Leo 10° “Crying for a good reason.”

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

Leo 10° Early morning dew

This is a symbol of the eternal refreshment which comes to the individual with every recurrent cycle of his experience, and of nature’s continual endorsement of his aims or benediction on his efforts. There are unexpected resources which man can find at hand when life otherwise may seem to have defeated him, and these are often revealed to him despite his lack of expectation. He reaps real fruits as he develops a genuine alertness to the unexpected, and denies all personal limitation.

The keyword is REJUVENATION.

When positive, the degree is a special talent for finding the better in every situation where a worse may threaten disaster, and when negative, procrastination and total insensibility to the real powers of selfhood.

Water Experiments ~ how words, frequency can change water and human behavior, by Dr. Masaru Emoto

Joyful tears move up the spine and across the brain and bring you to a new perspective and a new understanding that the sad tears were necessary, that each tear was a prayer, that tomorrow will be better than today. Joyful tears free you to celebrate your inner self, your healing, and your progressive process.

Yesterday, I Cried ~ a poem by Iyanla VanZant

Yesterday, I cried.

I came home, went straight to my room,

sat on the edge of my bed,

kicked off my shoes, unhooked my bra,

and I had myself a good cry.

I cried until my nose was running all over the silk blouse I got on sale.

I cried until my ears were hot.

I cried until my head was hurting so bad

that I could hardly see the pile of soiled tissues lying on the floor at my feet.

I want you to understand,

I had myself a really good cry yesterday.

Yesterday, I cried,

for all the days that I was too busy,

or too tired, or too mad to cry.

I cried for all the days, and all the ways,

and all the times I had dishonored, disrespected,

and disconnected my Self from myself,

only to have it reflected back to me in the ways others

did to me the same things I had already done to myself.

I cried for all the things I had given, only to have them stolen;

for all the things I had asked for that had yet to show up;

for all the things I had accomplished, only to give them away,

to people in circumstances, which left me feeling empty,

and battered and plain old used.

I cried because there really does come a time when

the only thing left for you to do is cry.

Yesterday, I cried.

I cried because little boys get left by their daddies;

and little girls get forgotten by their mommies;

and daddies don’t know what to do, so they leave;

and mommies get left, so they get mad.

I cried because I had a little boy,

and because I was a little girl,

and because I was a mommy who didn’t know what to do,

and because I wanted my daddy to be there so badly until I ached.

Yesterday, I cried.

I cried because I hurt. I cried because I was hurt.

I cried because hurt has no place to go

except deeper into the pain that caused it in the first place,

and when it gets there, the hurt wakes you up.

I cried because it was too late.

I cried because it was time.

I cried because my soul knew that I didn’t know

that my soul knew everything that I needed to know.

I cried a soulful cry yesterday, and it felt so good.

It felt so very, very bad.

In the midst of my crying,

I felt my freedom coming,

Because…

Yesterday, I cried with an agenda.

                                 by Iyanla VanZant

“Crying for a good reason.” Namaste ~ Saijin

Image: Like the Morning Dew

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.

Leo 9° “Blow gently upon embers.”

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

Leo 9° Glass blowers

This is a symbol of man’s inexhaustibly creative skill of hand and genius of self-application, and of his inherent urge to perform the tasks to be done and to have justification in the ideals to which he would give expression. Here is his contribution of enduring form to things through a private manifestation of the divine breath, and a manipulation of the baser materials of life through a heat that represents his living enthusiasm. The arts and crafts of a culture are both its first beginnings and its final testimony.

The keyword is DEFTNESS.

When positive, the degree is an effectiveness of personal participation in everyday existence, and when negative, willful or unintelligent distortion of reality.

Hot! Handle with care!

The Cosmic Nature of the Soul’s Own Substance & Journeys in Space and Time

Marc Edmund Jones: “Man’s nature is not a limitation, but rather an opportunity. Every soul is seen to be born with something of its own. It is more than the accident of its heredity and environment. It is not what it is because it was born when and where it was, but it was born when and where it was because it was potentially what it is. The individual is coached to see the cosmos in himself and to realize he is of import to the eternal. The effective psychology of that something within is drilled into the very fiber of his realization. He is helped to see that he may be a real personage and that by adoption of a sense of mission in life he brings about his own adoption into eternality and becomes immortal.” Sabian Psychology VI

Edgar Cayce: “Each entity is a part of the universal whole. All knowledge, all understanding that has been a part of the entity’s consciousness, then, is a part of the entity’s experience. Thus the unfoldment in the present is merely becoming aware of that experience through which the entity, either in body or in mind–has passed in a consciousness.” Reading 2823-1

Carl Sagan: “Those worlds in space are as countless as all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the Earth. Each of those worlds is as real as ours. In every one of them, there’s a succession of incidence, events, occurrences which influence its future.

