
Hopefulness;
“hope springs eternal in the human breast”
2.
Optimism;
believing in the possibilities
3.
A source of many
proposals
4.
Positivity
5.
Enterprising,
large-scale beginnings
6.
Wide vision
7.
Involvement in large
initiative and undertakings
8.
Generous
Jupiter in
Aries for the Disciple or Initiate
1.
Faith in the
Divine Plan and Purpose
2.
Inspired by the
Divine Plan and Purpose
3.
Implementing the
Divine Will through expansive Love
4.
Capacity to
intuit and receive impression from archetypes
5.
Contact with the
monadic world
6.
Readily inspired
by soul initiatives
7.
Undaunted by
negativity
8.
Grasping the
Purpose and Plan in a large-minded way
9.
Eagerness to
serve the Hierarchy
10.
Intuitively
understanding “Life more Abundant”
11.
Spreading spiritual
vitality and spiritual energies
12.
Capable of
“rising above” any adversity
Individuals with Jupiter in Aries
Sir Francis Bacon
Alice Bailey
Bela Bartok
Clara Barton
Charles Pierre
Baudelaire
Cyrano de Bergerac
Louis De, Prince Broglie form of name check?
Sir
Fidel Castro
Charlemagne
Frederick Chopin
Rene Descartes
Gaetano Donizetti
Fyodor Dosteovski
Mary Baker Eddy
Hermann Goering
Elbert Hubbard
Helen Keller
Mustafa Kemal-Ataturk
Yehudi Menuhin
Sir Thomas More
Wilhelm Rontgen
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Nikola Tesla
Paramahansa Yogananda
Saturn in Aries or
Saturn in Relation to Aries:
Quotations
from Esoteric Astrology, relevant to the meaning of Saturn in relation to Aries
1. Saturn Falls in Aries:
“Saturn ‘falls’ in Aries. This has two meanings, for this is a dual sign.
First: Saturn is the Lord of Karma, the imposer of retribution and the one who
demands full payment of all debts and who therefore condemns us to the struggle
for existence, both from the form side and from the soul side. Saturn,
therefore ‘fell’ when man fell into generation. He ‘followed the sons of men
down into their low place’. Second: Saturn’s power is completely ended and his
work accomplished when man (the spiritual man) has freed himself from Karma and
from the power of the two Crosses—the Common and the Fixed. Esoterically,
Saturn cannot follow man on to the Cardinal Cross.” (EA 105)
2. Saturn Stimulates Discriminative Pioneering:
Saturn in Aries is particularly described by the term, “discriminative
pioneering”. (cf. EA 148-149)
2.
Saturn (in Aries)
in Relation to the Personality as a Whole: This position adds caution to
personality behavior. Aries, per se, is always “getting into things”—beginning
things, sometimes wisely, often unwisely. Saturn in Aries retrains the eager
entry into experience. In early days upon the Mutable Cross, this may mean many
missed opportunities. Circumstance invites, offering the possibility of
accomplishment, but the hesitant human does not “seize the day”. Perhaps the conscious
or unconscious memory of so much karma generated unnecessarily acts to
restrain. If Pisces is the sign in which long-established karmic conditions
have, at long last, to be faced, Aries is the sign in which the seeds of this
karma are sown. When Saturn in Aries is working under wisdom, there is great
respect for the Law of Karma, and a reduction of beginnings which will drive
the human soul more deeply into form. Upon the Fixed Cross, this position produces
the purposeful personality, deeply aware of karmic consequence. The individual
knows how to choose (Saturn) his battles (Aries), and faces with courage those
conditions which must be faced—of necessity. A high meaning of this combination
could be expressed as ‘purposeful beginnings in line with the Divine Plan’.
3.
Saturn (in Aries)
and the Presentation of Opportunity on the Path of Discipleship: In the
language of esotericism, the presentation of obstacles which must be overcome
is called the “presentation of opportunity”. With Saturn in Aries, one is
presented with the ‘opportunity’ of difficult but necessary beginnings. For
instance, many difficulties lie in the path of something that must be done; the
disciple feels the great burden of beginning. His dharmic and karmic
responsibilities, however, will not allow him to escape shouldering the burden.
