Aries 6° “Construct brightly while you can.”

The Span of Realization – The 1^st Hemisphere of Aries

Phase 6

Fire Element – Cardinal

The formula is: manipulating-critical-original-specializing-social-experimental.

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

Aries 6° A square brightly lighted on one side

This is a symbol of experience as the over-all sustainment of any personal or conscious being. A materialistic reality is found to be sheer illusion when taken of itself or given any power on its own account, but it also is discovered to be the servant of every human impulse whenever life becomes red-blooded or achieves a motivation and an effective appreciation of its own nature. Implicit here is the realization that things are given their fundamental ordering as they are accepted in consciousness.

The keyword is SET.

When positive, the degree is the absolute unimpeachability of a genuine self-direction, and when negative, complete loss of self-efficacy in a surrender to frustrations.

A Whole New World – Aladdin

Embracing the Infinite by Kelly Lee Phipps (February 5, 1971 – March 25, 2014)

Above the wavering sea stars await
your return
mirrored across the deep span
stretching within
The curving space between here and
there is endless
Yet it seems like you’ve been
abandoned in the emptiness

You can never stop the flow of dark imagery
coursing through your heart
Those chambers of guilt and fear always struggle
to contain the tingling fire dancing as your soul

It hurts to be free.
But when you step into your passion
the whole universe opens within…
And others may wander with black
holes for hearts
devouring your visions with their fears

But tell me. How old are you?

That’s not your age.
It’s simply the number of orbits
you’ve made around this star
You’ve made many orbits around
other stars like a timeless electron zipping around
an atomic nucleus
You are infinite!

And if you argue for your limitations,
you have to fight them.
But if you discover your possibilities,
you get to create them

So stand still,
gaze at the sky
Sense the reverence rising inside
And know that your being
Is an extension of eternity.

“Construct brightly while you can.” Namaste ~ Saijin

Image: How does a “Tell-a-Vision” work?

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.

Aries 5° “Mobilize aspirations.”

The Span of Examination – The 1^st Hemisphere of Aries

Phase 5

Fire Element – Cardinal

The formula is: manipulating-critical-original-specializing-physical-inspired.

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

Aries 5° A triangle with wings

This is a symbol of the inviolability of man’s essential nature throughout every ramification of his experience, as long as he holds to the purity of his original impulses. There is here a very practical balance in his self-fulfillment, thanks to his threefold individuality in terms of skills, loyalties and values. Light rather than darkness remains the goal of his life, and his personal capacities become a continual refinement of every baser metal in selfhood.

The keyword is ZEAL.

When positive, the degree is the creative transformation of everything into an expression of enduring idea and a reflection of the real vision ahead, and when negative, blissful obliviousness to all normal or everyday considerations.

The Fray ~ Run for Your Life

Lady Bug Lady Bug Fly Away Home

Location, location, location!

The right time, the right place. The present moment. Things that make us get up and do it. Relocating to the path with heart. The call of the wind to take flight, now, not later. What is your aspiration? What is the call of the wind that you hear? Today’s symbol bids you onward to your goals. Time to take flight and be there!

“May the roads rise to meet you; may the winds be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hands.” Irish Blessing

“Mobilize aspirations.” Namaste ~ Saijin

Image source: Ladybug! 

Welcome to more of the amazing and wondrous Sabian symbols!

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.

I invite you to visit me on my website at SabianGeometry, on YouTube at Sabian Geometry or on  Facebook at Sabian Geometry with Saijin. The Sabian Symbol Septenary (7-fold model) is available to read on WordPress or if you prefer to  listen, on Spotify.

If you are interested in studying the Sabian symbols in their models of the Cross (4-fold, structural/masculine) and the Star (5-fold, creative/feminine), I invite you to purchase my book: On the Shoulders of Giants: Advanced Techniques in Sabian Symbology

*All of my works are based on Sabian Symbols in Astrology by Dr. Marc Edmund Jones, 1953 First Edition, The Sabian Publishing Society, New York; printed in the United States of America by the Roberts Studio Press, Arden, Delaware.

Aries 2° “Lesson One: You must toughen!”

The Span of Realization – The 1^st Hemisphere of Aries

Phase 2

Fire Element – Cardinal

The formula is: manipulating-critical-original-specializing-physical-sensitive.

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

Aries 2° A comedian entertaining a group

This is a symbol of the mirror which life holds up to itself recurrently, and so facilitates an everyday understanding of itself. The identity of each individual is projected back into the wholly naïve potential of his experience, thereby providing a fresh and transcendent self-perspective. Here is man’s heightened individuality as he discovers he may play whatever role he finds useful in each momentary contact with others, together with the continual self-reassurance he gains in self-rehearsal.

