Six Cosmic Tattvas, Four Intellects, Four Gnostic Functions, and Six Theosophic Principles of Man Mapped on to a Vesica of Houses 10-12, Nested within the Metaphysical Chart

System of Nature (Houses 10-12)

The dignities of the metaphysical chart are shown in red just inside the circumference of a twelvefold circle. The twelve Ideas are indicated by the roman numerals on the outside of houses 1-12.

Inside the circle, two smaller circles intersect to form a vesica. The right circle represents house 10, the left circle house 12, and the vesica house 11.

In the right circle, Saturn in Capricorn (rulership) is correlated with space, Mars in Capricorn (exaltation) with mahat, the Moon in Capricorn (detriment) with akasa, and Jupiter in Capricorn (fall) with the four elements.

In the left circle, Jupiter in Pisces (rulership) is correlated with body, Venus in Pisces (exaltation) with buddhi, Mercury in Pisces (detriment) with manas, and Mercury in Pisces (fall) with the four lower principles of man in Theosophy.

The twelve signs of the zodiac are repeated inside the vesica, which is divided into twelve sectors by the twelve house divisions of the largest circle.

Inside the vesica is a concentric circle with four rings, labeled “Rulerships,” Exaltations,” “Detriments,” and “Falls.”

Inside the four rings, 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 (in place of the “empties” in exaltation in house 11, the Dragon’s Head brackets the five Chaldean planets other than Saturn and the Sun), and the house-12 dignities are in the fourth quadrant of the circle. In some contexts, Damiani refers to this configuration of dignities as the “Jupiter ring” or “Demiurgic Intellect ring.”