the inter*dimensional nativity
INTER*DIMENSIONAL ASTROLOGY
A Summary
1. A ZODIAC IS IDENTICAL OR ANALOGOUS TO A STANDING WAVE IN THE TWELFTH HARMONIC, GENERATED AT ANY ECLIPTIC NODE.
e.g. Tropical Zodiac generated at the Spring Equinox Node; the Draconic Zodiac at the Moon's Ascending Node; the Oriental Zodiac of the Houses at the Horizon/ Ecliptic Node.
2. A ZODIAC BEGINS WITH ITS OWN SIGN.
This rule includes the DWAD - a micro-zodiac generated at the nodal point of a Sign-cusp in its "parent" macro-zodiac, the RADIX, and which begins with the Radix Sign in which it is formed.
As the "parent" zodiac of twelve standing waves begins with Aries, the same principle applied in the opposite direction identifies the the Ecliptic Circle as a whole as ARIES - the Generator, the Creative Origin out of which the Zodiac springs, and thus as a manifestation or symbol of the Father. Within this circle is generated the TRIANGLE - the Three-in-one, the Trinity - of ARIES the FATHER, LEO the SON, and SAGITTARIUS the HOLY SPIRIT.
This triangle of the first, fifth and ninth signs in each of the Dwads creates the familiar DECANATES.
3. A SIGN, WHETHER AT HIGH OR LOW FREQUENCY, IS A DISCRETE PACKET OF MEANING.
i.e. There is discontinuity of characteristics at the nodal point where one Sign ends and the next begins. This is demonstrated by the missing Sign between any two Dwads; for example, the Dwad in Radix Taurus finishes with Aries, and the following Dwad in Radix Gemini begins according to the rule with Gemini, the sign in sextile. A Zodiac does not always behave like a spectrum with a gradual progression of meanings that overlap and blend into each other.
4. IDENTICAL AXES OF LONGITUDE IN TWO OR MORE ZODIACS RESONATE TOGETHER.
If two bodies in their respective zodiacs - macro or micro - are found in or very close to the same degree of the same Sign, they are "on the same wavelength", "striking the same chord"; if one is in the opposite degree,half the circle away, its resonance with the first has something in common with musical notes separated by an octave. Tight squares to an axis can also be strongly active. Again we have a division of the circle ( the "string" of the zodiac) by two, raising its "note" by a further octave. In music, the same note played on several instruments or sung by several voices is powerfully reinforced as they all resonate together. In the same way two or more planets or angles "playing the same note" on their respective zodiac strings (Tropical, Sidereal, Draconic, Heliocentric, Dwad etc) have their energies (their "voices") combined and amplified by the unison.
The image of fingers moving on a musical string and producing octaves of its original note is perhaps closer to reality than we have imagined; physics now teaches that every object bends its local space. So every planet and energy-point may interrupt the basic resonance of the ecliptic to make the music of the spheres.
Orbs of aspect to an axis should ideally remain within 5 degrees on either side, and within 2 degrees for squares. Clearly, the tighter the contact, the purer the unison of energies, and the more dramatic their combined action when triggered by progressions, transits or Solar Arcs for example.
Putting all this into practice means working habitually with not just one zodiac at a time, but TROPICAL, DRACONIC and SIDEREAL together, plus HELIOCENTRIC - and sometimes with the GEOSOLAR - the zodiac generated within the calculated Radix chart from the position of the Sun - or the ORIENTAL.
All these levels interact through axial alignments, sympathetic zodiacal resonances. The dimension from which such an axial contact comes, shows the area of self that is making itself felt. A study of violent criminals has turned out to be most interesting in this respect, as time after time clusters of "malign" planets collected around angles; yet different levels would be emphasised, showing how one man could have chosen to live a better life (GT), another was making a mess of his karma (GD), one needed to be remembered no matter what the cost (GS), another was driven by his fate to face the awful darkness in his soul (HT).
At each level a precise description of the individual is given by the DWAD (qv) and - where extreme accuracy makes this possible - its refinement the SUPERDWAD.
