Marks key points in human development
Two sets of meaning, linked by the rulership of Uranus, marking key points in human development. With Leo, represents the three elements of the personality, held together by the soul (Aries).
The crisis of the burning ground… is brought about through the activity of Uranus…
after making the decision in Libra to “reverse the wheel” and commence on the path of conscious self-growth. The vague beginnings in Aries, the faint emergence of the latent embodied ideas… bring release
(via Capricorn) and produce:
…the world server in Aquarius, who voluntarily stays on the great wheel (using the Cardinal Cross as conditioning signs) and thus staying within the sphere of influence in order to help humanity to find liberation from the Fixed Cross. (EA 101-2)
Through… Uranus, Libra is related… to Aries and Aquarius and it is through Uranus that the great pairs of opposites, Aries-Libra, are brought into touch with each other in a very deep sense. Through its activity, an intense interplay takes place, making for the attainment of equilibrium in Libra of that which had its beginning in Aries. (EA 247)
With the addition of Leo, this triangle becomes the ‘“subjective quaternary of the reincarnating soul”’, because the four signs
are related to the permanent atoms which persist from life to life and which form—during the cycle of reincarnation—the repositories… of the experiences undergone during life in the three worlds.
The correspondences are as follows:
- Aries
- the intention to incarnate of the soul itself.
- Libra
- the mental unit, bringing about balance between the pairs of opposites, which takes place on the astral level in the emotional life. This balance between personal desire and intelligent love brings about the first initiation. Once balance has been found, discrimination between the pairs of opposites can be attained, and balance can be maintained on the
narrow, razor-edged path which passes between them
. - Leo
- the astral focal point;
for the reason that desire or the power to go forth and touch that which is desired is the basis of all sense of awareness or responsiveness and the underlying cause of progress or evolutionary movement… that true ‘self-centred’ attitude which makes… an individual. Later… the world of small affairs is converted into the world of even larger values and reality, and desires change into aspiration and finally into spiritual will, purpose and intent.
- Aquarius
is eventually connected with the physical permanent atom… upon the etheric level. It is this individual web which is the medium of relationship to the whole. The universal consciousness of Aquarius becomes expressive just in so far as the individual etheric body is in conscious relation with the etheric body of humanity, the solar system and… the planet.
(EA 302-3)
Uranus rulerships and Libra planets
“Before creation, silence and the stillness of a focussed point”
Through… Uranus, Libra is related also to Aries and Aquarius and it is through Uranus that the great pair of opposites, Aries-Libra, are brought into touch with each other in a very deep sense. Through its activity, an intense interplay takes place, making for the attainment of equilibrium in Libra of that which had its beginning in Aries. Aries, Libra and Aquarius constitute therefore another triangle of power which must later be considered…
Libra is related, therefore, to five signs of the zodiac—Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Capricorn and Aquarius.
| Sign | Purpose | Effect | Outcome | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Aries | Beginning | Creation | Evolution |
| 2. | Taurus | Desire | Incentive | Progress |
| 3. | Gemini | Duality | Condition | Interplay |
| 4. | Capricorn | Synthesis | Initiation | Attainment |
| 5. | Aquarius | Objective | Inclusion | Service |
This relation is established by the three rulers: Venus, Uranus and Saturn. These five, with Libra at the point of balance, create one of the six-pointed stars of evolution and also bring into relation with them three planets which are peculiarly concerned with the expression of the Christ [or soul] consciousness in the world. These three planets are (through the rays of which they are the medium) all to be found upon the first major line of force, the line of will or power and of purpose and visioned goal.
- Uranus—7th Ray of Ceremonial Magic. God the Father. He who relates. The Source of Duality. He who perceives the end from the beginning. Spiritual consciousness. Intuition to Inspiration.
- Venus—5th Ray of Mind. God the Son. The Son of Mind. He who includes. Egoic consciousness. Intellect to Intuition.
- Saturn—3rd Ray of Intelligence. God the Holy Spirit. He who knows. Mind. Human Consciousness. Instinct to Intellect.
It is for this basic reason—founded upon the above triple relationship—that Libra is the “point of balance” in the zodiac. In most of the other constellations, at some stage or other, there comes a “point of crisis” wherein the effect of the energy pouring through the sign (via the ruling planets) …is at its highest point of effectiveness. This in time precipitates the crisis which is required [for] release… from the planetary influences which condition [the] personality and bring [the individual] more definitely and consciously under the influence of the sign of the zodiac. But in Libra there is no such point of crisis any more than there is in Aries. There is only the interlude of balance as a prelude to a more effective and sensitive progress upon the path. It is the same in Aries. As it is esoterically said: “Before creation, silence and the stillness of a focussed point.” This applies to both Aries and Libra—the one in a cosmic and creative sense and the other in an individual and progressive evolutionary sense. (EA 119-120)
Related: Leo-Libra-Aquarius.
Esoteric Astrology: 101, 119-120, 247, 302-3