“Countless worlds, numberless moments, an immensity of space and time. And our small planet, at this moment, here we face a critical branch-point in the history. What we do with our world, right now, will propagate down through the centuries and powerfully affect the destiny of our descendants.

“It is well within our power to destroy our civilization, and perhaps our species as well. If we capitulate to superstition, or greed, or stupidity we can plunge our world into a darkness deeper than the time between the collapse of classical civilization and the Italian Renaissance.

“But we are also capable of using our compassion and our intelligence, our technology and our wealth, to make an abundant and meaningful life for every inhabitant of this planet to enhance enormously our understanding of the Universe and to carry us to the stars.” Cosmos Episode 8

“Blow gently upon embers.” Namaste ~ Saijin

Image: Murrine Foglio detail – David Patchen

Draw a Sabian symbol from the Sabian Oracle!

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.

Leo 8° “Be still and know that I am.”

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

Leo 8° A Bolshevik propagandist

This is a symbol of the indomitable expectation of the human spirit as it gathers strength from the innermost reaches of man’s own or enduring nature, here emphasized by the recurrent battles over social and political concepts. The exceptional dynamic involved is seen in the selfless energy developed to an extreme by the revolutionists of each new age. Implicit in the reversed symbolism is the need of the human community for a worthy cause to which to rally in every aspect of its potentials.

The keyword is LEAVEN.

When positive, the degree is a determination to share the soul’s vision and to make a permanent impact on history, and when negative, futile ranting against a multitude of superficial ills.

The Wind and the Sun

Enmity and Chaos

Within these may also be found non-differentiation.

Consider steep rugged cliffs jutting heavenward, and the wispy veils of high clouds that softly round about them swirl. A breathtaking scene.

These opposing structures–that of great might and that of delicate touch. The hard and callous mountain peaks and the ephemeral and transient clouds, which also a divine right to be. Might does not make right. Might is might and delicacy is delicacy. Use whatever words you choose–all have a place in the universe of the Great I Am. All serves to illustrate the magnificence. Together they reveal wholeness and beauty!

In every yin a bit of yang, in every yang a bit of yin. One does not preclude the other.

Out of chaos, order. Non-differentiation would say, “Hear Me! I am the majestic peaks as well as the swirling mist. KNOW THE GREAT I AM!”

Be still …

Be still …

Be still …

“Be still and know that I am.” Namaste ~ Saijin

Image: Bolshevik Cavalry Charging

Draw a Sabian symbol from the Sabian Oracle!

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.

Leo 7° “It begins and ends with me.”

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

Leo 7° The constellations in the sky

This is a symbol of the infinite regression in all universal reality, not as a fact of some unreachable end in knowledge but rather as a demonstration that any abandonment of the known for the sake of the unknown is fruitless. The cosmos is illimitable in the sense that man’s questing may ramify in time and space to the extent of any given pertinence, but his assurance lies within his own being and experience. The stars are his confirmation, never his explanation.

The keyword is SURETY.

When positive, the degree is consistent effectiveness in understanding and self-ordering, and when negative, a loss of all present integrity through an unnecessary retreat to the remote or mysterious.

OneRepublic – Love Runs Out

There is no religion higher than Truth, and eventually, as always, the Truth will prevail.

H.P. Blavatsky: “I always felt that Jesus was meeting himself in complete contrast when he went unto a high place to be tried by his temptations. I recognized that He and Satan were but one and the same at the very extremes of that existence. Jesus, the man, had to choose to conquer the lower extreme, renounce it forever, and then proceed onward to become the ultimate potential of his being—to actualize as The Christ.