To Summarise:
The authentic spiritual Self (HELIOCENTRIC) manifests through the incarnate personality (GEOCENTRIC) with a Role to play (SIDEREAL), Karma to resolve (DRACONIC) and a body/new identity (TROPICAL) to work through, master, and learn from - all of which are essential facets of the whole Identity, and whose activity is focussed and encouraged by the HOUSES. The RADIX chart at all levels describes the self at its most material, most dense, most general; the DWAD at all levels adds specific detail of the real, subtle self. the mind, the idea animating the form.
There are still further dimensions and details - but those above form the essential structure.
A USEFUL IMAGE TO WORK WITH IS THAT OF A TREE IN A FOREST:
The Root of the tree from which all growth initiates and continues, and which anchors it in the life of the world around it, is the Helio chart. Even if the tree is felled, life can begin again from its root if it is healthy. If it is diseased or inadequate, life will always be a struggle, even in optimum conditions.
The Crown of the tree with its unique annual growth of leaves, flowers and fruit is the Tropical chart, whose life of individual growth then adds a layer of experience to ...
The Trunk of the tree - the Draconic - which carries the memories and strengths of all previous growing seasons.
The tree as part of the Forest is the Sidereal chart, contributing to the ecosystem, the collective life, and affected by its experiences.
SEVEN LEVELS OF SELF
Observe that in all the kaleidoscopic shifting from one viewpoint or dimension to another, the geometries of the planetary and angular patterns remain intact with all their stresses and flows and dynamic structures. These only alter when one moves from geocentric to heliocentric. Otherwise each pattern maintains integrity at its respective earthly or spiritual level. What changes is the way in which the individual perceives, experiences and deals with the planetary gifts and challenges in a hierarchical series of seven discrete but interactive personal worlds .... which worlds of activity may or may not present as several ‘selves’ to the extent that he or she becomes identified with one or more of these.
Degrees of Freedom, and Frames of Reference:
The seven levels may be understood usefully as degrees of freedom or conditioning of the Will.
AT THE TROPICAL LEVEL (GT for Geotropical), in the local, Equatorial, Annual frame of reference, freedom of the will is almost unconditional, and full responsibility must be borne for choices made in the embodied ‘lower’ personality. Failure to master the impulses of appetite and emotion in all their forms, or to respond constructively and aptly to those impinging on the material and subtle bodies and psyche from the cosmos, will sow much of the negative karma that must be reaped in later life or lives.
Body and upbringing are the only limiting factors at the level of manifest individuality, and even these can often be overcome in large measure, even totally; but it is equally often convenient to blame them for the repercussions of our human weakness!
AT THE SIDEREAL LEVEL (GS, Geostellar), the frame of reference expands beyond the Solar System to the Constellations and the period of the Great Year; freedom is conditioned by socio-cultural expectations, and at this level rôle = identity. That the Sidereal is the zodiac used in India, for example, is unremarkable since the work ethic in families is extremely strong. Members of a family, a society or a culture have a duty to fulfil whatever the collective requires of them in work, worship, and general behaviour. There is little room for development of the kind of individuality that the present-day Westerner takes for granted. The advantage is that it offers every opportunity to the spiritually mature to practise selflessness and grow in inner stature - and we in the West would do well to emulate this. The disadvantage is that it may hold the newer, unindividuated soul at a stage of growth from which it is eventually desirable, but difficult, to move on; so in Sidereal cultures there are quite likely to be found extremes of worldly ignorance and spiritual mastery, with little in between. If the interaction from the Sidereal to other levels is powerful, the subject may prove to have more than an ordinary rôle to play on his or her part of the world stage, and will be remembered for it. The nature of that rôle will be shown by the planets involved.
AT THE DRACONIC (GD) LEVEL, within the framework of the Lunar orbit with its greater and lesser cycles of the Saros and the month, freedom is limited by the soul itself, conditioned by the pre-incarnate commitment to honour its karmic debts, make restitution where necessary, keep its promises, and deal with any unresolved issues that are hindering spiritual progress. Also, when required, one must give freely of those gifts that have grown through the effort of life-times, often without any reward. All this will be shown in the interaction of Draconic mainly with Tropical, but in some instances involving other levels. If one finds a sense of identity here, it is because the personality is inseparable from either or both his history or his belief-system and principles, which the GD chart describes.
