An Introduction to My Work

I’d like to take this opportunity to introduce you to my work.

My work aligns with the 365-day calendar, not the 360-degree circle. In order to do this five additional days or spaces have been added to the wheel of 360 Sabian symbols. I call them the Days of the Divine Feminine. Yes, on Leap Year, there is an additional degree or spacing, which serves as Leap Day.

Thus, in my work, the heavens align in perfect order with the Earth and vice versa. For this reason, there are times when my work is ahead of the astrological sunrise degree and times when it is behind the sunrise degree and times when it is in alignment with the astrological degrees. You may have noticed this if you follow me and receive my daily blog notification emails. It is for those of you who have taken note of this that I am writing this explanation.

In astrological chart calculations using the 360-degree wheel, these five days are accounted for as “Holdover” and “Skipped” degrees to compensate for the difference between 360 and 365. Further, they are not the same every year! The Sabian Assembly invites you to download a free pdf Sabian Symbol sunrise chart for 2023. While there you might take a moment to read the explanation for these holdover and skipped degrees. In my work, there are no symbols skipped or held over, as each day has its own symbol. However, the dates on which these fall are matched into alignment with the calendar, the Earth’s orbit around the sun.

By the way, I am also an avid astrology student, and I am well-aware of the relationship and distinction between my work and astrological computations. I draw, study and read charts as do many of you, on a daily basis, and have done so for 17 years now. My work is not in opposition to astrology, but is my own creative alignment—an experiment, which I share with others and which is especially directed to non-astrologers. I understand and enjoy the benefits of both systems.

Let’s continue.

Where is this star pattern located, you might wonder. I placed one of the five points opposite the Galactic Center, which is at Sagittarius 28. It is the 3^rd point of the star pattern. The placement for it is, therefore, between Gemini 28 and 29.

The five points I use are aligned with the seasons, given by Pythagoras as being five in number, not four. They are Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Terror Time or The Blackening. More on that here: Pythagorean Pentacle: Organic Cycles. Here are the five dates and Days of the Divine Feminine, which are also found in my book On the Shoulders of Giants: Advanced Techniques in Sabian Symbology by Saijin:

1^st Day of the Divine Feminine – The Blackening – between Aquarius 4 and 5 – January 24

2^nd Day of the Divine Feminine – Spring – between Aries 16 and 17 – April 7

3^rd Day of the Divine Feminine – Summer – between Gemini 28 and 29 – June 19

4^th Day of the Divine Feminine – Autumn – between Virgo 10 and 11 – August 31

5^th Day of the Divine Feminine – Winter – between Scorpio 22 and 23 – November 12

If you would be interested in further discussions about my work, please let me know by leaving a comment below or contacting me directly at sabiangeometry@gmail.com. I also host a group on Facebook: Sabian Geometry with Saijin.

Blessed Be ~ Saijin

The Sabian Symbol Enneagram and Time Portal

The enneagram and time portal work is sponsored by Cancer 16.

from The Sabian Symbols in Astrology
by Dr. Marc Edmund Jones

Now that Cycle 1 is complete—collecting data, daily experiences, and creating templates—the analysis phase of Cycle 2 can begin.

How it Works

I hope you have enjoyed my first introductory video. There will be more in the future!

The culminating phase will be a DIY Workbook with access to a calendar library of all symbols and prefilled templates, additional resources and live Zoom Q&A sessions. Expected date is early 2024.

If you would like to support me in my work with a contribution, you can do so by clicking this link: https://buy.stripe.com/9AQdRS1CHclG1c4fZ0

My desire is to digitalize the program over the next five years. Your contributions will help me to accomplish this! Thank you!

My book, On the Shoulders of Giants: Advanced Techniques in Sabian Symbology, is available here: https://a.co/d/18VPI3E

Namaste ~ Saijin

Cancer 30 ~ “Again! Now, in full glory!”

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

Cancer 30° A Daughter of the American Revolution

This is a symbol of the enduring background in human relations as essentially dependent on an established tradition, and of a willingness to maintain it through a sharp rejection of any modifying influence of unsympathetic times or events. The emphasis here on an outer conservatism carries with it an implicit warning against any mere resistance to change, and also stresses the need for a life which is exemplary through its faithfulness to standards of proved worth.

The keyword is INHERITANCE.

When positive, the degree is an infectious pride in leadership through which a group is able to act as a unit, and when negative, the ultimate betrayal of selfhood by a false assumption of superiority.

