The mature practice of astrology is defined not so much by a set of techniques as it is by an attitude or stance. Ultimately the most powerful astrological technique is not progressions or solar returns, harmonics or dasa periods. The most powerful astrological technique is a quiet mind, a stance of contemplation. No matter which techniques we use, when our minds are agitated our studies of astrology result in fear of the future, of malefic planets, and of challenging aspects or transits. When our minds are clear and quiet, we begin to discern the meaning of even the most tumultuous events in our lives so that we remain centered, calm, and hopeful. Thus, I consider a personal meditation practice one of the keys to a positive, growth-oriented approach to the celestial art.
All too often I speak with people who have been terrorized by dismal and often irresponsible astrological predictions. For example, Gwen had been told by an astrologer that she was likely to die or suffer other catastrophes because transiting Pluto was conjunct her Sun. While transiting Pluto may manifest through crisis events, often this crisis is one that often leads to profound growth and transformation. During this transit, the crisis Gwen encountered was a hostile corporate takeover of the company where she worked. She skillfully positioned herself so that she ended up in a better position within the reorganized company. During the transit she became stronger, tougher, wiser about the ways of power in the world. Not only was the prediction of death completely wrong but it also completely failed to see the growth potential of the Pluto transit. I try to go beyond the traditional black and white, malefic-benefic way of thinking about astrological influences. One famous astrologer told me the period when transiting Saturn was conjunct my Venus would be "bad for relationships." This simplistic statement failed to grasp or convey the complexity of that period and the growth that I experienced in my capacity to relate in a mature and committed way. I was determined to look at my fears and to master them (Saturn). The prediction was, in fact, wrong. I got involved in a stable and loving relationship at that time. We owe it to ourselves and our clients to find more subtle levels of understanding of the purpose of events in furthering our growth. The key is a meditative attitude. Another key is the ability to look at any symbol in a number of ways, chewing it over and digesting it thoroughly, looking at it from many angles and reflecting on its many possible meanings.
Astrology is the art of contemplating the ever-changing moments of time. As we gain proficiency in prediction, we also learn to discern what the predicted events might mean. Astrology teaches us a form of active meditation where we contemplate whatever we see coming up astrologically, or happening right now, with an attitude of quiet expectation and receptivity to whatever wants to unfold. This is different from the astrology of dread and fear, which I wrote about in Astrology and Spiritual Awakening, where we passively suffer the effects of the planets. We learn to search for the positive evolutionary intent and purpose of every event, even the most painful ones. Does transiting Saturn conjunct or square Venus mean a terrible period of failure in relationship? Or is it an indicator that this is a time in which our capacity for maturity in relationships will be developed and tested? We have the power to choose and invent the meaning of our own planetary placements and transits. While traditional astrology viewed Saturn as a malefic planet, we recognize that it also the planet that can lead us toward stability, maturity, and responsibility. As our understanding of the celestial art grows, we enthusiastically embrace each challenging transit and try to find positive meaning in it. Our task is to use astrology to help ourselves and others to meet change with courage.
The main problem is fear: We are afraid of the transits or progressions that we are passing through instead of embracing each of them as initiatory teachings. A man named Frank, a lawyer, had transiting Pluto conjunct natal Mars in Sagittarius. He consulted with an astrologer who told him it was going to be a difficult period in which he might come under attack. The astrologer told him, "Your life will be hell until December." No further explanation was offered. Indeed things did get intense for Frank. First he got into a fight with some guy at the health club during a basketball game; he was bruised physically and emotionally. He started working out more with weights until he got really enormous. Then someone at his law firm beat him out for inside position on a big case. Frank was livid, seething with jealousy. He thought, "That's twice now I've been burned by men who have wielded power over me and injured my body, my career, my pride." The astrologer's prediction of attack seemed to him to be manifesting. Frank wondered, "Do I have to become like these guys in order to compete and win in their world? Is that the meaning of this transit?" Then he had a plutonian eruption: He got really furious and flew off the handle at a meeting, damaging his reputation in his firm. Then he broke a glass window and had a tantrum. He had an outbreak of a rash all over his body. He had migraines. He was miserable. All he wanted to know was when this awful period would be over. I said, "Instead of just waiting it out, why don't you try to understand the purpose of this transit and the lessons it may hold for you?"
