After the general reading of the Signs of the Heavens – Year 2014, we face now the equinoctial discontinuity (March 20), the second Impulse of the solar Heaven of the Causes.(1)
In accordance with the ‘swastika’ canon of the 4 quarters of the cycle, our focus will be upon their 4 cornerstones of the Wheel of Life of the planetary breath or whorl. The arc of the Spiral of planetary revolution encompasses the 4 solsticial and equinoctial charts of the Heaven as the 4 Gates which bring the energy synthesis of higher Cycles of the solar and cosmic System into the field of form and consciousness and, conversely, are the 4 ‘outlets’ for irradiation of the planetary Labour into infinite Space.
Considered in succession, these 4 cardinal Heavens set into motion the cross or Heart of planetary Life, innerly and outerly, as every solstice envisions and transforms into the next equinox, and so on, in a pulsating continuum that reflects the regular and sacred Model of the quadripartite Heart as well as that of the 7th center (called Muladhara chakra in the East and the stronghold of the ‘kundalini’ or vital energy, consisting of 4 vibrations or ‘petals’).
Thus there will be 4 focalizations on the signs of the Heavens (5 with the initial or central one, targeted to square the whole circle of the annual cycle).
It should be noted that this ‘seasonal’ celestial interval is not only traced by the positions of the Earth at the subsequent 4 arms or right angles of the planetary orbit, but also by the annual breath or cycle of Mercury(2), which in almost 3 (terrestrial) months concludes a complete revolution around the volcano of the Sun, joining and carrying messages to all the other Luminaries. The winged God is the Eye and the ‘viewfinder’ between the center and the circumference, and viceversa, through which all the directions drawn by the solar Archers glance. He is the Music Master, the Magister Musicae, the tuning fork of the solar Choir.
Its flight, central between the Sun and all other Planets, is very stable on its axis (It makes only one ‘daily’ rotation in 58 Earth days!) as well as dynamic around the central Heart (in about 88 days, or 3 Earth months). Thus it emerges as the “rhythmic Model of the general Harmony” and the essential reference and canon for this ‘way’ to read the Heavens in the Heart, in quadripartite mapping.
Its caduceus activates everywhere the coiled energy of Life and transforms relations into unity and opposites into the central Harmony of the Sun through its magical touch.
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What are the Signs of the Heavens?
In the first quarter of this cycle (from the December solstice to the equinox of March) the two subsequent Heavens suggested this energetic synthesis expressed in thought-formulas: the cosmic Love draws to the Beauty of Infinity, so that Heart stands in the din of the battle. Sun/Vulcan stands in the Center and radiates such a causal synthesis in the field of planetary Consciousness, guiding all the evolutionary impulses that are generated in this first annual season.
Heliocentric tropical chart – First quarter of 2014 cycle
Inner wheel: Luminaries’ positions at the solstice (December 2013, 21st – h 17.12 UHT)
Outer wheel: Luminaries’ positions at the equinox (March 2014, 20th – h 16.57 UHT)
In fact, from the last solstice channeling of Jupiter to Sirius now it is the turn of a ‘difficult’ equinoctial Heaven, where the 3 Lords of renewal at all costs will be in opposition (Uranus-Mars) and square (Pluto) in the Cardinal Cross (source of initiatory and reconstructive ‘crisis’). In ‘psychological’ terms, this composed Formula recalls to the sun of the heart that wonderful Tactica adversa to face any obstacle or crisis through the hero smile: “Below, no solution; above, no problems.” It suggests Bliss to serve the High and the incessant Benevolence to serve the Low.
The second equinoctial Impulse flows along the direction perpendicular to that of the solstice incipit. The Sun-Earth axis carves the horizontal path of Heaven, consecrated to the cardinal axis Aries-Libra (1st-3rd-7th Ray: Power, Light and Order), which gives the electric fire of the Beginning and the orientation of the laws of Life.