The keyword is RELEASE.

When positive, the degree is the power of personality through a full and completely uninhibited self-expression, and when negative, a neglect of common responsibility through idle diversions of interest.

The Reason ~ Hoobastank

“A thick skin is a gift from God.” Konrad Adenauer

The things we laugh at the hardest—our biggest belly laughs—happen when we are brought face-to-face with the ridiculousness of ourselves. That is our release of our self-judgments, of our imperfections–that which absolutely must take place at the critical core level to make way for a rebooting, a resetting of our very essence of self-understanding and self-acceptance, warts and all. We simply must let go, laugh, and see ourselves from a higher level. Get there. Do whatever it takes. Laugh! Roar! It is really quite hysterical! And, no, you didn’t recreate the wheel. We meet there in our humanness–for laughter truly is the best medicine and it unites!

Adam Sandler’s infamous comedy routine explains: “They’re all gonna laugh at you!” (a seemingly forever looping audio–in case we don’t get it the first time, I suppose…) Adam’s career in comedy began with down-and-dirty routines. Maybe you put your nose up in utter disgust, if and when you heard some of those, like “The Longest Pee”. Most likely, judgmental snootiness deemed him unworthy of worldly success. Yet, Adam left us laughing at him as he journeyed all the way to the bank. Something to think about…

So, let us not be too quick to judge. That is the lesson. We’ve got to learn to laugh at not only ourselves, but to tongue-in-cheek the antics of others. Seriously. Let’s learn to laugh again. If you want release, that is…

“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it. It’s like boats. You keep your motor on so you can steer with the current. And when you hear the sound of the waterfall coming nearer and nearer, tidy up the boat, put on your best tie and hat, and smoke a cigar right up till the moment you go over. That’s a triumph.” ― Ray Bradbury

For a time such as this

I won’t even venture into the revolutionary impactful communications known as memes, icons, or emojis! You’ve got your favs, and I’ve got mine! They sure do hit the spot, don’t they! ROFLMAO

“Lesson One: You must toughen!” Namaste ~ Saijin

Photo by Heather Jack: “You can do it!” A weed grows through a rock.

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.

Aries 1° “Where ere you go, there you are.”

The Span of Realization – The 1^st Hemisphere of Aries

Phase 1

Fire Element – Cardinal

The formula is: manipulating-critical-original-specializing-physical-experimental.

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

Aries 1° A woman rises out of water, a seal rises and embraces her.

This is a symbol of completely unconditioned potentiality, as this may be grasped on the practical side of life. Here are elements of soul emerging from primordial nonexistence, and of an essentially feminine receptivity calling up a more masculine or personal and self-seeking initiative. There is an implicit emphasis on the mutual interdependence of the emotional and purposeful aspects of self.

The keyword is REALIZATION.

When positive, the degree is an illimitability of experience of which anyone can take advantage under any or all circumstances, and when negative, a failure to find a place in life because the self cannot separate itself from its own private obsessions.

The Chosen

Healing. That is why revolutions come, so that there might be a healing. (If you didn’t click on the link above and watch the trailer for Season 2 of The Chosen, please go back now and do that. If you haven’t seen The Chosen, you can now! It is free and available on YouTube or on its own downloadable app so you can watch it on your phone! You’ll be glad you did.)

Aries is pioneering. Raw fire power. We need that now. We have that now. Engage!

Regarding the journey ahead:  Truth Be Told, Thoughts Become Things. You are divinity in the flesh… You are chosen. You are whole. And you can heal whenever you are ready… Now, go and stir up the waters, stand up! Arise! Now go forth and do what you came here to do!

“The way in which one gains whole wholeness is, first of all, to entertain the following radical concept: There is nothing that is intrinsically true about me that is wrong. Secondly, therefore, why am I having problems? And what you look for are the ways in which your inclinations are being used improperly. Now, very interesting word ‘proper’—most people think it means ‘correct.’ It doesn’t. The Latin root of ‘proper’ and ‘appropriate’ means ‘one’s own.’ So, when you use something improperly, you’re using it a way that is not suitable for who you are.” Robert Hand, Turning of the Wheel radio broadcast 5.16.14 with Chris Flisher

[A word regarding Chris. Chris was an Aries. He was passionate and creative. He left a great legacy for us. He passed on Feb. 3, 2022. But he has left us a treasure-trove of radio broadcasts on Astrology and a wonderful gallery of astrological mandalas in his artworks. Visit his site and bookmark his radio channel! You’ll be glad you did!]