Actually, in many countries of the world, huge, heavy burdens are either
carried on the head, or by using the head as a principle means of support. Those
who carry such burdens walk very carefully and slowly. This is a graphic symbol
of the Saturn-in-Aries attitude.
4.
Saturn (in Aries)
and Choices to be Made, and Destruction to be Endured in order to Promote a
Freer Expression of the Soul: The choices to be made concern what is worth
undertaking and what is not—which ‘invitations’ of life to accept, and how to
accept them. One may also have to witness his initiatives destroyed if they are
insufficiently sound to bear the weight of purpose. One may also destroy the
initiatives of others, as when rebellions (Aries) are “put down” (Saturn).
Dangerous conflagrations can be “stamped out”; this combination is good at
“putting out fires”—for good or ill.
When this Saturn in Aries turns tyrannical, a suggestive image would be
the heel of the boot upon the fresh, young shoot; but noxious weeds, too, may
be “crushed” before they grow. Rooting them out, however, requires the work of
Pluto.
5.
As “the sacred
planets endeavour to fuse the personality and make it the instrument of the
soul and the non-sacred planets influence more specifically the form nature”,
how does Saturn, a sacred planet, fuse the personality and make it a
responsible instrument of the soul in this particular sign? How does it enforce
the law(s) of the soul, and assist in the fulfillment of the Purpose, Plan and
Dharma conceived by the soul?:
When the vehicles of the personality function under soul plan and purpose, they
function harmoniously. Saturn in Aries (like its counterpart, Saturn in Libra)
helps to keep the balance between the three personality vehicles, by subduing
inappropriate initiatives in any one of them. The vehicles or fields are kept
“in leash”, and none is allowed to act entirely independently of the rest. The
soul is intended to “rule” from the plane of mind—at first from the lower mind
and then, from that concentration of energy on the higher mental plane which is
called “soul”. Aries governs what might be called ‘soul impulses intended to
become personality initiatives’. The personality can waste so much precious
time following impulses from the three lower vehicles, or from the ambient
force fields in which these three lower vehicles function. For instance, an
impulse towards action may be prompted by my own emotional vehicle, or may impress
itself upon my astral body from my astral environment (which includes the
astral bodies of those with whom I am associated). But, Saturn is the Lord of
Time, just as it is the planet of plan and purpose. By regulating
initiatives—confining the many possible initiatives, more and more, to those
which should be undertaken, whether or not the personality wants to undertake
them, this combination makes the personality an instrument of soul dharma, and
clears ‘room-in-time’ in the life, for those things that, from a spiritual
point of view, must be done.
6.
Miscellaneous Directives
for those with Saturn in Aries:
a.
See that you
begin purposefully.
b.
See that plans
are begun in accordance with the Plan.
c.
See that
activities are begun aright.
d.
See that
undertakings are initiated in line with the Law; lawful beginnings.
1.
Action which
causes further karma
2.
Hesitation,
delay, timidity, fear of action
3.
Lack of
initiative; “He who hesitates is lost”
4.
Lack of spontaneity
5.
Enforced
conformity
6.
Lack of
originality; unwillingness to try the new
Saturn in
Aries for the Advanced Human Being
1.
Purposeful action
2.
Steady beginnings
3.
Planning,
foresight, providence; planned initiatives
4.
Regulation from
the top down
5.
“Look before you
leap”
6.
Intelligent
action which does not cause further karma
7.
Bound by the
illusions of the mind; trapped by thoughtforms of one’s own conception
Saturn in
Aries for the Disciple or Initiate
1.
God’s Will as Law
2.
Alignment with
Shamballa
3.
Conformity to and
imposition of Divine Law, Shamballic Law
4.
Recognition and
work with the Divine Plan
5.
Understanding of
and responsible cooperation with the laws which the Divine Plan seeks to
institute
6.
Initiatives
required by karma
7.
The soul as
regulator of karma
8.
