It's good to be back, it's been a year since I've been here, and it's just a zoomed by so
Yeah, my goal today is to
Share with you some of the fundamentals of esoteric astrology, which is a little bit different than traditional astrology?
Ahm, in the in a couple of ways
Fundamentally esoteric astrology is much more related to or is useful to people that have actually had an awakening to
People that have an awakening to their higher promptings
Traditional astrology is very good when it comes to understanding the personality dimension of life, but once a person has come to that
time in life or that particular incarnation where there's a deeper something being felt a
higher kind of love being felt a
recognition of a
kind of selfless almost christ-like love
Being felt that's called the awakening
it's a big big point in the evolutionary journey of the human soul over the vastness of time and
Once that awakening occurs in one life or another
Life is never the same, and it's it's at that point where we begin to see the usefulness of esoteric astrology
ah because esoteric astrology is got a
fundamental couple of goals one is
In a certain sense, it's designed to help us understand how
Does the soul want to pattern?
the nature of consciousness
In the life and also how may the lower self get in the way and what can be done about it
So the premise behind this whole philosophy
Or I should say this this the astrology portion of this philosophy, is that a person has recognized their own duality
They've recognized that higher and lower and this particular type of astrology is trying to cater cater to the higher
The soul and help you understand how to transform the lower the personality so that it becomes the rightful
servant to the higher
and that's the goal the soul is who you truly are and
Ultimately your personality its destiny is to just be the outer garment. It's destiny is to be the
instrument through which the soul
Tries to interface in the world and in the process of interfacing making uplifting
Contribution to something beyond yourself
Every human soul wants to serve
And yet it we have to recognize it and we have to
Understand how the personality needs to conform to its expectations
So the goal tonight is to is kind of twofold. I'm going to do a PowerPoint with you today and
The first few slides are just going to be showing you a couple major
distinctions between
Esoteric astrology and traditional astrology, and then I'm going to take you on a journey
and I'm gonna take you through the 12 signs of the zodiac and I'm gonna give you a
higher understanding of each of these signs and
And hopefully for those of you who feel life is really a spiritual journey
Hopefully you get some insights into your own journey itself. That's my goal sound okay
Okay, so let's begin
esoteric astrology versus personal or traditional
So esoteric astrology focuses on the purpose of the soul and it's struggled to transform the personality
But personal astrology focuses on the personality development and its expression, okay?
Next
 
Because the soul is found on the abstract plane of mind an esoteric astrologer will interpret a chart
abstractly
Abstractly, so you will see as I go through this you will see that the language
I use will have a more abstract quality to it because then that's why the whole philosophy is
Abstract those of you have studied Blavatsky unless you know it's very abstract, but there's a reason for that
because your causal body your soul is found on the abstract mental plane the higher mental plane and
So the more we exercise and develop our abstract consciousness
The more you're in the neighborhood of the soul
Personal astrologers tend to interpret a chart concretely at least comparatively speaking
In esoteric astrology the rising sign holds the clue to the soul's incarnation 'el intention
It's an important concept in traditional astrology the rising sign
Which is the sign? That's cresting at the eastern horizon at the moment of your birth and?
It's really important in traditional astrology
But when a person has had the awakening has has a deeper sense of their soul call then the rising sign has a higher meaning
as suggested here
You see and let me just show you the bottom part of the personal astrology the rising sign reveals the nature of
Persona and its expression in other words of the the rising sign to a traditional astrologers is that it represents?
appearance persona how use are seen in the world or how you would like to be seen
esoteric astrology says well
Yes
Until you wake up to that higher prompting and then this higher understanding of the rising sign is really crucial
you see the reason for that is that this is the sign, that's in the east and
The east is the direction of spirit, and it's rising
So it can symbolize the souls rising intention in a way, it's your soul sign
Probably more accurate though if I were to say it this way if you could live
The higher qualities of your rising sign well, that's like a gate right to the soul
So if you don't know your rising sign I encourage you to learn what it is, okay?
next
Esoteric astrology uses three levels of levels of ruling planets for each sign
From this the spiritual dimension of the sign can be revealed
Now this is an aspect that I there's no way I could fully get into this tonight
But I'll just say this that I don't know if you know what rulers are many curious. How many of you are
Familiar really familiar with astrology, I'm just kind want to get a feel for it okay
well, you know that every sign of the zodiac has a planet that rules it, which means represents it and
And yet traditional astrology has a tier of rulers
That are useful and correct as it pertains to the consciousness of the personality
But there's a higher tier of rulers and
That those planets are often different than the traditional
And it says that it is suggested that those planets hold the soulful vibration
associated with that sign
You see one of the big differences between traditional and esoteric is that?
Traditional astrology has a more monolithic approach, but esoteric astrology takes into account
That people are actually at different levels of consciousness and that
that has to be included in the nature of the
Interpretation two people could have exactly the same chart one is a very young soul and one is very also and yet
And yet often people kind of interpreted the same, but that's it's far from the same
And and that's one of the beauties of esoteric astrology it takes into consideration
the hierarchical dimensions of evolution itself
Okay
So here it is personal astrology uses only the traditional rulers
These are useful that only as it pertains to the personality not the soul
Okay
All right a couple more
Esoteric astrology considers the moon to be the major liability of a person's chart
particularly after the age of 35
I'm looking at your faces
Many of you are probably in that category, I know I am too
whereas traditional astrology personal astrology considers the moon is the symbol of a person's emotional tendencies and
Instinctual patterns, and that's true. It is but
Many times to the person on the path the moon
Can represent instinctual patterns that can actually defeat the soul from being more effective in the life
It's because it's as if the solely because it's in its representing instinctual
Consciousness the soul can have difficulty getting a grip on it
so one of the great challenges of of
Evolution is to handle the problem of the moon in your chart
And the general rule of thumb is for the wherever the moon is found is that when it whatever sign
It's in and assuming you're on the path it either means that there's going to be too much of that energy
woven into the instinctual dimension of consciousness or the
Opposite not enough of it or the third possibility
It's unstable sometimes too much sometimes not enough, so it swings back and forth okay
Okay
All right, so we're gonna start with Aries
Now what as I go through these? I'm gonna show you
the deep meaning of Aries the deeper meaning of Aries, and then I'm assigns, and then I'm going to give you a
sacred mantra for each of the signs of the zodiac
So when you think of Aries? Let me go back for a minute when you think of Aries the?
Typical way, we think of that sign is that it's it's a powerful sign
It's a sign that has a lot of fire in it
it's the kind of the warrior on the March Mars as a traditional ruler Mars is the Lord or God of War right and
Although that's true
But when we look at it from a deeper perspective
Aries is one of the first ray signs now. I don't know if you folks know what those seven rays are but every every
Of each of the seven Ray's every ray
finds
expression through three signs of the zodiac and
in the case of the first ray
which is called the Ray of will and power one of the signs that it finds its access point is indeed Aries and
Aries is this the will to initiate the archetypes of God on
behalf of humanity's betterment
You see Aries is a sign that when it's affecting the the life of a disciple
I better define my words here when I use the word disciple I
Don't mean it in the traditional way
I don't mean it in the sense of oh all of that guru and that sort of thing no what I mean is
to be a disciple of your own soul
To be a disciple of your own higher promptings that's discipleship. I mean there's also
Larger understandings of discipleship, you know it is said that the greatest master
You could all ever follow is often the one least followed, and that's your own higher consciousness
They own the soul within you okay, so when you hear me use the word disciple
That's what I mean, okay?
