The Orphic Theogony Mapped on to the Metaphysical Chart, with the Cosmic Order in Houses 9-12

Orphic Theogony (G. R. S. Mead)

The principles of the Orphic theogony are mapped on to houses 1-12. The circle is also divided into seven sectors that correspond to One, Being, Life, Intellect, Soul, Nature, and Body.

The smaller circle in houses 9-12 is itself divided into twelve houses, and the dignities of the metaphysical chart are inscribed in it.

Each of the twelve cosmic gods is associated with one of the twelve houses of this circle.

On the inside of the smaller circle, the dignities of houses 9-12 are distributed so that the house-9 dignities are in the first quadrant, the house-10 dignities are in the second quadrant, the house-11 dignities are in the third quadrant (but note that the Dragon’s Head is listed in house 9 instead of the “empties”), and the house-12 dignities are in the fourth quadrant. Damiani sometimes refers to this configuration of dignities as the “Jupiter ring” or “Demiurgic Intellect ring.”