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Planets and Astrology

Many astrologers are returning to the old rules of astrology. For the past hundred years, astrologers have tried to prove that astrology is scientific, mainly to save it from being completely outlawed and destroyed. With the coming of the new age, astrology kept getting more complicated and was losing something of its' unique original creation. Many astrologers, myself included, are going back to old rulerships: Jupiter for Pisces, Saturn for Aquarius, and Mars for Scorpio. This gives a balanced yin-yang with the houses. This is not to say Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto are not relevant. They are and can easily be read in to a chart, but the seven powers, the seven planets and the nodes are an incredible cosmology. They are messengers of the sky, the seven visible planets. They hold profound keys to the chakras and to the spiritual forces.

Planets

Three planets are male: Sun, Mars, and Jupiter. Sun is the Father,the King. Mars is the Warrior and Jupiter is the Priest.
There are three female planets: Moon, Venus, and Saturn. Moon is the Mother, the Queen. Venus is the Maiden and Saturn is the High Priestess or the Medium.
The seventh planet is Mercury, Lord of the Crossroads. Mercury is a hermaphrodite and represents equally the coming together and the separating of the male and female dynamic. These polarities are inside of us. When we are left-brain, objective, we are in our male self and when we are in our subjective and emotional side, we are in our female self. Those moments that we are perfectly blended, right and left brain, we can be at one with the divine. This is the Holy Spirit moving within.

Planetary deities

Two of the planets are called luminaries: the sun and moon. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn are actually planets. The nodes are points on the elliptic. For convenience sake, they are called the 9 planets. They are the planetary deities that speak for the sky. One speaks to them using forms of astrology and also meditation. They are relevant and important but of course the sky is God and can correct any negative aspect.The planets are messengers of the Great Spirit, the sky.

Planets

Saturn, Mars, Sun, and the nodes are called malefic. This is because they are more intense and can show difficulty in a reading. Jupiter and Venus are benefic and usually show things being easy-going without too much problem.

Vedic Astro-divination

I learned this system from a Vedic astrologer 30 years ago. He was visiting San Francisco from India. This is more of a casting system, which uses the planets. You take 108 seeds in a small bowl. I used decorative corn. You pray as you gently turn the seeds with your fingers. When you are ready, take a small handful and start reducing by 12, until you have 12 or less. This number becomes your ascendant. 12 and 0 are Pisces, 1 is Aries, 2 is Taurus, and so forth. You place this sign on the first house. You fill in the planets from the ephemeris. You do not use degrees. You may have to do some calculation with the moon. You will have the seven planets and the two nodes. It is thought you are in communion with the deities of the planets. You aspect more by house and sign and see what is in each house to get your information. I have had surprisingly very good results using this system.

Vedic Astro-divination

Some ideas on reading this type of chart: If Jupiter is in an angle, first, fourth, seventh, or tenth, the chart is considered positive. Also, if Jupiter is in the first, fifth, or ninth house, the chart is also positive. The ascendant rules the person who is receiving the reading. It also rules the question, to a degree. You can also look to the different houses as you would in horary astrology. Any planet in an angle is considered to be important. The chart is weak if there are no planets in the angles. At the same time you are reading the chart, you are considering everything around you as an omen: colors people are wearing, noises in the background. Ultimately this is a guide to your intuition, somewhere deep inside of you, you have a knowing. It is also thought that the planetary deities are speaking to you and this is a different way of talking to the sky, the seven planets, and the two nodes.

Ba Qua

A different casting of the I Ching

As you read the following, it is a different approach for casting the trigrams of the I Ching. It is faster, it doesn't use the book, the book is a special ritual all unto itself. This cast is for reading a client or talking to the forces. It is for quick answers. It facilitates the intuition. Don't confuse it with a classical I Ching. It is more of a system used by shaman and fortune tellers of Asia.

Casting Tri-grams

Three Chinese coins, one side has four characters, the other side has two. The one with four characters is a yang line, a straight line. The other side is a yin line. Shake the coins in your hand, tune in, think of a question if you have one, drop the coins on a table. Now, line them up, one on top of the other, you now have a trigram. Your first trigram is the most important. It is called subject. You do this again, your second trigram is called fate. They do not have to be on top of each other. Remember you have just cast three coins. You might want to write your answers on a piece of paper. The subject is who is asking the question or the question and the fate is what is affecting the question. The subject is a little more important than the fate. Again, intuition is the key to interpretation.

Casting Tri-grams

Casting two trigrams: your first one is called "SUBJECT". The second one is called "FATE". The subject is the question or person. The fate is how the question is affecting the subject. Using the productive and destructive cycle, yin-yang 5 elements, this is the productive cycle, positive.
Wood feeds fire. Fire feeds earth. Earth feeds metal. Metal feeds water. Water feeds wood. This is a positive influence.
The destructive cycle: wood destroys earth. Earth destroys water. Water destroys fire. Fire destroys metal. Metal destroys wood.
You look to see if the second trigram cast supports or destroys the first one you cast. Again, this system is a guidance. Your intuition has to understand what it is you are getting.

Productive and Destructive Cycle

Tri-grams and Elements

Tri-grams

I Ching and Western Archetypes

Chien, Chen, and Ken are male archetypes. Chien is similar to the solar, to the Father and to the King. It rules success and healing. Chen is similar to Mars, is power, the beginning and movement of things. This is the warrior archetype. Ken is the stable, spiritual and represents those forces of spiritual guidance, a Jupiter archetype.
Kun, Li, and Tui are female archetypes. Kun can be linked to the Moon, the Mother, the Queen, stability and nurturing. Li is the maiden, the beautiful female archetype, the Venusian. Tui is Saturn, the mysterious, the High Priestess, the sorceress.
Kan is similar to Mercury, the changeable, the mental, the ruler of prayer and divination, in some traditions, the road opener.
Sun is the wind, both the personal spirit and spirits at large.
I am using the I Ching trigrams with a correspondence to western archetypes. I blend these two in readings that I do.

I Ching timing

Each Tri-gram is connected to an element for reading sake.
Chen and Sun are connected to Wood. Li is connected to Fire. Tui and Chien are connected to Metal. Kan is connected to Water. Kun and Ken are connected to Earth.
In timing, wood is Spring, fire is Summer, metal is Fall, water is Winter. and earth is the last 15 days of each element. Timing has to be felt, should make sense and the I Ching is a guide.

108 Seeds for Casting

Three Piles of Seeds to Cast I Ching

I Ching

A way of casting by using seeds: make three small piles of seeds, then count. Even numbers are yin and are often drawn as your two broken lines. Odd is yang and is drawn as one straight line.
Each set of three makes a tri-gram. You can cast the three piles twice to make your hexagram. Some eastern fortune tellers can do a reading from a tri-gram, although it helps to have two tri-grams. Again, I emphasize this is not the I Ching done with the book we are all familiar with.

Feng Shui Mirror

I Ching

At one time, the I Ching was cast more spontaneously and the reader used it as a means of tuning in to the intuitive process. Using the I Ching with the book is cumbersome and is only done as a special type of reading. When you are reading another person, you need a fast system to keep up with the communication to their spirit and the spirits at large. In fact, when you work with clients, you shouldn't bore them with long drawn-out procedures. The quicker you can pick up on information, the better it is for the client. Also let them give you feedback, tell you how it is for them. This helps them release feelings that might facilitate a healing process.

Psychic

The core of my work is intuitive, although I use a form of astrology and divination to help facilitate the process.