Nature of The
Sidereal Zodiac
R afael Gil Brand is an international
astrological consultant, teacher and
psychotherapist, both trained and
certified in Western and Vedic astrology.
Born in June 05, 1959 in Madrid (Spain),
where he was trained as an astrologer, he
studied Psychology (minor: Theology) at
the University of Hamburg (1991). He
passed his exam as a professional
astrologer at the DAV (German
Astrologers' Association) in 1989. From
1994 to 2008 collaboration in the
translation and edition of medieval
astrological works, together with fellow
astrologers in Spain. Since 2001
committed study of Vedic astrology,
which is the main system he works with.
He is a Fellow and Approved Teacher of
the Institute of Vedic Astrology
(2007/09). Author of the Lehrbuch der
klassischen Astrologie (2000; a For western astrologers it seems to
description of medieval astrology,
addressed to modern practitioners). He
has authored also many articles and
Congress contributions in different
countries. www.astrologie-zentrum.net
Galactic matrix and
solilunar rhythms
By
Rafael Gil Brand, Germany.
I
want to inv ite the reader to
take a look on a dimension of
astrology that, despite it’s age
and it’s unquestionable vitality –
especially regar ding vedic astrology
– Western astrologer’s usually
don’t pay attention to but
hesitatingly. I will offer an
understanding of the nature of the
sideral zodiac, mirrored from the
cultural roots that the Western
world, and epec ially western
astrology, claim as their own. I
will have a glimpse on the
operating of the zodiac, and will
then investigate what ancient
wisdom and mythology as well as
cosmology teach us about this
heavenly domain.
be a matter of course that the
zodiacal signs resemble the yearly
path of the sun and zero degrees of
Aries is identical with the vernal
equinox. This is called the tropical
zodiac. Astrologers often talk about
the Age of P isces or the upcoming Age of Aquar ius and imp licitly
understate that there is another c ircle of 12 images with the same names,
connected with the fixed stars. But o nly few seem to question whether this
sidereal zodiac could make sense in interpreting natal charts or in horary
astrology.

As a rule Western astrologers also assume that the zodiac always has been
understood as tropical. But nobody will ernestly doubt that th ese very old
su mer ian or egyptian images of Sagittarius, the Goat -Fish and the Water-
Bearer referred to the constellations that actually could be seen in the sk y,
at a time when the equ inox was far from reaching Aries. These are deep
symbols handed down from old ages, which still move us today, and yet
they signified something else than the sun’s travel between 21st of
November and 19 t h of February.

We know that the chaldeans of the 5th century BC had been for a long time
div iding the path of the sun and the planets into 12 signs of 30 degrees each,
and that this regular div ision was a sidereal one, not tropical. And al though
certain Greek savants def ined the zodiac as tropical it is often overlooked
that all Greek authors ack nowledged the Chaldeans and Egyptians as their
masters.

It is more than ten years ago that, in dealing with the classical astrology
and her histor y, I began to question myself whether this elder sidereal
zodiac wasn’t also meant in the Hellenistic tradition. And I came to the
conclusion that not only classical horoscopy gains accuracy in delineating
the disposition and destiny of the native if we us e the sidereal zodiac. A
thorough examination of the relevant sources also showed that it was used
by Greeks, Persians and Arabs until deep into the Middle Ages.

For example, from a commentary by Theon of Alexandr ia in the 4th century

a.D. it is plane that astrologers often converted the planetary positions from
Ptolemy’s handy tables into sidereal positions. The expert in ancient
astronomy van der Waerden concludes that Theon’s report clearly shows the
popularity of the sidereal zodiac among the astrolog ers of the last Roman
period. And the writings of famous Hellenistic and Arabic authors like
Vettius Valens, Abu Masar and others definitely point to the fact that they
understood the zodiac as being sidereal. Abraham Ibn Ezra (12 t h century)
clearly stated that the tropical zodiac is to be used for astronomical
calculations, whereas the sidereal zodiac is to be used for astrological
delineations.

There was something else: having bridged this perhaps biggest gulf between
classical western and Hindu astrology, both traditions turned out to be
amazingly similar. Not only the old Her metic astrology could shine in a
new light, also the rich possibilities of Vedic astrology came to enlarge this
knowledge without perceiv ing any major contradic ition or break betwee n
both traditions. O n the contrary, they apparently emerged from one and the
same source. O ne of the oldest Hindu books on genethlealogy, the
Yavanajataka (270 AD), is a proven translation from a Greek original.

