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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 wither 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”.
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