Aires sees and said Aires tries to shape into human consciousness
The ability to sense the new
paradigms
Emerging on humanity's horizon and to be a voice in support of those new and emerging paradigms
So it's a futuristic sign. It's a pioneering sign and
It's very strong
It's the first sign of zouk very strong because it has to be strong if you if you're an Aries
Individual who's on the path and you sense new ideas, and you want to bring them forward
You got to be strong because Humanity is is governed by inertia, and if you're going to initiate the new
It takes a lot of power to move something into the field of inertia so that's why Aries is so strong
normally unless other things in the chart
Compromise that so as I go through these twelve please understand
I'm talking about them in their kind of pure sense realize that a chart is very complex
and there's many many other variables that can modify things, but I
Just want you to understand the fundamentals on a higher level of the signs themselves okay?
Now as I said every sign of the zodiac?
Has a sacred mantra that I'm going to share with you now. This is a sentence in English and it's said to be
the sole speaking in this sign and ah
I'm going to show it to you here, but I always like the preface is the area one that Aries is so strong that
Let's put it this way. I'm glad you're sitting okay, so here's the the the sole speaking in Aries I
Come forth and from the plain of mind. I rule I
Come forth and from the plain of mind I rule
But let me explain that because it if you can misinterpret this very easy. I'm going to embellish it for clarity
I My higher consciousness
I The best in me I the soul itself come forth and from the power of my mind
I rule my creative expression
That's what Aries is really about it has nothing to do with ruin people it's an insistence on doing what you must do to
bring forth the new idea
without distraction
but it requires that you understand the the the how to use your mind right because
Mars is a traditional ruler and Mars is passion Mars is it huh?
Mars is the energy that rules the solar plexus
And before you're on the path, and you're in Aries Mars is the the fuel that you use to bring forth in a the new?
And by the way a
Couple years ago, I learned something really interesting about Rams. I mean the real animal
Did you know that in real life? They're nearly blind?
I thought well that's telling
blind charging forward without right sight without right thought and so a negative side of Aries is sort of
Unnecessary disruptions in the process well until you start to live from its higher nature
Because it's higher ruler is not Mars
it's higher ruler is mercury and mercury is the messenger of the gods in Greek mythology mercury is as Hermes and
So it's the power of thought itself
that you want to use to move something forward instead of using your
astrology your emotions to fuel the expression you use the very power inherent in the new idea itself as
You're motivating force for getting something in the world
Okay, I'm gonna (laugh)
I just realized that
Because this PowerPoint is being played on a different system
this is supposed to be the
the the glyph for the sign
but apparently the computer that we're using here doesn't have the the font for that so
I apologize for the queue here that I just noticed it now
So disregard these symbols because obviously it's not going to pick it up correctly. Okay. Let's go to Taurus
I'm curious any torian's in here. Uh-huh okay?
All right, well you know when you think of Taurus. Here you to think of you know groundedness. It's an earth sign
There's a sense of stability. There's a sense of
dependability
loyalty
sometimes stubbornness, okay
But kind of a persevering steadiness
But here's the higher meaning of Taurus
The desire to reveal the light of divinity hidden within form
You see in the ancient literature Taurus has been called the sign of the light bringer friends the light bringer
But it's not light in the way you think it has everything to do spiritually with
Building as a function of Revelation
You know many artists come out of Taurus
Taurus is a four-three sign and the fourth ray one of the attributes of the fourth ray's beauty
It's why Taurus even in traditional astrology, Taurus rules Gardens Taurus rules ecosystems
I mean, it's it's often in May and May is when everything is coming to life. You can kind of understand
Why Taurus is connected to?
beauty, ahm
But on this higher level
Taurus has to do with revealing revelation
We use an example just to highlight this and I think I will use an artist. It's a good way of doing this
Ahm, over here, we have an image on the wall here
And this this tapestry is beautiful now when you look at a visual image like this
Everything you see all of the all of the shapes all the colors the lines
All of that is just a bunch of forms just a bunch of forms
But when forms are rightly related to each other something comes out of that painting or that that tapestry?
That we call beauty
See beauty is actually something that arises through the right relationship of form
It's in relating things. Where beauty comes forward and
That's the underlying
principle of Taurus
It has to do with construction to reveal
Now eventually the torreón artist
If they are artists the torreón artist
discovers something really amazing
They discover that the painting they just created
That painting is actually not creating the beauty
Instead they realize that
the beauty pre-exists the painting and that the Assembly of form is
Actually, just to reveal that which already is it's already there. It's intuited and
It's not just artists. I have a I'll give you an example a good friend of mine
He lives in a he's very Torian clearly on the path
he's a double Torian actually and
he doesn't have an artistic bone in his body I
Think a stickman would be challenging for him to the house with you
Actually be challenging for me to
But but he's a man that he works in this company
In LA and he's always he's supervising a group of people in the department and he's always asking himself
He's watching the flow of the work in the in the environment and he's always asking himself
What if we were to simplify this task and maybe eliminate this and maybe merge these tags we could make it all more efficiency efficient
It's the same thing
because when we talk about Taurus in the assembly of form don't confine your thinking to just
physical form
How you do something as a form and in his case he
Arranges procedures within a company and from that the light of efficiency is revealed to others
Or it's the teacher who wants to convey ideas to a student and has to use forms called words
To deliver that and
If the construction of that language is done poorly
It falls on deaf ears
But done well. It's an enlightened realization
That's Taurus. That's Taurus. Taurus is also the sign most associated with the opening of the third eye
You've heard the expression
Hitting the bull's eye. Have you not?
We think that's an archery term, but it's actually much older. It's a reference to the bull in the sky
If you look at the old paintings of the bull in the Middle Ages
It was always a single eye either a single eye or a profile
But there's this long history of the eye of the bull the AIA vision the eye of God
Taurus is really about a deeper way of looking
In fact the mantra for it addresses this very thing let's take a look
The soul says this I see and when the eye is opened all is illumined
Here
I see, okay?
Okay, you folks following me. Okay, you tracking all of this okay?
All right, do we have any Gemini people in here?
The traditional ruler of course is Venus right the esoteric ruler it's going to surprise you
the Vulcan Vulcan
remember live long and prosper
Vulcan was said to be the blacksmith of the gods in mythology and
Vulcan in esoteric astrology is actually believed to exist
it is said to be within the orbit of mercury within eight degrees of the Sun either way and
but in a third substance it hasn't made the dense physical level yet and
Vulcan would take RAW in mythology vultan would take raw matter and with power and fire and strength
Shape it into something luminous and useful
the form
that reveals same idea
Okay? All right
Gemini people again
Okay, some of you go like this
(laughing) who was that mean. okay.
All right, so so when you think of Gemini of course you think of you think of
You often that they talk about two sides of the personality right two sides of the personality?
But you see when you wake up in in Gemini. It's not two sides of the personality anymore
That's not the duality it shifts from two parts of the personality to the soul and the personality
There's a red round. You might say it vertical eise's before you're on the path. Yeah. I got two sides of my personality
But then it shifts and now it's the higher self and the lower self and Gemini is also associated with
communications
You and I are doing a Gemini thing right now
This camera is also Gemini the Internet's Gemini, but when you're on the path and waking up
It's all about vertical communications. It's about the communications between the soul and the personality
That's actually the higher understanding of Jupiter, and I let me show you
The relating of the pairs of opposites and the building of the Ant Ekron
Now some of you may know what Ant Ekron is but let me explain
Ant Ekron is a Sanskrit word, and it's the it's said to be the communication bridge that is between the soul and the personality
It's in and and yet this bridge does not exist naturally
It has to be built and
It's built when three things are woven into the fabric of your life
One
Heartfelt service to humanity a real christ-like commitment to love and serve
to
study
building your higher mind and three
meditation
Those are called the three pillars
and and why this is so important is because we are told in the ancient literature that Gemini rules the
construction of the anta karana
Doesn't mean that if you don't have Gemini in your chart you can't build it
No because Gemini has a ruling planet
It has a higher and lower ruling planet and that planet is someplace in your chart
So in a way one thing you need to know about astrology is in a certain sense all of the signs of the zodiac
Are related to you in some way shape or form because all of their representatives are in the zodiac in your chart
somewhere. Okay?
