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A is for Abundance: Abundance is the source virtue. It is the ideal state that is the origin of all other states. Abundance is a face of the Octahedron of the Good that is framed by three vertices: Creativity, Strength, and Sacredness. It is also framed by the edges generated between these vertices. Novelty bridges Creativity and Strength. Inspiration (Hope) bridges Strength and Sacredness. Glory bridges Creativity and Sacredness. Peace is the opposite of Abundance, Love of Creativity, Adventure of Sacredness, and Accuracy of Strength. Satisfaction is the opposite of Glory, Justice of Novelty, Observation of Inspiration. Abundance, Virtue, Interest, and Faith are discontent. Peace, Joy, Wisdom, and Harmony, their opposites, are content with what they have. Unlike Interest, and Faith, Abundance, Wisdom, Harmony, and Virtue are values rather than feelings. Interest, Faith, Joy, and Peace are emotional states. Abundance and Interest, like Wisdom and Joy, are open. Harmony, Faith, Peace, and Virtue seek closure. Wisdom, Interest, Virtue, and Peace do their own thing. Faith, Joy, Harmony, and Abundance spread it to others. Creativity and Love, Adventure and Sacredness, Accuracy and Strength are the three basic polarities of this system. They define the six faces of a cube, edges of a tetrahedron. B is for Belief: Another system is the octahedron defined by the following polarities: Habit to Volition (Closed to Open), Thought to Belief (Analysis to Synthesis), Value to Emotion (Ideal to Expression), and Imagination to Sensation (Source to Product). This system is framed by three polarities: Interpretation to Communication (Private to Public), Worship to Proof (Whole to Part), and Rule to Power (Fixed to Flux). Both systems, described in A and B above, involve the subjective as well as the objective. Thought, Sensation, etc., are features of the reaction of local consciousness to the larger environment. Emotion and Volition are action centered. Emotions are dispositions to act. Volition, choice, involves the control of actions. Habit and instinct are the opposite of Volition. They represent actions that are “locked in” rather than open. Values and virtues are the opposite of emotions. They represent ideals and standards rather than dispositions to act. Joy is the state associated with conformity between values and outcomes. It is an energized state of satisfaction. Imagination deals with the possible and Sensations with the actual. Thoughts separate and Beliefs integrate. Imagination generates possible states that can be selected for, and favorable dispositions developed. When integrated with other imaginations, creates a belief, a mythology. C is for Communication: Humans communicate through language. Language describes the world of objects, of sensations. It also describes the values of objects sources of the satisfaction of human needs. Economics studies that exchange value of these objects. Morality studies values as they relate to humans as the creators of the language in which values are described. As Julius Kovesi points out (Moral Notions), moral notions relate to the special status of humans as the creators of the language that describes values, as the objects for which value describing language exists. Morality has to do with the special status of human beings in any value system. Spiritual has to do with values that are infinite rather than finite, with anything infinitely precious. A materialistic civilization focuses on finite profit and Gross National Product. It has no infinite values. The opposite is a civilization like that of medieval Europe in which the infinitely precious displaced most utilitarian concerns. Logic assigns values relating to the need for orderly and accurate processing of rational information from sensations. Aesthetics assigns values relating to the need for satisfaction and enjoyment from the symmetrical and asymmetrical patterns of sensations. Sensation processing is centered in the posterior portion of the cerebrum. Value processing is centered in the anterior (frontal lobes), logic in the left hemisphere and aesthetics in the right. D is for Dimension: The Form of the Good extends into an infinity of dimensions. The most important dimensions in the Form of the Good are the lower dimensions. The two dimensional field that differentiates the transcendent from the manifest and the individual from the collective is the most important field with in the Form. The one dimensional gradient between the fixed and the fluid is the most important gradient within the Form. Together this gradient and the gradients of the field complete the three dimensions of the Tetrahedron, Octahedron, Cube, Pyramid of the Good. The three dimensional form breaks open into four dimensions and five and so on to infinity. As it does this, the fields and gradients are opened out and develop systems that emerge from lower to higher levels of organization: photon, particle, atom, molecule, cell, organism, tribe, city, etc. Subjective time moves against objective time as infinitesimal subjectivity emerges into finite objectivity and collective objectivity is submerged into the boundless subjectivity that is the ground of all things. The