Direction of life
from the head center considered as a purposeful regulator
Individuals with Saturn in Aries
Alice Bailey
Bela Bartok
Clara Barton
Charles Pierre Baudelaire
Sir
Fyodor Dosteovski
Mary Baker Eddy
Albert Einstein
Desideius Erasmus
Peter the Great
Franz
Hermann Helmholz
Saddam Hussein
Helen Keller
Mustafa Kemal-Ataturk
Herbet Horatio Kitchener
Douglas MacArthur
Abraham Maslow
Franz Anton von Mezmer
Gioacchino Rossini
Cyril Scott
George Washington
Uranus in Aries or Uranus in Relation to Aries:
1.
Uranus (in Aries)
in Relation to the Three Personality Vehicles:
a.
Uranus in Aries
beings electric strength to the physical body, but may incline towards
accidents and sudden, untoward impacts.
b.
Uranus in Aries
can pour “electric fire” into the etheric nature, galvanizing the chakras into
fresh and vibrant activity. If Uranus is prominent, one must be on guard
against overstimulation. All the same, the treading of the “burning ground” is
facilitated; one may readily reorganize the expression of the etheric energy
system.
c.
Uranus in Aries
may promote sudden, fiery and unpredictable changes within the astral nature.
In more advanced individuals control of the astral by the will and mind is facilitated.
d.
Uranus in Aries
gives originality and fresh ideas to the mind. There will be a flow of mental
inspiration providing the incentive for new initiatives. The individual will
often be unconventional and progressive in his thinking.
2.
Uranus (in Aries)
in Relation to the Personality as a Whole: When prominent, Uranus in Aries
confers a daring personality, willing to disrupt “personality tradition” and
attempt the new. Convention has little hold and the sense of direction is very
much derived from the spontaneous directives of the ‘authentic self’—whatever
the individual considers that to be.
3.
Uranus (in Aries)
in Relation to the Integration of the Personality: The personality is not
integrated in accordance with the patterns of society but by a
S/self-originated pattern which organizes personality expression in a way
unique to the individuality.
4.
Uranus (in Aries)
in Relation to the Fusion of Soul and Personality: Uranus is the messenger of
the soul, seeking to awaken the personality to respond to the archetypal soul
pattern which is guiding it from above. Sudden bursts of inspiration will pour
light and will into the personality, providing it with fresh incentives and
reorganizing its usual patterns. The personality is forced to drop the habitual
patterns which prevent it from knowing the authentic pattern to which it should
acquiesce. Soul and personality are fused when the personality is ready to
“take the risk” of being spontaneously authentic.
5.
Uranus (in Aries)
in Relation to the Transmutation and Transformation of the Personality: Uranus
is the principal planet of transmutation and transformation. In this
disciple/initiate, this placement initiates an advanced “burning ground” within
the personality vehicles, subjecting them to the “fires of transmutation”. Energy
is elevated from a given chakra to its higher corresponding fire—this is the
“passage across from one state of being to another through the agency of fire ” which is characteristic of transmutation. Old
impediments are burned away and reorganized—or destroyed. This position (Uranus
in Aries) is very Shamballic—but one must have reached the point in evolution
when response to the higher will is possible.
The “new form” of the purified, transmuted vehicles reflects the individual
“pattern in the heavens”. The work of Uranus in Aries is to reveal the
archetypal patterns which are inherent within the individual, and to reorganize
the personality forms until they become responsive to the power and originality
of the “trans” factor which lies ‘beyond’ those vehicles.
Such individuals have a great capacity to start anew, to be “born again”, and
to start an entirely new and far more spiritually authentic life with unusual
vigor.
Specific
Expression of Uranus in Aries
Uranus in
Aries for the Advanced Man
Uranus in
Aries for the Disciple or Initiate
Individuals with Uranus in Aries
Augustine
Alexander Graham Bell
Sarah Bernhardt
Annie Besant
Luther Burbank
Fidel Castro
Oliver Cromwell
Ram Dass
Rene Descartes
Anthony Van Dyck
Thomas Alva
Edison
Anne Frank
Michel Gauquelin
Michael Gorbachev
King Ludwig II
Jim
Martin Luther King
Herbet Horatio Kitchener
Friedrich Nietzsche
Elvis Presley
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Wilhelm Rontgen
Carl Sagan
Andreas Vesalius
Eli Whitney
Boris Yeltsin
Note: To a degree, and with caution, some of these
indications may be transferred to the interpretation of the first house, which
is naturally associated with the first sign, Aries. Houses carry no formative
energy; rather, house conditions are formed by formative energy. For instance,
the third house does not confer the power to communicate; it simply relates to
life’s communicative possibilities. Gemini, however, as the third sign, does
confer the power to communicate.