So it's a very very important and the key to success when you're on the path in Gemini is to learn to quiet
the lower self
In order to hear the faint whispers of the soul
 
Because you see the soul speaks in faint intuitive whispers
It's all about getting the lower self quiet, which by the way is very difficult for Gemini
Because it's a mutable sign and the mind wants to go all over the place and that's the great irony
There's a great irony about Gemini always think about this
You know it's like Gemini people would probably benefit most from meditation, and yet, they're the least likely to meditate
But if you can really quiet it down, it's a fantastic sign here's the mantra for it I
See my other self and in the waning of that self I grow and glow
Let me embellish it for you for clarity. This is the soul speaking in Gemini
I see that busy personality down there
And in the waning of it, which is the quieting of it I grow and I glow I say
It's kind of beautiful isn't it I think anyway
the next sign cancer
I'm glad you're keeping you're keeping me on track later. This is good. Okay
The ruler the traditional ruler is mercury right the esoteric ruler is
Venus Venus
because Venus on a higher level
It's all about learning that
to think with your hearts and to feel with your mind a
reverse pattern I
Could really go into it
Okay, let's just it. I gotta keep my pace here cuz but but I'll just save this really quickly
Planets are living things friends planets are beings
It's not just this ball of dirt out there. It's a being it's alive. Just like the earth is a being
It's a god to us
But air and just as the earth has a soul and a personality so
too
Does Venus in fact Venus is more evolved than our earth and?
each of those those
Planetary lives out there are their soul and personality are governed by rays
So when you think of Venus?
What do you normally think of what would word would come to mind normally love? What ray is love most associated with
Second ray quite right Venus is second ray in its personality nature
But not its sole nature the soul of Venus is actually fifth ray
5th ray, and that's the Ray of higher mind
higher mind
So this is a very complex thing and I could take you down a lot of roads here
But I'm just trying to give you a sense of understanding
that
When we think about planets and their influence we also have to think about their higher influence and their lower influence okay?
Okay, so on to the next sign any Kent Syrians in here by the way
Uh-huh okay a few of you nice that you decided to leave the house and come and join us today
Here's cancer
Building the foundations of life through the warmth of nurturing love
You see cancer is an amazing sign when you really get to the deeper part of it
you know traditionally, it's associated with it's associated with the home and the nest and
Security you know there's a lot of truth to that all of that
But let me just say that to start is that cancer is one of the most Christ filled signs of the zodiac
Personally I would put cancer and Pisces as the most Christ filled
although the Christ principle manifests differently
between those two
Signs and
in cancer that Christ's principle
man it
It manifests as nurturing wise supportive love
and
and
Again, I'm talking about it in its purity without all of the other things that add or flavor and differences and stuff so in its
own right
It's that way and when you're on the path
One of the big things in cancer that you have to understand is that if cancer is about the home
Well, then what you really discover is you got to redefine? What the home is and
The big message for cancer is this the home in the truest sense is not the four walls you live in
Instead it's important for the Cancerian
To see the entirety of his or her life as if it were their home
the wholeness of the life and that every department of the life career friendships relationships
interests all of those are like larger rooms in this larger home that is the disciples life and
Always the big question in cancer
Is how well-lit are those rooms
Or are any of the lightbulbs getting a bit dim
because cancer in a spiritual sense without any and other influence
Cancer is a is a diffused sign
It's not a goal-oriented sign
It's a sign that says
Be the best you can be in every situation
Make the best of you radiate through every window of every one of those larger rooms of life you see
It's an amazing sign when you rise to the occasion and the key one of the key words is the word foundation
You see
Signs of the zodiac there's so much that we can say, but one of them is they they often represent certain
spiritual principles and
cancer
one of the main spiritual principles that it
Conveys is the so called principle of foundations I?
Mean if you think about it
If it's the sign of the mother
Mother is pretty foundational to life if it's a sign of the home home is pretty foundational to life so on a deeper level
it it's the nature of foundation so a Cancerian disciple is somebody who should see their service to humanity to
See it as
a role to play as a
Foundation upon which others can thrive and grow because you're loving wisdom is a foundation to them
you see let me show you the mantra I
Build a lighted house, and they're in dwell I
Build a lighted house, and they're in dwell and that's the house of one's life
Okay
So much more I could say, but I can't got to keep my pace, so
Let's go to the next sign oh
She's good
Yeah
see it's good and keep doing that because I'm
You know normally, this is a two-hour session
But I I've been told I've got a really compress it for time reason so but I will do these rulers traditional ruler is
The moon esoteric ruler is Neptune
Neptune and
Neptune in the highest sense
Neptune is the Christ if you want to find the Christ in your chart from a planetary spectrum aspect us
perspective look to Neptune a
Lot of people talk about Neptune in a negative way. You know who makes you foggy?
Leads to the depression and all of that, but that's only the lower
Negative effects when it's working through an imperfect instrument
But Neptune on the higher level is pure unfettered christ-like compassion
So it's it's it's higher ruler okay?
Next Leo
Esoteric theme the will to be the authentic self and the power to convey illumination any Leo people in here
Just to
What's the odds of that - okay well?
When you think of Leo you usually think of somebody that is kind of out there
extroverted you usually think of Leo as the
You know the in traditionalist, you know there's an old joke about Leo
You know there's an old joke the joke goes like this you can always tell a Leo, but you can't tell them much
And I have to be honest with you, I'm a Leo so I have a right to tell the joke
but
We are told that the Ray the first rates another first ray sign and it brings in the will in three ways
Spiritually the first is the so-called will to be the will to be
You see in the deepest sense friends Leo is all about finding yourself
Every Leo person should be asking the question Who am I Who am I Who am I and of course?
That's a working hypothesis. I mean if you were to be asked that question ten years ago
You'd probably answer it a bit different than you would now you see
and
So so one of the big interesting things about Leo is that you know, it's symbolized by the lion right the lion
But here's the big surprise. There's actually two lions in Leo and not one
two lions
Though the traditional lion is the lion as the self as personality?
Where the higher the other line is the self as soul with a capital S both ourselfs
Both are centers of identity
The lower lion
You know that's the that's the the lion that most astrologers will attend to
You know the you know the when that when the lower lion loves the limelight
What's really going on there? That's really the personality. That's saying to itself
Hey, this must be Who I am because this is what everybody loves
But the higher lion
That lion that self doesn't need accolades from the environment to validate itself
The higher line is all about standing in one's authenticity
Without inflation, which would be egoism or deflation which is diminished self-esteem?
It's to stand in what is what is?
in fact
the mantra for it
Is Here .
I am that and that am I?
It's a shortest of the twelve shortened to the point, but let me embellish it for you
I am that quiet point of beingness deep within and that's who I am
But as I said it brings the the will energy in three ways
The second way is the so called will to lead
Leo is one of the leadership signs
Many Leo's are natural leaders not all by the way, so we're making broad generalizations
but many are good leaders naturally, and the other is the so-called will to
alumina the will to illumine
You see leo is also one of the teaching science friends one of the teaching signs
Quiz question what object in the sky rules Leo
the Sun well so it may have something to do with bringing light to things you say and
To now address what I know she's going to ask me
Leo is one of the signs there's only a couple of them like this
Where the ruler is the same on the higher and the lower it is also the Sun it is also the Sun
Okay
You know think about it the Sun is the symbol is the center of our solar system
It's the centralizing force for the life of our solar logos
you know the whole solar system is also an entity in its totality and
Even though we look at the earth and say that's a god the solar logos is nature two planets are those are chakras
Within it so our planet is a chakra within the larger entity
But that Solar logos that Sun
Is the center power for the whole solar system and when we say to ourselves? I want to find myself
What I'm really saying is I want to find my center
It kind of makes sense that the Sun would be the symbol of it
Okay
Let's go on to Virgo
Before I do when you think of Virgo you usually think of things like oh wait how many virgos are in here beep beep recites
Okay, we got a few virgos
So usually virgos associated with menisci meticulous detail attention to detail crossing the t's diving the eyes hard work work before play
sometimes perfectionistic tendencies
Alright
There's truth to all of that to some extent, but here's the higher meaning of it, and then I'm gonna explain it
this one's kind of harder to explain, but here it is the
Gestation of the Christ principle within the womb of substance
Let me explain in this philosophy, it's understood that who you really are is the soul that's your real self and that
Your soul or I should say an aspect of your soul is
incarnate into three layers of intelligent substance
the physical dimension the emotional dimension and the mental dimension now the consciousness of those three layers is
What we call personality?