infinitesimal soul develops a single endlessly long thread of time that shatters into fragments as it enters the finite world. These fragments form two dimensional wave fronts that merge into the three dimensions of local space and the four dimensions of relativistic space time. This public world is generated by the collective convergence of the separate time threads of participating subjective entities as they select a universe out of the infinitely dimensional. E is for Emergence: What emerges in public space is the product of the interaction, the convergence of two separate time developments. Private time emerges from the infinite through the infinitesimal and converges on specific alternatives within the infinite possibilities of quantum potential. It converges with two dimensional wave space of light and electromagnetic radiation and the resulting three dimensional space of the local finite and the four dimensional space time of cosmic relativity. Public time emerges as an infinitesimal locus within infinitely dimensional hyperspace, as a black hole singularity within some local universe belonging to some large aspect of the infinite hyperspace system. This singularity emerges through a big bang process as a white hole generating a new sequence of cosmic space-time. This thread of cosmic time quickly spreads out through two dimensional electromagnetic radiation into three dimensional space. This space expands into a relativistic four dimensional space-time that quickly develops the five, six, seven, eight, and higher dimensions associated with atomic and quantum potentials and the complex implications of string theory interactions. The zero dimension of the singularity of the cosmos has generated the one dimension of cosmic time and the two dimensions of electromagnetic radiation and finally the three dimensions of cosmic space. F is for Form: The developing cosmic space quickly gels into relativistic space-time and multidimensional string theory space. As it does this, it generates the rolled-up dimensions that characterize particles. As a result of the formation of particles and string theory space, matter begins to emerge from energy, generating the hydrogen and helium that will coalesce under the influence of gravity to form stars and galaxies. Public form is the product of the interaction of public and private time. The cosmic singularity and the singularity of the infinitesimal soul both weave the boundless into the finite through threads of time. An infinity of souls generates an infinity of time threads. Multitudes of these, interacting with alternative quantum possibilities, converge on the space-time complexes of the public universe. Public and private time converge to generate a manifest objective world with subjective aspects. To a certain extent, public and private time are at war and the emergent world is formed by this endless conflict. It is churned up into a froth by the convergence of their wave fronts. Private time awakens, it is individualistic, capitalistic. Public time generates the collective unconscious. It is collectivist, communist, deterministic, the spinner of fate. It rules the future of those souls with time threads that have died, that have lost contact with the finite. Reattachment to the world can only come according to its rules. Souls that wish rebirth must submit to its law. G is for Government: The astrological order governs the public world. All objective entities are available for attachment of subjective entities. There are subjective entities attached to the planets that are associated with emotional states equivalent to the motion and placement of the planets. Uranus has a axis turned on its side. The axis of Venus and Jupiter are practically vertical. Mars, Saturn, and Neptune are tilted. Uranus is the eccentric planet. Mars, Saturn, and Neptune tilt things and cause misfortune. Venus and Jupiter are associated with stability and fortune. Jupiter, Venus, and Neptune have very circular orbits. Saturn is less circular than Jupiter, Mars is even more irregular, and Pluto is very elliptical. Jupiter and Venus are planets associated with harmony. Neptune can bring spiritual harmony, but on a tilt. Saturn causes misfortune (disharmony), Mars brings strife, and Pluto brings revolution. Planets in opposition can generate conflict. A square is formed from oppositions in opposition. It heightens conflict. Trines consolidate and generate harmony. These relationships govern the order associated with the birth, the beginning of anything as a separate entity. The govern the public time to which the soul agrees when it attaches its private time to the public world. The astrological order governs the deep elements of the public world. Only radical changes, relocations can alter it. H is for Harmony: The opposite of Harmony is Interest. Harmony is the face of the Octahedron of the Good framed by the vertices: Sacredness, Accuracy, and Love. Interest is framed by their opposites: Adventure, Strength, and Creativity. Harmony has three edges: Beauty, between Accuracy and Sacredness; Fidelity, between Sacredness and Love; and Justice, between Accuracy and Love. The edges of Interest are their opposites: Enthusiasm, between Strength and Adventure; Awareness, between