Introduction to Saturn (contd.), Uranus, Neptune and Pluto- written by Philip Graves - 10 Jan 2004Saturn, contd.When prominent, it describes a medium stature; a cold, dry body; a short, lank belly; a pale, swarthy or muddy complexion; an unpleasant, lumpy countenance; large ears; small, dark, downturned eyes, with lowered, hanging eyebrows; a broad forehead; black or sad-looking, hard or rugged hair, but a sparse beard; an inclination to hold the head forward or stoop; thick lips and nose; large, broad, often crooked shoulders; and lean, spare, short thighs, with ungainly knees and feet. If Saturn rises
before the Sun, the stature is shorter but the body is well-composed. If
after the Sun, the body is leaner, the complexion is darker, and the hair is sparser. If Saturn is
of little declination, the body is leaner; if
of great declination, fleshier or fatter, especially if
northern, when it is also hairier; if
southern, smoother. If Saturn
is stationing retrograde, the body is a little fatter; if
stationing direct, much fatter, weak, and ill-favoured.
Unto
character, when
well placed, Saturn confers austerity; a profound imagination; patience in work; reserve in speech and giving; seriousness and gravity in disputation and argumentation; a severe manner of acting; and a studious and solicitous approach to acquiring wealth.
When
poorly placed, it produces outward concealment of feelings; condemnation of women; covetousness, envy and jealousy; ill-content; secret lying; malice; mistrust of others; murmuring; a repining nature; sluggishness; sordidity; stubbornness; suspicion; and timorousness..
In ancient astrology,
Saturn signifies constraint and restriction; degradation; disappointment; ignorance; and necessity; when well-placed, austerity, depth of thought, frugality, hard work, quietness, righteousness, seriousness, and solitariness. As a vocational significator, it produces customs officers; dock and harbour workers; farmers; labourers; tax-collectors; and all working of necessity in areas of little interest to them. In a lost-item horary chart, it indicates a dirty, incomplete or old quality to the item.
Uranus
The glyph for Uranus evokes a circle of Spirit beneath a cross of the Soul, with two vertical crescents of the Moon connected one to either side of the cross, veering outwards from it towards their tops and bottoms and closest to it at their centres. It resembles the original glyph for Mars but with the attachment of two crescents of Matter. It is Mars-like in its assertiveness, but much more intensely powerful. However, the glyph originally represented the first letter of the surname of the discoverer of Uranus, William Herschel.
Schulman interprets the glyph as two Crescents of Soul interconnected via a Cross of Matter. He likens the crescents facing in opposite directions from each other to different phases of the waxing and waning Moon, presenting two different perspectives on life, but both of them necessary parts of the whole, and both exposed by Uranus, highlighting its unusual insights. The conventional Cross of Matter is tugged at by the two Crescents of Soul in new, hitherto unmapped directions, as the Soul wishes to discover and experience what is not yet known, risking stability in the quest for possibility and for liberation from Matter.
Seen sometimes as a 'higher octave' of Mercury, Uranus enables communication without the conventional mechanism of speech and physical conduction methods. It is therefore associated with radio waves, electromagnetic radiation and electricity, and nuclear radiation. It evokes originality, which when positively expressed manifests as inventiveness; when negatively expressed, as deviance.
Uranus confers contempt for conventional conceptions of morality; distaste at being controlled and at arbitrary forms of outside authority; executive ability; flashes of intuition; perspicacious and reliable insight into others' personal motivations; interest in the principles of religion and science, and in scientific investigation of material phenomena; an inclination to part with customs; and mechanical ability that favours engineering. It is aloof; altruistic; cool; critical; crushingly assertive; conscious of personal authority and power; directed by inner impulses; eccentric; erratic; firm-opinioned; frequently fatalistic regarding personal destiny; heroic; iconoclastic; illuminating; imaginative; impersonal; impulsive; ingenious; insistent upon independence; innovative; inventive of new ideas, methods, moral codes and occupations; liberating; moved by new circumstances; off-hand; organising; peculiar; positive; persevering when faced with obstacles to surmount; power-conscious; promoting; prone to sudden changes of mind and view; prophetic; revolutionary; romantic; self-centred; self-reliant; spasmodic; spontaneous; unbendingly wilful; unsentimental; variable; and violently reactive against potential privations of freedom of thought and action; but when restricted, potentially anarchistic; bohemian; eccentric; fanatical; and invective and sarcastic without provocation.
