Cancer 9° “Don’t let your dreams slip away.”

Dr. Marc Edmund Jones provides the official meaning of this Sabian symbol in his work, The Sabian Symbols in Astrology:

Cancer 9° A tiny nude miss reaching in the water for a fish

This is a symbol of the eternal and unsullied freshness of soul as it enters every new experience with an unabated enthusiasm and thereby both substantiates its divine estate and brings enduring significance to whatever it may touch. Here is the absolute lack of inhibition which enables man to grasp the reins of control in every realm he decides to make his own, and the unquenched and simple curiosity which virtually makes it impossible for any potentiality of being ever to escape him.

The keyword is INCLINATION.

When positive, the degree is ingratiating and irresistible capacity for self-expression, and when negative, continual indiscretion as a bar to any appreciable achievement.

Legs Diamond ~ Wish Song

Wish Again, Big Bear by Richard J. Margolis

Big Bear caught a fish. The fish was shiny and very upset.

“There’s been a mistake, there’s been a mistake,” Fish yelled, flipping and flopping in Big Bear’s net.

“I don’t think so,” Big Bear said politely. “You’re just what I want for lunch.”

Fish thought fast. “Nonsense!” he said. “Don’t you know I’m a wish-fish? Instead of eating me you should ask me to grant you three wishes. That’s what wish-fish do–they grant wishes.”

In the end Bear didn’t eat fish, even though the “wish fish” hadn’t really been able to grant the three wishes bear had asked for; instead wish fish and bear had become friends, and friends don’t eat friends, you see.

So, there is a larger, more over-arching reality to which all our desires may find common value and appreciation. You just have to want it–that “greater” reality. Zero-sum game stuff. Reach low, lift high, then take aim at the stars!

Don’t ever let go of your dreams—don’t let them slip by—but always allow that there may be a greater purpose being served while you wait for your dream to come true. Just, no matter how long it takes, remember always:

“Don’t let your dreams slip away.” Namaste ~ Saijin

Photo: Taking a flying leap

Welcome to the amazing Sabian symbols!

These personal reflections are but an example of one person’s journey of discovery with the Sabian Symbols. This blog series was written in 2014 and 2015, during the last two years of my mother’s life. She and I lived here together in my home, and at the end of each day I would sit and write my reflections on each symbol. At that time I had studied the Sabian symbols for seven years. However, these blogs aren’t interpretations, they are simply my reflections about the symbols. Yet, they hold a very sacred place in my heart and in my memories. I have edited them lightly over the following years, but always preserving the essential feelings and energies surrounding that first attempt at writing about them. When this series is done being edited, around Scorpio season, I will most likely go on and begin a new blog series. Much has changed over the past nearly nine years! I have many other things I’d like to share about the symbols. But, for now, this is the first cycle of reflections.

If you are interested in beginning your own adventure with the Sabian symbols, I encourage you to begin keeping a set of notes of your own thoughts. You might begin your quest with drawing a Sabian symbol from the Sabian Oracle. You can find it by clicking the link below. Enter the time of the draw for later reference.

Draw a Sabian symbol from the Sabian Oracle!

You can find more of my works on my website at SabianGeometry, on YouTube at Sabian Geometry or on  Facebook at Sabian Geometry with Saijin. If you are interested in studying the Sabian symbols in their models of the Cross (4-fold) and the Star (5-fold), I invite you to purchase my book: On the Shoulders of Giants: Advanced Techniques in Sabian Symbology. The Sabian Symbol Septenary (7-fold model) is available to read on WordPress or if you prefer to  listen, on Spotify.

*All of my works are based on Sabian Symbols in Astrology by Dr. Marc Edmund Jones, 1953 First Edition.

To learn more about The Sabian Assembly, the organization founded by Dr. Marc Edmund Jones on October 17, 1923, where seekers are bound by “searching for competent rather than easy answers to the problems of life”, please visit The Sabian Assembly.

Cancer 8 ~ “The depths and the heights of it.”

“The depths and the heights of it.”

The Span of Expansion

Phase 98

Water Element

Dr. Marc Edmund Jones provides the official meaning of this Sabian symbol in his work, The Sabian Symbols in Astrology:

Cancer 8° Rabbits dressed in clothes and on parade

This is a symbol of the upward reach of consciousness towards spirit, or of the necessity in all worth-while experience that events in some fashion make their continual and stimulating contribution to whatever values the self may be building into its own nature. The habiliments of higher implication are always available for a lower life to wear experimentally, thus sharing in what as yet it has not been able to assimilate to itself.

The keyword is APPROPRIATION

When positive, the degree is unlimited assurance in any projection of self into a superior dimension of reality, and when negative, an ingenuous substitution of affirmation for accomplishment.

The formula is: sustaining-critical-universal-specializing-social-receptive.

