Important
Foundational Relationships
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Important Foundational
Relationships
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Cancer
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In Comparison
With
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Virgo
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| 1.
Esoteric Mantram: I build a lighted house and therein dwell. |
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1.
Esoteric Mantram: I am the Mother and the Child, I, God, I matter
am.
Christ in you, the hope of glory. |
| 2.
Exoteric/Evolutionary Mantram: And the Word Said: Let isolation
be the rule and yet the crowd exists. |
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2.
Exoteric/Evolutionary Mantram: And the Word said: Let matter
reign. |
| 3.
Quality of Light: The Light within the form |
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3.
Quality of Light: The blended dual Light. |
| 4.
Element: Water sign |
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4.
Element: Earth Sign |
| 5.
Cardinal Cross |
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5.
Mutable or Common Cross |
| 6.
Cancer transmits R3 and R7 constellationally. |
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6.
Transmits R2 and R6 constellationally |
| 7.
Secondarily, (assuredly, but not exclusively), Cancer transmits
R4 and R6, through the Moon and Neptune—its two planetary rulers
on three levels—exoteric, esoteric and hierarchical. |
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7.
Secondarily, (assuredly, but not exclusively) Virgo transmits
R4, R4, R6, R1, and R2 through Mercury, the Moon, the veiled
Neptune, the veiled Vulcan, and, also, Jupiter—all these are
its planetary rulers on three levels—exoteric, esoteric and
hierarchical. |
| 8.
Color: violet |
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8.
Color: yellow (Mercury rulership). Blue-green is an additional
reasonable possibility. |
| 9.
Creative Hierarchy number V (unmanifested) Mass Life, Veiling
the Christ |
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9.
Creative Hierarchy number II (manifested) . Divine Builders,
Conferring Soul. Burning Sons of Desire |
| 10.
Cancer has no specific relation to the first three initiations.
Since Neptune (inducing love and inclusive idealism) is so important
at the second initiation (EA
71, 297-298), Cancer must be implicated. After the third
initiation, the Cancerian can become “the Crab, who clears the ocean of matter which flows
around the soul of man” (EA 62) In subtle ways Cancer
must be related to the fourth (EA 218) and eighth initiations (relating
to unmanifested Hierarchy V—eighth from below). |
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10.
Associated with the stages immediately preceding the ‘birthing’,
form-regulating first initiation (EA
67, 471); then, with the cleansing, purifying second
initiations, and possibly with the decisive, Monad-establishing
sixth (introduction to true monadic living) |
| 11.
Cancer can be reasonably associated with the protective and
nourishment-giving centers in the breasts and, particularly,
with the instinctual, bi-polar, emotionally sensitive solar
plexus center. The disease, cancer, is strongly associated
with a disturbed, congested solar plexus; the sign and
the disease are, in fact, related. The sacral center
(involved in form-building) cannot be ignored. The chakras in
the ‘gripping’ hands are related. When Neptune (the esoteric
and hierarchical ruler) functions buddhically, the sign Cancer
can also be related to the compassionate, humanity-embracing
heart center. |
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11.
Virgo can be reasonably understood as influencing, particularly,
the cherishing, patient, maternally-loving heart center
(through the second ray), and the persistently devoted solar
plexus center (through the sixth). In addition to its
influence upon a number of smaller, sub-diaphragmatic centers
associated with the solar plexus, Virgo must have an influence
upon the ajna center—as an organ of discrimination
and discernment. The mysteries of generation are ruled by
the Moon, which rules Virgo esoterically; a sacral center
association is, thereby, reasonable. The six of the
sacral center leads to the twelve of the heart.
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| 12.
