DATA: September 15,
2012 @ 10:12 P.M. - Washington,
D.C.
The September New Moon falls into the 5th house, applying to
a conjunction of Mercury in late degrees of Virgo...setting the theme for the
following four weeks. Except for the house position, the theme remains the same for everyone in the world.
To convey the esoteric meaning of this astrological event we
must look to the 3rd decanate of Virgo, pictured by a crown of twelve iron
spikes. This Venus-decanate of the
mental sign Virgo is the point from which the Sun passes into the winter
section of the zodiac. And so the
serpent, picturing the first decanate of Libra, is represented with his fangs
just before Corona Borealis - the Northern Crown - as if to strike.
Virgo in a natural birth-chart rules the house that governs
not only work, but also illness and servitude, the most common afflictions of
human life. When the Sun is in this sign
it is moving toward the Autumnal Equinox where days and nights are equal, and
after crossing which the forces of death prevail and the nights become longer
than the days. The forces of Light are
still triumphant while the Sun remains in any part of Virgo, but the closer the
Sun draws to the next sign, Libra, the weaker becomes the power of Day, and the
more is Night able to inflict its encroaching power of evil upon the solar
waning strength.
The last decanate of Virgo, where the Sun may be found from
September 13th to September 23rd, is the most appropriate place in all the
zodiac to represent the afflictions to which man is heir, and his persecution
at the hand of fate. The writer of
Revelation seems to have recognized this when he speaks of the pain
accompanying birth, commencing the 12th chapter thus: "And there appeared a great wonder in
heaven; a woman clothed with the Sun, and the Moon under her feet, and upon her
head a crown of twelve stars."
This place of tribulation in the zodiac indicates the proper
attitude toward misfortune, the spiritual lesson being how Job triumphed over
his afflictions. To indicate some object
significant of high honors attained, a crown was used...throughout the ages
shown as a reward for victory or as a mark of distinction...triumph over the
afflictions symbolized.
The Sun each year dies on the Autumnal Cross of Libra, even
as the Son of Man gave up His life on Calvary; or that preceding this
far-reaching tragedy the gentle Nazarene was vilely persecuted and made to wear
a crown of thorns, of similar purport to Corona Borealis placed by the ancients
in the sky to mark the tribulations of the Sun before it temporarily succumbs
each year to the forces of darkness.
The fruits of life, whether they be tares or wholesome
grain, are harvested from experience.
What that harvest shall be is not determined by the nature of the
experiences, but by the mental and emotional reaction toward them; for both the
physical conditions attracted in the future, and the spiritual values garnered,
are dependent upon the seeds of thought thus sown and tended in the finer form
and heading into character. In the final
winnowing all except the golden grain of character is blown away as tares and
chaff.
The illness that one sign brings is not the same as that
indicated by another. The loss attracted
by one sign when it is discordant, is not the same type of loss which another
sign brings when acting as an affliction.
Thus are there twelve different sets of difficulties attracted from
without which man should understand.
To represent these, the crown used to picture the reward of
character triumphing over tribulations was given twelve spikes of hard,
unyielding iron; one spike for each type of affliction. Such is the significance of Corona Borealis.
In the Book of Job many wise sayings relative to life and
its problems can be found; and the story of the afflicted hero is replete with
sage advice. In one catastrophe after
another, Job lost his property and his children, until he had nothing
left. But with the wisdom of those
conversant with Spiritual Alchemy he maintained that these things were merely
given to him to use so long as it served the Lord's good purpose.
Occult wisdom holds that the thing which is greatly feared
will come upon the person who holds such feelings and thoughts. In addition to the chemical reaction to the
emotion of fear, to fear a thing is to hold its image vividly in the mind and
to feed that image mental energy. It
thus creates a thought-form which has a certain power, acting from the
four-dimensional plane, to attract into the life the thing thus thought about.
In his time of affliction Job's friends held forth the
doctrine that man's lot in this world is determined by his morality, and that
the Lord must be punishing him for grievous sins. But Job held that even the afflictions he
suffered were for some good purpose.
If individuals are undergoing training to fit them each for
a different function in the cosmic organization, each will attract to him or
herself just those experiences he or she needs to develop the required
abilities. Accomplishment of any kind implies
the ability to overcome difficulties.
People who have never had hard problems to solve are unable to solve
hard problems when suddenly presented.
Afflictions, therefore, as Job discerned, are not bestowed
by heaven to punish man for sin, but to indicate that he has a lesson to
learn. When he has learned this lesson
he will be able to triumph
over the affliction, as Job did in the end, for when we live
the Life of the Spirit we must have fortitude in times of adversity.
Reference: Spiritual
Astrology by CC Zain
