Rulerships of the Moon Veiling Neptune
AAB hints that this triangle is reflected in the 3 levels of rulership of Cancer—the Moon veiling Neptune in all but the orthodox level.
The Moon… relates Cancer to two other signs and these form a cosmic triangle.
…very closely related to each other and all of them through the medium of the influence of Neptune, which the Moon veils
Cancer: Mass-consciousness
in… the Moon and Neptune… you have the symbols of a close relationship between the Mother of all Forms and the God of the Waters […] a major synthesis of form and of desire-sensitivity [the ‘Atlantean’ consciousness] … mass sensitivity and mass identification with form and with forms…’ ‘the Moon is substituted for Neptune [in orthodox astrology] because it is the form nature which is dominant in the longest stage of human unfoldment…
In the mass mind […] it is fortunate that Neptune is veiled by the Moon and that the form fails to register… many of the impacts of which the the true [individual] is sensitive. Average humanity is not yet fully equipped to bear the full range of these impacts, to handle them constructively or to transmute them and interpret them accurately.
the Moon and Neptune… lead to the unfoldment of the form of life and of the emotional astral-body. The supreme usefulness of these aspects [lies in the fact that] without the form and without the ability to respond sensitively to the environing conditions… the soul would never awaken to knowledge in the three worlds. (EA 321-23)
Virgo: Christ-consciousness
(See definition in glossary: Christ-consciousness)
… just as esoterically, it is the feeling-sensitive nature which dominates the average [individual]; it is with this stable tendency that the disciple has to wrestle.
one of the major difficulties… of the disciple is… extreme sensitivity to impacts from every side and [a] rapid ability to respond to contacts coming from ‘all points of the compass, from every angle of the zodiacal wheel and from … within as well as … without…
The average human being is is just beginning to grasp the stage of the individual Christ consciousness of Virgo to which [they] are related by [Neptune] (EA 321-2)
Aquarius: Universal consciousness
It is… as difficult… for the average student… to grasp the mass-consciousness of Cancer as it is… to grasp the group awareness of of the universal consciousness of Aquarius and to this final development, humanity is hierarchically related by the Moon, veiling Neptune.
The unveiled Neptune relates Cancer to no other constellation… [and this] indicates the fact that [the] initiate… does not react to ordinary feeling, sentiment or to personality reactions as they express themselves in pleasure or pain. All these are surmounted and… the watery life emotional reaction is superseded by the life of true and inclusive love. Soul control esoterically ‘obliterates the Moon and all traces of Neptunian life…’. The initiate is no longer ruled by the Mother of Forms or… the God of the Waters. When the ‘waters break and are carried away … the Mother gives birth to the Son and that individual spiritual entity then stands free.’ (EA 322-3)
Esoteric Astrology: 321-3