The Groom

Hello everyone. Ah! The Groom? We have recognised the construction of The Bride and we have promised her a partner. How did I recognise her partner? Well ... astrologers have been working with him for millennia and they have developed a keen understanding of HOW he acts even though WHY he CAN act has been (up until now) a mystery. So ... I had a model of the Anima Mundi and I needed some data regarding the structure of the Zodiac. This was supplied to me (through roundabout means) by Maggie Hyde.

In 1989 Lindsay Radermacher gave a lecture at the Oxford Summer School on The Significance of Rulership in Chart Interpretation. Lindsey was responding to an article by Maggie illustrating the symmetry of the Chaldean Order of Rulership as it was taught byPtolemy in the second century CE. Maggie had written:

the trans-Saturnian planets. This creates an erroneous understanding of the traditional symbolism of the planets and their relationship with the signs of the Zodiac ...

Maggie’s diagram.

There is an unreflective trend in modern astrology which seeks to oust the traditional rulers of signs by giving exclusive rulership to

LOOK ... the COMPLEMENTARY

CONNECTIONS line up on the

Zodiac just as they did on the

ANIMA MUNDI. I needed to see this.

THANK YOU Maggie and Lindsey.

These are hexagram 63 After Completion, and 64 Before Completion. As The Zodiac is a big Cosmic Clock poised at that Creative moment full of potential, After the last moment, Before the next, this organisation made perfect sense?

But unlike on the Anima Mundi, where all positive and all negative signs line up to make up the first pair of hexagrams in The Book of Changes, on The Zodiac the signs alternate, making up the last pair.

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1781: Electricity, Technology, Oxygen.

EVOLUTION

1930: Oil, Petrol, Depth Psychology, Plutonium.

1845/46: Gas, Anaesthetics, Photography, Film.

The discovery of the ‘new rulers’, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto introduced new inventions and energy sources.

If ‘seeing’ these planets kick-started change was it possible the same had been true of the others? ?Could this be

what we call ...

Conditioned by the I Ching (The Book of Changes), again I read the lines from the bottom up. The Sun supplies the energy essential to life so it seemed like a good place to start.

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Without light we wouldn’t need eyes. Vision illumin-ates our surroundings so that we can ‘keep an eye’ on what’s going on. But only while we are awake.

The SUN

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I feel and I hear.

The Moon lights up the darkness – it keeps us safe at night. Even if you are fast asleep if I shout or poke you, you will wake up. The Moon is ‘I feel’, ‘I hear’, and ‘I care’.

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The MOON.

We now have ONE Complementary Connection

fully operative – the connection LIFE.

SEEING LINKS WITH HEARING

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Complementary Connection LIFE.

Mercury that gave rise to René Descartes' famous dictum:

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The recognition of little Mercury marks an ontological leap of major significance. Consciousness acquired the means to grasp the idea of itself. It must have been

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The verb ‘to be’ follows ‘I am’ with ‘you are’. Consciousness, going solo through the gift of individual-ity bestowed by great Sol, is aware of other points of

consciousness – points that our symbol-using intelligence names you. Through you I can experi-ence myself objectively. Through the process of relating, my subjective I will recognise your subjective I, and this will greatly enhance my perception.

I relate, therefore YOU ARE.

VENUS.

WHAT HAVE WE GOT SO FAR?

... so who comes next?

We have the all-important COMPLEMENTARYCONNECTION

LIFE - Sun and Moon -

enclosing Mercury, who recognises his own mental

processes, andVenus, who recognises

you have them too...

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When Venus conceives of something she fancies Mars sets out to get it. But what if something gets in the way? Mars energy, while hot stuff on action, is flummoxed by frustration. When Mars energy is blocked it builds up, and WHOMP ....

something has to give.I WANT

(and sometimes you get in my

way)

Mars is hunting. It is the energy that sends us off into the jungle to fetch a bag of crisps.

Mars is the impulse to act.

We have reached a place where we must confront our many forms of hunger and learn through bitter experience that we cannot just take what we want when we feel like it. We must develop a philosophical attitude and this leads us to our next planet.

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Jupiter is ‘the law giver’. He rules the 9th house of philo-sophy. As the Mercury function bestowed the ability to use intricate patterns of sound to convey ideas Jupiter enables us to re-cognise patterns in events. Through Jupiter we glimpse the structure in the mystery of existence.

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I seek information and study patterns in

an attempt to understand what is going on.

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Then I enforce the rules

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SATURN

Prior to the incorporation of Saturn into our planetary picture we had recognised planets carrying the archetypes of only three of the four elements, those of Fire, Air, and Water…

Saturn isthe planet of

‘Limitation’. The end of the line.

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We were proficient processers of visual information having recognised

EARTH. With ‘heavy Saturn’ we met the confining, constricting, decomposing,

physical foundation upon which our ‘being’ is based.