The following interpretations refer to those with a
high focus
1.
a.
Desires are
‘bound-less’. Everything seems possible—even the
impossible. But,
b.
Hopes are high.
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast.”
c.
Wishes are
many—burgeoning. “The possibilities are infinite.”
d.
Imaginings are
‘wild’, full of fertile possibility.
e.
Dreams are of
“un-dreamt of possibilities”.
f.
Glamorization
arises through thinking the “sky is the limit”; over-estimation, over-optimism;
thinking that the impossible is possible.
g.
Perhaps there is
not so much tendency towards lower psychism, as Aries is so assertive rather
than receptive.
2.
a.
The outgoingness
of new beginnings is so strong that the necessary receptivity for feeling
sensitivity is missing. (Of course, there have been and will be many psychics
born under this influence, but this would depend upon the strength, house
position and aspects of
b.
Psychism may be
reduced for reasons stated.
c.
Sensitivity to
Higher Vibration may exist in relation to the ream of ideas, which are
incorporeal beings focused upon archetypal levels—the buddhic, atmic and
monadic planes.
3.
a.
Initiatives are
taken towards refinement, but too much Martian energy makes much refinement of
substance unlikely. Thought may be refined and rendered more subtle.
b.
Sensitization, in
general, is reduced, but there may be sensitization to the will¸ which the
presence of Aries always increases.
c.
Most often, Aries
is ‘down-ward’ tending, towards incarnation; ‘etherealization’ is an up-ward
tending process. There is a desirous plunge into
experience. There is, however, a reaching for sublimity, and a rising impulse
towards resurrection.
4.
a.
Devotion is keen;
this is like a Neptune/Mars combination.
b.
Idealism is very
high. This is a “reach for the stars” combination. There may be ‘utopian’
beginnings. Many idealized projects may be undertaken.
c.
Mysticism is
ardent; the ideal world of pure-being is believed a reality. The desire to
rise.
d.
Formless unity.
e.
The Higher Vision
is the vision of possible beginnings, as the Guides of the Race would see them.
5.
Neptune in Aries
in Relation to Intimacy leading to
a.
There may an
urgent urge towards intimacy, but energies too strong and restless to produce
it.
b.
c.
Identification is
strongly indicated (for those at the point in evolution when identification
becomes possible). Aries indicates “pure being” and
6.
7.
a.
Sympathy is
reduced, but there may be sympathy for those who undertake bold initiatives.
b.
Empathy is
reduced, at least in its emotional aspects, but there may be a capacity to feel
others’ thoughts.
c.
Compassion is
vigorous, filled with the idea that the improvement of unfortunate or pitiful
situations is amazingly possible.
d.
Forgiveness is
generous, and linked to the ideas that potentials are boundless, and that any
deficiency can be overcome.
e.
Selfless
Heart-Love from the Heart of the Sun is spontaneous and linked to the will. The
heart-in-the-head may undergo stimulation.
f.
(Atma-Buddhi
placement).
8.
a.
At a certain
point of evolution, abstraction is powerful. Earlier, there is devotion (
b.
The urge to
Transcendence is powerful, related to the upwelling urge for resurrection.
c.
Perhaps there is
not the refinement necessary to produce truly sublime states.
d.
Exaltation is
frequent due to up-welling urges and aspirations.
e.
Ecstatic
tendencies are strong. The identity seeks separate itself from its
identifications, and to re-become the One Identity.
f.
Bliss is based on
synthesis.
1.
Lack of realism
through overestimation
2.
Glamorous,
unrealistic hopes and wishes
3.
Utopian ventures;
starting off boldly (but without clear vision), and but losing one’s way
4.
Mental confusion;
unwisely believing that anything is possible; unrealistic utopianism
5.