AT THE GEOSOLAR (GSL) LEVEL, whose frame of reference is the Sun itself as seen from Earth, the author's intuition is that the will is completely free, although this may be impossible to prove. For even in the most imperfect soul this is the nearest state to total innocence; and while one is in this state there would seem to be no hindrance to genuine freedom of Self-expression. Laertes' injunction to Hamlet, "above all, to thine own Self be true, for thus it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man" points the way to human integrity at all levels of being; but only the Divine Child in us knows the real truth. If you truly Know your Self, then you pierce all the illusions of the world. "If thine eye be single, then thy whole body shall be full of Light!" The only limitation to this is limitation - conditioning - itself. All we have to do is allow ourselves to let go ... but we are afraid of freedom. Such spontaneity can take many forms, however, some of which are decidedly uncomfortable, inconvenient, anti-social, often downright selfish - altogether something of a Pandora's box unless the Divine Child has "put away childish things" and grown to an illumined Adulthood.
AT THE COMPLEMENTARY HELIOMUNDANE (HM) LEVEL the frame of reference has reversed to the body of the Earth as perceived from the Sun; we have moved into the Heliocentric dimension where the will and its freedom are subject to the Higher Will either of the spiritual Self or of the Godhead (according to one's individual understanding.) We have no further choice in what the Earth experience holds for us; its apparent nature is polar to that of the Self, and thus may be looked on as enemy or friend. It challenges us through confrontation to use, and then jettison, its mirror to perceive at last our own Truth. The one freedom that remains to the Self once embarked on incarnation, is to choose between willingness and unwillingness, between reluctance and acceptance. This determines the positive or negative effects of the deep Self's attitude towards necessity and the world of appearances.
AT THE HELIOTROPICAL (HT) LEVEL its zodiac's reference is not to the Earth's body, but to its spatial interface with the Sun's own domain, the linking in space-time of their subtle bodies. Effectively there is no freewill except, as above, in the Self's choice between acceptance and resentment of its fate. All you can change is your attitude. The Self has renounced any degree of freedom beyond this through the inexorable necessity continually to confront its own status, its measure of spiritual good and evil, its accumulated wisdom, or gnosis, and its areas of error and ignorance. None of this will be taken away until the Self sees its true nature stripped naked, and redeems itself through penitence. Great agony, or deep work, may bring some to this point during the Earth-life; and there is the profound experience of Grace. Others will wait until the body's life is finished before the spiritual eye is opened to the truth.
AT THE FINAL, HELIOSTELLAR (HS) LEVEL (a less clumsy coinage than ‘Heliosidereal’) we are back in the framework of the starry heavens themselves, where freedom ceases to become an issue, as the Self is solely focussed upon God, or the ultimate Mystery. However that mightiest dimension of spiritual life is perceived, when it holds the attention of its child the Self is lifted free of the world of senses, and granted a measure of "that Peace which the world cannot give." The soul at prayer, the soul in deep meditation, the worshipping soul - all willingly relinquish self in cherished re-union with their Eternal Source. The more mindful of God in everyday life a person is, the more their life embraces the holy, the more this heavenly dimension of the Self will manifest to those who know them. Mother Theresa of Calcutta is one of these: she is more instantly recognisable as we see her today by her Heliostellar colouring than any of her other patterns. Whereas her near contemporary (by two months) the atheist A.J. Ayer, despite the similarity in their patterns, manifests only his prickly, cool, self-satisfied intellect at the Tropical level. He has not - as Mother Theresa has - publically taken up his Heliostellar Cross of Pain. He has passed on now to another life - I wonder if he has been surprised?... or if he has created for himself the oblivion he expected? Had he been willing, he might have become a Christian - the red and black cross of Aries/ Capricorn is so often found in the charts of those who choose to follow the Christ Crucified.