You surely all k now that the vernal point m oves through the whole zodiac
in about 25750 years, due to the slow rotation of the earth axis. In the West,
where the existence of a regular sidereal zodiac is rather left out of account,
it is in this regar d often talked of constellations of different si ze which the
vernal point is passing through. But let us briefly see whether the precession
of the equinoxes through the old Hellenistic and Hindu zodiac can be
matched with the sequence of History. I will apply the Ayanamsa of JN
Bhasin, which appears to yield the best results in my daily work with natals
charts.
The classical zodiac not only consists of twelve signs, but contains also
certain other divisions. A div ision which is very important in Hellenistic
and Tajik a astrology is constitute d by the planetary terms, called hu ddas in
Arab and Vedic Astrology. I can’t go here into the question of how this
complex system comes into being. It must suffice to say that according to
Hellenistic teachings a certain number of years are assigned to each plane t.
The su m of the years of the 5 planets, exclu ding Sun and Moon, is 360.
These planetary years are distributed among the zodiacal signs accor ding to
certain principles, building in each sign 5 irregular sections governed by the
respective planets.

Then we have also the exaltation degrees of the planets which are recor ded
with slight variations in Vedic as well as in Western astrology.
As the vernal point was moving in Aries through the term of Venus, the
Greek and Hellenistic culture reached its full flo wering. According to
Hindu tradition the exaltation of the Sun lies on 10 degrees of Aries
(instead of 19 degrees), which the equi nox reaches in 340 BC. This is almost
exactly the time when Alexander the Great conquered his huge emp ire.

Near the entering of the vernal point into the term of Jupiter the era of
Roman Emperors begins. O ne degree further on, the summer solstice meets
the exaltation degree of Jupiter on 5° of Cancer. Here again I give
preference to the Hindu tradition. The date is 16 AD, just a few years before
the birth of Chr istianity. It won’t establish definitely as a state religion
until the transition into the Jupiter -ruled sign of P isces, in the second half
of the 4th century.

With the vernal point crossing the hu dda of Saturn we have the invasion of
the Huns, the great migration of peoples and the definite fall of Rome.
Starting from P isces Lagna, Saturn is the ruler of the 12th house, which
stresses the signification of foreign people and mass migrations.

With the letting up of people s migrations the vernal point entered the ter m
of Mars, and by the time it reached the exaltation degree of Venus another
big religion was born which was directly associated to Venus throughout the
Middle Ages: Islam.

The whole period of Mars, who rules t he 2d and the 9th house from Pisces,
is marked by feudalism and k nighthood, by the violent conversion of pagans
as well as by the wars between two big religions, Chr istianity and Islam.

The equ inox then entered the term of Mercury in the end of the 12th
century, this planet being debilitated in P isces. It is the ending of the
Islamic heyday, and the Catholic Church and the Middle Age culture enter a
state of deep cr isis. O n the other hand dur ing this time more and more
ancient book s are translated from the Arabic into Latin, Spanish and other
European languages. It is the age of mystical movements and the epic poems
on King Arthur.

With the transition into the hudda of Jupiter, ruler of P isces, the
Renaissance and the age of great discover ies begins. It is the beginning of
globalization, a genu ine P iscean theme. Especially remark able is the passing
of the autu mnal equinox over the exaltation degree of Mercury in 1445. Not
only that the old Hermetic science blossoms anew, at this date the
letterpress printing was invented!

Since the middle of the 17th century the vernal point is moving in the ter m
of Venus, who is exalted in P isces, and we exper ience a vast develop ment in
several areas related to Venus – an increasingly materialistic way of
thought, the wo men’s emanc ipation, the consu mer soc iety and last but not
least the sexual revolution in the 20 t h century. Bear in mind that Venus
rules the 3 r d and the 8 t h house from P isces, pointing at an increasing
mobility and the break ing up of taboos.

With these examples, which speak for themselves, I just wanted to highlight
how fertile the old zodiacal divisions can be if we understand them sidereal.
I have applied the theory of precessional zodiacal ages – which isn’t
mentioned in old astrology – on div isions that are today almost forgotten
among western astrologers. O n the other hand in classical prognosis the
planetary terms are a very important tool for interpreting the direction of
the ascendant. Here I have regarded the vernal point as a sort of collective
ascendant.

Such examples show the inner consistency of this phantastic system, which
was visioned and comprehended in old ages by means har dly at our disposal
today. But nevertheless we can try to understand the nature of the sidereal
zodiac out of the text s and images of anc ient culture, and out of the
phenomenology of the cosmos. Therefore we must free ourselves from the
influence theory that has tended to impose itself in Occident since Ptolemy.