Leaping into
action through desire and solar plexus impulse
6.
Aggressive
dissolution—corrosion
1.
Conceptual
idealism
2.
Mental
idealism—“if you can conceive, you can achieve it”
3.
Envisioning the
entirely new
4.
“the sky is the
limit”
5.
Ever-present
hopes for new beginnings
6.
Initiatives based
on compassion
7.
Vigor upon the
astral plane; ‘breaking into’ the astral plane
8.
New methods of
travel by sea
9.
Fresh religious
and spiritual initiatives
10.
“Revivals”
1.
Philosophical
idealism
2.
Intuitive access
to “ideas whose time has come”; intuiting that which is new and ‘descending’
3.
Strong urge
towards transcendence
4.
Solo-pursuit of
the ‘Path of Transcendence’
5.
Strong urge
towards identification
6.
Rising “up, up
and away”—from concrete manifestation
7.
‘Breaking into’
the buddhic plane
8.
Buddhic
initiatives
9.
The beginning of
absorption and obscuration
10.
Mystical
initiatives—starting out on great quests
11.
Taking the
12.
The sacrifice of
the soul and spirit
Individuals with
Aurobindo
Tycho Brahe
Julius Caesar
Winston Churchill
Marie Curie
Claude Debussy
Henry Ford
Benjamin Franklin
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Dr. Samuel
Nicolai Lenin
Carolus Linnaeus
Carl Gustav Emil Mannerheim
Guglielmo Marconi
Maria Montessori
Emily Post
Bertrand Russell
Earnest
Albert Schweitzer
Alexander Scriabin
Jean Sibelius
Konstantin Stanislavsky
Charles P. Steinmetz
D.T. Suzuki
Rabindranath
Tagore
Arturo Toscanini
Swami Vivekananda
Ralph Vaughn Williams
Frank Lloyd Wright
Orville Wright
Wilbur Wright
William
Pluto in
the Signs
1.
Pluto (in Aries)
or the First House in Relation to Purification and Purging: Pluto, when active
upon the later stages of the One Path, brings to the surface all filth and
poison hidden in the recesses of the lunar nature. This cleansing must occur if
the true identity of the individual is to shine forth. The lunar nature is no
longer allowed to harbor or retain the residual corruption of the ages. When
Pluto is placed in Aries, this purification and purging is of a drastic nature—the
burning grounds fiercer in their fire.
2.
Pluto (in Aries)
or the First House in Relation to Destruction: If that which obscures the
identity cannot be successfully purged and the lunar nature purified, then the
obstructions must be destroyed, eradicated. Aries is a first ray sign and Pluto
a first ray planet; the ‘will-to-terminate’ for the sake of freedom from the
old is very strong.
3.
Pluto (in Aries)
or the First House in Relation to Identity: The first house indicates identity
on all levels. Circumstance is met with a ‘rejecting force’ designed to banish,
exile, repudiate anything that would compromise the true nature of the real
identity. Conventional assessments of identity are not accepted. The solution
to the problem of identity must be radical and the essential identity revealed.
4.
Pluto (in Aries)
or the First House in Relation to Preparation for Initiation: Those who are not
cleansed cannot pass through the “portal of initiation”. One cannot enter that
portal still influenced by glamors and illusions about the self. Pluto
eradicates the set of glamor and illusions which pertain to the particular
initiation being faced (as all cannot be eradicated at once).
Note: To a degree, and with caution, some of these
indications may be transferred to the interpretation of the first house, which
is naturally associated with the first sign, Aries. Houses carry no formative
energy; rather, house conditions are formed by formative energy. For instance,
the third house does not confer the power to communicate; it simply relates to
life’s communicative possibilities. Gemini, however, as the third sign, does
confer the power to communicate.
Miscellaneous Meanings for Pluto in Aries or in the
First House
1.
Pluto does not
destroy consciousness. Rather, it clears the way for its expression.
2.
Pluto in Aries deals
with beginnings, endings. Aries/Pluto/Shamballa.
3.
In some systems
Pluto is ruler of Aries, or related.
4.
A conduit for
Trans-Plutonian planets.
5.
Scientist working
with nuclear energy.
