Taking a Crack at the Planets

[sdi]

You know me, I can only make sense of things by attempting to work forward from first principles: large lists of random associations don't make any sense to me. As I start to dig a little deeper into astrology, here's an attempt at the planets:

Planet	Principle
Saturn	contraction
Jupiter	expansion
Mars	conflict
Sol	emission
Venus	harmony
Mercury	mediation
Luna	reception

Of particular note, these form three orthogonal poles: Jupiter/Saturn (up/down), Mars/Venus (left/right), Sol/Luna (forward/back), with Mercury sitting in the center between them all. I'm not yet certain of Uranus/Neptune, except that I suspect they form a forth orthogonal pole of some kind (future/past?).

Comments

[sdi]

I get what you're saying now. I think the long and short of it is that there's a chicken-and-egg problem here: Neptune begets Uranus (since one needs axioms before one can get conclusions), but Uranus begets Neptune (since one need examples to build theories from). Put another way, we can identify a "yang" pole and a "yin" pole easily enough, but yin precedes yang just as yang precedes yin—neither can be said to come "first!" So my past/future analogy confounds more than it clarifies.

One wonders if future and past are even meaningfully distinguished. For example, "north" and "south" have no meaning in any absolute sense, but rather only in relation to each other. Just like some cultures (e.g. Europe) orient themselves relative to "north" and others (e.g. China) orient themselves relative to "south," perhaps some beings orient themselves forwards in time, while others orient themselves backwards in time. These are equivalent, in the sense that it doesn't matter which direction is "up" on your map as long as you know which direction you're facing!

Perhaps the soul's choice of coordinates is what occultists mean when they talk about "involution" and "evolution?" I'll have to consider this further.