Some people might call it ego, okay
Now when you're born in Virgo or you have it as your rising sign?
It's important to see your whole personality as
If it were a womb
and
That the soul
Which is the Christ in you is?
in gestation within that womb and
The more that womb can be well tended to cared for and purify
The more likely the soul can birth itself through that form in service to humanity is upliftment
You see so Virgo in the deep spiritual. Sense is the great sign of purification?
It has everything to do with purifying the form dimension of life
So that a higher and wiser part of you is more effectively being it can be expressed through that form
You're with me still I
Mean even the word the Virgo comes from the root word virgin to be pure to be pure
Here's the mantra for it
This this one by the way is the most poetic of the twelve I
Am the mother and the child I God I matter am
This was going to take some explanation
And you know when I when I work with this I always I
Always find that the one thing about talking about Virgo is that I?
Have to take you to cosmos for a minute to get you to get this okay
So bear with me as I take you to the big picture
one of the most amazing important concepts in the esoteric philosophy and theory is that
In the ultimate ultimate ultimate sense
There's only one thing
one existence one beingness
Some people call it God other people call it Brahma other people call it universal intelligence
Often we might call it
Parabrahman or often simply the one life
Now in the esoteric philosophy they there's a view that's quite different than the
Abrahamic theologies of Christianity Islam and
Judaism when it comes to the sort the question of the creator and that which is creative the general bias of the Western
Theologies is that there's a god out there, and there's creation so it's God in creation, but in esotericism that's not the way
It's understood. It's not understood as God and creation. It's understood as God as creation
God as creation and God as creation is a whole different paradigm
For understanding you and your relationship to the greater life
You see
Your as your array your a beam of light from that one life
And in a way the whole path is to realize
and and prove it that
You are the divinity you seek
You are the divinity you seek so that's a context now for me to explain this mantra, okay?
Now as that one life
In Carnot's the one becoming the many
We are given to understand that it first becomes the two before it comes and becomes the many
and
It you could to make it simple one side is the cosmic father and the others the cosmic mother
In Hinduism the cosmic father is called, Purusha, and the cosmic mother is called moola Prakriti
But what's so interesting is that it is believed that those two streams each carry?
different attributes of the one life
so for instance the cosmic father
Holds the deep sense of purpose and will of the one life while the cosmic mother
holds the vibration of the Nate the innate intelligence
the knowingness of the one life I
Kind of have a joke sometimes when I do a whole workshop on cosmology that the joke is you know the cosmic father
No, sorry, yeah
Yeah, the cosmic father knows what to do, but doesn't know how to do it the cosmic mother knows how to do it
But doesn't know what to do
okay, and
and
The when we talk about the mother
That cosmic mother is interesting because all the planes of consciousness are her
all of them
every plane of consciousness is made up of
Intelligent substance and the inherent intelligence in that substance is her if I cut my hand
It heals itself. I didn't do a thing it heals itself. That's an intelligence
That's her if I have an emotion
it could be a base emotion, or it could be a lofty emotion, but I'm experiencing the intelligence of
emotional substances within my emotional body
that's her if I have a thought I'm
Experiencing the Assembly of mental substance and the product of that assembly is the thought itself that's her
Wisdom that's her intuition. That's her
That's how pervasive the cosmic mother is okay now back to the mantra, so I am the mother and the child
The Virgo individual
It's really important that they have this sense of reverence
for their form nature mental emotional and physical
The very thing that is the personality is made up of three types of intelligence the physical the emotional mental
and there's a kind of honoring and
Reverence to it recognizing that in its essence it too is sacred
And it's part of the cosmic mother so there's a sense of recognizing honoring and somewhat
Identifying with the cosmic mother, but also the child now. What's the child the soul?
the Christ in you
I Am the mother and the child I God meaning either soul I matter
am
So virgo has everything to do with
honoring the sacredness of your own duality
The sacredness of your form nature mental emotional and physical and the sacredness of that higher part of you that wants to find
Expression through that form and through the purification of the one the other can come forth unencumbered in service to human betterment
That's forgo
Probably a little deeper than you read in the newspaper I suspect
And if and from a perm a service perspective it means that the Virgo individual some should see themselves as an agent
of good form to try to support good form
that supports
More sacredness of life coming through that form in other people for instance not just yourself
It's not surprising the Virgo even mainstream is the sign most associated with the healing profession
all healing whether it's
mainstream medicine or alternative
Is Virgo I mean think about it?
What does a doctor want to do?
They want to help you get the form right so that you can more joyously live it best through that form
Okay Libra
Rulers
Mercury is a traditional ruler
And believe it or not the moon is the esoteric ruler
and I'm a little cautious here because I
Will just say this that it is said that the moon is veiling another planet, and that's Vulcan again
Vulcan again, so we saw a Vulcan as a sacred influence in Taurus, which had to do with
Creating good form in order to reveal something now we see Vulcan again working through a higher level of the moon
to create good form
in support of purification
Okay
Okay, any libras in here kind of curious
Okay, just a couple okay
So when you think of Libra you usually think of you know balance harmony
It's been a connected to justice and partnership by the way
This with it's the great sign of relationship, but on a higher level, let's look at it
The harmonization of duality through the establishment of right relationship
You see so often when we talk about relationship
In a Libra context. We're often thinking about is interpersonal
but actually that's just a small part of it you see Libra is all about the principle of relationship and
the principle of relationship is a much bigger thing than just
interpersonal relationship
because you see
the Leibman individual on the path
Should be look looking out at their lives and saying
What is the right relationship that I should have with everything I interface with
What is the right relationship with my career? What is the right relationship to have with my friendships with my interests?
with my partner
with mother nature
With a chair. I'm sitting on
You know think about it. Everything is a relational question from a certain point of view there's you the perceiver and
there's that which you perceive and
Libra is an energetic influence of living influence in cosmos in the zodiac that tries to help an individual
Perceive
Right fit? What is the right fit to have here okay?
And now there's two levels of a2 that I always like to share there's that part of it
And then there's another part that has to do with right relationship within oneself
So for instance what is the right relationship between the masculine and feminine energies? What is the right relationship between happiness and sadness?
between the mind and the heart between action and inaction
between the soul and the personality
These are deep profound important questions about human consciousness itself
So Libra has to a lot to do with
Both the question of right relationship externally and right relationship internally
okay, and
here's its mantra I
Choose the way that leads between the two great lines of force
You see Libra is that the scales and
The middle of the scales of the fulcrum point
and
The two great lines of forces any duality the Libra individual is facing
Whether it's the duality of the heart and the head whether there's the duality of your personal life in your spiritual life
Whether it whatever duality you're faced with with a question
Libra says I choose the way the leads between the two great lines of force
It's not surprising therefore that Libra is one of the signs that rules the religion of Buddhism
Two signs of the zodiac rule the religion of Buddhism one is and the others Libra
You know Taurus, you know the Buddha was born in Taurus
He it was actually enlightened and Taurus, and he even died in Taurus
And the most sacred full moon is the torreón full moon?
which is called the waist sack moon a familiar with that that's always the Tori and full moon and and and
Taurus on a lower level
And a traditional level is about desire really
Taurus is about acquisition money
comfort
comfort
But on a higher level, it's it's about transformation of desire
Leading to act of a spiritual aspiration
Which then in turn leads to illumine living, but what the Buddhist said was he said all suffering is due to desire
That's what he said
and then he said the solution to all suffering in the world and
The way to enlightenment is to quote walk the noble middle path you've heard this the noble middle path
Libra I choose the way that leaves between the two great lines of force you see you can see the connection
Okay
Scorpio
Where are they aha Oh?