I asked Frank to meditate deeply in silence and then to contemplate the potential outcome of this transit, what kind of metamorphosis was intended for him-and possible for him-at this time. I informed him that, with Pluto conjunct natal Mars, he was in the midst of a deep transformation of his masculine identity, his way of expressing his competitiveness and anger, and his attitude toward power-in short, a major transformation of his image and experience of manhood. I asked him to start invoking positive images of manhood and male identity. At first he spoke of sports heroes, rock stars, and ambitious, powerful politicians. He also seemed to admire some of the more ruthless senior lawyers in his firm. Later he realized that none of these was truly an image of his own masculine ideal. He began to see himself traveling extensively and becoming committed to social justice. Over the course of several weeks of this meditation, he began to envision himself being transformed into a highly ethical lawyer working to alleviate suffering. Two months later, he quit his job and went to work for an international human rights organization. He was thorough, completely committed, and zealously energetic about this work. His anger, his energy, and his competitiveness got channeled into a meaningful project. He began to do work for the service of humanity, instead of striving for power and recognition. His physical symptoms disappeared, just as they do when you take the correct homeopathic remedy. A change of attitude toward a difficult transit can be very potent. This is an example of how, through a meditative approach to astrological symbolism, we project an image forward into the future and gradually mold ourselves into its embodiment.
In Astrology and Spiritual Awakening I discussed kriya shakti, the power to imagine and visualize and thereby mold our future unfolding. We are transformed by focusing our awareness of images or archetypes to which we become deeply committed. We envision the next stage of our personal metamorphosis and allow this ideal to become what Rudhyar called "an irrefutable reality for the consciousness and a steady, indestructible commitment"(1)
We use this power in astrology when we ask, what is the possible outcome of this transit? What is the highest end this process could serve? A useful astrological meditation practice is to sit quietly with a silent mind and then to contemplate some transit you are experiencing that corresponds to a difficulty you are facing in your life right now, and to ask yourself, "What is the secret intention of this process?" When asked this question, a man with transiting Neptune entering his 2nd house, who was suddenly making less money, told me, "To be simpler and less materialistic." A man with progressed Mars square Saturn responded: "To be less sexually obsessed and fixated." A woman with transiting Pluto conjunct Saturn and who was going through difficult times, said, "I've never really faced adversity before. I know this is making me stronger." We must always ask ourselves, given the astrological influences of this time, how can I use this experience as a step toward awakening? In our hearts we know what is being asked of us, even where we resist the lessons life is offering us.
Astrology is the path of harvesting meaning from events, consuming life experience as food, even difficult experiences. We stop cursing our lives. We are ready for anything. The great astrologer Grant Lewi foresaw his own death from his horoscope and calmly went about the business of saying goodbye to friends and making financial arrangements for his family. He was detached, realistic, and free of self-pity. Astrology teaches us to be at peace no matter where we are. We begin to live with full awareness of the meaning and purpose of each event within the cycles of our evolution. We start to know the purpose of our incarnation, the tests we must face, and the tasks we must fulfill. And so paradoxically, while we learn to choose and mold, through our visualization, the meaning of our natal chart symbolism, our transits and progressions, we also begin to be more at peace with the way things unfold. We begin to rest in the state of just being, in the stillness of consciousness beyond thought, beyond struggle. Everything is as it is. We begin to practice astrology with the intention to use every experience and every event, as a means to awaken and more fully realize our faculties and potentials. We learn to accept whatever unfolds with even-mindedness.
