The Demiurgic Intellect and the Twelve Cosmic Gods Nested within the Metaphysical Chart

Twofold Zeus

The dignities of houses 1-3 and 8-12 of the metaphysical chart are listed in four rings inside a twelvefold circle. The rings, from innermost to outermost, consist of rulerships, exaltations, detriments, and falls, which is the reverse of their usual order (except the dignities in houses 8-9 are in the usual order).

Inside the circle is a vesica, which is divided into twelve sectors by the twelve houses of the circle.

Inside the vesica, the dignities of houses 9-12 of the metaphysical chart 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, and the house-12 dignities are in the fourth quadrant of the vesica. Damiani sometimes refers to this configuration of dignities as the “Jupiter ring” or “Demiurgic Intellect ring.”

At the center of the vesica is a twelvefold circle, and each of the twelve mundane, or cosmic, gods of the Orphic theogony is associated with one of its houses.