Adventure and Creativity; and Novelty, between Strength and Creativity. The Form of the Good is the mathematical harmony that reaches into the boundless and attempts to govern it, to change it from hell to heaven. The Form of the Good is endlessly at war with the chaos of the boundless and the boundless is endlessly at war with the restrictions imposed by the Form of the Good. The resulting Tao (Way of the Good) is a harmony generated from the interacting Yang (boundless) and Yin (Form of the Good) of their conflict. Harmony attempts to close and interest attempts to open. Harmony seeks government and interest seeks freedom. Like Peace, Harmony is content with less. Like Abundance, Interest seeks more. Like Faith, Harmony brings together. Like Wisdom, Interest separates. Harmony surrenders desire. Harmony obeys. Interest increases desire. Interest rebels. Harmony is a socialist and Interest is a capitalist. Both are needed for balance. I is for Inspiration: Inspiration sits in the place also occupied by possibilities and hope. It is a place of mythology and dreams. It is the ground of all things. Observation is the opposite of Inspiration. Observation gives hope concrete form. Inspiration lies between Sacredness and Strength. It separates Faith from Abundance. Faith is the opposite of Wisdom. Faith is surrounded by Sacredness, Love, and Strength. Wisdom is surrounded by their opposites, Adventure, Creativity, and Accuracy. Faith has three edges: Inspiration, between Sacredness and Strength; Fidelity, between Sacredness and Love; and Affection, between Love and Strength. Wisdom has three edges: Observation, between Adventure and Accuracy; Awareness, between Adventure and Creativity; and Knowledge, between Creativity and Accuracy. Faith pulls together and Wisdom isolates. Wisdom is left hemisphere and Faith is right. Wisdom generates individual mind. Faith is the public trance generated by the Collective Unconscious. Faith is the compact agreed to by all the individual centers of consciousness. Faith is the collective selection of the public drama out of the alternative universes of the boundless seas of possible dramas. Faith generates the local astrology and Wisdom generates the birth and death of souls within that astrology. The Buddhas, truly wise, alone are truly free, truly saved. J is for Jupiter: Jupiter is the largest of all the planets. Its axis is straight up and down and its orbit is very symmetrical. Saturn is slightly smaller, further out into the darkness. The orbit of Saturn is more eccentric and its axis is more tilted. Jupiter is associated with expansion and fortune. Saturn is associated with tilt and distortion and suppression, with things shrinking and going wrong. Uranus is further out and completely on its side. It is the eccentric of the planets. Neptune is even further out. Although it is tilted, it has a very circular orbit. Neptune is the deceiver. It stands for things that look good, but are tilted. It stands for the deceptions in material things and the higher harmony of worlds beyond. Pluto is the furthest out, the smallest, the most erratic. It stands for unconscious energy, revolution, reproduction, the death and destruction of the solar light. Venus is on the side of the Earth toward the light of the Sun. Mars is on the side toward the dark. Venus has little tilt and a circular orbit. Mars is tilted and has an eccentric orbit. Mars is associated with strife and misfortune. Venus is associated with harmony and fortune. Mercury, the tiny planet between the Sun and the other planets, is associated with communication and the exchange of energy. The Sun is the center, the administrator. The Moon is the emotional reflection, the tidal, the moody unconscious. K is for Kismet: If the sky is divided into circle based on the path the Sun and planets appear to take, it is possible to divide up the sky based on the point ascending over the horizon, or the point where the Sun is when spring begins. These circles can be divided up by cutting them in half to symbolize an opposition and then into quarters by an invisible square. They rule the Kismet (fate) of the zodiac. If an invisible triangle is projected on this circle, it will carve off a twelfth part. Using this approach, the circle of the ascending Sun can be divided into 12 houses and the circle of the seasons into 12 sectors. Taking the sectors where the Sun is in mid-summer, it is possible to set up two sequences of planets to rule this Kismet. One sequence of planets will move forward as follows: Sun in seasonal Leo, Mercury in seasonal Virgo, Venus in Libra, Mars in Scorpio, Jupiter in Sagittarius, Saturn in Capricorn, Uranus in Aquarius, Neptune in Pluto. This sequence takes up 8 of the 12 seasonal sectors (solar signs). The first four sectors are taken up by a counter sequence moving backward against the solar one: Moon in Cancer, Mercury in Gemini, Venus in Taurus, Mars in Aries. The sequence goes underground and shows only a minor secondary influence as lunar Jupiter in Pisces, lunar Saturn in Aquarius, lunar Uranus in Capricorn, lunar Jupiter in Sagittarius, only to break out with a vengeance as lunar Pluto in Scorpio. Some say this Pluto rules this solar sign. L is for Lunar: Astrology is not understood because