Inner Zodiac

[Why Syzygy]

http://www.taroscopes.com/highwindowsarticles/innerzodiac.html

As seasoned students know, the study of astrology and its sister Divination Arts reveals the secret connections between psychic and physical energy.

Irish Druids, Egyptian Amenists, Native American Shaman, and members of the Stellar Cults of the ancient world, understood the subtle relationship between mental processes and physical events. Long before the advent of the modern age - before Quantum Science and Holographic Theory - sages of old knew about the so-called “Implicate Order” and deep relationship between consciousness and matter. They knew there was no essential difference between microcosm and macrocosm.

After the great Stellar Cults fell from power, two changes occurred which had negative consequences for existence. Firstly, in the astrological canon, the sun replaced the stars as the dominant principle; and, secondly, the ego became the center of the psyche. Consequently the antique precepts of astrological divination were gradually ignored. Knowledge of the Inner Zodiac was lost and men began believing the fallacy that consciousness and destiny are affected, in some undefined manner, by distant rocks floating in space. This "magic rays" nonsense continues to be promulgated and accepted by exoteric practitioners of the so-called New Age Movement. Regrettably, the prevalence of this fallacy means scientifically-minded men remain contemptuously dismissive of astrology. They turn from arcane metascience which might otherwise receive positive attention.

The word zodiac - from the Greek zoon - means "living creatures" or "living beings." This emphasizes that the zodiac is a living phenomenon. If the signs of the zodiac are discovered in the heavens, they got there by way of the psyche's strange but scientifically acknowledged capacities of projection and inflation. In short, the famous horoscope of twelve signs exists above us as a omnidirectional cinema-like projection of the innate twelvefold divisions of consciousness. As the twelve disciples of Jesus represented aspects of his own consciousness, so do the twelve signs of the celestial zodiac represent the twelve archetypal facets of the psyche. Hermetic Arts not founded on this fundamental precept are inauthentic. Astrology not based upon this precept is, in our opinion, not true astrological divination.

Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him - Paracelsus

[BlueToTheBone]

1. This is really good stuff. It gave me a chance to think

about astrology in a different way. Thanks. Good to see you around.

[Why Syzygy]

2. awww

Thank you for saying that. I got to missing some of the good times we all had in the past.

I haven't read all of the piece yet. But I listen to his video/audios all the time. He has a nice Tarot website.
And, seriously, it is his work that has helped me, more than anything else, understand 'archetypes'.

[kimmerspixelated]

3. Wonderful!

Thanks for posting.

[BlueToTheBone]

4. This is some potent stuff right here

You shalt not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is under the water of the earth - (Exodus 20:4)

…According to the Ten Commandments, art, therefore, is more dangerous than murder - Leonard Shlain (The Alphabet Versus the Goddess)

Jewish law forbids the making of any graven images of the kind. Even the Jews of the present time will not permit any sculptured figures to be set up as monuments - James Hewitt Brown (Stellar Theology and Masonic Astronomy)

What are graven images? They are pictures. They are images of the gods or, more correctly, of the archetypes. Ireland, Egypt, and India were covered with such images, and all ancient cultures understood the mother tongue of Spirit was symbolism. They also understood the night sky was the tablet on which the "gods" communicated to initiated men who knew how to correctly decipher and interpret what was transmitted.

In order for the Solar Cult to successfully supersede and eradicate Stellar and Lunar Cults, there had to be an all-out prohibition against iconic images. This blatant act of colonization had several motivations. It served to suppress and eventually eradicate the pagans and their ways, and also allowed their destroyers to appropriate and pervert their symbolic canon. In other words, the archive of symbols that once served to uplift the soul of man now serves the opposite purpose.


This is really the basis of all problems today with the xtians. How to change the paradigm? That is the question.

[Why Syzygy]

5. Yep!

One of his series is dedicated to the "Subversive Use of Symbolism".

A caution for progressives, if you get into the rest of his work; he does use two or three sources from people that some progressives find repulsive. The way he handles those, and how he uses them, doesn't bother me. I'm not as parochial minded as some of our folk. Reader/watcher beware if easily offended by material that doesn't mimic party line politics.

His suggested solutions all deal with changing ourselves, not someone else. This is a work the collective cannot do. The individual must be healed. This is accomplished with esoteric use of he the four Arts he lists.

[felix_numinous]

6. This is giving me a lot to think about

--the idea that the Sun being the center of the solar system being related to the domination of the Ego in personal and collective psyche. I wonder if this gives birth to a more 'polarized' mentality, adding strength to the collective shadow (black and white thinking).

Acknowledging the full spectrum of archetypes, allowing them to come alive so that we have a more balanced inner dialogue, is very powerful, and sounds like a more balanced path to take. I love astrology!

Thank you for posting this

[Why Syzygy]

10. He has

a complex explanation for Ego. If it's related to the Sun, that's just a fraction of the information he presents about it.

[felix_numinous]

12. Ooooh--I need to read more

sounds fascinating!

[magical thyme]

7. fascinating....

thank you for this link. very interesting and powerful.

[southerncrone]

8. Michael Tsarion is a real gift to us at this time in our ascension.

I find what he has uncovered & connected to resonate so much w/my own feelings & observations.
He is a seer & healer beyond the norm as far as I'm concerned.

[Why Syzygy]

9. wow . SC

thank you for saying that. I hold him in high esteem, also.
He may skirt some tender areas, but his goodwill would never allow him to be less than honest.

[mother earth]

11. Excellent article. Michael Tsarion is incredibly interesting.

TY, WS, for bringing this here.