First principles are the basic most important reasons for doing or believing something and the first thing to clearly comprehend in regard to Hermetic astrology is the nature of the interrelationship between the inner-astral-plane and the outer-physical-plane of life; and how non-physical energies, through boundary-line electromagnetic forces having approximately the velocity of light, can influence physical life.
Electromagnetic energy
Astrological energies and the electromagnetic energies within a living organism on levels where velocities are much slower than light are not physical. They chiefly belong to the astral plane.
The Special Theory of Relativity, which lies at the foundation of modern physics holds that physical velocities cannot exceed that of light, and that anything moving with the velocity of light no longer possesses length, has infinite mass making it impervious to the pull of gravitation, and that for it time has come to a standstill.
Yet there is a vast mass of evidence proving precognition, clairvoyance and other psychic phenomena and the action of astrological energies which demonstrates there is an inner-world where velocities are even greater than that of light.
These phenomena call for properties possessed by such a realm. It is the region occupied at all times by what is termed the unconscious mind, which in reality is identical with the soul.
This inner-world from which the astro (star) logical energies influence physical life is called the astral (belonging to a star) world, or astral plane.
Its substance interpenetrates all physical things, and in addition to possessing a physical form, everything material also possesses an astral form. The association is made possible by the electromagnetic energies accompanying things physical.
The velocities of the astral world are too high to directly affect low velocity physical substance, and the velocities of matter are too low to directly affect high-velocity astral substance. But electromagnetic energies in space, which have a velocity approximately that of light, can be influenced by the forces of both realms.
Thus, the inner-plane affects the outer-plane and the outer-plane affects the inner-plane through boundary-line electromagnetic energies.
These electromagnetic energies are in some degree associated with all physical substance, but are generated in profusion by cells of organic life, and in particular abundance by the cells of the nervous system of the human body.
In the astral realm things do not behave as they do in the physical realm. Things happen there that, from purely physical experience, seem impossible. Precognition aka foreknowledge of an event, especially as a form of extrasensory perception, for instance, is incomprehensible from the standpoint of the physical relation of cause and effect.
Yet it has been demonstrated by university researchers that ESP is a faculty possessed by human beings and distance has no appreciable effect on its practice.
Planets and signs
So, it shouldn’t be surprising that the planets exercise a profound influence through their astral energies upon your astral form and that it, in turn imparting motion to the electromagnetic energies of your physical body, influences your thoughts and behavior and the events which come into your life.
The signs of the zodiac are definite fields of force in the astral world and each planet radiates astral vibrations which flow as streams of energy that have a definite impact upon your astral form. All physical things are in some measure influenced by these streams of planetary energy.
The astral energy radiated by each planet has a different frequency, and therefore a different influence upon the astral forms of things.
Each different musical tone or pitch you can hear is a definite vibratory frequency in air or other physical substance. Each different color you can see is a definite electromagnetic frequency. And the astral energy radiated by each planet represents a definite range of astral frequencies which at the speed of light velocity corresponds to a certain color, and at the speed of physical substance velocity corresponds to a certain pitch, or tone.
Now, the same colors passing through one kind of transparency take on a quality that gives them an effect more pleasing or less pleasing than when they pass through another kind of transparency. And the same musical tone sounded on an oboe has a quality quite different than when sounded on a flute.
Likewise, a planetary tone, or stream of energy, coming from the field of astral force mapped by one sign of the zodiac has a different quality in its influence than when coming from the field of astral force mapped by another sign.
So, the Sun, Moon and planets radiate a distinctive range of vibratory frequencies; and observation has demonstrated that there are 12 major distinctive fields of force which are commonly called zodiacal signs.
Each 3o degree zodiac sign also has three minor divisions that are called decanates because they are 10 degrees in extent.
The signs of the zodiac impart their peculiar quality to the influence of any planet found in them, and the decanates further modify this tone quality.
The most permanent of all astrological effects is the distinctive tone, or characteristic influence, of each planet. It is only the resonance of the tone, not its pitch, which is affected by the sign, and to a less degree by the decanate, from which its influence comes to Earth.
Aspects, houses and time
The variation in the volume of a planet’s energy that actually reaches a given place, and the department of life chiefly affected by these energies, may accurately be mapped by a circle around the Earth, extending from west to east and divided into twelve equal sections, called mundane houses.
This map is called the birth chart.