Nothing without Love

To put it quite bluntly, humanity is ‘sexing’ itself to death. …

What is the cause behind all this? It is the natural ramification and outgrowth of the materialistic worldview which prevails today. If we are really nothing more than just highly evolved apes and soulless collections of cells…and if there is no actual meaning or purpose to life…and if spirituality is just an outdated superstition…and if when we die we literally completely cease to exist…then it would seem fairly reasonable for people to be vulnerable to the message of advertising and brain-washing (and even more deviant control methods) to engage in heightened sexual activity (even perverse sexual activity) as a driving force behind the indoctrinated view that their extremely temporary and very limited period of existence might soon rob them of the opportunity for “bliss”? The blind leading and controlling the blind—getting them to believe and accept all their dogmas–to the point of ad nauseam–without even considering to stop and question these ideas and motives with any depth. The masses have adopted the old slogan of ‘Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die!’ adapted from Helena P. Blavatsky

So, what’s appropriate? What’s “Appropriation” all about? These rabbits aren’t nude and humping! They are dressed up and on parade! I imagine they are here to give us a message and to ask ourselves the questions we’ve been ignoring. Nothing like a fully-clothed rabbit with a stop-watch yelling, “I’m late! I’m late!” Never too late, March Hare. But let us indeed stop and consider what true bliss might be if we took a much needed look at….

“The depths and the heights of it.” Saijin

Image: Tantric Sex; Alice in Wonderland, the March Hare

Cancer 7° “Are you coming or going?”

Dr. Marc Edmund Jones provides the official meaning of this Sabian symbol in his work, The Sabian Symbols in Astrology:

Cancer 7° Two fairies on a moonlit night

This is a symbol of nature’s illimitable potentialities on the side of the release she offers man from his physical or psychological involvement, and of the necessity that he achieve some measure of lightness in self-expression as a balance for the strain of everyday existence. Here is an exaltation of fancy as a dynamic factor in all self-realization, and of the quiet moments of experience as a real opportunity for self-orientation. The magic of selfhood lies in its ability to rise above whatever may threaten its well-being.

The keyword is ASCENDANCY.

When positive, the degree is a transforming sensitivity or a healing imagination, and when negative, a senseless retreat to make-believe.

The Revolving Door

“The revolving door is an amazing invention. Think about it: What’s better than a door that’s never really open?” The Montgomery Van Cleef Collection

I would rephrase it this way: “What’s more mysterious and alluring than a door that’s never really open, but never really closed?”

“Apparently, the first revolving door was invented in Germany in 1881 by a man named Bockhacker – ten years after the unification of Germany… Legend has it that Bockhacker was originally going to call his revolving door ‘The Uber-Sexy Entry Experience’ but was talked out of it by both his mother Chlodwig and his aunt Engelbertha.” The Montgomery Van Cleef Collection

So, what we know is you are one or both of the fairies. (Psst! Sabian symbols are about you!) And we know that you are on a moonlit night. Marc Edmund Jones gave this symbol the keyword, Ascendancy. But did Elsie Wheeler see them ascending or descending? She must not have said…. Hmmm. So, my question is….

“Are you coming or going?” Namaste ~ Saijin

Image: Fairies, Magical Creatures 

Welcome to the amazing Sabian symbols!

These personal reflections are but an example of one person’s journey of discovery with the Sabian Symbols. This blog series was written in 2014 and 2015, during the last two years of my mother’s life. She and I lived here together in my home, and at the end of each day I would sit and write my reflections on each symbol. At that time I had studied the Sabian symbols for seven years. However, these blogs aren’t interpretations, they are simply my reflections about the symbols. Yet, they hold a very sacred place in my heart and in my memories. I have edited them lightly over the following years, but always preserving the essential feelings and energies surrounding that first attempt at writing about them. When this series is done being edited, around Scorpio season, I will most likely go on and begin a new blog series. Much has changed over the past nearly nine years! I have many other things I’d like to share about the symbols. But, for now, this is the first cycle of reflections.

If you are interested in beginning your own adventure with the Sabian symbols, I encourage you to begin keeping a set of notes of your own thoughts. You might begin your quest with drawing a Sabian symbol from the Sabian Oracle. You can find it by clicking the link below. Enter the time of the draw for later reference.

Draw a Sabian symbol from the Sabian Oracle!

You can find more of my works on my website at SabianGeometry, on YouTube at Sabian Geometry or on  Facebook at Sabian Geometry with Saijin. If you are interested in studying the Sabian symbols in their models of the Cross (4-fold) and the Star (5-fold), I invite you to purchase my book: On the Shoulders of Giants: Advanced Techniques in Sabian Symbology. The Sabian Symbol Septenary (7-fold model) is available to read on WordPress or if you prefer to  listen, on Spotify.

*All of my works are based on Sabian Symbols in Astrology by Dr. Marc Edmund Jones, 1953 First Edition.

To learn more about The Sabian Assembly, the organization founded by Dr. Marc Edmund Jones on October 17, 1923, where seekers are bound by “searching for competent rather than easy answers to the problems of life”, please visit The Sabian Assembly.

Cancer 6° “Watching it come together.”