A Summary
1. A ZODIAC IS IDENTICAL OR ANALOGOUS TO A STANDING WAVE IN THE TWELFTH HARMONIC, GENERATED AT ANY ECLIPTIC NODE.
e.g. Tropical Zodiac generated at the Spring Equinox Node; the Draconic Zodiac at the Moon's Ascending Node; the Oriental Zodiac of the Houses at the Horizon/ Ecliptic Node.
2. A ZODIAC BEGINS WITH ITS OWN SIGN.
This rule includes the DWAD - a micro-zodiac generated at the nodal point of a Sign-cusp in its "parent" macro-zodiac, the RADIX, and which begins with the Radix Sign in which it is formed.
As the "parent" zodiac of twelve standing waves begins with Aries, the same principle applied in the opposite direction identifies the the Ecliptic Circle as a whole as ARIES - the Generator, the Creative Origin out of which the Zodiac springs, and thus as a manifestation or symbol of the Father. Within this circle is generated the TRIANGLE - the Three-in-one, the Trinity - of ARIES the FATHER, LEO the SON, and SAGITTARIUS the HOLY SPIRIT.
This triangle of the first, fifth and ninth signs in each of the Dwads creates the familiar DECANATES.
3. A SIGN, WHETHER AT HIGH OR LOW FREQUENCY, IS A DISCRETE PACKET OF MEANING.
i.e. There is discontinuity of characteristics at the nodal point where one Sign ends and the next begins. This is demonstrated by the missing Sign between any two Dwads; for example, the Dwad in Radix Taurus finishes with Aries, and the following Dwad in Radix Gemini begins according to the rule with Gemini, the sign in sextile. A Zodiac does not always behave like a spectrum with a gradual progression of meanings that overlap and blend into each other.
4. IDENTICAL AXES OF LONGITUDE IN TWO OR MORE ZODIACS RESONATE TOGETHER.
If two bodies in their respective zodiacs - macro or micro - are found in or very close to the same degree of the same Sign, they are "on the same wavelength", "striking the same chord"; if one is in the opposite degree,half the circle away, its resonance with the first has something in common with musical notes separated by an octave. Tight squares to an axis can also be strongly active. Again we have a division of the circle ( the "string" of the zodiac) by two, raising its "note" by a further octave. In music, the same note played on several instruments or sung by several voices is powerfully reinforced as they all resonate together. In the same way two or more planets or angles "playing the same note" on their respective zodiac strings (Tropical, Sidereal, Draconic, Heliocentric, Dwad etc) have their energies (their "voices") combined and amplified by the unison.
The image of fingers moving on a musical string and producing octaves of its original note is perhaps closer to reality than we have imagined; physics now teaches that every object bends its local space. So every planet and energy-point may interrupt the basic resonance of the ecliptic to make the music of the spheres.
Orbs of aspect to an axis should ideally remain within 5 degrees on either side, and within 2 degrees for squares. Clearly, the tighter the contact, the purer the unison of energies, and the more dramatic their combined action when triggered by progressions, transits or Solar Arcs for example.
Putting all this into practice means working habitually with not just one zodiac at a time, but TROPICAL, DRACONIC and SIDEREAL together, plus HELIOCENTRIC - and sometimes with the GEOSOLAR - the zodiac generated within the calculated Radix chart from the position of the Sun - or the ORIENTAL.
All these levels interact through axial alignments, sympathetic zodiacal resonances. The dimension from which such an axial contact comes, shows the area of self that is making itself felt. A study of violent criminals has turned out to be most interesting in this respect, as time after time clusters of "malign" planets collected around angles; yet different levels would be emphasised, showing how one man could have chosen to live a better life (GT), another was making a mess of his karma (GD), one needed to be remembered no matter what the cost (GS), another was driven by his fate to face the awful darkness in his soul (HT).
At each level a precise description of the individual is given by the DWAD (qv) and - where extreme accuracy makes this possible - its refinement the SUPERDWAD.