6.
Aries/Father—Pluto/Mother.
Specific
Expression of Pluto in Aries
1.
Love of power
2.
Eliminating all
obstacles
3.
Ruthlessness
4.
Destruction by
fire
5.
Brain tumor. The
disease, cancer, is related to first ray. Both Aries and Pluto are related to
the head and Pluto brings corruption to the surface.
6.
Aries relates to
the power of the eye, Pluto to the “evil eye”
Pluto in
Aries (or the First House) for the Advanced Man
1.
Destroying to
begin
2.
Purgative
initiatives
3.
The “clear
cut”—irrevocable detachment
4.
Impressive and
powerful personality
5.
Raising all
things into the light
6.
Pluto in Aries or
the First House has a particular kind of usefulness to the psychologist. It
facilitates work with strong, crystallized people. Its energy is able to break
down crystallizations and cut away mental illusions which prevent moving into
new cycle.
7.
“Enough is
enough”—no tolerance with the old and outworn
8.
Atomic energy
9.
Pluto in
Aries (or the First House) for the Disciple or Initiate
1.
Plunging into the
depths of being.
2.
Destroying
illusions
3.
The assertion of
Shamballa in the life of the individual and group: there is an important
triangle in this regard: Aries/Pluto/Shamballa
4.
Destruction and
purification by means of Shamballic Will
5.
Shamballically-induced
burning ground
6.
Annihilating all
that which stands in the way of the realization of being
7.
Occult
power—ruling from the head as the synthesis of all
8.
The burning
ground
9.
Pealing away the
layers of identity, until to the essential identity is disclosed
10.
Destruction which
must precede synthesis
11.
Preparing the way
for the emergence of a new archetype.
12.
Destruction which
ever precedes the new; the old disappears in an explosion of power
13.
Connecting the
head center and base of the spine; the ‘straight road’ from the base to the
crown, and crown to base
14.
Rising of
kundalini to the crown.
15.
Burning away of
all obstacles to Mastership and Resurrection
16.
Death and
resurrection
Individuals with Pluto in Aries
Horatio Alger
Marcus Aurelius
Alexander Graham Bell
Sarah Bernhardt
Annie Besant
Luther Burbank
Julius Caesar
Lewis Carroll
Paul Cezanne
Oliver Cromwell
Father
Rene Descartes
Anthony Van Dyck
Thomas Alva Edison
Stephen Foster
Ulysses S. Grant
Alexander the Great
William Harvey
Thomas Hobbes
King Ludwig II
Henry James
William James
Herbet Horatio Kitchener
William Lilly
Cosima Liszt
Edouard Manet
A.A. Michelson
J. Pierpont Morgan
Modest Moussorgsky
Friedrich Nietzsche
H.S. Olcott
Ramakrishna
Pierre Auguste Renoir
Auguste Rodin
Wilhelm Rontgen
Algernon Swinburne
Leo Tolstoy
Jules Verne
Additional Planetoids and Asteroids
Chiron in
Aries
Chiron in Aries: Chiron
is the “Quest Guide” and the “Wounded Healer”. With this position, one is
compensating for wounds to one’s power to act independently. As we always teach
what we have to learn, or learn from bitter experience with our shortcomings,
the individual with Chiron in Aries will, after much pain (‘Chironic pain’)
develop a strong sense of initiative and will direct himself and others forward
accordingly bravely. Chiron in Aries, as teacher, will counsel independent,
Self-directed action.
Chiron is a bridging planet, bridging from lower Saturnian worlds to higher Uranian
worlds. The quest departing from familiarity to the new will be undertaken with
boldness and courage. One will risk all to venture forth and discover what only
the higher worlds can reveal. If there are battles to be fought on the ‘Quest
Path’, the one with Chiron in Aries will be equal to them.