Dr. Marc Edmund Jones provides the official meaning of this Sabian symbol in his work, The Sabian Symbols in Astrology:

Cancer 6° Game birds feathering their nests

This is a symbol of the unlimited degree to which the spirit of man may develop and preserve its initiative by utilizing the natural course of things in the world at large, and of the satisfaction anyone may know through his conscious participation in a group destiny. Individuality flourishes whenever it is able to establish its personal rights over some desirable segment of reality, and thereupon justify its own being by fulfilling the expectation of others.

The keyword is METICULOUSNESS.

When positive, the degree is high intelligence and skill in enlisting the potentials of experience for the service of self, and when negative, unnecessary concern over everyday security.

National Symphony Orchestra, warming up!

The Assembly

Have you ever watched birds building their nests? I had that amazing opportunity. They weren’t game birds, as is our symbol, but nevertheless, it was quite fascinating to watch. Two of them were working on it. Their first attempt had failed when they chose a slanted beam which would not support their intention. Then having chosen a much more balanced place, they began their labors again, flying off and returning with twig or leaf in their beaks, they labored together once more. It didn’t look to me as if their creation would be very solid. But I shouldn’t have doubted! Their nest-building skills were amazing. I watched as they wove and intertwined each little item, each treasure, into this shelter where their eggs, their soon-to-be offspring, would be laid, hatched, and nurtured. The final touch was the softer selections—the little delicate things that would be closest to their young.

Out of chaos, order. Apply your skills and intelligence. Work together with others who have the same common goals.

The video selection, an orchestra warming up, provides good analogy. Each player must tune his own instrument and warm-up, get situated just so. Then when the conductor comes out and taps his baton, the community of musicians are no longer individuals, but are working together in sections, playing their part, all according to a “score” or master plan which the conductor has. Now the beautiful symphonic may be performed and enjoyed.

“Watching it come together.” Saijin

Image: Harpie’s Feather Duster

Welcome to the amazing Sabian symbols!

These personal reflections are but an example of one person’s journey of discovery with the Sabian Symbols. This blog series was written in 2014 and 2015, during the last two years of my mother’s life. She and I lived here together in my home, and at the end of each day I would sit and write my reflections on each symbol. At that time I had studied the Sabian symbols for seven years. However, these blogs aren’t interpretations, they are simply my reflections about the symbols. Yet, they hold a very sacred place in my heart and in my memories. I have edited them lightly over the following years, but always preserving the essential feelings and energies surrounding that first attempt at writing about them. When this series is done being edited, around Scorpio season, I will most likely go on and begin a new blog series. Much has changed over the past nearly nine years! I have many other things I’d like to share about the symbols. But, for now, this is the first cycle of reflections.

If you are interested in beginning your own adventure with the Sabian symbols, I encourage you to begin keeping a set of notes of your own thoughts. You might begin your quest with drawing a Sabian symbol from the Sabian Oracle. You can find it by clicking the link below. Enter the time of the draw for later reference.

Draw a Sabian symbol from the Sabian Oracle!

You can find more of my works on my website at SabianGeometry, on YouTube at Sabian Geometry or on  Facebook at Sabian Geometry with Saijin. If you are interested in studying the Sabian symbols in their models of the Cross (4-fold) and the Star (5-fold), I invite you to purchase my book: On the Shoulders of Giants: Advanced Techniques in Sabian Symbology. The Sabian Symbol Septenary (7-fold model) is available to read on WordPress or if you prefer to  listen, on Spotify.

*All of my works are based on Sabian Symbols in Astrology by Dr. Marc Edmund Jones, 1953 First Edition.

To learn more about The Sabian Assembly, the organization founded by Dr. Marc Edmund Jones on October 17, 1923, where seekers are bound by “searching for competent rather than easy answers to the problems of life”, please visit The Sabian Assembly.

Cancer 5° “What’s the ‘motto’? Be the change.”

Dr. Marc Edmund Jones provides the official meaning of this Sabian symbol in his work, The Sabian Symbols in Astrology:

Cancer 5° An automobile wrecked by a train

This is a symbol of the irresistible power of completion inherent in the very make-up of man’s world whenever a sequence of events once is set in motion, as is evident continually on the objective side of things. Implicit in the reversed symbolism is the concept of control, or the assurance that it is not necessary to continue any given action to the point of self-cancellation. The ultimate obligation of the individual is to himself, and not to the narrow and momentary direction of circumstances.

The keyword is DISPERSION.

When positive, the degree is a special genius for a creative reorganization of all experience, and when negative, an insensitive recklessness.

Gorillaz, Rhinestone Eyes storyboard film

Not what you expected, right? Well, let’s consider from the automobile’s perspective! Now let us continue our ponderings on this “unwanted energy” that has entered in, which was exactly how Marc Edmund Jones spoke of this degree when it arrived in the session of the channeling of the Sabian symbols…

This degree symbol is the opposite of the degree on Christmas Day, and therefore also included in the cross of the degree of Capricorn 5. Think about that. Hold that thought. Are you with me? Today is the upside-down cross of Christmas, the archetypal and symbolic birth of Christ.