it is treated as a series of simple relationships of an objective type. Astrology is the result of the interaction of private and public time. The private time aspect is personal and unique to each participating subjective entity. That is why astrology can never be a science. Each subjectivity radically reinterprets all being and generates its own unique theology and metaphysics. There is a unique astrological system for each soul. There is a unique cosmology for each soul. Astrology can not be scientific because its core is neither public nor repeatable. It is, at its root, radically private and radically unrepeatable. The repeatable elements of astrology are not the important elements of astrology. Those which are public and repeatable are by definition shallow and trivial. The relationship of the solar and the lunar is a good example of this truth. Solar and lunar influences operate in radically different ways in radically different circumstances. No influences are subject to such variations as the influences of the Nodes of the Moon. The West tends to ignore these features of the lunar orbit because of the radical variance in their effect. The West desperately wants astrology to either go away or become a science. The East desires to keep it as a part of the Dharma that is a central piece of the approach of the East to theology and metaphysics. M is for Metaphysics: The larger metaphysics is a result of the mathematics of the Form of the Good stimulating the subjective to generate the singularities of the infinitesimal and the singularities of the infinite, creating the arrows of private and public time. The intersection of these arrows creates the astrological complex from which local cosmology and local physics emerge. Only local physics can be scientifically known because only local physics is public and repeatable. All other things are known by extension of the Form of the Good or from personal report and public mythology. The character of this knowledge is radically different from scientific knowledge and should not be confused with scientific knowledge. Scientific knowledge is accurate but shallow. Metaphysical, mythological, and theological knowledge is inaccurate but deep. It seems to be a rule of existence that the more important the knowledge, the less certain. The less important the knowledge, the more certain. It is like trying to determine the speed and position of an electron. To have one is to give up the other. The knowledge provided by the Form of the Good is the least specific of all knowledge. No knowledge has less local certainty and more global relevance. The Form of the Good sacrifices factual certainty for deep meaning. No form of knowledge has more importance. N is for Neoplatonic: These Neoplatonic notions lie behind the principles of systems theory. Systems operate because of feed back from the environment into some set point on some thermostat like monitor that connects to some correcting mechanism that maintains environmental stability. There need to be provisions for mutations in the code that maintains the set point and for some kind of natural selection for codes that fit the local thermodynamic conditions. There need to be provisions for some kind of recombination and reproduction of the code, some way of isolating variant types to generate new species. The set point is the Platonic Form and the ultimate set point is the Form of the Good. The feedback system works at the mathematical level and the system homeostasis at the level of the object that reflects the Form (physical property that reflects the set point). The allegory of the cave is a metaphor for the changes, the mutations that need to occur to liberate the Forms from their bondage to shadows. To eliminate maladaptive codes (genes). The set point is a shadow of previous set points (genes). It struggles to get free (natural selection) and be exposed to the Sun (endless possible mutations). Now it can carry this message to others (reproduction, recombination). The set point is equivalent to Value or Virtue in the octahedron. O is for Octahedron: The first version of this octahedron, that consolidated neoplatonic and systems theory notions, was developed around the idea of the set point of systems theory being equivalent to the idea of value or virtue in moral systems. The input of information to compare with the set point was linked to the Wisdom and Thought in the octahedron of morality. The environment that supplied the input was Sensation or Peace in the octahedrons of virtue and value. The negative feedback that maintained the homeostasis was Harmony or Habit. This constituted the basic system cycle established about the Rule or Accuracy pole of the octahedrons of value and virtue. But, a second cycle was implied. The cycle of evolution of out of control systems. Positive, out of control feedback was identified to the Faith or Belief face of the octahedrons of value and virtue. Decay of systems as a result of out of control feedback was identified to the probability or expression face, and natural selection of decayed systems to the open face. Mutations as alternatives were identified to the Imagination and Abundance faces. This new cycle, the evolution cycle moved around the Strength, Power, or