Life: stimulating synthesis, personal integration and direction in each field of experience, from intuition to the material life. Crucial moments of initiation. Key qualities and skills, the will, related to the Cardinal cross
What may be, crucial moments, skills and traits that require effort, inner focus or a concentrated will to develop and deploy
Cardinal cross potentiality
- Polygons of 1, 5, 7, 10 sides (10: 1+0 = 1)
- Family root: one
Conjunction : 1 ⇧
Unity, synthesis
- Degree: 0°
- Name: Conjuction, Conjuct
- Symbol: m
A focus and initiatory point that combines the rays of the planets involved, brought together as a unit that works through the ray and qualities of the sign in which they’re placed—especially if the planetary rays also match the sign or its rulers. Because they mark the start of a new cycle between the planets involved, conjunctions evoke the power of Ray 1, hinting that the influences of the two planets appear—for some prior reason—united as one point in the chart. The cycles between the two planets will recur by transit or progression, so that might be a good time to assess their influence, and phase in the cycle.
Quintiles: 5 ⇧
Creative judgement
- Degrees: 72°, 144°
- Names: Quintile, Biquintile
- Q or ⬠, bQ or y
“specialization and the skill to distinguish between essentials and non-essentials”
The will to create according to specific skills, specialisms or practice, and to transform what is necessary to achieve that aim. Related to Ray 5 the quintiles represent a creatively methodical approach (as opposed to an obsessive one), with precise intelligent division between what is and is not required in order to shape an idea into something definite. The “Golden Section” proportion of the 5-pointed pentagram symbolises an: ability to spot and utilize proportion in either time or space or both
(John Townley, AstroCocktail). The fifth ray mind appreciates this relation of the lesser to the greater part, and the greater part to the whole. Overall, a neutral mental polarisation of focussed distinction, isolating qualities from the planets involved which are required for any defined outcome. Depending on other factors, it can be applied for either evolutionary or selfish outcomes, and either neglected or developed, according to the individual or circumstance.
Septiles: 7 ⇧
Synthesise and manifest
- Degrees: 51.42°, 102.86°, 154.29°
- Names: Septile, Biseptile, Triseptile
- Symbols: S, S2, S3
Geometrically, the septile is the first aspect to stand symbolically outside what might be termed the more personal aspects formed by polygons of 3-6 sides, just as the heptagon breaks the bounds of the circle that surrounds a hexagon. In this case, the two synthesizing qualities of Ray 7 are the will to:
- bring mental concepts and plans into material manifestation
- connect and synthesise various elements to create a whole
There is also an obvious connection to the esoteric meaning of Uranus. With many septiles (preferably connected) in a chart, there is potential to connect the ideal to the real. For form to become materialised there is a need to organise disparate elements within a form that connects them all. Depending on other factors, this ability can appear as a calling for the good of the whole—for a community—rather than for individual gain. The Ray 7 essence here can involve connecting an old cycle to the start of a new, or an ability to contain numerous and apparently disparate elements within a wholistic pattern, and:
…the ability to see the whole formative idea or principle behind a subject which to the average mind is perceived only in disparate parts; and to the capacity to receive consciousness-expanding inspiration and to apply this to the fusion of form and matter. (Philip Graves, 2020)
Deciles: 10 (1) ⇧
I think I can do this
- Degrees: 36°, 108°
- Names: Decile (Semiquintile), Tridecile
- Symbols: x, ∓ or x3
(see diagram: ‘Bidecile’=Quintile, ‘Quadecile’=Biquintile)
Overlapping the Quintile in meaning regarding the ability to sift essentials from non-essentials, the Deciles are more subtle, possibly working in the background as a more abstract influence or ripe potential; a mental ability that can also strengthen any Quintile aspects in the chart. The connection with Ray 1 suggests ideas ready to be initiated or formed into workable mental constructs, concepts ready to be communicated, or mental actions that can initiate a new process. Emerging ideas may clear the way by shattering crystallised forms (especially if the Plutonic side of Ray 1 is present). Being more abstract, if there are more than a couple of Deciles in the chart, their influence may only emerge if otherwise untapped abilities are realised within: “talent is not nearly as honed as with the quintile… the decile bestows a gift waiting to be discovered and utilized” Astrology In Action
Aspect Patterns and the Triangles
In an esoteric interpretation of aspect patterns that involve three or more planets, it is always important to check if the signs and/or planets appear in any of the Triangles of Esoteric Astrology.