Eye of the Tiger  ~ Survivor

Introducing a league of their own: Rewriting history with herstory…

The word ‘history’ comes from the Ancient Greek word ἱστορία or historia, which means ‘knowledge that is obtained by inquiry’. Rewriting History, not from the view of the conqueror, but from the perspective of wholeness or completeness.

Let’s do it! Erase and try again. Wipe that slate clean. Get rid of that old, one-sided story! Rewrite IT in the fullness of ITS glory.

Going Quantum!

Delayed Choice/Quantum Eraser ~ The Quantum Eraser of Time Itself: Choices made in the present moment affect not only the future, but also the past!

Wholeness: A circle.

Two circles overlapping at center-points = Pi ~ Dividing the circumference by the diameter.

Pi Approximation Day, after all, is 22 divided by 7 or July 22nd. Let’s rewrite “his story” by bringing IT into balance with “her-story”.

“Again! Now, in full glory!” Namaste ~ Saijin

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 29° “A fiat of perception.”

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

Cancer 29° A Muse weighing twins

This is a symbol of man’s continual if not always evident relationship with the over-reality in which he lives and moves and has his being, here given an emphasis on the side of inner reconciliations. Individual existence is always manifest as personality in the world of the senses and as reason in a realm of eternalities, and the effective union of these complementary functions is found in the immortal insights of a spiritual wholeness. A person knows himself now one way and now another, and thereby realizes his integrity in selfhood.

The keyword is VALUE.

When positive, the degree is an effectiveness of judgment irrespective of momentary contradictions on every hand, and when negative, an undisciplined perfectionism.

Why Your Life Matters – The Deep Structure of Existence by Alan Watts 

The Muses in Greek mythology, poetry and literature, are the goddesses of the inspiration of Literature, Science and the Arts. They were considered the Source of Knowledge, and related this orally for centuries in the ancient culture through Poetry, Lyrics and Myths.

A Fiat of Perception

An effectiveness of judgement irrespective of contradictions on every hand. A master can effectively reason in the presence of duality. An official order given by someone who has power: an order that must be followed.

The Muses Still Speak!

The Great Invocation by Alice Bailey

From the point of Light within the Mind of God, Let light stream forth into the minds of men. Let Light descend on Earth.

From the point of Love within the Heart of God, Let love stream forth into the hearts of men. May Christ return to Earth.

From the centre where the Will of God is known, Let purpose guide the little wills of men—The purpose which the Masters know and serve.

From the centre which we call the race of men, Let the Plan of Love and Light work out, And may it seal the door where evil dwells.

Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on Earth.

“Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.” St. Catherine of Sienne

“She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.” JD Salinger, Catcher in the Rye

“A fiat of perception.” Namaste ~ Saijin

Art by Alphonse Mucha

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 28° “Activate the key within.”

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

Cancer 28° A modern Pocahontas

This is a symbol of effective co-operation between various phases of human culture, such as those which have become crystallized in a faithfulness to the special values they have held intact and those which provide the new potentials of a genuine frontier spirit. These differences as brought to unity are a stimulus to a greater differentiation of the self in its own illimitable capacity for expanded relationships.

The keyword is COMPATIBILITY.

When positive, the degree is high skill in bringing older or neglected reality to the service of fresher and more vital self-fulfillments, and when negative, an inability to make personal adjustments and a stupid exaltation of conservatism.

Paint with All the Colors of the Wind

Unlocking the Civilization of Ancient Egypt

Just how special is a birthday—your birthday, let’s say?

Champollion deciphers the Rosetta Stone this day in history:

The Moment of Deciphering – the Big Breakthrough! “He returned to the text in hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone, and found … a phase referring to “birthday celebrations.” This clinched it. Overwhelmed by the power of his discovery, Jean François abandoned his room, and ran through the streets, to reach his brother, who worked nearby at the Institute de France. He raced into the room, shouting “Je tiens l’affaire!,”—“I’ve got it!” Source: The Unlocking of the Rosetta Stone on this day in history. A riddle unsolved for 2,000 years.

