The Five Skandhas in the Context of Universal Manifestation (Houses 9-12)

Nidana Chain and the Five Skandhas (Buddhism)

On the left there are four lines of planetary glyphs.

The top line consists of four groups. Reading from left to right, these are the rulership of house 9, the rulerships of houses 8 and 7, the exaltation of house 9, and the exaltation of house 7.

Below this are three lines. Reading from top to bottom, these are the dignities of house 10, the dignities of house 11, and the dignities of house 12, each line in the order rulerships, exaltations, detriments, and falls (reading from left to right).

The dignities of the fourth quadrant are bracketed as Saturn in Aries, which is the underlie of the fourth quadrant and the Principle of Difference.

The dignities of house 11 are bracketed with the label “7,” which in this context refers to the seven fabricative powers of the Demiurge.

To the right of the Sun in Aquarius are the detriments of houses 5-10, reading from right to left (although Mars in Libra should come before Venus in Scorpio), and the detriments in houses 7-10 have been bracketed with the label “4,” which in this context refers to the soul’s four gnostic functions. To the right is a vesica, whose “rings” are labeled with the names of four of the skandhas, with the fifth skandha being placed in the center. In the center of the larger vesica are also two smaller circles whose intersection forms another vesica, which itself contains “rings.” The larger vesica represents house 11, and the two intersecting circles inside it represent house 12, with its three levels.