Sunday, August 14, 2011

Astrological Options - Planetary Rulership of Signs and symptoms and Houses - The Old and the New

By Ricky Hindricks


Astrology like a entire body of details has been handed down from generation to generation since antiquity. The developing information has grown and changed from the centuries but has been preserved via each generation's software package and evolution. What astrologers use these days is really a compendium of these generations of teachings. Life has changed dramatically more than the intervening centuries and astrology has had to improve in addition to it. However, it is hard to eat a thing that has worked really well from the centuries and adjust it since we have to accommodate the new data getting generated. Have to the old make way to your new and give up its place? Or can the old and the new peacefully coexist and supply improved content or an alternative towards the contemporary astrologer?

Planetary rulership is 1 such category in the old, the new, the combination, the replacement, or the option in astrological information. Old records show that astrologers were aware of far more than they regularly employed for their work. I doubt if they have been withholding information, possibly they were much less particular of some parts than others. Possibly they had an insight or entry that they had been not in a position to continue or repeat. In any event, the ancients had been aware in the circular nature of our solar technique and that there were a lot more bodies to study than had been visible to the naked eye. They just stopped their ongoing studies of the visible planets. The whole physique of astrological lore that was handed down reflected this limitation. With the advent of technical equipment from the last couple of centuries, additional of our technique became visible, therefore measurable. New material was designed and that new material had being accommodated.

Just what's rulership? The ancients had a procedure exactly where the principal seven visible bodies inside our solar procedure were similar to a family. The two lights, the Sun and Moon, had been the celestial parents as well as the 5 visible planets (not such as the Earth since it is common to us all, under our feet, and not visible like a separate planet). Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn had been the children. Saturn with its rings was the ring-pass-not from the ancients as well as the outer limits in the "known" universe as the centuries progressed. There was a division of "rulership" or influence between these seven bodies and also the twelve zodiac constellations or signs. The division of rulership over the signs was really quite remarkable in its simplicity.

Starting with the sign pairing of Cancer and Leo, location the Moon and also the Sun respectively as rulers of those 2 signs. Simply because they are a couple, mom and dad, the pairing was supreme and distinguished these 2 signs from their "kids" the planets. The Sun and Moon were dominant. Now we know that the size and distance differential is enormous among the Sun as well as the Moon. But the ancients based their interpretations on what they could see. The two lights appeared to be approximately the same size so they have been equal in power as mom and dad. The Sun shone using a steady light during the day and then disappeared at sunset only to reappear at sunrise. The Moon was a continually changing source of light ranging from no light at all as soon as conjunct the Sun (the marriage of mom and dad, conception) to full and splendid light at opposition (Full Moon). Also the enlarging and eventually diminishing Moon reminded man of pregnancy and its aftermath. So the Moon was the female energy and the Sun was the male energy.

The coupling (New Moon) was the planting on the new seed. The rest with the cycle demonstrated the purpose of that cycle itself. The Moon was equal on the Sun, just different, every a parent, they have been a matched pair, synergistic in that pairing. This interpretation came out of the society that saw the masculine role as projective, the hero, as well as the feminine role as protective, nesting and family. The analogy among the signs and the rulers was in accordance with that cultural and societal conditioning as well.

The planets were outside that intimate pairing, moving but distant little elements of light that hovered around the parents like children. These youngsters did not go shooting off into space and leave the system, they remained in the system as component of the family. At times they have been visible (night sky) and at times they had been not visible (day sky). At dawn and dusk you will be able to see Mercury and Venus to your short time, close to the parent(s).

Ten signs remain (Cancer and Leo are taken by the parental pair) and Five planets (kids) remain. You are able to tell what I will say can not you? Ranging on either side in the parental pair, the kids ruled 2 signs in order inside the closest entire world towards Sun (Mercury) for the limits on the "known" system, Saturn.

Cancer and Leo: Moon and Sun, the parental pair, the lights

Gemini and Virgo: Mercury, closest towards parental pair, youth

Taurus and Libra: Venus, Earth's sister world of relationship

Aries and Scorpio: Mars, outward toward the abyss of space, courage

Pisces and Sagittarius: Jupiter, the giant light from the sky, expansion

Aquarius and Saturn: (adjacent) Saturn, the outer limits in the "known" system

If you know your astrology, by now you'll be able to see that each in the sign pairs have a masculine along with a feminine sign or side to their nature:

The Moon is feminine - the Sun is masculine - as are their signs

Gemini is masculine - Virgo is feminine by sign

Taurus is feminine - Libra is masculine by sign

Aries is masculine - Scorpio is feminine by sign

Pisces is feminine - Sagittarius is masculine by sign

Aquarius is masculine - Capricorn is feminine by sign

If you use the term "influence" or "affinity" and make it dominant, you'll understand rulership. The affinity in between a planet and the sign it rules deepens your understanding of the sign by for instance the effect from the planetary energy.

What happened as soon as emerging technology created visible 3 much more major planets inside our system? The discovery (not the invention) of Uranus brought the seven entire world rulership method into question. Relatively quickly emerging astronomy breakthroughs announced the discovery of Neptune. Shortly, Pluto had being accounted for as well. Uranus was given rulership of Aquarius. Saturn was the old ruler and in mythology Uranus and Chronos/Saturn have been paired both as parent/child and as adversaries. Neptune was given Pisces to rule whilst Jupiter retained Sagittarius. Should you consider the dynamic in between the sign and the new planets, you may see the affinity or association.

Next came the controversial pairing for Pluto. If you will notice Aquarius and Pisces are adjacent and the probable next option would be the following adjacent sign, Aries. But which is not what happened. Pluto's rulership was assigned on the other sign within the Mars grouping, Scorpio. You can find astrological camps that accept the Scorpio rulership and you'll find other astrological camps that feel Aries is Pluto's sign rulership. My suggestion is that you just consider Mars and Pluto, check your understanding of how their energies work. Then verify the signs and how they express themselves after which see what rulership creates additional sense to you.

I will tell you my choice, but... please do your own considering for your astrological choice. I feel how the energy of Pluto more closely matches Scorpio and also the energy of Mars more closely matches Aries. That is my opinion only and it's not cast in concrete and signed personally by a deity. Please make your own option but base it in honest thought and observation




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