And double bravo on you post!
BRAVO! That’s the point exactly. The mythology recorded by human civilization has a definite theme. This is easier to grasp when you read it from a "natal chart" perspective. I use "humanistic astrology"
as opposed to that which is "hoary" or just event based. Using astrological correspondence this way I’m able to better get in tune with appropriate times that the planetary bodies are available to do some work and help me toward the goal of GNOSIS. Like you so appropriately mentioned "aspects". The great things about aspects is they actually start to break down to Pythagorean mathematics and geometrical shapes. this is profound! It’s because we have this available reference that we can see later what Kabbalistic tree paths we are most in affinity with.
YES! When the general pattern (for all of us) is understood we can see (by adaptation of that pattern with a relevant 'modulation' pattern) how our individuality best matches the overall pattern in areas of 'affinity' and also areas of weakness that we either need to strengthen or take a variant path ... sometimes, due to our 'affinities' we can take a straight path, at other times the straight path is 'blocked', but there are other strong paths leading to it by different routes.
E.g. I have many good aspects with Neptune - a great helper, due to placements it has a good influence with the other helpers/planets so I have a variety of choices to access that energy.
I better not go on too much about personal astrological complexities here.
BUT another example of taking a variant path is; I had to learn a lot of 777 correspondences for an exam and had no idea how I would do it. It wasn’t working ... I can’t learn from tables and figures ... had endless trouble at school with multiplication tables (and spelling
) ... but then I realised I could learn the correspondences by relating all of them to a tarot card, an artistic visual complex symbol system that activates the unconscious processing. In no time at all I was learning them and I passed the examination without a problem.
Some of us find it hard to learn ... the info goes in but the bell doesn’t ring. The Sufi's call it 'Learning how to learn'.
Finally when all the correspondence is taken to heart then you can start to see these paths interconnect with life events. Hod to Netzach or whatever. That path relates to two minor arcana and one major. That trinitarian view of the Two Extremes and the Major integrating path in the centre is.. (Here is my word again) PROFOUND.
You just rang my bell! OF COURSE!
I love it when people do that; there has been something I have been missing, someone makes a comment or statement and
: - 'How could I have missed that?
I have been listing trinitarian concepts and their extension into 4
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http://homeland-foundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Photon-3.pdf
‘SYSTEMS AND MAPS OF NUMBER’ article … about half way through the magazine.]
and I totally missed that one. Thank you!
The implications of this method are amazing.
Yes! I have been working on a system to incorporate the 3 outer planets but use a variant 'tree' to the tree of life that for me better utilises astrology, outer planets and psychological mapping.
see
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=187887 post #6 onwards
I connect the 'helpers'/planets with certain lines and for each natal expression I draw the aspect lines in a colour between them (e.g. a red path for a square, a blue for a trine and so on, when one looks at the whole diagram it can be seen where a difficult direct path might be and so a variant root - maybe via one or two other planets) can get you to access the energy.
Then translated in occult or Kabbalistic reference will keep you focused upon the goal "crystallization in the heart" or Tiferet, then you can advance to the next phase of development
In GNOSIS
Tim
Yes. The way my system is working out is to get those basic 'Id' psychological drives (inner planets with Mars Venus as the base line) fed balanced and modulated by Mercury ( messenger of the Sun and delver -psychopomp - into the underworld ) - the lower trinitarian concept, with the Moon in the centre (C.I.C.T. - see Crowley’s Rite of Jupiter ... and the Wheel tarot card
) relaying the experiential energy 'up' to the solar centre. while the solar centre relays the energy of 'outer helpers' outer planets and cosmic connections, archetypal patterns and 'collective super-conscious (ego)' (symbolised by MAAT in Egyptian concepts) energies flowing 'down' via the solar centre. This helps to create a stronger Moon conjoined sun consciousness where the 'Id' is modulated by the 'Superego' to assist stages of ego development.