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Sabian Symbols

The texts included here are interpretations by James Burgess of the profound work of the "Dean of American Astrology" Dr. Marc Edmund Jones, whose Sabian symbols hint at the essence-meaning of each degree of the zodiac wheel. It is a work-in-progress that will possibly take 7 years to complete. Open
Each of the 12 signs has its own life message for every one of us, with 30 distinct aspects, so that we are studying 360 degrees of wisdom; yet some messages are more easily understood than others. This may well depend upon our birth day.

Look at your personal horoscope and find the position of the planets - particularly the sun and moon - and learn what the zodiac degree is. For example 15.38 Taurus is the sixteenth degree of Taurus and is associated with the image of "Trying to Reveal the Mysteries".

The text is far from straightforward and requires study and intuition; it is for serious students of the mysteries. Please take your time, and revisit these ideas repeatedly, resisting the modern inclination to rush on after receiving the first shallow taste of knowledge.

Each degree is interpreted as having 7 aspects that express the 7 primary words, albeit with some subtlety. A simpler approach to the 7 Words may be seen elsewhere in this website.

Planets & 7 Words

In early days, astronomy and astrology were the same thing and the ancients evolved meanings for the planets along the lines 'as above, so below'. In other words whatever pattern is anywhere is everywhere. Open
Childlike Mercury was Hermes to the Greeks and a quick-witted communicator, businessman and trickster, ideally placed in a city.
Venus had passion in her loves and hates, naked and powerful she was instinctual and natural.
Mars was seen as a disciplined warrior who protected and resisted, though when self-control floundered, he could be cruel and selfish.
Jupiter meant well and, out of a deeply felt emotion, would distribute largesse, occasionally dangerously incautious when flinging his thunderbolts about.
Saturn's slow path across the heavens translated into the gait of an old man, rigid and serious like death - a preserver of the customs that bind together a community.
Apollo was the shining centre of primary importance - the truth of a person, and the Moon was illusion, a pale reflection of the true light and could be seen in the face of the faceless masses, those who tolerate everything.

So they found these associations:
Sun: monarch
Moon: the masses
Mercury: town life
Venus: country life
Mars: Lords Temporal
Jupiter: Lords Spiritual
Saturn: ministers

We could meaningfully suggest that the Monarch is the final No-sayer, the masses accept everything and say Yes, town-dwellers like saying Hello to people, country-dwellers value beauty more (Thanks), knights are forever resolving things and moving on (Goodbye), priests pray (Please) and ministers are the king's conscience (Sorry).

Pluto in Capricorn

January 2008 to March 2023

Recently Pluto changed signs again, and such an event can sometimes be dramatic - as it was in 1914 and 1939.

We know that the movement of celestial bodies are rhythmic; they circle the sun smoothly and always return on time, therefore to guess at the future we need to look at the past with rhythm in mind. Open
It takes about 246 years for Pluto to complete its orbit around the Sun and re-enter any particular sign of the zodiac, so to study what happens when it does requires us to look at the history books and sift through for clues.

It seems that issues have arisen that touch upon what people can and cannot do - played out by the powerful authorities that influence the march of history. Some of the events have been quite pivotal in the development of religions; others have had great impact upon political matters and marked the rise and fall of a few impressive empires; a few were indications of shifts of attitude. In different ways these were all expressions of the reformation of the fabric of social structure - the underlying issue of how to develop civilization.

Always there was something to make a profound impression on history during Pluto in Capricorn. In every case there has been a major development of awareness experienced by humanity, as vast tidal waves rippled across time-waves of social change as transformative and enduring as Buddhism, Christianity, discovery, schisms, wars and empires. These seminal events are examples of what has occurred:

Confucianism begins in China
Buddhism enters China
Rome begins its dominance
Rome takes Britain
Christian Mission of St Paul begins
Goths take Rome
Marco Polo enters China
Luther seeds Protestantism
Cook arrives in New Zealand and Australia

Looking back one Pluto cycle to see what happened last time, we notice that the seed was planted for the birth of an empire. The Boston Tea Party was the refusal of Americans to pay British taxes, their will to independence, and the beginning of a power that dominates today's world.