Accor ding to Hermetic teachings the purified soul, after ha ving passed
undamaged the seven planetary spheres, enters the eighth heavenly sphere
of the fixed stars. Elsewhere it is stated that God took water and earth,
breathed his spir it into the mixture and created with it the signs of the
zodiac. This is the cre ation of heavenly man, which we meet in Vedic
philosophy as Maha Purusha. Later, when the created souls rebelled against
Gods will, He created the earthly man, and the 7 planets should contribute,
in accor dance with their nature, to this creation. The seve n planetary gods
are an instru ment of destiny, whereas the zodiac has the virtue (I quote) „to
create all universal events that shall forever occur“.
This Her metic doctrine expresses the idea that the earth and the earthly
man didn't emerge by chance, bu t that their creat ion arose from a Godly
purpose. And we also learn that the planetary forces alltogether participate
in this creation. I will take up this idea once again at the end of this article.

The starry heaven is described as the homeland of the souls before the Fall,
and the place where the freed soul returns to. It points to a paradisical state
before time, beyond the forces of destiny embodied by the planets. At the
same time it is a sort of store containing the archetypes of all living beings
and events that should ever manifest. The planets represent cyclic time
which br ings into concrete being what is prefigured in the zodiac.

An old legend connected with the 12 zodiacal signs is that of Hercules. The
name Hercules means „famous through Hera “. Indirectly it was the Goddess
Hera who burdened him with the 12 works, which are connected with the
movement of the Sun and the equinox through the 12 signs. This 12 works –
which Hercules takes on voluntarily in order to atone for his own guilt -
show the tr ials of the soul on her path to liberation. For twelfe years
Hercules has to serve k ing Eurystheus, which reminds us of Jupiter's
revolution, the father of Hercules.

One of his works consisted in getting the fruits of the Hesperides. These
golden apples were a wedding gift from Gaia for Hera, and the latter planted
them in her gar den near Atlas and let the tree be guar ded by a hundred -
headed Dragon. According to one version of the myth Hercules put him to
sleep or k illed him. Afterwar ds the dragon wa s transfered by the Gods to
the heaven. Now we actually see in heaven the figure of this Dragon
winding around the pole of the ecliptic.
Hercules first had a har d time finding the way to Atlas, who appeared to
live in the land of the Hiperboreans, that is in the North of the world. So
Atlas symbolises the earth pole or the pole star. His carrying of the Heavens
is described as a burden, which points to the bur den of earthly life. At the
same time the precessional movement of the pole generates the diffe rent
ages through which mank ind as a whole evolves.

The ecliptical pole lies near the heavenly North pole. And near Atlas there
is the tree which carr ies the golden fruits, symbol of perfection. The often
mentioned placement of the Hesperides’ gar den in the West is another
image for a place where death and spir itual rebirth occurs. Actually the head
of the Dragon is situated in a region of the sk y which falls between Scorp io
and Sgittarius, the signs of death and of spiritual awakening.

In a cosmological sense the Tree of Knowledge stands for the ecliptic and its
axis, the ecliptical poles. Also the heavenly Jerusalem from the apocalypse
as well as the “true earth” which Platon describes in the Phaidon, have a
twelve-fold structure.

Hera is the wife of the God of Heaven Zeus. She is the Goddess of
marriage, but also the “mistress of womb” as Ovid calls her. Her connection
with the sphere of fixed stars is made clear by the tale accor ding to which
the 10 month old Hercules managed to suck on her breast with the help of
wicked Hermes. This was a condition to reach inmortality. When Hera
pushed him off because of his too violent suck the Milk y Way came forth
(s. Image).

Consequently Hera stands in close connection to the heaven of stars and the
zodiac. Bu t this was already the heaven as perceived by the solar system.
The God that accor ding to Greek mythology establishes this new order is
her husband Zeus. And associated with this god is the planet Jupiter, who
revolves in 12 years around the Sun, visiting every year another zodiacal
sign. From an astronomical point of view this b iggest planet plays an
essential role in structuring the solar system: he protects the inner solar
system from penetrating asteroids and comets, and accor ding to modern
sc ientific findings is a necessary condition for the generation of life on
Earth. The cosmos of Jupiter is oriented towar ds mank ind, otherwise as the
world of the Titans.

