Astrology Lost and Found

16th-century engraving of Saturnus This is an excerpt from, "The Marrow of Astrology" by Richard Kirby and John Bishop Saturn This old furly Gentleman, whom we call Saturn belongs to the seventh Orb, Mansion or Sphere, of the celestial Hierarchy of Angels, in the order of the Thrones, whose principal governing Angels or blessed Intelligences, bearing Rule, are Cassel, or Zaphkiel, Jophiel and Sabathiel.

Saturn makes those born under him petty, malignant, care-worn, self-depreciating, solitary, deceitful, secretive in their trickery, strict, downcast, with a hypocritical air, squalid, black-clad, importunate, sad-looking, miserable, with a nautical bent, plying waterside trades. Saturn also causes humblings, sluggishness, unemployment, obstacles in business, interminable lawsuits, subversion of business, secrets, imprisonment, chains, griefs, accusations, tears, bereavement, capture, exposures of children.

If the planets, Ascendant and Midheaven are mostly in the 3rd Decanates, you can tweak your interpretation of a clients design, and lean towards a more “spiritual” analysis. A person born with a 3rd Decanate emphasis is “set-up” to receive the spiritual elements of the field, so try to filter your interpretation by emphasizing they are here to discover how the spiritual is going to be carried out in this reality and what tests are going to play out. The planet Jupiter is responsible for the 3rd Decanate. Jupiter steps down the cosmic law into bite sized pieces of belief systems necessary for the functioning of our physical reality. It’s not the pure spiritual gnosis of Neptune but the more generic forms necessary for our physical laws. If you examine the glyph of Jupiter, it is a cross + (which symbolizes physical materiality) with a half crescent (which symbolizes soul). It is soul expressing and expanding into physical reality. Soul is Spirit’s representative/middleman in Human form...