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Astrological Alchemy This is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of The Tao of Astrology by Kelly Lee Phipps © 2011 Kelly Lee Phipps. Look for the whole book in late spring/early summer! Astrological Alchemy “We shall never understand each other until we reduce the language to seven words.” Kahlil Gibran Your astrology chart’s mystic configuration is a treasure map indicat- ing the path to the buried artifacts of your authentic, Visionary Self. The seven classical planets together govern the flow of time and change in this solar system. They also govern the inner workings of the systems of the body, as the physical form is a mold or imprint of the conscious- ness that pervades it. The days of the week and the hours of the day are infused with their vibrations too, still echoed in words that describe character like saturnine, jovial, martial, venusian, mercurial, lunatic, and sunny. The seven days of the week get their names from the planet that governs the first planetary hour that marks the rising of the Sun. In the diagram above, starting from Saturn’s symbol in the lower right and moving toward the Sun at the top, the seven-pointed star pattern traces the flow of the days while the counter-clockwise motion around the circle, leading toward Jupiter, indicates the speed of the planets from slowest to fastest. A Saturn planetary hour marks the first hour of daylight as the Sun rises on Saturn’s Day (Saturday). The hours progress in the order of planetary speed, from slowest to fastest (Saturn-Jupiter-Mars-Sun-Ve- nus-Mercury-Moon) and then they start over again at Saturn. According to this ancient wisdom, Saturday would be the first day of the week, gov- erned by the Time Lord. With 24 hours in a day, there are 12 Day Hours and 12 Night Hours. Sunday follows Saturday because if you follow the progression by planetary speed around for 24 hours, the first hour of the rising Sun on the day after Saturn’s Day happens to be the Sun’s plan- etary hour. That is why Sunday follows Saturday and so forth. After seven days, the cycle returns to Saturn’s rising hour after Friday. You can hear some of the planets in the Spanish names for the days better: Lunes, Martes, Miércoles, Jueves, Viernes. A planetary “hour” is a pe- riod of time equal to the length of daylight or night divided by twelve. Around the equinoxes (equal-nights) these “hours” are actually hours. In the northern hemisphere, as the days grow longer in summer, the day “hours” lengthen as the night hours shorten. During the winter it’s the reverse. The night hours are longer durations. The rising Sign in the east shifts one degree every four minutes (240 seconds) or one minute of arc per four seconds. In my works, I’ve defined four seconds as the archetypal “moment”. Since Saturn is the planet of organization and structure, this is a wise planetary hour and day to organize schedules and set goals. Jupiter hours and Jupiter Day (Thursday) are great for inspiration and growth- oriented activities. Mars hours are great for working out or getting mo- tivated. Sun hours are superb for play, creativity and performances. Ve- nus hours are perfect for social activities, artistry and romance. Mercury hours are great for comunication and learning. Lunar hours are good for eating, resting and going inward to access the imagination. There are various I-pad astrology apps that show the planetary hours instantly. If you organize your schedule around the planetary hours, your life takes on a special synchonistic acceleration and you can actually feel the ar- chetypal essences flowing through the days and planetary hours. You become attuned to the alchemical qualities of the space-time continuum. Table 3-1: Classical Planetary Associations Planet Day/Hour Alchemy Chakra Body System Saturn Saturday Calcination Root Skeletal/Immune Jupiter Thursday Dissolution Crown Respiratory/Nervous Mars Tuesday Separation Sacrum Muscular Sun Sunday Conjunction Heart Cardiovascular Venus Friday Fermentation Third Eye Endocrine Mercury Wednesday Distillation Throat Nervous Moon Monday Coagulation Abdomen Digestive In alchemy, the seven planets stood for the process of individuation, of reclaiming and living the authentic Visionary Self through seven distinct phases of transformation. By working with and developing the arche- typal powers granted by the seven classical planets, a person performs the inner alchemy of transmuting the lead of the lower-self into the gold of the higher-self. In this work, I’m re-visualizing the higher-self as the Visionary Self. I chose Visionary as the descriptor due to the archetypal imaginal nature of the inner, dimensional self. Vision implies imagery, and the numinous power of the archetypes transmitted through the Pi- neal Gland, the envisioning