The Planetary Powers
One of the best kept secrets of Astrology, although many of the Ancients knew it well, is that the planets of our natal charts do NOT refer to those heavenly bodies which circle in our sky; instead, they represent psychic centers in the complex we so casually refer to as ‘us’.
In Tantric Yoga, the seven planets are represented as centers call ‘Chakras’ – a Sanskrit word meaning ‘circle’ or ‘time’. This schematic recognizes that our ‘bodies’ (a loose term indeed) have many ‘sheaths’, all of which represent ‘substance’ of different densities or – as Einstein once remarked: ‘E equals M times C squared’. So some of these centers are not solid but represent intense vortices of energy – such as our primitive fears, our emotions, our thoughts and even our most exalted yearnings.
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It is most important to realize from the start that our illustration represents organic growth; in other words, it shows a ‘process’ – the growth of a Lotus from the mud of the unconscious, then the struggle up through the waters representing the Divine Mother (or how Nature nourishes and supports us) until – finally, we reach the Air and the Light of conscious awareness.
Each Cakra, then, represents a horizontal slice or Mandala which reveals our level of growth and the forces or planetary powers primarily involved in the process of who we are becoming.
For example, all human growth emerges from the Power identified – by all ancients, as Saturn, which holds the Serpent Power that smolders behind all existence. This same Serpent, swallowing its own tail, is found encircling every natal chart.
Human growth, then, or our experience and expression of what it means to be ‘Man’ (Purusha, or male and female), begins with Mars in the Svadhisthana Chakra, and all astrologers can surely understand this since our natal chart begins in Spring at the Cardinal point called Aries – a sign ruled by Mars. The message to us from the ancients seems clear enough:
OUR CONCEPT OF SELF (as represented by Aries) originates specifically in the energy of reproduction (Mars).
There can be no question that these psychic centers operate in synchronism with the movements of the outer material planets; why else would we call it Tropical Astrology (meaning that the Spring Point is determined by the seasons, and not the constellations)?
And, as we see in the following illustration, the four elements are really names for PHASES in our personal evolution. I have used the name ‘gates’ because in the Mandala of the Temple, these four cardinal points are called ‘gates’ – and the Temple (of course) being the dwelling place of Purusha (‘Man’, male and female). Who else would live there?
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Shantana (mort)
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