Recently I had a lot of Mars activity in my chart: Solar arc Uranus square natal Mars; transiting Mars retrograde square Mars; progressed Moon opposite natal Mars; a lunar return with Mars on the Ascendant and natal Mars on the IC. I was aware that something might happen that would cause a little pain. I just hoped and prayed that it wouldn't lead to serious injury or loss of friends or angry confrontations with others. I assiduously avoided skiing or other dangerous sports activities. I was extra careful while handling power tools and appliances as I didn't want to start any fires or accidentally hack off anything. I drove more cautiously. I was careful, on the lookout for the incident, the accident, knowing that somehow it would probably find me anyway. When a client stiffed me several hundred dollars on some work I had done for her, I kept my composure. I didn't fly off the handle, even though I was hurt and quietly angry about it. I wrote her a letter that was direct and firm, polite and not at all combative or insulting. I thought, "I'm home free. I've successfully neutralized Mars by being such a nice guy." I had met aggression without aggression of my own. But Mars was not finished with me quite yet. The next morning I slipped and fell on the deck outside my home, badly bruising my ribcage. Instantly I knew that this was it. I could not breathe, sit, lie down, or move without intense pain. I witnessed the pain. It continued. I continued to witness it, to live it through without resisting it. I let the knife of Mars pierce me, wound me. I assented to it. In his book Triptych, Dane Rudhyar wrote:
Man is man through the challenge of the earth, meeting which, he calls upon himself the release of spirit from the heart of divine plenitude. . . . Man experiences through nature. He rises through nature. Not against, but through. . . . The hand passes through the water. It experiences the water, the fluidity of it, yet it emerges from it, still a hand-the integrity of a hand, plus consciousness from the experience. Consciousness is through-ness. It is born of thoroughness of experiencing.(2)
Brief Meditations on the Outer Planets: Uranus
This process of reflecting on the meaning of suffering and painful experiences becomes especially important when we contemplate the influence of the outer, trans-saturnian planets, which summon us to radical self-transformation. The process begins with Uranus, which represents our urge to rebel against cultural customs, to break free of convention, the past, to become agents of change. There are times when we are drawn toward goals or pursuits that are not culturally acceptable or normative. Uranus challenges us to take risks to be authentic to our life's purpose. According to Rudhyar, under the influence of Uranus we can become focusing agencies through which what constitutes at any time the next step for humanity becomes visible. A housewife from Nebraska consulted with me about her extraordinary metamorphosis. Transiting Uranus was conjunct natal Mercury and square Neptune in her 1st house. She was experiencing a kundalini awakening and having visions of her past lives. She was studying metaphysics and had a gift not only for understanding spiritual teachings but also for communicating them (Mercury) to others. She began to lead Church groups in her community, teaching 12 Step principles, meditation, prayer, and visualization. She spontaneously stepped into the role of teacher. She lived in a very conservative community, yet people began flocking to hear her discourses. Some of her friends were shocked but she clearly struck a chord in others, judging by the immediate and continuing positive response she received. She took her small town by storm, becoming an inspiring teacher.
This is a classic example of the way that dazzling light may be released through a person responding to Uranus. In our own small ways we act as ambassadors of the future, expressing new ideas, syntheses, and discoveries that may one day be more widely accepted and become incorporated within the mainstream culture (symbolized by the rings of Saturn). Under the influence of Uranus, we may feel on the fringes of the dominant culture, yet we are acting as agents and harbingers of the future. The future begins to become real through us, through our experiments and innovations-when we are bold enough to live our freedom now, irregardless of social condemnation, stigmatization, or incomprehension. Uranus frees us from bondage to convention. It is impersonal in attitude, seemingly impervious to criticism or doubt. The task simply must be done. It is the will of the universe, and we are the instruments for carrying out its intentions.
Under the influence of Uranus, we may suddenly notice that activities we are involved with are in some way on the cutting edge. Jenn, a nurse with transiting Uranus conjunct her midheaven, was unexpectedly introduced to products that use the subtle energy of magnets to alleviate musculo-skeletal imbalances such as spinal misalignments, and for circulatory problems. The magnets have also proven to be quite effective in alleviating carpal tunnel syndrome, which afflicts thousands of people. Jenn believes that this is a revolutionary technology that could radically impact health care. She has become a distributor of these products and changed her career entirely within the space of a month-Uranus is rapid change! She is selling large numbers of these magnets to doctors who are becoming open to new alternatives. The culture is ready for change, and those who are aligned with Uranus can become agents of social transformation.
Neptune
The activity of the outer planets is often said to be turbulent and disruptive. This is frequently apparent under the influence of Neptune, where an individual may be in the grip of addiction, denial or avoidance of reality, or in a state of unhealthy dependency. Ted, with Sun in his 5th house opposite Neptune in the 11th house, told me that his spiritual practice was to take cocaine and speed and go out dancing all night in clubs, where he claimed to have ecstatic experiences. Ted needed to come to grips with his addictions and to find healthier expressions of his desire for ecstasy and expanded consciousness.