To Summarise:
The authentic spiritual Self (HELIOCENTRIC) manifests through the incarnate personality (GEOCENTRIC) with a Role to play (SIDEREAL), Karma to resolve (DRACONIC) and a body/new identity (TROPICAL) to work through, master, and learn from - all of which are essential facets of the whole Identity, and whose activity is focussed and encouraged by the HOUSES. The RADIX chart at all levels describes the self at its most material, most dense, most general; the DWAD at all levels adds specific detail of the real, subtle self. the mind, the idea animating the form.
There are still further dimensions and details - but those above form the essential structure.
A USEFUL IMAGE TO WORK WITH IS THAT OF A TREE IN A FOREST:
The Root of the tree from which all growth initiates and continues, and which anchors it in the life of the world around it, is the Helio chart. Even if the tree is felled, life can begin again from its root if it is healthy. If it is diseased or inadequate, life will always be a struggle, even in optimum conditions.
The Crown of the tree with its unique annual growth of leaves, flowers and fruit is the Tropical chart, whose life of individual growth then adds a layer of experience to ...
The Trunk of the tree - the Draconic - which carries the memories and strengths of all previous growing seasons.
The tree as part of the Forest is the Sidereal chart, contributing to the ecosystem, the collective life, and affected by its experiences.
SEVEN LEVELS OF SELF
Observe that in all the kaleidoscopic shifting from one viewpoint or dimension to another, the geometries of the planetary and angular patterns remain intact with all their stresses and flows and dynamic structures. These only alter when one moves from geocentric to heliocentric. Otherwise each pattern maintains integrity at its respective earthly or spiritual level. What changes is the way in which the individual perceives, experiences and deals with the planetary gifts and challenges in a hierarchical series of seven discrete but interactive personal worlds .... which worlds of activity may or may not present as several ‘selves’ to the extent that he or she becomes identified with one or more of these.
Degrees of Freedom, and Frames of Reference:
The seven levels may be understood usefully as degrees of freedom or conditioning of the Will.
AT THE TROPICAL LEVEL (GT for Geotropical), in the local, Equatorial, Annual frame of reference, freedom of the will is almost unconditional, and full responsibility must be borne for choices made in the embodied ‘lower’ personality. Failure to master the impulses of appetite and emotion in all their forms, or to respond constructively and aptly to those impinging on the material and subtle bodies and psyche from the cosmos, will sow much of the negative karma that must be reaped in later life or lives.
Body and upbringing are the only limiting factors at the level of manifest individuality, and even these can often be overcome in large measure, even totally; but it is equally often convenient to blame them for the repercussions of our human weakness!
AT THE SIDEREAL LEVEL (GS, Geostellar), the frame of reference expands beyond the Solar System to the Constellations and the period of the Great Year; freedom is conditioned by socio-cultural expectations, and at this level rôle = identity. That the Sidereal is the zodiac used in India, for example, is unremarkable since the work ethic in families is extremely strong. Members of a family, a society or a culture have a duty to fulfil whatever the collective requires of them in work, worship, and general behaviour. There is little room for development of the kind of individuality that the present-day Westerner takes for granted. The advantage is that it offers every opportunity to the spiritually mature to practise selflessness and grow in inner stature - and we in the West would do well to emulate this. The disadvantage is that it may hold the newer, unindividuated soul at a stage of growth from which it is eventually desirable, but difficult, to move on; so in Sidereal cultures there are quite likely to be found extremes of worldly ignorance and spiritual mastery, with little in between. If the interaction from the Sidereal to other levels is powerful, the subject may prove to have more than an ordinary rôle to play on his or her part of the world stage, and will be remembered for it. The nature of that rôle will be shown by the planets involved.
AT THE DRACONIC (GD) LEVEL, within the framework of the Lunar orbit with its greater and lesser cycles of the Saros and the month, freedom is limited by the soul itself, conditioned by the pre-incarnate commitment to honour its karmic debts, make restitution where necessary, keep its promises, and deal with any unresolved issues that are hindering spiritual progress. Also, when required, one must give freely of those gifts that have grown through the effort of life-times, often without any reward. All this will be shown in the interaction of Draconic mainly with Tropical, but in some instances involving other levels. If one finds a sense of identity here, it is because the personality is inseparable from either or both his history or his belief-system and principles, which the GD chart describes.