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Summing Up

We had a powerful dose of intelligent conscious-awareness with two Air planets on our folio, Mercury and Venus.

Saturn marked our first conscious confrontation with

the Sun, Mars, and Jupiter.

And we had the instinct to ‘care’ for those we loved recognising one planet, the Moon, for the element Water.

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Connection operational!

LIFE

This is Liz Green’s diagram of Iolande Jacobi’s ‘consciousness’ model. Liz has added the planets. The

three outer planets define the COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS. Up to this point we have no

awareness of these planets but we are aware of the planets that define CONSCIOUSNESS and the

PERSONAL UNCONSCIOUS. Note: The new model

has rearranged Venus and

Mars.

I am. Responding to Iolande’s and Liz’s insight I drew up a diagram to illustrate what (at this point in history) we had evolved sufficiently to recognise. Not only the outer planets but also planet Earth is missing.

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You are.

I hunt and I fight.

I seek to understand.

I build walls and keep order. (so far).LIFE

Suddenly new sources of energy became available.

The ruler and his aristocracy were the last word in power and authority. Man-power , animal power, and the natural powers of wind, water and fire were all we had in the way of energy. Lots could be done but there were limits. (Remember Saturn?)

ALL CHANGE

Astrologers call Uranus the planet of ‘sudden disruptive change’. The discovery (one of this planet's meanings is discovery) that enabled us to see this distant planet was the telescope.

In 1781, scanning the night sky with his amazing, home-made, magnifying device, William Herschel, with his sister Caroline’s help, recognised this planet for what it was. It looked like nothing more than a little star, but it moved – it wasn’t a comet - it didn’t have a tail.

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We can make light and see

great distances!

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After ages of limitation imposed by a restricted energy supply, we discovered new sources of power. Uranus, ruler of electricity, turned on the light.

URANUS

Much that was dark was dispelled and demands were made to change our old Capricornian ways of going about our business. ‘Hey’, said Uranus energy, shouldn't

everyone benefit the social order not just the chosen few? And since the Saturnian system didn't want to change the result was rebellion. Uranus, idiosyncratic planet, rolling around as it orbits like that great invention the wheel (the others spin), planet of electricity, eccentricity, enlightenment, ushered in humanitarian ideals with considerable disruption. The American war of independence was won in 1781; the French Revolution erupted in 1789 and in a small island off the coast of France the Industrial Revolution was gearing up – life prepared to take on major new concerns. l

Uranus stands for the collective, positive, side of the Complementary Connection WEALTH,a condition that has to do with science, technology, com-merce and government. And there is a warning – The I Ching says of this top line of The Creative: Arrogant dragon will have cause to repent. Better keep this warning in mind. Uranus stands for revolution, re-evolution, and we prepare for another turn on the evolutionary wheel. We have collective conscious awareness. Man, woman, child, black, white, red, yellow, tall or short, rich or poor, bisexual, homosexual, heterosexual - we understand collectively that we all have rights, and that's a great step forward. It was unstable Uranium that alerted man to the presence of energy in the nucleus of the atom triggering the countdown for what has come to be called ‘the atomic age’.

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Neptune was predicted by Couch Adams in 1845 and seen by Leverrier in 1846. Neptune's com-passionate disposition tuned in to Uranus' insistence on individual freedom and slavery became an issue of moment. New drugs were discovered. The import of opium into China (also the import of Christian missionaries) provoked a war. Film united cinema goers in intense emotional experiences. The new source of energy offered by Neptune was gas.

NEPTUNE

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POWERFUL(and potentially

dangerous).

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PLUTO

Who Is

This?

While Saturn means death in the sense of ‘STOP’ Pluto's dynamic energy acts on death. It breaks down outworn forms, returning them to their component parts so that they are available for re-assimilation. But now we have a problem. Burning fossil fuels messes with our atmosphere, and we have created plutonium, a dangerous element with transformational power of its own, an element that Pluto energy cannot so easily degrade. We must clear up our own mess. If we fail to realise

plutonic issues, we are threatened with annihilation.

REGENERATION

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Three more COMPLEMENTARY CONNECTIONS

have linked with their partners ...

Look what’s happened now?

SOURCE

TIME

... and this has connected the Personal Unconscious to the Collective Unconscious .

Wealth

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But (still) only Saturn is standing in for Earth.

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ONLY ME !

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SOURCE

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Wealth

I wonder, do these two have

partners

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The way these planets are linking indicates a new planet is awaiting recognition.

We need a ruling

planet for Taurus.

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In 1948 Fred Hoyle wrote: Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from the outside, is available, we shall, in an emotional sense, acquire an additional dimension ... a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.