Then there’s this not-to-be-forgotten story…

Two sisters, born just two days shy of one year apart. Amy was born on May 26, 1967, and her younger sister, Emily, on May 24, 1968. Amy and Emily loved their birthdays, but they especially loved the day in between–May 25th of each year–because on that day they were “the same age”. And each and every year without fail, they would make this day of May 25th their special day and call each other up and say, “We’re the same age!” Well, until May 25th 2020, that is…

That was the very day that Emily went missing–May 25th 2020–and three months later, her body was found. Now, two painstaking years later, Emily’s “staged suicide murder” trial is going on. Amy testified yesterday on August 17, 2022. (Recall that I am editing my Cancer posts alongside Leo’s blogs this year…) It was reported that the friends in the courtroom, who had never met Amy, gasped when she entered in. She just looks so much like Emily… And she was so sweet and composed during her testimony. The defense attorney was ruthless and aggressive in her cross-examination. One of the expert judicial proceeding analysts on Court TV said, “It’s like a piranha after a goldfish. She’d better tone it down.”

Will justice be served? Eventually, yes. But, Justice, like the Rosetta Stone, is worth the wait no matter how long it takes—whether two years or two thousand… Time is eternal, let us remember, and meanwhile, let us remember that Memorial Day always comes at the end of May, when we honor those who gave their all. Now and forever, I will add the memory of Emily “Em” Noble and a shared middle birthday to our celebrations each year.

You see–Memories, they…

“Activate the key within.” Namaste ~ Saijin

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 27° “What matters and what doesn’t.”

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

Cancer 27° A storm in a canyon

This is a symbol of a pyramiding reality on the side of external circumstances, or of violence and terror as divine in their capacity for lifting man out of his aplomb and demanding some manifestation of his inner ideals and enduring values. Here is the indomitable integrity of everything to be taken as of consequence in its own right, shown in the energy with which it preserves itself.  Nature ever dramatizes man’s unleashed powers, or his ability to rise in supremacy over each momentary crisis.

The keyword is INTENSIFICATION.

When positive, the degree is an enlistment of every resource in life for a heightened expression of self, and when negative, fatuous enjoyment of turmoil.

Passenger – Life’s for the Living 

Seeing is believing, and believing is seeing! The Universe is always ready, able and willing to respond.

Brocken Spectre Heart

“I was flying over Oregon when I looked out and saw this heart-shaped figure,” he says. “It was one of those moments when the Universe aligns and takes your breath away.” DeFreece suspects, probably correctly, that the shape of the clouds bent the usual circular glory into the heart-shaped apparition. Mystery solved? Not entirely. Glories are caused by sunlight reflected backwards from water droplets in clouds. Exactly how backscattering produces the colorful rings, however, is a mystery involving surface waves and multiple reflections within individual droplets. Each sighting is a lovely puzzle, so grab the window seat and keep an eye on the clouds below.

When there is a storm in the canyon, especially one where evacuation becomes necessary due to the increasing and unrelenting intensity of the storm–when hunkering down will no longer do–there’s very precious time to gather the few things that you can take with you. This decision making under pressure becomes equal in intensity to the storm itself. What will I take? What will I leave behind? Knowing that total destruction may result, we now find ourselves grabbing this and clutching that. Here now, in our arms, are those things we truly value most!

I recall a true story about a woman whose house was on fire and ran out with her collection of wigs! The teller of the tale and I had a good chuckle, but inside ourselves, I suppose we were both wondering what we’d find in hand after the “storms” of our lives had passed by. Sobering thoughts… We need to be clear on…

“What matters and what doesn’t.” Namaste ~ Saijin

Image credit: Tony DeFreece, July 13, 2014, Woodland, Oregon, USA

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 26 ~ “There’s no time like the present.”

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

Cancer 26° Contentment and happiness in luxury, people reading on davenports

This is a symbol of a pure mastery of experience in its outer aspect, and of a full capitalization on the potentials of all being in a personal and ultimately immortal realization. The static symbolism is a warning against idle self-indulgence, and an emphasis on the fact that any lessening of practical responsibility is primarily a call to self-strengthening and a prelude to some greater outreaching.

The keyword is REPOSE.

When positive, the degree is a relaxation valuable for the momentary sustainment of human aspiration whenever it is strained beyond its powers of self-regeneration, and when negative, the loss of all reality in a needless softness of living.

Tale As Old As Time

Taking a well-deserved break

You deserve a break! Grab a book you’ve been longing to read. Now, sit back and put your feet up. Time to relax. Soon you’ll be feeling much better. All things come to pass, but for now, get comfy–you’ve earned it!