Individuals
with Chiron in Aries
Isaac Asimov
Aurobindo
Clara Barton
Charles Pierre
Baudelaire
Leonard Bernstein
Robert Bly
Marlon Brando
Sir
Leo Buscaglia
Jimmy Carter
Giovanni Casanova
Carlos Casteneda
Edgar Cayce
Winston Churchill
S.T. Coleridge
Aleister Crowley
Fyodor Dosteovski
Mary Baker Eddy
Elizabeth I of
Stephen Foster
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Judy Garland
Ulysses S. Grant
Catherine the Great
Hermann Helmholz
Charlton Heston
Queen Elizabeth II
Carl G. Jung
Immanuel Kant
Henry Kissinger
Timothy Leary
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Nicolai Lenin
Nelson Mandela
Guglielmo Marconi
Maria Montessori
Louis Pasteur
Samuel Pepys
Eva Peron
Emily Post
Francis Rakoczy
Bertrand Russell
Earnest
Albert Schweitzer
Walter Scott
Alexander Scriabin
Baruch Spinoza
D.T. Suzuki
Margaret Thatcher
Henry V
Jules Verne
George Washington
Ralph Vaughn Williams
Orville Wright
Vesta in
Aries
Vesta in Aries: Vesta is
the committed one, focally dedicated to uphold the pledge, the promise. Vesta
is the “Vestal Virgin” sworn to keep the sacred flame alight. Vesta is the
sacred ritualist consecrated to keep the channel to divinity open through the
performance of sacred rites.
When Vesta is in Aries,
the sense of commitment is passionate and the focus is intense. One counts all
as loss if the sacred pledge is not kept. Under this influence the disciple
will fight if, necessary, to do all that is necessary to fulfill the promise of
holiness. The position gives an unrelenting commitment.
Individuals
with Vesta in Aries
Hans Christian Andersen
Susan B. Anthony
Marcus Aurelius
Vincenzo Bellini
Robert Browning
Luther Burbank
Michel de Cervantes
Teilhard de Chardin
Charlemagne
Bill Clinton
S.T. Coleridge
Nicholas Culpeper
Charles Darwin
Albrecht Durer
Michel Gauquelin
William James
Marc Edmund
Martin Luther King
Abraham Lincoln
Carolus Linnaeus
Guglielmo Marconi
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Michelangelo
Wilhelm Rontgen
D.T. Suzuki
Arturo Toscanini
Ceres in
Aries
Ceres in Aries: Ceres is
the maternal asteroid, nurturing, sustaining, protecting, providing
that which is required or needed by the one in her care. Aries is far from a
maternal sign. The nurturance, consequently, is offered in a less gentle
manner. It is independence and self-reliance that are nurtured. Those in the
care of a Ceres in Aries person are left freer than usual, encouraged to fend
for themselves. Support is given with some degree of urgency and insistence; it
is encouragement without caress. There is attentiveness not only for the
material and emotional aspects of a person, but for their ideas and
originality. Nurturance may come as a stream of fiery encouragement.
Individuals
with Ceres in Aries
Marc Antony
Roberto Assagioli
Sir Francis Bacon
Nadia Boulanger
William
S.T. Coleridge
Walt Disney
Benjamin Disraeli
George Frederic Handel
Werner Heisenberg
Thomas Hobbes
Czar Alexander II
William James
Chiang Kai-Shek
Herbet Horatio Kitchener
William Lilly
Karl Marx
Margaret Mead
Sir Thomas More
J. Pierpont Morgan
Francis Rakoczy
Ronald Reagan
Wilhelm Reich
George Sand
Algernon Swinburne
Mother Teresa
Jules Verne
Andreas Vesalius
Henry VIII
Noah Webster
Juno in
Aries
Juno in Aries: Juno is
the planet of committed partnership, whether in marriage or in business. It
indicates serious alliances and the rules of alliance are emphasized. The
mythological Juno did not forgive Jupiter who was forever breaking the rules of
marriage.
When Juno is in Aries
one is eager for partnership, and once engaged, pursues it energetically.
Within partnership, the parties are expected to be somewhat independent of each
other; Aries does not promote the clinging attitude. The Juno in Aries person
enters fully into relationship and expects the partner to do likewise
If partnerships can
serve high or idealistic purposes so much the better. Aries, like all other
signs, can be influential at three different levels of evolution: for the
undeveloped human being, the advanced individual and the disciple or initiate.