In 1961 a human being saw Earth for the first time. The first astronauts prepared to see the universe, without exception they spent their time gazing at home. ‘.. it comes through you so powerfully, that you are the sensing element for man. You look down and see the surface of that globe that you've lived on all this time, and you know all those people down there, and they are like you, they are you, and somehow you represent them.’ Astronaut R Shwiekart. (The Home Planet. Conceived and edited by Kevin W. Kelly. Macdonald Queen Anne Press.)

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Recognising Earth demanded we over-came the power of

GRAVITY. Big achievement?

Oh ... we are beautiful, yes, but

also small and VULNERABLE !

The ‘sensing element for man’! Does this

look good?

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arrogant?

This is the symbol for Earth that I found

in my dictionaryIt is Venus

upside down!

What do you think

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Is this alluding to our ‘seeing’

The Bride? ?

VENUS connects to EARTH

Aware of our vulnerability we are moved by our vision to think about Earth in a more responsible way. Taurus protects and conserves but is ferocious when angered.

Here she is, The Bride

of Heaven.

We must learn to keep her safe.

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Who rules VIRGO?

? What about MERCURY? Where is his partner?

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In 1977 we discovered Chiron and it caused quite a stir. I suspect Chiron, is the key to the evolutionary door. The more I have studied

this perception the greater is my trust in this idea. Discovered by Charles Kowal on the first day of November 1977 nobody was sure whether Object Kowal was a large asteroid, a captured comet, or an escaped satellite of Uranus or Saturn. As Jupiter seeks to define the laws of the universe, Chiron analyses the results produced by experience. Jupiter can be optimistic since his conclusions give a sense of fulfilment whereas much that Chiron has to deal with is painful. Chiron works with the small scale, every living cell counts, and the sign Virgo clearly relates to the preoccupations of Chiron and the sixth house.

See Revelation Part Two

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In 1977 the Rainbow Warrior

took to the waves. Chiron, ‘the

wounded healer’, certainly carries

Virgoan symbolism .

We must aim to be HEALTHY and

RESPONSIBLE

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Gemini (third house) is teaching and Virgo, (sixth) is health.

Chiron is a teacher and a healer isn’t he?

Chiron’s orbit takes it sometimes within the orbit of Saturn, sometimes outside.

Mercury has an interesting partner.

Astronomers have suggested that Chiron is an escaped asteroid. So what about these? They must ALL be important.

ASTEROIDS

In 1596 Kepler predicted a planet orbiting between Mars and Jupiter. Once predicted the hunt was on. Ceres was the first asteroid to be discovered.

Ceres?

Ceres (Greek Demeter), goddess of harvest, IS the sign Virgo. So, if there is a ‘potential’ planet between Mars and Jupiter which never managed to get its act together because Jupiter’s gravity is too strong ,and, if Ceres is the sign Virgo, we have reason to wonder.

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WORD in lots and lots of books. The asteroids would make a great partner for Mercury. They reflect ‘perfectly’ the minute interactions the receptive, ‘material’, meaning thatthe archetype Virgo defines.

Virgo rules secretaries and libraries. The written

SATELLITES !ASTEROIDS

And look what we have done to Earth since Chiron was discovered.

These satellites are bouncing information around our world. They look like asteroids to me.

Yes ... satellites DEFINITELY look like asteroids.

There are many small objects in the solar system. Mercury, Gemini’s ruling planet, zooms around the Sun, and, as I mentioned, astronomers think he must have come in from the outer solar system as he can’t have formed so near such a massive gravitational field. Might some of these be his Gemini friends?

Oort Cloud

Kuiper Belt

Tennant’s Box of Stars

In myth, the twin Castor was mortally injured (just like Chiron) and was sent to live in Pluto’s realm. I wonder if the Centaurs, the Kuiper belt, the Oort Cloud, or maybe the new Plutoids, are something

to do with Castor. GEMINI

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This explains why I have also given Gemini a

star?

Whoah! Now all COMPLEMENTARY CONNECTIONS

are in working order.

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was first discovered he was called the Rainbow Bridge. Is this it? A bridge of light connecting us tothe outer reaches of our solar system?

Remember the Rainbow Warrior? When Chiron

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THE RAINBOW BRIDGE

The AGE of INFORMATION

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ARE WE COSMIC NOW?

So we find yourselves with another stunning pattern – this time on The Zodiac ...

DNA consists of a double string of simple molecules called bases. There are only four bases; these are adenine, A, guanine, G, thiamine, T and cytosine, C. This ‘Pattern of Evolution’ is made up of four elements; these are Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. In DNA the base adenine always links with thiamine and the base guanine always links with cytosine. On the ZODIAC Earth always links with Air, Water always links with Fire.

... and it is laid out remarkably like DNA; the instruction book for creating a physical ‘being’.

DNA!

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THE GROOM THE BRIDE

Shall we apply this Cosmic DNA to the bride?

The Groom

YES PLEASE!

Chrissy Philp July 2015