The Samkhya System and the Five Skandhas Mapped on to a Vesica of Houses 10-12

System of Nature (Houses 10-12)

In the diagram at the lower left, there is a twelvefold circle, with the twelve Ideas represented by roman numerals on the outside of the circle. Note that the zodiacal signs placed at the cardinal points are reversed, so that Libra is on the ascendant, Capricorn is at the nadir, Aries is on the descendant, and Cancer is at the midheaven.

The small pencil marks in houses 1 (Libra), 4 (Capricorn), 5 (Aquarius), 7 (Aries), 10 (Cancer), and 11 (Leo) correspond to the signs in which Saturn is in dignity, and the abbreviations outside circle indicate this as well: “ex” (exaltation), “R” (rulership), “F” (fall), “D” (detriment). It’s not apparent what the planets inside the circle represent.

In the diagram to the right, the rightmost circle is house 10, the leftmost circle is house 12, and the vesica formed by their intersection is house 11. The dignities of houses 10 and 12 are listed, with the rulerships, exaltations, detriments, and falls in four rings inside each circle.

At the top of the vesica is Saturn in Aquarius (rulership) and at the center is the Sun in Aquarius (detriment), and inside the vesica is the metaphysical chart, with the rulerships, exaltations, detriments, and falls placed in concentric rings.