(There are many interim phases as well). The expression of this position can
range all the way from instinctual, impulsive alliances, to vigorous alliances
in which great personality effort is expended by all parties, to alliances in
which the Divine Plan is the raison d’être for its existence.
Individuals
with Juno in Aries
Woody Allen
Nadia Boulanger
Father
Ram Dass
Benjamin Disraeli
Albert Einstein
Stephen Foster
Judy Garland
Ulysses S. Grant
Alexander the Great
Heinrich Himmler
Jim
Chiang Kai-Shek
14th Dalai Lama
Nicolai Lenin
A.A. Michelson
Rabindranath Tagore
Pallas
Athene in Aries
Pallas Athene in Aries:
Pallas Athene is a warrior goddess and a constant friend to many of the heroes
of Greek Mythology, offering them stratagems to survive the enmity of the gods.
Aries is warlike and Pallas Athene was born wearing full armor as she sprung
forth from the head of her father Zeus/Jupiter (after Hephaestus/Vulcan had
cured him of a headache through the expedient of a hammer blow to his skull!).
We can imagine that this
position would be useful for military strategy and for bold and creative
approaches to all undertakings which courage, bravery and pioneering effort.
Its influence allows one to forge head not only bravely but intelligently, able
to seek wise and strategic counsel from the ‘goddess ally” within. This
position is a strong support for one who is intent on victory.
Individuals
with Pallas Athene in Aries
Jane Addams
Dante Alighieri
Hans Christian Andersen
Francis of
Sir Francis Bacon
Alexander Graham Bell
Louis De, Prince Broglie
Frederick Chopin
Winston Churchill
Thomas Alva Edison
Albert Einstein
Anne Frank
Paul
Thomas Hobbes
Timothy Leary
William Lilly
Cosima Liszt
Edward Bulwer Lytton
Guglielmo Marconi
Sir Thomas More
J. Pierpont Morgan
Grandma Moses
Benito Mussolini
H.S. Olcott
Auguste Piccard
Francis Rakoczy
Albert Schweitzer
Rudolf Steiner
Charles P. Steinmetz
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Andreas Vesalius
Henry VIII
Voltaire
North Node in
Aries
North Node in Aries: The
North Node is a ‘Point of Constructive Incorporation’. Where it is found, the
individual is building certain qualities into the life according to sign
placement, aspects and house position. When the North Node is in Aries, one is
incorporating initiative and bold action into the life process. The result will
be worked out within the field of experience indicated by the house placement.
The Aries energy should be considered new and necessary and one should build in
a direction which emphasizes the use of this energy.
Susan B. Anthony
Eva Braun
Augustus Caesar
Winston Churchill
Aleister Crowley
Ram Dass
Rene Descartes
Christian Doppler
Sigmund Freud
Michael Gorbachev
Martha Graham
William Harvey
Elbert Hubbard
Alduous Huxley
Jim
Carl G. Jung
Anton van
Leeuwenhoek
Carolus Linnaeus
Cosima Liszt
Martin Luther
Samuel Pepys
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Norman Rockwell
Albert Schweitzer
Baruch Spinoza
Meryl Streep
Nikola Tesla
Mao Tse-Tung
Queen Victoria
Walt Whitman
Boris Yeltsin
South Node
in Aries
South Node in Aries: The
South Node is a ‘Point of Expression for Tendencies Past’; it is also a ‘Point
of Dependency’ or of ‘Necessary Detachment’. When Aries qualifies the South
Node, past patterns of action have been assertive; such tendencies may
represent a “fall back position”, useful at time, but they are not to be built
into the present life. New substances, energies and forces are needed, not the
old. One may rely upon these more assertive and independent tendencies but the
real task lies in the incorporation of Libran tendencies at the North Node.
Alexander Graham Bell
Annie Besant
Paul Foster Case
Frederick Chopin
S.T. Coleridge
Thomas Alva Edison
Judy Garland
Bruce Lee
Michelangelo
Amadeo Modigliani
Sir Isaac Newton
Auguste Piccard
Eleanor Roosevelt
Gioacchino Rossini
Robert Schuman
Jean Sibelius
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Ivan the Terrible
Leo Tolstoy
Jules Verne
William
Duchess of