When we feel the influence of Neptune, we experience the urge to experience transpersonal realities that transcend the boundaries and limitations of ordinary space and time. We begin to perceive the one Spirit that underlies the world of multiplicity and material forms. We may experience states of oneness and illumined mystic vision, spontaneously entering the stillness of pure Being without form. A woman named Nina had transiting Neptune conjunct natal Sun for two years: She experienced deep meditation and said that she felt the presence of God. Simultaneously transiting Pluto was conjunct natal Neptune in the 11th house. She joined a spiritual community (11th house Neptune), where she meditated and entered the waters of silent contemplation, until she had experiences of samadhi-that state where the mind stops, the breath stops, and one merges into the ocean of Being.
While all of this sounds very glamorous, however, the actual experience of transition into expanded awareness is often confusing. Susan, a woman with a natal Sun-Neptune conjunction in Libra in the 4th house, was experiencing transiting Neptune conjunct her Descendant. She was in crisis because her marriage was "falling apart"-the classic experience of Neptune. Susan also had solar arc Uranus conjunct natal Mars: She was intensely angry at her husband. A deeply spiritual woman who had practiced meditation for many years, she was learning that anger is okay, and that she doesn't have to be pure and selfless all the time. There is a place for the expression of her will. She began having intense kundalini experiences, feeling intense heat in her body (Uranus conjunct Mars) and the rising serpent energy flowing through her body in powerful spirals.
Susan was concerned because during the time of this Neptune transit she had totally lost all sexual desire for her husband, and could not understand why. Part of her transformation was a profound transmutation of sexual energy. Her energy was turned inward and she experienced many visions in meditation (Neptune). She wondered if she should leave her husband. With transiting Neptune conjunct her Descendant and square her natal Sun in the 4th house in Libra, she realized that marriage and family are everything to her, so she felt she could not leave her husband. Yet she could feel Neptune uplifting her vibrationally to a new level of consciousness. The tide of her being was flowing directly into the light of Spirit. Rudhyar calls Neptune a planet of deconditioning. Susan's attitudes toward marriage and love were being deconditioned. She could no longer be the embodiment of her husband's fantasies, desires, and expectations. She could no longer mold herself to his needs, for her need now was to dissolve and be etheric. She experienced some disillusionment with her very earthly, needy, human beloved, yet gradually she began to meet him in a deeper place of unconditional acceptance. They had a number of powerful telepathic experiences during this period, and when they meditated together there was often a descent of peace and grace tangible to both of them. They experienced a shared awakening (Neptune conjunct Descendant). They were able to reconnect to the awareness of loving each other's being or essence beyond form and beyond desire. Their marriage continued and reached a new level of commitment and devotion.
Neptune teaches us lessons of surrender and yielding. At first we think we're using astrology to serve our purposes, to get rich and find love. But we gradually learn that astrology is training us and preparing us for who we are supposed to be. We begin to mold our intention to the intention of the universe, even if it doesn't conform to what we think we want. Recently I had a very intense experience doing a fifteen-minute chart reading for someone at a fair: A woman named Beth had transiting Saturn conjunct natal Venus in Aries, opposite natal Neptune. She was in love with a man who lives across the country and is married. It was a classic love tragedy. He promised to divorce his wife, someday, so he and Beth could be together. But for the moment she was left alone, waiting, longing, with everything up in the air. She was quite sad. I asked Beth to consider that the purpose of their meeting was to connect her to an experience of love transcending place and time. I asked her to connect to a love transcending needs or expectations, a pure love for all beings. That love was already shining brightly from her heart; and the connection she felt with this man reminded her that this is her true nature-to be love. That this was her task and her path to awakening-to be unconditional love (Venus-Neptune). I asked her to meditate on how her own suffering could awaken in her boundless compassion for all beings. I asked her to let the small vessel of personal love and attachment burst so that she could expand her heart to encompass all. When I said these words she began to breath deeply through her heart. Beth lit up and her eyes brightened. We sat together for a while speaking softly and looking around at all the people at the fair with unconditional love. She began to laugh and said, "I'm feeling strangely ecstatic, which I found hard to understand since I feel like I'm supposed to be feeling miserable and torn up about this relationship." The words I spoke came forth from me quite spontaneously as I meditated upon her chart symbolism. I had never met her or seen her chart before. I could have just as easily focused on the tragedy of unrequited love or gently chided her for her romantic illusions. Instead, I chose to try to evoke the highest possible meaning of the transit and of her natal Venus-Neptune. I wanted her to perceive that there was a hidden cause or intention of these events. Everything happens for a reason. This interpretation of her chart helped Beth transform her perception of her situation so that she might fulfill the purpose of this transit.
