Monday, May 3rd, 1982

WISDOM'S GOLDENROD, ALAN BERKOWITZ CLASS NOTES

(TYPED)

MAY 3b, 1982

ASTROLOGY; THEORY

TOPIC: Astrology

SUBJECT: Theory

SUBSUBJECTS: 360 Degrees, Progressions, Jung's progressions, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto

BOOKS READ FROM OR REFERENCED:

• Marc Edmund Jones, The Astrology of Concepts

• Plotinus, The Enneads (MacKenna translation, 4th ed.)

PLOTINUS QUOTES READ OR REFERENCED: V.3.4

DIAGRAM and CHARTS embedded in and appended to these notes:

• FIGURE 1982 0503b-1-AB. Three Levels of Cosmos, also showing Sun in Aquarius, Moon in Capricorn, and Saturn in Leo. (embedded)

• FIGURE 1982 0503b-2. Carl Jung Natal Chart (astro.com). (appended)

• FIGURE 1982 0503b-3. Carl Jung Natal Chart (WG version). (appended)

SABIAN SYMBOLS: Leo 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, Aquarius 23, 24, 25

TYPED AND REFORMATTED by IT 2022

NOTES:

• RETYPED HANDWRITTEN NOTES (hence V08). From Classnotes AB 1982 0323 to 1982 0517.PDF.

• This is 1982 05/03b, Astrology; Theory Class, and the second entry associated with this date. 1982 05/03a = Plotinus: Intellectual-Principle Seminar.

• All capitalization and punctuation corrected, all abbreviations, most astrological glyphs, and one number spelled out.

1982 05/03b at Wisdom's Goldenrod

Astrology; Theory

[Classnotes AB 1982 0503 Begin]

5/3/82

[Note: Sabian degrees are from Marc Edmund Jones, The Astrology of Concepts.]

[FIGURE 1982 0503b-1-AB. Three Levels of Cosmos, also showing Sun in Aquarius, Moon in Capricorn, and Saturn in Leo. E W A F = Earth Water Air Fire; Trop. = Tropical; Categ. of Imag. = Categories of Imagination; Reason Princ's = Reason-Principles. Facsimile scan from AB class notes.]

Whole 360 degrees and contents within it = bodhicitta.

In Aquarius are the 72 powers of God (≠ reason-principles) x 5 elements = 360 degrees or reason-principles.

Distribution through matter (elements) = inerratic sphere.

7 planets on 7 degrees = the knowing (planet) and being (degree) of a person.

The degree meaning organizes the structure of the planet's function.

If you look at the progressed degrees for Jung you see the way his Saturn's activity was structured through his life -- the org. [original/organizing] degree is primary but the progressions show the material constituents (totality of images) it will unfold.

Jung's progressed Saturn degrees

1 → 3 = 25° Aquarius [Aquarius 25, "A butterfly struggles to emerge from the chrysalis and it seems that the right wing is more perfectly formed."]

3 → 17 = 24° Aquarius, turns his back on the world [Aquarius 24, "A man obviously of the world has turned his back on passion and is giving people a deep and undying wisdom."]

17 → 31 = 23° Aquarius [Aquarius 23, "A big trained bear sitting on a chair especially built for him is waving all four paws in grotesque fashion."]

First degree is the way the will (Saturn ruler -- intuition) was organized.

The later degrees show how that reason-principle came through to him.

Uranus -- Archetypal Thinking -- objectifies the different archetypes (categories of imagination) you work through = higher of the two knowers in Plotinus.

1) Takes cognizance of the principle in which understanding occurs.

2) Knows himself by the I.P. [Intellectual-Principle]. [Note: Plotinus, Enneads, V.3.4, "Thus the self-knower is a double person…"]

Jung's progressed Uranus degrees

1 → 4 = 15° Leo [Leo 15, "The great American carnival, the Mardi Gras at New Orleans, is seen with a wealth of floats, decorations and merriment."]

4 → 21 = 16° Leo [Leo 16, "The sunshine floods the sleepy village street, a storm has left everything drenched, and wondrously refreshed."]

21 → 36 = 17° Leo [Leo 17, "A volunteer church choir is seen during rehearsal, far more interested in social than musical elements of the occasion."]

36 → 58 = 18° Leo [Leo 18, "An instructor in chemistry is conducting an experiment before his class, in the midst of a maze of apparatus."]

58 → death = 19° Leo [Leo 19, "A clubhouse built on a floating barge is gaily decorated, and crowded with revelers; the water reflects its lights."]

Uranus = 360 degrees around, brings out the Nous in you (the knower).

Neptune symbolizes the degrees mythologically -- planetary powers. Soul powers organized by the Nous.

Pluto = underworld, imagination, basic reorganization of the corporeal being.

Uranus is usually involved in liberation and Witness experiences. The knower in the soul is the Nous.

[Classnotes AB 1982 0503 End]