The zodiacal signs influence the Monad of every human being
(EA 411, 637, TCF 1191);
the influence from Gemini makes it possible for the “Brother”
who is the “prodigal son” to go forth into a “far country” (as
the Monad-in-substantial-immersion), and yet, remain
‘at home’ within the Father’s House as the “elder Brother” Who
did not go forth (i.e., as the Monad undiminished upon
its own level of consciousness). Thus is the Monad “in the world
yet not of the world”. Gemini endows the Monad with its
all-pervasive omnipresence relative to the human energy
system. “Having pervaded the entire
Universe with a fragment of myself, I remain.” |
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12.
The zodiacal signs influence the Monad of every human being
(EA 411, 637, TCF 1191);
the influence from Virgo is powerful in monadic life because
the second manifested Creative Hierarchy (Who are the “prototypes
of the Monads”—TCF 1197)
are ruled by Virgo and its hierarchical ruler, Jupiter. One
motivation of the descending Monad is the perfection of matter
(in this case, the substance of the first solar system). With
this mission, Virgo is intimately concerned. |
| 13.
Within the Triad—Gemini, the third sign, is related to
higher manas (the third aspect of the Triad).
Higher manas formulates into abstract thought the revelations
of the ‘idea-patterns’ to be found upon the buddhic plane. Gemini,
as its dualistic symbol reveals, is also related to the divine
love, pure reason and intuitive revelations of buddhi,
the second aspect of the Spiritual Triad. |
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13.
Within the Triad—Virgo ( esoterically ruled in part by Neptune,
and hierarchically by second ray Jupiter, and transmitting,
itself, the second ray), is related primarily to buddhi
(the second aspect of the Triad), bestowing as it
does the second ray and a higher correspondence to “mother
love”—a divine, maternal compassion. Virgo is also associated
with the third ray, and the third divine aspect, and hence,
even if indirectly, with higher manas, the third
triadal aspect. |
| 14.
In relation to the Solar Angel, and the soul-consciousness (and
causal body) through which it expresses—Gemini can be seen as
governing the pulsations of Solar-Angelic thought and vitality
which rhythmically stimulate the personality. Gemini can be
associated with the attempt the Solar Angel to ‘communicate’
with the personality. |
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14.
In relation to the Solar Angel, and the soul-consciousness (and
causal body) through which it expresses—Virgo, like Cancer,
can be seen in the ‘mother’ role—with Virgo providing a nurturing
and discriminatively cleansing energy, utilized by the
Solar Angel to improve the quality of its personality
manifestation. Virgo, as the Solar Angel expresses it, is the
will to manifest love intelligently through matter, until the
Christ energy pours successfully through the personality-form
and a relative perfection is reached. |
| 15.
Within the Personality—Cancer can be identified with the memory
and retentiveness of the lower mental nature; with the
sensitivity and receptivity of the astral nature;
with the de-vitalization or insufficient vitalization
of the etheric nature; and, with the tenacity of the
physical elemental as it seeks to perpetuate the integrity of
its life. In general, Cancer (through the Moon) is especially
associated with the dense physical form as a first solar system
‘residue’, and with the fourth or personality elemental (arising
from the lesser three). (The vehicular focus and its degree of prominence, depends
upon the stage of evolutionary development.) |
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15.
Within the Personality—Virgo can be identified with the discriminative,
analytical, and selective processes of the lower
mental nature; with the cleansing and purification
of the astral nature; with the magnetic purity of the
etheric nature; with the general health and nutrition
and of the dense physical vehicle. Virgo, via the Moon, is particularly
related to the dense physical vehicle and to all personality
substance as a whole. (EA 194) (The vehicular focus and its degree of prominence, depends
upon the stage of evolutionary development.) |
| 16.
Stage within a Preliminary Fourfold Meditative Process: Incarnation,
Embodiment |
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16.
Stage of Meditative Consciousness: Illumination. “Scorpio—Illumination—The soul triumphs. Experience in Taurus consummated.
Astral glamour dissipated. Soul light pours in. The Path of
Discipleship. The Disciple.” (EA 228-229) |
| 17.
The Crisis of Incarnation characterized by the process/quality
of Individualization |
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17.