Rulers rulers oh, I thought you were saying you're a Scorpio now. Okay, so the rulers okay, okay?
this is gonna be a tricky one to share with you the tradition of Venus right the esoteric or the higher is Uranus and
It's kind of surprising unless you really understand why?
The reason is this and without getting too deep into this
When the soul evolves over the vastness of time and incarnate son drudes of times
Before you wake up it is said that your soul is
involute into form in the substance meaning
It's like you're getting deeper into materiality and identification with form
and
I
Like to I have this strange image that I always picture of it's like I think of a bottle of wine and a cork
And a corkscrew
your incarnated and your penetrating into form okay and
Then what happens is in some
incarnation
It is said that the individual will have become a strong ego
and have done it all that would have say ciated all things would have
experienced wealth would have
would have
Achieved every kind of ego gratification thing possible and yet when they get to that point
There's there's still this realization
Something's still missing
And what happens is often that person will begin to realize
that there's a whole inner dimension of life a
whole inner universe to explore and
they begin to awaken more to a spiritual life and
they begin to do what is called in the ancient literature the reversal of the wheel and
They begin to incarnate in the other direction because you're going clockwise
Before you wake up you're going counterclockwise through the zodiac over many many incarnations
When you're on the path, it's like the corkscrew is coming back out the way it came in
okay, and
that turning point is Libra and
Uranus is the planet that creates radical reorientation many of you know this right?
So in that light it makes a lot of sense that Uranus would be the higher ruler of it, okay?
Look if you're Libra that doesn't mean that this is the incarnation you're reversing the wheel you may have done it several incarnations
Ago, but you will revisit Libra. We all do
Many times, but if it is the time of your incarnation journey where you are reversing the wheel
You're going to have Libra really strong in the chart
Okay, okay, all right um
Scorpio
Scorpio Scorpio
All right, here's here's Scorpio and the higher sense
Discipleship that is demonstrated through the transformation of the shadow
Scorpio friends is called in the ancient literature. It's called the sign of the test the sign of the test
But it's also called the sign of discipleship
Because it's in Scorpio where the disciple has to prove his or her fitness to serve the greater life
Because in the spiritual community out there
Talk is cheap. Talk is cheap
You got to prove yourself
you got to do the hard work, and you got to prove yourself every one of us and
What I'm about to share with you is so important to all of you
Because even though Scorpio is the sign of the test because it's the sign of the test it's also called the sign of
discipleship that's another title for it and
Everybody who's on the path everybody who is awakened to their own duality. Everybody who's striving to lift in themselves to that higher note
Realizes that they have to do the hard work of transforming the lower
To do it every one every one of you if you're spiritually oriented you're being ruled by the Scorpio from a certain perspective
Now if you're on the path, and you have it strong in the chart
It's an accented theme, but if it's really about all of us, okay?
So the natural question though is what's the nature of the test?
Now
Life is testing but look that's going to be true with anybody everybody has
Tests of life the real test is to see how willing you are to look deep inside yourself
To find the thing you hope you won't find, but must in
Other words the search for the shadow deep within
the search for the shadow
And
Redemption of the shadow that's why Scorpio is the sign most associated with psychology
It rules the whole department of psychology because they no way that's what a therapist does you know a psychotherapist
They're looking deep and I used to be a psychology teacher many years ago at a university in, California
And we used to talk about with students back in those days
This is a long time ago, but we used to talk about the old analogy of the onion. You know what's behind that layer
What's behind that it was behind that but when you're in the path and you're scorpion?
It means you should be beat you should be the therapist and the client at the same time
You see pull them back your own layers. What's going on and
I'd like to I'd like to quickly share with you a very meaningful story
That may help you understand this
you know and I'm this is a story that it goes back about probably about 2,500 years ago, maybe 3,000 years ago and
It's a story in Greek mythology having to do with
Hercules
Hercules
Now in Greek mythology Hercules was a hero figure and
There's this ancient story about Hercules had to go through 12 tests to prove himself
But one of those tests well
Sorry what we realize is that when we really ant look at that that journey of these these 12
Tests we realize it's actually a metaphor for the journey of the soul around the 12 signs of the zodiac
Amazing and it's beautiful, and there's there's what what I do. I want to share with you the Scorpio labor, okay?
Now the way that labor goes is this
Hercules he symbolizes the striving disciples, so that's all of us you and me you're you're the striving disciple
He's approached by the presiding one now the presiding one is just a reference to the inner master and
he's been told to go out into this land where there's this horrible dragon that lives and this dragon has nine heads and
each head breathes fire and
It's called the nine headed Hydra, and he's been told to go find it and slay it
Okay
Well that dragon is a metaphor for the shadow inside and
Every head of that dragon is said to be a facet of the shadow
Maybe one head is pride
Maybe another envy maybe another fear
And I was a little bit confused about this because I always think how did they get nine
I don't know I don't I sometimes I wonder if nine hundreds more accurate for most of us, but okay. We'll go with a nine
So off he goes with courage to find this dragon which is introspection
Looking inside and the story goes that first. He can't find him. He's looking everywhere. He cannot find it and
Then he starts to smell something putrid
Anything's to himself
maybe I better follow my nose, so he follows this smell for seven miles
and he comes to this disgusting swamp
And he thinks to himself that that dragon lives around here
And he looks across the pond and he sees a cave on the other side of the pond
And he peers into the cave, and he sees the rump of the dragon
And he says to himself aha I found the enemy
But now I've got to wake it up because I've been told I have to slay it
So he yells at the dragon
But it doesn't wake up
So then he takes a log and he throws this log, and he hits it, but still it doesn't wake up
And then he takes a boulder this is rickielee so you can do that. He throws this Boulder and hits it
And still it doesn't wake up
So I begin to think this is a threat. This is a problem?
Nonsense. Maybe it's just some feel silly fable silly favor from long ago. I'm how did he run leave him?
But then he remembers that the presiding one gave him a special weapon, maybe he should use that first and
It was a bow with a quiver of arrows
So he loads up one of the arrows aims and fires and hits the dragon and boom it wakes up
And it's furious and it pivots right around and if the dragon could speak
It would say
Who dared disturb my sleep?
So I've got to stop right there for a moment because that is such a critical part of the story
Because you see in the mythology of it those arrows have a name
they're called the arrows of aspiration and
that's crucial because
What it means friends is this?