flux pole of the octahedron. As a result we had four stages. Decay, natural selection, mutant possibility, and recombination of selected set points resulting in positive feedback. P is for Positive Feedback: The resulting octahedron covered all aspect of existence. The set point or ideal face was the opposite of the decay or expression face. The open or natural selection face was the opposite of the feedback mechanism or closure face. The environment or result face was the opposite of the mutation or source face. The analysis or input face was the opposite of the synthesis or recombination face. Negative feedback generated homeostasis and maintained a stable environment. Positive feedback altered the homeostasis generating decay and extinction. This opened the environment to new possibilities and the possibility of the emergence of alternative forms. The old platonic notion of the Form of the Good was the set point. The mathematics of the forms was the input and feedback mechanisms. The object that resulted was a homeostatic environment. The shadows it cast were the various aspects of the decay cycle including positive feedback and potential natural selection for a new set point, a new Form of the Good. We had succeeded in translating only fashioned neoplatonic notions into modern systems theory, in integrating Platonic metaphysics and evolution. We had a Form of the Good that worked for both the natural and the supernatural. This integrated conception became the basis for the development of the octahedron templates that we are currently using. Q is for Quarters: The human brain can be divided into four higher divisions. Fact oriented left hemisphere and holistic right hemisphere. Both can be divided into action based frontal areas and sensation based posterior areas. The frontal areas are places where the brain establishes its higher-level set points. The posterior areas are concerned with the input of data from the environment. The left hemisphere is concerned with the analysis of that data and the right hemisphere with its integration into a larger picture. Astrology uses the ancient notion of the four substances: air, earth, water, and fire. A tetrahedron imposed on the octahedron of value would come up with four faces: Value, Sensation, Belief, and Volition. Value is equivalent to air in astrology. Earth is equivalent to sensation. Belief is equivalent to water. Fire is equivalent to volition. Air is the abstract ideal. Earth is the natural product. Water is mythical synthesis. Fire is revolutionary openness. Air leads to knowledge. Earth leads to observation. Water leads to emotional involvement. Fire leads to action. Air can also lead to pursuit of perfection. Earth can lead to stability. Water can lead to mythology. Fire can lead to novelty. Seasonal Aries is a fire sign, Taurus is earth, Gemini is air, Cancer is water. The tetrahedral aspect of the Form of the Good is the source of the polarity of the seasonal divisions of the Zodiac. R is for Result: The tetrahedron of Air, Earth, Fire, and Water is nothing more than our old friend, the Platonic divided line emerging in a new form. Air is the set point, the ideal, the Form of the Good. Earth is the result, the product, the homeostatic object that reflects the system and set point that maintain it. Water is the collective shadow reflected by this system, including its positive, its out of control effects. Fire is the breakdown of this system and its regeneration. Aristotle recast these four as the “Four Causes:” purpose (air), form (earth), medium (water), and action (fire). They also reappear as the four humors: air = sanguine, earth=melancholy, water=phlegmatic, fire=choleric. The left hemisphere of the brain tends to be positive and the right tends to be negative (sanguine vs. melancholy). The frontal lobes are action oriented while the posterior cerebrum is the passive receiver of sensation (choleric vs. phlegmatic). There is a hidden tetrahedron that represents the polar opposite of the air to earth tetrahedron. The opposite of idealistic air would be thermodynamic decay. The opposite of practical earth would be imagination and the boundless. The opposite of the synthesis of water would be analysis and thought. The opposite of the breakdown by fire would the order and homeostatic mechanism. S is for Source: Imagination and the boundless are the source for the energy and the mutant patterns that decay in the ordinary world of entropy and probability. Analysis provides the input that maintains the homeostasis of existing systems and mechanistic order provides the governing output. This Source, Probability, Analysis, Order tetrahedron is the mirror image of the Air, Earth, Fire, Water tetrahedron. The mutant Source is acted on by natural selection from Fire and recombination from Water to generate new expressions in the world of entropy, in the realm of the Probable. The result is new set points in the realm of Air that are guided by input from Analysis and use output from Order to maintain the homeostasis of Earth. The four faces of the tetrahedron of Air, Earth, Fire, and Water are complemented by their opposites in the four vertices of the tetrahedron: Air to Probable, Earth to Source, Water to Analysis, Fire to Order. These