The idea of the starry heaven as a matrix that surrounds the world is very
old and has a deep archetypical nature. In Egypt we find the Goddess Nut as
personification of the night sk y. She was dep icted as female starry canopy.
But Nut is equated by P lutarch with the Titan Rhea, and is therefor a
personification of the heaven in a state prev ious t o the O lymp ic Gods –
Rhea and Kronos are the parents of Hera and Zeus. Nut is also represented
as a cow from whose udder arose the Milk y Way , which resembles the
legend of Hera. She was dep icted with open arms on the inner side of the
sarcophagus, ready to receive the dead pharao. The pharao was considered to
be her son and companion and a personification of the sun.
The goddess Nut is related to the old Egyptian deity Neter, a pr imeval
goddess among the Egyptians. This name is often translated as “div ine
ocean” – the primeval ocean out of which all living beings emerge.
Accor ding to Egyptian myth it is this Great Mother who gave birth to the
Sun.

One cannot but be amazed at the deep truths that are encoded in these old
images. We are dealing here not only with truths related to the soul, but
rather with concrete cosmological issues. For today science tells us that the
Sun as well as the other stars in the fir mament were created by the forces of
the galaxy. And as the Sun emerged from the primeval ocean of galactic
substance, life on Earth as well has g enerated from the primeval ocean –
above is as below. There is an analogy between the earthy ocean and the
cosmic waters.

Accor ding to the Hermetic axiom each part resemb les the whole. The Sun
and her planetary system are part of the Galaxy, the Milk y Way, and we
can literally say that she was engendered in the Galaxy and came forth from
her bosom. The sky with its fixed stars that we can see every night is
nothing else than this Milk y Way, matrix of the sola r system which in turn
makes life on Earth possible. Therefor it appears logical if there is a
connection between the factors of the solar system and the starry space out
of which it emerged. Such a connection represent the domic iles and the
other planetar y dignities.

This is also made clear by the cabalistic Tree of Life. The upper triad is
formed by the sefirah Kether, Chokmah and Binah, in this or der of emanation.
Binah (Understanding) has as its worldly expression Saturn, who represents
the principle of time, destiny and experience. Somehow Saturn here is
standing for the cyclic principle of the planets as a whole. The
complementary and at the same time higher sefirah is Chokmah (Wisdom),
and is expressed in the manifest world by the zodiac. So we have here the
complementary pr inc iples of the 7 planets versus the 12 -fold zodiac. But the
cabalistic Tree knows but one zodiac, whereas the highest sefirah Kether
(crown) represents the origin of creation. The galactic centre – origin of the
planetary as well as the zodiacal forces – can be understood as manifestation
of Kether.
From a systemic point of view the earth – or better to say the system earth-
moon – belongs to the solar system, but the latter as a whole belongs to the
galaxy. Each sephirah of th e central pillar represents therefor a different
system level, from top to bottom: Kether the galactic centre, Tifereth the
Sun, Yesod the Moon, and Malkuth the Earth.

In the Ptolemaic conception of the world the tropical zodiac was thought as
a ninth sphere situated above the eighth, and could therefore maintain the
original property of the zodiac as an overall covering sphere that generates
all other movements in the sk y.

After the Copernican revolution the position and function of this ninth
sphere becomes obsolet. It can only be understood as a mere earthly sphere,
as a c ircle of earth houses which are generated by the earth’s movement
around the sun, and in this way loses its function as the space in which the
planets dwell and have their or igin. The vernal equ inox, the place where the
sun r ises once in a year at the North P ole, is for earth and mank ind a sort of
collective ascendant.
But this earth houses have as little a connection to the planetary forces as
the common local houses have. The sidere al zodiac on the contrary
maintains also in the heliocentric view this property: it is the starry space
surrounding the solar system which is divided in those 12 fields of
archetypal energy we call zodiacal signs. Regar ding time, space and
cosmological or der it lies before and above the so lar system. The beginning
of this circle of signs doesn’t seem to depend on the movement of the earth,
but should be found in the relation between solar system and gactical
structures.

The perception of the Galaxy and especially of the zodiac as the place where
the planetary gods dwell and from which they ultimately are descendants
and representatives in this world, can be traced in several myths. I think
particularly as astrologers we should take this myths ser iously, be cause they
veil a profound k nowledge on the History of the cosmos.

