Archetypal Zodiac

THE SIXTH CONSTELLATION AND STARHOUSE- LIBRA

October 17-November 17: The Sun is in the Constellation of LIBRA:

For all you are a sparkling social and sociable being you are also deeply serious. You gravitate naturally towards the good the true and the beautiful. Acutely aware of cultural trends and movements you know where you are and how to play it most of the time.

You have a marvelous sense of timing but unfortunately you also procrastinate. This means that you spend a lot of time trying to figure out wether you are procrastinating or exercising your brilliant sense of timing.

You are just so naturally nice that members of the opposite sex often mistake your warmth and receptivity for romantic interest. You always look like you have a lot of potential partners but in fact you are not at all easy to match with a potential spouse.

You love conversation and storytelling if the conversation is meaningful and the story carries wisdom. You can do small talk brilliantly but it bores you and you only use it as a device to either get what you want or to lead into more serious territory.

Being extremely well read and possessing a good memory you sometimes don’t let on to the extent of your knowledge, preferring to let the other do the talking. You are a natural practitioner of active listening and employing well chosen questions. It often happens that the verbose other will suddenly realize that they are being humored. That is when you save them from embarrassment by appreciating the one true if obvious thing that they have said. If needed you see no harm in throwing in a little flattery to save the day.

You probably wrote the desiderata “Avoid loud and aggressive persons for they are a vexation to the spirit”.
You have a natural psychological sophistication and can hear the hidden meaning in what people are saying or rather not saying. You perceive complexity nuance and context all at the same time. You dislike taking sides because you see the whole situation. This leads some people to accuse you of sitting on the fence. But you know well that most of life’s day to day problems solve themselves in time or just simply disappear.

You are a master of strategic delay and avoid a lot of problems simply by postponing them until they are forgotten. You can be found sitting around apparently doing nothing but usually you are thinking deeply about how you are going to do something. You will often jump up at the last minute and get whatever it is done in the twinkling of an eye before lapsing back into your apparent laziness. The fact is you are also really lazy. This is why as time goes by, your life, which can be messy, gets more and better organized. It takes less effort that way.

You show a marked tendency to drift in a quagmire of indecision particularly if you must face something disagreeable or just plain awkward. In this way you appear to be letting life just happen to you and not following any thought out plan for your future. You for instance will put off marriage to any of your many admirers until they all marry other people and you end up alone. If the marriage house in your chart is afflicted then none of them really wanted to marry you, which is why you really didn’t want to marry any of them.

With you everything is in the balance of your existence. With the exaltation of Saturn in Libra you quite like your own company up to a point. You like to read and write you are also a really good artist and designer if you try. And people will buy your work if you go into any of these fields.

You are also well suited to retail sales at the high end of the market place. But you may end up stuck in some boring but secure administrative or executive assistant post.

It is not so much that you actually want to be alone but you want to be left alone. Because of your acute sensitivity to the vibrations of others you may have shut down and become a superficial person. But if you are still intact you will like a deeply intimate relationship with moments of extremely high erotic intensity followed by long lulls and periods of calm everydayness. You should get married.

Because of the current confusion (produced by the “tropical zodiac of signs”) many Libra people think they are Scorpio and mistake their highly developed Venusian eroticism for the raw primordial sexuality of Mars ‘ruled’ Scorpio. But if you are Libra any crudeness or savagery in the sexual realm disgusts and repels you. It is the mythic poetics of romantic love that calls to you. If your chart combines Libra and Scorpio elements then you are an extremely intense sexy creative individual.

Work is your salvation the moment you get your attitude towards it realized in the right way. This means taking pleasure in the task itself rather than dwelling upon what it might or might not lead to. Or what social image or prestige is implied by the current work. When you embrace responsibility you are invincible.

You are naturally over concerned with what people think of you. It is important to think about one of the natural laws of life and it is this.

One third of all people love you on sight, one third of all people are indifferent to you, and one third of all people hate you.

With your charm and talent it is easy to get the indifferent third to also love you. At that point the third who hate you will plot your downfall. But the two thirds who love you will also protect you. That’s life.

At your best you are a brilliant team player able to get everyone positively motivated and feeling good about getting the job done. Your natural diplomatic skills come into play and you can often get the most unlikely people to cooperate. Your beautiful home can also be a centre of cultural and social life.

Because of your deep seriousness and periodic melancholy the meaning and purpose of life is on your mind. Spiritual meaningfulness engages you and big picture spiritual philosophies that can speak meaningfully and subtly to all aspects of life are your natural home. In the later part of your life you will attain enlightenment by the depth of your understanding.

LIBRA:

Element: Cardinal Air:

Ruler: Venus:

Exaltation: Saturn:

Detriment: Mars:

Fall: Sun:

Sense: Balance:

Philosophy: Realism:

Archetypal Zodiac: 6th House.