eight form the eight faces of an octahedron: Ideal (Air), Probable, Product (Earth), Source, Synthesis (Water), Analysis, Freedom (Fire), and Order. The vertices of this octahedron are formed from the three basis polarities: Private to Public, Whole to Part, Fixed to Flux. This is the Octahedron of the Form of the Good. Its Air, Earth, Fire, Water faces define three sets of four within the twelve sections of the sky that generate the seasonal zodiac. Thus, astrology is a manifestation of the Form in action. T is for Tetrahedron: The trine relationship is a result of the projection of the three dimensions of the tetrahedron into the two dimensions of the orbits of the planets about the Sun. The sextile is generated when the vertices and edges of a face of the tetrahedron are projected into an orbit. The square is a two dimensional portion of an octahedron and the opposition of a cube. The square is able to capture only one eighth and the cube only one sixth of the energy of the Form of the Good. The trine is a favorable relationship because it captures one fourth of the Form of the Good. The square is less favorable because it captures only one eighth. The sextile is simply an alternate (and slightly less stable) form of the trine. The opposition is intermediate between the sextile and the square, with aspects of both. Its character becomes favorable under the influence of Venus or Jupiter and unfavorable under the influence of Mars or Saturn. The Form of the Good is an ideal pattern that is an eternal mathematical potential of existence. It is the basis of the systems order that maintains homeostasis and generates organic evolution. It is also the basis for the evolving astrological order of the cosmos that governs the relationship of the visible objective order and the invisible subjective order. It governs the system of transmigration of souls that underlies the visible world. This deeper structure is known as “Dharma” in the East. U is for Uranus: These truths were gradually made apparent as I studied my own natal chart. Uranus is prominent in that chart. It sits near my midheaven in a grand trine with Neptune and Mars. Neptune is conjunct Venus, Moon, and Sun. It is not surprising that I have an eccentric personality. It is not surprising that I am interested in astrology and science with that kind of natal pattern. I have been unable to deny the validity of either astrology or materialistic science. The religious beliefs of my family were of the New Thought variety. Study of New Thought made me gradually aware that it was basically Christianity stripped bare to its ancient Neoplatonic core. When I was thirteen, I read a lot of Plato. I became obsessed with working out a modern form of the ancient Platonic metaphysics. What you see in these pages is the result. Uranus is a planet at the edges of the solar system. Neptune is even further out. Uranus has it axis turned upon its side. It is associated with independence and eccentric notions. Neptune is associated with the spiritual because of its position at the edge of the Solar System and its nearly perfect circular orbit. A trine between these two far out planets is likely to attract far out ideas. Metaphysics and astrology are the kind of things it would attract. Uranus loves new kinds of science. It would inspire far out experiments with strange variants of systems theory. You can see its influence on my ideas. V is for Vertex: The seasonal signs are the result of combining the four faces of the Fire, Earth, Air, Water tetrahedron with the cardinal, fixed, mutable trinity. The order that the faces of the Fire, Earth, Air, Water tetrahedron appear in conforms to a cycle of the corresponding octahedron that follows the sequence of Aristotle’s four causes: motion, shape, purpose, and ground. This cycle runs through the poles of the octahedron associated with flux, part, fixed, whole, and flux again. A second cycle runs from flux through self, fixed, social, flux. This second cycle is the source of the cardinal, fixed, mutable sequence. It can be traced along the edges of the Octahedron of the Good, running from vertex to vertex. The social pole of this sequence is missed because the zodiac is the social pole. The zodiac is the entrance of the Form of the Good into the public world. The controlling aspect of this entrance is the self, or cardinal pole, and the oscillation of its creativity between the fixed and flux (mutable). The product of this oscillation between vertices of the octahedron, when combined with the cycle of the faces of the tetrahedron, generates the 12 sections of the orbit of the planet around the Sun that create the Zodiac of the seasons. There are three segments ruled by Air in the Zodiac circle. Gemini is mutable Air, Libra is cardinal Air, and Aquarius is fixed Air. Gemini is Air ruled by Mercury and tends toward knowledge. Libra is Venus and tends to beauty. W is for Water: There are three water signs. Cancer is cardinal water. Scorpio is fixed water. Pisces is mutable water. The Moon rules Cancer and brings out its nurturing tendencies. Pluto rules Scorpio and brings out its hidden mythology. Neptune rules Pisces and extends this mythology into the realm of music and dreams. There are also three fire signs. Aries