Hesiod in his Theogony tells how at the beginning Gaia created Uranos, the
starry heaven, in order that he became the seat of Gods and covered her
completely. Nor mally Gaia is translated a s “earth”, but for example Plato’s
descr iption of the “true earth” in the Phaidon puts us right. In their essay
„Hamlet's Mill“ Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend explain
after a thorough analysis of P lato’s dialogue: „Look ing...at the setting, o ne
begins to wonder if he is referring at all to the earth as we understand it...
He is dealing with another world above us... in the aether as Greeks
understood it.“ And further on: ”It was the whole, the cosmos, that was
meant... the „true earth“ was not hing but the P ythagorean cosmos.“

When later Uranos once and again hid his terrifying offspring in the womb
of Gaia, she begged her children for help, and the joungest Titan Kronos
declared his willingness to punish the abominable deed of his father. He
took the sick le Gaia had produced and castrated father Uranos when he
spread out longing for love over Gaia.

This is one of many myths that relate the separation of heaven and earth.
Kronos is the Egyptian Seb who separates the sk y-goddess Nut from Geb,
the Earth. The story symbolizes a cosmological event: First there are mighty
forces operating in space, until the proto -solar system isolated itself and
became a separated, indiv idual structure. The 12 Titans generated by Uranos
can be understood as mighty galactic forces at work before the creation of
the solar system, which were ultimately necessary for its creation. Today
we know that the sun and other fixed stars came forth out of older
generations of stars. In a sense the solar system was formed by heav enly
forces which first sacrificed themselves, as the myth describes. In Indian
lore we find a parallel in the sacrifice of Purusha, which was necessary to
perform creation.

Kronos - the Latin Saturn - here symbolizes the original state of the so lar
system as isolated from the other forces of the galaxy. He is the “dawning
of our planetary existence“ , as Rudolf Steiner puts it. This principle of
crystallization of the solar system is today embodied by the farthest visib le
planet. At the same time Saturn r epresents the process by which the soul
separates from the whole and becomes an indiv idual existence, a process
related in the myth of the Fall. Saturn mirrored from this world is the
planet of isolation and of the falling out of Unity, necessary for reach ing
knowledge out of free will and for finding the way back to the O ne. Kronos'
state of mind is that of fear, that’s why he devores his own children. When
the soul passes beyond the sphere of Saturn she enters the zodiac, the eighth
sphere of Hermetic mysticism, and experiences Saturn as the King of the
Golden Age.

But there occurs something else after the castration of Uranos: “When
Kronos threw Urano’s genitals into the surging sea, white foam for med
around out of inmortal flesh; therein a girl grew up”. This marvellous
maiden is Aphrodite, born out of foam.
Two things are expressed here: The planetary system needs a har monious
combining of planetary forces. This is represented in the balance betweeen
centrifugal and centripetal forces which assure the stability of the planetary
orbit. O n the other hand it is necessary that the orbits maintain a certain
proportion among themselves.

Now Venus symbolizes the perceiving of the div ine in the sensous world.
This is beauty, expressed in the marvellous pr oportions of creation as well
as in the emulation of the Div ine through works of art or in a ritual. This
latter aspect of Venus is made clearer in Hindu and in cabalistic astrology.

Let us see how Venus represents this. Not only describes her orbit an almost
perfect circle, her conjunctions with the sun moreover for m a pretty exact
pentagram in the sk y. This pentagram moves very slowly along the zodiac,
in such a way that one tip of the pentagram remains nearly exactly one
hundred years in one sidereal sign. After 1200 years it has revolved once.
1200 times 360 yields 432000 years, the duration of a Platonic year or the Kali
Yuga. So we find – on the basis of decimal system - the 12 also in the
rhythm of Venus. But this rhythm relates to earth, because the year after all
is the duration of the earth’s revolution around the Sun. And it is on earth
where Nature reveals the beauty of Venus. In myth it is told that when
Aphrodite came out of the sea fresh green sprout under her feet. The walk,
the rhythm of Venus lets earth become fertile.

The pentagram produces the golden section. This is the ratio by which the
lesser part is to the greater part as the latter is to the whole. This proportion
expresses the pr inc iple of self -resemblance: the whole is resemb le d in its
parts. The golden section is om nipresent in nature as well as in the
proportions of the human body, and renders both an image and a temple of
God.

Fractal self-resemblance deter mines figure and rhythm of the organism.

Self-resemblance is an esse ntial characteristic that rules the complex
interlink ing of organs. And the golden section is due to its property of
steady div ision the very mathematical expression of self -resemblance.

There is a famous sequence of nu mbers called the Fibonacci sequence, which

bears this golden proportion. It is built by the addition of two consecutive
numbers of the sequence resulting in the following nu mber:

0+1= 1
1+1= 2
1+2= 3
2+3= 5
3+5 =8
5 + 6 = 13 etc.

