Astrology Outline

by Anthony J. Damiani, Linda Ruth, Timothy J. Smith

Paper V09P

3-LETTER CODE: ASL

TOPIC: Astrology

SUBJECT: Theory

SUBSUBJECTS: Degrees, Signs, Planets, Soul Powers and Ideas, Effects

ORIGINAL LOCATION & FILE NAME (of PDF used for typing): ASL theory outline astrology N 9p.PDF

CONTENTS:

360 Degrees

World-Idea given to each individual mind

Three levels of ideas

Symbology

Dragon

Signs

Animal intelligences

Earth as Hestia, Demeter

Heliocentric vs. Sidereal vs. Tropical zodiac

Orphic Egg

Elements

Geocentric vs. Heliocentric perspective of planets

Planets as soul powers vs. categories of imagination

Archetype as idea vs. archetype as category/soul power

Wachsmuth on instincts

Three levels of planets

Chaldeans vs. trans-Saturnians

North Node and South Node

Interdependence of soul powers and ideas

Substance and function

Fabricative and gnostic

Dignities and non-dignities

Opposite degrees

Dossier

Trans-Saturnians as regulators

Aspects

Effects

Jung's Typology

Cross

Houses

Nidana Chain

Native's identity

BOOKS QUOTED FROM OR REFERENCED:

• Paul Brunton, The Wisdom of the Overself

• Marc Edmund Jones, The Astrology of Concepts ("Sabian Astrology", "Symbolical Astrology")

• Marc Edmund Jones, The Sabian Symbols in Astrology

• A.J. Penny, Studies in Jacob Böhme

• Julius Evola, The Doctrine of Awakening

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

• Albert G. Mackey, The Symbolism of Freemasonry: Its Science and Philosophy, its Legends, Myths, and Symbols

• Guenther Wachsmuth, The Etheric Formative Forces in Cosmos, Earth and Man

• Vyasa, Bhagavad Gita

DIAGRAMS embedded in this paper:

• FIGURE Astrology Outline-1. Jacob Bryant's Orphic Egg (1774) and Ananke.

• FIGURE Astrology Outline-2. Aspect Symbols and Aspectarium Grid.

AD HANDWRITING: Typewriter typed, some AD handwriting in left margin of first page

COMPLETENESS: Full Paper

PUBLISHABILITY: Yes, or better yet, use as a basis for a book or series of books on Astrology where AD's approach is laid out

RETYPED AND REFORMATTED by IT, JF 2022

NOTES:

• RETYPED AD PAPER (V09P).

• This is retyped from the carbon copy of a paper typed by JF, possibly per the request of TS, in 1982. It itself was retyped from an earlier draft of an Astrology Outline, generated in a work session ~1982 (per JF's recollection). LR and TS were involved in writing it.

• Section I. E. – DRAGON is read and discussed in WG Class 1983 0829b Astrology; Horoscope-Wagner. Sections I.B and I.D – SYMBOLOGY are read and discussed in WG Class 1983 0905 Astrology; Theory.

• Most abbreviations and astrological glyphs (except for degree) spelled out.

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OUTLINE

[References handwritten by AD in left margin of first page: Evola, Boehme, Penny, 2 dragons, Mackey.]

I. DEGREES

A. – P.B. QUOTE [Note: Possibly a reference to Paul Brunton, The Wisdom of the Overself, p. 54 (2015 edition), "But our mind does not stand isolate…"]

B. – World Idea given to each individual mind = 360° = basic constitution of individual life.

1. Each mind has entirety of World Idea given to it. He will elaborate and interpret those ideas variously. This provides us with the necessary mentalistic framework.

2. The contents of each individual life are from the ideas in the dragon.

C. – Mention 3 levels of ideas:

1. fixed stars – inerratic sphere

2. soul

3. dragon

D. – SYMBOLOGY

1. How to read a symbol, deal with world of images: prepositions.

2. Sabian astrology [Note: Marc Edmund Jones, The Astrology of Concepts, "Sabian Astrology", "Symbolical Astrology", Marc Edmund Jones, The Sabian Symbols in Astrology.]

3. Various sets of symbols

E. – DRAGON

1. Celestial dragon

2. Earthly worm

3. as reflection of the ideas in Earth Consciousness

4. vestiges of all life lived within Earth memory

5. organized system of instincts = the embodied ideas

6. Boehme (Penny), Evola. The instinctual life of man is part of the life of the dragon which is thus constitutive of the psycho-somatic organism and makes up the substance of both dream and wakeful consciousness. [Note: A.J. Penny, Studies in Jacob Böhme, Julius Evola, The Doctrine of Awakening.]