The Crisis of the Birthplace characterized by the process/quality
of Initiation |
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Wider
Relationships: Cosmic and Systemic
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Wider Relationships: Cosmic and Systemic
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Cancer
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In Comparison
With
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Virgo
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| 1.
Expressive principally of the third or Intelligence aspect—in
relation to matter. (EA 351). The incarnation process under the rulership of
Cancer “is initiation into the creative
third aspect, the matter aspect and the world of intelligent activity.”
(EH 144) Since ruled by Neptune and related to the Pleiades,
Cancer is correlated to buddhi (TCF 1162), and thus, also, is linked to the
second aspect of divinity. |
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1.
Expressive of both the second and third aspects
of divinity, but especially well-rooted in the third. “Virgo is the focal point for the expression of the
third aspect, that of active intelligence. In that sign the highest
function of matter is symbolised.” (EA 194, also 280) |
| 2.
Cosmically associated primarily with the Pleiades. “Pleiades—Cancer—Venus—Humanity”
(EA 416) |
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2.
Cosmically associated principally with the Pleiades. “One
of the most esoteric cycles is based upon certain conjunctions
and respective positions of Virgo and the Pleiades.” (EA 657)
“Virgo is inseparable from Leo and the Pleiades and the Hyades.”
(EA 679) Virgo is related to several feminine constellations
which figure importantly in the astrology of the form. “There
is Cassiopea, Venus, Coma Berenice, Andromeda and one or two others,
as well as Virgo, the Virgin, the most important of them all.”
(EA 400) |
| 3.
Three Constellations Connected (symbolically) with Cancer: a)
Ursa Major—the Great Bear; b) Ursa Minor—the Little Bear; c) Argo—the
Ship. (LOH 90-92) Another
constellation Connected with Cancer is Praesepe—the Beehive.
There are eighty three stars to be found ‘within’ this constellation.
(LOH 87-88) Tradition connects both Ursa Major and Minor with
“flock(s) of sheep” and “sheepfold(s)” |
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3.
Three Constellations Connected with Virgo: a) Coma Berenice—the
Mother of the Form Only; b) The Centaur—Half Man/Half Horse; c)
Bootes—the One Who is Coming (LOH
120) |
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Relationships
Between Three Levels of Planetary Rulers, and Planets in Exaltation,
Fall and Detriment
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Relationships Between Three Levels of Planetary
Rulers,
and Planets in Exaltation, Fall and Detriment
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Cancer
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In Comparison
With
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Virgo
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| 1.
The Moon is the exoteric ruler of Cancer. |
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1.
The Moon is the esoteric ruler of Virgo. |
| 2.
Neptune is the esoteric and hierarchical ruler of Cancer. |
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2.
Neptune is a veiled esoteric ruler of Virgo—veiled by the Moon.
Neptune is also in detriment in Virgo. (EA 171) |
| 3.
Jupiter is exalted in Cancer. |
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3.
Jupiter is the hierarchical ruler of Virgo. Jupiter is also in
exoteric detriment in Virgo. (EA
171) |
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Subtle
Relationships Between Rays, Zodiacal and Planetary Energies
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Subtle
Relationships Between Rays,
Zodiacal and Planetary Energies
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Cancer
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In Comparison
With
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Virgo
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| 1.
Cancer transmits the third ray constellationally. |
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1.
Virgo (the second oldest of the constellations) is associated
with the third ray—the ray of the previous solar system.
This was the solar system with the emphasis upon matter. “Let
matter reign.” Mercury, the exoteric ruler of Virgo, and also
exalted in this sign, has a close relation to the third
ray. (EA 280). The Moon is anciently related to the
third ray, being associated with dense physical “matter”
and with the Moon Chain and the first solar system in which the
third ray was dominant. Neptune, veiled esoteric ruler, is also
with the third ray through its associations with the “waters”
which are “matter.” (EA 666, 275) |
| 2.