is cardinal fire. Leo is fixed fire. Sagittarius is mutable fire. Mars rules Aries and generates struggle and initiative. The Sun rules Leo and generates individuality and self-assertion, it provides the vital energy of life. Jupiter rules Sagittarius and takes forward action. Jupiter opens up and expands the point of view. There are three earth signs. Taurus is fixed earth. Virgo is mutable earth. Capricorn is cardinal earth. Venus rules Taurus and emphasizes material satisfaction. Mercury rules Virgo and emphasizes material exchange and observation. Saturn rules Capricorn and emphasizes hardship and struggle. Aquarius is the third air sign. It is ruled by Uranus. Uranus emphasizes creativity and independent thought. The houses divide up the circle of the ascending signs. Signs ascending over the horizon at the time of birth. The houses are divided by the tetrahedron of opposites to the fire tetrahedron. X is for X House: If an imaginary axis were drawn through fire tetrahedron that dominates the zodiac, its opposite would be the analysis tetrahedron that dominates the houses. The 12 segments of the houses follow a sequence of Analysis, Order, Probability, Source imposed on the three gunas: Sattva (spirit), Tamas (matter), Rajas (action). The Analysis houses are the: First (I), Fifth (V), and Ninth (IX). The First is Analysis and Sattva Guna; it focuses on the person and their inner soul. The Fifth is Analysis and the Tamas Guna. It focuses on the material objects, the projects that bring out the creativity of the soul. The Ninth is Analysis and the Rajas Guna. It focuses on the activity of thought. The Order houses are the Second (II), Sixth (VI), and Tenth (V). The Second is Order and Tamas; it is the order of material possessions. The Sixth is Order and Rajas; it is the order of physiology, health, and service. The Tenth is the Order of Sattva, of personal occupation and creativity. The Probability houses are the Third (III), Seventh (VII), and the Eleventh (XI). The Third is Probability and Rajas; it is the activities of daily life. The Seventh is Probability and Sattva; it is personal relationships, partnership, marriage. The Eleventh is Probability and Tamas; it is the friendship and sociability aspect of the material. The Source houses are the Fourth, Eighth, and Twelfth. Y is for Yoga: The Source houses are the Fourth (IV), Eighth (VIII), and Twelfth (XII). The Fourth house is Source and Sattva, its is the house of the family. The Eighth house is Source and Tamas, it is the house of inheritance. The Twelfth house is Source and Rajas, it is the house of karma, of rituals, of secret practices. The Twelfth house involves what needs to be done to overcome karma from past lives. The Twelfth house rules practices like Yoga that are done in order to obtain liberation from past lives. The First house is the house of birth and individual consciousness. The Twelfth house is the house of Yoga, of meditation, of release from bondage to the individual consciousness. The houses follow the sequence of input, homeostasis, development, and recycle. The Analysis houses, I,V,IX, are knowledge houses. The Order houses, II,VI, and X are homeostasis and material effect houses, the Probability houses, III, VII, and XI are development and involvement houses. The Source houses, IV, VIII, and XII are houses of novelty and rebirth. A second sequence appears to be present in the order of the Houses. The Analysis houses appear to be personal houses and the Probability houses appear to be collective houses, the Order houses appear to be manifest houses, and the Source houses appear to be transcendent houses. The Analysis houses are about the individual. Z is for Zodiac: The houses and the zodiac appear to be developments of the Form of the Good as it is manifest in the systems of the local cosmos. The origin of both the soul and the cosmos lie within the Form of the Good. It is not possible to understand the metaphysics behind the visible universe without studying the Form of the Good as the master plan of the invisible ground that is the source of the visible. It is not possible for both materialistic science and transcendental astrology to be true without some deeper structure to create them. The scientific astrology the West is attempting to generate is an illusion, a dream. It has no reality. The attempt of Western astrologers, the hope of Western astrologers in elevating astrology to a science is nonsense and foolishness. It only subjects astrology to further ridicule. Any student with a bit of intelligence can see that it is a delusion produced by second-class minds. The attempt to deny the value of astrology as a guide to the future of the soul is equally foolish. It is the work of people of prejudice. It is the work of small minds that are closed to any larger view. Astrology is a piece of the larger cake. It is a slice of something that is true in a deeper sense. Both astrology and science are cuts made into the endless. It is the Neoplatonic framework, it is the systems theory Form of the Good that provides the deep structure that gives the universe both atoms and souls, both cosmic structure and astrological pattern, both stars and zodiacs. It generates the mathematics of science and seasonal signs.