Age of Pisces: 8th House.

Libra the sixth Constellation in the Archetypal Zodiac has always been associated with the scales of justice. In ancient Egypt this balance was understood by everyone as being personified in the Goddess Maat. This Maat is the female figure we see in all depictions of the “Hypostasia” or negative confession in which the recently dead Egyptian appears with his heart being weighed on a scales with a feather on the other pan. Thoth the personification of all knowledge and skill stands by in his image of a scribe to record the outcome of the judgment of the Goddess Maat. The traditional meanings of the 6th house speak loud and clear.
There is a fundamental rule of Astrology that an adverse Planet placed in a positive Starhouse may ’spoil’ it. And that a positive Planet placed in an adverse Starhouse is ’spoiled’ by it. But an Adverse Planet placed in an Adverse Starhouse will function positively this may be called the “Reverse-Adverse” rule. Here we have a perfect example of this “reverse-adverse” rule. Saturn is exalted in Libra the 6th Starhouse of “ripe karmic effects” in the Archetypal Zodiac.

About Mercury & Venus: Hermes & Aphrodite: Hermaphrodite: The Sacred Hermaphrodite Means:
The Mystical Marriage Within The Innermost Self With The Sun: The Self’s Abiding Within Beness.
Buddhi: Sacred Soul: = Venus: Mysticism. Manas: Innate intelligence:= Mercury: Transcendentalism:

Before The Modern Era The Planet We Now Call Mercury was Called Venus. And The Planet We Now Call Venus Was Called Mercury. This Can Be Confirmed By Looking At Any Classical or Ancient Map Of The Solar System. How is this to be understood? The Sun Venus and Mercury were understood by the Egyptians who originated Astrology As Osiris Isis And Horus.

This Triune Deity was later Called God The Father The Holy Spirit and Jesus.

This Triune Deity was also called the Logos: The Authentic Unifying Individuality within the Manifold field of Perception and Experience. In This sense every individual Self is a true Logos.

It is advisable to understand Mercury And Venus As a twofold yet Single Integrated Awareness State Of the Authentic Individual. For Instance it is Most Illuminating To See Ones Natal Mercury as Venus and ones natal Venus as Mercury. In the case of their conjunction within one Sidereal Sign this is almost unavoidable. But when they are in different Signs and Elements the results of this interchanged analysis can be Highly Revealing. The principle, to be kept in mind and understood, is that Mercury Articulates and Expresses Venus. And Venus Understands and makes Mercury Present

as self apprehending Self-awareness. Mercury/Venus are the Transcendental-Presence Horizon of Self Awareness. The following example will illustrate. You are Listening to a Concert of Complex Emotionally moving Music, to which you have given yourself over entirely; so that you have Become the Music. A vast inner space filled with the self as music has opened up within you. At the Horizon of this inner space Mercury spontaneously understands the beautiful complexity of the Music and Venus feels it deeply.

Or again: You are looking at a visual artistic masterpiece. The subject matter and colors invoke deep complex feelings: Venus. While you simultaneously appreciate the technical virtuosity and composition: Mercury. Meditation is one of the ways to cultivate and sensitize this Awareness State.

It was surely a Mercury Venus Conjunction that said “ Truth is Beauty and Beauty Truth”.

Archetypal Zodiac

THE FIFTH CONSTELLATION AND STAR-HOUSE – VIRGO:

September 17-October 17: The Sun is in the Constellation of VIRGO:

Even though no one really understands you it doesn’t bother you most of the time. The main thing is that you manage to pass for normal everywhere even though you are deeply eccentric. With your highly developed imagination you are privy to many unusual things outside the mainstream where you live. Things are simply the way they are, then they change, you see no need to turn this obvious fact of existence into a crisis. You like to preserve an unruffled exterior to mask the inner turmoil of your highly self reflective subjective existence. You have many different interests many different acquaintances. And you also have many different faces to go with them. You always have somewhere else to go, other people to be with but you discretely keep this to yourself.

You enjoy working and usually make yourself indispensable to some high powered individual or prestigious organization. You really like being the adviser behind the throne, in on every detail, party to every secret. You may have several skills and excel at turning hobbies and part time interests into careers.

You are a natural designer graphic artist photographer and coder. Work involving painstaking research, analysis and writing also suits you. You have a very good eye for the unique detail and can take interesting photographs or render equally good drawings.

You are sexually responsive to a truly remarkable degree but are equally able to remain at an emotional distance. This confuses your lovers who feel rejected and then reject you. You are very attracted to the company of the wicked provided they maintain a passable veneer of civilization and respectability. Though otherwise cautious to a fault you can become embroiled in scandal through your wicked associates. No sooner do you feel that your mask has slipped than you leave town and begin a new life elsewhere.