“Where ere you go, there you are.” Namaste ~ Saijin

Image created by Saijin, Time to Rise Up! Aries 1

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.

Pisces 30° “Love, life–it will get messy.”

The Span of Protection – The 2^nd Hemisphere of Pisces

Phase 360

Water Element – Common or Mutable

The formula is: sustaining-practical-universal-generalizing-spiritual-inspired.

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

Pisces 30° The Great Stone Face

This is a symbol of human responsibility as an immortality of the soul, and of a way of living which has become a continual manifestation of its ideal and so a constant dramatization of its self-discovery to others as an encouragement to them in their own alignment to eternal reality. Each individual selects the image within himself to which he would shape himself outwardly, and this he comes to resemble as in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s tale. Destiny is character as it most persistently constitutes itself.

The keyword is DISCERNMENT.

When positive, the degree is self-integrity in its irresistible impact on the course of events, and when negative, wholly inarticulate and ineffectual self-realization.

The formula is: sustaining-practical-universal-generalizing-spiritual-inspired.

Little Wonders

Sealing Up Your Boxed  Offering and Your Sacrifice

Come to the portal of wisdom this day with heart in hand. Tomorrow a woman will rise from the sea. Today all things become concretized. Your way is not the world’s way; it is your way. And I have my way. This is All Ways…. and ALWAYS…how it is and should be. Tomorrow will birth a new cycle for each and every part of the All. But today all things become concrete. We do not understand all things; nevertheless, all things in their current condition of non-understanding and imperfection must come to rest. Tomorrow must begin with a new thought—a new way ahead—a new quest for consciousness and evolution.

Today sets all imperfections into their boxes of safe keeping, forever. There is no more we can do with this imperfection save to seal it up, having tried our best. That is all that we could do, and all that has been asked of us by ourselves! It is sad! It is also exhilarating! A new start! A job well-done! But now it must consume itself, concretize, that life may begin anew! I can do no more. You can do no more. Thus, we seal it up; we lift it up. We raise and lift it up into Heaven’s hands. It is my gift; it is your gift–of what I have done with all that I was given, of what you have done with all that you were given. We pray our gifts—our offerings and sacrifices– may be found worthy in some regard.

I don’t often add two images to a symbol-entry, but today I will break the rules–for I am the author and creator of these blogs. Let this great water sign etch its memory in the sands of time, as well as in the Great Stone Face! Therefore, know this:

“Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.” African saying

“Love, life—it will get messy.” Saijin

Image: Easter Island

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.

Aquarius 25° “Sharing the sacred secret.”

The Span of Perspective – The 2^nd Hemisphere of Aquarius

Phase 325

Air Element – Fixed

The formula is: manipulating-ideal-ingenious-generalizing-social-inspired.

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

Aquarius 25° A butterfly with the right wing more perfectly formed

This is a symbol of man’s capacity to overcome any handicap imposed on him by the abnormalities which at times become an inevitable part of his own nature, and of his underlying stamina or psychological integrity. Here is a functional integration of conscious existence, with the variations which constitute an individual remaining the basis of all self-knowing on any or every level of experience. The self mobilizes its powers effectively as it takes full advantage of the significant differences in both itself and its world.

The keyword is UNIQUENESS.

When positive, the degree is a genius for turning deficiency into a real asset, and when negative, unhappy and rebellious conceit.

Secrets ~ OneRepublic

Putting it under the microscope…

How Do I Love Thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight

For the ends of being and ideal grace.

I love thee to the level of every day’s

Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.

I love thee freely, as men strive for right.

I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.

I love thee with the passion put to use

In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.

I love thee with a love I seemed to lose

With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,

Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,

I shall but love thee better after death.

“Sharing the sacred secret.” Namaste ~ Saijin

Image source: Butterfly wings under a microscope 

Welcome to more of the amazing and wondrous Sabian symbols!

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.

I invite you to visit me on my website at SabianGeometry, on YouTube at Sabian Geometry or on  Facebook at Sabian Geometry with Saijin. The Sabian Symbol Septenary (7-fold model) is available to read on WordPress or if you prefer to  listen, on Spotify.

If you are interested in studying the Sabian symbols in their models of the Cross (4-fold, structural) and the Star (5-fold, creative), I invite you to purchase my book: On the Shoulders of Giants: Advanced Techniques in Sabian Symbology

*All of my works are based on Sabian Symbols in Astrology by Dr. Marc Edmund Jones, 1953 First Edition, The Sabian Publishing Society, New York; printed in the United States of America by the Roberts Studio Press, Arden, Delaware.