Uranus signifies everything anomalous or unconventional; and the sudden smashing and transformation of outdated established Saturnian structures and restrictions. It also signifies bereavements, blind impulses, catastrophes, changes (especially sudden changes), constructive and mechanical ability, enemies, estrangements, exiles, people in power or authority, public affairs, romances, sudden events, sorrows, suicides, tragedies, and uncertain fortunes.
People signified by
Uranus include antiquarians, astrologers, aviators, electrical and scientific goods traders, electricians, discoverers, electrictrians, engineers, government or civic officials, inventors, lecturers, mesmerists, metaphysicians, original thinkers, patentees, phrenologists, pioneers, psychologists, public functionaries, radio technicians, spirit mediums, travellers, and all pursuing uncommon forms of work.
Physically, Uranus governs the appendix; aura; brain and stomach membranes; breathing; electromagnetic forces; eyes; heart valves; motor nerves; nerve fluids; and the growth of long bones. When prominent, it confers a pleasing though ascetic or effeminate appearance; slim body; large, light, brilliant, keen eyes; and irregular features.
Illnesses include fractures; inflammations caused by mineral deposits; lesions; ruptures; and spasmodic disorders.
Neptune
The glyph for Neptune is the symbol of a trident, which stands for rulership over the sea. Neptune in mythology has a strong connection with the sea; and Neptune the planet in its influence resembles an ocean in its boundlessness, fluctuation and emotional pulls, and its function as a repository for the undifferentiated, anonymous and unknown that becomes a mysterious source of individualised life under certain conditions, only to serve later as an unforgiving void into which what once appeared vital dissipates and dissolves, and thus as an agent of death through release from the confines of matter.
But it also can be interpreted as a cross of the Soul intersected in its upper part by a Crescent of Matter, resembling the glyph for Mercury but without the Circle of Spirit. On this basis, it is perceived as a representation of the Soul of Matter, and the principle of feeling and psychic receptivity, detached from any creative will or ego.
From Schulman's perspective, Neptune's glyph is a crescent of the Soul above a cross of Matter, showing the desires of the Soul as being of greater importance than Matter, and consequently the readiness of the unwanted components of Matter for dissolution, freeing the Soul to exert its dominance, and thus rendering the planet Neptune its mystical nature.
Sometimes considered a 'higher octave' of Venus, Neptune liberates one from intellectual consciousness, bringing extremes of beauty and love to the senses and emotions. It transcends and escapes Saturnian boundaries altogether, elevating consciousness and sensory perception to defy conventional material restrictions and personal separateness, and instead merge with all that there is to be aware of in the world. It challenges the individual to differentiate between subtle and barely conscious essential truth, on the one hand, and tantalising mirage, on the other - since it presents both. It evokes vision, which when positively expressed manifests as idealism; when negatively expressed, as escapism.
Neptune is aesthetic; amorphous; attuned to the finest nuances of beauty, feeling and mind; blissful; compassionate; diffuse and at times subjectively unclear or confused; dreamy; enthusiastic; ethereal; highly emotional; imitative; impressionable through extra-sensory channels; intuitive; mystery-loving; mystical; peaceful; pulled by powerful motives towards abstract or sentient ends; romantic; self-deceptive; spiritually sensitive; unconsciously socialising; subtle beyond fitting words; unstable; and highly sympathetic; yet when denied a desired outcome, quick to renege on an undertaking. It inclines to finer artistic sensibilities, and responds favorably to dance, harmony, poetry, rhythm, stringed instruments, and symmetry.
Neptune signifies ambushes; the artistic faculty; chaos; covert alliances; deceptions, including deceptive schemes and ventures; democratic and popular movements; desire; disguises; dreamers; emotion; erotic appreciation; exiles; false hope; feeling; frauds; illusion and delusion; imagination; impositions; intangible emotions; intrigues; intuition; many changes; mass movements and emotions; mobs; morbidity of outlook; proneness to succeed or fail through the influence of women; psychics; the psychic faculties; saintliness; the secrets of the life; secret societies; social unrest; sudden death; susceptibility to drugs; uncertain fortunes; visions; and wanderings.
