IN THIS CHAPTER
The Sacred Zodiac
The Sacred Zodiac
Until that time, it had never occurred to me that the ‘specificity’ or ‘individuality’ of these sensitive points were provided by the horizon and equatorial planes, as much as by the zodiac. In other words, it is the plane of the horizon that marks out the specific degree of my Ascendant from the other 360 possible degrees. I had unconsciously given all credit for this ability or ‘power’ to the zodiac alone and none to the horizon. In truth, I hardly even knew what the horizon was, other than as a diagram in an astronomy book.
I began to see that astrologers have let their conscious use and awareness lapse on these other coordinate planes, although all three systems must be used to calculate every last natal chart! I found that I had been trying to induce and extract all meaning from the familiar zodiac alone, which is similar to trying to climb up out of the middle of a deep lake when we feel the need for dry land. And I was not alone in this.
Astrologers have for some centuries now lost the ability to deliver the kind of very specific information that is available through mastery and conscious use of the equator and horizon system of coordinates. Instead, they have clung to the vestiges of such specificity as found in the Ascendant, house cusps, etc. The public’s demand for such specifics has been satisfied (in our times) more by the ‘psychic’ or intuitive gifts of modern astrologers, than by the use of any comprehensive astrological technique.
If astrologers live in ‘specific’ poverty, it is because they refuse to master the means to get the attention of this very result-oriented world and this means is available to them through the reacquisition of the lost branches of their art/science: astronomy and mathematics. If astrologers do have a holistic and ‘spiritual’ message to deliver to these times, they will have to get public attention, not through their intuition alone, but also through dependable and predictable results. We must deliver. This book is intended to re-introduce astrologers to their own astronomical heritage.
