CYCLES OR CIRCLES, CENTERS AND CIRCULATION part 4

CYCLES OR CIRCLES, CENTERS AND CIRCULATION part 4

SO INCLINED

"As Above,So Below ... but After Another Manner," familiar as an occult maxim, might be the perfect description of what is involved in the various astrological coordinate systems and their transformations. It is easy to communicate the concept of "Wheels within wheels" (larger systems containing within them smaller systems), and this has resulted in the popular idea of the chakras or planes (planets) of our experience and self as an ascending hierarchy of levels, each inclusive of the preceding level. What is not generally appreciated but becomes increasingly clear when we examine the actual structure of the various cosmic systems is not only the idea of larger systems embracing the small systems within them (levels). but that each larger system is also differently inclined to the preceding one. It should be understood that aside from the often tedious mathematics involved in coordinate transformations, there is an accompanying philosophical or psychological adjustment to be made, a shift in viewpoint, a change in the approach or attitude to the subject.

So, there is not only an expansion in perspective when we move to a larger coordinate system, but also a reordering of our sense of direction. This is what makes it so difficult for an individual to see beyond his present dimension and get a feel for what is perhaps his inevitable future. There exists what are termed "event horizons" beyond which we cannot understand how life can go on. an example of some event horizons: puberty, marriage, child birth. and death, to name a few of the classics. We cannot see beyond our present sphere into what our future might be like in these other dimensions because we cannot help but conceive of these events in terms of our present line (linear) of thought. To pass through these event horizons involves total change. We do not watch our own change for we are what is in fact in transition or change. We are changing.

The idea presented here should be obvious: crossing of an Event Horizon involves simple reorientation on our part, call it a change of approach or attitude. The new dimension or sphere we enter turns out after our adjustment or change to reveal our previous or past life in new light. We see our old behavior and opinions differently in our new approach to life. It is very difficult to communicate the difference to one who has not yet had that experience. What has changed perhaps most is our INCLINATION. We do not want the same things we did want, or want them in a different manner. We are no longer inclined such that we feel the way we used to. Our life now revolves around a different center than before -- a wife or child, for instance.

Many of these principles are graphically revealed through the study and exercise of the various astrological coordinate systems. For instance. what appears in one system as isolated and singular entities that are apparently unconnected, when viewed in the perspective of another system define the basic shape of the system itself. How often in our lives does some singularity appear as if an other and foreign entity, but later, when we have experienced several of this type as representatives of a kind at first unfamiliar. This same event becomes recognizable to us and loses its threatening quality.

I cannot apparently recommend strongly enough the exercise of these various ways or systems for understanding our universe to astrologers practicing today. Let us examine briefly some of these larger systems and their systems and their Centers. For those of you interested in a more thorough description and catalog of of the various members of these systems see my book: ASTROPHYSICAL DIRECTIONS (1976, American Federatin of Astrologers).

COSMIC SYSTEMS AND THEIR CENTERS - A List

1. SOLAR SYSTEM Center: Sun

2. LOCAL SYSTEM (Gould's Belt) This is a group of some 10.8 stars of which the Sun is a member. The Local System, originally thought to be a minute galaxy embedded with the Milky Way, is considered to be an ellipsoid of 700x200 parsecs with the long axis parallel to the New Galactic Longitudes 160 deg/340 and located in Orion-Cygnus spiral arm. The centroid of the Local System is in Virgo at about 15deg25' with nodes to the Ecliptic at 10deg22' of Sagittarius (North node) and Gemini. The system is inclined to the ecliptic by about 66deg. Note - positions are of the Epoch 1950.0.

3. LOCAL GALAXY...The Milky Way. Estimated to contain 10 to the 11th stars, The Galaxy is a disc-like structure with a diameter of some 30,000 parsecs, a central elllipsoidal nucleus of about 4000 parsecs, and an average disc thickness of several hundred parsecs. The nodes and center (about 26-degree of Sagittarius) in relation to the ecliptic are given elsewhere. The Sun is located some 10,000 from the Galactic Center.

4 LOCAL GROUP OF GALAXIES The local group includes about a score of member galaxies...the largest of which is the Andromeda Galaxy (M 31), our galaxy, and M-31 revolve around a common center of mass roughly in the direction of 27-degress in the Sign Aries.

5 LOCAL SUPERGALAXY . Our Galaxy is part of a vast flattened super system of galaxies some 40 megaparsecs in diameter, with the center (at 1 degrees of Libra) in the great Virgo Cluster some 12-16 megaparsecs from our Sun.

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