“Here, now, so many years later, I am sent the following by a friend, and I give thanks: “Yet who can deny that even Jesus is portrayed as boldly proclaiming his identity with Venus the Lightbringer in Revelation 22:16, where he says ‘I, Jesus, am the bright and morning star.’ If the translators had chosen to translate this verse using Latin just as they did with Isaiah 14:12, it would read ‘I, Jesus, am Lucifer.’” Helena P. Blavatsky

I knew it. My spirit knew it. I knew it through the years of my religious endeavors. I knew it afterward through my years of esoteric studies. I’ve known it through the New Age Awakening. Yet, until now, there has been no appropriate place to express it. Knowing it yet will not be heard by the indoctrinated, yet the time has come–it is today’s signature… Surety! It was the only thing that could ever stand the test of reason and the demands of Logos: We are our own worst enemies and we are our only saviors. Christ is the Light, the Word, the Exemplar, and in that role as THE SAVIOR, He trod the path that all must, of their own, trod, by following the path of light He laid before us.

“Pick up your cross and follow me” He said, “Come Follow me”, as well as, “Physician, heal thyself!” This much, I know without a doubt.

“It begins and ends with me.” Namaste ~ Saijin

Draw a Sabian symbol from the Sabian Oracle!

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.

Leo 6° “The paradoxes of life.”

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

Leo 6° An old-fashioned woman and an up-to-date girl

This is a symbol of the essentially dramatic function of the soul as it plays its various roles in a human society, here brought out in a practical aspect of everyday values. There is at once a co-operation and a competition between those ways of life which protect the contribution of the past on the one hand and administer the promise of the future on the other. Conventionality and initiative are a continual stimulus to each other.

The keyword is CONTRAST.

When positive, the degree is personal achievement through a creative appreciation and adaptation of the values established by others, and when negative, overemphasis of individualistic traits and a psychological timidity.

The Script – For the First Time 

“The story I am about to tell seems fantastical. … When I died he was there and took me into what some call heaven, but is just a place in the soul.” “The Magdalen Manuscript: The Alchemies of Horus & The Sex Magic of Isis” by Tom Kenyon and Judi Sion

Can you wrap your head around that or is it just too far out there? Do your beliefs allow for it or not? Is it time to update your paradigm or not? Can you allow for your own truth as well as another’s or not?

Well, this symbol can! Here is both the old-fashioned woman and the up-to-date girl in one degree–and they are both admiring the other. So give it a go, why don’t you? Your truth nor my truth is not one iota more important than any other’s truth. Oh, we can go on pretending that it is, but until we realize our imperfections, our relativities, our inabilities to comprehend the paradoxes of life–which just might allow us to transcend into higher dimensions of communion, unity, understanding and acceptance–we ever will be no more than the dust of the earth.

A master can hold two opposing truths in his hands and remain at peace. Think about it. Or, as I read today, tongue in cheek, “You don’t actually wash your hands. They wash each other while you stand there looking at them….”

More poking around with paradoxes: Brain-Twisting Paradoxes

“The paradoxes of life.” Namaste ~ Saijin

Image: Front cover “The Magdalen Manuscript: The Alchemies of Horus & The Sex Magic of Isis” by Tom Kenyon and Judi Sion

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.

Leo 5° “Still unsure? Flip it! Decide!”

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

Leo 5° Rock formations at the edge of a precipice

This is a symbol of the constitution of reality in crisis, offering a challenge to man as it pyramids in ramifying involvements until action or decision becomes an immediate necessity. There is no possible sustainment of individuality without an acceptance of difficulty as significant and an accompanying realization that every shift in orientation is a demand for some enlarged self-discovery. Personality only achieves its stability at the threshold of the risks it is willing to take.

The keyword is ENDURANCE.

When positive, the degree is man’s genius for initial aplomb and ultimate competency in the face of all danger, and when negative, pure bullheadedness.

Don’t cry for me Argentina 

Heads, I win. Tails, you lose…

Deal with challenges squarely, face choices directly, introspectively, and then decide. Don’t take any short-cuts–that’s good advice!

“Participation must be conscious!”

If you want the coin of life experience to flip from practical insight to wisdom and understanding, there must be a self-investment made. Otherwise, life remains a bouncing about or a going withersoever the wind bloweth– living one day after the other without any measured approach to contemplate and glean the worth of your time spent. If that suits, then any coin will do and any toss will suffice. But the question begs, is this not simply a revealing of a lack of willingness to invest oneself for one’s own greater self-discovery?

Consider the view!

Those rock formations at the edge of the precipice? Well, they made a stand and were not moved. They did not fall into the sea. They braved the elements and remained steadfast. What risks are we willing to take to hold steady through the changing and transiency of that which surrounds us?