This degree falls in the month of Ramadan. The word Ramadan comes from the Arabic root ramiḍa or ar-ramaḍ, which means scorching heat or dryness. Ramadan … is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, and is observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting (Sawm) to commemorate the first revelation of the Quran to Muhammad according to Islamic belief. This annual observance is regarded as one of the Five Pillars of Islam. The month lasts 29–30 days based on the visual sightings of the crescent moon, according to numerous biographical accounts compiled in the hadiths.” Wikipedia: Ramadan “So whoever of you lives to see (this month of Ramadan) should fast through it…” Surah Baqarah 2:184

This degree and the two preceding, Cancer 3, 4 and 5, are also associated with the Feast Day of St. John the Baptist, on June 24th. One might also call to mind in this mix the Shakespearean play A Midsummer’s Night Dream, as was suggested to me. Riveting! The all-night fires lit to bring in the Feast of St. John, on St. John’s Eve, June 23rd, are protective in nature….

“When the sun sets on 23 June, Saint John’s Eve, is the eve of celebration before the Feast Day of Saint John the Baptist. The Gospel of Luke (Luke 1:36, 56–57) states that John was born about six months before Jesus; therefore, the feast of John the Baptist was fixed on 24 June, six months before Christmas Eve. This feast day is one of the very few saints’ days which commemorates the anniversary of the birth, rather than the death, of the saint being honored. The Feast of Saint John closely coincides with the June solstice, also referred to as Midsummer in the Northern hemisphere. The Christian holy day is fixed at 24 June; but in most countries festivities are mostly held the night before, on Saint John’s Eve.” Wikipedia: St John’s Eve

A Collision – A transference of energy – Change of the Highest Degree

So there is quite a puzzle here. Sensitive ones will understand the intensity of such energy in collision. Yang Mills Theory is suggested for a mathematical study in the scientific understanding of the quantum nature of such collisions—a train and an auto—of rotation and collision—of transference—of the mysteries and the yet-unanswered questions… May I suggest these five as a great starting point, Yang Mills Theory: A Jekyll and Hyde Story about the Standard Model

That’s what I poured into myself on Cancer 5. So, if collision can’t be avoided, then get wrecked by the greater power of understanding. Where angels fear to tread…. That’s what Marc chose to do, to keep what had come through and turn it to the positive. Thus, were born the category of reversed symbols in the Sabian symbols. There are more to come! But, this degree, Cancer 5, is where they started and how a master chose to handle them.

“What’s the ‘motto’? Be the change.” Saijin

Image: Photo credit: Red Skelton

Welcome to the amazing Sabian symbols!

These personal reflections are but an example of one person’s journey of discovery with the Sabian Symbols. This blog series was written in 2014 and 2015, during the last two years of my mother’s life. She and I lived here together in my home, and at the end of each day I would sit and write my reflections on each symbol. At that time I had studied the Sabian symbols for seven years. However, these blogs aren’t interpretations, they are simply my reflections about the symbols. Yet, they hold a very sacred place in my heart and in my memories. I have edited them lightly over the following years, but always preserving the essential feelings and energies surrounding that first attempt at writing about them. When this series is done being edited, around Scorpio season, I will most likely go on and begin a new blog series. Much has changed over the past nearly nine years! I have many other things I’d like to share about the symbols. But, for now, this is the first cycle of reflections.

If you are interested in beginning your own adventure with the Sabian symbols, I encourage you to begin keeping a set of notes of your own thoughts. You might begin your quest with drawing a Sabian symbol from the Sabian Oracle. You can find it by clicking the link below. Enter the time of the draw for later reference.

Draw a Sabian symbol from the Sabian Oracle!

You can find more of my works on my website at SabianGeometry, on YouTube at Sabian Geometry or on  Facebook at Sabian Geometry with Saijin. If you are interested in studying the Sabian symbols in their models of the Cross (4-fold) and the Star (5-fold), I invite you to purchase my book: On the Shoulders of Giants: Advanced Techniques in Sabian Symbology. The Sabian Symbol Septenary (7-fold model) is available to read on WordPress or if you prefer to  listen, on Spotify.

*All of my works are based on Sabian Symbols in Astrology by Dr. Marc Edmund Jones, 1953 First Edition.

To learn more about The Sabian Assembly, the organization founded by Dr. Marc Edmund Jones on October 17, 1923, where seekers are bound by “searching for competent rather than easy answers to the problems of life”, please visit The Sabian Assembly.

Cancer 4° “To let ’em know what’s coming.”

Dr. Marc Edmund Jones provides the official meaning of this Sabian symbol in his work, The Sabian Symbols in Astrology:

Cancer 4° A cat arguing with a mouse

This is a symbol of man’s necessary establishment of a set in mind or realization as a preliminary to any entrance into personal experience, and of his tendency to enjoy the preparatory more than the consummatory phases of his participation in reality. Here also is the eternal effort of human nature to get outer acceptance or social sanction for its inborn desires, as well as inner or intelligent and practical confirmations for the values it has made its own.