The higher the number of the sequence the mor e the ratio between two
consecutive nu mbers approach the golden section, that is the golden number
Phi.

Now Klaus Podirsky has presented in his book «foreign body Earth» the
amazing discovery that the periods of the planets of our solar system
(including the r ing of asteroids) have a connection with the Fib onacc i
sequence. If we divide the periods of the planets by 27,3 and extract the
square root of each result, we get a quite good aproximation to the Fibonacc i
sequence. This proportion is more exact than the rule of T itius-Bode.
So we see that the golden section is immanent to the structure of the solar
system. But where come this 27,3 from? It is the number of days the Moon
needs for one revolution. But it is at the same time the duration for a
synodic rotation of the Sun. In other words, the moon as seen from the
Earth not only has the same apparent size as the Sun, her revolution also
corresponds exactly with the Sun’s own r otation in relation to Earth. We
are dealing here with a time measure imma nent to the solar system, that has
transferred itself to the Moon and probably is crucial for the development of
life and mank ind.
The ancients had knowledge of this. Otherwise it can’t be understood why
the domic iles of the planets are dis posed in such a way that Moon and Sun,
the female and male light, rule over the two adjacent signs Cancer and Leo.
Their period of 27,3 days build the fundamental unit. And the domic iles of
the remaining planets arrange themselves along this axis in the o rder of
their periods, from Mercury to Saturn.

Accor ding to classical astrology the disposition of the planetary houses is

the most important structure of the zodiac, more than the four elementary
trines or even the three crosses. The ruler of the sign is the essential factor
which confers his character to it’s sign, one time in it’s lunar, the other in
it’s solar expression.

One planet falls out of the sequence: the Earth. Bearer of Life, she is the
only planet that doesn’t follow the Podirsky/F ibonacci rule. Rather the
fundamental rhythm of 27,3 days is particularly related, as we saw, to the
Earth. O ne might think that the whole solar system is a great organism
har moniously suited for the purpose of bringing forth the marvel of life on
this very spec ial planet, the Earth. Bear in mind that life is a rhythmical
process!

In a transferred sense it comes true what the heliocentric view negates: The
Earth is the centre of an order, a cosmos, that was arranged to bring forth
life and mank ind. As the Hermetic text said: God asked each of the planets
to contr ibute something to the creation of man.

The solar system therefore possesses a structure that is reproduced in the

zodiac and it’s domic iles, and the other way round. The rhythmical Gestalt
that is immanent to both solar system and zodiac, has it’s foundation in the
movement of Sun and Moon.

From this follows also the division or rhythmisation of the galactical matrix
on the basis of the three fundamental movements which Earth, Moon and
Sun perfor m together: Day (Earth rotation), Month (Moon revolution) and
Year (Revolution of Earth). The (sidereal) Year has 365,2564 days, the Moon
revolves in 27,3216 days (as the synodic rotation of the Sun) and the
common movement of Sun and Moon generates 12,3687 Moon cy cles
(months) of 29,5306 days each.
All these nu mbers are irregular div isions of the circle. The zodiac is divided
in such sections that correspond to the nearest car dinal and harmonic
number: 360 degrees, 27 Moon mansions or nak shatras of 13°20' degrees each,
and 12 zodiacal signs of 30° degrees.

Such har monical div isions play a central role in astrology and appear to be
„effective“. The common factor of these nu mbers is three, which builds the
simp lest regular figure, the equ ilateral triangle.

The planets, espec ially the b ig chronocrators Jupiter and Saturn, reproduce
those nu mbers on a higher level: the 12 years of Jup iter’s revolution, the 30
years of Saturn’s revolution, and the div ision of the circle by three that is
performed by consecutive co njunctions of Jupiter and Saturn.

From modern physics we learn today that every system receives information
from its surrounding and as a result develops certain process structures and
shapes. It is literally in-formed and in this way reduces its entropy, so it’s
state of organisation increases. Transferred to our issue this would mean
that the infor mation from the surrounding of the solar system has
contributed to the development of its structure. The rhythms of Sun, Moon
and planets build the code with w hich we decipher the galactical matrix.
They prov ide the time -Gestalt by which the message from the zodiac is
shaped.

Astrology teaches that the evolv ing of life and especially of man on Earth is
tuned up with the movements of the solar system on the back ground of
galactical space. That’s why we are able to read the destiny of a person out
of those movements and time-Gestalts. The string that produces this
correspondence is not physical in natu re, but metaphysical.