The hard events that are written down are simply clues pointing to underlying streams of humanity's ideas, expectations and destiny - which find their way into our books according to the selective processes of commentators, who have no way to put them into context. For example, we can learn about the fact that during the 1340's the population of Europe was devastated by plague - an event whose implications are resonating strongly 600 years later because it killed off so many small villages that vast migrations towards cities began, and the stage was set for the Industrial Revolution - leading inexorably towards climate change - because a city-based population tends strongly towards machinery and away from relationship with land.

This was truly a Capricornian expression, yet more like Neptune in its insidious hidden eating-away process, and indeed Neptune was in Capricorn then - and subsequently during England's 1664 plague and again for the Aids scare of 1984. Also an earlier plague in 542 AD that eventually killed off 50% of Europe's people was said to be the cause of the migration of the Goths who fled the rats and went on to take Rome in 546. And on the same theme, the pied piper of Hamelin was another story of rats and big societal changes, based in 1284 when Pluto was in Capricorn. Is it too fanciful to suggest that rats are the antithesis of government, representing the absence of good order? Failure to clean up the mess we make is surely as much to do with rats as it is to do with climate change.

The challenges that we could expect to come up during the intensely saturnine years of a Pluto Capricorn transit are those things that hold in place our sense of security on a society level - our social security. We include government, banks, laws, institutions, corporations, and structures of all kinds, including religion and even morality. Some of these will have to go through watershed-level shifts. What is essentially unhelpful has to wither and fade.

It would be naive for us to trust in the system - some would say that it's dying!

Neptune in Pisces

On 4 April 2011 Neptune enters Pisces. We have a couple of stelliums. The first - Neptune, Chiron and Venus spanning only 8 degrees at the beginning of Pisces is remarkable because for the first time since 1861 Neptune is at home again in its own sign. Open
Chiron is there too and the so trigger is released on all the '60's Kids who aren't kids anymore - the generation who were born when the world woke up 51 years earlier are having their Chiron return in Pisces.

If that's not enough - how about a 6-planet Aries line up with Uranus, Mars, Moon, Sun, Jupiter and Mercury all energetically signaling a new beginning? It takes no profound insight to talk of a New Era opening. Good enough? Well we also have Pluto in Capricorn squaring things and Saturn in Libra opposing things so all in all we can confidently say that the time is ripe for something rather serious, profound and important to occur! And there will probably be more friction between powerful opponents both with God on their side.

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capricorn entering a large canoe
libra pinning butterfly wings
taurus shellfish groping
scorpio and the telephone linemen

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astrology NO is about boundaries.
There is pressure from the forces of society, friends, teachers and what our parents want us to be. This has to be resisted if we are to claim the space to be truly unique.

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HELLO is about opening up.
The study of astrology brings us into contact with ancient archetypes - the warrior, the lover, the wise man, the fool - wrapped up into clear symbols that we can understand as much through intuition as rational concepts.

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THANK YOU is about gratitude and feelings.
There are admirable qualities to discover in each of the zodiac signs, even the ones that we find difficult. As we learn to appreciate these qualities in other people, somehow we begin to develop the same qualities in ourselves.

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GOODBYE is about moving on.
The challenge is to come to understand and acknowledge the wisdom and principles of other signs. A major breakthrough in life can take place when we have the realization that "not everyone is like us, nor needs to be like us".

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PLEASE is about vision and cooperating.
Each zodiac sign is described by qualities and attributes. We can focus on the negative aspects, which are often put on mugs to give as humorous, perhaps insulting, birthday gifts - or we can aspire to express the more positive qualities.

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SORRY is about taking responsibility and release.
So often we hear "It's not my fault, that's what Gemini, Libra, Scorpio is like", well it's not true! It's all too easy to blame the gods for our own shortcomings. Zodiac signs show tendencies, not absolutes.

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YES is about accepting what is.
Society, fearful of the hidden desires lurking in us all, has created its taboos. It thus reinforces the repression of energies that really are healthier if released with awareness.

Astrological Relationships

7 Words Ideas

Sabian Symbols

Planets & 7 Words

Pluto in Capricorn

Neptune in Pisces

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horoscopes aries taurus gemini cancer leo virgo

libra scorpio sagittarius capricorn aquarius pisces

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libra scorpio sagittarius capricorn aquarius pisces

horoscopes aries taurus gemini cancer leo virgo

libra scorpio sagittarius capricorn aquarius pisces

horoscopes aries taurus gemini cancer leo virgo

libra scorpio sagittarius capricorn aquarius pisces

horoscopes aries taurus gemini cancer leo virgo

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