The keyword is JUSTIFICATION.

When positive, the degree is a gift for persuading others to accept the motives of self and to co-operate with its ends, and when negative, interminable quarreling with the nature of things.

Wicked Game 

Doppelgänger ~ In Ancient Egyptian mythology, a ka was a tangible “spirit double” having the same memories and feelings as the person to whom the counterpart belongs.

It takes one to know one.

That’s why you’re willing to argue this point with something that will inevitably be your prey. You aren’t ignorant in this matter. In fact, you have no doubts—you know. But before they fall as victim—(clue—they being that within yourself which is showing up small, as lower self, which you’ve now surely conquered in spirit, but now are about to do in its entirety…)—honor demands that you recognize the integrity of this lower manifestation. Surely it has served you! As an opponent, perhaps outward as a projection, but most certainly inward, for it is part of your reality! You “recognize” it. But now it must go, but not without a full understanding of your judgment upon it. Of course it will protest! Of course! If it could understand, then it would not be appearing as a “mouse”. In honor, therefore, state your case clearly and accurately; argue if necessary, until you reach the point of understanding that there is no possible accomplishment to be made here. Now, go forward and conquer. That’s what cats do. Mice know that, silly cat!

We might, indeed, call this a “khat” (Egyptian for the physical body, “ba” being the soul, and “ka” the etheric double) with Mooshika (Hinduism–the mouse, who became the vehicle of Lord Ganesh)! Think elephant-in-the-room! Because Ganesh was too heavy for the mouse to carry, the mouse asked that Ganesh be merciful and make himself light so that he might be able to carry him. Ganesh in this manifestation, with mouse vehicle, is the “All Pervasive” and remover of obstacles. Think about it!

We simply must know when to attack and justifiably conquer, then consume….

“To let ‘em know what’s coming.” Namaste ~ Saijin

Image: Keanu Reeves and Paul Mounet 

Welcome to the amazing Sabian symbols!

These personal reflections are but an example of one person’s journey of discovery with the Sabian Symbols. This blog series was written in 2014 and 2015, during the last two years of my mother’s life. She and I lived here together in my home, and at the end of each day I would sit and write my reflections on each symbol. At that time I had studied the Sabian symbols for seven years. However, these blogs aren’t interpretations, they are simply my reflections about the symbols. Yet, they hold a very sacred place in my heart and in my memories. I have edited them lightly over the following years, but always preserving the essential feelings and energies surrounding that first attempt at writing about them. When this series is done being edited, around Scorpio season, I will most likely go on and begin a new blog series. Much has changed over the past nearly nine years! I have many other things I’d like to share about the symbols. But, for now, this is the first cycle of reflections.

If you are interested in beginning your own adventure with the Sabian symbols, I encourage you to begin keeping a set of notes of your own thoughts. You might begin your quest with drawing a Sabian symbol from the Sabian Oracle. You can find it by clicking the link below. Enter the time of the draw for later reference.

Draw a Sabian symbol from the Sabian Oracle!

You can find more of my works on my website at SabianGeometry, on YouTube at Sabian Geometry or on  Facebook at Sabian Geometry with Saijin. If you are interested in studying the Sabian symbols in their models of the Cross (4-fold) and the Star (5-fold), I invite you to purchase my book: On the Shoulders of Giants: Advanced Techniques in Sabian Symbology. The Sabian Symbol Septenary (7-fold model) is available to read on WordPress or if you prefer to  listen, on Spotify.

*All of my works are based on Sabian Symbols in Astrology by Dr. Marc Edmund Jones, 1953 First Edition.

To learn more about The Sabian Assembly, the organization founded by Dr. Marc Edmund Jones on October 17, 1923, where seekers are bound by “searching for competent rather than easy answers to the problems of life”, please visit The Sabian Assembly.

Cancer 3° “A thousand chances for change.”

Dr. Marc Edmund Jones provides the official meaning of this Sabian symbol in his work, The Sabian Symbols in Astrology:

Cancer 3° A man all bundled up in fur leading a shaggy deer

This is a symbol of the pioneer or trail-blazing instinct in the human heart, and of the self’s insistent determination to strengthen itself in its own highly individual roots. Here is a repudiation of most normal experience as unnecessarily self-limiting in its accepted opportunities and boundaries. Life is taken as real or rewarding only as it can be carried on from something known to some unknown which will provide a real challenge ahead.

The keyword is INDOMITABILITY.

When positive, the degree is unlimited self-reliance in and through every possible phase of self-expression, and when negative, self-imposed handicaps and a needless acceptance of everyday restrictions.

Uncle Kracker – Follow Me

You may be experiencing technical difficulties. If so, please stop and count your blessings. Now go be a blessing out there. You know—out there—anywhere—just get up and go do it. Come, follow me! Thank you.

This has been a Public Service Announcement.