You hold a very high opinion of yourself and can project an air of superiority based upon nothing more than your attitude of polite self importance. At pains to appear knowledgeable and well informed you are always listening out for the opinions you should adopt. When challenged in a debate you will seize upon some irrelevant detail and insist upon discussing that, in an attempt to mask your ignorance. You are a great one for invoking intellectual authorities and quoting books you have incompletely read. Your opinions tend to change with the tides of public opinion and the last bestseller you have read. Higher education is crucial to your mental well being and standing in the world. If you do train your mind you are capable of almost heroic intellectual feats. Genius is not entirely out of the question.

In love you are deeply insecure and tend to analyze the life out of your romance before it gets a proper chance to get started. This makes strong initial sexual attraction all the more important. Material considerations are very important to you and if you’re prospective spouse has a lot of money and the right social profile it makes all the difference.

Your natural capacity for self discipline makes meditation and prayer possible but your main source of spiritual inspiration comes from your extremely vivid dreams and visions.

VIRGO:
Element: Mutable Earth:
Ruler: Mercury + Venus:
Exaltation: Ouranus:
Detriment: Jupiter:
Fall: Venus:
Sense: Change:
Philosophy: Phenomenalism:
Archetypal Zodiac: 5th House.
Age of Pisces: 7th House.

Again, we find ourselves sorting out the ancient wheat from the chaff of the ages. The fifth house has always been associated with love life and romantic imagination. This, of course, seems entirely obvious when we see that the fifth starhouse is ruled by Mercury-Venus, the planet of mysticism, which in its most elevated state manifest as the true love of the Sacred. At a male-female level, mysticism expresses itself as romantic love, which is the pre-requisite for the healthy reproduction of children. Hence, the fifth starhouse also indicates the native’s relationship with children.

As Mercury-Venus also governs the arts, it is easily seen why the ancient astrologers attributed creativity and artistic intelligence to the fifth starhouse.

The Aristotelian category of Virgo is Appearance. Here we can see the fifth starhouse association with self-expression. This allows the astrologer to determine the strength and well being of the native’s sense of self. This naturally combines with the other Mercury-Venus-ruled house, Gemini, the second starhouse, which governs Ego.

Further, we will notice that the beings existentially present in the constellation of Virgo are immersed in the activity and consciousness of Phenomenalism – which is to say all creativity and artistic endeavor involves the production of phenomena.

Whereas Leo is the primal existence of all life, Virgo is the creative response to it. In this way we can perceive how Virgo is the sense of Transformation wherein life becomes art through the self-expressive creativity of individuals. Needless to say, the creator is transformed by the act of creation.

At the highest level of Mercury-Venusian life, we find the Ego of the native, motivated by selfless-love and striving for perfection as an individual. In the chart, a well-positioned or elevated Mercury-Venus finds the native in love with the uniqueness of the self and capable of loving the uniqueness of others without projection or the desire to re-design the other’s being. This, of course, is true love of the other. This love spills over into the world at large and we see here the cultural benefactor, either through participation in direct creativity or the enthusiastic support of same. When the planet Mercury-Venus is in the fifth and well or powerfully aspected, we find the endlessly creative and mystical individual. Devotion is a word that applies here.

The fifth starhouse of Virgo is a feminine constellation in the element of mutable Earth. The myth is that Diana / Venus leapt fully formed from the brow of Zeus / Jupiter. Diana is the goddess of the arts. She is not, as such, evolving – she is predestined to her own perfection. Venus has nothing to receive from the world except its worship and devotion. Venus is motivated by the conviction that the world ought to be more exciting, artistic and wonderful than it is. Venus is extremely seductive. Proud of her lofty attainments, she stands in the glorious light of her perfection. In her perfect creative powers there is nothing in all the world that she is unable to transform into a higher perfection. To this extent, Venus loves the Earth with ardent enthusiasm but she loves it in order to replace it with her own world, which is not what the Spiritual Sun has in mind for us.

Venus is the agency of humanity’s higher destiny, her longing for the ultimate consummation of the good, the true and the beautiful. How she has inspired us down through all ancient time. Constantly bringing change and new life to humanity, so that our souls do not grow weary of life, she brings us always something new and exciting to look forward to.

About Mercury & Venus: Hermes & Aphrodite: Hermaphrodite: The Sacred Hermaphrodite Means:
The Mystical Marriage Within The Innermost Self With The Sun: The Self’s Abiding Within Beness.
Buddhi: Sacred Soul: = Venus: Mysticism.
Manas: Innate intelligence:= Mercury: Transcendentalism:
Before The Modern Era The Planet We Now Call Mercury was Called Venus. And The Planet We Now Call Venus Was Called Mercury. This Can Be Confirmed By Looking At Any Classical or Ancient Map Of The Solar System.