Aquarius 11° “It’s everything and more.”

The Span of Defensiveness – The 1st Hemisphere of Aquarius

Phase 311

Air Element – Fixed

The formula is: manipulating-ideal-ingenious-specializing-mental-experimental.

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

Aquarius 11° Man tête-à-tête with his inspiration

This is a symbol of satisfaction in the transcendental experiences of selfhood, and of a new realization that each individual lives in a consistent intimacy with spiritual verities of every sort and on every hand. Implicit in the symbolism is the need to act continually in personal self-interest, and to translate every vision into practical consummation. As man accepts the over-shadowing of a universal life and order, he must demonstrate his own special capacities and rededicate his own individual achievements.

The keyword is ECSTASY.

When positive, the degree is an enthusiastic idealism and a tireless desire to serve others, and when negative, complete self-obsession.

Beautiful Mess Jason Mraz, Nobel Peace Prize Concert 2008

I asked how she was doing as she boarded the plane. “Fantastic, and it’s getting better every minute!”

It’s that kind of day if we allow it to be…

The definition of tête–à–tête is a private conversation between two people. In the original French it means “head-to-head”. It is, perhaps, an inner dialogue with the perfect complement of oneself, idealized, as Jung defined the anima and animus. In any event, here is the best and the brightest and the most inspirational kind of experience one can have, whether within or without.

And should definitely include the within, should it not? I mean, if by now we do realize that within each of us there is the masculine and the feminine trying to rewire itself into ideal balance, then let us begin there. Ideally, you know, that perfect “alchemical marriage” exists potentially somewhere beginning in our very own minds. But the joy and ecstasy of then sharing it, or if not first, then at last coming to it. Ecstasy within, ecstasy without. That’s the ultimate tête–à–tête we’re going for — that which inspires to self-transcendent experience.

Onward to Ecstasy! Whatever inspires you, tap into that today!

Fantastic and getting better every minute?

I replied, I’ll have some of what you’re having!

“It’s everything and more.” Namaste ~ Saijin

Beauty will save the world, art by Siberian artist, Eugene Ivanov

Welcome to more of the amazing and wondrous Sabian symbols!

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.

I invite you to visit me on my website at SabianGeometry, on YouTube at Sabian Geometry or on  Facebook at Sabian Geometry with Saijin. The Sabian Symbol Septenary (7-fold model) is available to read on WordPress or if you prefer to  listen, on Spotify.

If you are interested in studying the Sabian symbols in their models of the Cross (4-fold, structural/masculine) and the Star (5-fold, creative/feminine), I invite you to purchase my book: On the Shoulders of Giants: Advanced Techniques in Sabian Symbology

*All of my works are based on Sabian Symbols in Astrology by Dr. Marc Edmund Jones, 1953 First Edition, The Sabian Publishing Society, New York; printed in the United States of America by the Roberts Studio Press, Arden, Delaware.

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

Leo 28° “Conceptual melodies.”

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

Leo 28° Many little birds on the limb of a large tree

This is a symbol of the transcendence of the lesser things in life by a continual expansion of higher considerations, or of the individual’s ability in a crisis to center his attention on the enduring orientations through which he gains his own assurance. Here is a happy lightness of the human spirit as it rejoices in its infinitely varying relations with the beautiful and the good, or as its experience is poised at a point of highest satisfaction.

The keyword is RAMIFICATION.

When positive, the degree is man’s effective mobilization of all the unrealized possibilities of his destiny, and when negative, an enjoyment of confusion or the momentary self-importance it brings.

Cristofori’s Dream ~ David Lanz

The planet of sensation, Earth—our home–where birds sing, flowers bloom, clouds drift, waters flow, and mountains spire. With eyes, ears and nose; fingers, hands, legs and toes, all of our senses ingest, digest and consume all that is about us.

To each experience we attach a measure of significance through these sensate abilities. In the end we will have a story to tell—our astounding experiences and unique perspectives of what we have realized, those epiphanies of which we have become intimately aware.

Thus, born into such an amazing world and filled with such incredible personal senses, how might we plan, organize and construct for a future intake of our highest mental, emotional and physical endowment? We are the sum total of our experiences. Make yours a conceptual melody, won’t you, please?