Heliocentric tropical chart – Second quarter of 2014 cycle
Inner wheel: Luminaries’ positions at the equinox (March 2014, 20th – h 16.57 UHT)
Outer wheel: Luminaries’ positions at the solstice (June 2014, 21st – h 10.51 UHT)
The beat of the Heart of the Sun (Vulcan) awakens the resurgent and creative fire of the New in each vital seed – the advance in the Form or the going back to Essence (Rays 1-3-7).
The Earth (3rd R, Active Intelligence, the basis for evolution) is on the outskirts of Libra (3rd R too, Light that guides and moves to return to the essence) and from this ‘middle way’ It aims and works for the next milestone, the cornerstone of the June solstice (see the outer wheel of the Luminaries in the celestial chart) when It will be in glorious Peak (the threshold of the ‘Gate of Gods’ of Capricorn, where It will be aligned between the Sun and the Galactic Center).
So it is time for rising to the Mount of Light in this second quarter of cycle. The Sound of spring radiates and energizes everywhere in the northern hemisphere, while in the southern hemisphere the autumn Sound reabsorbs and draws to the center the harvest of outward manifestation. In any case the Mountain of Light (clear or dark, summery or wintery) waits for all consciousness at the solstices to touch a peak of achievement, reverse their motion and come back to serve in the Valley (the ‘Gate of Men’ of Cancer, the position of the Earth at the next December solstice) .
The wave of the planetary Breath is continuous, but the 4 beats of its pulsating Heart sustain It in a discontinuous way. Such is the miracle of the Cycle (click the link for a compendium of studies on celestial Cycles), the bridge between Being and Becoming.
The seasonal rhythm of the planetary Heart, manifested by the 4 quarters of the cycle, carves and establishes in Space the cross in the circle, the quadripartition of the cycle that leads into the Wheel of Becoming or Form and, symmetrically, assumes it into Heaven. The right angle formed by our Planet between two successive discontinuities is the most powerful for aiming at the center (Sun) as it focuses the synthesis of two vectors perpendicular (conflicting) to each other. A new ray of resolution and harmonization is thus elaborated in the central Heart of this ‘parallelogram of forces’.
In terms of Dates or Directions, this synthetic ray corresponds to the center of each season, when the tension is maximum in order to radiate all the beauty and glory of each quadrant of the cycle. Thus the cross of the quadripartite heart turns into an 8 pointed star, the octagon between circle and square, the baptismal font of the union between spirit and matter. The 8 (= 1x2x4), the Number of Christ, is here expressed in as many Directions through which our Planet, a Son of the Sun, rules and serves its Field in the name of the Center/Father.
For the second quadrant of the 2014 Cycle, here are the two Formulas for the combinations of energies conveyed by their active vectors (the March equinox and solstice of June):
In the din of battle the heart stands
The creative fervor triggers the power of Beauty
They are therefore to be solved in the center, in the christic spark of the heart in every ‘here and now’, and yet especially in the middle of the season (the bisector of the zodiacal channel Taurus-Scorpio).
The stability of the central magnet of the heart supplies the courage or the creative enthusiasm that manifests the great beauty, the sign of Union.
“During cosmic perturbations the spirit verily begins to ponder over the pages of Be-ness. When fear overcomes the spirit, every constructive will is paralyzed, and construction is stopped. The more powerfully must that spirit build which knows that a fiery striving leads it to mighty knowledge of the Cosmic Magnet. Therefore, those who follow Hierarchy must be rid of fear, for the heart that contains the greatness of the Plan is invincible; and under the fiery Shield of the powerful Hierarchy the great future is being built. Hence, amidst all cosmic perturbations and vital changes there is but one anchor – Hierarchy. In it is verily salvation!”(3)
So let us consider in detail the signs of the Heavens.