In Marc’s personal reflections on the Sabian symbols (1931)–twenty-two years before he published The Sabian Symbols in Astrology (1953) the official Sabian symbols written for the public—Marc described Cancer 26 this way:

“The magnificent, luxurious library of some wealthy home is revealed; among the cushions several guests are reading.” The keyword at that time was not Repose; it was Relaxation, and he interpreted it as a degree of whole souled participation in life, positively, and negatively as a surrender to triviality. He said, “..the soul does not depend on these things, but reaches out to higher objects of interest.”

When you go into a library, you will see signs or be reminded by the librarians to “Please remember to be quiet.” Why? Respect. These people who are reading books are actually traveling through many diverse worlds, and your sounds could disrupt their travels. We see their bodies only, but If you could see what they see… If you could view the many worlds inhabited by their minds through the pages of these books–I dare say we would experience an adventure of quantum magnitude!

So, please, whether trivial to you or not—please respect the mastery of experience of these reposed and relaxing ones! They are on a high adventure well-earned and of personal and ultimately immortal realization.

Tell me, how was your book? Where did you go? Was it an adventure? Wonderful! But now the time has come to transition back to another here and now–to reorient yourself in this dimension once more. Come on, you can do it. Just gently close the book covers and whisper, “I’ll be back soon…”

“There’s no time like the present.” Saijin

Image credit: Read Me! 

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 25 ~ “Let the world keep on spinning.”

“Let the world keep on spinning.”

The Span of Ingenuousness

Phase 115

Water Element

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

Cancer 25° A dark shadow or mantle thrown suddenly over the right shoulder

This is a symbol of the irrevocability of man’s obligation to the reality of which he is a part, with the emphasis on his capacities of leadership as a revelation of racial stewardship on the more personal or spiritual side. Self-expression here is a release of his inner potentialities, and it becomes both an individual gratification and an expanding responsibility to all other individuals making up the social complex.

The keyword is DESTINY

When positive, the degree is some dramatic manifestation of genius vital to the general welfare of man, and when negative, a tendency to unwarranted presumption if not outright megalomania.

The formula is: sustaining-critical-universal-generalizing-social-inspired.

When life turns on a dime, have no fear! You can do it! …thanks to your sixth sense, that is! So, go with the flow!

Ahmad Wali – Dost http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0qAL_AZ9CE

They say that we find our destiny on the road we take to avoid it. In astrology chart reading, there is a point called the Vertex, also known as the point of destiny–a point that, when utilizing the Sabian symbol for that degree, can assist us in understanding more about those unavoidable turns that direct us to our destiny. If so, then maybe we won’t have to be so surprised when we get thrown a curve ball by life, but instead, come to those moments with conscious participation rather than a desire for escape or avoidance. You can go through life kicking and screaming or you can go through life with your shoulders back and your chin up–either way, you’re here which means you ARE going through life one way or the other. It’s about knowledge and choice.

When things turn on a dime

Dimes are not only the smallest coin used in US currency, but also the thinnest, measuring only 17.91 mm or .705 inches in diameter and 1.35 mm or 0.053 inches in thickness. To “turn on a dime” then, is an expression of changing direction rapidly, but also in a very small space, i.e., a tight turning radius. By extension, anything that can “turn on a dime” makes a radical change in direction and very quickly.

Proprioception – the Sixth Sense

“Our bodies are incredibly good at moving, often without any conscious involvement. Just think: sitting down, standing up, picking up objects, throwing, catching, jumping, skipping, running… The reason we can make all of these movements without thinking (or falling over) is because of something called ‘proprioception’ – our body’s sense of its own position, balance and movement. Proprioception provides us with ‘body awareness’ and is commonly referred to as our ‘sixth sense’.”

Go with the flow

When life turns on a dime, whether by conscious choice or by outside circumstance, consider going with the flow until you have a grasp of the new energies you find yourself in. That which we resist persists. Knowledge of the new surroundings is critical, i.e., seek first to understand and then to be understood. To go with the flow is not advisement to go wherever the wind blows, but to take stock of the new environment, and to look before you leap.

When life turns on a dime, shout out, “Plot twist!”

“Let the world keep on spinning.” Saijin

Photo credit: Sufi swirling dance, or dervish dance, from Turkey http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/lFpQQLMKAb0/hqdefault.jpg

Cancer 24° “Looking back it started here.”