North Star stuff… Hit it! On Dasher, on Dancer…

Dasher – he loves to go fast!
Dancer – completely extroverted
Prancer – a bit vain, though affectionate
Vixen – slightly tricky
Comet – good-looking and easy-going
Cupid – affectionate and brings people together
Donner – loud, especially when singing
Blitzen – fast as a bolt, electrifying!

“A thousand chances for change.” Namaste ~ Saijin

Image: Santa and a reindeer

Welcome to the amazing Sabian symbols!

These personal reflections are but an example of one person’s journey of discovery with the Sabian Symbols. This blog series was written in 2014 and 2015, during the last two years of my mother’s life. She and I lived here together in my home, and at the end of each day I would sit and write my reflections on each symbol. At that time I had studied the Sabian symbols for seven years. However, these blogs aren’t interpretations, they are simply my reflections about the symbols. Yet, they hold a very sacred place in my heart and in my memories. I have edited them lightly over the following years, but always preserving the essential feelings and energies surrounding that first attempt at writing about them. When this series is done being edited, around Scorpio season, I will most likely go on and begin a new blog series. Much has changed over the past nearly nine years! I have many other things I’d like to share about the symbols. But, for now, this is the first cycle of reflections.

If you are interested in beginning your own adventure with the Sabian symbols, I encourage you to begin keeping a set of notes of your own thoughts. You might begin your quest with drawing a Sabian symbol from the Sabian Oracle. You can find it by clicking the link below. Enter the time of the draw for later reference.

Draw a Sabian symbol from the Sabian Oracle!

You can find more of my works on my website at SabianGeometry, on YouTube at Sabian Geometry or on  Facebook at Sabian Geometry with Saijin. If you are interested in studying the Sabian symbols in their models of the Cross (4-fold) and the Star (5-fold), I invite you to purchase my book: On the Shoulders of Giants: Advanced Techniques in Sabian Symbology. The Sabian Symbol Septenary (7-fold model) is available to read on WordPress or if you prefer to  listen, on Spotify.

*All of my works are based on Sabian Symbols in Astrology by Dr. Marc Edmund Jones, 1953 First Edition.

To learn more about The Sabian Assembly, the organization founded by Dr. Marc Edmund Jones on October 17, 1923, where seekers are bound by “searching for competent rather than easy answers to the problems of life”, please visit The Sabian Assembly.

Cancer 2° “Prepare for a smooth landing.”

Dr. Marc Edmund Jones provides the official meaning of this Sabian symbol in his work, The Sabian Symbols in Astrology:

Cancer 2° A man suspended over a vast level place

This is a symbol of man’s capacity for an illimitable overview of his experience in advance of his involvement in its details, and of the infinite ramification of possibilities he is able to uncover in the world he seeks to make his own. Implicit in the negative symbolism is the poise in act by which he escapes the bondage of any random compulsions, and a leisure in perspective which preserves his free choice.

The keyword is CONTEMPLATION.

When positive, the degree is an exceptional spread of comprehension and a continual self-orientation of understanding, and when negative, a flighty transcendence or an impatience with all immediate or down-to-earth considerations.

My Reflections:

I usually think of the Rider Waite Hanged Man card with this symbol; however, because of the other Sabian symbol, Libra 27 An airplane hovering, I am nudged to expand my imagination. Airplanes, as a rule, do not hover, helicopters do! So, what is this degree calling to my mind? Gotta add flight to the mix. How about you?

Taking off is easy. Landing’s the hard part. Landing in the palm of a caring hand is even harder. You have to plan for it very, very carefully! You must contemplate and consider! Don’t focus on that tree in the field!

What goes up must come down. “In a gliding phase, a perched landing is arguably the most challenging.” University of Illinois scientist Aditya Paranjape. The image above illustrates a perched landing in the hand of a young boy. This next video clip is an absolute must see! SU-35 Displaying Thrust Vector Controls – INECO on Reddit

Who knew jets could do that!? I will have keep on expanding my imagination! How about you?

Landing it after the “vectoring” phase: The Ten Most Dangerous Airports 

So while you’re up there enjoying the view–whether in the sky with the earth below, or as in Mission Impossible, being suspended and lowered from a hole in the ceiling to grab the goods below, please take time to contemplate the vastness of it all. And, by all means, take a few moments to…

“Prepare for a smooth landing.” Namaste ~ Saijin

Image: Bird robot sticks landing to perch on palm

Welcome to the amazing Sabian symbols!

These personal reflections are but an example of one person’s journey of discovery with the Sabian Symbols. This blog series was written in 2014 and 2015, during the last two years of my mother’s life. She and I lived here together in my home, and at the end of each day I would sit and write my reflections on each symbol. At that time I had studied the Sabian symbols for seven years. However, these blogs aren’t interpretations, they are simply my reflections about the symbols. Yet, they hold a very sacred place in my heart and in my memories. I have edited them lightly over the following years, but always preserving the essential feelings and energies surrounding that first attempt at writing about them. When this series is done being edited, around Scorpio season, I will most likely go on and begin a new blog series. Much has changed over the past nearly nine years! I have many other things I’d like to share about the symbols. But, for now, this is the first cycle of reflections.

