Axis one: Gemini–Sagittarius
Relation of the personal to the transpersonal self: personal integration
Axis two: Virgo–Pisces
Love and nurturing of the self, strength to care for others
| Qualities: | Activity, applied intelligence, refinement |
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| Method: | The necessity for change, learning through practical application |
| Personality aspect: | Physical life and lived experience |
| Growth area: | Wise management of material activities and respect for the physical (‘first initiation’) |
| Related to: | The Third ray, Pleiades |
| Planet of expression: | Mercury as an instigator of activity and change |
| Mutable cross rays: | Ray 2, Ray 4, Ray 5, Ray 6 |
| Symbol: | to follow |
Mutable Cross in detail
Related to the third of the three overarching principles of form, this cross represents the necessity to experience life in actual lived practice, in order to develop.
This Mutable Cross … is predominantly the Cross of “repeated incarnations,” of varied experiments under the various signs and orthodox rulers, and of those many experiences which lead to successive and continuous expansions of consciousness. EA 121
A predominance of Mutable signs in the chart indicates an emphasis on actual experience—whether mental, emotional or physical—so that real-life learning becomes an pervasive theme.