In the hub of harmony of the second quadrant of 2014 (the center of the season around May 5), our Earth (at the center of Scorpio, the Sign of the battle and triumph which transmits the 4th Ray and is ‘ruled’ or conveyed by Mercury to the 4th human Hierarchy, and from this “to the 4 corners of the world”) will be next to Saturn (3rd R: Active Intelligence, designing Light), the solar Planner and its Master of Thought. The Light of the solar Intelligence can illuminate the field of the terrestrial battle (climax on the day of their conjunction on May 10) and draw a Plan for a resolution, fixed upon Victory.(4)
At the equinoctial incipit (March 20) Saturn is next to Venus (joint on March 25), the executive Force of 5th Ray (the Science of golden Building), the compass and square in agreement which trace the guidelines and build the solar Plan. The Plan of resolution is possible through the golden way of Harmony, which is only possible starting from the fiery or intuitive thinking, the only kind able to pour the creative seeds of Life.
At the solstice time Venus reaches (on June 22) Uranus (7th R, progressive Order) in Aries (1st-7th R), thus connecting it to Saturn in a constructive and golden manner (in 3 months Venus carves one side of the 5-pointed Star by its positions in the circle of the Zodiac, the psycho-geometry that holds the canon of the golden section). The Luminaries that convey the line of Life (odd Rays 1-3-5-7) in this quarter of the cycle activate, coordinate and synthesize energies of Aries and Scorpio (both Signs ruled by Mars and Mercury, conflict and harmony), impulsing an irrepressible advancement and the triumph of Fire. What Saturn plans (the Plan of resolution), Venus realizes and Uranus precipitates and vitalizes at all levels. Uranus is the ‘occult’ mind, that rhythm of the Heart mind which attests the Order of Fire, i.e., the fiery Source that radiates the splendor of Truth.
At the June solstice, Uranus and Venus are on one side with Mars and Saturn on the other. In fact Saturn will have just recorded (on June 14) the energizing and warlike transit of Mars (6th R, “the desire translating the central will of Sun/Vulcan into action”), in Scorpio (4th R) very powerful and decisive for their deep and intense affinity .
But Mars plays a fundamental role in exteriorizing the play of energies mainly at the equinox, as in Libra (3rd R) It rectifies and diffuses through all the charge of the primary and persistent square between the 1st and the 7th Ray Luminaries, Pluto the Destroyer and Reformer in Capricorn (1st-3rd-7th Ray) and Uranus the divine Revolutionary in Aries (1st-7th R). It thus overwhelms any ‘weak’ choice and enables decisiveness in the confrontation between ‘the two sides of the way’, the polarities or two arrays, in order to regenerate the “old site” of the world into the new one (Earth will be affected by the energizing vortex of Mars especially on 8 April, the day of their conjunction) .
The square between Destruction and Order (Pluto – Uranus) will also be accentuated at the solsticial deadline of June by the double flank of Venus and Mercury then squared between Aries and Capricorn (see the outer wheel of the Luminaries). Venus beside Uranus in Aries is extremely ‘fertile’ and ‘correlating’, while Mercury, between Earth and Pluto in Capricorn, is a crucial yet harmonizing factor of radical transformation. Mercury leaves the Sign of Sagittarius (where It was at both December solstice and March equinox) for Capricorn (at June solstice); from driving the higher or solar consciousness to contemplate and frame everything in the clear vision aiming for distant worlds, It goes on to be the solar Magician directing the forces of resurrection. Mercury will apply its initiatory caduceus to Earth especially on the day of their conjunction just during solstice time, on June 19 at the edge of Sagittarius, i.e., along the cosmic wake of the alignment with the Galactic Center on one side and Sun/Vulcan aligned with the star Betelgeuse of Orion on the other (that cosmic Father and Christ, the Galactic center and the constellation of Orion, which are the higher guide and model of our Sun). The Heart of the Sun, the ‘volcano’ sovereign of its system, will then propagate in the planetary cycle all the fiery force of the Cosmic Heart Axis in this solstice time, lighted up in a threefold manner by the viewfinder Earth-Mercury-Pluto.