People signified by
Neptune include all those engaged in aesthetic, artistic, inspirational, literary, occult and psychic vocations (including mediums and mystics), or those connected with water.
Physically, Neptune governs the cerebral ventricles and pineal gland; cell development and reproduction; glands; intuitive perception of a psychic genesis; poisons; nerve fibres; nutrition; optic nerves; psychic and telepathic functions; respiratory and throat tissues; spinal fluid; tears; and white corpuscule formation. When prominent, it confers a slim, orderly body; a mysterious expression; hypnotic eyes; sharp, almost cruel features; and a long head, bald at the temples.
Illnesses include anaemia; catalepsy; drug addiction; energy depletion; glandular imbalance; hypochondriasis; neuroses; oxygen deficiency; and wasting disesases.
Pluto
The glyph for Pluto is a cross of the Soul, atop which sits a horizontal bowl-like Crescent of Matter, within which nestles a Circle of Spirit without direct contact, seen by Moore and Douglas as the 'seed of the Sun or Spirit', cradled by the 'chalice of the Moon', a 'husk of the past'. Thus, Pluto's function as an agent of regeneration from the death of the old, and transition between states of existence, is symbolised. Pluto is closely linked to the urge for reproduction to perpetuate life beyond death, and thus to the drive for sex, which operates unconsciously through its influence, and in so doing confuses sex with death in the psyche.
Schulman interprets the glyph for Pluto as the Circle of Spirit 'soaring free' above the crescent of Soul that lies atop the cross of Matter, indicating a journey into the unknown being required before the deepest self-understanding can be achieved. The disconnection of Spirit from the Soul and Matter leaves the individual prone to suffering base energies. The challenge faced is to 'transcend oneself', in rising from lower ways of life to connect to and embody the purity of Spirit and Light that encapsulates goodness. In leaving behind what is of no further value to one's own growth, one is channelling the Plutonian energies in the most constructive way possible on a personal level.
Sometimes considered a 'higher octave' of Mars, Pluto is similarly powerful and penetrating, but on an unconscious and psychological level. It gradually permeates the subconscious with its drives, leaving the conscious unaware until suddenly and explosively it emerges in an instinctive response that brings sweeping and often devastating change in the psyche and way of living. It can thus be a force for great personal good or ill. It evokes the principles of resurrection and determination, which when positively expressed bring resolution; when negatively expressed, coercion.
Pluto governs the conversion of apparent lost causes into successful projects, but at times the receding of objectives when their point of realisation seems imminent; cycles of death and rebirth; disregard for vested interests; extremes of good and bad (including luck); the frustration and annihilation of plans; idealistic socially motivated organisations; ideas ahead of their time; the inspiration to put an end to failing conditions; involvement in organised groups and movements desirous of social reconstruction, which may include altruistic interest groups, political parties and think tanks, professional associations and trade unions, and also gangs and underground organisations; the negation and transformation of conditions; non-recognition of the legitimacy or impositions of officially established authorities; righteous indignation on behalf of social causes; and the voluntary relinquishment of worldly interests in order to advance spiritual development, or of home, country or fortune for marriage. It manifests in writers and dramatists who seek to inculcate reformist doctrines into their literary works. It is compulsive, intense, and sometimes manipulative.
People signified by
Pluto include aeronauts, anonymous writers, archaeologists, leaders of large organisations and movements, nuclear scientists, sociological writers, space explorers and scientists, television engineers and technicians, those working underground, and weather forecasters.
Physically, Pluto governs metabolic balance, and the nerve centres connecting the solar plexus with the sacral plexus and the top of the spinal column with the pineal gland. When prominent, it confers medium stature; a rugged, sturdy build; delicate skin; and fine, soft head hair but little body hair.
Illnesses include ailments resulting from mineral deposition caused by acidosis; arthritis; and arteriosclerosis.
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