So why toss a coin after all that time spent thinking and pondering? Here’s why…

“When faced with two choices, simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you, but because, in that brief moment when the coin is in the air, you suddenly know what you are hoping for.” Quasain

Try it, it works!

“Still unsure? Flip it! Decide!” Namaste ~ Saijin

Draw a Sabian symbol from the Sabian Oracle!

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.

 

Leo 4° “With appropriate action.”

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

Leo 4° A man formally dressed and a deer with its horns folded

This is a symbol of self-assertion at a point of effective impact on the world, dramatized here on the side of an established and everyday reality. Formality becomes a magical ordering of the automatisms of lesser things, enlisting them in an enduring service to each individual’s more outstanding talents. His achievements become evident in the trophies by which he makes his consistent contribution of the real essence of himself to his fellows.

The keyword is MORALE.

When positive, the degree is exceptional capacity for winning and holding the esteem of men, and when negative, dependence on applause and a playing to the gallery to get it.

Eagles – Take it to the Limit

Did you know that Gandhi used a spinning wheel to produce his own cloth? He did! Further, on this day in 1941, Henry Ford wrote a letter to Gandhi praising him for “his campaign of civil disobedience aimed at forcing the British colonial government out of India.”

“Greatly pleased, he sent in response a portable spinning wheel, one of the old-fashioned devices that Gandhi famously used to produce his own cloth.

The wheel, autographed in Hindi and English, was shipped and personally delivered to Ford by Raman in Greenfield Village, Michigan. Ford kept it as a symbol of the principles of simplicity and economic independence that both he and Gandhi championed.”

Where do you draw the line and do whatever it takes to demonstrate your right to dominion? Do you have a token, as they both found in the spinning wheel, which represents your values, such as they shared in their common value of “simplicity and economic independence”? What are your end game values? Where will you draw the line that shall not be crossed lest you, too, engage in your right to expression through civil disobedience? Will it be a hunger strike? Or, as did Jesus, will you sit and bind a cord and then overthrow the money-changers’ tables? [John 2:15], or, will you need stand, as the formally dressed man with the conquered and bowed deer’s head behind him?

In 1931, Dr. Marc Edmund Jones, shared his reflections of Leo 4 this way, “An elderly man in evening clothes, of poised and military bearing, stands alone before a lovely mounted moose head,” and said of it, “This is a symbol of the extremes of masculine evolution, or the culture of the drawing room as it meets on real terms the excellencies of the great out-of-doors. Positively it is a degree of self-development; negatively, a consistent subservience of self to life.”

“With appropriate action.” Namaste ~ Saijin

Image Source: Ghandi, This Day in History; The Colby Trophy Room, Museum of Science, Boston

Draw a Sabian symbol from the Sabian Oracle!

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.

Leo 3° “When you know, please just say so.”

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

Leo 3° A woman having her hair bobbed

This is a symbol of human independence carried to a point of extreme self-examination, here emphasized in a desire for greater participation in the momentary trends and heightened values of the social milieu. There is open invitation to every possibility of personal experience, and a willingness to grasp the least promising opportunity in order to achieve an enlarged significance. The soul accepts every minor modification of itself in order to perfect the channels of its self-expression.

The keyword is DECISION.

When positive, the degree is exceptionally effective self-mobilization for the sake of personal ambition, and when negative, wholly inadequate appreciation for the self and its destiny.

Passenger – Holes 

Impressionism ~ Holes in our knowledge

Want to impress yourself? Here’s how to do it: Be honest! Say, I don’t know to yourself when you simply don’t know.

Then, when you do know—or think you do—offer yourself your answer first. Roll it around in your head. Does it seem right, feel right? Great! Now offer it out there. On the other hand, if it doesn’t quite fill the bill, then it’s time to re-think it, go back and try again. Keep searching, pondering, and praying! You’ll know when it’s right. You won’t have any doubts then. But until that moment comes….

In Praise of Acknowledging Ignorance

There are three worthy answers to every question: Yes, I know, No, I don’t know, and finally, I’ll get back with you as soon as I know.

But please for our own spark of divinity’s sakes, let’s stop pretending we know when, in truth, we don’t. We only have a clue. And that is enough to get from ignorance to bliss. So, be honest with yourself….

“When you know, please just say so.” Namaste ~ Saijin

Draw a Sabian symbol from the Sabian Oracle!

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.

Leo 2° “Things are moving quickly now.”