Cancer transmits the seventh ray constellationally. Cancer
is also the seventh sign if one numbers by polarities (Aries-Libra,
Taurus-Scorpio, etc.), and thus has a further resonance with the
seventh ray. |
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2.
Jupiter, the hierarchical ruler of Virgo, transmits the seventh
ray through its association with “ritual” and “ritualistic worship.”
(EA 648, 660) It is hard
to conceive that Virgo, as a constellation, has no relation
to the seventh ray because of the traits demonstrated by
so many Virgoan individuals. In any case, Virgo is the ruler of
the seventh Creative Hierarchy (if the unmanifested Hierarchies
are included in the numbering). The Moon (the veiling esoteric
ruler) is also associated with the seventh ray, through
its rulership of the seventh manifested Creative Hierarchy
and its rulership of the dense part of the seventh plane. |
| 3.
Cancer is the fourth sign of the zodiac on the reversed
wheel and, hence, has numerical affinity with the number four
and with the fourth ray. |
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3.
The Moon is the esoteric ruler of Virgo, and transmits the fourth
ray. Vulcan, a veiled esoteric ruler in Virgo, has a close relation
to the number four—to the fourth kingdom (the Human
Kingdom), the fourth kingdom from the human (the
Mineral Kingdom) and to the fourth initiation, and may
be involved in a fourth ray transmission through the Moon. (interpret
DN 91). Neptune, a veiled esoteric ruler of Virgo, is
associated with the fourth ray through its rulership of
the fourth or buddhic plane. |
| 4.
Cancer is the tenth sign of the zodiac on the clockwise
wheel and, hence, has numerical affinity with the number one
and with the first ray. This is not a strong representation
of the first ray. Only the presence of a generically veiled
Vulcan, which could be described as the ‘will asleep in matter’,
would bring in the first ray—mostly from the angle of resistance.
However, a great first ray power is indicated as latent—inured
in matter. |
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4.
Vulcan is a veiled esoteric ruler in Virgo and transmits
the first ray. |
| 5.
The Moon, the exoteric ruler of cancer, transmits the fourth
ray. |
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5.
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| 6.
The Moon is closely related to the third ray. (EA 280) |
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6.
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| 7.
The Moon is closely related to the seventh ray, through
its rulership of the seventh manifested Creative Hierarchy,
and its general association with dense physical matter. |
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7.
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| 8.
Neptune, the esoteric and hierarchical ruler of Cancer (and exalted,
with Jupiter, as well), transmits the sixth ray. |
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8.
Virgo transmits the sixth ray constellationally. As well,
Virgo is the sixth sign of the zodiac on the reversed wheel
and, hence, has numerical affinity with the number six
and with the sixth ray. Neptune is a veiled esoteric
ruler of Virgo and transmits the sixth ray. Jupiter has
a possible connection with the sixth ray through its exoteric
rulership of Sagittarius and its enthusiastic, aspirational nature. |
| 9.
Neptune also transmits the second ray, monadically. (EPI
421) |
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9.
Virgo transmits the second ray constellationally. On the
clockwise wheel, Virgo is the eighth sign of the zodiac
and, hence, is related to the Christ—Whose number is “eight” (EA
37)—Vulcan, a veiled esoteric ruler of Virgo, has
an association with the second ray, as Vulcan is connected
to the “heart of the sun.” (EA 393)
Neptune, another veiled esoteric ruler of Virgo, also transmits
the second ray monadically. (EPI 421) |
| 10.
Neptune is associated with the fourth plane, the buddhic
plane, and with the energy of buddhi. “”No man begins to coordinate
the buddhic vehicle until he comes under the influence of Neptune….
When this happens, his personality horoscope will show this influence
as dominant” (TCF 899) |
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10.
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| 11.
Neptune, as “God of the Waters” is associated with “matter” and,
hence, with the third ray. “Neptune is as you know, the
God of the waters, and the term “water” covers many angles of
the esoteric wisdom, such as: The whole concept of matter—universal
and itemised….” (EA 275) |
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11.