If you are interested in beginning your own adventure with the Sabian symbols, I encourage you to begin keeping a set of notes of your own thoughts. You might begin your quest with drawing a Sabian symbol from the Sabian Oracle. You can find it by clicking the link below. Enter the time of the draw for later reference.

Draw a Sabian symbol from the Sabian Oracle!

You can find more of my works on my website at SabianGeometry, on YouTube at Sabian Geometry or on  Facebook at Sabian Geometry with Saijin. If you are interested in studying the Sabian symbols in their models of the Cross (4-fold) and the Star (5-fold), I invite you to purchase my book: On the Shoulders of Giants: Advanced Techniques in Sabian Symbology. The Sabian Symbol Septenary (7-fold model) is available to read on WordPress or if you prefer to  listen, on Spotify.

*All of my works are based on Sabian Symbols in Astrology by Dr. Marc Edmund Jones, 1953 First Edition.

To learn more about The Sabian Assembly, the organization founded by Dr. Marc Edmund Jones on October 17, 1923, where seekers are bound by “searching for competent rather than easy answers to the problems of life”, please visit The Sabian Assembly.

Cancer 1° “It was right there all along.”

Cancer 1° A furled and an unfurled flag displayed from a vessel

Dr. Marc Edmund Jones provides the official meaning of this Sabian symbol in his work, The Sabian Symbols in Astrology:

This is a symbol of the extremes to which an individual will go in the practical allegiances with which he meets the various situations in life, and of his capacity to compromise or reverse any stand he may take whenever this suits his ultimate ends. Here is his inflexible determination to further every ambition, and his consistent preparation for every eventuality that might be anticipated. He is unhappy except as he somehow can feel himself safely a step ahead of himself.

The keyword is ADAPTABILITY.

When positive, the degree is a gift for highly profitable adjustment in every developing relationship with others, and when negative, vacillation if not complete instability.

My Reflections:

Oh, the Places You’ll Go at Burning Man! 

Are you sufficiently individualized? Just asking…

“Only when a human being is sufficiently individualized to pit his desires for power and for the possession of what he wants against the traditional ways of thinking and acting of his community, does the possibility for that man to choose really begin. His moral choice is based on the co-existence of two opposite motives for action and on the conflict between these motives. Morality, as the term is usually understood, implies therefore a situation of conflict: individual against community.” Dane Rudhyar, pg. 272, The Planetarization of Consciousness.

Ready to research? Ready to dig in to find the treasures buried in the Sabian symbols? Now you can…

You’ll notice a new format above, alongside the chosen image for my personal reflections. The italicized text provides more details about the formulas and the addition of the decans–the beginning, middle and ending of each story of the signs of the zodiac. I use these and they are amazing! The formulas are provided in The Sabian Symbols in Astrology by Dr. Marc Edmund Jones. As he explains, “The formulas, which follow next in smaller type and italics, are for the specialist or research-minded astrologer, and are a basis for any deliberate or intellectual as against an intuitive or wholly imaginative creation or validation of symbols for the degrees. Indeed, they may be used toward that purpose at any future time, or may be employed for further light on any problem of interpretation.” page 140

For the sign of Cancer, please enjoy the following cards: The sign degree card, a facsimile of the original handwritten card, which may all be seen in the book authored by Diana Roche, The Sabian Symbols: A Screen of Prophecy, and my tagline card.

“It was right there all along.” Namaste ~ Saijin

Image: The Strawman Thinking 

Welcome to the amazing Sabian symbols!

These personal reflections are but an example of one person’s journey of discovery with the Sabian Symbols. This blog series was written in 2014 and 2015, during the last two years of my mother’s life. She and I lived here together in my home, and at the end of each day I would sit and write my reflections on each symbol. At that time I had studied the Sabian symbols for seven years. However, these blogs aren’t interpretations, they are simply my reflections about the symbols. Yet, they hold a very sacred place in my heart and in my memories. I have edited them lightly over the following years, but always preserving the essential feelings and energies surrounding that first attempt at writing about them. When this series is done being edited, around Scorpio season, I will most likely go on and begin a new blog series. Much has changed over the past nearly nine years! I have many other things I’d like to share about the symbols. But, for now, this is the first cycle of reflections.

If you are interested in beginning your own adventure with the Sabian symbols, I encourage you to begin keeping a set of notes of your own thoughts. You might begin your quest with drawing a Sabian symbol from the Sabian Oracle. You can find it by clicking the link below. Enter the time of the draw for later reference.

Draw a Sabian symbol from the Sabian Oracle!

You can find more of my works on my website at SabianGeometry, on YouTube at Sabian Geometry or on  Facebook at Sabian Geometry with Saijin. If you are interested in studying the Sabian symbols in their models of the Cross (4-fold) and the Star (5-fold), I invite you to purchase my book: On the Shoulders of Giants: Advanced Techniques in Sabian Symbology. The Sabian Symbol Septenary (7-fold model) is available to read on WordPress or if you prefer to  listen, on Spotify.