It is only when we truly
aspire
To live according to our higher promptings that that's what wakes up the dragon in any of us you
Know there's something about the more you strive to that higher wiser part of yourself
The more you become aware of everything inside you that seems to prevent you from getting there
And that's the dragon
or the Christian might call it the devil within and
Or Karl Yune the psychologists would call it the shadow
And in esotericism it's called the dweller on the threshold
So for the masses of people out there
Sleeping dragons
It's running the show but for the disciple should be wide awake
You know I teach this philosophy in 9 countries around the world
I have a lot of students, and I tell everybody I said look if you don't see your dragon. There's something wrong
I mean if you're really really striving to live from your higher nature
You should be aware of the things inside you that get in the way
You see
So just quickly I'll tell you how the story ends with Hercules on this one
This dragon comes frosting across the pond to attack him and one of the heads breathing fire comes down to get him and he takes
Out a sword and he cuts off the head
But then to his surprise to sprout where one was and he goes oh shit
or perhaps the Greek equivalent of oh shit, okay, and
Then another head comes down cut sprout cut sprout cut sprout so this is getting bigger and bigger and stronger and stronger
And he's falling back in dismay and fatigue. He's never lost a battle before and he's losing big time here
Well, what does that mean to any of us it means that you can't deal with your dragon in conventional ways none of us can
You can't repress it
You can't cut it out of you
You can't deny it
Nor can you project it. You know what projection is I see it out there because I can't see it in myself
But often a person will go through all of those things that doesn't work
Sometimes makes it much worse
So then what happens is he as he's falling back in dismay. He suddenly remembers something
He remembers that when he left on the journey long ago
the presiding when leaned over and whispered a clue in his ear, and he had forgotten until that moment and
the clue was this
We arise by kneeling
We gain by yielding
that was the clue and
At that moment he realized his mistake
And he drops his armaments, and he kneels in supplication to this hideous creature which remembers just a part of himself
but in the kneeling and the yielding of flashing intuition crossed his mind that he'd never had before and
That was to reach down
under the Hydra into the mud and with his mighty strength
lifted out of its rootedness and matter and hold it high into the sunshine and that's what he did
and to his surprise the whole thing began to shrivel up and die
Right in his hand
In that story the Sun the light of the Sun is symbolic of the light of the soul itself
It's all about learning that that the more you can lift your
Consciousness to a higher place deep inside you the more the soul itself
Can begin to repattern?
the the the dragon's patterns of consciousness and transform it I
Remember many years ago one of the country's IT as New Zealand maybe 15 years ago
I created a whole meditation for that group based upon
identification of a dragon had you want to work on and how to bring it in deep into meditation and have your higher consciousness over
time slowly reap a turning it and
Transforming it. That's why by the way. This is the great sign of transformation
Transformation of the shadow here's the here's the mantra
Warrior I am and from the battle I emerge triumphant
But it's a warrior over your lower nature. It's the warrior over your shadow issue
Scorpio is a tough sign friends. It's a tough sign
But it's also the sign of the fast track you evolve faster through Scorpio than any other sign. It's just a bit more painful
Okay
ruling planet traditional ruler is
Pluto
Esoteric well the highest ruler I'm going to use the highest ruler here for a reason is actually mercury again
In that case the story itself has it in the case of when when Hercules was trying to
Kill it with the sword
That's Mars and Pluto
When he gave up the sword of Mars and Pluto
What happened he had a flashing intuition into his mind. That's mercury.
You see even in the story we see the transition from Mars and Pluto to mercury okay?
Sagittarius anybody in here, okay. We've got some Sagittarius all right
Here it is the quest for meaning and the aspiration to strive toward one's vision
Look Sagittarius is an interesting sign it really is you know it's the arch right who's shooting the arrows
and
What's so interesting about Sagittarius is that?
By the way, those arrows are the same
the arrows of aspiration in the story of Scorpio
I'm that labour of Hercules is actually about how your shadow is revealed because your aspiring but in Sagittarius itself
It's literally about aspiration. It's literally about vision Sagittarius is all of always spiritually about
visioning of aspiring toward
aiming at
but it's a sign that
You know it's it's in traditional astrology even it's said to rule philosophy and religion and travel on a more mundane
Level but on a higher level of course. It's the travels of the mind and
There's a strong curiosity factor in Sagittarius I
Think what else I'd like to say is this about Sagittarius
Sagittarius is assigned where the key to success is to have a steady aim
Because one of the great challenges of Sagittarius is that because the curiosity factor is so strong?
many Sagittarians
Instead of aiming right at their vision they aim like this
Shooting arrows all over the place and
So many Sagittarians if they're not careful. They never get to their vision because they are victimized by unbridled curiosity
In some of the ancient literature a great master once said this the
Sagittarian disciple must learn to become the one pointer disciple one pointed going right to the vision
Not to the right of it not to the left of it
But right to the vision and in a way you become the arrow itself
It's as if the wholeness of the life is
impassioned toward a singular vision in service to humanity and temple of course the vision has to be that
Whatever your spiritual purpose is if it's not about upliftment of something beyond yourself, then it's not soulful. That's personality base
One pointed one pointed
Okay
Now it too has a sacred mantra, let me show you that I
See the goal I reached the goal, and then I see another
Too many Sagittarians modify it I see the goal, but hey look what just crossed my path. I think I'll check it out first
Steady as she goes daddy issue your stead of the end, okay?
Okay
And when you when the Sagittarian can steady the aim and really really commit themselves with one pointed focus they can move mountains
Okay
All right
I'm picking up the pace a little bit the next cycle ruler traditional ruler is
Jupiter
But the esoteric ruler this will really surprise you is the earth itself
Which is an amazing thing as traditional astrology doesn't even use the earth, and I think wow what an oversight, huh?
What an oversight the earth is a living entity?
Why wouldn't it have some kind of rulership relationship?
but what that really means is that when you're really going to live a
Spiritual life in Sagittarius and aim to the vision. It means you have to literally
Remain grounded enough and really kind of walk the talk in a true way on earth in realness
You know these three signs are really important the three in a row Scorpio Sagittarius Capricorn
Scorpio is called the Valley experience where you have to go into the desert and deal with the shadow
That is said that you rise up out of the the valley and you hit the plains and the plains of Scorpio
oh, sorry is Sagittarius and Sagittarius and
You have to walk
Straight toward the vision not like this, but right like that arrow
That's why by the way Sagittarius is said to be the astrological energy that rules the path
it rules the path and
take you right to the mountain and that becomes the mount of in of
initiation actually so you get the valley the plains and the mountain
Those three together are just crucial in it your understanding of your journey
And you'll get clarity more when I talk about Capricorn in a moment, so that's the ruler of it, okay?
Okay
Everybody's still with me. I know it's kind of deep, but hang in there hang in there, so where are the Capricorn ian's in here
Okay, so you know the thing about Capricorn is that?
It gets a bad rap out there
Really, I mean really
Usually people think about Capricornia all those greedy businessman. You know there's filled with ambition. Yeah, you know, but you know
Capricorn that symbol is the mountain and the goat climbing the mountain
And the mountain itself is one of the most important symbols in there because you see the mountain symbolizes hierarchies
hierarchies and
That's why in traditional astrology
It is said that Capricorn rules all hierarchical structures of power within society
It rules the business world because it's hierarchical it rules government because it's hierarchical it rules the military because it's hierarchical
But it's assumption or the attitude is that you know it results in and a lot of personality ego driven stuff
it's called the sign of ambition and
Indeed the mountain in Capricorn has that it's been sometimes called the Mount of ambition
But here's the big secret friends the traditional astrology doesn't know
there's actually two mountains in Capricorn not one and
the other mountain is the mountain that is you attend to if you're on the path in Capricorn and
that mountain the climbing of it has a different set of rules and
It's called the mount of spirit. It's also called the mount of consciousness
All of us in a way are climbing an inner mountain we're trying to lift ourselves to a higher wiser perch
Where we have a broader more wise more
Inclusive view we're climbing an inner mountain the evolution when we say we raise our consciousness we might be saying we're lifting our
consciousness to a higher place on this mountain and
Very quickly I'd like to give you a quick kind of analogy of how to
Understand it from the from the climbing of a real mountain
To see this inner mountain is the high point the top of that inner mountain
represents the high point of consciousness that a cushion-cut person could reach and hold and
The and so kind of keep that in mind
And I'm just going to very briefly share with you the idea of climbing a mountain and something to think about
Realizing I'm using it as a metaphor for the inner mountain so for instance one of the big lessons that Capricornia and disciple learns is
this
That when you climb a real mountain
And I realize I'm in Illinois there doesn't seem to be many
I'm from Oregon. There's a bunch of them
But not here apparently ok so when when when you climb a real mountain the lower levels of the mountain is where it's easiest
That's where it's not as steep. That's where the meadows are. That's where the babbling brooks are and the butterflies but
Then as later it gets steeper
So one of the big lessons you learned in Capricorn is you discover that the beginning of the spiritual path is the easiest?