Going back to the right triangle set up by the three Lords of Revolution (Pluto-Mars-Uranus), the emblematic mark of this heliocentric equinoctial Heaven, it can be noted that it is also a half square (with the Mars-Uranus opposition as its central diagonal); so it is balanced and mirrored by the Centre (Sun/Vulcan) in the direction of the fourth cardinal Sign, Cancer (3rd-7th R), the matrix of rebirths, the primordial Waters of Substance now crossed by Jupiter (2nd R) to the far bank (the last sector of the Sign). Jupiter is here and now the Great Mother who keeps the creative impulses and the divine Builder that permeates with Light the solar Abode.
The creative trine (120°) between Jupiter and Saturn, still active at the equinox but not to the next solstice, sustains “the Victory Plan of the Forces of Light”, helped also by the constant presence of Neptune (6th R), the Lord of Commonality, in “its Sign” Pisces (2nd-6th R), the saving power of the Water element bearer of Synthesis. The triumph of the One is garanteed by the fade of any narrowness or insulation and by the wisdom of Communion. Neptune, being now two years in the second sector of Pisces (5°-10° degrees), inspires to look at every creature with infinite Compassion, the heart’s most sacred treasure. The sacredness of Beauty, the most sacred treasure of Father’s House, can be protected only by containing everything in the Temple of the Heart.
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The Cosmic Magnet, the Heart of Infinity, attracts and constantly calls its beloved ones with power and smiling love. The equinoctial Call of Aries and of its Luminary Uranus, the beloved Son of the Cosmic Magnet, is now leading the solar dance of the rays and hearts that burn toward the Hierarchy of Infinity:
“The design of the Cosmic Magnet is thus manifested in Space by the rays of the luminaries.
The luminaries are designed as guides to mankind.
The energies are strained in identical manner upon the physical and spiritual planes; hence, the laws are in mutual correlation.
The Brothers of Humanity outline the plan for human evolution, working with cosmic energies and in conformity with all courses of the luminaries. Revealing all the chosen ways of progress, We, Brothers of Humanity, confirm the best interweavings.
Truly, the luminaries act upon each other. Certainly, the power of the striving of the rays, and their effect, depends upon the combination of the luminaries. When the structure of a luminary is based upon the manifestation of pure Fire and of the subtle energies, the luminary possesses an advantage and can attract to itself the saturated Spatial Fire. Thus, Uranus, possessing the properties of the subtle energies, transmutes other energies. Great is the occult power of the rays of Uranus!
The tensed Cosmic Magnet determines its tension by the currents of the Spatial fire. Thus, the manifestation of the rays of Uranus evokes varied tensions, and the epoch of the rays of Uranus is under tension through its correlation with the Cosmic Magnet.
The desire to advance in current with the luminaries will disclose to the spirit its path. Of course, the desire and the quality of actions determine the quality of the path. If men could understand how great is the force of self-determination, they would evince a striving toward the Cosmic Magnet.
When, through a span of millennia, the spirit seeks the path predestined for it by the luminaries, and when its essence aspires toward harmony, then the Cosmic Magnet responds and Cosmos gains the highest concordance. Out of these consonances is composed a cosmic chord! The higher the sphere, the greater the power of attraction. Thus one can realize the power of Cosmic Reason. The power increases according to the spheres.
The luminaries confirm the cosmic source of Fire.
Many fear to understand Eternity, but how beautiful is the realized grandeur of Eternity! Only the spirit that has contacted the Fire knows the full beauty of its radiance. A spirit deprived of the power streaming from the luminaries is deprived of the essence of the Cosmic Fire and cuts off the current manifested by Fohat. The definition of Eternity lives only in consciousness. The broader the consciousness, the more vividly glows the ray of consciousness. The more clearly, then, resounds Our call to him who has realized the beauty of evolution.
Verily, what has been said about universal thought must be applied in life.”(5)
