Scion
Sort of, G... but actuallyt there is only one way that the GD associates the courts with the decans. The "other" thing Crowley is talking about is Sephirothic attribution (as in Queens are all in Binah with the 3s).similia said:Y its likely Scion and I are referring to different things. There are a several ways to line the Courts up with the decans and zodiac signs. There is a thread I asked about part of Crowley's book here that shows two ways, but they aren't the only ways.
I'm running late so I'm braindumping and will clean up my mess later.
The problem with using modern astrology books is that they turn themselves inside out to explain why everything in the sky indicates a subjective mood, but don't actually contain much astrology. For anyone who's feeling frisky I really recommend The Real Astrology by John Frawley and The Moment of Astrology by Geoffrey Cornelius. Modern sun sign astrology is pretty embarassing when you get down to brass tacks, but that's a whole different convo.
As for GD Kings (on horseback) ruling the Fixed signs... the disconnect people are having is with the word "fixed." Fixed doesn't only mean "stationary." The way I keep it clear for myself is to think of it in this context as a synonym for "focused." Cardinal is the "throned" mode because it occupies the starting point of each sign. They "oversee" the rest of the sign and are "aware" of the entirety of the sign's element/mode intersection. The GD Kings (on horseback) express the sign at it's most "swift and violent, but transient" (BoT) ruling the "Royal" stars in Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius and Taurus. And the mutable princes represent the combined energy of both parents, which will (mutably) pass as he weds the Queen and becomes the new (mounted in all sense of the word) King... (There's another whole question here about that lingering 10 degrees of the prior sign I'd love to get into later.)
But this thread should really be about the MInors and the Decans, right? I'm sorry for the Court digression. More on the minors shortly.
More importantly we're using the Picatrix's rulerships and NOT the Jyotish (& modenr astrological) rulerships of the decans... which is in itself a clue. The Golden Dawn is poointing us back to the Picatrix and (for once) NOT to Agrippa, which actually goes to prove Ravenest's point about thee magickal use of the stars. I've lots to say about that choice and the implications but I've just seen the time.
But I'm going to be late this morning so I'm just gonna post this and see what pops out of the soup today.
Scion