But then it gets tougher as you go
Saturn is the traditional ruler and it's the esoteric ruler so we got that handled. It's one of those signs that it's both ok
Another lesson you learn in Capricorn is this that Capricorn to really succeed spiritually
It's important that you you realize that a short step in the correct direction
Of your evolution is wiser than a big step that might be slightly off course
Capricorn is a slow methodical
Step-by-step process a goat is a sure-footed animal and so must be the disciple in kapor
and
There's wisdom behind it. You know something when you climb a real mountain sometimes you climb up into a fog bank
And now you can't even see where you're going
That's kind of like the past sometimes. You know sometimes you really think I think I know my purpose
This is my purpose and then other times you say well geez I thought I knew but now it's not clear
I'm not sure what if there's a switchback right in front of me is this idea that slow cautious movement
Capricorn people more than any other type, but this is actually true for everybody in the path
It's in the last third of the life where the disciples should make his or her finest contribution in terms of human betterment
Even though the world says you're in your prime in your 30s and 40s that's only from a personality point of view
From the souls point of view it's the last third of the life
And that's very true with Capricorn, and it's generally true with anybody on the path
Now on the Mount of Capricorn when a person begins the transition if they're serious about their development
So we're talking about a serious discipline. It's a disciplined approach
When you have that person they get to the they're getting close to entering the last third of the life
In astrology we mark that as the transition the second Saturn Return
Usually it's right
Right around 58 to 60 issue right in there. Okay? You move into
part three of a three-part act
and
It is a way of understanding it is on the Mount of Capricorn at that point. There's what is called the plateau and
the plateau
Is a pause point and two things happen on the plateau first? There's a
Looking back and a recollection of the things you
Had the hard work that it's been to develop yourself and get here
But there's also a looking up and are recognizing that the top of the mountain is so close
it's almost as if you could touch it meaning you feel so close to coming into the fullness of your higher consciousness and
So that top of the mountain is it seems like you're almost there, but a stark revelation happens at that point
Because you realize that though now the climb and the development is going to be the shortest it will also be the steepest
So a very difficult decision is made on the plateau on the Mount of Capricorn you
Realize that the only way you can continue the journey upward from here. Is that you have to drop?
the excess dross of life
whatever is weighing you down and
People have a lot of different kinds of dross some people have
Relationship dross some people have financial dress some people have obligatory dross whatever it is in the ancient literature
We're told that the cap recording disciple to make it to the very top
He or she must free themselves from the binds that limit the life
and
If they do if that goat continues to climb and and really does get to the top
we're told in mythology that that goat is transformed into a unicorn and the
Symbolism is beautiful
- horns one horn is said to be the horn of the soul the others the horn of the
Personality and now they're fused as one horn of loving will thrusted to heaven
the triumphant unicorn at the top of the Mount of Capricorn and
In mythology a unicorn was said to be a symbol of perfection a symbol of spiritual enlightenment a symbol of Christ's
Consciousness and in a way when we're talking about getting to the top of the mountain
You're kind of fully coming into your sole nature
Spiritual initiation and the will to achieve on behalf of the soul's purpose is the main theme my apologies
I should have showed you this earlier
spiritual initiation because Capricorn rules all
initiations all
Initiations at the top of the mountain whatever by the way every life you get a taller mountain, okay?
alright, so
Having having that in mind and I want to make sure that you if you're writing notes you get this
Here is the mantra that I want you to see
Because it's at the top of the mountain where the mantra Merck Capricorn is most relevant although it does have relevance on the way up
Lost mi in light supernal
Yet on that light
Turn my back
It's very enigmatic
But what it's trying to say is this the word supernal is a word you don't hear too often
But it means divine like the light of God is said to be super light
But the light of your own soul is also called
Supernal light and now you're at the top of the mountain and you feel like you're really living the fullness of your higher consciousness
It's a good lost. It's I just I'm I'm there
I don't feel like I have to strive to become something higher than I'm at this is my
High-water mark and all I want to do is merge into the all
But then something interesting happens we're told that the discipled while lost in light supernal
starts to hear something and
when listening closer realizes that it's a cry and
When listening even closer?
realizes, it's a cry coming from the bottom of the mountain and
It's the cry of suffering humanity
So what happens is the disciple at the top of the mountain will eventually do what is called the pivot on the pedestal?
and we'll make a hundred and eighty degree pivot and turn and
commit to carrying the light of love and the light of wisdom down the mountain in the culture in the civilization and make a
practical uplifting contribution to the betterment of something
You see Capricorn is one of the signs. That's trying to cultivate what we call the practical mystic
The capacity to inwardly reach for the stars and keep your feet on the ground you. See you are the mountain Friends
the high point of the mountain the top of the mountain simply represents the high point of consciousness that you can reach and hold and
The bottom of the mountain is the the world of practical service?
Lost a Mayan light supernal yet on that light I turn my back
Martin Luther King
was Capricorn
And he said I've been to the mountaintop. He knew he knew it
Okay, I'm running out of time. I'm already. I got to pick up the pace. I got two signs to go
Ready with the next. Oh you got this you got the rulers okay?
The next sign is a chorus Aquarius, right?
Here's the theme for Aquarius the giver of life through a recognition of the unity underlying diversity
Aquarius is a sign that has everything to do with
Unconventional thinking it has a lot to do with thinking something from outside the box so to speak
Aquarius has everything to do with being willing to stand on the fringe
Because you see Aquarius is the other sign of the zodiac
That has to do with sensing the new paradigms on humanity's horizon and to be a voice in support of those new and emerging
Paradigms remember Aquarius, sorry Aries was the other one that was very much. I see the new paradigm
Aquarius and Aries are the visionary pioneer energies however they tend to do something different with it
Aquarius says I
See the new vision
And I want to bring it out to the world and I'm gonna find people to collaborate with
To do it where arey says I see the vision and like it and I'm gonna bring it forward even if it's by myself
Both of them are powerful and both of them, but one's more group oriented
And one says I'm gonna do this by myself if I have to
Aquarius is also the sign that helps condition your consciousness with a capacity to see the oneness of all things the oneness of humanity
But it does it by
Recognizing that underlying that unity is diversity in other words Aquarius is amazing it basically helps you see
humanity's oneness through diversity
The other signs can help you see oneness that it's often through sameness not Aquarius through different
So it's a very very progressive sign and it's the sign of the future and
All of us in a certain sense are very much trying to live Aquarion lives ways. We're not fully into the Age of Aquarius
We're in a big overlap period it's about 200 years. We won't be fully in Aquarius without any Pisces at all till the Year
2117
So we're in the big conflict
We have two signs of the zodiac that are overlapping in shaping the collective consciousness of humanity
Which is the aren't one of the underlying reasons? Why there's such a crisis in the world today in great polarizations?
There's a few other reasons, but I can't get into it right now
Let's not go down that road, okay?
Here's the mantra --m water of life am I poured forth for thirsty men
Water of life am I
It's not waters of emotion the water barrier. He's not airing water as an emotion. It's called the waters of life
Aquarius is a great life-giving sign
It's also the sign of universality
It is the hope of the future because where humanity is right now. We're trying to figure out as a humanity how to be one
That's what's struggling now the big crisis in the world underlying it all is the struggle to figure out
How do we live as one and because of the complexities of society today? We could only do that?
through an honoring of diversity how else could it be done
and here the very sign that represents it is meeting us at the same time
That that's what we need and that's not an accident
That's the synchronization between the cosmos and the evolution of the planet and the earth
so
Just realize that that's this is important for all of us all of us, okay?
