Friday, May 7th, 1982

SEMINAR at Wisdom's Goldenrod, Hector, NY

with Anthony Damiani (AD)

May 7a, 1982

ASTROLOGY; THEORY

TOPIC: Astrology

SUBJECT: Theory

SUBSUBJECTS: Planets, Natal Chart, Gnostic and Fabricative, Monotheism vs. Polytheism, 12-fold Alchemical Process, Soul-Making

CONTENTS:

Problem: discriminating the wisdom buried in natal horoscope

Subject/object split in experience; Soul/Nous relation underlying; "who" and "what" confused in horoscope

Purification of imagination to arrive at reason-principles and soul powers

Monotheism vs. polytheism; proposed synthesis: soul as one-many

Planetary functions and reason-principles; each function undergoes twelvefold alchemical process

Dignities and non-dignities

Psychosomatic organism operates as "defiled" knower; becoming a purer vehicle for wisdom-knowledge

DIAGRAM embedded in this transcript:

• FIGURE 1982 0507a-1. Sun in Aquarius and Twelfth House, with Jung's Archetypes and Planets.

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NOTES:

• RETYPED PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT (hence V10). From 1982 0507-03R06.PDF. THERE ARE NO AUDIO CASSETTE TAPES EXTANT.

• This is 1982 05/07a, a daytime seminar on Astrology, and the first entry associated with this date. 1982 05/07b = "Columbus"; there appears to be or have been an audio cassette tape, but there is no more information on it — might refer to something misdated. 1982 05/07c = Plotinus: Intellectual-Principle & One Class. 1982 05/07d = The Intellectual-Principle Paper.

• We have two duplicate scans for this class, 1982 0507-03R06.PDF and 1982 0507 ASL natal chart 03P.PDF.

• Re: FIGURE 1982 0507a-1. Sun in Aquarius and Twelfth House, with Jung's Archetypes and Planets. Cf. Astronoesis, p. 352, Fig. 169, which is an alternate redrawing of the diagram in Scan File 1982 0507-03R06.PDF.

• Note from JF: Unsure at this time who typed original transcript or drew diagram.

• All spelling, punctuation, and capitalization has been corrected, one number and all astrological glyphs spelled out.

1982 05/07a SEMINAR at Wisdom's Goldenrod

Astrology; Theory

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Astrology -- Summary 5/7/82

Our problem concerns the method for discriminating the wisdom which lies buried in each natal horoscope, masked in layers of the Earth's vasanas -- the entity we call Dragon -- and veiled from true discernment by soul powers which have become obscured by an imaginative-reflective apparatus no longer able to receive the truth.

In the experience of any individual there is a bifurcation of subject and object, a specious knowing of a vast world content within the field of imagination. We assume however, that prior to this split, each soul contains within it the intelligence of the Nous as its own wisdom-ground, and further, that the soul, albeit the seeming center or focus of that wisdom, is really a tissue of powers which reveals and amplifies the knowledge of the Nous, but which in fact surrenders to the Nous as the true Knowledge-Being. In the astrological horoscope these principles are confused and we are no longer able to delineate "who" knows "what"; but we assume that the purpose of the life and of the horoscope (with its natal planets, degrees, transits, progressions), is, through purification of the imagination, to arrive at an understanding of the reason-principles within us, with vehicles no longer colored by the imaginative complexes. It seems that most attempts to understand the psyche arrive either at a monotheistic view aimed at perfecting and integrating the categories of imagination in order to reach the unity of all the soul powers; or a polytheistic view, focused on the attainment of the real ideas or reason-principles which constitute a vast plurality. We have found no view which synthesizes or appreciates the soul as a one-many: a unit comprising the vast number of ideas as its own true being and lord-guide of its wanderings; for we believe that all the soul could know is in and of itself. [Note: Diagram here moved to end of transcript to preserve flow of text. See end of transcript, FIGURE 1982 0507a-1, Sun in Aquarius and Twelfth House, with Jung's Archetypes and Planets.]

The diagram points out the planets as manifesting the contents of reason-principles as the contents are manifesting the planetary functions. The insight which distinguishes the planet from the content cannot be gotten from within the imagination. As the reason-principles become more clear, so the functioning of the soul will become more objective. Within the life experience, each planetary function undergoes a twelvefold alchemical process (which may perhaps be symbolized by the parts), a development organized by the degree meanings which themselves are revealed by the functioning.

With this framework as our base, it was possible to speculate into the nature of the planets as dignities and non-dignities of the horoscope. The planet in dignity position (whether rulership, exaltation, detriment, fall) through the power of the degree meaning as reflecting the Nous, will be brought to purify and know itself as a power of the soul beyond the imaginative realm. This development could be said to occur through the certain archetypes which it represents. The non-dignity planet will be operating more fabricatively; that is, its operation will be more to incorporate the degree meaning into the being or constitution of the imagination. In one case, the struggle is to achieve the realization of the soul power as purified and eventually as unified in its contemplation of Nous (Saturn in Leo); in the other, the assimilation of meaning will achieve the realization of soul as constituted of reason principles and ultimately as a content of the Nous.

We must keep in mind in this analysis that at all times simultaneously both systems are at work. The powers are being attenuated through the incorporation of greater understanding of the Nous' wisdom. The psychosomatic organism is a complicated matrix of possibilities, functioning as a unit and symbolized by the vast system of interrelated aspects in the horoscope. This system as representing a unit operates as a "defiled" knower and experiencer who undergoes the events of his life, and assimilating more and more into himself of himself in order that he become a purer and purer soul vehicle for the wisdom-knowledge of the Intellectual Principle.

[FIGURE 1982 0507a-1. Sun in Aquarius and Twelfth House, with Jung's Archetypes and Planets. R = Rulership; Ex = Exaltation; Det./D = Detriment; F = Fall. Computer generated by NT from 1982 0507-03R06.PDF. Cf. Astronoesis, p. 352, Fig. 169, which is an alternate redrawing of the diagram in the PDF.]

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