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| 12.
Jupiter is exalted in Cancer and transmits the second ray. |
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12.
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| 14.
Jupiter is exalted in Cancer and transmits the seventh
ray through “ritualistic worship.” (EA 660) |
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13.
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| 14.
Jupiter (exalted in Cancer) through its enthusiasm and aspirational
nature has defensible connections to the sixth ray. |
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14.
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| 15.
There is no strong fifth ray emphasis transmitted through Cancer
or its ruling or associated planets. Only if Vulcan is considered
as ruling the materialistic Moon, can some fifth ray be inferred,
through Vulcan’s association with the condensation, and precipitation
of the mineral kingdom. |
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15.
Mercury has a close relation to the fifth ray, through
its relation to the fifth scheme, the fifth round,
the fifth race and sub-race. “The
fifth race is born under Mercury.” (EA 663). Vulcan has associations with the fifth ray through concretion
and the seventh ray, through the mineral kingdom and the
principle of rhythm. |
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| General
Qualitative Comparisons, Contrasts and Pragmatic Descriptors |
General
Qualitative Comparisons, Contrasts
and Pragmatic Descriptors
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Cancer
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In Comparison
With
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Virgo
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| 1.
The Mother (EA 266) With Virgo and Pisces, part of the Triangle
of the Mother Aspect. |
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1.
The Mother (EA 266) With Cancer and Pisces, part of the Triangle
of the Mother Aspect |
| 2.
The Mother of the personality |
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2.
The Mother of the personality and yet, the soul
as Mother to the personality |
| 3.
The Mother |
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3.
The Spinster or Bachelor |
| 4.
The Defender, Advocate |
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4.
The Critic |
| 5.
The Nurturer |
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5.
The Trainer |
| 6.
Mulaprakriti in its receptive mode |
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6.
Mulaprakriti, in its articulated and intelligent
mode |
| 7.
Cancer in Relation to the First Solar System: “…it
might be said that Cancer is an expression (in the stage of
great advancement) of the first half of the life cycle in solar
system one,…” (EA 256) |
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7.
Virgo in Relation to the First Solar System:
“…whilst Virgo is an equally advanced expression of the second
half.” (EA 256) “Virgo is, from certain angles, quite the oldest
of all the signs, which is a statement I am quite unable to
prove to you.” (EA 255) |
| 8.
Synthesis and whole-making |
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8.
Analysis and division |
| 9.
Intuitive consciousness, buddhically related (FC,
LFC) |
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9.
Rational, analytical materialistic consciousness; the concrete
mind (LMC, ) |
| 10.
In Cancer—Imprisonment in form and servitude. (MC) |
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10.
Mentality in Virgo: “…Virgo, in which sign mental introspection
and critical analysis become possible…” (EA 117-118) (MC, LMC) |
| 11.
In Cancer: “the desire for incarnation finds its fulfilment.”
(EA 171) |
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11.
In Virgo: “the first signs of the Christ consciousness are felt;…”
(EA 171) |
| 12.
Latency in Cancer: “Human consciousness is only embryonic in Cancer, for it is the mass
mind which dominates and not the individual mind.” (EA 318) |
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12.
Latency in Virgo: “In Virgo, the Christ life or consciousness is hidden and the Christ
Child is as yet embryonic in the womb of matter and of time,
and during this stage, the emphasis is upon the form which veils
and hides the reality. The human soul and the divine soul (the
essential duality) are there but their presence is not easily
detected.” (EA 318) |
| 13.
Dualism Emerges in Cancer: “In Cancer, the influence of the human Hierarchy begins
to make its presence felt and to include the dualism of man.”
(EA 319) “Man is a conscious personality, and this is a result
of the Cancer experience, consummated in Virgo.” (EA 319) |
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13.