I got to pick up the pace one more time to go
The ruler is the traditional ruler is
Uranus and the
Esoteric ruler is Jupiter
Jupiter
Thank goodness
Wow, what a great planet to have is a spiritual ruler okay Pisces Pisces
the power to save through the demonstration of sacrificial love
Any Piscean people in here Oh?
quite a few okay, well Pisces is a is one of the Christ's signs as I said very very Christ oriented and
Usually people who are on the path who were in Pisces. They go one of two ways they either go the way of of
Creativity because it's a very creative sign because it facilitates
Sensing the subtle it facilitates the imaginative faculty you know that's why it's even traditionally associated with things like dreams intuition
psychism
those sorts of things mystical yearning
But many people go the other way more I think go the other way the way of sacrificial love
Pisces is the sign that often will shape human consciousness with a sensitivity to where there's real suffering in the world
Where there's a sense of hopelessness and helplessness and despair?
It's a sign that it has it's got a couple other names. It's been called the sign that has the deepest downward reach
Meaning the capacity to really really bring love into difficult places it it can attend to the underbelly of society
It's also called the sign of the saving force
There's a bit of a rescue energy with Pisces. That's why Pisces even a traditional astrology rules things like Social Work
So Pisces is a very very important sign even though
We're going out of the Piscean Age the truth is the best of Pisces better be carried into the Aquarian age err. We're in trouble
So Pisces is is so much about
Bringing love into difficult places and being a transformer because there's a recognition that we're all one
But there's also a recognition that people are falling through the cracks because of the imperfections of human culture and civilization
And yet we're all one
The we all have to move through the door of initiation together
The last weary pilgrim must come home
And this particular group of people are uniquely framing their consciousness in a way that can attend to those
Who are falling through the cracks?
Here's the the mantra I
Leave the father's home and turning back. I save I
leave the father's home and
Turning back. I say really quickly. I'll just clarify what that means
Remember earlier when I talked about I was in Virgo and I told you about the cosmic father in the cosmic mother remember
I told her the cosmic father was all about will
Well, so is your soul your soul of your causal body has - it has an a father energy at its core
And it has a mother energy of loving intelligence
Now Piscean people when they go inside themselves they're really comfortable
With finding the mother they really sense that loving natural intuitive
Intelligence and and that's what causes them to serve
But that's also what causes them to be victimized by their own hearts
That's the downside of Pisces many Piscean people you know they always want to give a hand and everybody demands the NARM
You know as the it's a social worker who burns out because there's a think thankless job
Many Piscean people
They're people that often will
become victimized by their hearts, and they are people that are
that need to find more of the will energy in them the will the power the Father in them and
What I like to do is always when I meet a Piscean when I do private one-on-one work. I always tell the Piscean look
it's important to get into a deeper relationship with the father because you got the mother thing down and
The father is deep inside you, but you don't see it
So I always give them a clue of where to find the father deep inside
And I always say look if you want to find the father deep inside. He's he's hidden behind the mother
inside
if instead of
Instead of feeling that just that loving connection to Christ and love that the Piscean person is so naturally able to do
Push deeper go deeper if you go deep enough
You will come to a point
Where you will feel?
or find a place of
focused in movable will and
That's dad and
Then from that place outward turn and then capture the love
That's come, so naturally and move into the world of service as the saving force
But now with both the father and the mother because you see the mother is
fantastic for creating unity
for healing for mending wounds for conveying wisdom
But it's terrible when it comes to defining boundaries knowing right direction and saying no, it's terrible at that
Because that's the role of the father energy in you that's the funk one of the functions of the father in each of us
Define boundaries define right purpose and direction and know how to say no
So in closing, I'll say this to the Piscean. It's like we're all
sailboats
and
Love is the wind that fills the sails
but the father must control the rudder and
Many Piscean people have wind filled sails, but a rudderless
You start getting the father energy in you you go deeper to where there's a profound sense of will you
get acquainted to the Father and then you carry both into the world and you truly become a servant on behalf of the interim and
the work of the Christ I
Took this thing later than I was supposed to the ruler is the traditional ruler is Neptune
the esoteric ruler is Pluto in
Pluto the reason for Pluto is the esoteric ruler
You saw Pluto in the sign of Scorpio and Pluto is called the dredger
Pluto is the planet that takes you down to find your shadow in Scorpio and helps you see it
And it says hey, you might want to take a look at this
Pluto in Pisces is the shadow of society
It's it's it's bringing up the shadow of society. The underbelly of society and service to dealing with that shadow
Okay
You originally said there, are you originally said there's three?
Rulers you gave us one. What what did the other two singers at night?
There's another tier above it that I didn't get into
it's called the hierarchical levels of rulers and that pertains to people that have reached what we call initiate consciousness and
Mastership, so it has nothing to do with you, and I yet but some incarnation. They will okay
So what happens when you have the same sign as Sun Sign and rising sign
Okay, well, there's a
that
Everybody heard the question
Okay
There's a plus and a minus to that
The plus is that the rising sign can often represent the souls deeper intention as I said and the birth sign
Can often represent the personality nature that it needs to express through now when they're the same sign
It the good news is that means that there's a natural?
relationship a chiral energetic affinity between the two
The downside to that is that it's harder to distinguish one from the other if they're different signs
It's sometimes clearer to recognize, which is the soul note and which is the more day-to-day consciousness note?
So there's a plus and a minus you know
Audience 1: At the beginning you said something about the rising sign
Speaker: yes,
Audience: and it's important in
in relation not in relationship to but
As opposed to the birth sign right
Does that mean?
That all of this that we talked about
about the birth sign
It has less of an influence than the rising sign okay
Yeah, let me try to I'm gonna make it a simple little model for you to think about okay
Let's say that your birth sign I'll make this up, let's say your birth sign is Virgo okay now there's
Day-to-day regular Virgo the usual understanding more personality based Virgo, and then there's the higher Virgo I said okay now
let's say that your
rising sign is Sagittarius
Okay, and that there's this higher Sanitarian quality that I said was very connected to your soul's purpose
if your Virgo and
Your day-to-day Virgo consciousness is there it means that to lift yourself from the lower Virgo to the higher Virgo?
Requires that you engage the higher rising sign to facilitate that process
Yet that okay, alright, okay?
Audience 2: Okay, So
My sending is the opposite of my sunshine, okay?
And I have like five planets in my sunshine for Scorpio. Uh-huh
So I have pretty strong Scorpio characteristics, but I'm supposed to bring out characteristics of the opposite sign well
Speaker: It's truth of that too. Always the opposite sign has some clues or
antidotes to the problem of the sign
So yeah in fact you Taurus would be getting the best of Taurus helps you transform
The the negative aspects of Scorpio yeah, it's true for everybody whatever your opposite
Is there's something about it that can actually help you?
move forward yeah
Audience 2: Okay, and one more is there any merit
Being born like in between science. They called like
wandering a cusp
Something like that merit. They did say any merit. Yeah
Speaker: merit
No, but because that happens it happens, and it usually the astrologers have different views of this, but usually
You know if it's within two degrees or so three degrees that's considered cuspid, which means that even though you're technically in one sign
You're going to have quite a bit of the influence of the neighboring sign, yeah
Okay, okay, make sense hey, yeah
Audience 3: We had a question online about what is reversing the
Wheel so if you would like to address that well
Speaker: It's reversing the wheel what I was saying and trying to say and I was quick with it
But your soul will incarnate in a direction around the zodiac for thousands of lifetimes
It doesn't mean it's one than the next and the next in the next what it means is
Energetically there's a trend of one direction and a trend of the opposite direction
Before you're on the path before you have your awakening
your consciousness your soul will incarnate on the forward direction of the wheel that's the clockwise direction of the wheel and
That's involuting
about
Getting deeper into matter deeper into form more
identification with mental emotional and physical substance to ultimately build the ego of your personality
Which is necessary before you even wake up to the soul?
but then you say she ate yourself at a certain point and
That's when I was talking about Libra as being the place where you can reverse the wheel and then you start
energetically moving around the other direction not one at a time, but the see it as a flow of pattern of
Exiting as the corkscrew pulls out of the cork and when you're fully pulled out of the court actually you're given another name
They're called the master
enlightenment
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