In The Astrology of Transformation, Rudhyar wrote:
In transpersonal living, an individual should not be concerned with "success" and especially with what from the socio-cultural point of view would be called a constructive achievement. . . . An individual on the transpersonal path should realize in what way a present occurrence is an effect of the past, and at the same time, understand the purpose of the event in generating power to move ahead in the process of transformation. . . . [T]he real issue is whether [one remains] as unaware as before of the inherent transformative purpose of the events, or whether the individual will be able to meet these happenings as tools for the cutting and grinding of the coarse and dull stone of personality into a clear and translucent jewel.(3)
Nowhere else could Beth find this type of understanding except through astrology. All her friends could perceive, and all she herself had perceived until now, was a failure, a love affair that didn't work out. Now she could see that through this painful experience, her heart was being transformed. On an emotional level she felt sadness and abandonment. Yet she felt much more connected to everyone and began to perceive beauty everywhere. Neptune was washing her eyes and heart clean. As Hazrat Inayat Khan once said, "A worldly loss often turns into a spiritual gain."
Beth learned the neptunian lesson that sometimes we have to yield our desires. She recognized that this was a time for awakening universal love and inner communion with the light in everyone, more than it was a time for a romantic relationship to take hold in form. Indeed, a deeper personal entanglement in this relationship might have even been a diversion from what really needed to occur for her. Her deeper essence knew that life was asking her to be absorbed in that state of being that transcends longing and loneliness. Several weeks later she called to tell me that after the fair she had an experience of divine love and felt her boundaries dissolving as she perceived the light of Spirit everywhere in everything. This is the power of astrology-the power to transform how we view our circumstances and our suffering.
Indeed, a crucial gift of Neptune is compassionate response to the suffering that is everywhere around us, which connects us to the experience of all humanity. As I write this, California is experiencing heavy rains that are causing severe mudslides and flooding. Many have been forced from their homes by water. But it is much worse in other places such as Peru, where thousands have been displaced by torrential rains and floods. Neptune washes our hardened hearts with the wine of concern, and awakens in us the intention to relieve suffering. It teaches us to surrender and live with a calm acceptance of whatever may come, yet with a clear intention to heal whatever portions of this universe we can.
Neptune may temporarily weaken our will and sense of self-determination. We often have to grapple with self-pity, discouragement, or loss of focus. Yet this is our moment of greatest potential access to the Sacred, the living Spirit. We feel it seeping into our bodies. Now is not a time for solidity. Instead we feel porous, liquid, fluid, yielding. We may feel that we do not know what is happening to us. Personally, I use this Neptune checklist: Am I coping adequately with material reality? With my emotions? Is there anything I am really in denial about? If I am satisfied that I am fulfilling my responsibilities (Saturn), then I sense that it is safe to let go to Neptune's tides, to rest in a state of tranquility, trusting that everything is unfolding as it should. This offering of our trust to the universe brings peace to our hearts, and is one of Neptune's greatest gifts. At such times we are aware that it is clearly out of our hands what happens. Our job now is to seek greater vision, and to experience wholeness by dissolving our boundaries as we merge into the great ocean.
Pluto
This experience of dissolution cannot be our final resting place, for life is unceasing cycles of evolution; there is no final end point. The stillness of samadhi is just one moment on the wheel of time. For as the cyclic wheel continues to unfold, we eventually return to the moment where individual form emerges from the ocean of being, with the evolutionary task to individualize, to become a unique embodiment of eternal, archetypal spiritual qualities represented by the symbols of our birth charts. To prepare us to use our faculties and to fulfill our destiny as individuals in a way that is in alignment with the cosmic order and collective needs, we are put through the tests of Pluto, which purify our intention, and our use of powers, faculties, and talents. Do we do so for the purpose of controlling, coercing, or injuring others, or with a clear motive to serve, heal, and respond to pervailing social conditions?