Dualism Develops in Virgo: “This [dualism] emerges clearly in Virgo. Soul and
body are closely related and knit together in one form.” “Man
is a conscious personality, and this is a result of the Cancer
experience, consummated in Virgo.” (EA 319) |
| 14.
Difficulty Grasping Mass Consciousness in Cancer: “It is also as difficult and hard for the average student
of modern times to grasp the mass-consciousness of Cancer as
it is for him to grasp the group-awareness or the universal
consciousness of Aquarius…” (EA 322) |
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14.
Grasping the Christ Consciousness in Virgo: “The average human being is just beginning to grasp
the stage of the individual Christ consciousness of Virgo…”
(EA 322) |
| 15.
In Cancer: “the processes of physical incarnation go forward…”
(EA 230) |
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15.
In Virgo (Leo): the “God-man” appears. (cf. EA 230) |
| 16.
In Cancer—a Lower Grade of Mediumship: “A proper investigation likewise into the life history
of spiritualism and of the mediums associated with it may prove
that the majority of the mediums in the world who are of a low
grade type or purely trance mediums—negative and usually unintelligent—are
born in Cancer with Pisces rising, or in Pisces with Cancer
rising.” (EA 183) |
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16.
In Virgo—a Higher Grade of Mediumship: “It would be of interest to find out two things scientifically:…[of
which one is]…Whether those mediums who are becoming more positive
and more self-controlled and who are beginning to get a glimpse
of the higher correspondences in their work—mediatorship and
interpretive activity—have not got Virgo appearing somewhere
with real potency and activity.” (EA 124-125) |
| 11.
The Sixth and Fourth Rays are Dominant upon the Path of Evolution:
Cancer is active in relation to the fourth ray through the Moon.
(EA 166) |
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12.
The Sixth and Fourth Rays are Dominant upon the Path of Evolution:
Virgo is active in relation to the fourth ray through Mercury.
(EA 166) |
| 17.
Cancer in Relation to Birth: “Cancer, the ‘birthplace into the life of form,’ the
door into physical incarnation. This is the sign in which humanity,
as a whole integrated unit, is born, the scene of the emergence
of the fourth kingdom in nature. Humanity has ‘emerged from
rock and water and brings its habitation with it’ (as the Old
Commentary expresses it) and mass instinctual consciousness
comes into being. Note that phrase.” (EA 102) |
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17.
Virgo in Relation to Birth: The “crisis of the birth hour” (EA
100) “The crisis of the birth place in Virgo,…” (EA 101) “The birth pangs of the second birth.”
(EA 67) |
| 18.
Cancer—for Undeveloped Man: “The blind unit is lost. The mass.”
(EA 332) |
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18.
Virgo—for the Undeveloped Man: “The germinating energy. The
Mother.” (EA 332) |
| 19.
Cancer—for Advanced Man: “The unit awakens to that which is
around. The House.” (EA 332) |
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19.
Virgo—for the Advanced Man: “The creative force. The Protector.”
(EA 332) |
| 20.
Cancer—for the Disciple/Initiate: “The Whole is seen as one.
Humanity.” (EA 332) |
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20.
Virgo—for the Disciple/Initiate: “The Christ activity. The Light.”
(EA 332) |
| 21.
Yearly Opportunity in Relation to Cancer: When the Sun is in
Cancer the disciple may attempt to increase his power to manifest
(to em-‘body’), his intuitive faculties, and cultivate the sense
of wholeness. |
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21.
Yearly Opportunity in Relation to Virgo: When the Sun is in
Virgo, an individual “will know
that opportunity to bring the form more under the influence
of the hidden Christ is possible…” (EA 564) |
| 22.
The life of the Christ from the Cancerian perspective: “The
potency of this sign is expressed for us by Christ in the oft
misinterpreted words: ‘Other sheep I have which are not of this
fold, them also I must bring.’ This refers to the mass consciousness
in contradistinction to the initiate consciousness of His disciples.