The astral energies (and electromagnetic frequencies called light) from the planets converge at a place on the Earth from different angles and the angle at which any two streams of planetary energy meet determines the manner in which their tones harmonize or present discord.
Experience shows that there are ten different angles that produce a distinctive influence. They are called aspects.
Any kind of energy is capable of either constructive or destructive action. Sunlight can burn human skin, or it can enable plants to manufacture food that sustains human life. Water can drown an individual, or it can run turbines that generate power. Electricity can blast an oak tree, or it can furnish light for reading at night. And while the characteristic influence of each planet never changes, it may act either destructively or constructively.
Other than time, the factors of major significance in Hermetic astrology are the planets, signs, aspects, houses.
Of these four, the astral energies radiated by the planets are the dynamic influences. The signs merely represent the fields of force that do not change the essential influence of the planets located in them, but do change their resonance. They act as sounding boards for the planetary tones.
The aspects do not change the essential characteristics of any planet’s influence, but do determine the type of harmony or discord of their convergence.
The houses do not change the characteristics of the planets or their aspects, but they do influence the amount of power a planet’s energy can exert, and what department of life its energies will chiefly influence.
Now these four astrological factors are operative at all times.
As the planets revolve about the Sun and move through the various zodiac signs and form different aspects the Earth rotates on its axis and their energies reach a given spot through each of the 12 houses within a 24-hour period.
This time element is essential for mapping the directions in which streams of astrological energy are flowing, and also to map releases of planetary energy by progressed aspects.
These streams of astral energy by exerting pressure upon the astral forms of all living things have profoundly affected the evolution of humanity, influenced social systems and brought periods of progress and stagnation.
A great amount of observation goes to show that living things that survive birth are born only at those times when their own astral organism coincides rather closely with the pattern formed at that time by the flow of planetary energies.
It’s believed that if the thought-cell organization of a child is too divergent from the pattern of astrological forces, including planetary streams, signs, aspects and houses, that the child will not live.
However, this flowing astral pattern which permits the birth of a living creature is certainly not as rigid as steel. Instead, when proper physical conditions are present it seems to have sufficient elasticity that children can be born and live whose thought-cell organizations vary considerably from it in detail.
Your birth chart and life story
If you assess your own chart you can prove for yourself that it maps your predispositions but remember that the positions of the planets at birth did not cause you to possess the characteristics they indicate.
Rather, they show the direction in which the planetary energies were then flowing and combining with other planetary currents. And that the inner-plane energy pattern that was formed permitted a soul which already had a corresponding organization to be born.
Your soul possessed certain predispositions and it could not be born until there was an astrological pattern not too divergent from the thought-cell organization which was the seat of these predispositions.
Each planet in your birth chart maps dynamic thought-cells which express their energy in thoughts, behavior and events attracted that are characteristic of the experiences which formed them.
The physical cells and organs of your physical body know how to do certain things without being directed by your brain. They have their own desires, which may or may not be for things which are beneficial to you, and perform their functions without the active supervision of objective consciousness.
And the thought-cells and thought structures of your inner-plane astral body possess the kind of intelligence imparted to them when they were formed. They have desires and do work from the inner-plane which may or may not benefit you. The amount of energy they normally possess is measured by the planet mapping them in your birth chart.
Their desires are always characteristic of the planet mapping them, but are modified in detail by the sign it occupies and the nature of the aspects it receives.
And to the extent the thought-cells possessing them normally have energy, or acquire it from progressed aspects, their desires influence your thoughts, behavior and the events that come into your life.
Occupying the inner-plane, thought-cells are able to exert extra-physical power aka psychokinesis to bring to pass the type of events they desire.
Important events only come into your life when thought-cells mapped by the house of your birth chart ruling the department of life affected receive new energy from a progressed aspect. And the type of the event is always characteristic of the planets forming the progressed aspect.
But your birth chart does not map specific events. Rather it maps predispositions toward types of conditions and events as indicated by general thought-cell desires associated with each department of life.
Specific events and conditions are the result of thought-cells demonstrating what they desire in a supportive environment.
Progressed aspects do no map specific events either. Instead, they map energy releases of definite types during definite periods of time that give greater activity to definite groups of thought-cells. But the specific event they are able to bring into your life is not determined by their desires and power alone, but by your environment which facilitates some specific events and resists others.
And your birth chart does not indicate disease that’s inevitable. But it does indicate a predisposition toward diseases of a certain type. And your progressed chart shows when they are likely to develop unless you take adequate precautionary actions.
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