Pluto may manifest through lengthy processes of purification that remold our character and expose our imperfections. Pluto prepares us to become agents of the universal Spirit, able to wield our talents and capacities effectively, yet with a purity of intention that has been cleansed of malice selfishness, and injurious power drives. Pluto is Shiva, infinite power to create or destroy. It strips us of all false motives, brings us to our knees humbled, and teaches us to act as instruments for a purpose that transcends our own will and desire. Pluto transforms us from persons dominated by the limited, ego-consciousness with its fears, selfish desires, and narrow vision, into transpersonal individuals (in Rudhyar's terminology), self-consecrated agents of the divine intention. For this to occur, the impurities of our personalities must be exposed and uprooted. Often this comes about through seeing the worst qualities in human nature-the mean-spiritedness, cruelty, hostility, resentment, and outright violence that we experience in ourselves and others. As Rudhyar once said, Pluto exorcises the dark ego-will, bringing about an irreversible change of our intention.
Pluto often manifests in the form of disturbing events that hit us with the force of dynamite. They outrage us, tear us apart. An earthquake in Mexico or Guatemala or Iran. The hurricane storm that leaves a wake of destruction. The sudden death of a relative or a beloved public figure. A murder spree where innocents are gunned down at random. The Unabomber or the Oklahoma City bombing. The victims of concentration camps or forced labor gulags. Betrayal by a colleague or loved one. The destruction of forests. Watching a friend suffer from cancer or AIDS or chronic fatigue. Being the victim of a robbery or mugging, or the target of racism or sexism. Child abuse. Spousal abuse. Violence against animals. All of these realities evoke outrage, disbelief that life can be so cruel. Every day we are faced with plutonian events and facts that shock us, shake us, make us feel sick at the violence in our midst. We reach out to meet the world with innocence and good intentions, yet we face so many things in this world that brutalize us and violate our right to live in safety and in peace.
Pluto often symbolizes tests of pain that shatter our neptunian innocence and idealism. Things are not as we think they ought to be. Pluto's function is to widen the sphere of awareness, sometimes through shock therapy, a rude awakening, rather than a blissful, neptunian one. Pluto teaches us that sometimes our paths include encounters with what is most destructive of the beauty of life. Pluto makes the underworld visible to us, and it is viscerally felt as shattering, the visitation of the darkness. We are left to ask, Why did this happen? How can people be so destructive? Under the influence of Pluto we may encounter someone who is filled with negativity or hatred. Or our own cruelty, malice, and destructiveness may be exposed. Only then can we begin to change. Only when we have seen the face of darkness can we become fully committed to the light. Only then do we begin to understand the need for refinement of our character. Pluto is the agent, and the symbol, of that purification and refinement of our personalities. Pluto's crises reorient our hearts, teaching us to consecrate our faculties and resources to the service of life.
If Pluto represents the pain of loss, grief, or bereavement, it also represents the healing we gain by letting go, releasing the bitterness, anger, and cynicism that we carry. Sometimes these feelings need expression. Sometimes we need to invoke Neptune, widening our hearts to enfold with our compassion both those who have been hurt by senseless violence but also those who, lost in ignorance, perpetrate it against others.
Karen has Mars-Pluto in her 3rd house; when transiting Uranus opposed these planets a man moved into the apartment upstairs who is incredibly unfriendly, angry, and verbally abusive, a surly biker with an attitude. It would be easy for her to dislike him intensely. But Karen is a conscious person who practices meditation and studies astrology. She tries to relate to this man with compassion. She sees how he appeared in her life during a transit to her chart, her Mars-Pluto, so in some sense he represents a part of herself. Meher Baba once said that if you want to learn to love, start by loving those whom you think you cannot love. Whether we feel the force of dictatorial power wielded by a boss or government agency, or suffer cruel plutonian punishment by the seeming whims of fate, we need to face evil without becoming it. Our goal should be to walk through the snake pits of life without becoming a snake ourselves. We confront the negativity of the collective shadow, without succumbing to it.
Astrology enables us to find meaning in all events, showing us how all circumstances are perfectly designed as tests of our character, courage, intention, and quality of heart. A meditative approach to astrology allows us to fearlessly contemplate the never-ceasing changes of time and to master each lesson on this life's road. If we are responsible for the quality of our symbolic interpretations and make sincere efforts to actualize every potential indicated by our birth charts, then we are guided each step of the way on a path to greater freedom.
(1) D. Rudhyar, An Astrological Mandala (New York: Vintage, 1973), p. 308.
(2) D. Rudhyar, An Astrological Triptych (Santa Fe, NM: Aurora Press), p. 104.
(3) D. Rudhyar, The Astrology of Transformation (Wheaton, IL: Quest Books, 1980), pp. 151-152).
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