Cancer is a mass sign. |
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22.
The Life of the Christ from a Virgoan Perspective: “The Virgo aspect came into expression in His twelfth
year when He said: ‘Wist ye not that I must be about My Father's
business,’ thereby indicating the subordination of the form
life to the will of the indwelling Christ; this was consummated
when ‘divinity descended upon Him’ at the Baptism. (EA 564) |
| 23.
The hiding of the Christ life |
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23.
The germination, nurturance and eventual revelation of the Christ
life |
| 24.
Fundamental attachment |
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24.
Fundamental detachment |
| 25.
Inclusion |
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25.
Differentiation |
| 26.
Focusing upon wholes |
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26.
Focusing upon units within the whole |
| 27.
More unconscious and instinctual |
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27.
More conscious and intellectual |
| 28.
Remembering the past |
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28.
Analyzing the past |
| 29.
Birthing form |
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29.
Birthing quality—“the soul is the quality of life” |
| 30.
The unity of personality life—the four elementals or lunar lives
(cf. R&I 9-10) |
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30.
The duality of soul/personality life |
| 31.
The fused and integrated life |
|
31.
The fragmented life, subject to the Law of Cleavages |
| 32.
Unintelligent fusion |
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32.
Intelligent fusion; a division of labor within an integrated
field |
| 33.
The irrationality of the mass consciousness (MC) |
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33.
The critical, analytical consciousness. (LMC, FC) |
| 34.
Given to fullness of feeling; easily moved; more ‘wet’ |
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34.
Drier and more analytical with respect to feeling; cool |
| 35.
Empathy |
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35.
Intellect |
| 36.
Emphasis upon the emotional nature |
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36.
More emphasis upon the mental nature |
| 37.
Fantastical (under Neptune) |
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37.
Rational (under Mercury) |
| 38.
Imaginative |
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38.
More verbal |
| 39.
Accepting, embracing; less discriminative |
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39.
Discriminating, rejecting |
| 40.
Grasping |
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40.
Selecting |
| 41.
Sentimental preservation, indiscriminate accumulation |
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41.
The selection and preservation of quality |
| 42.
Reverence for age |
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42.
Admiration of quality |
| 43.
Mixing |
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43.
Separating |
| 44.
Indulging the lunar vehicles |
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44.
Purifying the lunar vehicles; abstemious |
| 45.
Gluttony |
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45.
Fastidiousness |
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| Similarities
and Points of Cooperation Between the Influences |
Similarities
and Points of Cooperation
Between the Zodiacal Influences
Both
are preservers
These are
two of the most maternal signs in the zodiac and are connected
via the rulership by the Moon and Neptune. They both hearken back
to the first solar system in which the mother and intelligence
were involved, so they are both keenly associated with the intelligence
aspect.
This enters
Cancer via the 3rd Ray which it transmits and is re-enforced
in Virgo by the exoteric rulership of Mercury whereas Cancer is
perhaps an even older sign although both are exceedingly ancient.
Cancer has
retained its association with the matter aspect and only slightly
refers to the Christ force whereas Virgo, while closely related
to matter, rules the transition whereby matter comes in relation
to the Christ force.
They are both
extremely feminine signs, highly receptive and they have much
to do with practicality and manifestation although Cancer is a
water sign, its 3rd and 7th Rays related
directly to the field of manifestation and Virgo, though it has
2nd and 6th Rays transmitted through it,
is an earth sign with a strong lunar and Vulcanian connection
thereby making manifestation possible.
These are
both signs of nurturing though Cancer may be interested simply
in the survival of that which it nurtures and Virgo in the upgrading
of the quality of that which it nurtures. The purpose of Cancer
is to hold an entity in manifestation and Virgo contributes to
this survival with its sense of purification and discrimination,
adding to the health of that which survives but Virgo is more
related to the preparation of that which survives for the infusion
of a higher energy, namely the Christ force.