7. phylo-genetic development of mentality

a. Sautrantikas

b. Jung – our perception is turned into and composed of all the various instincts— separately developed—in instantaneous form.

c. phylo-genetic development – evolution can be seen in early childhood imagery

II. SIGNS

A. – Signs as Animal Intelligences, life modalities which manifest ideas in dragon

1. alchemical processes

2. specific animal intelligences

B. – Earth as ensouled Divine Mind: Hestia, Demeter (IV-4-27) [Note: Plotinus, The Enneads.]

1. planets' movement = Infinite Mind of Earth

2. elements = Life or Soul of Earth

C. – Heliocentric vs. Sidereal vs. Tropical

1. Heliocentric = 360° established by Solar Logos

2. Sidereal = fixed stars = participation of Earth Mind in 360 °

3. Tropical = Earth Soul

4. Orphic egg as the Earth – see Mackey [Note: Albert G. Mackey, The Symbolism of Freemasonry: Its Science and Philosophy, its Legends, Myths, and Symbols.]

[FIGURE Astrology Outline-1. Jacob Bryant's Orphic Egg (1774) and Ananke. Digital image from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphism_(religion)#/media/File:Orphic-egg.png. Replaces hand-drawn sketch of Orphic Egg in Scan File.]

D. – Elements

1. Each specific animal needs specific element for proper expression.

2. Wachsmuth [Note: Guenther Wachsmuth, The Etheric Formative Forces in Cosmos, Earth and Man.]

3. Degrees organize signs which organize elements.

4. Degrees as 360° will process through all signs and elements once in a Platonic year.

E. – Geocentric vs. Heliocentric perspective of planets

1. Powers of Solar Logos or Earth Soul?

2. Soul as one and many

3.

a. (as Earth powers, irrational?)

b. (as Solar powers, rational?)

III. PLANETS

A. – As Soul Powers and Categories of the Imagination or Functions of the Psyche

B. – Distinguish and bring out confusion between archetypes as ideas and archetypes as Soul Powers or Categories

1. Gods (360°) vs. 7 Powers of Soul

2. Jung's notion/confusion of instinct and archetype, i.e., senex vs. apperception

3. monotheism vs. polytheism

C. – Wachsmuth on instincts

D. – 3 levels of Planets

1. Natal

2. Transiting

3. Progressed

E. – Chaldeans vs. Trans-Saturnians

1. Uranus Neptune Pluto as Thinking – Feeling – Willing within the psycho-somatic organism

2. Gita: Body as field for T-W-F [Note: Bhagavad Gita.]

3. Trans-Saturnians are life congealed version of T-W-F within the dragon.

4. Trans-Saturnians organize -- regulate -- the instinctual functions (Chaldeans) within us.

F. – North Node and South Node

IV. Interdependence of SOUL POWERS AND IDEAS

A. – the relation brings about the ordering of psycho-somatic organism

B. – categories of imagination order and bring ideas into existence as the ideas determine the functions

1. SUBSTANCE AND FUNCTION

2. Meaning of a planet on a degree – illustration

C. – FABRICATIVE AND GNOSTIC

DIGNITIES AND NON-DIGNITIES

D. – reiteration of opposite degrees and planets

E. – DOSSIER

1. various orderings of Chaldeans, i.e.,

a. Sun→Saturn

b. Sun Moon Saturn

c. Sun as central purpose which gets elucidated by the other 6

d. etc.

F. – Trans-Saturnians as regulators: interdependence of ideas with Chaldeans

G. – ASPECTS – as relation of both ideas and planets

1. 3 levels (kinds) of aspects

a. Regular aspects [symbol here for 12-fold astrological houses]

b. Quintiles [Quintile astrological symbol]

c. Septiles [Septile astrological symbol]

[FIGURE Astrology Outline-2. Aspect Symbols and Aspectarium Grid. Facsimile scan of part of page (8) in original, with handwriting conventions in use at WG at the time, for aspect symbols and sketch of aspectarium grid.]

d. derivation

i. 7-fold

ii. 5-fold

iii. 12-fold

2. "unaspected" planets

3. Orbs – Jones' notes

4. repeat [sketch of astrological aspectarium grid diagram here, see FIGURE Astrology Outline-2, Aspect Symbols and Aspectarium Grid, above]

i. natal aspects

ii. transiting

iii. progressed

5. Show how rational mind is developing out of life experience given by aspects.

V. EFFECTS – "THE CAKE IS BAKED."

A. Jung's typology

B.  [cross symbol here for ascendant-midheaven cross]

1. Asc. [Ascendant]

2. Des. [Descendant]

3. N. [Nadir]

4. M.H. [Midheaven]

C. Houses

D. Nidana Chain: reaction of individual to the World Idea within him, reaction to environment

E. How to locate the native's identity

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