*All of my works are based on Sabian Symbols in Astrology by Dr. Marc Edmund Jones, 1953 First Edition.

To learn more about The Sabian Assembly, the organization founded by Dr. Marc Edmund Jones on October 17, 1923, where seekers are bound by “searching for competent rather than easy answers to the problems of life”, please visit The Sabian Assembly.

Gemini 30° “To think that I thought it through.”

The Span of Restlessness – The 2^nd Hemisphere of Gemini

Phase 90

Air Element – Mutable or Common

The formula is: manipulating-practical-ingenious-generalizing-spiritual-inspired.

Dr. Marc Edmund Jones provides the official meaning of this Sabian symbol in his work, The Sabian Symbols in Astrology:

Gemini 30° Bathing beauties

This is a symbol of human excellence on the side of purely natural endowment, and of the soul as wholly inadequate except as it is able to meet some need of everyday experience with the elements inherent in its make-up and so free from any or all responsibility to anything other than itself. Here individuality gains a needed assurance through the phases of its being which prove immune from change or loss. A person becomes himself as he is able thus to stand radiant and reliant among the total of his fellows.

The keyword is CHARM.

When positive, the degree is a special capacity for bringing the familiar desires and interests to an enduring representation of worthiness, and when negative, regression to childish vanities.

Jekyll & Hyde – This is the Moment

The end of the great sign of Gemini, the pathway of the experience of fellowship and the endless fulfillment of self in the invisible presence of the Great Ones.

The Gemini twins were born of different fathers, Pollux of the immortal Zeus, and Castor, of a mortal man. When, in battle, Castor was killed, his brother couldn’t bare their separation and Zeus granted Castor immortality to keep the twins together. They were transformed into the constellation Gemini, and the pair are regarded as the patrons of sailors (think water sign Cancer at Solstice!).

The end of the third decan of Gemini: An Executioner’s Sword – the annual sacrifice of the Sun, when, after solstice, its minutes-per-day decline. Here is the mythos where the Lord of Light is slain and his dark brother reigns. Thus, in this final decan a decision must be made! Duality becomes singularity!

Before making your decision, consider the following:

The healing of Gemini: There is to be some sort of reorientation or re-establishment of the individual life in its environment. This (as with all air signs) is of necessity wholly mental and requires reasoning more than manipulation of the mind by pure appeal to feeling. Here is “The Conqueror” The keywords are “Tone” and “Transmission” This is the participation in the affairs of life as a toning agent; a constructive superficiality which avoids any unnecessary nesting in life. Diagnosis: Unravel life entanglements or else rectify the condition in which there is no place to play in the backyards of others. (from the advanced astrology lessons of Dr. Marc Edmund Jones)

“Fear can turn to love. You’ll learn to see, to find the man behind the monster, this… repulsive carcass who seems a beast but secretly dreams of beauty secretly… secretly.” Phantom of the Opera

Charmed, I’m sure. As you choose so shall it be. Fare thee well Gemini, until we meet again next year!

“To think I thought it through.” Namaste ~ Saijin

Image: The Phantom of the Opera 

Welcome to the amazing Sabian symbols!

These personal reflections are but an example of one person’s journey of discovery with the Sabian Symbols. This blog series was written in 2014 and 2015, during the last two years of my mother’s life. She and I lived here together in my home, and at the end of each day I would sit and write my reflections on each symbol. At that time I had studied the Sabian symbols for seven years. However, these blogs aren’t interpretations, they are simply my reflections about the symbols. Yet, they hold a very sacred place in my heart and in my memories. I have edited them lightly over the following years, but always preserving the essential feelings and energies surrounding that first attempt at writing about them. When this series is done being edited, around Scorpio season, I will most likely go on and begin a new blog series. Much has changed over the past nearly nine years! I have many other things I’d like to share about the symbols. But, for now, this is the first cycle of reflections.

If you are interested in beginning your own adventure with the Sabian symbols, I encourage you to begin keeping a set of notes of your own thoughts. You might begin your quest with drawing a Sabian symbol from the Sabian Oracle. You can find it by clicking the link below. Enter the time of the draw for later reference.

Draw a Sabian symbol from the Sabian Oracle!

You can find more of my works on my website at SabianGeometry, on YouTube at Sabian Geometry or on  Facebook at Sabian Geometry with Saijin. If you are interested in studying the Sabian symbols in their models of the Cross (4-fold) and the Star (5-fold), I invite you to purchase my book: On the Shoulders of Giants: Advanced Techniques in Sabian Symbology. The Sabian Symbol Septenary (7-fold model) is available to read on WordPress or if you prefer to  listen, on Spotify.

*All of my works are based on Sabian Symbols in Astrology by Dr. Marc Edmund Jones, 1953 First Edition.

To learn more about The Sabian Assembly, the organization founded by Dr. Marc Edmund Jones on October 17, 1923, where seekers are bound by “searching for competent rather than easy answers to the problems of life”, please visit The Sabian Assembly.