Both are signs
of retirement and a degree of modesty and in both signs, since
they are lunar, humility is taught.
They are signs
of service and since both are keenly associated with the personality
composed of lunar vehicles, they teach the service of the Soul,
just as the personality must serve the soul.
Cancer rules
the holistic integrity of the three lunar vehicles and Virgo the
particularity of the three lunar vehicles.
These signs
are related by inducing the performance of humble tasks and in
providing a basis through which the light can shine or be demonstrated.
Both have a very strong connection to the matter aspect and to
the devic forces which mould the hereditary material.
Both have
a close connection to the permanent atoms. Cancer relates to
the permanent atoms as retainers of the past and Virgo to the
permanent atoms as discriminative builders of the present vehicles.
Inasmuch as they are related to the 3rd aspect of divinity,
Cancer relates to memory and Virgo to the intellectual functions.
Both may be
associated with the preservation of tradition and indeed, so often
the mother is the agent in the family who is the preserver of
tradition. Neither sign is strictly intellectual in that any idea
must be seen to express itself through matter and have the capability
of manifesting if it is to be considered valuable.
Both of these
signs have the care of the matter aspect as their responsibility
because the matter aspect is meant to be a foundation upon which
the super-structure of the Christ consciousness can be erected.
Virgo also
has much to do with the nurturing aspect of the solar angels and
when compared with Leo, is often assigned to the soul power whereas
Leo is assigned to the power of the personality.
What becomes
clear is that all of these different signs and potencies have
manifold responsibilities and resonances with many different aspects
of the individual constitution. Interestingly enough the fifth
creative hierarchy, which is the most recent of the liberated
hierarchies, is also much associated with the 10th,
which is the hierarchy of solar angels and these solar angels
are lords of ceaseless and persevering devotion which correlates
greatly with the sign Cancer because they have a very parental
role in the raising of the human being from infancy to maturity
when the human being can assume the role which the solar angel
has long assumed for it.
So we see
all these parental signs related: Virgo the Mother, Cancer the
Mother and Capricorn the Father – all connected with the solar
angels.
In another
sense both Virgo and Cancer are related to the matter aspect and
so related to the first solar system in which the matter and intelligence
aspects were dominant.
They also
represent Mulaprakriti or virgin matter which receives the impregnation
of the ideation of spirit. The ideation of spirit comes very much
under the influence of Leo or Aries.
Again because
Neptune is so important as the esoteric and hierarchical ruler
of Cancer and the esoteric ruler of Virgo veiled by the Moon,
both of these signs have a great capacity for compassion, albeit an
advanced Virgo who can escape from the critical, rationalistic
and sometimes destructive lower mental vehicle and enter into
the Christ consciousness but Neptune is highly placed and the
boundless compassion of the mother is deeply rooted in both of
these signs.
Indeed, when
one thinks of boundless compassion or boundary-less compassion,
Neptune the dissolver of all boundaries, does come to mind and
we come to realize that the highest expression of Virgo is indeed
compassion and the Christ consciousness because the hierarchical
ruler is Jupiter which represents the fulfillment of the Christ
consciousness.
So there is
a great benevolence in each of these signs and even Cancer so
associated with the 3rd aspect of divinity though Neptune
connects with the heart and it is well known in actual practice,
that among advanced Cancerians, there is a great maternal and
cherishing impulse.
In summary,
these two signs are related through the maternal power of compassion,
especially the more advanced members of the human race who have
these signs powerful in their charts.
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Missing
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Missing
or Weak Links Between Cancer and Virgo
Cancer, in and of
itself, is not well-endowed with the fifth ray. If we include decanate
sub-signs and rulers, or the transmission from the energies and forces
of the three other arms of the Cardinal Cross, all this is changed.
In fact,
once such influences are included, there is no sign of the zodiac
which does not have access to all the rays. Virgo, of course,
has much fifth ray through the power of Mercury.
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