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

Cancer 24° A woman and two men on a bit of sunlit land facing south

This is a symbol of the soul’s necessary decisiveness in the basic allegiances of life, here emphasized in the terms of practical or everyday relations. There must be a mediation between the competing demands for immediate attention to various transient needs, and for some consistent or over-all goal which will bring an individual’s efforts into a cohesive pattern. The inner capacities must be disciplined continually for the sake of a plethora of outer opportunities.

The keyword is INCEPTION.

When positive, the degree is an unusual gift for organizing and exploiting the self’s potentials, and when negative, a devastating sense of ineptitude and estrangement from reality.

Fancy ~ Reba McEntire

As fancy is to beauty, the thorn is to the rose.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, first appeared in the 3rd century BC in Greek. It didn’t appear in its current form in print until the 19th century, but in the meantime there were various written forms that expressed much the same thought. In 1588, the English dramatist John Lyly, in his Euphues and his England, wrote:

“…as neere is Fancie to Beautie, as the pricke to the Rose, as the stalke to the rynde, as the earth to the roote.”

Transcendence is not Fantasy

Wholeness requires both dark and light, for without either, there would not be the possibility of the other to be manifest. According to Marc Edmund Jones, “Living is real when it embraces the totality of its contact and the whole in its uttermost ramification of awareness. An entering of the transcendent achieves this because all things in their transcendence are sublimated in the fulfillment of self.”

Desideratum: Something that is wished for or considered desirable.

Aristotle explains, “We may assume the superiority [ceteris paribus] of all things being equal, of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses—in short from fewer premises; for… given that all these are equally well known, where they are fewer, knowledge will be more speedily acquired, and that is a desideratum. The argument implied in our contention that demonstration from fewer assumptions is superior may be set out in universal form…”

Thus, in my reflections, I see the two men as the duality of that which the woman is able to now see in wholeness. She has this power to synthesize, the take duality and transcend it into a triad of awareness because in such an isolated situation–on a bit of land, in such close proximity and not scattered at a distance—as well as facing south, or towards the sun, astrologically speaking, she is able to keenly focus and assess with unsurpassable speed and accuracy. Here, wholeness is revealed fully to her view. Likewise, here on this degree of Inception, we have the potential to capture a more perfect view, from source to timeless opportunity.

“Looking back it started here.” Namaste ~ Saijin

Screencapture: Matrix Revolutions, ending scene

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 23 ~ “When push comes to shove, digest.”

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

Cancer 23° Meeting of a literary society

This is a symbol of man’s resourcefulness in developing new areas of experience on the imaginative side, and of his genius for widening his interests and stimulating everybody to broader ideals and more rewarding goals in everyday living. The continual re-examination of a general intellectual and aesthetic inheritance becomes a heightening of personal identity, and the individual achieves a very genuine estimation of his fellows.

The keyword is CRITICISM.

When positive, the degree is accomplishment through an exacting appreciation of common effort and a rigorous revelation of private acts and attitudes, and when negative, a substitution of idle discussion for actual participation in reality.

God speaks to Moses from the Burning Bush

A Sacred Meeting with a Flaming Bush

“And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.” Exodus 3:2 KJV

The Element and Essence of Fire

By all means, bring it to the meeting, but just be cognizant of how you use it! It’s not what you say, but how you say it. Criticism can be harsh and cause division, or it can help to enhance and improve. Like the element of fire, criticism can burn to ashes or inspire and uplift. Tricky things, fire and criticism. Think of it this way:

To consume either by destructive or by constructive means. To digest the inspiration and essence for upliftment or to spew forth the flames to burn to a crisp… Therein lies the choice. A meeting is a gathering, an assembly for a common purpose. Before attending the meeting, we might want to consider the potential outcome of both types and how it will affect the group.

When the time comes to assemble, remember that when “what it is” meets up with “what it will make of itself” we need to digest to envision the ideal to be realized.

By contrast, here is the outcome of a fiery meeting didn’t go so well….

The Library of Alexandria Burns

The Library of Alexandria was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world. Famous for having been burned, thus resulting in the loss of many scrolls and books, it has become a symbol of “knowledge and culture destroyed.”

So, if you are called to a meeting, please make sure your heart is in the right place and that you have come to inspire, support, encourage and uplift.

“When push comes to shove, digest.” Namaste ~ Saijin

Image: Library of Alexandria Burns 

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.