AT THE GEOSOLAR (GSL) LEVEL, whose frame of reference is the Sun itself as seen from Earth, the author's intuition is that the will is completely free, although this may be impossible to prove. For even in the most imperfect soul this is the nearest state to total innocence; and while one is in this state there would seem to be no hindrance to genuine freedom of Self-expression. Laertes' injunction to Hamlet, "above all, to thine own Self be true, for thus it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man" points the way to human integrity at all levels of being; but only the Divine Child in us knows the real truth. If you truly Know your Self, then you pierce all the illusions of the world. "If thine eye be single, then thy whole body shall be full of Light!" The only limitation to this is limitation - conditioning - itself. All we have to do is allow ourselves to let go ... but we are afraid of freedom. Such spontaneity can take many forms, however, some of which are decidedly uncomfortable, inconvenient, anti-social, often downright selfish - altogether something of a Pandora's box unless the Divine Child has "put away childish things" and grown to an illumined Adulthood.
AT THE COMPLEMENTARY HELIOMUNDANE (HM) LEVEL the frame of reference has reversed to the body of the Earth as perceived from the Sun; we have moved into the Heliocentric dimension where the will and its freedom are subject to the Higher Will either of the spiritual Self or of the Godhead (according to one's individual understanding.) We have no further choice in what the Earth experience holds for us; its apparent nature is polar to that of the Self, and thus may be looked on as enemy or friend. It challenges us through confrontation to use, and then jettison, its mirror to perceive at last our own Truth. The one freedom that remains to the Self once embarked on incarnation, is to choose between willingness and unwillingness, between reluctance and acceptance. This determines the positive or negative effects of the deep Self's attitude towards necessity and the world of appearances.
AT THE HELIOTROPICAL (HT) LEVEL its zodiac's reference is not to the Earth's body, but to its spatial interface with the Sun's own domain, the linking in space-time of their subtle bodies. Effectively there is no freewill except, as above, in the Self's choice between acceptance and resentment of its fate. All you can change is your attitude. The Self has renounced any degree of freedom beyond this through the inexorable necessity continually to confront its own status, its measure of spiritual good and evil, its accumulated wisdom, or gnosis, and its areas of error and ignorance. None of this will be taken away until the Self sees its true nature stripped naked, and redeems itself through penitence. Great agony, or deep work, may bring some to this point during the Earth-life; and there is the profound experience of Grace. Others will wait until the body's life is finished before the spiritual eye is opened to the truth.
AT THE FINAL, HELIOSTELLAR (HS) LEVEL (a less clumsy coinage than ‘Heliosidereal’) we are back in the framework of the starry heavens themselves, where freedom ceases to become an issue, as the Self is solely focussed upon God, or the ultimate Mystery. However that mightiest dimension of spiritual life is perceived, when it holds the attention of its child the Self is lifted free of the world of senses, and granted a measure of "that Peace which the world cannot give." The soul at prayer, the soul in deep meditation, the worshipping soul - all willingly relinquish self in cherished re-union with their Eternal Source. The more mindful of God in everyday life a person is, the more their life embraces the holy, the more this heavenly dimension of the Self will manifest to those who know them. Mother Theresa of Calcutta is one of these: she is more instantly recognisable as we see her today by her Heliostellar colouring than any of her other patterns. Whereas her near contemporary (by two months) the atheist A.J. Ayer, despite the similarity in their patterns, manifests only his prickly, cool, self-satisfied intellect at the Tropical level. He has not - as Mother Theresa has - publically taken up his Heliostellar Cross of Pain. He has passed on now to another life - I wonder if he has been surprised?... or if he has created for himself the oblivion he expected? Had he been willing, he might have become a Christian - the red and black cross of Aries/ Capricorn is so often found in the charts of those who choose to follow the Christ Crucified.
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