This planet we call home, Earth, is filled to overflowing with opportunities to make stories of our own creations—and there are those who will choose to live life and create stories filled with anger and upset, full of hatred and misconceptions and loathing and self-pity. But there are other voices! Listen to them! They speak of unfathomable beauty and joy! Indeed by such inspired voices has this cherished tradition of story-telling long been kept alive among us—at the cradle, at the knee, around the campfire, from the pulpit and podiums of great men and women come…

“Conceptual melodies.” Namaste ~ Saijin

Image credit: Saijin ~ writing in the sands in Puerto Rico and “Summer Sonata” by i-am-JENius

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 27° “Regenerating love’s light.”

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

Leo 27° Daybreak

This is a symbol of the cycles of change as an ultimate assurance to the human heart, with an emphasis on the reason as the means by which man knows the nature of his own continuance. No matter what may be the course of events in their over-all unpredictability, there is always dawn or springtime as the promise of resurgence or a new potential in every manifestation of self and its world. Reality is ever a beginning in the sense of the immediacy it offers the individual.

The keyword is GENESIS.

When positive, the degree is an untiring capture and recapture of life throughout the constant and confusing shifts of being, and when negative, wishful thinking and satisfaction in a vague tomorrow.

The symbol above is the trademark of The Sabian Assembly. At a Sabian conference in the summer of 2011, I met José Luis Mayoral. He came to the conference from Spain. As an amazing Sabian Astrologer, had been “reading” English (the works of Marc Edmund Jones) for many, many years, but yet he “spoke” very little English. We befriended one another with phones-in-hand to search for translated phrases and began what is now more than a decade of interaction. Working together, we have transcribed  (me) and translated (him) the Sabian Astrology lesson sets by Dr. Marc Edmund Jones into digital format, and we both serve on the International Outreach and Support Committee. I often muse that we must have been blessed with the gift of tongues those many years ago. It is inexplicable, but real, nonetheless.

At that conference, one morning, I saw him running towards me, quite anxious about something. “Despacio, despacio” ..slowly ..slowly, I motioned with my hands. Oh! It was his phone—he’d lost it! He was trying to tell me that he had come from the restaurant, having retraced his steps–not knowing exactly when or where, the evening before, he’d lost his phone.  Now, something about a Sabian symbol. What? I don’t understand. “Otra vez, otra vez,” .. tell me again .. tell me again.

“Amanecer. En mi habitación, estaba pensando profundamente. ¿Dónde había dejado mi teléfono? Y decidí mirar el libro de símbolos de Sabian y abrirlo a una página. Lo abrí a Leo 27 DAYBREAK. Y pensé… Un ‘descanso’ en el día. ¡Me había tomado un descanso en la cena! Un ‘descanso’ para cenar”.

“Daybreak. In my room, I was thinking deeply. Where had I left my phone! And I decided to look at the book of Sabian symbols and just open it to a page. I opened it to Leo 27 DAYBREAK. And I thought– A ‘break’ in the day. I had taken a break at dinner! A dinner ‘break’.”

We headed again to the restaurant where he’d just come from. He took me to the bar area in the back where he’d sat an eaten his dinner. I asked the bartender about a phone. He recognized José Luis and shook his head no as he had earlier when José Luis had asked, “¿Telefono?” Now, both of us disheartened, we turned to leave. It was getting very congested near the front entry-way as we passed–the hostesses were in a flurry, grabbing menus and motioning parties forward. It was loud and confusing. But in that confusion, I felt peace settle over me, and I saw an opportunity… As the hostess grabbed beneath the dais for a handful of menus, I leaned in and asked calmly, “Excuse me, but has anyone turned in an iPhone?” 

“Why, yes! Here!” She lifted it up. José Luis saw his phone and jumped in shouts of exclamation and joy. He was ecstatic.

Well, that may seem to be the end of this story, but just in case you may have missed the critical point…  Here was a Spanish-speaking man who had bravely ventured into a country not his own, navigating our culture, peoples and  environment, only to have lost his one connection to home—his phone–separated from him. Well, he returned to conference now relieved and restored. Soon he would return to Spain, enriched by having met others of his group here on the other side of the pond. One relationship was sealed and forged to a new way ahead—Leo 27 Daybreak: Genesis. This symbol will always remain my evidence to him–and, more importantly, he to himself –that the Sabian symbols, like Sabian Astrology is for everyone. He’d thought the symbols “too American” and had dismissed them. He told me as much, but I pressed on relentlessly speaking of them and debating (in very poor Spanish) of their efficacy to all peoples. Now, they had done their magic and reconnected him to his phone, to his loved ones, to his homeland ….. at the “break” of day.

We left conference on separate paths, or so it would seem… In a decade of time, we have produced many works in both languages. We continue to forge ahead…

“Regenerating love’s light.” 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.