BASIC ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY CONCEPTS
by Bruce Johnson --
Bruce Johnson has over 30 years of study in the fields of Ancient Wisdom and occultism. He has taught classes on a wide range of topics, from Atlantis to mediums to Zoroaster. He is also a Spiritualist minister, with a background in spiritual astrology. He lives in Colorado with his wife and their cat.
Esoteric astrology is the science that works with the energies and forces which act upon and through the entire field of space and all that exists within that field. The ether of space is the medium of transmission for the seven color rays and every energy that affects and influences our solar system. The human etheric body with its seven chakras is part of the planetary etheric body. The Ageless Wisdom teaches that “space is an entity”. It is the life, rhythms, radiations, emanations and cycles of this entity that esoteric astrology deals with.
The same twelve constellations, or sun signs, are used in both exoteric and esoteric astrology, but the planetary rulers and color rays linked to those constellations in esoteric astrology can vary from those in exoteric astrology. Constellations that are strongly related to each other share a common planetary ruler or color ray. In esoteric astrology, the planetary rulers of the sun signs can change depending on whether the individual is an ordinary person, or a more spiritually advanced disciple.
The ordinary person reincarnates through all the constellations multiple times starting with Aries and moving around the “Great Wheel” in a clock-wise direction. The spiritually progressed individual and disciple reincarnate around the zodiacal wheel through the signs from Aries in a counter-clockwise direction. All human beings are on either the ordinary or “reversed wheel”. The esoteric astrologer must try to assess the consciousness level of the person they’re interpreting the astrology chart for, to determine whether to use exoteric astrology, esoteric astrology, or a combination of both.
A list of constellations, ruling planets, and color rays, first for exoteric and secondly, esoteric charts. Exoteric chart= Aries- Mars, indigo/ Taurus- Venus, orange/ Gemini- Mercury, green/ Cancer- Moon, green/ Leo- Sun, blue/ Virgo-Mercury, green/ Libra- Venus, orange/ Scorpio- Mars, indigo/ Sagittarius- Jupiter, blue/ Capricorn-Saturn, yellow/ Aquarius- Uranus, violet/ Pisces- Jupiter, blue. Observe that red is missing among the color rays.
Esoteric chart= Aries- Mercury, green/ Taurus- Vulcan, red/ Gemini- Venus, orange/ Cancer- Neptune, indigo/ Leo- Sun, blue/ Virgo- Moon, green/ Libra- Uranus, violet/ Scorpio- Mars, indigo/ Sagittarius- Earth, yellow/ Capricorn- Saturn, yellow/ Aquarius- Jupiter, blue/ Pisces- Pluto, red. Notice the inclusion of Vulcan, Earth, Neptune and Pluto among the esoteric planetary rulers.
The system of esoteric astrology has twelve planets, seven of which are sacred planets, five are non-sacred planets. Sacred planets synthesize soul and personality, as well as consciousness and form. The planetary Logos of a sacred planet is more evolved than the Logos of a non-sacred planet. Non-sacred planets relate to the personality functioning on the lower four planes of life. The sacred planets are- Vulcan, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The non-sacred planets include- Sun, Moon, Earth, Mars and Pluto.
Crosses are important to esoteric astrology, with the cardinal, fixed and mutable crosses being accented. Crosses symbolize four different streams of energy merging at the central point of the cross. The cardinal cross= the four cardinal signs, fixed cross= the four fixed signs, the mutable cross= the four mutable signs. The three crosses correspond to varying levels of consciousness and soul unfoldment.
The Science of Triangles of Energy and the Science of the Chakras underlie esoteric astrology. The major seven chakras in a person’s etheric body all attune to a ruling planet and color.