Astrological forces are the determining factors throughout nature; and one of the tenets of the ancient stellar religion is that what transpires in the sky has its counterpart on Earth and is paralleled by relations within an individual’s constitution.
Every energy about which we know anything is due to difference in polarity. Chemical actions take place, water runs downhill, electricity flows over wires and planets circle the Sun, due to difference in polarity: Broadly, the interaction of positive and negative – masculine and feminine – forces.
Hermetic astrology teaches that all organic life on Earth is generated and maintained through the union of corresponding etheric energies.
Where there is physical life, either plant or animal, the interaction of the positive and negative chemical elements of the food generates etheric energy, which is the life principle of all physical organisms.
The ancients knew and taught that the life of all organisms depends upon the interaction of this solar-lunar etheric energy.
As the life force of your body, it’s commonly called magnetism and it’s what you feel when you closely approach some person or when you hug or shake their hand.
People who have an abundant supply are said to be magnetic. Others in whom this etheric energy is weak are said to lack in personal magnetism. And this magnetism, which is identical with the currents which flow over your nerves, is not of a single polarity. It’s a union of positive and negative etheric energies.
These solar-lunar etheric energies within your body, which flow over your nervous system in a complete circuit, like an endless belt sustaining your life, are pictured by the Sun and Moon in your birth chart.
Hermetic astrology teaches that the Sun determines the positive, electric, vital etheric energy which gives length of life and recuperative power. And the Moon determines the negative, soothing, nutritive etheric energy which gives strength to your constitution and resistance to disease.
So, the condition of your etheric body, the nerve currents and life forces, can be determined by an assessment of the Sun and Moon in your birth chart.
You have a solar-lunar body but for these etheric energies to reach your physical environment they must flow over a ground wire to the Earth.
Your personal ground wire is the degree of the zodiac on your ascendant and it colors the character of the etheric energy which flows over it.
The Sun in your chart rules your individuality, the Moon rules your mentality and the ascendant rules your personality. And the sign occupied by the Sun determines the quality of your positive etheric energy; the sign occupied by the Moon determines the quality of your negative etheric energy; and the sign on the ascendant contributes its characteristic to the positive-negative, solar-lunar etheric energy which reaches the outside world as your personal magnetism.
The fire and air signs – Aries, Leo Sagittarius and Gemini, Libra and Aquarius – are positive and electric; and the earth and water signs – Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn and Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces – are negative and magnetic.
Factcheck: The sign occupied by the Sun gives its characteristic quality to your vital, electric etheric energy. The sign occupied by the Moon gives its characteristic quality to your soothing, magnetic etheric energy. In combination these two energies circulate in an endless belt as the life forces of your body, but to reach the outside world, they must flow over your ground wire aka ascendant which contributes its characteristic quality to your personal magnetism.
You can determine your personal magnetism by combining the quality of the signs in which the Sun, Moon and ascendant are located in your birth chart.
It can be electromagnetic, electric or magnetic.
Your personal magnetism will blend well with a person who has a similar magnetic quality; but won’t blend well with a person whose magnetic quality is too dissimilar to your own. In this instance you can get along quite harmoniously when the contact is casual but when there is constant contact, you’ll feel uncomfortable and ill at ease.
Harmonious personal magnetisms are especially important in marriage.
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