How is this to be understood? The Sun Venus and Mercury were understood by the Egyptians who originated Astrology As Osiris Isis And Horus. This Triune Deity was later Called God The Father The Holy Spirit and Jesus. This Triune Deity was also called the Logos: The Authentic Unifying Individuality within the Manifold field of Perception and Experience. In This sense every individual Self is a true Logos.

It is advisable to understand Mercury And Venus As a twofold yet Single Integrated Awareness State Of the Authentic Individual. For Instance it is Most Illuminating To See Ones Natal Mercury as Venus and ones natal Venus as Mercury. In the case of their conjunction within one Sidereal Sign this is almost unavoidable. But when they are in different Signs and Elements the results of this interchanged analysis can be Highly Revealing. The principle, to be kept in mind and understood, is that Mercury Articulates and Expresses Venus. And Venus Understands and makes Mercury Present as self apprehending Self-awareness. Mercury/Venus are the Transcendental-Presence Horizon of Self Awareness.

The following example will illustrate. You are Listening to a Concert of Complex Emotionally moving Music, to which you have given yourself over entirely; so that you have Become the Music. A vast inner space filled with the self as music has opened up within you.

At the Horizon of this inner space Mercury spontaneously understands the beautiful complexity of the Music and Venus feels it deeply.

Or again: You are looking at a visual artistic masterpiece. The subject matter and colors invoke deep complex feelings: Venus. While you simultaneously appreciate the technical virtuosity and composition: Mercury. Meditation is one of the ways to cultivate and sensitize this Awareness State.

It was surely a Mercury Venus Conjunction that said “ Truth is Beauty and Beauty Truth”.

The Sun is in the Constellation of LEO:
August17th -September 17th 2009:

Sun In Sidereal Leo: August 17th September 17th

Radiant you alternating between absolute self confidence and abject insecurity, the world surely is a much better place with you in it. You are a world bearing being unto yourself. Those who are allowed to know you well understand this. Respect is the very substance of your being.

Your importance cannot be estimated. Any individual or thing gains in importance simply by gaining your attention. At your best you take up a great and worthy work at the centre of many and for the good of all. Thus you enjoy all the good in life without guilt or self doubt.

Your reputation precedes you everywhere and many people you will never know discuss your every move. You like to hold gatherings and surround yourself with interesting creative gifted and witty people. You also insist on being invited to the main event. Celebrity comes naturally although you might disdain it if you can’t have it on your terms. There are many things in life that are just quite simply and naturally beneath you.

You notice everything but choose to overlook a lot of what you see. Those things you overlook have a way of coming back to irritate or embarrass you. The day you stop overlooking and start overseeing and in turn directing, is the day your life takes a big turn for the better.

The people around you are expecting you to lead, and are even disappointed if you don’t. The main thing is to overcome the mere feeling of self importance and actually become actively and functionally important.

You have terrific energy and can accomplish more in a day than most people in a week. You also have an absolute genius for getting people to do things for you. If inclined towards business or corporate life you are unstoppable and can build a personal empire with an ease that often causes those less gifted to cry foul.

Your innate sense of entitlement and freedom from guilt makes you a natural entrepreneur. Much as you demand wealth it is never only the money you are after, it is the glory and the admiration of your few peers. When offended you can be extremely vindictive, and arrange some legal form of revenge but you usually relent before carrying it out. You disdain the petty the mean and the small minded. You believe in fair play and never try to keep anyone down. In fact you always challenge those around you to do their best. That rare one can appear who is a marvel of intelligent efficiency and loyalty. That one is your protégé.

You love natural surroundings and wilderness areas. Horses and dogs are often important to you. And you can mourn the passing of a beloved creature as if it were a real member of the family.  Leo’s have been known to keep a Lion as a pet.

In love you are devoted passionate and deeply sensual reveling in every detail of the love affair. You can be extremely generous and almost sickeningly doting towards the object of your affections. Rhapsodic music and extravagant outbursts of passion are the order of the day. Extravagant gifts the best seats in the theatre, that special private table in the exclusive restaurant.

You may entertain doubts about whom or what god is but you don’t doubt that there is a supreme being. You can be profoundly religious and devoted to the external trappings of your religion. The architecture of cathedrals and temples appeal to you, and you will design or contribute to their construction. You are sure if there is a god/dess that it is aware of you.

LEO: Element: Fixed Fire:
Ruler:Sun:
Exaltation: none:
Detriment:Saturn:
Fall: Mercury:
Sense: Life:
Philosophy: Sensualism:
Archetypal Zodiac: 4th House.
Age of Pisces: 6th House.