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

Leo 2° An epidemic of mumps

This is a symbol of personal capacities wholly out of hand, and of the momentary appeal of escapist ideas whenever the self fails to remain alive to its own immediate needs or ultimate interests. The reversed symbolism emphasizes the absolute necessity laid on every living spirit, that somehow it retain a passionate sensitiveness to the practical import or organic usefulness of everything it encounters in its everyday situation. Here is life poised in sharp susceptibility.

The keyword is INFECTION.

When positive, the degree is continual self-dramatization as the basis for participation in current affairs, and when negative, retreat to self-deficiencies in a frantic effort to avoid experience.

Christmas in July ~ The Party’s on!

Madagascar 3 – I like to move it move it 

There’s going to be a spreading out of intensifying energies today, so don’t forget your “I.D.” Please make sure it’s not a fake one! Violators will be prosecuted to the fullest extent and any suspicious characters’ IDs will be checked at the door. A few words of advice: Observe the dress code. Know your limits. Obey the house rules. Be aware that dis-ease may ever be lurking nearby. If you make contact, it will spread spontaneously. In other words, this isn’t a party for the unsuspecting or the faint of heart. You’ve been warned!

What could possibly go wrong?! Well, for those in true party-mode—those who are prepared for the good times to roll—those who have BYOV (that’s Bring Your Own Vision, for the newbies), this party’s gonna knock your socks off!

Ready? Ok! Let’s roll!

“Things are moving quickly now” Namaste ~ Saijin

Draw a Sabian symbol from the Sabian Oracle!

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.

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.

Leo 1° “Things that make us want to burst!”

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

Leo 1° A case of apoplexy

This is a symbol of an overwhelming potentiality, and of an ever-pressing necessity for genuine self-establishment and personal stability. Implicit in the reversed symbolism is man’s complete lack of inhibition in his everyday make-up, together with his ability to mobilize all his powers and even risk his own existence rather than accept any thwarting of his desires. Here is emphasis on the unbroken continuity between being and doing, or between identity and its continual manifestation of itself.

The keyword is IRRESISTIBILITY.

When positive, the degree is creativity in the day-by-day expression of the self’s real possibilities, and when negative, thoroughgoing self-indulgence and imposition on others.

Da Vinci Code ending 

Louis XIV ~ The Sun King

Louis XIV wouldn’t allow Bernini’s statue of him seated on horseback to be placed in the Louvre. It was banished, had to be removed! It wasn’t destroyed, but sent away, later to be modified by François Girardon, Louis XIV’s royal court sculptor. Still, there was something about it that bothered him deeply… Was it something about himself that he couldn’t quite deal with, wasn’t ready to face on a daily basis? I’m gonna venture a guess—it was his feminine side. You see, King Louis XIV not only had a magnificent head of curls, but also wore high heel shoes. The combination was just to, shall we say, romanticizing? But let us pause—we have the benefit of looking back on this phenomenal marker in history! Here, I propose, was the crack through which the light poured in–where the masculine was face-to-face with the inner feminine—a point in our civilization that marks the beginning of the future healing that would usher forth or as we now say, it was an idea whose time had come.

Thus it was that in the 1980’s when the Louvre–long ago left in ruins and battle-scars–was now to be brought back to its former majesty and beauty. An architect by the name of Pei was called upon to bring the added touch of feng shui to the Louvre. Though the Palace had burned down and the rubble long cleared, it was time to make every effort to restore the Louvre to its original glory. But how? That’s where Pei put his masterful skills into manifestation. He came up with the idea for the Crystal Pyramid. It was to stand as replica of the once magnificent Palace of the Tuileries itself! But when complete, Master Pei was still not pleased; something more was needed—something that would bring absolute symmetry—some touch of feng shui—something to direct the viewer’s eye to the Crystal Pyramid. That’s when the decision was made to make a replica of the Bernini Sun King statue, the feminine-masculine to lead the way, and to place it at an odd angle that suggested the eye to turn to gaze now upon the Crystal Pyramid—the beautiful glorious symbol of the beauty of the feminine, but in the form of prismic fire or masculine-feminine. Both outer and inner—former and present—joined at last. The divine masculine and the divine feminine have thus been reunited. Let us proceed. There is yet work to be done! ~ adapted from Les Tuileries – The Phantom of the Palace

Happy Pi Approximation Day! Blessed Feast of St. Mary Magdalene…

“Things that make us want to burst.” Namaste ~ Saijin

Draw a Sabian symbol from the Sabian Oracle!

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.