gland, inspires a Vision Self. Not everyone is a visionary, but the power of Vision is universal. The age of religions and philosophies that denigrate the sacred temple that is the miracle of the human body is ending. The term lower-self implies that incarnation is unholy, lowly, unfortunate. In fact, Body Wisdom is the key to living the Tao of Astrology. The miraculous interplay of the various Body Sys- tems in relation to the planetary archetypes is a great mystery to behold. In addition to being associated with the seven chakras of the meta- physical body that pervades the human form, the seven classical planets also have relationships to the physical body through the Zodiac signs they govern and to the various holistic Body Systems that emulate their archetypal functions. And when the Triune God breathed forth, lo, seven spir- its stood before the throne. These are the Elohim, creative spirits of the universe...there is one God from whose great being there came forth the seven spirits that created heaven and earth; and manifest unto the sons of men are these great spirits in the sun, moon, and stars...these are the creative at- tributes. Men call them lesser gods, and in their image they made man...man was a thought of God, formed in the image of the Septonate, clothed in the substances of soul.1 The inner journey to working with these seven creative attributes of the universe begins with Saturn and the alchemical stage of Calcina- tion. In alchemy this was the stage of reducing a substance to ashes through pressure and heat symbolizing the destruction of ego-attach- ments through the facing of mythic trials and tribulations. In fact, many people who first get into astrology abhor the lead of Saturn in their charts and through the experience of its transits. Saturn’s archetypal job is to face us with difficulty to make us real, working with the root chakra and raising issues of survival and responsibility. Saturn governs the Skeletal structure and invites us down into the stark-white scary bones of life. Saturn invokes struggle to make us stronger for what is to come. Meet hardship with a silent smile, for difficulty is a harbinger of a new phase of empowerment that is slowly emerging. It is in Saturn’s crucible of re- birth that the fruits of our old selves are harvested and crystalized by the scythe of Time. You don’t really meet your true self until you’ve faced this kind of adversity. One of the best ways to induce this alchemical 6 The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ shift is through simplification and increased metabolic aerobic activ- ity, literally buring off a life of overindulgence and materialism. This requires tremendous discipline and a comittment to concentrated focus on the issues that emerge during a Saturn transit and/or the archetypal realization of Saturn’s power in our birth charts. Saturn’s placement by Sign, House, Aspect and Dignity shows where and how you establish your authentic authority through disciplined ef- fort. How do you achieve integrity and self-mastery? Where is the kar- mic pressure? If you want to awaken the Visionary Self, look Saturn’s symbolism right in the metaphorical eyes and begin to accept the mantle of destiny. People rush to integrate the Outer Planets in astrology, but if you do not master Saturn before treading into those deeper waters you are likely to embrace only frustration and possibly madness. The second alchemical stage of Dissolution involves Jupiter as we dissolve the ashes of defeat in the great sea of compassion and open to the state of flow. Jupiter asks us for complete immersion in the source- conscious (the unconscious for those not familiar with my terminology) so that the buried treasures can resurface. This is where we learn to live the mystery beyond our personal prejudices and hangups as well as conditioned societal institutions. From the root chakra and Saturn we ascend into the crown chakra and Jupiter, inciting a revolution of con- sciosuness in the Pineal Gland. This is where the archetypes of the col- lective source-conscious interface with the body - through dreams, im- agery, active imagination, meditation and divine inspiration. Through being an open channel for the intricate yet subtle seasonal, monthly, daily, and even hourly alternations of shadow and light we learn to re- flect like the metal alloy Tin. Jupiter opens the floodgates of the creative imagination and the energetic channels of the body to uplift and energize every cell with divine vision. The lightning bolt flash of enlightenment strikes after doing the difficult Saturnian work of facing and overcom- ing trials. After utter struggle and egoic defeat we attain the heights of the lonely mountain and stand with grace above the clouds to behold the storm.
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